Chapter 28~ Family Reunion: Part 2
"Eva?" I holler. I take back a step back to gain as much distance between her and I.
"The one and only," she smiles evilly flashing her pearly white teeth.
"Y-you did this? W-Why?" I say in disbelief. There's no way sweet Eva would want to hurt me.
"I did indeed. I'm quite proud of myself to be honest. I thought you would be the smarter twin and put it all together, but you didn't which worked out for me." I hop on one foot. She looks down at me knee that has a stab wound in it. The blood pours down my legs leaving red streaks because I'm still in my hospital gown. Finally my legs give in and I crumple to the floor. Eva looks behind me to see the lifeless body of Eliza.
"What happened to her?" she asks without emotion. She doesn't care.
"She tied me up and I broke free. Then she attacked me and I had to defend myself."
"It's okay. You did what you had to do. And it saves me from having to kill her myself. Her death was a part of my plan too, but you saved me from having to get blood on my hands. Literally." She laughs like it's the funniest thing she's ever heard while I stare at her to scared to say anything.
"What do you mean it's okay? I murdered someone. In what world is that okay?" I begin to sob into my hands. I'm a murderer. But if I don't get away quickly I could be next and none of that will matter.
"Because when I kill you we can be united again. As a family," Eva says with a hand on my back.
"What? Kill me?" I say with blurry eyes. I scoot my butt backwards trying to gain even more distance.
"Yes sweetie. Kill you. It's been my plan from the beginning." Sh easily walks up to me on the ground and strokes my hair. My heart stops. I try to crawl away again, but you digs her heel into my wound. I yell in pain causing me to stay in my spot and nurse my wound. Tears cloud my vision.
"Well, like all people do in the movies these days I will tell you exactly why I'm killing you. There is a reason. You see when your father died I was stricken with grief. I couldn't bare to look at you and Eliza without seeing him. I knew I had to get rid of you. I was consumed by grief. I had no one to talk to. Years passed and finally I was thinking. Why don't we all be a happy family again? Our family couldn't be complete without your father, so the only way was to kill all of us so we could be with him again. Firstly I found Eliza. She was with a horrible family and they didn't love her the way I could. They didn't deserve her. So, while visiting her I devised a plan to kill her parents. When she ran out of the house I handed her a baseball bat and hammer to kill them both. Then I would help her from there on," she explains. She is just as insane as Eliza if not more.
"Then once I had Eliza I had to find you. You were easy to track down. Dr. Harris wouldn't shut up about the perfect daughter he had. My daughter. I told Eliza my plan to get you back and once she found out the life you had she wanted revenge. I had to please her and I'm sorry she tortured you, but in the end it won't matter. I helped her with the little game she had planned for you. She couldn't do it on her own. I bought her the phone to text you and drove her to all the places. I even monitored Vicky's messages to know where you were at all times and gave her your address. I must admit we did quite a good job. The one rule I set up for her was that she couldn't kill you. Not yet. My plan was to kill us all at the same time, but you go to Eliza first before I could explain everything to you."
"You're just as crazy as she is! If you let me go we can be together when we have lived a long and eventful lives. I won't call the cops are anything. We can both just walk away from this," I plead on the verge of tears.
She ignores me and continues. "All I want is my family again. It could be like the good old times. I told Eliza what to do. I wanted her to get you here so you could hear what we have to say. I'm kind of disappointed you aren't as happy about this as we were, but you will be once we reach paradise." Tears spill out of my eyes and cascade down my cheeks.
"So what? You just used Vicky in your sick and twisted plan. Did she know about any of this?"
"Oh heavens no. She would have told you because she actually liked you as a friend. I got into her family to use her as my spy sorta. Build both of your trust and then demolish it when I told you my plan. Speaking of which she told me a lot of what was going on in your life making Eliza's job easier to find your weak spots. When I was at the hospital I wanted to try and kill you in the car crash. I told Eliza to stand in the middle of the street to make it look like it wasn't my fault we got into an accident. I knew exactly what road we were going to take so ahead of time I told her when i Went to get food. I was going to kill both you and I in the crash and Eliza was going to shoot herself, but we survived and I had to find another way to kill you. I had her pretend to capture me which was the only way to get you here so I could finally complete the deed. It worked and voila! You're here and now I can finish what we started." She clasps her hands together.
"You're insane," I whisper.
She grins. "Is it really so insane that I want my family back as a whole? No I didn't think so."
My mind is racing. She's going to kill me. I have to do something. I look behind me towards Eliza. The knife is still in Eliza's heart. Her cold eyes are staring right at me and normally this would make my stomach churn, but I'm in a terrible situation right now. I look between Eva and the knife. Eva stands a few feet in front of me. If I can get the knife in time I can stab her and make my escape. Her eyes follow my stare at the knife. She puts it together. I use my hands and push my body upwards and run to the knife ignoring the pain emitting from my leg. I tuck it out of her and grasp the bloody blade. Eva stops and pulls out a handgun that was tucked in the back of her pants. She can shoot bullets at a distance I have no chance with a weapon that would mean I have to be right beside her. I turn around and run further from the exit because she is the only thing standing between me and the exit.
"A part of me is still mad at you for letting your father kill himself. Did you know that? I looked at how happy you were for years and how sad it was that your father is dead. It wasn't right that you were happy and he was dead. You didn't stop him that day, but you could have because you were home with him. You were oh so very close. But don't worry once we're all dead I'll forgive you. I guess you could say I'm crazy, but after years of grief your emotions consume you," she calls from behind me. I hear her shoot a bullet and luckily it misses me.
I limp down the hall and disappear around a corner. I quietly slip into one of the rooms and shut the door behind me. I pull one of the dusty chairs and position it under the knob to barricade myself in.
"Come out come out wherever you are. You know I like to play games just as much as Eliza," she taunts from the other side of the door. I hear her kick down a door and fire two bullets. I whimper. I cower under a bed.
Cobwebs and spiders instantly fall in my hair. And I see a mouse squeak in a hole in the wall.
Don't scream. Don't scream. Don't scream, I chant to myself. I feel a spider crawl slowly up my leg. I subtly try to shake it off, but it bites me. Please don't be a black widow.
I hear her foot stomp against the wooden door causing it to fly open. Light pours in and I hope she doesn't see me. My heart is pounding in my ears. I cover my mouth with my hands to lower the sound of my breathing not that she can hear me.
"I know you're here," she taunts in a sing-song voice. She fires 5 bullets and I see dust rise up around the room. One of the bullets lands beside me on the ground. It just barely misses my bad leg by a few inches. From the crack under the bed I can see her scan the room. With a huff she leaves the room and I literally breathe a sigh of relief. I crawl out from under the bed. I pull out my phone. No signal just my luck. From the distance I hear the soft wail of police sirens. Oh my god they're coming for me. Jace must have woken up and told them where I am. I scamper over to the window and wave my arms frantically with the knife in my hand even though they're off in the distance and can't see me.
"I found you." Eva says. She is several feet in front of me with the gun pointed directly at me. She shoots three bullets. She continues to pull the trigger until the sound of metal clicking fills the air.
"Out of bullets. Guess you didn't think of a backup plan," I mumble before stabbing her with the knife in the stomach. She stumbles forwards and blood spills out from under her shirt. She falls to the ground and cradles her wound. She rocks back and forth, but doesn't move towards me.
I look down and my eye sight is filled with crimson red. My one yellow hospital gown has splotches of blood on it. I lift the gown to see two bullet wounds. Both in my stomach. I fall to the ground. I can't give up now. I have to go get help. They're coming for me and they can rescue me from the murderer who's with me. I use my right arm to pull me towards the door and my other to apply pressure to the wound. I make it out of the room before I collapse.
I'm so lightheaded and dizzy that I barely see the paramedics and police officers escort me to an ambulance. My vision comes in an out. I see Eliza's body being inspected by policemen and coroners. I see police men enter the room I crawled out of and grab a screaming Eva. They put me on a gurney and I wince with pain. I blackout for a period of time and am in the ambulance with a paramedic hovering over me probably tending my wounds.
"She has lost too much blood," he mumbles. He says something else, but I can't here him. "She might not make it. She has two bullet wounds and a stab wound. Prepare an emergency surgery once we reach the hospital."
And then everything goes black.
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A/N- NOT THE LAST CHAPTER. There will be an epilogue to finish it off and an author's note. This was simply the last chapter NOT THE LAST PART. Hope you enjoyed and I love you all :)
~Mar
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