ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Cross Pov

What the fuck?”

I screamed as the car came to a sudden stop, making me hit my head against the car seat, I looked up wondering why the driver suddenly stopped.

“What happened?”

“Sir a lady, she..”

He seemed to be in shock, I looked up as the said lady fell to the ground, I panicked that moment, fearing he might have hit her but I couldn’t remember hearing the car hit something.

“Did you hit her?”

I asked as I got out of the car, he followed, he didn’t hit her though, she might have fainted from the shock, great now I have to cancel my flight again and land at the hospital for a second time within two weeks, remind me not to come back to Arizona, at least he didn’t hit her, I helped carry her and told him to get on the car, a few people were watching us but no one came to help, as expected, I checked her pulse to make sure she was okay, she seemed to be normal but I wasn’t a professional so I couldn’t really tell.

“Please hurry up dude, I don’t want someone to die on me,”

“There is a hospital in this area so I will drive straight there, I didn’t see her getting on the road, she wasn’t supposed to cross uñtil the red light show, I don’t know why she entered the road,”

The driver said, he seemed shocked and out of it.

“Forget that and concentrate on driving,”

I advised, checking again to be sure she was still breathing, she looked familiar to me but I couldn’t pinpoint where I have seen her before, maybe she lived around our house, I don’t know. We got to the hospital quicker than I thought and I quickly carried out, the doctors and nurses on the ground knew their assignment and collected her from me immediately, by the time they came out about thirty minutes later, I was already scared that I might not have checked her pulse correctly and assumed she was fine when she was not, I already called the airport to cancel.

“Doc? How is she?”

I asked as soon as the doctor walked up to me.

“She is fine, thankful she didn’t hit her head hard when she fell, what happened to her?”

I let out a breath of relief at his words.

“She jumped in front of our car, it didn’t hit her but she collapsed,”Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

“Oh, she is okay, but she looks depressed and in shock, do you perhaps know her or her relatives?”

“I don’t, I can ask her though,”

“Yeah, but she didn’t say a word when I asked maybe she will talk to you,”

The doctor said pointing me in the direction of where her room is, I felt Deja Vu as I walked into her room, this was the same as when Anna was in the hospital, just that the hospital was different.

“Hey,”

I said as I walked into the room, she had her back against me, I didn’t know if she was sleeping or not.

“Hey, I was wondering if you could give me a number I can call so that they can know you are here,”

I said gently, I have been using a rather gentle voice since I got to Arizona that I may pass out as a nice person, the only time I raised my voice was because of that little witch that brought me here in the first place, the thought of her made me angry over again, I calmed myself, there was no reason to be angry anyway, she got her own share of the mess she made, though I doubt she will feel it since she took a huge sum of money with her, I hoped we don’t meet though, cuz heaven helps me.

“There’s no one to call, you can go, thanks for bringing me here, I will leave on my own when I gather enough strength,”

She said, she still didn’t turn to my side, great another abandoned one, is it some kind of new trend that I don’t know about? I wondered.

“Hmm, then where do you leave? I can drop you off,”

I offered, wondering why I didn’t just leave as she said, I could still make it to the airport in time to get to New York.

“No need,”

She said finally Turning to face me, when our eyes met, the expression on her face changed before she whispered in fear.

“Cross,”

She stood up immediately like she had seen a ghost, moving towards the other side of the bed, I wondered why she looked so scared to see me and how she knew my name.

“How do you know my name?”

I asked, even as I asked her face, no I mean the face that I had seen before flashed in front of my eyes, it was her, but she looked different here, so vulnerable and weak, as I remembered who she was all the sympathy I earlier felt for her washed away, it was her, the little devil.

“Katherine? Is that you? Well, well, well, of all the places I thought we might meet it never occurred to me that it would be here and in this kind of situation.”

I said folding my hands together and accessing her, she looked worn out and looked nothing like the elegant lady whose photo I saw before, she looked leaner and a little unkempt.

“I am sorry, please you can leave now,”

She said.

She must be kidding right? If she thinks I will just leave after everything she made me and my family go through them she must be kidding herself.

“You are joking, right? I warned you, I told you that you should hide well, but here you are looking like a scared little cat who lost its way,”

“I am sorry, I will leave now, just pretend like you never saw me,”

She said starting to leave the hospital room, I grabbed her and she looked at me in shock and fear, well good to know she is scared, cuz she should be.

“I told you I should not find you first, but you walked my way instead, and you really think I will just let you walk off like that?”

I asked as she tried to get her hands off but I held on tight.

“Let me go,”

“No miss, you have to pay for the shame you brought to my family, no one causes my family embarrassment and go free, I warned you not to show up in my face,”

“I am sorry for what happened, please let me go,”

She pleaded.

“Wow, so you can say please? Where is the feisty lady who answered the call last week? The one who told me it was on me, that I should clean up the mess she made?”

“I said I am sorry, just let me go, please, I won’t show up in front of you ever again,”

“Bitch you go nowhere until I say so,”

“Fine!!! Do whatever you want, if you wanna kill me then do it, no one cares anyway,”

She said giving up, she gave up too soon, I wondered what happened to her, she looked worn out and tired of life, just like how Anna had looked last week but she looked worst than Anna, and Anna had my pity, she didn’t, all I felt for her was hatred.

“What happened to you though?”

I asked finally letting her go, she looked like she was going through a lot even without me making her miserable.

“It’s none of your business,”

“Yeah, I agree, but I wanna know anyway, I like seeing you suffer, you look like you are going through hell even without anything from me,”

“Shut the fuck up,”

She cursed and I burst out laughing.

“Bitch, you played a dirty game and I don’t know what happened but I think the game didn’t quite go as you planned, did you get scammed?”

That’s seemed to be the only reason, I knew her family already disowned her but I didn’t think she will feel it since I thought she was already out of the country, so the only reason she would still be here is that she got scammed. I liked the thought of that, if she didn’t have a penny with her then she must be out of options already, I smiled in satisfaction.

“Did you get scammed, little witch?”

“I am not a witch and it none of your business,”

“But you are a witch though, just answer the question, looks like that’s what happened anyway, you got played,”

I said laughing, I knew I should take her out of the hospital before the doctors come and see us talking.

“Fine, yes I was, I was scammed, I am penniless, I have no one too, I am all alone so you can do your worse, I don’t care anyway,”

She said in a screaming voice. I didn’t know if she was intentionally screaming to draw attention to herself or if she genuinely didn’t care.

“Stop screaming bitch, this is a hospital,”

I said covering her mouth with my hands, she bite my hand and I took it off.

“Are you mad?”

“Yes, I am, so leave me alone,”

She said walking off.

“No way,”

“Then do whatever you want with me then,”

She said turning around again.

“Well, come to New York with me and I will do just that,”

I said and watched the color wash from her face completely…