Dazzle sat at a corner of the room and was deeply thinking about her pendant and the book of the pendant that she and others read.
Dazzle slowly fell asleep in the room because of the long and exhausting day. Dazzle's had puffy red-eye and swollen cheeks and she still couldn't find the reason that made her cry.
Dazzle was cranky and hungry. She thought that it would be better to be quiet or else she may act impulsively again. But it was Dazzle whom we are talking about.
The next moment, Dazzle jumped to the door and started banging it with all her force. She slowed down as she felt her wrist red and on the verge of tearing up.
Dazzle sighed annoyed and went back to take a seat. As soon as she sat, the door opened. Dazzle happily and angrily rushed towards her freedom.
The caretakers controlled her and said, "You can take your daily walk." Dazzle was confused but she just followed Olivia whom she saw a few meters away.
Dazzle asked Olivia curiously, "Where are we going?" An old man who was passing by said jokingly, "To be slaughtered." Olivia started to shiver and cry once she heard it.
Dazzle roared at the old man's face and acted like punching him but stopped midway making the old man run away in shock. Dazzle laughed and walked away.
Olivia who was so impressed by Dazzle hopped and ran towards Dazzle with a happy face. Dazzle stopped on her track to let Olivia join her. Olivia and Dazzle were walking side by side in the hospital garden.
Olivia was looking at a white rose which was lonely but giant and bold, while Dazzle was looking at a shy and scared sparrow.
Olivia mumbled, "This is just like you Dazzle." pointing at the white rose. "This is like you too Olivia." Dazzle whispered back and smiled, pointing at the sparrow.
Dazzle stood up and started walking away after realising their mysterious situation. Dazzle looked around to see Olivia who was still staring at the white rose.
Just as Dazzle turned, Dazzle noticed a person's reflection on a puddle next to the garden. Dazzle looked around in search of the person.
While Dazzle was searching, Olivia finally stopped staring at the white rose and walked towards Dazzle. Dazzle shrugged off about the reflection and started walking back to the asylum with Olivia.
Dazzle and Olivia didn't notice someone was watching them from distance. They had no idea about a mysterious person who knows about them.
Dazzle went towards the restroom, to wash and refresh herself. Dazzle locked herself in a restroom cubic. Dazzle noticed a pair of shoes walking around the cubic.
Dazzle didn't mind it until she heard a metal clanking. Dazzle started to get tensed up. Dazzle thought, "Why do I feel like someone is going to attack me?"
Dazzle immediately prepared herself for what was coming. Dazzle looked around the restroom and didn't find anything useful.
Dazzle removed her hard, thick leather belt and tied it around her hand so that the metal part is covering the fingers. Dazzle slowly opened the cubic door.
As expected, she saw a thick rusted metal attacking her. Dazzle used her covered hand and stopped it immediately.
She looked at the person's face. It was the same person whose reflection was found on the puddle back at the garden.
Dazzle kicked at the man's crotch so hard and punched his face without giving him time to realise the unbearable pain.
Dazzle got on top of the man and asked him, "Why did you try to kill me? Who asked you to kill me? Who are you?"
The man said in a low tone, "Never trust anyone small one. NEVER!" Dazzle was about to ask something but the man took a small injection from his pocket and pushed it inside his arms.
Dazzle who shocked and furious. She started to shake him vigorously to wake him up. But he killed himself with poison. Doctors and caretakers immediately came in.
Dazzle explained everything. Even though it was unbelievable, they accepted it.
Everyone believed her because one of the workers, who informed everyone about the situation said that he saw the man about to hit her with a metal plank.
Dazzle was moved back to her first room. Olivia was crying and hugged Dazzle. Dazzle smiled and said, "I am alright. This happens usually. Don't worry."
Dazzle was surprised how Olivia who was scared of her, started caring about her. Oliver gave Dazzle a cup of water and patted her.
James said in a low voice with guilt, "Umm Dazzle, I am sorry about that Night." Dazzle looked at James and nodded with a blank expression.
Oliver whispered to Dazzle, "He confessed to the doctors, that he was the one who tried to kill you that night when you were sleeping here. He also requested to bring you back here."
Dazzle smiled and asked, "Everyone hates me usually. But here everyone is different. One is friendly, one is not scared anymore, one doesn't want to kill me anymore. It's a relief."
Oliver laughed and nodded with a sweet smile. Dazzle smiled but inside her, she was disturbed. She wanted to know why the man was about to kill her.
Dazzle was sure that someone asked him to kill her because he killed himself when he got caught. Dazzle was deep in thoughts.
Dazzle wanted to go and check the restroom again.
She went to the restroom at midnight. She hid from all the caretakers and swiftly sneaked inside the restroom. Dazzle looked around the restroom hoping to find something.
Dazzle didn't find anything. She was disappointed but not surprised. Dazzle sighed and imagined the scene once more.
Dazzle suddenly remembered the man.
He was her senior in her school. Dazzle was more curious now. "Why did he do that?" Dazzle wondered. Dazzle looked around and walked away back to her room.
Dazzle was on her way to her room when she noticed the white rose which Olivia was admiring for hours, saying that it was like Dazzle was missing.
Dazzle walked closer to the garden and was shocked to see the white rose on the ground. Dazzle say a red liquid on the white
rose which made it red.
It was BLOOD.
The petals were destroyed and crushed. Dazzle discarded the white rose and walked back to her room with a weird feeling lingering around her.
Dazzle sat on her bed. She felt empty and lonely. Everyone was asleep.
She missed Lisa's rambles and rants. Her erotic stories, her story of how she was the most beautiful and popular girl at school.
She missed Noah frequently checking on her and making sure that she is fine, him patting her, his fight with Lisa.
She missed KL quiet presence which can be barely noticed by others. He missed KL's unusual joke that he says once in a while.
She also missed David and his stern gaze on her. It was the only gaze that makes her scared. She missed his protectiveness. She missed her scary low tone, that sends a shiver through her body.
She missed all of them. Dazzle let out a long sigh and placed her head on the pillow. Dazzle wondered, "Why is this pillow rock hard? Ugh!"
Dazzle turned around and faced Olivia, who was sleeping. Dazzle thought, "How would Olivia react to find the rose missing?"
Dazzle gulped and looked away. Dazzle was a bit envious of Olivia. Olivia was so lucky to have a brother. A brother who protects her. Someone who is blood-related to her.
Dazzle's grandmother used to tell her that Dazzle's face was like her brother. Dazzle used to laugh at her grandmother's imagination and thoughts of her unexisting grandson.
Dazzle was slowly falling asleep.
Back at the apartment,
Lisa yelled at Noah, "Fool! Dazzle almost got killed today at the freaking crackhead asylum."
Noah got up tensed. David casually said, "It is something unexpected. I expected her to kill someone. Bad baby."
Lisa glared at David and said, "I am going to kick that ass of yours out of this house. You mooching off our food dude!"
David said back in a calm tone, "I own this place." Lisa asked, "What the heck?"
David replied with a smirk, "I mean I own this place's owner, Ms Dazzle."
Lisa got so mad that she jumped at the top of David and started to punch him. David easily pushed Lisa away.
Lisa landed on her butt on the ground. Lisa groaned in pain and gritted her teeth. Meanwhile, KL made a plan and executed it.
Noah smirked and said, "Shhh! Let's let Lisa go mad." KL nodded and rubbed his hand in excitement.
David sat alone at the bench where Dazzle used to sit when she was alone. He was so worried and sad. Being a killer, that he is, he can't show his emotions of caring and sadness to anyone.
He was not used to showing it too. But he was sad too.