WIld Heart, Selena F. [a book to read TXT] 📗

“I remember. I would visit him every day and read him a story. He was in a coma. He was getting better. There must be a mistake.”
“Look for yourself.” He hand me Dad’s death certificate.
“No, no, no. This can’t be true.” I drop the certificate and run past Dr. Peterson to the open doors. As soon as I made it to Dad’s room, I open the door. It was only an office. A few people looks at me.

“No.” I say as I drop to my knees and broke down crying.
A security guard walk up to me. “Miss, you need to leave. You scaring the patients.”
Sarah helps me up. “Come on.”
“Tiffany ruined everything. Dad is not dead.” I whisper as I continue to cry.
“I know. I’m going to make stay by your side and we going to find him.” I nod my head as we leave out the hospital.

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Sarah and I hurries out the car and run into the hospital. I go to the front desk. The lady look at me like I was crazy.

“I’m here to visit Rob Richardson.” I ask quickly.

She start typing in her computer. “There is no Rob Richardson here.”

Now I was getting angry. “What you mean he wasn’t here? He’s been here for 3 years in a coma.”

“Miss, please calm down.”

“Don’t you dare tell me to calm down! Some crazy woman took my Dad and you telling me he was never here!”

“Don’t make me call security.” She say cautiously. Sarah move me back.

“Lea, calm down. Yelling at the nurse won’t make things better. I got this. Just breathe.” Sarah says as she sat me down in a chair. I nodded. Sarah turn to the lady. “I’m sorry. She just pregnant. You know how it is.”

She looks at me, then back at Sarah. “Yea. That explains it.” I roll my eyes.

“Can you get Dr. Peterson? He did operation on Lea’s father. He will be able to explain things.” The nurse look between me and Sarah.

She sighs. “Fine. Sit down until he gets here.”

“Thank you.” Sarah sits next to me as she called. We had to wait for a few minutes, which was agonizing. Dr. Peterson walks through the double doors. I stood up quickly and went to him.

“Thank you so much for coming. Can you please tell this lady that my Dad was here?” I say as I give her a dirty look.

“Do I know you?” He asks.

“Yes. You operated on my Dad.”

Dr. Peterson leaves for a bit, then came back with a file. “You said his name was Rob Richardson?”

“Yes.” Dr. Peterson looks through the file.

“You right. I did do a operation on him.” I sigh in relief.

“Thank you.”

“Wait, not finished. I did operate on him on the day of the crash. Like your Mom, he died. He died during surgery.” I back away.

“No…that’s not true… It’s not true.”

“I’m sorry, but it is. His injuries was more severe than your Mom. We couldn’t save him.”

I start crying. “I remember. I would visit him every day and read him a story. He was in a coma. He was getting better. There must be a mistake.”

“Look for yourself.” He hand me Dad’s death certificate.

“No, no, no. This can’t be true.” I drop the certificate and run past Dr. Peterson to the open doors. As soon as I made it to Dad’s room, I open the door. It was only an office. A few people looks at me.

“No.” I say as I drop to my knees and broke down crying.

A security guard walk up to me. “Miss, you need to leave. You scaring the patients.”

Sarah helps me up. “Come on.”

“Tiffany ruined everything. Dad is not dead.” I whisper as I continue to cry.

“I know. I’m going to make stay by your side and we going to find him.” I nod my head as we leave out the hospital.

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After that day of humiliation, Sarah has been helping me like she promised. I was sitting on the couch looking at a blank TV. I was waiting for Tom’s call. He supposed to be calling me because he think he found something. I was so anxious.

 

Snow Flake jumps on the couch and keep tapping my arm with her paw. I groan.

“Not now Snow Flake.” She jumps off the couch and leaves. I sigh in relief and lean back. Next thing I know, Snow Flake is pushing her bowl to me with her head. Then she start meowing to me again. I look at her. I start to realize that Snow Flake is just hungry. “Oh, I’m so sorry sweetheart. I forgot to feed you again.” I stand up, pick up Snow Flake and her bowl, then I went into the kitchen. As soon as I sit her down, I open can of cat food and pour it in her bowl. Then I grab another bowl and pour some milk. When I sit both bowl down, she go straight to the bowl and start eating. I was about to go back to the couch, but I jump when I hear the doorbell. I quickly walk to the door and open it. It was Tom. He wasn't much older than I am. He’s lean and perhaps well built under the heavy coat, with messy brown curly hair.

 

“Hey.” He says as he smile at me. I punch him on the arm. “Ow. What’s that for?”

“You were supposed to call me.”

“Oh, my bad. I just wanted to surprise you.” Tom walk into the house and sit down at the table.

“Sorry. I’m just really anxious today.” I sit down beside him.

“I can see that. I can also see that you haven’t been sleeping too. You look horrible.”

“Thanks a lot. That makes me feel so much better.” I say sarcastically.

“Well, it’s the truth.” Tom takes out his laptop from the case. He start plugging up his hard drive to the laptop. Snow Flake came to me and start rubbing against my leg. So I pick her up. “I’m guessing that Sarah still haven’t found a way to take away that giraffe tail.” I look at Snow Flake and smile. Ever since Sarah turned Snow Flake back into a cat, she wasn’t able to change her tail back.

“Yeah. Maybe you can change it back.”

“No thanks. I’m going to stick to technology.” As soon as Tom had his laptop open, he went straight to his files. “So, I hacked into the hospital video cam. Tiffany thought she could erase it, but I was able to restore it.” I give Tom a hug.

“Great! What you get?”

“Well, from what I’m seeing, your Dad was going to that hospital…but…”

“But what?”

“Well, from looking at these videos, Tiffany has been visiting your father in the hospital for some time now.” I look at Tom.

“What you mean? I never met her until the masquerade.”

“Well, it seems like she knew you or your father.”

“But…I never seen her at the hospital.”

“That’s strange… When you would visit him, did you notice anyone acting strange around you? Or, did your Dad have a neighbor or roommate at the hospital?”

I thought about it real quick. “There was a girl next door from Dad’s room. The doctors told me that she broken every bone in her body. So, all I can see is her eyes. She never have any visitors, so I would sometimes drop by with flowers. But she was gone from the hospital 2 years ago.”

Tom start looking through the videos until I told him to stop. It was focused on my Dad’s room. In the video, I was coming out Dad’s room. I look with shock as I see the girl with the cast walking out her room. She took off her cast and straighten her outfit. As soon as she look up at the camera for brief second, Tom rewind it and press pause. He gotten a close up of her and made the image clear.

 

“Tiffany…” I say as my heart start racing.

“Wow, she’s hot.” Tom says as he smile. I elbow him.

“This is serious, Tom. She has been near my father.”

“She was probably planning this for a while.”                                                           

“If this is true, then how did she know me or my Dad? What I ever do to her?”

“I don’t know. That’s what I have been trying to figure out.” I groan.

“This sucks so much.” I smooth my hair out my face.

“Lea, I’m sorry to say this, but we need some help.”

“Not this again.”

“Come on. Don’t do this. Sarah and I can’t be the only one to help you. What about the Knight family?”

“No!” I say quickly.

“Why you so against them? What happened in L.A?” Drake pop up in my head. All I can remember is how hurt he looked when I told him that I didn’t love him. I close my eyes as that memory brought pain to my heart. Tom touch my shoulder and I jump. I open my eyes and look right at him. “You okay? How’s the baby?” I touch my belly.

“The baby is fine. I’m just stressing.”

“That is not good for you. Maybe I should leave. You need some sleep.”

“No. I’m fine.”

“I’m not arguing with you. You really need to get some sleep.”

“Tom…”

“No. It’s late. I’m going to leave and let you sleep. We can finish this tomorrow.” I gave up and nodded. Tom pack up his laptop and hug me. “Get some rest you need it.”

“Thanks.”

 

Tom kissed me on my forehead, then left. I went to my room. I brushed my hair for a while. When I was done, I got into bed and lay back. Snow Flake jumps my bed and gotten comfortable on my pillow. I pet Snow Flake on her head as she start purring. I smile and close my eyes. In a few minutes, I fell asleep.

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