I was taking my keys out of my pocket as I approached my building. I was breathing a little heavy but felt my energy slowly making its way back as I started to get a little more control of my breathing. My headphones were pretty loud, when I took one headphone out of my ear I can hear the muffling base sounds blasting through as I let it drop only keeping one headphone in my ear.
I opened my door and jogged up the stairs, waving hello to my neighbor who walked past me. I was humming the tune to the song when I made my way to my apartment door, placed my keys in the key hole and opened. A nice cold breeze hit me immidately as I walked in since I left my fan on facing the door. It was a habit I developed each time I went out for a jog. It felt amazing and the whole apartment was nice and cool.
I entered the bathroom and turned the shower on, removing my headphone and turning off my iPod altogether. But I still continued to hum to the music I had been listening to. As the shower was running I walked to my bedroom to search for the clothes I left out. I had been planning a vacation to see my sister Leza for the weekend so I packed a little too heavy since I normally ended up staying longer than I intended to each time I traveled. She had just gotten a new house and it would be my second visit. Last time I stayed a week when I meant to only stay a weekend. I couldn’t help it. But just in case, I packed heavy and now had to search through my suitcase for clothes to wear to an evening with my friends. I heard my phone ringing from the kitchen so I halted on the clothing search and went to get my phone.
I retrieved it from the kitchen table and answered the phone, which was my mother on the other end according to the caller ID.
“Hey mom.” I said walking towards the bedroom. But I stopped short when I heard an awful sound from the other end of the line.
“Mom?” I asked. Again, I heard a weird sound, almost like muffled laughing.
“Mom, can you hear me? I can’t hear anything.”
“Crystal! Oh my god!” I heard my mother cry. I have never heard her sound this way before and it scared me.
“Mom? Whats wrong?” I said more alert.
“Oh my baby…Leza….Crystal its Leza…” She was sobbing uncontrollably.
I kept the phone to my ear, and I regret not hanging up. I listened with horror, at the sound of my mother sobbing as she was trying to say the words that I never thought I would hear in my entire life. She could barely say my sisters name. I knew what she was trying to say. But I was hoping for something different.
Please don’t say it. Don’t say it.
“Mom…don’t say it. Its not true.” I felt a huge lump develop in my throat.
“Leza… They called me and told me….My baby!” My mother sobbed so hard she started to cough.
“Mom, no its not true. Shes okay.”
“Crystal, Leza is…” She said it. She said again. She repeated it a third time, and continued to cry hysterical.
I stood there in my kitchen clutching my phone to my ear, listening to the ordeal my mother was suffering through. My eyes began to swell, the tears clouded my vision. It wasn’t true. I shook my head. I continued to shake my head until I dropped to the floor, phone still pressed hard against my ear, the line had gone dead since my mother had hung up. The only sounds now echoing through the apartment was the water running from the shower and the remaining words my mother had repeated again in my ear until she could no longer say it again.
A/N
Hey everyone! So this book has been completed and edited so I will be going back and revising the chapters here. I will not include the final chapter however since the book will be published (YAY!!!) Right now a promo video is being made and Crystal should be out around December. I hope for those of you who are new readers to this story enjoy yourselves and I hope you pick up the book when its ready!