Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen
I couldn't sleep throughout the rest of the night because of the fear of the nightmare. I requested a sleeping pill and minutes after taking it, I fell asleep.
{ Another Nightmare }
"Excuse me, Mister, can you please move a bit faster?" I asked the driver who was as old as my Dad.
"I'm sorry Ma'am, but there's a long traffic ahead." He said to me and I sighed.
"This was the reason why I told Charlie I didn't want to join them in the first place but she insisted," I stated.
The driver noticed my frustrations and suggested we could take another route if I wanted, only that it would cost double the original payment.
I instantly nodded... "Sure, no problem. Just please take me to that damn restaurant." I replied to him. I know I may have sounded a bit rude, but I was in a hurry to care.
The driver agreed and swiftly made a U-turn.
I was grateful when we reached the restaurant sooner than I wanted. After paying him, I quickly entered the restaurant but something seemed off.
There was no one in that big five-star restaurant except my sister, her husband, her mother-in-law, and her sister-in-law.
Before I could even walk to their table, I saw Audrey pour hot tea into my sister's hand making her scream in agony.
Charlie stood up to protest but Chad slammed her in the seat again and warned her to behave.
I was mortified to witness that. I wanted to go to my sister and help her but my feet wouldn't move. It was as if I'd stepped on glue.
Before I could shout for her, I saw her mother-in-law slap her hard across the face because she accidentally dropped her spoon.
I was in a rage looking at what was unfolding in front of my eyes.
What the fuck is going on? I wanted to shout but my voice was nowhere to be found.
I knew I was screaming but no sound came out of my mouth.
Charlie covered her cheek as she sobbed silently. I felt frustrated and helpless. My sister was suffering yet I couldn't do anything to help.
When I looked at Charlie's hands, there were bruises everywhere. My tears flowed like a river. What's going on? Why can't I move my legs?
Suddenly, Charlie noticed me. With tears in her eyes, she mouthed to me, "Marlie, please help me!"
That gained her another slap from her mother-in-law.
"What? You want your sister to hear you?!" They all turned to face my direction and laughed.
"Your sister has no power to help you in here. She's useless!" Her mother-in-law said as she laughed.
I wanted to run there and give them double the pain my sister was receiving, but I couldn't move, no matter how hard I tried.
" I want you to leave my life but you insisted on staying. Why would you cry to that whore of a sister for help?" Chad said smirking at me.
Damn, I wanted to go and punch him but couldn't. Audrey got up and held Charlie by her hair, dragging her to the floor, and shouted...
"Get the hell out of our lives!"
Charlie fell at the feet of another woman I couldn't see the face.
Chad ran to that unidentified woman's side, kissing her and calling her his love.
I closed my eyes to prevent myself from seeing the scene in front of me.
Charlie... Just what kind of house did you marry into? Have you been suffering all this time, big sis?
Suddenly the woman held my sister by the neck and started to choke her.
My sister struggled and spoke against the choking "Help - Me - Marlie!"
"CHARLIE!!!" I screamed at the top of my voice.
{End Of The Nightmare 2}
I woke up from my sleep with that. It was then that I realized I'd had another nightmare of my sister asking me to help her.
The nightmares kept coming to me like scenes from a movie. The very moment I would close my eyes, my sister would torment me with her pain.
"I need to let her soul rest in peace." That thought came to my mind. And not just that, I also came to a decision.
I then knew how I wanted to avenge her. I got up from the bed and rushed to Doctor Mark's office. There was a guest there, so I impatiently waited for him, and when he was done, he ushered me into his office.
"I know how I want to avenge my sister!" I said while taking a stand by his desk, with determination in my eyes.
He lifted his head and looked with a curious face towards me. "What is your decision?" He questioned me.
"That family wanted to get rid of my sister but I will give them the one they least want to see," I said with a firm tone. "I am going to enter that house as my sister."
To my shock, Mark was not surprised... "Good then!"
He agreed hurriedly
"You are going to help me? Aren't you going to ask me why I made such a decision?" I asked him in curiosity.
Mark nodded with a smile, "It was the plastic surgeon who just left. I was discussing it with him." He said with a nonchalant attitude.
How did he know I was going to make that decision?
Did he have that idea all this time?
"Why didn't you suggest it then?!" I asked.
"You looked like a wounded lion who would face all the dangerous traps to get to the one that hurt it. If I had forced that on you, would you have accepted it?" He said with his signature smile.
"I realized that was the next option you would choose." He continued.
Yes, that was the best option. I should give Chad and his family what they don't want the most.
"Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer," He said it out loud, and that brought a wicked smile to my face. I was starting to like him already.
"When is the surgery scheduled then?" I asked in anticipation.
He scoffed at that. He wasn't expecting that I would be in a hurry. That was what I thought but I guess I was wrong...
"Your surgery is scheduled anytime you want it!" He responded.
Good! Great!! I shouted inwardly.
Wait, why was he helping me?
Mark smiled as if reading my mind. He took his sister's picture out. He wiped the face of the picture like there was some dirt on it.
"Impatient, temperamental, loving, that's what you have in common with my younger sister." He said and paused.
"I keep wondering why I'm helping you, but I guess I want to make it up to her. Maybe she sent you to me that day on the lonely road." He said flashing me a smile with mixed feelings.
Then realization dawned on me. Was he the one whose voice I heard last before I lost consciousness on the road?
"You are the one......" I needed confirmation, so I asked, but he cut me off.
"It was the first anniversary of my younger sister, Martha. I was still grieving her demise and I wanted to kill myself too. I mean she was my everything. My joy, happiness, and all the sort but she was no more!"
A lone tear fell from his eye when he said that. I could tell he still missed his younger sister. So I wasn't the only sad one.
"I finally found a companion."