Alex"Why should I think about Liz?"He let go of me when I stopped struggling. I blinked at him questioningly. "Where does she come in?" Him throwing her in all of this stupid drama made zero sense to me.Nothing ever did but this one went totally over my head."Because,she won't be happy to see you laying in a hospital bed." He paused. "And I know you don't want to make her worry.""I don't?"He stepped closer with a smile on his face. Two steps back from my side. "You are creeping me out dude."His hands rested on my shoulders. I glanced at each of them and kastky at his face. "Don't you see?"I narrowed my eyes. "What?""That you two are in love.""Holy cow,Mecael." I pushed myself away from him. "Where on earth did you get that thought."He looked at me like I was a different specie from him. "From wherever you learnt how to cuss using the word cow." He was the only one who laughed."Yeah. Don't ever try to crack a joke again." I face our not father,Mr. Heloriet,I'll just go b
Heloriet"The reason he let him live is because they are lovers." I dashed to where he was standing and grabbed him by the collar. "Say that again." I dared him.A smile spread across his face. My nostrils flared. "You are in love with him." I smashed my fist into his jaw. He stumbled from me. I charged towards him pushing him against the wall and pinning him there. He groaned laying his head on the wall.I pushed harder. "Say it again." He closed his eyes and exhaled slowly. Opening them,he locked his with mine."I'll say it as many times as you want. You are dating him. Our emotionless father is in love with the family doctor." He never broke the gaze.My breathing increased. I lifted my foot and hit him in the knee. My hands left his collar and I stepped back giving him room to fall. Soon as he hit the ground,his hand holding his knee and pushing the bone back to place,I charged again. "I've heard enough of your disrespect." I lifted my foot to his head. Alex got in between u
Mecael"Mecael Arden." I announced stepping forward.The nurse had asked about the name of the father just as I had arrived,that gave me the perfect opportunity to answer as Alex was still hesitating.Alex turned to look at me. I flashed him a smile even though the situation did not call for it"Okay." The nurse rushed off."Thank you for informing me that she is here. You may leave. I'll take it from here.""Who do you think you are?" "The father of the child,oh and the husband to the woman in there. Why then did you call me here?"Anger flashed in his eyes. "You are not the father." He run his palm across his face. "...and she asked for you,I got here as they were taking her in and your name was the last word on her lips."my heart grew warm at that. Even in distress she still thinks of me. I won't let her down.I blinked. "You don't really think that the one moment you had with her made her pregnant,do you?"His eyes went wide with disbelief. "She…she told you?" "That's how I kn
Mecael"Are you fucking serious right now? He is your husband?"The woman shuffled to where I was, swinging her hips dramatically. "Let him go." Her voice was levelled and she spoke slowly.I smiled. "As you say,mother in law." I unwrapped my fingers from around the man's throat.He fell down landing on the ground without a fight."Take him inside." He said calmly to the nurses who had walked out."Wow." That was Alex voice. "What a surprise.""Not a pleasant one." The woman concured. "Is this how we meet after all those…months?""What are you doing here?" I snapped.She chuckled. "My husband is here as well as my daughter.""Now that you are alive,aren't you supposed to go back to the father of your child?"She chuckled and slapped my arm. "It doesn't always happen. This isn't about love or relations," The corner of her lips twitched upwards."It isn't?" She shook her head slowly. "Then what is it all about?""Power,connections and money.""For what?""To take down a man with power y
AlexI leaned against the wall,my entire focus on my brother. Every time his fist met the concrete,I flinched. Blood stains were visible on his knuckles.The door to the top floor opened. "How long has he been on it?" Mesta asked his eyes fixed on Mecael.I lifted my shirt and looked at my watch. "Forty two minutes. Make that forty three."She sighed deeply. "Twenty seven more.'I exhaled. Both of us knew better than to try and stop him.One hour. One hour breakdown for him to come back to earth and function well.Mesta stepped closer to me. I gave her a frown."We need to talk." Her voice gave nothing away and that was worse than holding anger."Now?" I squeaked because the thought of having any kind of talk always had a way of freaking me out."It won't take long." She held my hand and looked at the watch. "We have enough time."I swallowed. "Um…a lot has happened since we…" I cleared my throat. "I don't think this is a good time. Let's talk after two…year?"She hit my chest. "It's
MecaelSigning those documents were the hardest things I have ever done in my life. My hand trembled,I dropped the pen several times,I sat down,knelt,stood up and ended up signing while in a squatting position.After that I knelt in front of the room she was in and sent my prayers to whoever hears them. I prayed for her wellbeing and for the child's survival. I recited Our Father's prayer,followed it by sixteen Hail Mary's. I said half of the apostles Creed and left it at that because my mind could not remember something it never bothered to grasp."Amen." Alex's voice came from behind me. His figure loomed beside me."Mesta went into labour."I stood up. "How is she?""Sensitive." He shivered and added. "Very sensitive."The child?"Before he answers one of the doctors approaches us."Hello,the whole…."'How is Mesta?' Alex asked cutting off the doctor.She gave him a wide smile. "They are both okay. It's a healthy boy. Looks exactly like you."Are they allowed to say that last part?
MecaelMy entire body froze. The air in the hospital became too dense to get through my nostrils. My chest felt like it was constricting more and more as each second passed.She started with an apology. That's what people start with when things don't go well. When the next words will stab you in a way you won't be able to survive.Sorry. That's how everyone starts."She…the baby…"I grabbed his shoulders and pulled her to me. She yelped but did not fight me."Get. To. The. Point." I gritted."The baby could not survive." My eyes pierced into hers. "His lungs were underdeveloped and the brain…"No.I let go of her. She stumbled back but Alex caught her in time before she ended up on the floor.The prayers did not work. Jokes on me for thinking the prayers of a sinful man could ever be answered. Shame on me for even going before God, taking my requests to him.This is all my fault. If only I had kept myself pure,no bloodshed,no gambling,no nothing. Maybe then my prayers would have been
AriaEverything was still. So still that it felt wrong. That the whole world had stopped moving,all that was in it crashed right before my eyes. And I did nothing. I was capable of nothing.I heard the doctors leave my room. They were so sure that I was asleep and maybe I was…maybe I was in this dream that I was soon going to wake up from.When my eyes fluttered open. I starred into space hoping that I would snap out of this illusion and back into reality. But the hard truth was that this was no dream,it was not an illusion…it was the truth. Cold,bare,raw truth.I breathed in and out then shit my eyes again. I travelled deep into myself. Tapping into the conscious and the subconscious for anything. Any kind of feeling.Nothing.The only thing that was present was the emptiness it outstretched far and beyond threatening to swallow me whole. I breathed in deeply,as deep as my lung capacity could allow. The air still did not feel enough. I was suffocating under the weight of something