-So, this is your revenge. Killing me.
-Yes. But killing you is not going to satisfy this hatred that I have for you! The virus is going to torture you and then exterminate you from my life.- While she was saying this sentence, I was searching, with little stealthy movements, for my mobile that was on the table next to me. - After you disappear, there will be no more impediment to live the life I have always wanted. I will marry Charles when I win his parents approval, it will be a little hard but I am a charming lady, everything will be as it should have always been. Later we will have our adorable baby, I'm sure it will be a son so he will become the heir. You see... We will be happy and you will not be able to stop it since you will be a dead remorseful soul. - She said most of these words while contemplating the future she wants.
"I FOUND YOU!" - I thought when I touched the phone that I was desperately looking for.
I took it and quickly tried to dial the emergency number, but Marla couldn't afford that call so she pounced on me and without much effort managed to take my cell phone out of my hands. Then without thinking for a minute or two she threw it against the wall. The phone was destroyed. And while I was surprised at Marla new found strength, I lost several precious seconds in which she broke the vial by throwing it to the ground.
-You are going to be infected too. - I said to her after seeing what she had done. - You will be dead too. Your dream is going to disappear with us.
-No Sarah, I took the vaccine before coming to see you. Fifteen or twenty minutes maximum is what it needs to immunize myself from the threat posed by this small vial. You are the only one who is going to die. It's pity that although the virus enters your system by air, the range in which it acts is small. It is more or less this large room. You will be the only chance.- She let out a big laugh.
-Then you would not mind telling me about its effects, right? After all, I'm going to die agonizingly. - "Shit! I have already breathed it."
-Of course I don't mind.- Marla said. She was happy that she could finally complete her revenge. So while she kept smiling she told me the effects the mortal virus produces. - First, this virus causes the appearance of small cerebral hemorrhages that occur very close in time to each other. Second, it causes bleeding and rapid atrophy of the vital organs, I am sure you will vomit blood too, and finally death due to cardiac arrest. It doesn't last more than fifty minutes from the first symptom to the last one. A torturous and rapid death at the same time.
-A very complex and brilliant plan if you ask me. After suffering a big blow in the head, I would die from side effects that did not manifest until now. But If you are so intelligent why couldn't you tell me that you liked my fiance before you bedded him? I would have canceled the engagement because I would not want to be the one that get in the way between you two. You were my best friend. And the engagement was a politic one, without the romance that would make it complicated. Easy to break. Easy to let you be his wife without you as much as dirtying your hands.
She looked slightly puzzled about my reasoning.
-It did not occur to you? Or you were a coward and a slut? - I asked again seeing her turning bloody red.
-Sarah!!!
-What? Your IQ was offline at that time?
She looked to me with hatred pouring off her eyes. Then Marla calmed herself taking big gulps of air. Then more composed she said. - It doesn't matter what I could have done. It's to late for that. You are now infected with a very mortal virus and you are going to die, liberating me of your petition to Charles parents. After all, the exact words of your request were: 'While I live you can never enter the family as the main wife'. Well, I am not going to be really evil. I will let you alone to die as you want. The virus that was in the air is now ineffective and undetectable.
-Oh! I almost forgot to share this information with you. Once infected, if the vaccine is not administered in the firts ten minutes of infection, it is useless. You will be the only casualty. Bye~
After saying her last words, she put on the wig and glasses that she was wearing when she entered the room and left closing the door slowly.
"I'd better try to get up again. I need to call the police and my parents. Since this is the worst case, at least I want to counterattack again and say goodbye to my loved ones."
-I'm going to die but, you Marla, you will pay for this. You can already say goodbye to your dreams.
***
After trying, I could do it. I walked like a drunk to the nearest nurse, the one who was in the nursing station, and told her to call the police. I said to her that a former friend had entered my room in disguise and had made me breathe a deadly virus. She looked at me as if I had told her that the whales were flying through the sky, so she tried to send me to the room from which I have come out. After screaming and threatening her that if she did not call at that moment, she would lose her job, she finally acceded and contacted them. Then I told her to tell my parents too. They needed to kwon the true. She did when I passed her daddy personal number.
When the nurse hung the phone call, she told me that a police patrol and my parents would arrive in a few minutes. I heard it but I knew that the countdown had begun when I felt a small oppression in my head.
"HURTS! ... ah ... Hurts a lot!!! "
***
The two policemen arrived before my family. They took me to my room and started asking me questions.
I told them with all the details what had happened in the room. Since when she appeared until the end of her horrendous visit. I also told them that I had seemed to hear, at that moment I was a little dizzy, an implication in her words in which she admitted that the reason why I was in the hospital was in fact because she had paid someone to kill me but that this person had failed.
-Even if this is real. This room is soundproof. We could prove that she was here in the hospital, that she said something to your bodyguard that made him leave and that she entered the room closing the door, all that because of the surveillance cameras. I took note that your mobile is broken and that there is some crystals in the ground. Nothing more. Even your 'future' demise could be because your injury and not because some virus.
-This sounds as a fake call. - Said his partner.
"Again….This hurts!!"
I turned white because the pain was killing me but the police took my pale appearance as If I was agreeing with their conclusion.
-Let's go. This is a waste of our time. - Said to his partner the less friendly one. Then he turned and said to me with a serious face. - Miss, the people calls the police for serious threats, not for imaginary ones.
-I have proof. - I took off the necklace I was wearing and the headband.
-A headband and a necklace? This is your so called proof?! - Sarcastically expressed his contempt the serious and bitter agent.
-Both are recorders. I never go anywhere without them, even when I'm a patient. They have recorded everything. All the conversation.
-Why two?
-To be cautious.
They looked to me. "Surely they are calling me crazy in their minds". Then they sighed and pressed the decorated part of the necklace that functioned as the play button. At firts they were surprised but then they seriously began to hear everything that had been recorded on the necklace. Everything, since I pressed the record button an half an hour before this morning until they pressed the play button.
While the men listened to what the record was reproducing, my head began to hurt more and more. I saw how they became pale when they saw me. They also recognized what was happening.
"I'm already in the second stage!"
The door of the room opened abruptly, my family finally came. They entered with shortness of breath and other symptoms caused for running to here.
-Sarah!??
-Sis!! You are bleeding!!
-No, I'm dying.- I said to them with an agonizing face. My brain was being destroyed. My time running out.
My parents and brother when white with my words.
-Don't joke baby!! - Snarled my mom, who was scared, as she hugged me.
-She is not joking. - Explained the gentle police. - She recorded some ex-girlfriend dialogue with her. In the conversation that friend acknowledged that she paid someone to kill your daughter. As your daughter survived then she robbed some mortal virus from her parents laboratory and made your daughter be infected. If this is true and according to her explanations she is in the second stage, dying. We will investigate it. But if this indeed true... You daughter and sister don't have much time. Sorry.
-Marla?!! Is her right?! That bitch!!! - My brother exploded.
I coughed blood. The hurting increased.
-Alek, daddy, mommy. I don't have much time. Thank you. Even if I die I want to express that I was delighted to have you in my life. You are the best family members of all the world and I am, an was, the more happy girl in the universe. I will die, but I counterattacked her. Now she can't escape from being sentence to live in jail. I will die proud of me.
-I .. Love.. you. - My mind went blank and I passed out.
[Ding! Analyzing a possible host...]
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[Result: Compatible. Starting a temporary binding...]
"Host?... This voice?... Who?!"
[35%... 49%... 76%... 99%... 100%]
[Binding (Temporary): successful.]
[Extracting soul...]