Bab 24: Chapter 24: You Seem Troubled
"I can drive you know," Amethyst commented when the two of them stepped out to the parking space around three in the morning.
"It is fine," Slate replied.
But before he could open the driver's side door, she placed her hand on it.
"You have a duty later which is from lunch time then continue to a night shift."
She looked at him seriously when she said this.
She asked Gabriel about his schedule and he should have had a morning shift then a bit fo rest before a night shift, but because he exchanged with someone else, he is now going for a straight shift from lunch to the next morning.
"I am used to it," he complained.
"Yes, but since it changed because of me, I don't think it would sit right to me to let you suffer with lack of sleep," she said in a matter of fact tone.
He looked at her as she looked back at him before he sighed.
"Fine."
She smiled and took the keys from him, it was his car but, well, he just come to his car and she followed. So, she can only drive this.
She was grateful that he had come to join her but then he still has his work that she felt bad he had to compromise. But she also knew he was doing all of these for his sister.
'It must be nice being close to your sister and having such a bond,' she suddenly thought making her shock because not once had she thought of this after what had happened in the past.
A different event that caused her to hideaway from the real world, an event that cause her to seek solace in the imaginary world of a novel.
She shook his head nad took a deep breath when she realized she started thinking of another depressinng thing.
The doctor was beside her, if he knew that she was thinking that way. He might end up berating her again.
The drive was silent until she arrived to Northern Blossom.
SHe looked besie her before reaching out to her things.
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Slate slwoly opened his eyes only to close them again when the sun light passed through the window and it hit his eyes.
He covered his eyes with his hand and furrowed his brows.
He didn't realize that they have arrived and didn't realize that she had been gone for a while since the sun had already risen.
'Her driving must be good that it lull me to sleep and it was too deep,' he thought as he sat up straight before noticing the blanket over him.
He furrowed his brows, 'She brought a blanket with her? Was she intending to exchange with me all along?'
He then noticed a note right in front of him pasted on the windshield.
~I have gone there on my own, I can see you are tired. I left a little thermos beside you and hot coffee was in it. I'll come back after a few minutes when the sun has risen quite a lot.~
Upon looking beside him, the thermos was indeed there and the contents was still hot. Not piping hot but still hot.
And he didn't wait long before he saw her coming over from where the garden was located.
"Your awake," she called when he stepped out of the car.
"Did you get what you need?" he asked as he stretched his hand.
SHe tossed the key to him and rode on the passenger seat, she waited for him to get in before replying.
"I have..."
She didn't continue, he gave her a side glance and didn't comment.
He has no idea why she had trailed off but it must be something related to writing, something he can't understand but his sister may be able to do so.
"Shall we have breakfast before going to the hospital?" he asked instead as he maneuvered.
She nodded her head and closed her eyes.
The emotions she felt a while ago, since she was alone up there was very much different and she just couldn't explain.
That is why she didn't know whether it would fit the story that Scarlet wanted to portray or not.
The wind that blew past her face and the chilliness of the morning would make one feel cold but it was different for her, she felt warm especially as she looked at the sunrise and somehow had the urge to look back at where the sunset yesterday.
Then she returned her eyes on the sunrise and a different feeling engulfed her, something she couldn't explain at all.
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"You seem troubled," Scarlet commented after Amethyst gave her the materials from what she had collected yesterday.
"I don't know, as I tried to collect some more materials this morning, I felt things I couldn't explain and I just don't know how to interpret it," Amethyst answered.
"Hmmm, something you couldn't explain that was supposed to be a part of materials you wanted to us? I never experienced that as well," Scarlet replied honestly.
She couldn't just go and try to advise when she herself didn't get the chance to experience one thing that the other have.
"It is fine, it might be answered some day, I am not in a rush anyway. But what about the story?" Amethyst shrugged it off and asked.
"Oh, I finished the first parts, want to read it? You can be a secret proof reader of mine?" Scarlet replied with a smile.
"Proof reading? Why don't you believe in your spellings?" Amethyst asked but she accepted the laptop nonetheless.
Scarlet laughed, "Not the spelling but the story itself."
Amethyst giggled, "Fine, I shall be your critic."
*****
"Never thought I'd see your sister this happy after a while," Gabriel commented.
Being the one closest to Slate after he and his sister came here, he was able to see everything that goes on in Scarlet's condition.
"I guess we are lucky to meet her just as much as she was lucky to meet us as well," Slate replied.
Gabriel chuckled, "Quite narcissistic for you to say that with a straight face. That sh eis lucky to hev met you two."
"If she is not then she would have been dead already," Slate replied seriously to which Gabriel just raised his hands in defeat as the two of them walked away from the room.
*****
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She could no longer remember just when was the last time she had seen colors in her life. Everything around her in her mansion was black and white. But she felt comfort in them, she was contented.
Waking up to have her breakfast, go to the library to read, cleaning the house, making some arts and then going to sleep.
Her daily routine was the same because she never tried going out.
She was contented with her lifestyle that going out was not an option for her.
That is until she noticed the light suddenly coming in through her tight closed window near her favorite sit one day.
She tried ignoring it at first, feeling that her whole world would change if she were to know what it was.
But soon her curiosity started eating up on her. Her once daily routine started getting affected as her eyes kept returning to the closed off window.
Until she finally decided to take a step and pulled open her window.
And the bright light from the outside have indeed changed her life.
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