One Night Only

Lillie

I wake up a little confused and a little dizzy, but I still manage to open my eyes. My head hurts. I don’t understand what happened to me. When I finally manage to visualize my surroundings, I realize that I am in a room that looks like a nursing home. I get up to get up, but at that a young nurse stops me and talks to me

“He should rest, he’s still weak.

I still don’t understand.

“What happened to me? “I touch my head because of the intense pain I have.

“She fainted and then they brought her here for a check-up.

My mind is starting to remember something. I remember that before that I had gone to my mother’s room, but I didn’t manage to get in because I heard her talking to someone. I’m already starting to remember! She was arguing with this man, this Lionel guy, but now I realize why I felt bad until I fainted. They were talking about me, who he is. Oh, no, I remembered. At this moment I would have preferred to have lost my memory so as not to remember what my ears heard, but I earned that by listening behind a door while they were arguing.

I take out the air that was trapped in my lungs. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I don’t know how to face them and tell them that I know their secret, that I won’t be a stupid person to fool anymore. What hurts me the most is my mother. I feel disappointed and broken because I thought he could never lie to me. My superhero is not what I expected.

If Dante was here with me, maybe it would be easier to face this. He made me feel strong and more confident with myself. Why do I think that? He abandoned me. My mind makes me remember something; maybe he didn’t leave me as I thought, he probably came back. I remember when he took me in his arms so that I wouldn’t fall to the ground. Yes, I remember. He’s come back for me. I have to go get him.

I smile as I try to get up and stand up, but the nurse stops me from doing it again. He takes me by the arms to stop me.

“You have to wait, you can’t leave! “Raise your voice a little.

I ignore her and keep fighting to escape. I don’t know why I’m so weak, it’s even hard for me to beat her and get her off my back.

At that moment the office door opens abruptly. I observe a large and corpulent body. It’s the man in black. I don’t remember his name, if I even knew it. He’s the dark-haired guy who stopped me at the reception that day when I was about to leave for home. What is he doing here? I don’t want to know anything related to his boss, as he says. I have begun to hate everything that comes from that man. He’s on his way to us. The nurse moves away to make room for him until he comes closer to me.

“Miss, you must rest, it’s doctor’s orders. “He tries to touch me, but I stop him.

“Don’t even think about touching me! “I know he’s not to blame for the problem I have with his boss, but I don’t want to know anything about them”. Get away from me! “i’m yelling.

“I can’t, su pa…” He stops, but then continues. The boss ordered me to take care of her.

Poppycock. Who does this guy think he is to watch over me? He’ll be her boss, but I don’t have to put up with this. I ignore him and stand up.

“You and your boss can fuck off,” I say under my breath. I’m really upset and I don’t have time for this.

I can’t make it to the door when I get dizzy again. I don’t know at what moment, but he comes up to me quickly and grabs me. This makes me remember what happened before I passed out. This had already happened, but it was supposed to have been Dante who took me in his arms, I saw him, or was it an imagination of my delirium? That can’t be possible! It must have been him.

He carries me in his arms and takes me back to the bed to deposit me in it. When I’m about to react and complain to him, the door opens. The doctor walks in next to that man I’ve started to hate. What are you doing here?

“Why won’t they let me go?” I’m going to the doctor alone.

At that moment he does not respond. He says something to the nurse that I can’t hear and he comes to the bed to get to me. He brings in his hands a metal folder, where he begins to write something. He looks up and sees me.

“We’re just waiting for your studies.

My what? What I was missing, they took my blood without my approval.

“Who gave you that authorization?!” bramo. I’m furious.

“Calm down, please, this doesn’t do them any good.

I don’t understand what you mean by “it doesn’t do them any good”. To whom? What are you talking about?

I shake my head.

“I’m perfect, I don’t have studies or a doctor or anything like that. Now, if you’ll let me or not, I’ll go.

He denies and sighs wearily, but pulls away when a voice asks him to give me space.

“Daughter, obey” says Mr. Lionel.

How shameless of this man.

“Don’t speak to me, let alone call me that! “I’m pointing it out with the index. He didn’t come very close to the bed. I don’t understand why he’s here.

“Because I worried and I care a lot about you, you don’t know how much. “He tries to get closer, but I stop him like I did with his man in black.

“Enough! I don’t want to see or hear him. In short, I don’t want to know anything about you.

“Lillie, I know you overheard the conversation I had with your mother when you were hiding behind the door. “He realized that. My mother too?”. I don’t know if you heard everything we said, but all I want is for you to give me a chance to explain everything to you. I just ask that you listen to me. Then you will decide if you want to forgive me or not. I won’t make you do it if you don’t want to.

This situation is very difficult for me, not because I want to give it a chance, but because I really don’t know what I want to do. I know I can’t judge without knowing the whole truth of the matter, but I don’t want to find out things that make me hate my mother. I may hate him, whoever he is, but never her. I am an immature and tantrum, as Mika said, a hard head. I hate lies. I hate cheating. I hate that they hide things from me and treat me like a child who can’t decide for her life on her own.

“I thought they hadn’t noticed” I say as if nothing, under his gaze.

I’m still upset, but a little calmer, not because of him, but because I’m not feeling well. I don’t know what’s happening to me.

“It was because of Marcus that I learned about it” he points to the portly dark-haired guy. Unhappy, with which he likes to gossip. I strike him with the look. He has his eyes on me, but then he lowers them”. Don’t get mad at him. He only obeys my orders. I asked him to tell me. I also asked him to protect you. That’s why he’s here. He brought you here and told me what he saw. “He pauses and sighs”. I asked him to take care of you, to follow you, and he was watching you at that moment, when you were about to enter the room, which never happened, and also when you were about to fall to the floor.

Oh, no, what I was missing.

But then that makes me think about the moment I fainted, when I thought I had seen Dante. It wasn’t like that. That comforts me, that it was just an illusion of mine. “He didn’t come back.”

“What? !!” I don’t know what I’m thinking and I yell at him. You put one of your damn dogs to watch over me” I say disdainfully.

I don’t mind addressing him like that. I don’t care about anything. All I want is to go far away and never see them again.

At that the young nurse returns along with the doctor. They’re getting a little closer.

“The tests are ready” the doctor comments.

“Okay. What does my daughter have?” Lionel questions.

I give her a murderous look for her boldness in calling me daughter.

I don’t have the strength to continue arguing, I just ignore him and turn my attention to the doctor, who is located at the front of the foot of the bed.

“Well, the studies I was waiting for were to check his platelets and find out if his red blood cells are correct, as they should be” he pauses”, but looking at the analysis well I see that this is not the case. “I pucker my lips. I don’t understand”. Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body, and if it is low, it presents the symptoms of dizziness, palpitations and fainting, as her body manifested.

“Be clearer and say once and for all whether that is bad or not” Lionel mutters, looking desperate.

The doctor passes saliva somewhat worried. I think Lionel intimidates him.

“In a nutshell, what she has is anemia” What do you mean I have anemia? But why?”. If the necessary care is not taken and a good iron-containing diet is followed, the problem will probably worsen and become more complicated for both of you.

For whom? I’m supposed to be the one who’s sick, it doesn’t have to affect someone else.

“How? I do not understand.

The doctor looks at me as if he wants to understand something.

“I thought I was aware of his condition.

My state? What are you talking about?

“I don’t understand.

“Neither do I, so I’m asking you to explain yourself,” Lionel orders.

At the moment I’m not here to put a stop to him for being nosy.

“Miss Watson, you are pregnant” he assures.

This can’t be possible. Am I pregnant?