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5- The Thorn
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2024-07-15 18:04:29He screamed while staring right at me. And then the naked girl who was on top riding him also screamed her lungs out.
I stayed at the window, also screaming from shock, hurt and confusion.
“WHAT THE HELL, TORI!” Christopher shouted at me as he tried to yank the naked girl off him.
She had nothing to fear. Her whole body was out there in full display. She didn’t care that I had seen her and also seen Chris.
“I am coming inside!” I yelled through the other side of the window.
I tried to lunge myself using the wall, but in the process, something stabbed my leg. I looked down to find thorns, probably from the flowers, sticking out from my leg.
“I am coming inside!” I shouted again through the window, still determined to get through. “What the hell is wrong with you, Tori?” he asked as he tried to wrap the bottom half of his body with the bedsheets. “I am coming inside.” I tried to lunge myself again, but that time, the wall brushed my arm.
His little guest in the bed was just lying naked on the bed using her phone, totally not caring about a single thing.
“Let me open the door.” he sighed and walked out of the bedroom.
I stopped trying to ‘break in’ and eventually walked around the house again back to the front door. I heard him jingle keys before finally opening the door.
“ARE YOU STUPID? YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN HURT!” he screamed at me the second he saw my face. “I knew you weren’t going to open the front door, and I had to make a plan.” I sighed “Baby, come back to bed. I want to finish.” the naked girl from his bedroom moaned.“Lana, give me a second!” he shouted a reply back.
I folded my arms as I frowned at him.
“So, that the Lana? The Lana that I should not worry about?” I asked bitterly, with my arms still folded over my chest. “I- I… can…Let…I can explain.” he stammered“So now you don’t know how to talk as well?” I continued to ask bitterly.
He kept quiet and just stared right at me. The whole time in our relationship, I was always the tougher one. I intimidated him more than he intimidated me. Everyone said that I had bigger balls than him in the relationship.
“Okay, Lana and I are just friends.” he finally sighed “Hm?”
My phone started to vibrate from the pocket of my shorts.
“You should probably answer that.” he calmly suggested "You should probably fall off a cliff!” I snapped
I took my phone out of my pocket and saw that my father was calling me. I simply declined the call and slid the phone back into my pocket.
“So, do you do this with all your friends, or are they only the ones that I asked about multiple times for you to say not to worry about?” I questioned him.
My phone vibrated again. I pulled it out of my pocket and saw it was my father calling me again. I declined the call.
“Just answer that. He probably needs something from you.” Chris said“No. I know you’re just looking for ways to get rid of me and trying to avoid my questions, but that’s not happening. You’re going to answer me,” I snapped.
Then, we heard footsteps coming from his bedroom. The naked girl from his bedroom, who is Lana, came walking out with no clothes.
“Do you not like clothes? Are you allergic to them or something!?” I snapped at her when she came out displaying her tiny nude body“HEY!” Chris snapped at me “Don’t speak to Lana like that!” “Yo dude, you have thorns in your leg.” Lana had the nerve to say to me while pointing at my leg“No one is speaking to you, honey.”
My phone vibrated again, but that time, it was Roni.
“WHAT?!” I barked at her“Where are you?”“Out. I went for a drive.” I crafted a lie“Well, you need to come back now,” she responded “Why?”“It’s Mom. Something has happened to her.” she cried on the other end of the phone and then ended the call.
I began to tear up in front of my ex-fiance and his new mistress.
“I totally understand how you feel. I was also this devastated when I walked in on my boyfriend of 5 months sleeping with not one, but two girls and then he told me not to worry.”
Lana pretended to feel my pain when in actuality, I was in pain about hearing Roni say that something had happened to my mother.“I have to go.” I sighed as I quickly walked towards the front door, “WE are not done discussing this. I will come back, and you, over there, will go put on some clothes.”I rushed out of the house and tried to speed my way back home, but I was stuck in a traffic jam. I looked ahead of the road and saw ambulances rushing towards the same direction as me. After hearing Roni say that something had just happened to my mother, I prayed that those ambulances that I was competing with on the road were not rushing to my house. But as unfortunate as I was on that day, they were rushing to my house.
I parked the car at the other end of the road and ran out. I sprinted to my house and found my father standing by the gate. Roni was seated on the pavement, bawling her eyes out. I rushed up to her.
“What’s wrong?” I asked “We don’t know. Dad said they were in the bedroom still talking, and then she had a seizure,” she replied while crying.
Could this day get any worse?
The medical team rushed my mother on a stretcher into the ambulance while my dad climbed into the back with them.
“Where is dad’s car?” Roni asked me“Down by the street. Why?”“We have to go to the hospital too, but there is not enough space in the ambulance. Let’s go,” she answered as she pulled my arm, and we rushed towards the car.
***
We reached the hospital, and they rushed my mother inside while we sat in the waiting room. My dad had his head in his hands as he teared up, thinking about all the possibilities, while Roni started pacing around the waiting room as she nervously bit her nails. I placed my leg on a chair to pull out the thorns that stabbed me.
“Eli…” an elderly man around my father’s age walked up to my dad and gave him a hug.
I had never seen him before, but he seemed to know my father well enough.
“Russo, thanks for coming.” My dad replied
Russo?
“I had to come the minute I heard about Mary. Where are the girls?” he asked.
My father pointed at us, and then they came walking towards us.
“Veronica…” Russo hugged Roni, but she quickly opted for a handshake. “I am going for a walk.” she sighed and walked away“Victoria…” he turned to me for a hug.
How did he know my name? Who was this Russo guy?
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