“ Of course, what’s up?” At this point, I am fully standing up in front of her.
“Do you have a death wish? She screeched angrily. I noticed the tears in her red-rimmed eyes. A few of her hairs were caught in her left eyelashes, but she failed to notice. “You could have died” She took a deep inhale and exhale. “I could have killed you”. I was still slightly confused from just waking up. “I don’t-”
“Stop” She cut me off, “Just stop.” Her anger was gone, she slumped, exhausted. She took another deep breath. My heart twinged as I saw how worried she was for me. I slowly reached out for her, to feel her warm embrace. Just in case she kept trying to push me away.
“I’m okay.” I swallowed. “It’s okay,” I could feel the tears starting to come down. “It’s going to be okay.”
“No, you aren’t Riya. I know what you were dreaming about.” The problem is, she isn’t wrong. “It is more than enough that you have to deal with that in reality, but that you can’t even escape me in your dreams-”
This time I cut her off “I love you anyway.”
“But how can you? I’m a monster”
“What defines you as a monster? I think you are beautiful.”
“You know that’s not what I mean.”
“Then what do you mean exactly?” I say stepping closer, closing most of the space in
between us.
“I-” she says while I step even closer.
“Yes?”
“You don’t know what you’re asking for”
“Don’t worry, I know what I am signing up for.” I try to act as confident as I can but I am struggling as the conversation continues. “You can’t hurt me.”
“Please don’t underestimate me. I know what I am capable of and you only have a short glimpse of what could happen to you.”
“You know you’re mine, don’t you? Do you think you can get away from me?” I can’t let her go after all of this. One of these days, either one of us dies or we have our happily ever after.
Bang. Bang. Bang.
“AAAAAAA THEY’RE COMING!!” Lucilla screamed on the top of her lungs pacing in front of the bed and I jolted out of bed.
“Who? Who is coming?”
“The police! They have finally figured out what I am and have come to take me away.” Lucilla said hyperventilating before screaming again.
“It’s going to be okay, the police-”
“Open up! It’s the police. We’re coming in if you don’t open the door.” The police said banging on the door again.
“See I told you, they’re going to take me away. What do I do?”
“I’m going to open the door, just to see what they want. But I will protect you at all costs.” I hold out my hand. “Promise” We link pinkies and kiss each other’s pinky. I let go and walk over to the door.
“What can I do for you guys?” I say with my hand up the door while Lucilla resumes pacing around the room.
“We have a warrant of arrest out for Lucilla Rose. Is she currently home?”
“May I ask why you are arresting her?”
“She chased several people around with knives and someone complained that she tried to kill them.” Oh crap, it’s not just me anymore. This is a problem. “Now, can I please come in?” Before I could say anything else, the officer pushed his way through the door and started searching the apartment with his partner. When I turned around I saw the window open and no Lucilla. “Oh please don’t tell me you jumped out the window. Please please please.” I mumbled under my breath.
“Did you say something?” One of the officers said.
“Oh no, sorry. I don’t know where she went though. She was just here. We were talking when you were knocking on the door.” I start walking around with them so hopefully, I find her before they do. She was curled up in a ball behind our bed in a ball rocking back and forth. I stand with my back facing her and put my arms out. I take a deep breath before speaking.
“Touch her and you’re dead.” I’ve never spoken this way to someone of power, I can feel my whole body shake as the officers look me dead in the eyes.
“I’m sorry what?”
“You heard me right, I’m not letting you take her.”
“Baby, we are the law. You can’t tell us what to do just to protect your little friend in the corner.” He said while tilting his head to get Lucilla in his view.
“I’m not going to let anything happen to you Lucilla, understand? Do you trust me?” I say looking back at her to make sure she knows I am talking to her. She doesn’t even try to make out a sentence she just nods her head.
“I need you to stay close to me, okay, they’ll have to go through me before they can even dream of getting to you.
“But we’re trapped. How do we escape?” I don’t know how to explain my play without the cops stopping it.
“Just trust me, please. I need you to be brave.” I say looking back at the officers.
“ Okay little girl, if you want to play this game. Think about where you are. You are hiding someone with a warrant out for arrest, you’re trapped in a corner and both of us have weapons and aren’t afraid to use them.” I didn’t take into account that they both had guns and tasers on their belts. I think they catch my eyes drifting down to their belt because the one police officer lets out a snicker.
It doesn’t matter when we try to escape, it will end the same way so we might as well try it now. I put one of my hands behind my back and hold up 3 fingers.
What is Riya's plan? I am really excited for the next episode. I might post several episodes tomorrow since it is almost Thanksgiving and I won't work on the story as much. Hope you understand and enjoy the episodes!
Luciela has some issues in her brain that randomly takes her into a foreign dimension for short periods of time. They had never been too bad, but recently they got worse and she hurt her girlfriend Riya. Neither wants to break off because they need each other, but how much more of this can Riya take?
Comments (0)
See all