Chapter 20: Am not a fool
Dr Nigel raised a brow.
" You are that close that you would know it's not him in an instant? that's a surprise."
"It really is him. His back." she thought.
Her heart was felt like a fuzzy, fluffy bowl of soup. Then she remembered, he had told her to stay away from him, no matter who he was.
" I did tell Thanos to leave but he didn't want to leave....." She didn't know why she felt the need to explain herself. She dropped her head, that way he won't look at her empty eyes that saw nothing concrete.
" I tried to..."
"Yes, Thanos can never leave your side even if he wanted."
Nigel knew that Thanos' personality existed solely for Samantha, he wouldn't be here if not for that day he first saw her in the hospital...
He would have done everything to avoid that meeting if he knew it's outcome. Thanos and Gubby were the only personalities whose actions he was abruptly aware of when they took control of his behaviour... Thanos was only aware of some but not all of Nigel's actions and Gubby knew nothing of anything.
" Thanos doesn't listen to anyone." he replied, picking his t-shirt from the floor.
" Are you leaving?"Samantha asked disappointed. The question she regretted asking as soon as the words came out.
She dreaded how stupid she acted when she was near Nigel, he made her feel small and made her aware of her inequalities with him. With Thanos, she felt a sense of familiarity.
He was definitely different from Thanos. He made her heart flutter, burst with undeserving happiness.
" Yeah, I have to see the person who sabotaged me...A very bad person." He said with a smirk.
"I won't take long though." he told her.
" You are coming back here?"Samantha was surprised.
" Yes, my wife and my unborn child are here, ofcourse am coming back."
She shyly played with her hands.
"Oh", she exclaimed.
Nigel looked at Samantha, for the first time he got to see all of her features at a "close range"...It wasn't on a photo or a video, she was really here and with him.
He'd done so much to distance himself from her these seven years but not anymore, not when she had his baby in her belly. He looked at the seated Samantha whose belly looked as flat as a chopping board.
" Very soon, her bump will start to show, I will want to touch her belly, feel my baby move but that would only happen if she liked me even a little... I can work with that."
" I won't be bullied by Thanos anymore."
He would do anything to wake up to a scene like this everyday. Samantha still had her head to her chest. It gave him the feeling that she didn't want to converse with him.
"She likes Thanos." He thought." I wish it was me she smiled at like that, I wish it was me she playfully talked to like that. But it wasn't, Thanos is the one she likes."
" Do you want something, I'll buy it for you on my way back."
Samantha didn't know what to say, in true she didn't need anything so she bloated out
" I don't, maybe Lisa would want something."
" Oh yeah, Lisa would definitely need something." He said sadly.
She seemed to have sensed a little sadness in his voice.
"Then on a second thought I think the baby would like to gobble down some plums." She said with the most lovely of smiles he'd ever seen.
Her smile left him speechless.
" It a first... how does she expects me to leave now when she is smiling at me like."
" Am on it he said opening the door."
Still smiling, he opened the door to leave when at that moment Samantha sniffed." A trickle of blood came out of her nose, then two, then three. By now Samantha was sure it was a nose bleed. She held her hand to her nose. The pungent smell of blood was in her nose as well as Nigel's. Her deep purple crop top T- shirt had most of the blood trickles.
" You are bleeding."
Not wanting Nigel to see her in such an embarrassing situation, she frantically got off her bed and ran to the bathroom. Any other day, she would have gotten her way to the bathroom. She knew how to, this is her room. She'd walked to the bathroom many a time, just fine.
But not today.
She had lost her sense of direction almost the instant, she got off her bed. She went straight and slammed into her chest of drawers, right knee first. The pain was so enormous, she had to sit this one out.
" There is nothing wrong in asking for help, otherwise you end up looking like a fool when such things happen to you...Like the way you look right now."
" Am not a fool."
" I thought so too." he said tilting her head forward, and held her nose with his thumb and forefinger to apply pressure just below the bony center of her nose.
With Samantha on the floor and him with one knee on the floor. No one said anything. Both of their hearts where beating fast due to the close proximity between them.
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