Chapter 54

H A R R Y

I laugh humorlessly as I shake my head sideways. I had no idea that Ricky was this selfish and this heartless. He’s only thinking about himself and he is only always wanting to save himself and pass the blame onto others.

“I am so sorry.” Ricky apologizes but the more he says it the more it makes me angry.

“Ricky! How could you so selfish?!” Gemma screams at him..

“Of course!” I exclaimed. “Of course you would say it’s me! You freaking asshole!” I pressed my clenched fist against the center of my forehead.

I groan in frustration and in anger because I want to hit this person so badly. I want to hurt him as hard as I can but then my mom never taught me that kind of way.

“You are pathetic!” I screamed at him.

He nods while wiping his tears, “I know I am. I feel so horrible. But then just recently, I got another call from her and… and she said that…”

“She said what?” I asked right away.

“Sh-She said something so scary. Sh-She…” His lips tremble as he brings his hands to his mouth and shakes his head. “She wants…. She wants to kill a woman named Lindy Swanepoel.”

I gasped as soon as he mentioned Lindy’s name. I feel a huge pang in my chest like someone was deeply crushing my heart into the tiniest pieces. No, that can’t be. It was Griffin. It was him who initiated all this. It can’t be someone else. Griffin’s already in prison. He was the one who had a motive but why is someone else being brought up now?

We all had our eyes on Griffin but then he wasn’t the one who was behind all of this?

“Harry.” Gemma grabs my sleeve and I can tell from her eyes that she is as scared as me. “L-Lindy is…” Those were the only words she can say from being too surprised.

“I remembered it was your girlfriend.” He says with horror.

I leaped towards him and grabbed his collar as I pulled him off the floor, “Look what you have done?!” I screamed at his face.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… Please I’m sorry, Harry.” He begs but I cannot hear him. He apologizes but I don’t want to accept any of those.

Lindy. My sweet Lindy.

No.

No, this cannot be happening.

No!

“Harry I’m so sorry.” Ricky says it again and I hate it.

I hate how he uses those words against me because he doesn’t deserve to be forgiven at all. I hate those words are coming from his mouth because I cannot accept this thing that he had started in the first place. In my mind, I don’t want to accept his apologies just because of his selfishness and cowardice.

“My girlfriend is fucking pregnant with two babies inside her!!” I scream so loud and so angrily as my hands were gripping tight on his shirt. “Did you know what you had done?! She is carrying my kids!! You!! You fucking asshole if something would happen to them, I will fucking bury you alive!! Do you hear me?!!”

“I didn’t know she had been planning this all along! I’m so sorry!” Ricky says it again while he continues to cry. “I… If I only knew, I would have… I would have--”

“You would have what, you fucking coward?!” My anger was on another level and if I stare into his eyes more, I might choke him to death. “You cannot do anything else anymore!! You fucking can’t because of your freaking lies!!”

“I know!! I’m sorry!! That’s why I came here b-because… I can’t take all this guilt anymore. I have always lived in guilt and I know I am not worthy of any of your forgiveness!” Ricky sobs.

Gemma cries as she tugs onto me, “Ha-Harry… We have to check on Lindy.. We… We… Harry..” Her voice is shaking as my fear begins to increase.

“Who’s Jolene’s sister?” I ask Ricky who looked completely puzzled. “Who is she?! When did she call you and when is she planning it to happen?!”

Ricky just cried.

“When did she call you, you bastard?!!” I screamed my lungs out.

“Earlier.” He trembles as his eyes looks away from mine. “She told me… She told me she is going to do it a few hours.”

“Fuck, then that’s today!” I pushed him off. “I have to call Lindy and warn her.” I walked towards my phone while I was trying to suppress my shaky hands.

“Bailey Watson.” Ricky calls out. “That’s Jolene’s sister.”

A cold feeling runs over my body which causes me to stop.

Bailey Watson.

I know I have heard that name somewhere before. I gasped as soon as I remembered who it was. No, it cannot be possible. I pulled my head back towards Ricky, “That’s Lindy’s roommate.”

“What?” Gemma gapes.

I screamed as I rushed back towards Ricky and started hitting him on the face, one punch after another and Gemma was not stopping me. “Why you never told me?! Why you’re only saying this now?! Why?! Why?! Why?!!”

I continued hitting him and venting all of my anger out until I felt myself coming back to my senses. I realized that there are far more important things than this. Beating him up is pretty much very useless.

I have to call Lindy.

“Harry, you have to warn Lindy.” Gemma cries.

I pushed Ricky off and he falls to the ground with a few blood coming from his lips after I wounded it. I ran towards my phone and started calling her like crazy but it was just ringing.

Answer, please answer. Baby please answer. I thought to myself.

“Is she answering?” Gemma calls out.

I shake my head and tried to call again but it was still ringing.

“Oh God.” I sobbed as I lowered my head and cried for a while.

“Harry.” Gemma rushes to my side and comforts me. “Harry, you have to be strong.”

“I’m scared.” I pulled my head up and stared at her. “I’m so scared Gemma.”

“Me too.” She says before pulling my head closer to her chest and embraces me.

For the past twenty or thirty minutes, I kept calling but there was still no answer. My mind had been worrying about what could be happening right now and Lindy could possibly be in danger after hearing those words from Ricky.

Finally my call connected, “Oh thank God you finally answered!” I exclaimed.

Gemma rushes to me, “Did she answer?”

I nod.

“We’re kind of busy Harry.” My body stiffened with that voice.

It was not Lindy’s.

I glance at Gemma who is already looking at me much worriedly while she stands next to me holding my arm, “What’s wrong?” Gemma questions me.

“Who’s this? Lindy?” I asked.

There was something off.

Busy?

Who picked up the phone? In the back of my head, I was inwardly praying that it was not Bailey. I mean, how was she able to enter the house? There’s no way she could have entered easily. The Eye Spy Tab would have notified me!

“Harry! Bailey is the main suspect!!” I hear Lindy’s voice which makes me feel even much worst. There was this lightning bolt of fear creeping all of my entire system. She already knows and Bailey is already there.

I’m too late to save her!

Lindy continues to scream from the background, “She is Jolene’s sister!!!”

Oh God, no. “Bailey don’t you dare hurt her!!”

“You still owe me a fucking win, bitch!” Bailey screams before I hear a crashing sound. “You better start running! Or I stab you to death!!”

S... Stab?

“What?! Bailey please!! Don’t hurt Lindy!!” I take a grip on my phone.

“Harry what’s going on?!” Gemma pulls my sleeve.

“Don’t hurt my kids!! Ricky was the one who got you sister pregnant!!! It wasn’t me!! Please spare their lives!!” I cried as Ricky continues to cry as well.

Bailey was screaming and I don’t think she can hear me from here. Lindy was screaming for help too and how it breaks my heart to hear this over the phone while I am here thousands of miles away from her. I cannot do anything to save her and not matter what I do, I won’t be able to make it on time.

Until there was silence and no sound of movement. The kind of silence that I really hate. Something happened and I know something happened that I wish was not real.

“My babies…” I hear Lindy’s voice as I feel my heart heavy.

No.

Please, no.

“No!!!” Lindy cries and it crushes my heart hearing her scream that way.

No.

Something happened to Lindy.

I shake my head in horror, no it can’t be.

Then I can hear the police while I kept screaming for help through the phone. I kept screaming the words, “Save Lindy!! Please anyone help her!!”

I felt useless.

So useless.

Fucking useless.

Until Detective Martin picks up the phone, “Harry?”

“Oh thank God! Where is Lindy? How is she?” I asked instantly as my heart was thumping so hard inside my chest.

“Lindy was stabbed in her stomach and it’s a deep wound.”

I shake my head because I don’t want to accept this.

It cannot be possible.

The next hours, I found myself arriving in Connecticut.

I called the management that I cannot join the first days of the World Tour because of the situation I was handling. The lads were all worried for Lindy and I felt even worst than them. I was traumatized of the things I heard on the phone that I wasn’t able to sleep at all just thinking about Lindy, our kids and worrying about their condition.

I was accompanied by Gemma and she knows that I needed someone to be there for me. In case, things gets worst. As we were riding the car on our way to the hospital where Lindy was admitted, I can’t stop my hands from trembling in fear. Gemma has noticed it too and since that confrontation with Ricky, she hasn’t spoken a word to me.

She placed her hand over my shaky hands which were holding the stirring wheel. I look over her and she smiles at me, weakly. “Things will be okay.” She says.

I sigh heavily.

“They will make it out alive.” She adds.

I can’t stop my tears from falling as I continued to drive, “I’m just so scared of losing any of them, Gemma.” I press my lips together as my tears continued to stream over my cheeks.

“I am scared too.”

“I will never forgive myself for what will happen to her. I got her into this mess.”

“Oh Harry, this was not your fault. Please, stop blaming yourself. You are only going to feel much worse.”

I wiped my tears off my eyes, “I wish I was there to protect her. I wish…”

“We all wish we were able to save her. I do too.”

There was silence between us.

“I’m sorry.”

I turn my head to her, “About what?”

“For... saying those mean things to you when I shouldn’t have.” She recalls the night we fought. “I feel so bad… I… I am so sorry, Harry.”

“It’s okay, Gemma. We all make mistakes and it’s fine.”

The moment we reached the hospital, my entire body was shivering in fear while Gemma kept reminding me to stay calm even though I know she was scared too. When we arrived outside her room, she was no longer there. We were then informed that Lindy was having a surgery which means that I was going to wait for long hours.

Around three in the afternoon, the surgeons finally headed out alongside Doctor Fox who saw us right away. “Doctor Fox.” I greeted as soon as she stood in front of me.

“Harry, it’s so good to see you here.”

“How’s Lindy?” I asked.

“Her stabbed wound is really deep.” She says.

My tears flooding my eyes right away, “Oh my God. Is she still at risk? How is she? Is she still alive?” I held tight onto Gemma’s hands.

“Lindy’s condition is stable now. She lost a lot of blood but she is okay now.”

I felt relieved as I breathe out heavily, “Oh thank God!!”

“She had a tiny pierce on her liver but we managed to stitch it up. Also, we performed cesarian procedure to the patient to get her babies out before since the knife went through the placenta and we had to save them before they drown with Lindy’s blood.”

I bring my hands to my mouth as I feel my lips trembling as well as my fingers.

“How… How are my twins?” I ask.

“The little boy is unharmed while the girl is… in critical condition since its born with a weaker heart. They are both in NICU to be treated with specific care and treatments since they are both pre-mature.”

I feel like my world is crumbling down.

“Please save them.” I begged.