Chapter 12: Despair

It is 7:00 and still Evie hasn’t come back. Where can she be? I have been trying to reach her on her cell but it just goes on ringing…

The door bell rang. It must be Evie.

“Coming”

It was Evie.

“You are late, Evie” I said as I looked at the clock.
“I know that” she replied.
“A strange old man came today…”
“Oh Miroku…”

She interrupted me and hugged me. She was crying. I could feel her tears on my bare shoulders.

“What happened to you?”
“Don’t ask me anything Miroku, this might be our last night together…”
“Last night?! But….”

She interrupted me and kissed me. A passionate kiss…

“I have to go if he comes here looking for me… ”

Just then someone knocked at the door.

“It must be him…” Evie said.

I opened the door. It was that old man again.

“You have come again… Go away at once.” I said rather loudly.
“I hasn’t come for going away. I has come to kill you… I will kill you.”

Saying that he brought out a knife.

“No father, wait, I am here. I will go with you”
“FATHER!!!!” I was shocked to know that he was Evie’s father.
“So here you are… you bitch, running off with other dogs! Tonight I will make you pay for that” The old man said as he grabbed Evie’s hands.
“Evie is going nowhere” I went ahead and punched the man in the face.
“Stop! Enough of this, I have had enough… Good bye Miroku, don’t come after me, please”

Saying those words she went with her father… That man constantly cursed her and even beat her but I couldn’t see any sort of resistance from Evie… both of them gradually vanished into the darkness…

“Will I never get to see her again?” I asked myself as the empty feeling again started to take over my soul.

With Evie gone I was the only one capable of breathing in the house… but how long can I breathe without Evie? Will I ever be able to breathe freely without her? Didn’t she promise me that she would always be with me? So why must she break that promise now? WHY?