The Lovers note.2

"So what happened before you were rescued?" Officer Jane continued.

In the white medium size room, Maeia looks at the officer with big eyes. Though now they were all round and watery, tear stains were visible on her cheeks. She had gave a whole account on what had happened but this officer needed to know why she had been at the restaurant.

"Please, don't force her too much,,," a nurse sympathises. "Mae, if you not ready to speak is ok. You can rest." The nurse who had just arrived on the doctors order to deliver some pills soothed.

"Is ok. I will talk." Mae gathers strength and sits upright. In the room only four people plus Mae were present,the doctor, nurse, Jane and Miss Katumo who sat on the bed, her hand still cupped with Mae's.

"The day Mom left, I had a date with this anonymous man called Bryan." This took everyone by surprise. But no one interrupted just yet. "Annie went in first to meet him..."

"Wait a minute?.. You said you had a date with him..then why does Annie have to meet him instead of you?" Jane asked what had just puzzled everyone in the room. But Mae just kept silent. Annie was now dead, all because of her. "Please can we have some privacy.?" Jane requested. This was not a matter to be heard by anyone. "I will take it from here." She continued as she gave an assuring nod to Miss Katumo.

"Please dear. It's not your fault. I promise I will make sure your friend' is avenged. I wont let the murderer free, but you have to trust me. "She handed her some tissue and continued, "If you want me not to say a thing to anyone, I won't. You have to trust me."

As the door closed behind them, the room fell silent for a moment. "Mae?"

"Uhm..?"

"We have been chatting on Patana for the last 2 months...but I never sent a picture of myself but Annie. That's why Annie had to meet him first to introduce me." Mae bluntly explained.

"And the man who killed Annie? You said you recognize him?"

"Bryan once sent a picture of himself and his friend. His friend looks just like the man who attacked us." Jane noted this with keen. She knew this Bryan was admitted in this hospital so as the assaulter. "Bryan saved my life. I don't think he has anything to do with the terrorists." Mae gave out her word. The gynie had confirmed that Mae had not been raped but if all had been a minute late, the worse would have happened.

"Do you wish to meet Bryan? I can take you to him." Jane proposed. She did want to proof if this was all true. After a minute of thinking Mae agreed!

"But first, you have to tell me what this is about." She pulls a note and five 50 cent coins from her breast pocket. "This is for you, The forensics found this in the room Bryan had booked." She placed the note next to her and watched her reaction.

'SELA, UNDER THE SUNSHINE, IN THE CAVE. LOVE U BRYAN.'

She stared at the sentence over again and again as she read through. The words kept cycling in her head, under the sunshine, in the cave. What does this mean?

"I don't know what he meant." She finally muttered.

"You can keep the note if you want to." Jane ignored her as she stood up. The meaning being a mystery, the clue was only in Bryan. "Lets meet Bryan."

Mrs. Katumo once again had to be sent back to wait at the reception. "Do you love the guy?" Jane suddenly asked the timid Mae. "Kind of."

"What do you mean by saying kind of?" Jane teased her as she released the tension.

The corridor leading to the ICU was just as norm. Bryan was still sound when they arrived, asleep.

"Here is your guy. I'm going to give you some privacy. Bye cutie." Jane bid her farewell.

"Bye Jane. See you." Mae heard the door lock gently as the officer left.

She stared at Bryan all this while not saying a thing. The catheter on his hand hang loosely. Her eyes travelled up and all around the room, studying everything. Today she was going to leave, she knew her dad would ground her or probably most likely add more guards to keep following her. She had to tell Bryan something before she left.

"Bryan, can you hear me?" She held onto his hand. She had not known this man but she felt like she did known him for a lifetime. She felt sorry for him.

"Can you hear me?"

"Bryan. Ive known its you. I love you Bryan."

She had found him at last. But not the happy ending in movies. She remembered when they had ignored each other but kept colliding. Back when they had travelled together enjoying each other's stories. All they this time they had been unmindful.

"When you wake up I promise I will come back. I will be here for you."

She wished she would stay and protect him. "You are safe here. Your friend escaped from the hospital. I don't want to leave you alone." She know remembered that the guy who shot Annie was the same guy Bryan had been hanging out with. She knew this from the pictures he sent. Though he was not exactly like that Bryan she knew, he was him!

Her body was weak as she cried her tears on the white cushy bed. She didn't notice the wink and slight lip movement from Bryan but kept talking to him with her head in the cushion.

"Mae, what are you telling the patient! Please give him some rest." The nurse from earlier rushed in helping her out. Any discomfort can lead to a patients back drift, and they didn't want so, especially now that inspector Joe Ken was keeping an eye.

"Sorry but You can visit him tomorrow, I will be on duty." The nurse apologizes to Mae as Mrs Katumo emerged from the door.

"Lets get home hunnie." Was all she she heard from her mother as they walked out of the hospital and into the black ranger over.

On the balcony two people were in a deep conversation.

"Inspector Joe, There is a connection between the assaulter and assaulted. I think Mae didn't tell me all she knew."

"Just keep an eye out. Especially on the Governor." Joe Ken gave a order.

"We need to get all pieces together."

Joe Ken patted his apprentice on the shoulder before turning back and facing the sun. It was a bright afternoon. St. Jude hospital was not a huge hospital but from its topographic location, Angel city was ruled over by its shadow.

"Remember to visit that girl." He reminds Jane as two figures boarded a black range rover. From his vantageous point of view, he could see that it was Mrs. Katumo and her daughter. The chauffeur already seated waiting for his mistress.

The car took off and joined the traffic before disappearing from sight. "Such a wonderful afternoon." He exclaimed as he pulled out a cigar.

"So this Bryan was expecting Mae but instead gets Annie. Annie ditches him and leaves for the washrooms where his friend Erick is. Erick shoots Annie and attempts to rape Mae. Bryan comes in and gets knocked over by his friend. Then Miami is hijacked."

"I don't understand stand Master. "You trying to mean that Bryan was part of the scheme?"

"Is just my slight thinking." Joe nods. "He could be the lead."

"And the note said under the sunshine, in the cave. Does this make sense to you?" Joe ken asks Jane.

"No master."

"I need a map of East province with all caves marked." He puffed his cigar blowing the thick dark tar into the air. "And that Erickson too!"

As the heat increased on the balcony, a body made the first move.

Bryan woke up to find a note in his hand. The same note he did write. At first he tried comprehending how in hell it appeared here but he remembers from his dream,Mae had visited him.

"Mae?" He calls out. The lights go out suddenly and the room becomes dark. Even from outside, the weather was dark. But he notices a faint dot of light from the door of the room. "Mae? Hello?" He calls out before stepping on the cold tiled floor and walk silently toward the dot of light. He held onto the note in his hand as he waded his way in the dark knocking a tray off the table.

*****

"Inpector Joe! Inspector! He is finally awake!" An officer rushes up the stairs to report sending Joe into frenzy as he hurries down the stairs only to meet Bryan creeping on the floor mummering 'Mae Mae, Hellooo'

"Call the doctor at once!" He yelled as he tried pulling Bryan up.

"What are you staring at! Quick! Help me tie him on the bed!" Jane and the her accomplice dives in to calm the struggling Bryan who was now kicking his legs and arms screaming.

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