Chapter Fifteen: Sweet & Bad Dreams
Chapter Fifteen: Sweet & Bad Dreams
Regrets and remorse pierce against Elizabeth's heart as she treating so differently all people she encounters, she loves and cares about except those before she annoyed. Everyone’s heart shattered into pieces, it’s too late for her apology now. Hope can't easy to find like a precious chest of gold coins in treasure hunting, but hope shall restore once again when the corrupting position defeated.
Elizabeth spots a dusty phonograph, continuously playing a famous love song this time. She sneaks towards the person who playing and singing along with it. She eavesdrops almost the whole song duration before she interferes into the man singing along these lyrics of the song.
♫You see this guy, this guy's in love with you♫
Yes I'm in love who looks at you the way I do
♪When you smile I can tell it know each other very well♪
♫How can I show you I'm glad I got to know you 'cause♫
I've heard some talk they say you think I'm fine
Yes I'm in love and what I'd do to make you mine
♪Tell me now is it so don't let me be the last to know♪
♫My hands are shakin' don't let my heart keep breaking 'cause♫
I need your love, I want your love
♪Say you're in love, in love with this─
"Hey, you sang─ oh, it’s you, it’s you?" Elizabeth examines the singing guy.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm out." he coughs, clearing his throat.
"No, it’s okay, please─ it's… okay.” she asks as she catching the singing guy’s face by her sight.
Upon sitting on the bed, silence presses against the room, conquering thoroughly in the entire chamber, taking almost a minute and in a half. They interfere to each other as they simultaneously speaking and the few silent minutes getting awkward. Elizabeth offers him to speak, but Enrico refuses, insisting her to speak first. Elizabeth stutters in saying her apology to him but Enrico replies with a demure smile unto her.
As she locks her sight unto him, she allures on his charming smile displaying on his face. She dawns back a realisation as they banishing him from the mansion, spearheaded by his fiancé Julius. Both of them starting to stare each other, Elizabeth recalls her passiveness to help Enrico to stay in his duty, her conscience barking and bothering her, tormenting her mind and making her bursts into tears.
"Ma'am, are you alright?" Enrico locks his sight unto her teary eyes and wiping it by his thumb.
"No, I'm, I'm fine…sorry─ please I'm sorry Enrico." She coils her arms to him tightly.
"Hey, what happened? Why you're crying? What did I do?" he rubs his hand to her behind.
"No, I’m alright─ I know I abandon you, I desert you, I’m sorry" she escapes from him and whispering these words.
“Desert? Are you talking about ice cream and cakes?" he smiles, knitting his eyebrows.
"What? Ha-ha-ha, I know you're…you know like dumb…like idiot ha-ha but you're courageous and kind. I miss you already, Enrico. I miss you so much!" She sniffs, pulling up a handkerchief in her pocket.
"Come on, I'm not dead yet. Promise me, I’m not always be with you, but please don't forget to remember me, here." He smiles as he poking Elizabeth’s chest.
"You know what?"
"I'm sorry I don't know."
"Shut it, hmm. I mean, I know it's odd but the first time I saw you I was like…"
“You think I'm smart nerdy guy, right?"
"No! You're idiot, kidding ha-ha-ha. I think you're─?" she giggles then smiles at him.
"I’m a funny guy" he raises his right eyebrow.
"No! You're weird, ha-ha-ha stop answering quickly please" she frowns.
"Okay ha-ha-ha" he chuckles.
"I think the first time I saw you─" she cut off.
"I think─ I… love… you, Ma’am," Enrico inches her, locking his eyes to hers.
Elizabeth defeats by deep silence, consumes into unfathomable blending emotion of ecstasy and perplexes. Her eyes once in for all burst into tears, tears of joy. Enrico confesses his feeling to her that makes her petrify like an ancient statue of the age. Few seconds with ghost-quite silence consummates them. Both of them share this sizzling ecstasy and euphoria towards their fantasy. Their sights collide to each other, locking their melting gazes, penetrating their deepest desire, reaching until the edge of their soul. Their eyes closing sluggishly, inching their faces opposite of each other with their exchanging breathe permeating to their noses. Enrico succeeds to press his lips against her and Elizabeth responds wholeheartedly. Each of their lips magnetises, slowly opening their mouths to release their wiggling tongues. Enrico caresses Elizabeth’s shoulder and Elizabeth coiling her arms to him. It takes a couple of minutes, tasting their ecstasy. Their warming body attracting to each other with their wiggling tongues knotting to each other. Yet, Elizabeth's fading red lips pull out from Enrico's lips, manifesting by a flicking sound as considering it done.
In a split of second, Elizabeth giggles uncontrollably in spotting Enrico's lips shaded with red and looks like a nerdy whore in a brothel. She can't stop laughing as Enrico embarrasses seeing his lips seems likely to her. In the latter, Enrico eventually laughs out loud. Few more moments passes as their sizzling laughter expires under the background music of Enrico's favourite song “this guy's in love with you” by Herb Alpert in 1968.
Covertly, Julius watching them sitting oppositely to each other and savouring each cute moments. He screams as loudly as he could and their cute moments quenches. Julius glares his sight unto them, walking towards them warily and his hiding something in his back. They rouse up from their seats. Elizabeth explains everything, pacifying Julius murdering sight. Julius bestows a wallop to Elizabeth's lovely face. All of them flabbergast from Julius’ inappropriate demeanour as he slaps her without any further explanations. Enrico lungs and dodges towards him with a sharp blow directly to his stomach. He hunches and coughs like almost to puke with small blood flowing in the corner of his parched lips. Enrico adds some more, directly hitting into his rib cage and the other blow in the same spot for his first punch.
Elizabeth pacifies them as she looping her arms to Enrico, forcefully pulling him up to avoid his contact with Julius whilst hunching so badly. As Enrico spotting Julius approaching towards them, he escapes forcefully from Elizabeth's entanglement. Enrico protects her from Julius attack unfortunately, a tragic moment presses against Enrico. Julius darts a dagger directing to Enrico's belly and he adds some more malcontent stab that hit squarely in Enrico's chest directly over his heart. Enrico notices his chest clings with a dagger and blood-bathes and collapsing him into the floor. He glares back to Julius' grinning face and Julius pulls out the dagger once in for all from Enrico’s chest.
Elizabeth witnesses Enrico falls, puking so much blood from his mouth. She rushes rattling, and shouting Enrico's name repeatedly. She presses her arms against his chest and shouting so loudly and repeatedly. She removes Enrico's eyeglass and spots his teary eyes.
"Enrico, please hang on, help! Help! Somebody, help!" she shouts continuously.
"Elizabeth, run…" he whispers as he wiping Elizabeth's tears by his bloody right hand.
"No, Enrico, please hang on─ please…please…" she sobs as she bumping her face to Enrico’s bloody chest.
"I…love …you…" he stops breathing.
Elizabeth's joy and ecstasy expires momentarily upon witnessing Enrico’s stopping breath. His innocent face now fills with blood. His teary eyes gushes his last tears, flowing from the corner of his greyish coloured eyes. She screams his name until she awakens from her nightmare. Her eyes truthfully fill with tears and her sleeping pyjama soaks with a great sweat. She rouses up from her bed, walking and opening her room’s windows.
The clock strikes at a quarter minute before four. Elizabeth exposes her teary face and sniffing nose outside the window so that she could breathe fresh air. A few seconds later, she roams around her sight and deciding to close the window once again. But, as she scanning outside, she spots a ladder and a rope between her windows adjacent to her mother's window.
From dexterity of her thought, she quickly heads to her mother's bedroom and knocks on the door. No one responds to open it. So, she forcefully opens it by kicking the door. She shifts her sight on the wide-open window twelve o'clock from her direction. She clarifies her suspicion. She switches on the light and inspecting her mother's bed diagonally from her sight. She advances and removes the blanket out from the bed mattress, but a pile of pillows forming like a human tricks her instead. She yells from her mother’s trickery, yet she realises her barking conscience consumes her, making her sobs in the entire remaining hours of the dawn.