---------------Los Angeles, California
-------------------------Lily's hospital ( Same night)
I couldn't let her die. I felt the tears profusely escaping my eyes and rolling down my cheeks. They needed to revive her, no matter what. I couldn't lose her, I couldn't. " Faryah!" Sophia screamed as she tried going back into her room. " Sophia stop" I said as I managed to hold her back. " She can't die Khalid" She cried as we watched the doctor try reviving her. We watched as a nurse rushed out from the room and came back almost after 5 minutes.
The doctor finally gave us a thumbs up and I let out a deep sigh. They were injecting something into her again. Sophia was still crying. " I don't know what would've happened to me if we lost her, I would have forever blamed myself" She said as she cried into my hoodie. " It's okay, she's safe now" I consoled her as I patted her soft black hair. The doctor finally came out and took off his mask.
" Someone almost administered her a deadly overdose of Fentanyl, she is very lucky that she survived. People who take in an overdose of Fentanyl usually don't make it out alive, the drug is lethal and Illegal, it's usually mixed with cocaine, heroine, methamphetamine and MDMA" I couldn't really understand all the bulky medical terms. " The drug decreased the amount of oxygen that reached her brain, that was what made her heart stop. We luckily administered her multiple doses of Naloxone quickly and it rapidly binded her opioid receptors and blocked the effect of the Fentanyl" He concluded. I knew Sophia understood all that. " But she's still in a coma right?" Sophia asked. " Yes, she is, we still need to monitor her for two more hours so her breathing doesn't slow down or stop again" I heard he sigh a little and hugged the doctor. " Thanks doc" she said as she let go of him. He nodded and walked away from us.
" Well that was close" I said as I sat on the couch where Sophia was sleeping. " Yeah, It really is hard to lose someone close to you, the feeling was so new to me" Sophia said as she sat beside me with her face in her palms. " We're going to lose them some day you know, they're going to lose us too, it's just a matter of time" I said as she lay her head on my thigh. I brushed my fingers through her hair and kissed her forehead.
" Khalid, what happened to you, your face is all bloody and messed up, who did this to you?" she panicked as she went through my face. She touched my lips and it stung. " Ouch, it stings" I hissed at the pain. At least he had his own share of the beating. " What happened?" she asked as she let go of my face. " I came here earlier, I saw the man that stabbed her trying to kill her again, I chased him, we exchanged blows but he ran away"
" That bastard, what the hell does he want from us, who is he?" she snapped again. " I don't know, I couldn't get much from him"
" Ugh, and the police aren't guarding her, let's go to the ER, they'll treat you" She said as she held my hand and almost dragged me outside. " No, we have to keep watch on Faryah" I didn't want to leave her side. " The nurses are here, they'll take care of her, come on lets go, if you can't walk, I'll help you" she said as she threw my arm round her shoulder and walked out of her rooms.
" Your nose isn't in bad shape, your eyes can heal in a week, same as the lips, just use the ointment I prescribed for you, okay, and your ribs will be fine, you just don't need to sleep on them for the next two weeks" A lady doctor said as she stitched the side of my left brow and my lips. She looked very young. A brunette. " Thank you" Sophia answered for me. " Your arm is alright, you should sleep here tonight" The lady doctor said smiling sheepishly at me. Even if I was bruised I was still handsome. " Thank you" I said smugly. " I'll check up on you first thing tomorrow" she said and finally left us. " Lie down Khalid" Sophia said as she made me lie on the bed. " No we have to keep Faryah company" I said trying to get up again. " Don't dare move" she snapped. " Don't worry, Faryah will be fine, Faryah's safe"
" He can come back again"
" He won't, lets stay here, move, I'll sleep beside you" she said as she laid down comfortably on the bed that was assigned for me. " You know you're not supposed to be doing this"
" What ever" she said as she pulled the covers to cover both I and her. I had a crazy younger sister.
Life was all about appropriate timing. Nothing could change that. " Khalid, I accidentally told Pamela you and Faryah were married" this was new. It was the first time she was confessing to her troublesome acts. " I know, she broke up with me for now. I know she'll come back" what Neill said came ringing back in my mind. " She's not good for you, Khalid, really think about it. She's not like you, she's way more reserved and has this awful pride just because she made it as a Neurosurgeon, anyone could do that, I don't like her, she isn't even that beautiful you know " I smiled at het last comment. It was pretty obvious that Faryah was prettier than her. "You should sleep"
" Why are you trying to shut me up big brother?" I could see her wide smile. She was so pretty. Like me.
" Cause you talk a lot, just sleep already, I'll tell Ethan about this" I threatened. " Whatever" I smirked as she closed her eyes. " Sing me a lullaby" she couldn't be serious. " No" I said almost immediately. " Come on Khalid, just one, the one you used to sing for me when I was little, come on Khalid" I loved singing for her back then. She always giggled anytime I sang the song I made for her. " I lost my singing voice" I smiled at my silly self. " Ugh, Khalid, pleaseeeee, pretty please, come on" she said as she shook my thigh. " No" she pouted this time. I always softened up to that.
My little angel
You know how I feel
I can't hide it
Cause you already know
That I love youu
That I love you so much
There's no one but you
They got nothing on you girl
Nothing on you baby
I love you.
I was around 12 when I made the song up, I mixed it with Bruno Mars's Beautiful girls, I'm not even certain if he's the one that sang the song. " Thank you" she was smiling widely. " Go to sleep now" I said and fixed her cover. " You too"
" Good night"
----------------------Lily's hospital(next morning)
I adjusted my eyes to the bright hospital light as I woke up yawning. I had a good night sleep. " Good morning Khalid" The lady doctor was here again and Sophia wasn't. " How are you feeling?" My ribs weren't hurting that much like yesterday. " Good" my eyes were still swollen. " Can you please sit up right, I want to apply the ointment for you" her smile was annoying. I obeyed. " Your bill has been settled so you can go home now" It was really annoying. " Okay, I need a favour from you" I said as I got up from the bed. " What?"
" Please stop smiling, its an annoying sight" I said and heard her gasp. I walked away from her with my hurting ribs. I was heading back to Faryah's room. I waited for the elevator and walked in, waiting for it to close, Pamela walked in. She was going to be hurt if she saw me here, taking care of my wife again. She was forced to stand beside me in the elevator. She didn't look so good today, her makeup covered her eye bags. She must've been crying through out the night. She was wearing black skinny office pants and pink body hug long sleeved shirt. My necklace was no longer round her neck. She was really angry.
" Morning Pamela" I greeted nicely as I waited for her response. She didn't respond. " You took off the necklace" she ignored me as she took her phone from her handbag. I had to look at what she was doing. She had already changed her phone wallpaper from us to a plain ugly scenery. She was overreacting. She entered her contacts and deleted my contact right in front of me without thinking twice. She was being childish. She could easily get my number back. She was " trying" to remove me from her life.
I wasn't helping matters too, she was going to think I loved Faryah and was going to get rid of me. But I couldn't bring myself to stop seeing Faryah. The elevator opened up and Pamela got out of it. I was going to let her be. She needed space.
I got to Faryah's floor and found some police men surrounding the area. It was after she was almost murdered they arrived. " Excuse me, are you Mr Khalid Olyster?" A police guard asked before I entered the room. " Yes" I answered. " Mr Olyster, I am very sorry we couldn't get them to come earlier, please bear with us, Miss Sophia told us about the incident that happened last night and we searched her room for any evidence and we found a syringe with remaining drops of Fentanyl, an illegal drug and from the doctors theories, deadly. We're going to be providing it as evidence in court against the suspect" why were they so ineffective. " Why haven't you found him yet?" I asked. " He covered all his tracks well, we're still trying to find him, we checked the hospitals footage but we didn't find anything" he answered. " Miss Sophia also mentioned that you clashed with him yesterday?"
" Yes"
" Can you come to the station later on so you can Identify him and file charges against him for assault"
"I'll try, I'll see what I can do" I answered and he nodded. " we're going to try our best to track him down, his picture isn't registered anywhere"
" Try your best director Malcom" I said and he nodded as I walked into her room corridor. Sophia was up and texting. " How are you feeling?" she asked as she laid her eyes on me. " Good" I said as I looked towards Faryah room. " I told those at home what happened, Dad's getting bodyguards for everyone now, and I have class by 10, Anna is on her way here, I need to go home and take a bath and eat, you need to rest too, Your drugs are with me, we need to go home" Sophia said as she got up from the couch. I needed a shower too. " sure, can we see her?" I asked as my eyes were stuck on Faryahs sleeping figure. " No, she's still under observation, we'll come back later" I nodded and sighed a little.
I missed her a lot.
---------------------- South Korea, Seoul
--------------------------- Lee's Modelling agency.
" Good day everyone" Miss Ji Hae Soo greeted as she walked into the meeting room. Her funny Korean/English accent made everyone laugh. " wae usni? ( why are you laughing)" She said strictly again as she took her seat and everyone stopped laughing. We were all summoned here for a meeting. " Well, I'm here to let you know that, ulineun god Olyster seom-yuui han jijeom-e chimtu hal geos-ibnida (we are going to infiltrate a branch of Olyster textiles soon)" we have always been trying to, but according to rumors we were going to hit the Jackpot soon.
" Haengbog" she called my attention. I was the star model of Lee's modelling agency. We were a very popular agency here in Seoul, Miss Ji Hae Soo was the wife of an American business Tycoon in LA, Mr Jake Gabriel. He owned a textile agency in Seoul, it was headed by Miss Ji Hae Soo's brother so the public wouldn't know who really owned it and they were competing with the Olysters. He also owned an Energy drink brand in LA. He used it as a font to get closer to the Olysters.
We have had lots of opportunities to sabotage them but all failed over the years. But finally they were organising a Grand Launch for their new textile, we were going to find to a way to Launch it as our product before they did. We had an insider in Olyster textiles and we got the information we needed from her.
We used a modelling agency as a cover up but actually Miss Ji Hae Soo owned a child trafficking syndicate. That was what made us very rich. We executed our first plan on kidnapping the Olysters Last child and using her as a bait for them to release their product but we failed. Mr Gabriel's Illegitimate child failed.
" You're going to head this operation, we'll be searching warehouses all over Asia, our sources there reported that their house is here. No one knows the country, but we'll find out. It's either we use arms or we use models, if we manage to be picked as models for the event then we'll use that, so get prepared everyone, ssaum-i dochaghaessda(the fight has arrived)" She announced as she smirked. It was finally happening. " ne bu-in( Yes Madam)" we all answered.
The fall of Olyster textiles was here.