Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 183
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[Seraphina’s Private Hall]
Acosta came in with a cup of coffee, and Peach stood from the stool she’s sitting on.
She has been here since few minutes ago, just watching her. She took the coffee cup from Acosta and had a sip.
“It’s sweet coffee,” she muttered.
“I know you like it sweet.” Acosta stroked her hair.
She took another sip, and they both stared at Seraphina in bed.
“She seems to be the one in mild condition among the three. She has no injury.” Peach said.
“Yeah, she was injected with too much of a potent shot, so she has to sleep it off before waking.” Acosta explained aptly.
Peach looked up.
“Everything I saw in the TV about mum and grandparents, are they true?” She asked.
“You saw?” He frowned.
“When you spent hours at the mortuary and my doctor took me away, I watched the news, and I browsed the internet too cos you left your phone at the ward. I saw everything mum did to Aunt Seraphina, and everything my grandparents did to her too.”
Acosta squatted in front of her.
“Peach, it’s—”
“I don’t want you to sugarcoat words for me, pops…” She cut in. “You told me it’s not good to tell lies, so don’t lie to me too. Mum and grandparents and even Dora, they’re all bad people, aren’t they?” She asked.
Acosta looked into her eyes, witnessing her yearn for the truth and transparency.
He nodded.
“Yeah., they’re bad people, and you can’t be like them in the future. Remember, you’re Peach Simpson, my dear daughter.” He smiled.
“You’re in love with that pretty tall smart comatose lady, aren’t you?” She asked suddenly.
His smile wiped.
“Peach, I—”
“Again, you can’t lie to me.” She cut in. “When mum was alive, you didn’t look at her the way you look at this lady. She’s the one who saved me from Dora’s attempt to kill me, and wasn’t she the lady at the aquarium? Rasheeda?”
“Her name’s actually Allison. She’s Allison Hart.” Acosta corrected.
“Do you love her?” Peach repeated. “I won’t criticize you. Tell me, so I can think about it.”
“Peach, you won’t und—”
“Last chance, pops. Do you?” She asked seriously.
“I do!” He sharply replied.
Peach inhaled.
“Peach, yes. I love this lady a lot.” He elaborated carefully.
Peach nodded simply, and a sharp groan came from behind them.
They both turned to see Seraphina trying to sit up in bed.
“Seraphina!” Acosta got up, rushing over to help her sit up.
Peach stayed where she stayed, watching guiltily.
She was once made to climb the podium to lie on this lady.
She she has no confidence to go close.
“Seraphina, you ok?” Acosta repeated as Seraphina looked around.
Her eyes are still red, lips pale and hair haphazard. Overall, she looks like a sick little girl, swallowed totally by her wide hospital gown.
A refuge for grief and dumpster of sadness would be a fitting name. She looks lost, especially with the way she’s looking around the ward like it’s a new whole world.
“Aunt Seraphina?” Peach came closer eventually.
“Don’t!” Acosta held her back. “Let her get her bearings right.”
Peach stopped, and together with Acosta, they watched Seraphina’s continuous look around.
Seraphina stared around the ward for over then minutes like a mad person, then it started coming back.
Memories.
Attack at the Oddsion.
Kidnap of her and Saint.
Vince and Ruth at the tarmac.
Allison’s shooting.
Tobias’s cracked head and fall.
It all realigned, and her brows squeezed together first.
She stood, slowly…her eyes felt like they were squeezing Acosta together.
“I’m all alone now, do you know?” She pointed at herself.
“Serap—
“I’m fuckin alone now. My boyfriend, gone. My best friend? G—no… she wasn’t a best friend, she was my sister, but she’s gone too!!!” She broke down, picking her pillow.
She threw it.
“Seraphina!!” Acosta caught her by the arms, pulling her to the bed.
Shockingly, she’s so strong it was hard to keep her locked down as she threw her head and limbs.
“Who the hell took me away from the cliff edge!! Who the hell took me away from the brink of dead? I never said I wanted to live!!! I can’t live without my Tobias, I can’t live without my Mamacita. I can’t stay here….can’t you hear what I’m saying? I can’t stay!!!”
“Peach! Get the doctor!” Acosta shouted when it was becoming too hard to pin her down.
As Peach got to the door, the doctor himself came in with two other doctors, but even the conjunction of everyone of them couldn’t keep Seraphina down to the bed.
“There should be a heart stopper injection here, right? I hear it’s used to stop the pain of people whose case have no solution! Please give it to me and just let me go…”
“Calm the heck down and listen to us!” The doctor snapped.
“Listen to what!!” Seraphina shot.
“Allison is alive, in coma though….I don’t have news about Tobias, but Allison is alive.” Acosta said.
Seraphina’s bones softened, and she pushed the doctors arms away.
They let her go.
“Where’s she?” She muttered.
She was taken out of the ward to dress up. She wore a different hospital gown, nose mask, cap and covering gloves.
She was disinfected before she entered Allison’s ward where she’s connected to various machines.
A pipe is in her mouth and tiny ones in her nostrils and chest and wrists.
She’s wired like a radio.
But seeing her made Seraphina’s grief slim down, and she smiled slowly.
“Lis… you’re really… really…”
Bexley was in the ward before she came in, but she didn’t act like she saw Bexley.
She went to the other side of the bed and wish she could touch her, but she’s in a really critical condition.
The doctors warned against touching as her health is sensitive.
Seraphina could only stand in the middle of the beeping machines and passable wires and watch her best friend struggling to stay alive.
“You must stay alive, Lis…you have to..” she nodded. “You promised to be my chief bridesmaid if I got married to the love of my life, and I promised to scatter the whole NYC when you get married. You promised to give me the grandest opening when I finally open my building, and I promised to be your biggest supporter if you eventually run for Mayor like you’ve been planning….you can’t die on me.”
“Miss Seraphina? Miss Bexley?” The doctor came in to usher them out.
As they stepped out, Seraphina stepped into the next private hall.
Saint’s.
She didn’t enter. She stayed by the glass wall and watched him from there according to the doctor’s instructions.
He’s just as wired as Allison.
“He was found in a car in the middle of the road with you at his backseat.” Acosta said behind her.
“He must be the one who took me away from the cliff…” Seraphina muttered. “Who brought us?”
“We did!” Annika entered excitedly with her father. “I’m so glad to see you’re awake, boss!”
They didn’t come alone.
They came with almond every worker at Sera’s Crochets.
Sera left the hall with them, leaving Bexley by the wall of Saint’s ward.
Bexley stood there, mind painful. She couldn’t stop reminiscing about the call he made to her last night.
“I’m so sorry, ….” She started crying again, resting her head on the glass. “I’m sorry for being a bitch…I’m…”
She went on her knees, crying harder. “I’m sorry.”
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