KATHERINEMy brain was shutting down on itself. I was beyond scared about what was happening and how best to handle the situation that had come down on me. With one of the boys pulling at my pant, I wanted nothing more than to be free from them.In one last minute attempt, I hit them with a bag at the back of their heads, one quick move. I slowly rose to my feet, and tried my best to run, only for one to shove me on the wall. I gasped in horror as he came toward me. I didn’t know where to go, and tears matted my eyes in pain. What should I do now?“Please, don’t harm me. You can take my phone and money, but please let me go,” I begged.The boy laughed at me with the rest of the gangs. They surrounded me at all sides, laughing manically. I had no idea what to do. Who told me come to the dark alley. I wish I had stayed back and not done this, or maybe taken a bus?I took a shaky breath, and felt completely shaken. “Please, let me go,” I said quietly.They laughed even harder at me, and
BIANCA“Sis… What’s wrong?” Elizabeth queried in worry as she held onto my phone.I stood to my feet, and grabbed my purse from the chair like a robot. I wasn’t so sure I was capable of breathing anymore. It was almost as if there was something that had gone out of my body. It was something cold and painful.Elizabeth pulled to her feet too, and made a move to come right towards me. I looked at her like I could barely see her. I didn’t understand anything anymore, and it hurt me so much that I couldn’t stop this from happening. I felt like I was useless and disgusting.“You’re giving me anxiety, tell me what the fuck is going on! Is it Stallone?” She asked calmly as she stepped in front of me.Hearing his name made me break down in one million ways. It was because of him. I was so hurt and broken because of him. Elizabeth gathered me in her hands as she tried to soothe me up, but I kept thinking of what the doctor had said. I pulled back slightly as I realised that I didn’t have much
GIORGIOI slowly held her hand, squeezing it tightly. She was literally shaking and I felt so bad watching her like that. Katherine didn’t deserve to cry. She had agreed to be my wife, and I couldn’t just let anything happen to her.“Breathe,” I said softly.She tried, but lunched into more tears that broke my heart into two. I squeezed her hand even more. Seeing her so broken was breaking me too. I didn’t want anything to happen to her, and I wanted her to be happy at all times.“Talk to me,” I said softly.I don’t know why I was feeling this emotion because I was definitely not in love with her, but I always wanted to protect her from things. It was the little price that I would pay for being her future husband, and so be it.She finally pulled herself together for her to make a coherent statement. “I need to save my dad,” she said once more.I nodded. “What did you mean by they don’t want to operate him?” I asked softly.I watched as she sniffed. “What I meant was that the nurse to
BIANCA“Elizabeth, I just got 10,000 dollars!” I said fiercely.I made my was slowly towards my seat before I would collapse. Elizabeth was screaming up a storm in my ears. She was as excited and relieved as I was. I slowly lowered myself down on the bench as a note walked past.“Oh, my goodness! I’m going to come in the evening after work. I’m so happy. We would talk more by then. Go ahead and do all you have to do to make brother live.” She said frantically.We said our goodbyes and I disconnected the call. I still couldn’t believe that any of these was happening. It felt like it was too good to be true, but it was there. I checked my account balance, and the money was still there.I tried my best not to scream, but still I did, thought it came out muffled thanks to my hands being placed on my lips. I still couldn’t believe that any of these was literally happening. I was still shocked. The nurse station was empty, but I could holler and they would respond to me. I needed to get Sta
BIANCA“Elizabeth, I just got 10,000 dollars!” I said fiercely.I made my was slowly towards my seat before I would collapse. Elizabeth was screaming up a storm in my ears. She was as excited and relieved as I was. I slowly lowered myself down on the bench as a note walked past.“Oh, my goodness! I’m going to come in the evening after work. I’m so happy. We would talk more by then. Go ahead and do all you have to do to make brother live.” She said frantically.We said our goodbyes and I disconnected the call. I still couldn’t believe that any of these was happening. It felt like it was too good to be true, but it was there. I checked my account balance, and the money was still there.I tried my best not to scream, but still I did, thought it came out muffled thanks to my hands being placed on my lips. I still couldn’t believe that any of these was literally happening. I was still shocked. The nurse station was empty, but I could holler and they would respond to me. I needed to get Sta
KATHERINEWe were seated on the chair in the open parlour, and I tried hard to remain collected, but seeing Antonio here was worrisome. He had come into the house shortly after. I wondered if he was related to Giorgio. Though, Giorgio wasn’t acknowledging him one bit.It was the strangest thing I had seen so far. Also, Antonio had not come to stay beside Giorgio at all. He had chosen instead to disappear into a room. I was aware that people were different, but if they were cousins, they ought to have some sort of relationship between them. I mean, I can’t imagine living in this house and not having a cordial relationship with my family.“You seem to be lost,” Giorgio said easily.I pulled my attention away from my scattered thoughts, and looked at him. He had a laidback attitude around him, and I wondered if it was part of the act to deceive his father. If that were so, I wasn’t doing well at all. I was so nervous, and my mind wasn’t in this moment at all. Giorgio and I didn’t have a
KATHERINEI swallowed the lump in my throat. Oh, what did we do wrong? Slowly, I turned to Giorgio, and I noted the look of confusion on his face. It was evident that he was as shocked as I was. We both didn’t understand what was going on.In the little time that I had turned to Giorgio, his father had crossed the space that separated us. He pulled me closer to him, and hugged me hard. I didn’t know when I expelled the breath I had been holding. What type of joke was this?He pulled me back. “Oh, my goodness! Your face had been priceless,” he said as he lunched into a cackle.I shook my head. So, it had been a joke? Damn! The fact that I didn’t realise this at first made it hilarious. I had lost had a heart attack thinking that he had figured out the truth about our deception. That wouldn’t have been funny one bit.I turned towards Giorgio, and he shrugged.“Dad, that was not funny,” he said with a sigh.His father laughed in response. It was evident that the man believed that it was
KATHERINEI laid on my bed, holding my psychology handout, but I couldn’t read through anything. This was not going well. I tossed the book by the side and sighed. What am I going to do now? Maybe, browse through the internet, while listening to songs that fit my recent predicament. That song should be from Ariana Grande’s archives. Yep! With that, I pulled my phone out from under the table. Next, I looked for my earpiece, which was tangled with my sports bra at the side of the pillow. I cringed. Ok, I wasn’t this careless on a normal day. I switched on my phone, and saw numerous messages from the school group chat. Wait, it was 5000 messages. What the hell? Was there an uproar or something? It was not like the group to be so active. Out of curiosity, I clicked on it, and I kept seeing RIP. Who died?Clicking on one of the messages so I could find out who she was typing to, I stared gobsmacked at the screen. This wasn’t possible, or was it? Antonio was dead? Wait, I just saw him ye
KATHERINEA lot had happened in a few years, and I was more grateful than I ever thought I would be 2 years ago, and that was something. Everything about the situation gave me so much joy, and it made me feel as though I could tell that my life was about to make more meaning than it would ever have in the long run.“Are you ready?” A maid queried.I nodded. “I’m ready.”Pulling my hair backwards, I tried to give it a breezy look. I had no idea if it were working or not, but things were really looking up at this point. I felt like I was living my best life, and all. It was just amazing what things could do to one. A quick look at the matter showed that I was looking so good. I wanted to stare at myself for a long time, and not do anything, but a certain someone was waiting for me downstairs. I grabbed my purse by the wall stand and made a move to the other side of the room. There was only one thing that made sense right now, and that was the fact that I was happy with my life. Everyt
GIORGIOThe lights were all out, and there was so much excitement in the mansion. Father had invited a couple of dignitaries to celebrate I and Katherine. It felt like there was something in the air that was stifling my excitement. I just couldn’t handle too many things at once, and I was worried about so many things, and what was at the fore was that, I would not be able to find out the truth before everything actually gets destroyed.I turned around and noted that Katherine was busy with a few guests, and she seemed to be so happy. Just as I was about to look away, I caught a glimpse of Mrs Bianca as she walked quickly behind dad.I had a hunch to follow her, and I did the same. She was trying her best to move fast and remain hidden and I had to be fast on my feet. There was a lot of things that needed to be handled and there was little time for that. I just wish that everything was good at the moment, and there was no more stress.But, I couldn’t afford to give into wishful thinkin
GIORGIOI pulled my hands towards the side, but I couldn’t hold onto anyone. It was as thought I was all alone on the damn bed, and that didn’t make me feel better one bit. I wished there would have been a way to handle the issues, and Katherine wouldn’t have to be sad, and loose sleep because of me. It broke me into a billion pieces and that was saying something. I couldn’t just stand how uptight everything was at this point.“Katherine?” I called out.Was she that mad at me because I had not helped with the whole celebrations? I wish not because I had no idea what I was going to do if that were to be the case. The whole problems was getting out of hand, and I just had to be sure that she was fine, and she knew that I would be able to make her feel more better as time went on. This was what was more important to me.I opened the door to the bathroom, but she wasn’t there. What the hell was going on? She never got out at this time, and we always talked about random things and made sil
KATHERINEI had the best moments in life and I was really enjoying everything now with Giorgio being by my side and all. The tension with his dad was there, but still, he made sure that everything was good.I could see the efforts he was putting with helping me with things and so much more. I just couldn’t help but he happy for them all, and understand that this was my life now. Honestly, I have understood now that my life was meant to be this way from the scratch. I was meant to understand Giorgio and his excesses and be there for him at his weakest.Giorgio in turn helped me with bodyguards, and he was so kind as he made things clear to me. It was a moment of great reflection, and I was able to understand why things happened the way it did. It was for the good of us all, and I couldn’t change that for anything in the world.“Here,” Giorgio said softly. I turned lightly to him and noted that he was giving me an ice-cream. I pulled away from he balcony, and grabbed a couple of bites
GIORGIOI watched as Katherine’s father fidgeted lightly, and I could tell that he was majorly stressed up by the issue ongoing. There was so much stress around, but I really wanted to be there for sometime, and handle the problems that came up at all times. It was important to be able to get to the apex of the situation.“Dad, please answer us. Giorgio is right, there is something definitely wrong and we need to clarify the whole thing better so there would be no more problems. What is going on, dad?” Katherine stepped up.I looked at her and she nodded with her eyes, making me smile ever so lightly. Her dad finally heaved a sight, pulling our attention back to him. “The thing is, we have been receiving threats. It’s been so crazy and we don’t know how to handle half of the situations that cropped up. It is such a painful moment for us all, and things have to be handled better.” He said with a sight.I swallowed hard. “What threats?”He shook his head. “They are in form of letters,
GIORGIOThere were things that were moving too fast, and I could tell that there would be more trouble around. We’ve finally settled into the house, and there was a whole lot of things that had to be done when things when we caught father talking with someone, who had a sketchy attitude. I wished I could be able to find out exactly who the person was, but it was so hard to do.Katherine also tried to find the man who was with dad, but to no avail. I decided to do some private investigations while remaining true to myself. There was so many things that needed to be clarified at this point, and I had to handle everything like I had seen so far.I and Katherine tried to move on, though I kept my eyes on the situation, by asking some persons to investigate the man. They were people that I could trust. I didn’t like the way some of the issue came up. It was a pain for me, and I felt like everything was getting slightly destroyed, but I had no idea if I was paranoid or not.Then, one evenin
KATHERINEThere was something about Giorgio that had shifted since I agreed to come home with him a week ago. I have no idea if I was crazy, but he was also very persuasive. There was no way I could be able to ignore the whole feeling. I was so insanely aware of him, and I didn’t know if it were a good thing or a bad thing since he had done nothing, but cause me much grieve. I would have to find that out by myself though. I was willing to take a risk, irrespective of the repercussions to get where I needed to be.My hands lightly twisted in my hands as I waited for the horrors to go. Maybe, I was back home, but I wasn’t shielded from the horrors of Isabella’s death. Giorgio had advised me to stand strong and do all I had to do to get better. It was a difficult advice to follow through, considering how tense the whole situation could be.The door pulled open and cold air filtered through the room. I didn’t turn back to see. I honestly could careless n this situation what actually happe
GIORGIOI only knew one thing, and that was there were moments when things happened and we believe we could get better, and there were moments when we were completely devastated and we couldn’t pull ourselves together. I didn’t want my situation to be like the latter and I knew that I had to do everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t become the case. It seems like a hard pull to swallow, but I was going to try to be better, and get my wife back home. Phoebe had informed me that Katherine had gotten a new device. In order for their friendship not to get ruined by me, I did all I can, not to collect the new number from her. It would not be helpful, and I didn’t want that.Now, I knew where she lived, it would be best for me to go there on my own and check her out. I would be able to know what exactly is going on with that attitude of mine, and not blame anyone for what was happening. It was easy to apportion blame, but harder to admit that you fucked up big time.This was one of
KATHERINE“Don’t do that please.Don’t kill yourself! Don’t shoot… No!” I screamed.I felt as thought someone was shaking me and I opened my eyes in fright. Mother had her eyes tuned to me, and she was so nervous about everything that she was doing. I guess I was nervous too when I thought about it, and that made me feel some sort of way,“Mom?” I asked as though I was not sure of what I was seeing.“It’s the same nightmare again, right?” She asked softly.I smiled lightly and tried to look away, but she steered my gaze to her ever so lightly. Her eyes were filled with worry as hey looked on at me, and I was sad that I was the one that made it so. Though, I wished she wouldn’t try to come between Giorgio and I.“Answer me, dear,” she said softly.I shook my head. “It doesn’t matter mom. I haven’t been able to handle most of the situation and I don’t like that. Try to understand where I’m coming from right now. It would make me feel better if we could make things better for us, and not