Heaven Knows

20: Dominic

Heaven Knows OST: ♫ I won’t let you go by Snow Patrol ♫

Chapter 20: Dominic

I felt the world stopped when Anna fell onto the floor, shaking.

Everything went numb for me. It didn’t even register to me that I was running for her. I couldn’t hear anything else except my heart beating so loud inside my chest.

Mrs. H came rushing beside me to cradle Anna with her arms. She was trying to keep her calm until she stopped trembling. She said something about taking Anna to her room. My body obliged but my soul was left in the living room, in need of medical stitches with my heart. Anna was still breathing. That had brought me back to my senses as relief flood through me. Mrs. H was on the phone talking to someone. She wiped the tears that fall every time on her worried face.

My hand gently touched Heaven’s face. Careful not to break her—she was too fragile. I’ve never felt so scared in my whole life until I saw her fall like that. It felt like she was about to leave me.

“Dr. Newman’s on his way.” Mrs. H sat beside her daughter. She tenderly brushed her soft brown hair and she leaned in to kiss her forehead.

“What just happened to her?” I asked. My voice cracked at the last word. I thought my tears were gonna fall.

“Seizure.” Mrs. H wiped another stray tear out of her face. “The doctor said she’d have most of these attacks as the tumor spreads out aside from constant memory loss and extreme headaches.”

I ran a hand through my hair as droplets of tears started to rain down my face. Mrs. H bent down again to plant another kiss on Anna’s forehead.

“My poor sweet girl.” She whispered as her tears fell.

Will she be all right? I wanted to ask but it would be inappropriate of me.

I was asked to leave the room when her doctor arrived. I didn’t know what to say to my friends so I remained silent for the whole time. They kept telling me she’s gonna be fine but I didn’t want to believe them. Every day Anna was far from getting better and closer to getting worse. She suffered from a sickness she doesn’t even deserve.

I stayed in their house until the doctor and my friends left. Mrs. H tried to keep me out of their house too. But I thickened my face and I hardened my head. I wanted to know that Heaven will be okay—at least for tonight. Today was just the beginning of an apocalypse. There were still a lot to come. If I won’t get used to these attacks then there’s no reason for me to stay.

I knew I had to be ready for what else to come because the last would be fatal.

***

Anna was watching me sleep.

I woke up to the calm blue of her eyes. They remained the same color of cold icicles that tainted my windows during winter.

“So you finally leveled up to the challenge of being my stalker.” She grinned at me. “Good for you.”

I wrinkled my nose. “Innocent until proven guilty.”

“I dreamt of you.” she quietly said as she drifted back to her dream. “I think it was more of a memory than a dream.” She repositioned herself so that she was facing me. “We were sort of arguing on a sidewalk. I left you with my bag but then you came knocking at the front door with it.”

I smiled. “It’s a memory. I followed you home to return your bag. I didn’t want you to think that I had interest on your things.”

Her eyebrows rose with fascination. “You have stalker issues to solve. Tsk-tsk-tsk.”