Chapter 20
Harry's POV:
I'm going crazy. Mentally crazy.
I haven't heard from Sienna for a week now. Last time I saw her was last Saturday, she was getting ready for the party. No one saw her leave and her phone doesn't work anymore. I have called everyone, so far, there's no trace of her or Jack.
Right now I'm at the police station. I didn't want to come, I didn't want to make this a big public thing but I don't have a choice. I'm going nuts.
They are asking me everything they think is helpful for the case.
If we had a fight, if she was unhappy, if she has a mental illness. And none of that makes sense. We were fine.
They ask me about the last time I saw her, it was the day of the party.
The last thing I remember of her, was earlier last Saturday. We were in the room and she was resting her back. I was getting ready, while she was watching Modern Family as she often does. I heard her laugh, act normal. When I finished getting dressed, I sat down on the bed and gave her a kiss. She told me she was going to wait for Lou to get ready and I went downstairs.
I started greeting everyone that were there early. I talked with some friends, then I spend a lot time talking with Julian. And then, on the table out in the backyard, there was a beer pong game going on. I'm very competitive and Jeff told me he could join me in a team battle. We lost, I went to the bathroom and that's the last thing I remember.
I tell them that I talked to everyone that were there already and asked them about her; Jeff did talk to her but only once, he doesn't remember what he said to her but he didn't saw her leave.
On monday I finally reached Martha, she told me that she saw Sienna going into Jack's nursery and said that she told her that she could leave for the night. That was the last time someone saw her, I suppose. That's what I told the police officer.
Why did she leave? I don't understand. We are happy, or at least I thought we were.
Then, they ask me of what I did that night. I feel useless because I only remember one part of the night, after the beer pong game plus all the shots, there's nothing. Black. I don't remember a thing.
I remember waking up alone in our room. I was still fully closed with a horrible headache and a sore throat.
They keep asking me questions for at least an hour. They leave me in an office alone with a cup of coffee. I look at it, I'm tired but I can't stand the flavor of anything. I have barely eat the past few days.
I have done everything to find them. I went to every place, even the hospitals. I even called Jake. No one knows where she is.
One of the officers comes back and asks me if we have cameras at the house. We don't, only at the entrance that connects to the road, and I only saw Martha in the car leaving, nothing else.
I know they're okay. Something inside of me tells me so.
After another few hours at the commissary some officers drive back to the house with me. They search everything while I keep answering questions.
They ask me about her family, she has only her mum and I tell them that she is also a police officer, but apparently she changed her phone number because I tried to call and a man named Mike answers.
And while I talked with chief officer Carl about Sienna's relationship with her mum, another officer interrupts us.
"We found a camera, sir. In the studio." He said. We both turned to look at him.
"Did you know about that camera?" They ask me and I think for a moment.
"Last friday they were filming us in the studio but I don't recall they left any cameras there." I answer, being completely honest.
We guide our ways towards the studio but they don't let us inside. One officer wearing white gloves has the camera in her hands, she says that it was right in the corner of the room plugged in. I remember Julian with it.
"It was still recording when we found it. I need an adapter for this." She says and someone opens a briefcase with many cables.
After about two minutes they manage to connect it to a computer. I just stay silent, I don't think this will give us a clue. Sienna was never inside of the studio, it was too much noise for her usually.
They search for the videos in it.
"Let's see what we find here." She says while focusing her eyes on the screen.
There was only one video, officer Carl tells her to play it to us. She presses play and we stand behind her seeing the video in high speed. At first it's only Julian, then we are in the shot, taking turns to record, Niall, Liam, me, then Louis, and repeat, that goes for some time. Then, people start leaving until there's only three or four people in there. And just as they thought, they leave the studio leaving the camera there. The video goes dark, when they turn the lights off.
"Is the rest of it in darkness?" Office Carl asks.
"Let's find out." The girl officer replies. She goes forward in the recording, it is black until, it isn't.
The light inside of the studio turns on, she pauses the video and takes a screenshot of it. There's someone going inside the studio.
"Do you recognize this person?" Officer Carl asks me. The officer zooms in. And I do.
"Her name's Jennifer, she's part of the crew." I say. They write it down.
"Press play again." Carl says, and now we are seeing the video in a normal speed.
She enters and places something inside of the recording room, it looks like a phone and a glass of something. Then, she leaves. It's empty for some minutes, the officer speeds up and then, stops. She enters again but this time, she's not alone. There are four people in there. The officer pauses and zooms in. Two guys are carrying someone.
And that someone is me.
I open my eyes widely.
"That's you, sir." The officer says. But it's hard for me to believe.
That's me but I don't remember being carried or going inside of the studio. I was wearing that T-Shirt during the party, Saturday night. There's no doubt that's me. But I don't remember any of this.
"Harry?" Carl turns to look at me.
"I don't remember this, sir." I say, honestly.
"Was that the night of the party?" Carl asks the officer.
"It appears so, this happened only ten minutes after midnight on Saturday." She says.
"Were you drinking that night?" Carl asks, and I nod my head.
"Yeah, I already said that earlier." I say, I'm getting tense.
"Press play, let's find out what happened here." Carl says, furrowing his eyebrows.
The video continues. The two guys place me on a chair, resting my back against the wall. The girl officer zooms in, my eyes are closed in the video, she takes screenshots of everything that she finds. This feels so weird. They ask me if I recognize the guys and I don't, I have never seen them before. The video goes on and I stay alone with Jen, she holds my face in her hands. I frown. She slightly slaps my cheeks to wake me up and I open my eyes and close them right away. My head moves from side to side. She steps closer to me.
Then, she forces her head against mine and it looks like... We're kissing. I do respond to the kiss, clumsily, but I do respond. She touches me, I can't watch this.
They pause the video when I walk away and leave the room, walking outside the house. I need some air. Office Carl follows me, I stop, running my hand back on my hair.
"I have to ask, only for the record, but were you having an-" The officer starts saying but I cut him off.
"No! She's a friend, or I thought she was, I don't remember any of that. I... I-" I say, I feel played. She was taking advantage of me in that state. "Is that possible?"
Jen, who I thought was my friend all this time. I feel so disgusted and angry. This wasn't what I was trying to find out.
"We believe you, Harry. I would like to run a blood test on you, it looks like you were under the influence of something stronger than just alcohol." Carl says to make.
"I don't do drugs, sir." I say.
"There's a possibility that someone must've put something in your drink." He says but I just can't believe that.
It happened at my own house. With people I trust. This can't be true. I feel so mad. It's a strange feeling because I don't remember anything but now, now I feel terrible. So disgusted and used.
"Sir, she's in the video." The girl officer says to Carl, we both turn to look at her. She?
Sienna?
No.
That would mean...
We run towards the computer and there she is. Inside the studio. Looking at me and Jen. No.
No, no.
I feel my heart shatter. No baby, no, this is not what it looks like.
"Press play." Carl commands.
She looks at us. After some seconds, her bottle falls from her hand, I see her hold her belly and just seconds after, she runs from the room. No.
Stay. Help me. That's not me you're looking at.
"Oh my god." I say, I didn't realize I had a tear running down my cheek. "She saw us." But more than sad, I feel so damn angry.
I see red, this isn't fair.
"Sir, I think we have an interesting case here. Maybe you should sit down and try to stay calm. I'm glad you came to us, it was the right thing to do." Carl says, trying to reassure me. "We can continue later if you like."
"I need some air." I say, walking back outside.
If she left because of this, it was a mistake. She must believe that I cheated on her when I didn't, I don't remember any of it. I would never cheat on her, I love her, it hurts to love someone this much because you are constantly afraid of hurting them, or of losing them. She must be devastated thinking that I did this to her, to us.
Now I need to find her more than ever. All of this, it's a mistake.
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The officers finished inspencting the place after an hour. It appears that she escaped. They are tracing her steps from where she left the house that night, following her car through surveillance cameras. They have found a lot of information and officer Carl maintains me inform of every clue they find.
Right now I'm alone in Jack's nursery, I have his stuffed banana that he likes to bite on on my hand.
I know they are alright. I just need to find them, I need to explain to her what happened. They took my blood test and it appears that someone did drug me. I feel impotent. It makes so much sense, I'm used to drink, a lot, but I have never experienced blackouts.
Now, while they search for her, they are also looking for suspects. So far, Jen and those two guys that were holding me are first in the guilty line.
They are also trying to find Jen, I have informed Irving and Jeff about it and they are taking care of that so I can focus on what it's important to me, I just want to find Sienna and Jack.
My phone starts ringing and I look at the screen. It's an unkown number, but I answer anyway.
"Hello?" I say, my voice sounds weak but well, I am weak right now. I should get something to eat.
"Harry?" A woman's voice says my name, but I don't recognize her.
"Yes?"
"She told me not to tell you, but I feel like I have to. She just went into labor and... We're at the hospital, in Orlando." Now I recognize her, it's Sienna's mum, my heart stops the second I heard the word labor. "They just took her to the OR as an emergency, you need to get here. Soon."
Suddenly there's no air inside of this room.
"What happened? Is she okay? Is the baby okay?" I ask, my voice is loud now, my heart running at a thousand beats per minute.
"Please, she needs you here." She says, and the line goes dead.
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I arrive to Orlando six hours later. I didn't think twice, I just took my passport and left my house. While I was in the car I was scheduling an emergency flight and thankfully I found a private flight. Those were the longest hours of my life.
And right now, I'm arriving to the hospital. I'm so nervous. I haven't received another call from Sienna's mum and that worries me, I have a deep gut feeling in my stomach and I don't like it. I walk straight to the floor she told me to go, and I see her mum.
She's crying. Karen notices me in the room and looks at me.
"How is she?" I ask, terribly scared of her answer.
"She's in there." She stands up and when I try to move to go see her, she stops me. She cleans her tears and looks at me. "But she's not... Awake."
"Is she sleeping?" I ask, I'm impatient. I need to see her.
"No, Harry. She... She's in a coma." She responds. I...
I feel my throat closening. In a coma. I don't know if I want to scream, cry or run. At the same time, a million questions run through my mind. I can't breathe.
"The baby?" I ask, so scared of the answer. But when I speak, she smiles.
"She's fine." She says and with that, I suck everything that I'm feeling inside of me.
"She?" I ask confused, above all else.
"Yes. It's a girl." She nods her head.
A girl. I open my mouth. I... A daughter? We thought we were waiting for another boy. The doctor told her so. I... wait.
"Where's Jack?" I then ask, but I can't stop thinking that I'm a father again. Of a baby girl.
"With Martha. He's okay." She replies. She looks more relieved now.
But all I can think of right now, is: I'm the father of a baby girl.
I sit down. This is a lot to take.
"What happened to Sienna?" I ask, after some seconds of taking everything in. I try with all my strength to suck back the tears that were forming on my eyes.
I need to be strong. For the four of us.
Sienna's mum tells me that she went into labor earlier today and that she brought her in as soon as possible. She fainted on the way here and that she woke up vomiting. After that, when she was in the ER, she fainted again. They took her to perform an emergency c-section on her. And while they were injecting her the anesthesia, she started convulsing.
Thankfully, they managed to take the baby out on time. I can't believe we have a baby girl. They have her in an incubator, I can see her later today.
But Sienna, she's not responding. And has been comatose for some hours now.
I'm looking at her right now. It looks as if she's sleeping. She's there, with her eyes closed, only that she has a lot of tubes around her. It pains me to see her like this.
I'm holding her hand, it's cold. She's usually so warm.
I wish I could rewind time and delete last Saturday night. She would have never left. I would have been there with her during the delivery. We could have been holding our little girl together.
They told me a lot of things could have caused her the eclampsia. Stress, high rates of mood changes, an infection, maybe all of the above. They don't know.
I'm so hurt and somehow I feel responsible of this. I caused her pain. I know it wasn't my fault but I feel very much guilty for this.
I look at her under all the tubes, I just need her to hear me.
"I'm here baby. I'm here with you and I'm here for our babies. I know I have to be strong and I am going to be, okay?" I say, fighting the knot growing on my throat. "I'm not going anywhere."
Suddenly, there's a knock on the door, I turn my head around.
"Harry? You can see her now." A nurse accompanied with Karen, Sienna's mum, enters the room. I nod at them and stand up, leaving Sienna.
The nurse walk us to a special room where they keep all the babies in. The nurse stops in front of one and there she is. Laying on a plastic little crib. With her pink little hat.
I smile, as if all the trouble in the world just vanished away.
Her eyes are just like Sienna's. Big, brown eyes.
"Do you want to hold her?" The nurse asks and I just nod. I'm not strong enough to talk.
She's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I'm in love.
That's my daughter.
The nurse takes her out and I sit down, she puts her in my arms and I feel like the most lucky man in the entire world. Only that right now, I feel like the world is looking back at me.
"She doesn't have a name yet. We need to file her birth certificate soon." The nurse tell us.
I can't move my eyes from her and her rosy little cheeks. I have the biggest smile on my face. She's so beautiful. I clean the tears forming before they fall on her. She's so perfect. All of her.
Her tiny hands, her tiny nose and her tiny pouty lips. I think, those are like mine.
She's so tiny, and even if I'm just seeing her for the first time, I feel so protective over her.
"I didn't discuss any names with Sienna. At least, not female names." Karen says. "I think it's up to you, Harry."
I move my hand carefully over the little baby's head. She's looking back at me, as if waiting for me to say something. I'm in awe.
"Hi little girl." I place my finger on her nose, and she squints her little face, it looks like a smile, and here in this exact second, everything stops around me.
It's just me and her in the entire universe.
I promise you, little one, that I will protect you every single day of your life. If you fall from your bike or if you're scared at night I will be there for you. I will be there for you even in your teenage years when you don't want me to. I will teach you everything that you need to know, from walking, running, to make you the strongest woman. I will teach you how to dance, so I promise I will work on that. I will hold your hand until you're old enough to go by yourself, my little baby girl. I will be your shoulder to cry on when a boy breaks your heart, and I'm just letting you know, I will fight those boys. I would not let anyone hurt you, ever. And I hope, and this is my promise to you, that I would make you the happiest girl in the entire world, because in the end, being happy is all that matters.
I'm the luckiest man in the world to have you, tiny one.
"Are you ready to name her?" The nurse asks, waking me up from what felt like a dream. I was lost looking at her.
A name comes to my mind, and I smile, knowing that it's the perfect name for her.
"Yes." I say, holding her little hand, she curls her tiny little fingers around it. "Ivy. Ivy Rose Styles."
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