Beyond captivating
By Op. Amina
Episode 55
Silvia POV:
“We detect Mr Nigel Norman is going throu-gh some de-ep emotional exhaustion which had thor0ûghly intrude in his recovery process” Mr Edwin said as he settled down on his comfortable arm chair ….
“What does that suppose to mean Mr Edwin’s thought you said the surgery was successful ” Lucas paced along with the pres£nce of the guys,…i, Anabelle and Diana except for Joyce who had definitely stay out to the comfort of Celine who looks as if she’s gonna die at any moment …I just can’t help but feel for her she looked so exhausted
i gave Lucas a sideways look…taking in the lines of strain and fatigue that were inched around hisl-ips and eye, the fact was i noticed he was really exhausted ,,his voice de-epened more with complaints as Mr Edwin’s spoke …
“Yes it was but We alre-ady moved him into the ICU, (intense care unit) am sorry to inform you that your friend went into a state of comma, he is not responding to any of the treatment again we tried our possible best”
“What!!!!” I muffled with an hvge eye and stared back at the girls who were also g@sping in shock
“Holy christ ” the guys shouted
“what what what did you just say huh” like a lightening bolt Lucas raced ahead and gr-ab Mr Edwin’s on the collar …
“Repeat what you just said dammit, ” he shouted.
“He is not dead, its a……com……ma,, he could be out of it anytime ,,it could even be in the next few hours” Mr Edwin’s hurriedly struggled on his strong hold but he kept strangling him
“Lucas you are strangling me” the doctor raised his voice
“Lucas st©p plea-se” i raced ahead to gr-ab his arm and whacked it away from Mr Edwin’s n£¢k..
Almost immediately he pu-ll me closer for a hvg and try holding his tears throu-gh clenched teeth
“Oh God Nigel”
“Lucas shhhh,” the guys c@m£ closer and patted him in the arm ..
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My heart which has been floating with the air took a dive when we all walked into the ICU to see Nigel
I knew they were all surprised at the way i took the news ,, but the thing was I couldn’t cry anymore cause I knew I contributed great deal to Nigel’s emotional exhaustion, if anyone was the cause of him going into a state of comma, then it was non but me..
“Celine you nee-d to come with us, you are a mess” Silvia and my other friends whispered after an hour of staying with Nigel but never am I listening ..
“You guys go I’ll stay” I whispered
“But Celine” Silvia tried saying but Diana cut her words
“we nee-d to give her some privacy with Nigel we’ll be in earlier with your cloths celine okay,”
I nodded silently still with my eyes on Nigel …
“Guess we’ll have to go then”
Lucas was the last to give me a pe-ck with a final reas-surance that Nigel’s is gonna stay with us ….
I knew that’s the best all of them could do for me right now,
but with in me I knew the reason why I haven’t killed myself was the feeling of Nigel’s breath on the oxygen …
After their goodbyes, I stared back at him ….
his complexion was the color of libr@ry paste, he looked so much like someone who just closed his eyes and not wanting to open them ….
myriad emotions with an unspeakable goose bu-mps bombarded me in which I thought I might crush at the weight of them ..
I pushed aside my own personal pains and lifted a trembling hands to his face to feel the rou-ghness of his jaw against my palm …
A sob roses up in my throat nearly shocking me at the sight of his stillness
I took his hand and k!$$£d it ..
“Nigel ,, plea-se come back to me, am begging you ”
“I know have been so horribly unfair to you, but believe me I love you more than my life now”
“All these years, I knew I was nothing but a bit-ch, Nigel”
“the worst of them was those times I kept crying cause of Lucas when I have you ,but those were just years of ignorance Nigel, my guided vision of life with Lucas Tyson was merely a ro-mantic school girl fantasies, it is you I love all the while Nigel, it is you plea-se wake up …my love”
In tears I squee-zed his unmoving hand and pressed it more to myl-ips …
“plea-se am begging you Nigel…, plea-seee, I can’t live with you”
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Author’s POV:
“Look at him, he is the new kid, i heard he has no daddy”, few kids laughed
“Get away from us, we don’t wanna pl@ywith you, you’ve killed your papa and his ghost has s£nt your mum packing, hahaha”
“That’s not true, my papa is with God,” he sobbe-d …
“Loser” they all shouted.
Nigel frantically walked backwards across the floor of the pla-yground ….. His eyes bulged with terror as he saw the mocking expression on the kids in front of him and everything just felt as if he was in a narrow wall in between battalions of rich kids shouting ..
“Your papas ghost has s£nt your mama packing kha kha kha kha kha”
His face paled dramatically and his b©dy trembled as he hid his face behind his hands
. He curled into a ball, and a strangled sobs could be heard
“No st©ppppp”
“Am planning to keep the truth away from you till forever Nigel
He was reliving in different kinds of nightmares in his comma state, nightmares he had spent half of his life wanting to forget …
He tried desperately to ward it off but again he could see the picture vividly as if it were happening in the pres£nt ….it was like being taunted in the dark with a sheet veil …this time a memory of twenty three years back c@m£ clear and real,
That was when he met his first friend …
Lucas Tyson…
“You talk to him like that again, then I swear am gonna b!ow your fat faces .”
“Whoah its the stubborn Lucas Tyson ,,runnn”
the bully kids went speeding away in a race
“wait and i swear am gonna destroy Those fat noses of yours ”
he scolded more into airs than to the kids who were far gone..
“Come on fools, am gonna beat you straight down”
A kid about five year old whose face was as fine as an elve was seen as he shout more into airs…
He was entirely beautiful with a perfect and lovely features, an impressive cheekbones with shapely hollows beneath, a weathered forehead, all thrown into greater shape of natural beauty.
A curly hair with a color of de-ep black drop to the side of his face … He did not smile he stared angrily into space with sunken, shark like eyes that in a single glance, could tell a story no one else could. It was one born of fury
Nigel stare up at his rescue.
The boy was elegantly dressed with a small muffler wra-pped around his n£¢k, quite an height for his age with a beautiful curly hair….
the moment he turned to stare back at Nigel sad face, Nigel g@sp at his sight,
Any one would know he was a filthy rich kid, ….a son of some t©p billionaire of sort
He has a dashing well set eye lashes with a smooth brows ….and a nose that call thel-ips to utter non but cute …
His teeth as white as snow, and al-ips pink like roses smile down at Nigel with his two hands propped inside his pocket …what an habit for a five year old kid
“Hi, oh you are the new kid am Lucas Tyson and you”
Nigel stood and hurriedly cleared the tears on his face …
“Nigel Norman”
Nigel reached his hands to his, Lucas hesitated for a while before he finally took it with a smile …
“From now on we are brothers and best friends okay, anyone who disturb ye around here call the almighty Lucas Tyson” Lucas displa-yed his small biceps to Nigel which definitely got the two kids laughing …
“Quite a power” Nigel laughed.
“Thanks for coming to my rescue” he said again
“You are welcome, rich kids could be quite trouble some you know” small lucas roll his eyes …”
“I want you to meet my other friends ” Lucas dragged his hands along with his
And the two kids went running and laughing towards three other kids whose name was Jackson, Elliot and tom direction.
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He knew he was incapable of motion, weak with an heavy heart but still, he was trying to struggle out of the f0rç£ but went back at the sight of himself and his dad…
“Aren’t you proud of Me dad”
“Of course am proud of you Norman, just that I don’t wanna loose my family, I really love my wife, and finding out about your existence could break us ap@rt, think about my reputation as the first t©p billionaire”.
“dad plea-se, I won’t make trouble I really nee-ded a family too, the people I could look up to, mum has been with her husband for years dad, am alone plea-se..”
“Am sorry Norman it would be for the best,…I want you to live as normally as the way you have when you haven’t find out the truth Norman….”
“Dad, do you how have lived without no one to get home to talk to ,,I only see mum once in a while,, she has the responsibility of two other kids at hand plea-se . ”
“Am sorry Norman for once think about others and not only your self …”
As the images disappeared Nigel walked in beside a spring fed stream that trickle down from the lime stone hill, scru-b oak, cedar and beautiful trees dotted the whole area, he was alone, this time he thought the whole world has left him.. it was a cold and breezy atmosphere that repeatedly strung his cheek and made his eyes water …
He looked up to the soft clouded blue sky and smile it would be best to stay this way, to stay away from the whole world so he could live in peace …..
Suddenly he started to pick up sounds as though someone was singing…the voice went throu-gh the jet engine of his system ….
Wait that was Celine voice.
Unable to restrain himself from hearing more of her sweet song He stood up and was st©pped shut when he saw her looking so pale with tears on her face…
Why is she crying??, he couldn’t un-derstand …all he knew was she was the best thing that has ever happened to him,, she was like a sunshine in a closed up room without warning she occu-pied all angle of his life and expo-sed his heart to what he had become …
“plea-se am begging you Nigel I can’t live without you,” he heard her say …
He stare at her in awe cause all he never un-derstood was her tears…
“Celineee, why are you crying” he tried reaching for her, but the moment she disappeared he knew there definitely something wrong .the world didn’t left him….he left the world instead
“Celine” he shouted but the only sound he could hear now was the echo of his voice
“where was he??”
*******
“What the hell is your hand doing on my fiancée” Matilda demanded the moment Lucas and i made our way in …
Neither of us gave our replies as we walked in
“Lucas'” Mrs Tyson c@m£ running out
“I heard about Nigel gosh look at your face are you okay??”
Lucas just nodded and made his way upstairs, I watched as Matilda raced after him, anger knot like a fist in my gut at her sight, but i stayed to explain issues to Mrs Tyson,
except the p@rt of Mr Tyson’s being Nigel’s father…
I knew I wasn’t in the position to tell her, so I left out the bitter details, the feeling of betrayer Mr Tyson had caused her and the feeling of rejection he made Nigel go throu-gh …..I knew how it always feels.
those awful s-en-sation of falling from the height of stardom to the depth of despair for someone you love when you find out a bitter truth about them, just like the way I had felt with nate,
All men are the same…
“I’ll definitely be up earlier tomorrow to go check up on him”
“Alright ma’am,, plea-se excuse me,”
“Alright, but Silvia”
“Yes ma’am”
“Emmm Never mind”
“Matilda get the hell out of my room and leave me alone ,, don’t you get it ,,
I can never love you, I cant marry you,” i heard Lucas shouting the moment I walked towards the door of my room …gosh Matilda is really a pain in the as-s what’s wrong with her???
“We are engaged Lucas,and you would adhere to whatever I say” she shouted back …do she wants to deny she’s unaware of what just happened to his friend ,, what a self fish as-s-hole.
Without thinking I drag my feet and bu-mped into the room,,only to see her on Lucas’s be-d with his duvet clung to her che-st …
Wait is she planning to sleep here or what ??
“Can’t you knock” she shouted at me in rage
I stare at the strain on Lucas eyes, the look of it screaming he could faint at any moment, I knew he just nee-ded his privacy , and both me and Matilda are gonna give him just that …
“Matilda get the hell out of his be-d right now” I ordered but she raised her hand in a gesture of shunning what next I was planning to say …
Did she just ??
To my surprise Lucas raced into his closet and c@m£ out with a bag …..
He gr-ab his car keys,
“Silvia let’s go” he reached for my hand.
“Its midnight Lucas, were to ”
“Just follow me ”
He took my hand to his and stared back at Matilda whose eyes was wi-de-ned in shock…
“You are sick Matilda, totally sick ”
“Lucas st©p ,, were the hell are you going with that psycho woman” she scream after us until Lucas angrily pressed on the jeer and zoomed off almost knocking her off foot …
“Lucas-ssssssss” I heard her echo of screams and the sight of her kneels giving up on her ..
Huh the fact was I really feel for her …
*****
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