ALESSIA’S POV
It’s been a week in the hospital, and now, finally, I was discharged.
Cassius has been overly good to me. Maybe, I was thinking too much about it, but to me, it seems so.
He never left my side, and often slept in the hospital with me, if CeCe has a nigh shift at the hospital.
Unfortunately, today, he proved me wrong. He proved that whatever fucked up thoughts I had in my head, was a big bloody lie.
He wasn’t here today.
For some reason, I felt sad and my heart dropped to my stomach, when I got a single-line message from him, saying;
‘ I won’t be there with you, I have something important to attend.’
And that was all.
I know, I fucking know that everyone has one or two important things to attend to, but why do I feel like whatever he had to attend to, was more important than I was?
” Can you stop sighing already?” CeCe heaved a sigh, as she led the way out of the ward. ” He didn’t come, doesn’t mean he won’t come forever, Alessia.”
” But why do I feel troubled?” I asked.
” You’re just missing him so much, and it has gotten to your head.” CeCe replied.
I knew for a fact that it wasn’t that- It could never be because of that.
I wasn’t feeling troubled because I missed him, I was troubled because I feel as if something would go wrong, sooner or later.
” What would you like to eat once you get home?” CeCe decided to change the topic.
” I’m craving for burger.” I rubbed my flat stomach with a squeezed face, causing CeCe to burst into laughter.
” I could never believe that you’d one day crave for burger.” CeCe teased. ” You don’t like burgers, remember?”
My eyes suddenly snapped as what she said really dawned on me.
Fuck! What is going on with me?
Why the sudden crave of burger, when I was never a burger-lover?
I just hope it wasn’t what I’m thinking.
” Are you perhaps….” CeCe trailed off, once she also realised.
” No, no!” I flashed her a fake smile, my hands trembling beside me. ” I’m not pregnant.”
As much as I said that, I might as well convince CeCe, but not myself.
My brain was saying otherwise.
” I think you need to do a check up.” CeCe said, holding my wrist, as she dragged me towards the doctor’s office. ” We can never tell.”
Getting to the doctor’s office, he ran a test, and throughout the process, I was praying to whatever deity or God I was serving, so that the results comes out negative.
I can’t bare the reaction from Cassius.
He haven’t even told me he loves me yet, so why would I get pregnant for him?
I was sure as fuck that he would reject the pregnancy, or moreso, ask for an abortion.
After few minutes, the doctor returned with the results.
It felt like the walls of the office was closing up on me. My hands turned sweaty and my legs began to tap against the tiled floor on their own.
An act I usually do whenever I am nervous.
” Here is the result, Miss Alessia.”
The doctor stretched the results towards me, and fuck! I think was so nervous to even take it from him.
CeCe helped me.
Once she took it, she gazed at the result for few seconds.
As her eyes traced every single words written in the piece of paper, and so was my eyes following her.
My throat ran dry instantly and my eyes lighter than a piece of paper.
After what seems like forever, she took the paper out of her face and flashed me a smile.
Only then, could I breathe properly.
” You’re not pregnant, Alessia.” CeCe said, grinning from ear to ear.
” Thank you, Doctor.” I smiled and stood up, leaving the office at once.
I felt relieved for some reason. I never want to be a single mum, and for someone like Cassius, he won’t care.
———-
We finally left the hospital and headed towards my apartment.
” So where is Rachel now?” CeCe asked once we’ve settled.
” She is in Cassius clan.” I replied slopping on a sofa. ” I don’t know what to do with her.”
” Hand her over to the police. You wouldn’t want her blood on your hands, once Cassius ends her life, would you?”
Her words really stroke a cord in my head. She was indeed right.
I wouldn’t want to have the blood of another person on my neck, after that of my adopted parents.
The thought of the scene from years ago, wanted to bring tears to my eyes, but I was fast to stop the tears.
” I should call Cassius, and stop him before he ends up killing her.” I said, picked up my phone and left for my room.
Once I got to my room, I locked the door behind me and dialled Cassius’s line.
First ring… no answer
Second ring…. same, no answer
And then, the third ring, it was picked up by a female.
My heart dropped to the pit of my stomach for the first few seconds, but I comported myself and spoke up.
” Who are you? Can you give this phone to the owner?” I asked.
” And who are you too? I’m Adeline, Cassius’s soon-to-be wife.”
I almost collapsed to the floor upon hearing that, fuck! I indeed collapsed.
The coldness of the tiled floor inside my room seeped deep into my thigh skin.
Adeline, Cassius’s soon-to-be wife, how is that fucking possible?
” Hello…are you there?” I could hear the lady’s voice from distant as tear blurred my vision.
” Cassius, your phone rand and I picked it up…”
The lady said and Cassius took the phone from her.
” Hello, Alessia!” He called, but got no response from me, yet, the line was still connected. ‘ I know you’re fucking there! Answer me, Bunny!”
How dare he fucking call me Bunny, when he had been lying to me all alone?
I hung up and lay on the cold tie, tears slipping the corners of my eyes.
” Alessia, the burger is….” CeCe trailed off once she saw me in tears.
Rushing towards me, she pulled me into a hug, even before asking what happened.
After few more minutes, I was calm, but the tears never stopped flowing.
” What happened?” She asked and I turned to face her, my mouth opened but no words seemed to come out.
” Stop scaring me, Alessia.” CeCe held me by the shoulder. ” Please speak up!”
” Cassius…” I started, my voice trembling, and the weight of the words I was about to say, weighed the fuck out of me. ” He is getting married.”
CeCe’s brow creased as she smiled. ” To you, right?
” No,” I shook my head, more tears leaving my eyes. ” To some other lady called Adeline. She picked up his phone and told me so.”
” And you believed that?” CeCe scoffed.
” She sounded sincere, and Cassius also took the phone from her and called my name. He was guilty.” I cried.
” Fuck! Why is the guy playing you?” CeCe pulled me into another hug.
” I guess this is the end for us.” I said, sniffling. ” He already has another woman in his life, so I’m just a side chick, isn’t it?”
” No, you’re not, Alessia. You’re not a side chick at all.”