When You Came

Chapter 28

"Aurelia, why did you kill us?" A familiar voice said.

Mum?

"Mum?" I voiced out.

"You should have just died. You're an ungrateful child." Another voice said.

"I did so much for you but you treated us like shit. You unfilial child!" Another voice said.

No! No! I was just doing what was best for my family. I voiced out my opinions. We weren't a happy family. I did something right. I don't want to keep living in an unhappy household. What I did was right!

"No, honey. If you didn't say anything, we would've still been alive." My mum emerged out of nowhere and gave me a shock. She was bloody. There was blood on her face. There was a hole between her eyes. She was almost unrecognizable to be honest.

"Oh my gosh.. mum?" I asked, horrified by how she looked. "Mum, is that you?" I needed some confirmation.

"Yes, honey it's me." She said with her warm smile.

"I thought you were dead.." I sniffled and went to hug her.

"I am sweetheart. You killed me. Therefore, you deserve to DIE!!!!" In a spilt second, my mother turned into this horrible looking monster. Her teeth became bloody and sharp. She had her hands turned into claws and they were wrapped around my neck, suffocating me.

"DIE! DIE! DIE! YOU UNGRATEFUL CHILD!!! DIE!!!!" She said wickedly.

"No! Mum! No!" I said, my voice came out airy as she was pressing down on my trachea. God I felt that she might have crushed it.

"DIE!!!"

"AHH NO!!!!!" I jolted awake and saw that I was still in the hospital room and I woke Noah up too. He was sleeping beside me on the small hospital bed. I was laying in his arms.

"Sweetheart, are you okay?" Noah asked worryingly.

"Yeah.. it was a nightmare..." I said faintly.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Noah asked, pushing my hair covering my face to the side.

I sighed.

"It's fine if you don't want to talk about it, Aurelia." He comforted.

"No...I dreamt about mostly my mum.." I swallowed the lump in my throat. "There were these other voices but I couldn't make out who they belonged too. But I saw my mum too. She was there. Blood all over her clothes.. The voices said that it was my fault they died...My mum tried to suffocate me."

"Come here." I squeezed into what little space we have left into his arms. "It's not your fault, Aurelia. You couldn't have known that they would be killed." Noah comforted.

"But.." I whimpered into his chest. "It is."

"No Aurelia. It's not. Look at me." He lifted my chin up so I was looking at his green eyes. "It's not your fault." He said sternly. "You couldn't have known about it. It was a coincidence. It wasn't your fault. Don't blame yourself for something you can't control. Who knows? If you were there, the killer would have got you too. Then how am I supposed to live with that? Or maybe he would have planned another attack that would involve a public shootout and more people could've died. It's not your fault. Don't blame yourself. Please." He said the last word softly as he rubbed his thumb on my lower lip. I was on the verge of tears again.

At this rate, I might just bawl my eyeballs out and go blind.

"Shh.. baby it's alright. You're fine. I'm not gonna let anyone get to you." Noah said, trying to get me to calm down.

"What's gonna happen when I go back. In less than 24 hours.." It was already 1:13a.m. on the 27th. I passed out for quite some time. I guess that's what being broken and empty feels like.

"I'm gonna go back with you." Noah said.

"What? I thought you have work." I said, titling my head to the side.

"I'm the boss, babe. I can work anywhere." He assured. I just nodded.

"What's gonna happen to the bodies.." My voice cracked behind a bit. "Where am I gonna stay? What about my father's company? Oh my gosh..." Me thinking about it is setting me to another panic attack.

"Hey, hey, it's fine. Breathe baby girl." Noah cupped my face. More like squished my face with his palms.

I calmed down a bit.

"We'll have a funeral for them after we go back. I've already bought your father's company so.." Noah trailed off.

"What? Since when? I didn't know you were that rich." I said, shocked by the information.

"Just yesterday. I've already settled everything in the hospital and the morgue. The bodies would be shipped back when we leave too." Noah said.

I exhaled. Noah already handled everything. He's so capable... I can't believe this man is mine as I stared at him. He made me feel slightly better. Slightly.

"Erm.. Aurelia?" Noah said awkwardly.

"Yeah?" I said as I continued staring at him.

"I know our relationship is still quite new. Hell, it hasn't even been a week and we barely know each other. But it feels like I've known you all my life..." Noah paused.

Is he proposing?

What the fuck?

I'm too young!!!

My family just died. He couldn't have picked a more impropriate time.

Do I turn him down?

"I'm leaving this decision entirely up to you but would you like to move in with me?" Noah finished.

I let out a breath. I thought he was gonna propose. I would love for him to propose one day. Not today but one day. We're still so new in our relationship.

How stupid of me to assume that he was gonna propose. Well, you know what they say when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.

"Aurelia?" Noah tapped my cheek to knock me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah? I'm sorry. I was thinking about something.."

"Erm.. do you want to move in with me?" He asked again.

"I honestly would love too. But I'm scared. What if we break up? We're still so new into our relationship." I said worriedly.

"We won't break up. I would ever let you go no matter what. You're it for me honestly. I know it." He said smugly. "I would take care of you, protect you, cook you breakfast, kiss you good night every night and do so much more for you Aurelia."

"Noah..."

"Say yes baby."

"Yes. I would love to move in with you." I laughed. And for the first time since the death of my family, I was able to smile. Even if it was just for a little while, almost like 30 minutes, I was grateful. I'm so grateful Noah came into my life. If he wasn't here now, I think grief, sadness and anxiety would have killed me already.

There's going to be a time jump in the next chapter. Not a big one but just letting you know. 😁