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2024-10-29 19:42:56“What is your name?” A deep voice of a man echoes throughout the poorly lit room.
Daniel, who is cuffed to a white medical bed, can barely see anything. Small beads of sweat are pooling on his forehead due to the humidity and hot temperature of the room. His blurry vision keeps on roaming around the room trying to find the one he has been looking for forever. Isabelle, the only reason he is holding on, all this pain he is enduring just so that he could see her once he gets out of this place. “What is your name?!” The man now loses his patience and brings up the electrodes to Daniel's temples and gives him a shock. He screams and throws his legs around and pulls on his wrists hard to breakfree from the cuffs, but it doesn’t work. The man keeps on holding the electrodes to his temples to make him suffer more and more importantly to damage his memories of her. But little did he know the only thing that is keeping Daniel alive is the hope of meeting Isabelle one day. “Do you know her?” The man holds up a photo of Isabelle in front of his face and stops the shocks. “Yes, this is my Isabelle.” A small smile appears on his lips while his eyes close shut.
“I don’t know what to do with him.” The man groans annoyed and gestures the nurses to open him up and take him back to his cell. The nurses open his cuffs and slowly help him get off the bed and slowly head out of the chamber. Daniel hangs his head low and keeps on smiling recalling Isabelle’s face. Seeing her bright smile gives him strength to be alive and endure the torture. The nurses drop him on the bed once they enter the cell and slowly help him sit on it properly. “Do you love her that much?” One of the nurses asks him while they help him take off his sweat drenched hospital suit. He opens his eyes and stares at the nurse silently. The nurse wipes his body down and helps him wear the fresh suit and slowly makes him lay on the bed again.
“More than I should.” He replies in a very low voice. “Why more than you should?” She asks as this particular nurse has taken a bit of interest in Daniel. “Because she doesn’t even want me, I don’t blame her it’s not her fault. Nobody would love a crazy maniac like me.” He laughs laying on the bed with his eyes closed. The nurse silently stares at his face and studies his pained expression. A sigh comes out of her mouth while she pulls the blanket on him and turns around to leave. But she stops after taking a few steps and turns to him and stares at him for some more time. “Why don’t you just deny him about remembering her? They will probably let you go if you just deny knowing her.” She says as she feels really bad for him. He opens his eyes and stares at her and slowly gives her a sweet smile. “I can’t ever forget her.” He whispers and turns away from her.
The nurse keeps on looking at him for some time and slowly exits the room without saying anything further to him. Daniel silently stares at the white wall; sometimes the whiteness of the wall is way too bright for his liking. They have been keeping him locked away from the outside world for a while now, it all happened so fast. One day out of nowhere two men entered with his mother and took him away. They forcefully put him in a van and brought him to this facility, where they have been torturing him ever since. He knew something was wrong, he knew they didn’t get him here to do his treatment or cure him. Actually there is nothing wrong with him; he just has a problem of being adamant. Now that they ask him every day about Isabelle he knows he is here so that they could keep him away from her. But he knows he will be out of here one day and be with the one he loves, the one that makes him happy, his love Isabelle.
“Come here Tim! Stop running from me! I said stop!!” Isabelle yells as she chases after Tim. Tim on the other hand is running as fast as he can with the jar of candy from his mother. She was not giving him candy so he took a stool got on in and stole the jar of candy that was kept inside the kitchen cabinet. “Slow down you two.” Zen stands in front of Isabelle to block her from getting to Tim who is giggling and holding Zen by his leg. “You don’t get in between this, it’s all your fault that he doesn’t listen to anything I say to him. You keep on ruining him by pampering him with whatever he wants.” Isabelle lunges to get the jar from Tim’s hand but Zen yanks her to him by her arms and pulls her closer to him.
“Let my son have whatever he wants, you worry about me for now I have had a hectic day.” Zen smirks and leans closer to Isabelle. She rolls her eyes at him and slowly pushes him by his chest. Zen lets her go and chuckles and slowly picks Tim up and kisses his cheek. Tim in return does the same and hugs Zen tightly by his neck. “I can’t with you two.” Isabelle lets out a breathy sigh and slowly starts walking to the kitchen to check if dinner is ready to be served. Her life has been stable for months now, she is happy. She has everything now, there’s nothing to be unhappy about. But a part of her isn’t happy, she feels empty at times. She knows the reason behind her emptiness but she never acknowledges it. She keeps on ignoring it just for the sake of having a peaceful life, there’s nothing Zen wouldn’t do for her and her son she knows that very well. He provides them security something she wouldn’t be able to give Tim. She slowly brushes off all her thoughts that keeps on running back to Daniel and slowly walks out of the kitchen with the maids who are carrying the dinner.
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Zen clenches his jaw while watching Isabelle exit the room; he grabs a pen and stabs the wooden top of the desk. He closes his eyes and breathes heavily trying to relax. “She doesn’t love you, she doesn’t want you. The moment she finds Daniel she will leave you and you will be alone, all alone once again. There’s no one for you, you are alone. ALONE!!” He yells and swipes his hand across the top of the table making all the files and his laptop fly off it. He fishes out his phone from his pant pocket and quickly dials Gerald’s number; he taps his foot on the floor while waiting for him to pick up. “Yes, boss I was about to call you there has been a problem.” Gerald says as soon as he picks up. For a moment Zen&rsquo
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Zen feels annoyed with himself, with the way he acted with her. It’s not her fault that she feels more for Daniel than she feels for him. He slams his hands on the table and lets out a muffled groan and starts walking out his study. When he reaches their bedroom he takes in a deep breath and slowly twists the doorknob and gets in. The room is completely dark he stands by the door and stares at the silhouette of Isabelle, who seems to be sleeping on the bed. “I always end up hurting her.” He whispers to her and slowly walks towards the bed and sits on the edge of the bed. Isabelle slowly shifts to her side, the silk night gown she had on slowly hikes up and expose
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“So what’s your deal man? Why are you always so quiet?” Cheyenne breaks the silence as they have been walking without talking to each other for a while now. “What deal?” Daniel looks at her and quickly looks back ahead at the road. “I mean are you a runaway or something?” She asks curiously. He stays silent for a while and after a few minutes he says “Yes I am.” Cheyenne looks at him and tries to read his expressions but fails as he has none on his face.Daniel knits his eyebrows when he sees Cheyenne walk towards a tattoo shop. The shop is dimly lit inside with a big glowing, red sign board with the shop’s name displayed on the outside of the shop. The shop is called ‘Ink Express’, the inside could be seen through the glass walls and Daniel noticed the various d
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She feels his hand go down to her butt cheeks from her waist; her body naturally makes them stick out to him more. His hands ghost over her them and a hard slap lands on her left butt cheek."Ahhh!!" She moans and groans at the same time, all of sudden, she feels him rip the back of her night dress in one go from behind. She hears clinking noises, of what it seems like something brittle is jiggling. Isabelle just realized he took off his pants and she knows exactly what is coming next; she knows very well she will pay for the statement she made a while ago.
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The basement is very dimly lit; Daniel keeps on looking at the closed doors to make up what they hold behind them. A part of him is very paranoid and can’t believe that a complete stranger is helping him for no apparent reason. It’s quite unbelievable for him to wrap his head around the fact that someone won’t be asking for something in return from him, all his life he has been used; even his own mother used him for her own advantage. “This is the only spare room we have, it’s quite small but I know you will manage.” Cheyenne splashing him a small and pushes a small door by the kitchen. Daniel slowly walks in and looks around the empty room. It has nothing; no even a bed. &
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Daniel stares at the morning sun from inside the cafe, he closes his eyes and soaks in the sunlight that is falling on him through the glass wall by which he has been sitting on for quite some time now. Cheyenne is busy cleaning up the cafe with the other staffs as it is almost time to open up the cafe, she brought him along with her as she didn’t want him to feel alone. When she was getting ready Daniel had already woken up and was sneaking around the house; most probably so that he doesn’t make any sound and wake up the others. “Hey Daniel, what would you like to have for breakfast? We have nice pancakes you want some?” She asks after sta
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Black well fitted tailored suit, a nice red tie around his neck to compliment his look perfectly. Well groomed as always, hair styled in a perfect sleek side part. The man walks down the echoey hallway while passing by the cells that withhold numerous criminals. No one would know what is running through his mind; the mind of Zen Fleming. He looks so well composed, not giving any sign of unease or hesitation. No one in the right mind would know the purpose behind why he is here.The cell guard greets him when he halts in front of cell number 102. He nods at the guard who slowly opens the cell for him and stands aside. He lets out a silent huff and slowly walks inside.Sensing an intrusion in his cell, Joe slowly sits up from his lying position and rubs his eyes while yawning and stretching his arms. “Who do we have here?” He lets out a muffled chuckle. Zen shakes his head unable to believe the things he has to do for love. “What are you here for?&rdquo
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“What are you up to Daniel? You leaving the house and not showing up until it’s dawn? You don’t clearly work; tell me what you’re up to Dan?” Cheyenne grabs his arms and turns him to her. Daniel looks disoriented and very tensed, it feels like he has no sense of what’s happening around him. “I need answers, I can’t keep on going like this. Tell me.” She shakes him back and forth but he doesn’t answer her. She stares at him disappointed and lets him go which causes him to fall back on the couch.He stares ahead at the wall blankly not knowing what else to do. A part of him thinks Isabelle would still like to come back to him. Another part of him knows but isn’t willing to admit the fact that she might have a blissful and safe life; a life that he won’t be able to provide her with. “I can’t do this, I know you love her and I know I will never be enough but all I wanted was just to have a part of
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Human nature, what’s human nature? The most common human nature is when a human is told not to do something that “something” becomes more interesting and enticing for them to do. That’s exactly why Daniel is standing right in front of Belle’s house in spite of being told not to come here, he still came. A part of him knows this could jeopardize her well being but he just couldn’t stay away.It has been two weeks since Belle and Daniel last met, ever since then Daniel couldn’t keep the thought of her out of his mind. It was driving him crazy, he lost sleep waiting for her; waiting for her to just once come to him and he would take her away from the entire world and runaway.So here he is standing right where he belongs closer to her. Where they breathe in the same air, he knows they belong with each other. He knows they are meant to be each other’s, he knows she is his soul mate. He grips the strap of his backpack closer t
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Isabelle feels the adrenaline course through her entire body. Both of them are bolting towards the backyard like two teenagers in fear of being caught in the act. Her heart beats in sync with every step Zen takes towards the entrance of the house. She knows what Zen has done, he has been lying to her all along and now if he finds out that the Daniel he has been hunting down is right here in his house only God knows what he will do.She lets his hand go and pushes him towards the rose bushes. “Hide Dan, he can’t see you here he will kill you if he does. After a while please run away and don’t come back here. I will look for you I promise.” She breathes out and sprints off towards the house. “There you are.” Zen wraps his arms around her waist stopping her from running and picks her up and throws her over his shoulder laughing. “Always dancing around the house.” He chuckles while slapping her right asscheek lightly. She lets out a
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Do you know the feeling of having something you wanted for so long be right there in front of you, but you can’t have it? That’s exactly how he is feeling right now. The way she walks, the way she talks gives him a reason to breathe. Belle is sitting in the backyard of the house by the rose bushes, lost in her thought she didn’t even realize the pair of eyes stuck on her. Every time she brings up the tea cup to her lips, the pair of eyes watching her immediately goes down to her lips. The lips his soul is yearning to touch, to feel them on his lips is all his heart desires, the dire need to have her after all this time is killing him one bit at a time.“Tim, come here.” Belle calls out to him, he drops the pebbles from his grasp and runs back to her and smiles jumping on her lap. “Mom look!” He holds his dirty, muddy hands up and shows her. She crinkles her nose seeing his hands all muddied up. A sudden movement in the rose bushes sta
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All the things Isabelle told Zen really got him thinking who this guy is, that is watching her. He knows for a fact that Joe is in jail, he just got the update yesterday. Only one name keeps on popping in the back of his head, he doesn’t want to give into the thought of Daniel being the one, who is watching her. But deep down he knew this moment would come, this moment which he wholeheartedly wanted to avoid. If by any chance Isabelle meets Daniel, all the lies he told her would come out instantly. The need to keep them away from each other is eating him from inside out, there’s no way he can let the two meet.Lost in thought Zen keeps on squeezing the drink glass that was in his hand so hard that it shatters into pieces. Drops of blood starts dripping down his arm and onto the floor, he silently stares at the blood and keeps on imagining the worst scenarios in his mind. “Zen can I....” Isabelle stops in her track by the door of his study and stares at
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There’s an eerie feeling, ever since Isabelle and Zen came back from their vacation, she keeps on feeling a sense of unease. It at times feels like she is being watched by someone. Even if she is all alone in the house, yet she feels like she is not alone. She feels a presence of some sorts. She wanted to tell Zen about it but that might increase his paranoia even more. So, she just has been keeping it all to herself and trying to tell herself that she is just over thinking everything.“Mom?” Tim runs into the house with his backpack hanging on his back. Isabelle gets startled by the commotion and drops the tv remote that was in her hand. Tim comes to a halt and slowly approaches her, seeing how shocked she looks. “Mom? You okay?” He slowly places his backpack on the couch and slowly climbs up on the couch and sits by her. She lets out a deep breath and smiles at him and pulls him on her lap. “How was your day?” She care
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Cheyenne took Daniel to the nearby hospital with her where Peter took Anthony to. At first glance Peter was not having it; he controlled himself from losing his temper as they were in a hospital. She calmed Peter down and took Daniel to the waiting room with her.Now they are both sitting in the waiting room, side by side to each other. Daniel stares at the empty hallways of the hospital and starts dazing off into abyss. Cheyenne on the other hand, is very embarrassed of what she had done. “Hey um I hope I didn’t make things awkward between us.” She says to break the silence that was inching its way up to her mind causing her to replay the scene of them kissing in her head over and over again. “No, no no I... um it’s okay.” Daniel snaps out of his daze and looks at her and gives her a smile, after seeing how uncomfortable she looks.Cheyenne feels embarrassed and looks down at her lap and fidgets with her fingers. He sl
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Isabelle gets on her elbows and stares at him while trying to catch her breath. He takes off his clothes and throws them on the floor and gets on the bed and stares down at her. It’s like her body is his temple and he wants to worship it forever. Her touch, her affection and mostly her tears give him a euphoric rush that he doesn’t get anywhere else. A part of him that is still sane knows how unhealthy his desires are, the things he gets pleasure out of are so vile and filthy that sometimes his own subconscious gets disgusted by him.“You don’t know what you do to me Belle, when his name falls out of your pretty lips it makes me so mad. It turns me into a monster, just hearing his name drives me crazy Isabelle. Then why do you keep doing it babygirl?” He slowly gets on top of her and cages her torso in between his muscular thighs. She stares at him, fear settling in her heart realizing how dark his aura got. A part of her knows the behavior Zen p
