Chapter Thirty-Four
I entered my dorm room and closed it behind me frantically with a bang. It had taken me a full fifteen minutes to come here. I was shaking badly. My legs were wobbly and the moment I realised they could not hold me any longer, I jumped on the bed and lay on it. My mind was not working and neither was my body.
Nothing was coming to me except the fear. No pain. No sinking reality. Nothing. The only thing that was present everywhere around me, cocooning me into its existence was fear. One that I was not ready to face.
I was frightened. No, I was terrified. Utterly, thoroughly. My whole body was shaking so badly that I felt like I was having a panic attack. Maybe, I was having one. I did not know. I was not sure about anything.
Something buzzed in around me. I jolted a little. I was still in a hypervalent state so it was hard to know where this sound was coming from. Looking around, I tried to find the source of it.
Something buzzed again. This time I recognised the sound. It took me a few seconds to realise that it was actually a phone's ring. I glanced around, trying to see where this sound was coming from. In a second of trying, I realised that it was coming from my skirt's pocket. It was my phone.
I reached inside my pocket and pulled out my phone. It was buzzing because of the silent mode that I had put it on. So, that it would not make a sound inside the classroom and make it known that I was carrying it when I shouldn't have. Swallowing hard, I saw who was calling me.
Shirley.
Shirley was calling me. Not wasting any time, I picked up the call.
"Shirley." I let out a pained breath.
"Viri. Viri, don't go to our dorm room. Your brother is heading that way. He managed to escape from everybody's grip before the security arrived." My heart dropped in my stomach. My whole body went straight into alarmed mode. Shirley's voice sounded panicked. And that only added more to my fear.
"Wha - what?" I asked her, feeling my voice crack. My voice sounded like somebody else's. It was weak and full of paranoia.
"Viri! Just listen to me. Get out of the dorm room and hide somewhere else. Go somewhere where you told nobody about. Go hide. If your brother finds you, he Will kill you, Viri. So, just hide." Shirley ordered me through the phone.
I pulled my phone back and stared at the screen in horror. Oh my god.
"Viri. Viri! Viri? Viri, are you there? Did you hear me? Hide somewhere. And switch off your phone or he'll trace you with it. Did you hear me?" Shirley was literally screaming on the other side of the line. But her voice seemed far away.
I pulled my phone back up to my ear and whispered through it. "Okay. I will do that. I am leaving the dorm room. But then, how will you contact me?" I asked her. Not recognising my own voice.
"I'll figure a way out. Just leave Viri. Now! Don't waste your time. Take my purse for money and run away." She yelled. I felt tears pooling in my eyes. What was happening?
"Okay. Okay." I said and stood up to do exactly that. When suddenly, I became overwhelmed.
"Shirley?" I whispered.
"Yeah?" She asked, her voice filled with panic.
"I'm sorry for leaving you like that. And thank you for everything." I whispered into the line. The other side of the line was full of silence, except for some footsteps. And, without waiting for an answer, I cut the call. A big part of me was filled with guilt. It was all my fault. Everything. From the moment I chose to like Mike to the moment I chose to ignore Shirley's warning and everything that's happening now. It was all my fault.
It was my fault and everyone around me was paying the price. Especially Shirley. All for my selfish wants and desires. All for me to live a normal life, one that I was not made for. Some people were just not supposed to experience anything normal. When they did try to push their limits and try to live a happy life, this was what happened to them. It was the main reason why we should never get out of our boundaries. We should just stay confined to where we were and stick to that.
A slam out the window made me snap out of my thoughts. I walked to my window and glanced outside. My fear came true, watching my brother looking for me in the parking lot. Searching for me to see if I was hiding. I sob broke through my mouth and I clutched it hard before it could make it out of my mouth.
However, perhaps, I was too late. As soon as I clutched my mouth, I saw my brother's head snap to where I was standing and staring at him. To my horror, it was then that I noticed a metal pole in his hand. He raised the metal pole at me in the air and mouthed, "You're dead."
I backed away from my window and rushed into action. In a flash, I picked up Shirley's purse, picked up my phone and ran out of the room. Instead of taking the front door, which I was sure from where my brother would dash in, I headed for the fire exit door. It was barely used but was the only source for my survival now.
I didn't even give a damn about the stuff that I was leaving behind. All the little stuff that I had carried inside my dormitory, which all of now would become a way for my brother to vent. If he did not manage to catch me. He would burn anything and everything related to me, my clothes, my books, my accessories and everything he assumed was mine. Some of Shirley's stuff would go with it too, probably.
He would burn all the stuff so that I had nothing left on me. So that I had nothing to return to. He would want me to leave helpless. Ergor will snatch every last hope that I have. So, I could not rely on it anymore. He will leave nothing and destroy everything that he finds even remotely hopeful to me.
This was my end. I will never come back from this. There was nothing left for me now. This was my end.