88-Goodbye

Justin Deluca pov

I still remember. I ran like a madman out of the mansion. My friends had to control me. Keith and Terry wanted to make me relax but I wanted to reach my kitten.

Granny and Sarah convinced me to straightaway reach the hospital. Upon reaching there, we came to know her two friends had already expired on the spot. The closest friend Evelyne had minor injuries as she went out to get the commercial pack of mayonnaise.

Ashley’s orphanage friend, Aniya had reached there in no time.

Poor Evelyne was crying nonstop along with fighting the new horror that she could lose Ashley too just like she lost Elijah and Sam in the blink of an eye.

And Ashley? She had slipped into a coma. She was lucky to survive the serious head injury. I was requested not to enter her room by my family and doctors, but nobody could stop me from meeting my

kitten.

She was lying there quietly with a few wraps here and there.

I forgot that I needed to change my clothes or had to shave. Even I could no longer remember that I

needed to visit the bathroom. Ha–ha.

For two days, I stayed by that bedside, sitting on that uncomfortable chair, holding her hand that I didn’t want to let go at any cost. Not even when the doctors used to visit her for check–ups.

By the end of the second day, the doctor gave me hope. Her body, at last, had started reacting to the

medicines.

my third night beside her. I wasn’t aware when I slipped into a

slowly shaking my shoulder to wake me up. I straightened

“Granny?”

hair, “For the past few days, you haven’t eaten

started shaking my head. I didn’t want

ran my gaze on my kitten’s face where a tube was inserted inside her mouth, “I can’t leave her alone. What if she wakes

holding it I touched my lips to it and looked up to find her wrinkled face covered with

She is a fighter.” I knew

My lioness.

Once she does. You need

to look into her

need to let her go. It’s just for one

a game, Granny. She is not a toy. She is a normal human. What to tell her? That hey, Ash. I know you need me after this

hand and shifted back her baby hair that was there along her

turned towards the door, “You do need to choose if you want Ashley or Ashley’s

still. Granny was just being practical. And then in a matter of

her

I live without you?” I felt tears cascading

her in my arms. I showered her face with small kisses,

like a lioness. And

lioness. You will make it to the other side. But Ashley. I am not the strong one. I won’t be able to make it. What would

of my life were spent in Arguli, and the

the fifth day when I felt her hand shaking. That moment was the one when I cried and

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