Shadows-chapter 12

Chapter 12

A month already passed since Zelda’s kidnapping and no one has found her yet. Gerard grows worried and terrified everyday. Osiris still won’t let Zelda escape, but he is thinking about it. Roy is taking advantage of Zelda in every single way and he won’t stop hitting her with the whip and now Roy broke the chair by hitting her back. Asar believes Roy is overreacting and that maybe Roy should stop abusing her. When Asar saw that Roy broke the chair by hitting Zelda’s back, he got pissed at Roy and now he believes that Roy has broken one of Zelda’s ribs. Zelda is trying to survive, but she knows she won’t be able to any longer. Roy is trying to make her eat again, but every time she eats, she throws up. Zelda can’t eat anymore; she’s become anorexic and now that Roy achieved his goal he won’t let either Asar or Osiris to get on his way. The only thing that Zelda can think of right now is the easiest way of suicide so she won’t suffer anymore; but what she doesn’t know is that hope its near her.

Zelda’s POV
My body is numb now; every time Roy hits me I don’t feel it. I’m loosing weight extremely fast, but I can’t eat. Roy has finally made me what he wanted. I need to escape. I look down and I see my arms bleeding, Osiris comes back from the bathroom with a towel again. We are alone, Roy went to a bar with his ‘’gang’’. Osiris starts cleaning the blood in my arms and I notice huge scars. I don’t panic, not anymore, not since Roy broke the chair.
‘’I can’t stand this anymore.’’ Osiris said suddenly.
‘’Stand what? Me dying or you cleaning the blood from my arms over and over again?’’ He gave me a dirty look.
‘’You dying. I’m sure Roy has broken one of your ribs.’’
‘’I don’t feel anything.’’
‘’Because you are used to it now, and you shouldn’t. He should have let you go by now!’’ He said angrily.
‘’He is not going to let me go ever, and we both know it.’’
‘’Yes, I know. That’s why I’m letting you go NOW’’ He said untying my legs and wrists.
‘’Are you sure about this?’’ This is so suicidal for him.
‘’Yes. Will you know the way to your place?’’
‘’I’m not going there, I need to get to a hospital and whoever sees me like this will take me right away.’’
‘’Yes, I believe so too. Here, call me if you need help with something else and when you are safe. Please’’ He handed me a piece of paper; I knew it was his number.
‘’Thank you’’ and I gave him a kiss on the cheek just to see him blushing.
I tried to get up but my legs failed. Osiris quickly grabbed me before I hit the floor.
‘’Are you okay?’’
‘’Yes, I just need to get used to this. Don’t worry about me’’
‘’Okay, just hurry up before Roy comes back’’ I tried to stand on my feet and this time I made all my effort to stay up. One step. Two. Three. I looked back to see Osiris looking at me as well. I gave him a smile before I left. I was out. I’m out! Where to go now? I don’t want to go to the hospital. I see a cop. I raised my hand for the cop to stop. He did.
‘’What’s the problem Madam?’’ He said as he got near. And I just noticed it was dark outside, night already.
As he got near his eyes were fixing on my wounds.
‘’You need help! C’mon, lets get inside the car’’
I tried to move my legs again, and again they failed me. I fell flat to the floor and the cop hurried to help me.
‘’You need to get to a hospital’’
He helped me to get in the car. Once inside the pain in my body started coming back like in the first day when Roy hit me.
The cop started making questions while in our way to the hospital ‘’Who did this to you?’’ ‘’What happened?’’ ‘’Do you have any relatives?’’ Just shut up.
We got to the hospital and doctors and nurses came beside me and took me to the ER. After that all blackened out. The last thing I hear was the cop saying my name. Did I say my name to him? I don’t remember.

Dominic’s POV
I was driving down the street when suddenly I saw a girl no younger than me making signs. I stopped the car to see what she wanted.
‘’What is the problem Madam?’’ I said as I got near her, and then I noticed blood on her arms.
‘’You need help! C’mon, lets get inside the car’’ She tried waling but it looked like she fainted. She didn’t. I hurried myself to get her inside the car. I rushed to the hospital, but in our way I started making questions to know who this girl was. She told me her name. Zelda Cordova. Isn’t this the girl who Gerard is looking for? I can’t remember. Doctors came to help her and took her right away to the ER.
‘’What’s her name?’’ a doctor asked me
‘’She said it was Zelda Cordova’’ He left. Maybe they will research about her. I don’t care.
I went back to my car, grabbed my mobile and dialed Gerard’s number.
‘’Hello?’’ He picked up right away’’
‘’Yes, this is Officer Dominic Schmidt.’’
‘’How may I help you officer?’’
‘’I need to know the name of the girl you are looking for’’
‘’You found her?!’’
‘’Please cooperate. What is her name’’
‘’Zelda, Zelda Cordova. Why? What happened?’’
‘’I think you should come down to the West Hospital’’ He started speaking again but I hung up. I need to wait now.

Gerard’s POV
Officer Dominic hung up on me. I was still in Zelda’s house, just if she came back. I was not alone, her brother, her band and Iris where here as well. Everyone looked at me but no one said a thing. Iris was the first one to break the silence.
‘’Who was that?’’
‘’I need to go’’ I couldn’t say anything else. What if Zelda was in the hospital?
‘’Who was that!?’’ Akan yelled.
‘’I’m sorry. It was some officer called Dominic.’’ I said as I got up. The rest did the same, as to tell me that they wouldn’t let me go unless I tell them who called me.
‘’We need to get to the hospital, now’’ No one said anything else. Everyone got in their own car and left to the West Hospital. We pretty much all arrived at the same time. Akan asked the nurse about Zelda. She told him to wait until the doctor came out. He did at the instant when Akan was coming to our way. He ran to speak to the doctor.
‘’Where is she? Can we see her now? What happened to her?’’
‘’Clam down boy. She is now sleeping.’’
‘’Then what’s wrong with her?’’
‘’She has three broken ribs, two on the left and one on the right. She is too weak and…’’
‘’And what?’’
‘’She won’t eat. Her body is not used to the food, like if she hasn’t been eating in weeks.’’
‘’So what does that mean?’’
‘’It means she’s anorexic. It hasn’t gone to far yet for her to die, but her body condition is terrible. If she survives it will be because of a miracle’’ and he left.
I have to leave as well. I can’t believe this is happening. She can’t die, not her!
‘’Gerard?’’ I heard someone called my name. Seeing Iris calling me startled me.
‘’C’mon, she is going to be okay’’ She said leading me to the chairs in the waiting room. Then I fell fast asleep.

Iris’ POV
Gerard fell asleep on my shoulder. His head is so freaking heavy! He was the one who got more worried about Zelda’s kidnapping, but we all know who it was. We won’t tell Gerard, I know he would do something stupid if he knew who kidnapped Zelda. Now we have to wait until she wakes up. She will wake up.

*The Next Day*
We all stayed until Zelda woke up. She never did. The doctor told us that if she doesn’t wake up the next day her status would be in coma. Gerard didn’t take well that new and started crying. I’ve never seen a guy cry, and Gerard wasn’t actually the one who I was planning to see cry first. I thought it was going to be Donovan since he loves her too much. Mikey and Frank arrived. I looked up at Mikey but he wasn’t looking at me. He went straight to hug his brother who was still sobbing and he hugged him back. Frank sat next to me, but he said nothing, he looked at no one, he just sat there. Mikey sat next to Gerard. No one said anything. We all stayed trapped in our thoughts.

*3rd Day in the Hospital*
Mikey’s POV
Me and Frank arrived yesterday to the hospital. Gerard had called us to come over, we just hope everything is okay. When we arrived I saw Gerard’s head on Iris shoulder. For some reason that didn’t make me jealous, I was okay with it. I didn’t look at her again and I think she didn’t to me. I sat next to Gerard and hugged him as comfort. I know he needs me right now and I will do everything possible to be with him when he needs me. Now, we are just waiting until Zelda wakes up, if she doesn’t then she will be in coma. I don’t think that’ll be great for neither of us all. I don’t know Zelda that much, but I just hope she wakes up.
It’s 10 o’clock and still nothing. An hour passed and nothing. I decided to sleep a bit but the sound of doctors running woke me. They were running inside Zelda’s room. Something’s wrong. Gerard and Akan got up at the same time but Akan stayed still, Gerard started making his way towards the room but I grabbed him. He started fighting me and Frank woke up to help me. We got him out so he could calm down before entering the waiting room again.
‘’It’s okay Gee. She is going to be okay’’ I told him as comfort.
‘’I won’t be able to live if she dies. No, I won’t!’’ He started crying again. He must really love her. But why? They never talked much. He started to calm down and we decided it was time to return to the waiting room to see what happened. But before we opened the door Iris got out so fast that she bumped into me.
‘’Oh! Gerard!’’ She said looking at him and not me. She was crying too. What happened? Iris was really crying. Did Zelda die? She can’t. My brother would kill himself.
‘’What happened?’’ I asked her. She just looked at me and hugged Gerard instead of me. She made Gerard cry even more. I looked down at Frank and he looked back at me.
‘’I think it would be better if you get in there’’ Iris told Gerard. He nodded and made his way to the waiting room. I looked at Iris to read her expression. There was happiness and sadness. She gave me a warm smile and followed Gerard. I followed as well.