231 I AM SORRY
“After I eat, I will go see her,” Zuri murmured.
Before this, even from the first ti Anne couldn’t wake up and was very sick, she had been standing in front of her door for so long, but didn’t have the courage to enter the room and go to her even once.
There was sothing that held her back. It was denial. She was in denial.
From the bottom of her heart, subconsciously, she always thought if she didn’t see her, she would have the last mory of Anne; healthy, strong, loving and caring.
She didn’t want to replace that image in her head with her dying, weak and sickly appearance.
Zuri knew it was ridiculous, it didn’t make any sense at all, but it seed, people had different ways to cope up when they had to face situations involving their loved ones.
Of course, Zuri loved Anne. She was the one who taught her everything and told her stories so she could fall asleep. She slept in her arms and Zuri could still vaguely rember how it gave her warmth and the feeling of being safe.
“Don’t wait until you regret it,” July said. She then walked out of the room after caressing her head. Probably, among them, Zuri was the one who had it hard to digest the inevitable, the fact that Anne probably wouldn’t be with them for a long ti.
Zuri bit her bottom lip, she stopped eating and stared at the noodles in the bowl, which was half emptied. She didn’t know what to think or what to say or what to do.
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Sotis, it was easy to not think about anything, it was easy to avoid sothing that you didn’t want to talk about, it was easy to avoid the reality, as if you could.
Zuri knew that it was not right, but she couldn’t bring herself to see Anne in her current condition.
She didn’t want to see soone close to her die again, like her father, like her uncle, but even both of them were not like Anne.
“Stop thinking too much, you think ti will wait for you until you are ready?” Hades appeared next to Zuri, sitting on top of the table, with his long legs dangling. He looked down at the girl, who was in a daze. “Her ti is up.”
Zuri lifted her head when she heard that and then stared at Hades, as the man nodded at sothing or soone behind her.
Only then did Zuri turn around and see a young girl, around her age, standing behind her with her soft smile, though she didn’t hear the sound of the door being opened.
“My dear Blue...” she said.
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Nikolai kept Vanessa close to him, as he lined up to get a check up from the scientists from The Hound, just to check whether or not there were supernatural creatures among them and also to get all their identities.
They were divided into a few groups since there were so many people in this city right now and the governnt tried to expand the area that they could secure from the non-human beings.
The assessnt lasted until evening before all of them returned to their shelter. This place was like a basent with nothing but a dirty floor for them to sleep on in their sleeping bags.
Nikolai kept Vanessa warm by hugging her. It was hard to sleep in this place, not to ntion the fact that there were around a hundred people under the sa roof. They would talk in hushed tones, trying to not make any noise when the other people were sleeping.
But, there were tis when a baby was crying, and all of them could only grunt and groan. This was sothing that they couldn’t avoid.
Usually, the lamp would be turned off two hours after they got their dinner and they would go to sleep to repeat the sa routine tomorrow.
But tonight, it was different. Just after the lamp went off for ten minutes, it was turned on again and the whole basent area was flooded with light.
All of them were confused, but they thought this was only an error, until five mbers of The Hound walked into the room and called a few nas with a loud and firm voice.
But Nikolai was stunned when he heard his na being called.
“What happened?” Vanessa looked at her brother in panic. “Why didn’t they call my na?” she was afraid sothing would happen to them. Did they do sothing wrong?
“I don’t know Ve,” Nikolai said, his eyes fixed on the man, who was talking loudly to all the people there.
“All the people that were being called step forward!” he said in a commanding tone. His eyes skimd this basent briefly and when no one walked forward, he looked annoyed. “FASTER!”
“What happened? What are you going to do to the people with those nas?” a young teenager asked the man. He looked panicked, because his na was on the list as well. They were already afraid because of this whole situation, they didn’t need the mbers of The Hound to scare them as well.
The man’s eyes fixed on the young teenager when he spoke. “All the people ntioned will be trained as mbers of The Hound. We need more people to protect our territory!”
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The mont Zuri’s hazel eyes fell on the young girl and saw the familiarity on her face and realized what was happening, sohow she felt her chest was very hurt and this made her clutch the front of her clothes.
She didn’t know when it started, but tears stread down her cheeks and she couldn’t stop them from falling no matter what. She was hyperventilating when her lips trembled to call her na.
“Anne...”
“Yes, it is ,” she said with a sad smile on her lips. “Finally, I got to see you.”
“I am sorry...” Zuri whispered, she felt her world was falling apart to see this.
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