There was a two more men waiting outside , lower in the number than I had counted in the morning.
Probably the rest of them went to find the nurse and was asking for things like pictures of me that did not really exist at all.
They both stood at the doorway , about to enter .
Had we been a minute later , they would have seen us sabotaging their own friends .
Think ! Think ! , I ordered myself.
" THERE IS MY STRANGER INSIDE ! HE IS MURDERING HIM !," I broke into a violent sob . I was terrified of getting caught . I was terrified that they would see through my act .
" THERE IS A STRANGER INSIDE !," my mother followed me like a parrot , crying like I did .
One of them gave a call to his phone ," There is a situation here , come fast ."
We did not have time . We really did not have time .
" Wait here ," said one of the men and entered the room.
I grabbed the other man's arm ," Let's go ,let's go , I can't stay here ."
He gave in to the pressure ," Do not worry our men will be here in a minute -"
" I SAID GO !"
I shoved him before me , grabbing his hand ," Run ! Run ! We can not take the elevator, people will recognise my face ."
Thankfully he bought into my bullshit .
As we started running down the stairs , I placed my palm on his back and looked at my mother and whispered," Chocolate !"
With both of us pushing him , he lost his balance and toppled down the stairs .
God , please , let him be alive , I prayed as I ran with my mother to another floor and reached the elevator.
I knew that this guy had already informed his colleagues we were taking the stairs . But it would need just seconds to find us in the elevator.
Adrenaline hummed through my veins. People were staring at me in the elevator. It felt awfully slow and time consuming.
I was pretty sure that when it would open t,my father's men would rush in again.
I was barely containing my urge to press the ground floor button again and again.
When the door opened to our floor . It was awfully quiet . Maybe they were still searching the stairs .
But they would be here soon.
They were coming , they were coming to take my mother away from me again.
I grabbed her fibble arm and ran out the building .
The security tried to stop us but missed us by an inch.
Outside it was raining cats and dogs.
I had no idea what to do . I did not even imagine that I could come this far with mother .
All I knew that we needed to keep moving ...
I handed over the chocolate to my mother ," Be good ."
I ran in the street hoping to stop a car , any car. My body was slowly giving away , but I could not give up now .
I shouted on the street . The cars honked barely missing me and cursing away .
But I was desparate. Death barely mattered when I knew that I could be dragged to hell again.
I stretched my arms and stood infront of the car . If I died , atleast my mother could be taken to a police station. And with my name being already known to people , maybe my death would start a proper investigation.
If I was to die , I would drag that monster down with me . I would do anything to protect my family, anything -
But my limbs started betraying me . The world around me started swirling until everything was in the same colour .
When my vision returned I was lying on the road ,looking up at the dark sky that showered mercilessly over me .
I was cold..I was so so cold...
I did not know why people were screaming around me ..
There was an engine humming loudly beside my face.
Did I get hit ? Was I dying ?
I struggled to keep my eyes open .
" Julia ??"
A voice I had not heard for so long . I turned my head to see my mother running towards me , she looked exactly like when she was younger . She was wearing her favourite dress , her beautiful brown hair was in a neat braid ..
It was the same when I was young. I would slip and fall and she would run at me like that.
" Julia ?," my mother called again ..
The woman who came to me was not the mother that I had missed , it was the woman who was broken and empty in mind ..
Tears rolled down from my eyes to the street .
'You remember me ?'
I wanted to ask her . But no voice came out . I was so so sleepy and tired . I knew that I needed to get up and protect her .
But this damn body of mine never listened to my plea. Slowly it was giving up.
The darkness stretched around my vision , shrouding my mother away from me as my mine screamed helplessly," No enough ! I had not done enough !"
But nobody listened.
The world tore me apart from my mother again.