Chương 8: Not What It Seems
At my shocked state, it felt like I was travelling in another dimension because I didn't realise me dropping the medicine box. His face averted instantly at my direction. His expression said everything. Hopes that I never heard anything. Unfortunately I did, and I'm still convincing myself that it was me hallucinating. It made more sense that way. He looked away and I could vaguely see him wipe his tears. I picked up the medicine box and headed towards him pushing back all my toxic curiosities.
I sat down on the floor next to his feet not once looking into his eyes. All the while I was removing the disinfectant, the cotton and the bandages I could feel his intense gaze directly at me. I prayed to God that he wouldn't notice my hands shaking as I tried wiping the blood of his feet. The minute I came in contact with his feet, he abruptly snatched the cotton away from me.
"I'll do it." He said.
I looked a little bit surprised. He no longer was looking at me but instead focussing on his leg. Instead I was the one looking at him. I realised blood was still dripping down from his forehead. For a moment I had forgotten that I literally just ran him over. I sighed as guilt collided with every cell in my body. I took more cotton and attempted to wipe the blood off his face. He swerved immediately and held my wrist to a halt.
"I admit, I was crazy about you this whole time I was looking over you, but that was only because I was looking from afar. Now that you are this close to me, my view of you is totally different. I'm no longer crazy over you so rest assured that I wont do anything to you. Why? because I really don't care anymore." He let go off my wrist and it dropped nonchalantly and depressingly. His voice sounded dead serious. It was a good thing, but why did it sound so disappointing.
"Looking from afar?... What do you mean by that?" I asked, My aggressive tone was no longer coming out.
He continued wiping the blood from his feet not even paying attention to me.
"Were you stalking me?... For how long?" I continued asking.
"What does it matter now? I'd let you go but I don't think my mum would be too happy about that. So as long as you don't cross my line from now on I won't cross yours.. how about that?" He was finally back to his self.
"Are you being serious right now. You've used me all you want and you want to throw me around without letting me go home. I'm human for God's sake." Maybe me running him over wasn't enough. Should I have strangled him to death right that moment.
"I'm sorry.. Used you?.. How?... Don't tell me you are talking about the few pecks on the lips we had?" He was sounding like a whole next level asshole. "Did that mean anything to you, because to me that was nothing. I felt absolutely nothing." I don't know why I felt so confused.. Why?
"So it makes it alright to kidnap me and molest me if you avoid me once you don't feel like it anymore? Without even letting me..." My anger was really suffocating my heart to its limits
"My apologies Ms Elly... but why does it sound like you don't want me to let you go? Why does it sound like you are hurt because I don't want you anymore?"
"What are you talking about?... You are not even letting me g.."
"Don't you think it would be more peaceful for both you and me if you stopped talking to me right this moment." For some reason he won every time he opened his mouth.
He threw the keys that Mother Lu gave me on the floor. "You can lock yourself if you want. That is if you don't trust my words, because I really don't care anymore." He playfully waved goodbye as he finished talking. Did he think this was a joke . Was it so fun just playing around with my soul.
With no words left from me I picked up the keys and rushed upstairs and into the guest room, locking myself inside. I laid down shrugged under the duvet like a foetus. A few drops of tears escaped my eyes. But after fighting all the other drops back I slept stronger in heart than I was this whole time. At least he won't bother me anymore.
*…..*
The sun's brightness woke me up. Today felt like a new day. Not that I didn't expect it to be a bad day. Just hoped maybe with him not bothering me, it would be a better day than yesterday. I wasn't really dying to go home. My family back home was no different from him. Only My step dad treated me with sympathy at least. Now I have Mother Lu who could at least treat me nicely.
A knock on the door got me flying out of the bed.
"Elayne! are you awake" It was Mother Lu. She did say she was going to come late. Or did I sleep for so long.
"Yes I am Mother Lu!" I answered as I opened the door!
"Morning dear," The bright smile on her face as she looked at me triggered a tingling feeling in my heart. Was she really smiling because of me. "I hope you slept well, It couldn't have been easy for you last night."
I smiled and gave her a nod, tracing my sight on the floor instead. I just wasn't used to someone treating me so lovingly.
"Its time for us to leave. You will get to see our home, its less isolated than this, maybe you would feel less trapped in there" I looked back up at her and the joyful curl on her lips was still plastered on her face.
"Welcome to our family Elayne." Her smile went slightly faint "I know all of this situation maybe traumatizing and confusing for you, but I assure you that... I will never treat you horribly nor will I let any harm up on you again. You already feel like my own child." She giggled but her eyes were heavy with tears.
"Trust me when I say that if your situation back home was any better I really would have let you go home. My initial reasons may have been selfish but I know this is what's best for you too". Mother Lu looked so heart broken even I could feel the sorrow through those lingering tears.
"Back home..? How..?"
"Come.." She obstructed my words "you need to take a shower and have some breakfast. Its going to be a long ride. You are going to love it there" She giggled again.
I had finished showering and walking back into the room, a beautiful spring floral dress was placed on the bed. My clothes were no where to be found. A smile invaded my expression when I realised Mother Lu must have bought the dress for me. I came downstairs right after. Everything was silent. In fact everything was clean. The blood trails from last night had disappeared and the broken ceramic had all been cleaned up. I was so dazed into my own thoughts that I didn't hear the voice behind me.
"If you don't mind..." Those expressionless yet rude words came from that one voice. I turned around and there he was. He looked at me with eyes so expressionless it was a feeling hard to explain. Heart wrenching?
I moved aside with no words and he headed towards the door holding two titanic luggages. They looked so heavy but he carried them like he was only holding an empty bag made up of feathers. My nose twitched, at the thought of how petty he was and how much he annoyed me. Very clueless on what I was suppose to do, I headed to the kitchen to look for some food. Last night, Someone offered dinner but just left it at that.
The door opened triggering my signature move lately. Shocked and scared always Jumping into fearful conclusions.
"I'm sorry I scared you there.." Mother Lu laughed. "About breakfast. I packed it for you to go. The roads are going to close at about 1:00pm today. We need to make it before then, so I think its better to have breakfast in the car if that's alright with you." I nodded agreeing with her.
I sort of felt scared that I was following a complete stranger to her house. To the point that I began to feel obsessed with the way she was treating me. This was probably the start of my psychological journey. I was beginning to go crazy. What scared me the most was that these thoughts didn't even act as an alarm to get my head straight and find a way to escape from this family. Instead I followed her right out.
Outside, two luxury cars were parked and getting filled with luggages and items. A man in a suit and deep black shades was putting the final luggage into one of the cars. He looked like a bodyguard or a personal driver maybe. My focussed attention dropped when I saw 'Him' leaning on the doors of one of the cars looking directly at me. I squinted my eyes so he would realise that I caught him looking and that he should look away, but no. He decided to keep looking. I rolled my eyes at him hoping that it could hit him straight to the heart. The sight of him totally disgusted me. Looking at Mother Lu, I felt sorry that she had to give birth to a son like that or in fact raise a son like that. I totally respect her for enduring all of this on her own.
"Uhm Elayne." Mother Lu called out. The moments of me talking to myself in my head was brought to an end. "I think you are going to have to ride with Sherman today. Both cars are totally full and the only place left for you is Sherman's passenger seat." I prayed to God that I heard wrong. I didn't want to be even ten meters next to that old cow.
I looked into the opened windows of both cars and all their back seats were filled with bags and items. But all front seats were empty. "I can ride with you Mother Lu and he could ride with Him." I said pointing at both Sherman and the man in the suit. I crossed my fingers hoping that she would agree with my suggestion."
"I'm afraid not Elayne, see.. I'm on a type of medication and can't drive right now so I cant drive you with me. That's why I brought a driver. Unless you ride with the driver and I ride with Sherman, I'm afraid our only option is for you to ride with Sherman." She explained. I honestly would rather ride with the driver than ride with that 'animal'.
"I'm afraid not ma'am." The driver shouted out before I could answer. "My job is to drive you to this place and back safely. I'm afraid I won't be fulfilling my job if I was to let you do that ma'am." What were they doing.. conspiring over me or something?
Mother Lu sighed and headed over to me with a bag and an insulator mug. "Here.. that's your breakfast and I made you hot chocolate." She said handing them to me. "Don't worry. You only have to endure for two to three hours. After that, we would be home, and you would be free to do whatever you want." She held my hands in a soothing gesture as she explained " I bought you clothes but should we go shopping for more tomorrow?" She smiled gleefully again. She gave me a hug as she saw me nod hesitantly.
"Is that alright with you Sherman?" Mother Lu asked. That imbecile chose to ignore. He opened the door unruffled and sat on the drivers seat. "Don't mind him. You will be alright." Mother Lu said whilst opening the passenger's seat for me. I sat down and the walls in my heart began to tighten again seeing her leave and into her car.
His phone rang and he answered straight away as if he knew it was coming. "Don't try anything funny Sherman make sure to follow us straight home" He left his phone on loud speaker. Its like he was doing it on purpose.
"I can't promise you that, but we will see." He said turning his phone off. He failed to surprise me this time. He clearly was the rudest person on earth.
"Seat belt!". He exclaimed at me. I don't know why but I followed his instructions straight away. Maybe I was still afraid of him. Besides he has got the upper hand in this situation. I'm in his car and if anything was to happen I couldn't really shout for help. Mother Lu's car started moving and he followed straight ahead.
For the past hour I told myself that I wasn't going to eat until we reached our destination because this deadly silence was most likely going to give me indigestion. However my stomach couldn't handle it and my intestines were already becoming cannibals. I opened the bag and a traditional looking round lunch box was in it. It was filled with home made East Asian side dishes and the setting looked too delicious.
That was so weird to me because Sherman's mum clearly looked white. There was also no physical signs of her having any Asian traits but she cooked like a natural East Asian. I looked up at Sherman to see if he had any observable Asian traits. Looking closer there was a possibility that he might be biracial. Maybe Mother Lu was wifed by an East Asian and decided to learn how to cook there dishes.
A mouthful of the food melted so deliciously in my mouth and I couldn't help but snigger in delight. I continued eating the food and drinking the hot chocolate but I sensed a very uncomfortable atmosphere. I realised that Sherman was taking sneak peeks at me and my food. It looked like his mouth was watering to his death. I laughed inside thinking about how he dared to even think about having some of my food. I decided to give him a LIVE meokbang episode of me with this delicious food. With every bite, I made sure to emphasize on how extravagantly delicious the food was. In all dire hopes to kill him with anticipation.
Finally I finished my food with a smile on my face and a frown on his. I looked ahead and I was relieved to see that Mother Lu's car was still ahead of us. I looked around and it seemed like we had reached a city. the buildings stood high and mighty and the scenery looked too beautiful. I didn't know where we were but it was clearly a place for one's who could afford.
I realised I spoke too soon when all of a sudden Sherman whizzed the car into a junction. He was no longer following Mother Lu. What the hell was he doing?
"What..What..Whe..Where are you taking me?" I asked when I started to panic. I looked up at him and that same feeling when I was tied up back in the car yesterday came back. Was he really going to kidnap me the second time? He refused to answer and I don't know what came over me but I started to hit him whilst crying for him to take me back. No way was I going to be a victim to him twice and simultaneously.
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