Chapter 19 - 19 : Innocent or Not

Inside of the cold room in the warehouse, the senator's daughter was sitting on the hospital bed with a bandage on her eyes.

She doesn't know how long she's been staying in here; all she could remember was the endless pain she felt as the woman named Daniella operated her eyes with no anesthesia.

The pain, it was too much that she lost her consciousness. Every pinned of the needle, the scr.a.p.e of the knife on her skin, she felt all of it and, she could not do anything but to cry.

And now, she woke up by the sound of the slamming door.

"How are you?" it was the sound of an old woman.

"Please help me out of here," her hand lifted and stretched at the source of the voice, lips quivered as she begs.

She remembered the old woman's voice; it was she who kept asking for Daniella to slow down but, the woman coldly refused.

If there's someone in this room that could help her, it must be this old woman.

When she felt a hand holding hers, she felt an indescribable relief flooded her mind.

"Please help me," she begged, the voice was weak and full of pain.

"I have a question," hearing the old woman's voice, the girl nodded without hesitation. Right now, she will answer anything for as long as it can free her.

"Very well. This will help me determine whether to help you or not," she could feel the old woman's presence sitting down next to her on the bed.

"Do you remember being on an island around thirteen or twelve years ago?"

She gulped hard; she remembered the woman named Daniella telling her about the vacation she had with her father.

She shook her head, denying it.

"I will ask you again. If you tell me a lie, I am going to hand you over to Daniella and believe me, the pain you felt during the operation is nothing compared to what she will do to you so think carefully before you answer my question. All right?"

She nodded; her body quivered in fear as she thought of the pain, she had experience.

"Now, answer my question truthfully."

She bit her lips, there's no reason to lie anymore.

"Yes, my father said we are going to meet the girl that will donate her eyes to me."

"What happened when you went there?"

She paused and hesitated whether to say it or not, she was not even sure if she can completely trust the old woman.

"I could not see anything but, I heard a girl crying and asking for help but, my dad said the girl was sick and was having some delusion. So, I ignored it," she wanted to cry but, her eyes were patched, she could feel the tears starting to form inside, making her eyes feel irritated.

"Why are you still blind if you had the girl to donate her eyes to you?"

She shakily shrugged both shoulders, "I am not sure but, I heard that the girl escaped. Her doctor said they will get her back and so we decided to wait."

The doctor went silent, which made her worry.

"So, are you saying that you are innocent?" a voice cold as ice spoke from somewhere and it frightened her.

Her body shook as she crawled backward, when her body reached the bed frame on the wall, she embraced both of her legs, trembling uncontrollably.

It was the voice, it sounded like the voice of an angel but, her words were like a wicked reaper.

She gulped hard, wondering what kind of pain would she experienced now.

"I-" she stumbled with her own words. She wanted to explain herself, why didn't she help the kid.

"I am sorry. My father said that you are delusional and I believed him please, please let me go," she stayed hugging both of her legs, fear of what she would become after this conversation.

"I understand that you were blind that's why you didn't see my situation before. Look, I would have let you go but, your father had done a lot of awful things to me. So, I am going to return the favor," hearing those words and her laugh has made her skin crawl, her whole body shook as she imagined what would happen to her.

Daniella's laughed rang to her ears, it was screeching her mind, she could imagine her face, the face of a psycho as she mercilessly tortures her.

"Please," she begged but, Daniella's laugh tells her that she wouldn't let her go. Even though she could not see her, her mind has drawn a figure of Daniella with cruelty, the face of a woman who doesn't have humanity.

"Don't worry dear. It will just be painful," then Daniella's laugh went louder, and every laugh has made her heart throbbed, body shivered with fear, mind wondering when this nightmare would be finished.

"What have I done to you? Why are you doing this to me!" she shouted with anger. She doesn't care anymore, even it will anger Daniella; she knows that it's useless to beg.

She wanted to know, how can she be so cruel to her, how could she hurt her so casual and ignore her cry.

Thinking that her body frost, she suddenly remembered that day, the day when she visited the girl who was supposed to donate her eyes.

That day, the girl begged for her help, the distress in her voice, her painful cry, it took some time before she could forget that voice.

And now, the realization came to her. She begged just how the girl begged at her before, her shaking voice was the same as the girl even the words she said.

Her skin crawled, she gulped hard as she realized that she has been calling Daniella a cruel were in fact, she was the same though the difference is, she didn't hurt her.

"This is your revenge for ignoring you?" she said with a broken voice.

She heard someone sneered.

Then she continued, "Why? I understand that you won't listen to me but, why did you have to do that? It was so painful," her bandages became wet with her tears but, unlike normal tears, the liquid in her eyes was like alcohol, hurting her eyes.

"Well, everything has interest dear. Even the bank charges you interest for getting a loan. So, the pain you had experience and will soon experience, consider it as interest," she heard her laughing again, like the laugh of the witches in the fairy tale movies though there was a sadness or bitterness in it.

"Ouch!" she groaned in pain, her hand traveled to her eyes, she wanted to remove the bandages, she could no longer hold the pain, it was burning her eyes, she wanted to scratch it remove it to ease the pain.

"Help me!" she shouted but, no one was coming for her.

"Daniella, we need to replace the bandages," she could hear the voice of the doctor, it was soft and full of concern which made her feel conflicted whether she was on Daniella's side or not.

"NO, Claire, don't. She should be thankful I didn't replace her eyes with animals eyes, if I did, she would have known how painful it was to have animal parts in your body." Her mind could barely understand those words, the pain was making her mind fuzzy, soon, her head lightened, feeling her body falling to the bed, she realized that once again, she lost her consciousness.