Chapter 47: Julia

|LEILA CROSS|

The atmosphere becomes dark, heavy, and intense.

I no longer know what's the situation anymore. The only thing that comes into my mind is that, how can everything fall in just a snap of a finger?

How can I grasp the idea that someone is in danger just because of my blood? Will I ever forgive myself after this? Will, I ever accept that everything is no longer the same and that I knew, I was part and involved in this?

Or is this chaos, will war be ever stopped?

"Leo!"

My eyes grow wider because of the scene right in front of my eyes. My lips quiver and forms a firm line for trying not to act aggressively after what happened.

In just a blink of an eye, I found myself looking at the corpse of the person who has been a part of my life ever since.

it happened too fast that I don't know what to believe anymore.

After Leo shows up with a woman in a wheelchair, whose unconscious, Lawrence disappears from my back and before I can move my feet, he was already at the back of Leo and mercilessly stabbed his neck multiple times.

Even in that situation, my eyes catch how Leo's lips form a weak smile as if he's proud of himself that he manages to get Lawrence away from me. But it makes me more furious. He smiled as if reassuring me that his death will never be in vain and I really won't disappoint him because my insides are already preparing a bloody fight with that Lawrence bastard!

"Freaking demon!"

I was too stunned to witness Leo in his poor state that before I can move and kill Lawrence, I felt something prickle my neck causes my eyes to be blurry until I can no longer open it as darkness swallows my consciousness.

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My brows furrow in confusion and pain when I try to move my head and my arms.

It's as if something is hindering me to move a single muscle as I can feel the throbbing pain in my head. It feels like someone throws a big stone in my head even if there's none.

I try to open my eyes and I groan in pain whenever I try to. I wait for it to adjust and when I did, open my eyes, stunned is an understatement to what I feel when my vision gets a clear view of the place where I'm in.

"Freaking hell...," I mutter curses under my breath because of bewilderment.

"What am I doing here?" I ask myself and try to move my hand when the sound of metal dangling with another catches my attention.

"A handcuff?" I bit my lower lip in sudden frustration that I feel and add the fact that the woman in a wheelchair earlier, which I suppose Alisa Leo mentioned before his tragedy.

I put more pressure on biting my lower lip because of too much emotion that was bottled up inside of me.

Watching a close friend lose his life has never been this painful and regretful. I was hurt and in pain knowing that he can no longer come back forever and regretful that I didn't even make a move to save his freaking ass.

Mix emotions. I don't know what to think anymore and just by looking at my situation, I know Lawrence plans to give my blood to whoever that woman is and I can't let that happen.

But because of my internal struggles and my situation, I don't think I can think of a plan to execute Lawrence's death.

Thinking about Leo's unreasonable death, make me want to kill Lawrence more and avenge those he mercilessly killed. The handcuffs are not special that's why I can use my Vampire strength and I don't know if they are really that stupid to not let me chained with a power that can stop me from using my powers.

But then I am thankful that they really are stupid for not doing so.

I let out a menacing chuckle as I break the handcuffs over my wrists and ankles before getting up from a hospital bed.

I look at the woman who's unconsciously lying on the other bed just beside mine. I roll my eyes as I avoid my gaze from her and start to think of a plan for how to escape.

but before I can think of anything, fate must have really planned to make me feel worst than ever.

A woman suddenly appears right before my eyes. She's five steps away from me and because the light in this secluded place is only from the moonlight coming from the window on my left side causes me not to see the woman's face clearly.

Not that long when I feel my heartbeat becomes faster as if Cerberus is chasing for my life. I breathed in and out to calm my heart but to no avail.

Why is it like this?

Who is she?

"Who are you?" I manage to ask her despite how crazy my heartbeats are after looking at her and feeling her presence.

It feels new but on the other side, I feel like I know her but I definitely can answer my question that I don't know her but my heart says otherwise. It's stressing me out.

How can a stranger makes me feel like this? I feel suffocated!

I didn't try to move and just let my eyes do the job. Using it, I am trying to find someone similar to her presence in my memories but I can't find a thing.

"Sadly to hear that from you, Leila..."

I was caught off guard.

My eyes instantly grow wider in shock and confusion when her speaking voice gets the hell out of me.

Her voice...

It's too similar to the woman that I was looking for for a long time. The woman who has a special space in my heart and my life is already in front of me.

I can no longer continue my plan in finding her trace because she is already in front of me.

But am I thinking it right?

Or is it only my imagination because I miss her a lot?

"I'm not imagining, right?"

I softly ask. I don't know if I ask her or I am just convincing myself that she is! She's the person I am looking for for the past months.

"Julia...,"

Mentioning her name using my mouth has never been cross my mind to do because it's just too impossible.

"Took you long enough to remember my name, Leila. Aren't you being sarcastic?"

I gulped the lump in my throat just by hearing her voice. The voice I am longing to hear for a very long time. I am hearing it now.

Goosebumps!

I didn't even understand what she's saying because I am too stunned t o do so.

Julia... Finally, you're here... But, you're too late.

Our friend already left us for good.