Escaping The Mafia King

The next day rolled around and Hope found herself bedridden, unable to move with a harsh cough gripping her chest and nasty fever burning her whole body. There was obviously no option of going to the college since she had caught the flu for walking too long under the sun and because of the fatigue it had caused.

She remembered that at night her phone had kept ringing with calls and messages but without looking at the screen she had turned off the phone and avoided everything that bounded her to the outer world. Her mood was ruined so badly and she did not think she could talk to anybody without snapping in anger.

She had had dinner with her parents and then after coming back to the room, she had fallen asleep like the dead. Her feet had burn marks and cuts from the sandals that she had successfully hidden from her parents by wearing long trousers.

But as the morning sunshine hit the window she realized that she was sick to death. Bile kept rising her throat, making her run to the bathroom every ten minutes.

When she did not go down to have breakfast, her mom came up to check on her and immediately got worried after seeing her red face, runny nose and baggy eyes. She immediately rushed down to get medicine and some soup for Hope while Hope went back to the bed to hide under her duvet and avoid the sunlight.

As her mom came back, she made Hope take the medicine with water and some soup. In the middle of it suddenly the doorbell rang.

Hope's gaze immediately shot to the wall watch seeing the time. Nine am. She knew who was at the door this early.

As her mom stood up to go down, Hope grabbed her arm and said,

"Mom?"

Her mom immediately turned to her, "Yeah, honey?"

or Hector at the door, please do not let them come up here. I do not think I will be able to

her to quickly

she gently moved to the window while taking the duvet over her head and dragging it along covering

After a while, she saw him moving out from her doorstep and walking

look at the window that she was standing close to. she immediately pulled back, hiding behind the

of minutes later when she was sure that he had gone away she came out of the curtains

disappointment filled her deeply. Seeing him here was a momentum relief that she did not know she needed so desperately. But she did not think it was going to last longer. She had decided to distance herself from him. Her attachment to him was becoming too unhealthy and deep and she was not sure that he felt the same for her. So before she got hurt

miss even one. He would come to the door, request Hope's mom to let him meet her, but she always refused, not giving her mom even a chance

through channels aimlessly. She had still not turned on her phone in fear of being expected to give back a response. She wanted to enjoy some solace away from all the chaos. Stella had called Hope's mom when she had not answered, and her mom had explained her sickness to her. When she had insisted

The sickness had finally

so she left for college at eight-thirty.

all the missed classes. She saw Stella as well and

do the thing that she was

on her

rings and chimes of notifications and msgs filled her ears until

stopped she started to go through all of them one by one. The most messages and missed calls were from the person that she wanted to avoid