Beyond Captivating
By Op. Amina
Episode 54
Nigel POV:
Stars shook across my visions as the bullet slammed into me
I stumbled and staggered dizzily across my friends unexpected arms …
“Nigel, Nigel” i heard the screams, i heard Lucas yell and roar ,,saw jack and tom horror face calling to me and Elliot blank expression of incredulity.
A taste of blood filled my mouth as i coughed,
All too soon, i heard Celine screaming …
“Nigellllllllllllllll”
the roaring of blood attacked my s-en-ses at the sound of her voice, the scent of cold air made my throat felt as dry as anything …
“he is loosing blood”
i heard jack shouting in fear as Celine kneel hit on the floor crying with her hand on my teary face …
What ever was happening around me went unheard as i watched the moisture of her tears spilled down the side of her face …
“My love, don’t leave me plea-se”
“Celine”
I closed my eyes and for a moment i prayed God would take the love I felt for her and place it in the heart of another man, one who would cherish and loved her the way I have….
“I’m sorry Celine” I coughed more this time the blood was more of a vomit.
“Lift him up” thousand of voice screamed ….
I heard sounds, sirens, murmurs and screams …
i close my eyes and gr0@nmore in pain
“My love plea-se, my love plea-se” she p@n-ted
I stare at her beautiful face and smile …
“I’m sorry Celine”
“Nigellllllll”
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Authors view on Nigel Norman
He un-derstood the reason that made him good, cause actually up to this point he was a good man,
Death had never been any big threat to him,, it held no terror, nor fear….
Although it was torture, but he had to take it all
And that was it …he was a man with little to loose …cause his world itself only consist of those he loved but yet find it ha-rd to accept him …
The life he lived up to this point had been devoid of quietness, loneliness, hurt and pains…..
but now that he knew, joy, happiness and most propounded of all love and attention, death c@m£ calling
He wasn’t p@rticularly sure to own up to the fact that he could take the bullet in for Lucas Tyson but his heart says he truly loved his brother,
it wasn’t an emotion he was comfortable with at first but now he was glad he did the right thing …
even if his dad had preferred for all to remain the way things were ….
he was able to perform a big brother role, he had surrender his life for his kid brother,
Now he was sure he could die for those he loved in an heartbeat,
His love Celine Evans, his kid brother Lucas tyson, his mother …Mary Cooley, even his father Greg Tyson now he had did just that …
He had died for one of them
He had truly captivated the heart of the author to tears cause..until the last moment he su-cked on his breath …until the last moment Nigel closed his eyes…. he had experienced no regret, no s-en-se of loss cause the fact was he did what he did for nothing but love ….
If any man trully deserved to stay alive it was non but Nigel Norman
Celine pov:
15minutes out of the wood and into town, nearly got my life crushing
I glanced ahead in tears …my friends were giving me reas-surances but never am I listening ….
Nigel was my life now, if he dies then I die… The moment i glanced ahead with my blurry eye..I hit at Elliott’s back with my fist …
“St©p the car”
“St©p the car now” I screamed
“Celine calm down” he voiced out
guess when my fist wouldn’t st©p landing on his back he packed to the side way, both Silvia and Diana were trying to st©p me but I was fast to j£rk their hands away ..
“Leave me alone”
Hurriedly I raced out breathless towards the ambulance which was called for a first aid treatment…
“Celine” my friends were calling me but never am I answering, the mere sight of Lucas and tom who carried him on the rolling gurney and followed hurriedly along with the paramedics and into the ambulance causes cold dre-ad washing over me ….
Of course they had refused I followed the car he was in …
Now Grasping the ambulance door like a mad woman…I hold on to it’s handle that I know might give me enough leverages to jump inside…
I glanced at Lucas and tom who c@m£ out with sweat dripping on their horror faces…
“Get out of my way”
“Celine st©p” I felt Lucas arms wra-pped around me, he was st©pping me from going in for crying out loud, I struggled more while I shout with tears more like some one who has just been attacked with a zombie disease …
“Leave me alone, I nee-d to see my Nigel, he is my life don’t you get it ”
“Allow her plea-se” a paramedics said,
He hadn’t finished with his words when I pushed myself out of Lucas’s grip….i raced forward and gbamm…
I was in ….
The door slammed shut and the ambulance carr-esed throu-gh the express almost immediately
“Nigel” I raced to his side and sat at the corner, he was looking pale and worned, his eyes was closed with an oxygen wra-pped to his nose and angled at the back of his ear…a breath tube to his throat and a dressing on his wound,
“You have to keep calm ma’am, all he nee-ds now is prayer and not those tears okay” the other paramedics who was holding his strong wrist said
“Okay mmmm” I nodded soberly and got the prayer going silently…, I watched in wonder as they inject different kind of stuffs on him to get him going before we get to the hospital, he wasn’t moving nor do I feel much of his breath on the oxygen…
“Nigel, pls stay alive for me baby” my vision grew blurry then I realise I was crying again
“give me the injection, we nee-d to steady his pulse” the other paramedics said to his p@rtner
I watched as one of them stabbe-d injection inside of him…
slow drip of IV fluids was instantly pas-sed to his veins as they closed his wound with more occlusive dressing to st©p the bleeding ….
“His pulse” the other asked …
“Same, he is not responding ,,”
“How is the drive ”
“Ten more minutes, he is loosing blood”
“Apply pressure, How is it,”.
The younger paramedics pushed repeatedly to his che-st
“Same”
“He didn’t have much time left ”
I stare at both of the paramedics charades to keep Nigel’s going and there everything felt like a nightmare where you run and run but never gaining any ground cause the ha-rder you try the slower you move …
the sound of their voice went throu-gh the jet engine noise of blood cause the fact was what they were saying went unheeded as my tears fall with speed ..
I couldn’t hold them …
This wasn’t happening, Nigel can’t leave me
The moment the ambulance st©pped and the door fling open….
doctors and few nurses raced out, I heard their sounds as the paramedics pushed out the rolling gurney.
Time suddenly bec@m£ wildly elastic cause
How my legs hit on the ground was a miracle, I ran after them as my lungs burn…. ears roaring, the speed of my heart choking me as it lodged in my throat …
I jumped in between different reporters who were taking snaps of the atmosphere, hovering and buzzing, police sirens echoed, every where bec@m£ lousy as the police shove the reporters aside but they were only goddamn Obstructor, nothing can st©p me from reaching for my love.
“Celineeee” I heard my friends called, guess they got to the scene almost at the same time but never am I answering…..death take me instead, Nigel doesn’t deserve to die, lord plea-se
The moment we’d reached the ER (emergency room) I was abruptly shut out of process as the double glas-s door slammed closed ….
“Nigelllll,” almost immediately i went down on my kneels and cry my heart out ….
“Don’t leave me my love,, I can’t live without you”
Silvia POV:
After pu-lling out of the reporters clutches, we left the guys outside, while we all make our way in
“Babes look at her” Anabel whispered
The sight of Celine on the floor crying like a two year old kid was as though she had knew Nigel her whole life, non of us really un-derstood her almost going crazy charade …
Its normal to be worried about his survival…of course she was his girlfriend.
truly we all were worried cause he took the most br@vest risk to save his friends life….that’s what true friendsh!pis all about …if I was in his position I would have done the same for any of my friends but Celine shock and reaction to the incident was on the extreme…according to Lucas and the guys what they were able to tell us was both of them had been together for a while …
But Celine had never for once made mention of nigel to any of us …..
What was happening …
When the guys finally c@m£ in
Some of the them were sitting at the corner with their phone clung to their ears, some were pacing while Lucas had went ahead to take care of his administrative paperwork …the news of the attacks and the incident was all over the news alre-ady…..all thanks to Lucas Tyson …..
I stare at Celine again… The fact was
I was too numb to find answer to my curiosity but the girls and I couldn’t st©p our selves from putting each of our arms around her while she cried endlessly..the two must have really loved each other….the fact was Celine loved him with all of her heart, she was crazy about him…
And to my view, this kind of love and connection was a true love built with time …
But why would she keep her relationsh!pwith him from us.
All she kept saying was how amazing he was,
A quiet, cool guy, who would never shows his emotions throu-gh words, rather…he talk in parables that end up leaving whomever it was finding him rather strange ….
And at a point, as if remembering stuffs about him she would bur-st out crying saying she’s gonna end her life if he dies but we kept stro-king her hair and whispering reas-surances…
I glanced up ahead as Lucas appeared in the door way…..the bruises on his cheek and some of his wound were being taken care of though but his eyes were dehydrated into something related to prunes…
He looked like a bu-m….
His shi-t were rumpled and sweaty ….
Hands inside his pocket he moved towards his friends who looked depressed at whatever he had said to them …guess there was still no news about. Nigel,
Color splashed across my cheek like a war paint when I saw him moving towards our direction …
I tried all possible ways not to look at him but it seems impossible, he was too beautiful to be ignored
We locked eye all the while until he took Celine hand gently and scooped her forward into his arms….
Wait when did they meet??!, is there something else I nee-d to know here..??
I stare back at Anabel and the girls then swallow ha-rd they knew I was angry, angry that he had to be the sole reason his friend end up in that condition,….but I would rather keep quiet and worried about Nigel instead or else am gonna say things I’ll end up regretting,
…
I watched from the corner of my eye as he ca-ressed Celine hair softly …wait why is my heart pounding
“He will be okay, mmmm, Nigel is gonna live Celine, I don’t want you crying plea-se,” he whispered
“Can I see him now?? Is he awake yet??” Celine raised her teary face
“Shhh” he ca-ressed her hair while she cried more into his arms…
They stayed that way for a moment before joy stood up to reach for her …she gave him a look that got him nodding
“We’ll take her from here” she said softly ….
He moisten his lowerl-ips and glanced at my direction this time he stayed quietly and long enough which had definitely got my throat ti-ght£ñed…
“Silvia” I glanced up at his face, despite the plaster across his cheek, his sight was still as ravishing as ever,
He struggled and look down at his f!nger more like the way Jamie normally does if he wanted to apologize …
“Your shoulder, you nee-d to come with me, or it might get infected”
“Its fine , its a small cut ”
He heaved a sigh…
“you are a stubborn woman Silvia” he took my hand …I can’t believe I followed him like a zombie still deciding to maintain my quiet state ….
Few minutes later…he c@m£ in right at time after my wound is being treated and neatly plastered …
“Thank you nurse” he said to the nurse whose eyes was on him like a prey, gosh this nurse really nee-ds a dimmak, what is she staring at?? …
I shook my head and was about heading back out when he st©pped me
“i will like to talk to you in pri-vate Silvia”
I watched the muscles on his jaw and down to the expo-sed p@rt of his che-st before I pushed myself away from his frame …
“After you” I gestured.
He led me out to the breezy moonless night which looks exactly like a dungeon of shadows but the light reflecting out from the hospital makes it look Rich and nice ..he cracked his tone and at the same moment silence hung like humidity in the air…thick and oppressive ,,
I keep watching…maintaining eye contact with him before he finally struggled with his voice …
“am sorry Silvia, am sorry for being the cause of every thing,”
“Really”
I gave him a fake smile and shook my head …
“Your past su-cks Lucas I mean, that’s what guys like you always end up saying…you are sorry
..you killed that innocent girl,
your friend was sh0t……
now he has just slim chances of surviving all because of your mess ….
you’ve destroyed the lives of many with your foolish past Lucas, how many more have you bull$h!tted to go for an ab*rtion huh, how many???”
When he wasn’t answering I knew they were uncountable …
“I can’t believe this, why am i even asking you’ve sle-pt with uncountable women, so you’ve gave countless of girls the same option”
“Silvia listen, they are not countless, just few”
“Few, come on Shut your mouth Lucas, what difference does it make you are nothing but a man who-re”
I glanced down at his jean that shows the line of his dong ….
“That knows no shame, no single shame” I said throu-gh clenched teeth.
When he realise my gaze was focused on it, he adjusted his jean
“I know Silvia, I know it has no shame but That was in the past, not any more, I swear ”
I saunters away from him but he was fast to gr-ab my arm…
“I don’t want to get mad right now Lucas leave my arms” I scolded but he didn’t
“I’ve accepted all of my mistakes, and am sorry Silvia, am truly a changed man” he said hurriedly.
I stare back at him as tears brim on his eyes and his voice thickened …
He squee-zed my hands to his as if he might be able to pas-s his feelings to me throu-gh t©uçh …I looked off to the west and back at him, heaven knows after every thing I still love him so much, what if he had died tonight, what would be left of me…??? Now I un-derstand celine, oh how I love him so much.
“God knows I was sincerely sorry, you are now my one bright sp©t Silvia, not Matilda nor any woman could take your place, don’t you get it, Silvia for crying out loud you are the best thing that had ever happened to me, you’ve changed me, am not that thvg anymore, stay with me plea-se..stay with me, don’t leave me Silvia”
He was about going on his kneels but i was fast to gr-ab him
“Oh Lucas”
I moved forward and leaned my head on his broad che-st…the moment I felt his strong arms wra-pped around me, I couldn’t hold the tears on my face…the Almighty terror Lucas Tyson was able to fall so weak because of me, I felt his emotions and love as he squee-zed me into his hold…the memory of the times we spent together brou-ght a smile to my face, I lifted my head and looked into his lovely beautiful eye ba-lls …A big ball of tears wadded more at the back of my throat as I whispered
“I won’t leave you Lucas, I promise I will stay with you I love you so much..”
“I love you too Silvia”
He looked down at myl-ips, he c*ressed it with his eyes ,then thumb, before he lowered his head and t©uçhed his mouth to it …
Gosh thisl-ips was mine, i own it now…I opened and in steps he began to taste and svçkand nimble and with each stro-kes he took …I grew weaker,
He smell of blood and sweat , I can’t believe I found myself loving the ruggedness, I prefare the smell coming out of him now than any of his expensive perfume ..
Gosh this guy was fully male …I dragged his tall and bigger form to my height as I svçkalong with him…
Not caring whether we were outside or the fact that people might be watching,
I slide my hands inside his shi-t and stro-ke his strong che-st and packs ,,
his ton-gue swept throu-gh mine as he devoured more on myl-ips ..my hands were going down ,and down, and down ,on t©p of his belly bu-tton and down ,,, the moment my hand hit on his Zi-pper, I was glad he didnt try to st©p me …I felt the length of his arou-salwhich i was sure was one quarter of it …I just wanted to see,,..I was struggling my way on his Zi-pper when he gr@bb£d my hands
He to-re his mouth from mine and managed breath lessly…
“Silvia”
“let me feel the length lucas”
“We have to go in”
Dammit what kind of embarras-sment is this, what’s wrong with me… ??
I stared sideways and back at him
“Yea am sorry Lucas, I ….I….”
“Shhhh, this b©dy in front of you is yours okay, nothing is gonna take it away ….we just nee-d to take it slow mmmm”
I sniffled and smile
“Yea i un-derstand”
…,,he hold my hand to his and led us back to the front, we were about going right in when his phone ringed ….
“Oh, that Nigel’s”
He brou-ght it out …the momont he glanced at the name on it which says dad he muttered …
“Nigel doesn’t have a dad Silvia”
“Pick it up”
“No I won’t it might be pri-vate”
“Pick it up Lucas”
He swallowed and press on the green botton….
“Put it on loud speaker”
he did just that then all of a sudden his eyes went hvge…
“Hello, Nigel is that you” the voice said more in a worried tone….
“he got into an accident right answer me who is on his phone,” he said again
“Lucas are you okay” I whispered
When he wasnt replying just staring into space with his mouth slightly open I took the phone from him…
“Hello plea-se Mr Nigel is unavailable for now”
“I don’t wanna believe he was the one I saw online just now,” the voice said in a shaky tone
“plea-se, am his father, am calling from Australia, just tell those doctor to do whatever possible to save my son plea-se ”
I stare back at Lucas whose throat was working convulsively, thought he said Nigel doesn’t have a dad
“Sir your son is gonna be fine”
“Save my son plea-seee, I nee-d to apologize ”
That was the last thing he said before the phone got disconnected..
I stare at Lucas who took a step back wards and moved ahead to lean on the wall ….
“Lucas are you okay??”
Suddenly getting out of his shocked state he stare at me with a red eye and down to his hand.
“That was my dad voice Silvia, I would recognise his voice anywhere”
Then it hit me, realisation struck me in the che-st that got me g@sping …
So if the voice claim he is Nigel’s father, that means, wait he is calling from Australia same exact location as Mr Tyson….I don’t wanna believe this
“We are not sure, am gonna use the true identity caller app”
I pressed on the tab hurriedly, then searched the number throu-gh the app, and there, the bold name of no other but MR GREG TYSON was seen..”
“I can’t believe this Lucas” I raised the phone up at him, which got his mouth open repeatedly
“Nigel is, Nigel is”
“i think he is Your brother Lucas, ”
The sight of tears falling from one of his eyes made me shook my head soberly…
“Lucas don’t cry”
“How could dad do this to us, how could he keep this from us,”
He tried holding his tears but couldn’t
“How could he deny nigel….???”
“Lucas, you can’t say that, because you don’t know……”
“I know dammit, I know …Nigel never st©p talking about him Silvia ….it was more in parables so I never un-derstood, now I do…why would he deny him of the family he’d always wished for huh ”
“Why huh, Nigel’s quietness and never ending mood c@m£ out of emotional issues Silvia, the doctors are saying he wasn’t fighting it, they are saying he doesn’t wanna live …..,”
he sobbe-d throu-gh clenched teeth
“Oh gosh lucas”
Almost hurriedly I pu-ll him into me and wra-pped my arms around him.
“Its gonna be fine Lucas, its gonna be fine” I patted his arms.
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Kai, as have said we are gonna finish this novel together ….
A love ma-king scene from our heroes before the truth leaks. who wants that? …