Previously on Avenging Angels
Rose finds out something that leaves her bones still shocked. What could this mean for her?
FORTY
"Rose..."
"Rosaline!"
I jumped up as I snapped out of my daze and held my heart when I heard someone calling me and I felt a light grip on my wrist.
I set my eyes on Regina who was still on the black sleek couch, looking up at me with questions dangling from her eyeballs.
"You said something? I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention" I sputtered out shakily.
"I said I'm done" she let go of my hand and gestured towards the empty plate and cup on the table.
"Oh.. yeah" I cleaned up the table as fast as I could and took the tray, about to leave.
"Are you okay?" Regina asked as her big verdant eyes stared me up from the couch.
"O-of course, I'm fine" I nodded and bit my lips to hide its shivering form.
When I am anxious, my bottom lip quivers.
"You look quite the opposite. You've been acting strange after reading the birth certificate, are you sure everything is fine?" she asked again and this time her eyes lit up with thick suspicion.
"I am fine, really. Just a little under the weather" I muttered and left to the kitchen before she said something else.
I quickly dropped the dishes on the sink and went down to my room without saying a word to anyone.
My mind was on the new information I got on Regina's birth certificate.
She and I were born on the same day, in the same clinic.
That ultimately means that Avalor and my mother were in the same place that day and my mother died on the day I was born.
This is so perfectly planned out to be a coincidence.
I need to find out what happened the day Regina and I were born.
I rapidly dialed a number I have stored in my head and put the phone on my ear as it rang.
My anxious feet tapped against the floor and I gripped the bedside drawer a little too hard that I could feel a dull pain on my palm now.
It went to voicemail after saying the person didn't pick up and I cursed while running my hand through my loose ponytail.
I dialed the number again and waited for the person to pick the phone, this time, biting my fingernails to stop my quivering lips.
"Hello" a voice came up and I sighed in relief.
"Why didn't you pick up the phone?" I gritted.
"Whoah, whoa.. Calm your horses down, pumpkin. I was in class when you called the first time, I had to make an excuse to leave" Lily said from the other side of the phone.
"Oh"
"What is it? Why are you so worked up?" She asked in a light tone but I sensed the edgy hesitancy under her voice.
"I need you to help me find a hospital. Hope and Love Clinic, the previous address and the current one if it is still running"
"Ok, that shouldn't be hard but why do you want to find it? Is something wrong? By the way, wasn't that the clinic you got your baby vaccinations?" she asked and I could imagine her furrowing her eyebrows in question.
"Yes, it's the same clinic. Just find it first, I'll tell you guys later, Ok?"
"Alright,"
"Okay, bye, sorry for disturbing your class"
"No probs, sis. Bye, Take care of yourself, ok?"
"Will do. Love you"
"Love you too," she said before she hung up and the line went dead and I wished my head was as silent as that.
I dropped my phone on the drawer and plopped on my bed with my back as I faced the ceiling with a sigh.
May 20th, 2000,
The day I was born and the day my mother died.
No, the day she was killed.
Avalor was in the hospital, with Regina on that same day.
She was traveling but had to drop by the clinic because of the sudden labor pains.
When she heard my mother, Rosaline, was in the hospital, she snuck into her room right after I was born and killed her so it looked like a natural death due to complications.
But the question remains,
Why?
Why did she kill my mother and later ended up taking my father's life too? Why?
How were they related? Who was Avalor to my parents?
Who?
Why?
And what?
The number of questions that flooded my brain was insanely heavy and I had to hold my head down to shake off the approaching headache.
The mystery I stepped into have gotten a lot more bigger than I thought it was. When I think I am at the end of all these games, it just takes me by the collar and drags me beck to where I began.
The soft knock on the door made me jolt and look up at the wooden door as though it was going to be open anytime soon.
When it didn't, I stood up grudgingly and went to open the door.
Behind the door, stood a blonde, dashing male with blue sparkling eyes, putting on a simple white and blue joggers with a matching shirt.
His smile was wide enough to lift mine and I pushed the door open for him to step in.
"Angel" Christian smiled and held my hands.
"Dork" I stepped forward to look at him carefully.
Up close, I could see the slight stubble which he didn't shave off this morning, and a few red freckles spots on his nose.
I took note of the smallest details of his face and found myself falling deeper into the spell of Christian Sundew.
And I didn't want to turn back.
"If anyone sees us..."
"They are all in the guestroom, watching TV," he said without breaking the contact with me.
"Besides, I just came because I was missing you so badly and needed to see you" He leaned over and placed his lips on my forehead as I closed my eyes to capture this moment of affection.
I wrapped my hands around his torso and buried my face into his chest as he drew me closer and rest his chin on my head.
I took comfort in his sweet, musky scent and held him tighter.
"Hmm, looks like someone is missing me even more" he mused and I felt the vibration from his chest.
I simply nodded and wrapped myself tighter around him.
"God, I missed you"
For this moment, he was my haven where I could hide and all the devastating thoughts that were trapped inside my head would leave me and I would be left with nothing but tranquility and serendipity.
And I wasn't letting go.
"Hey, are you alright?" he held my face with his hands and looked down with concern.
"I am fine, just a little bit tired" I shrugged with a smile.
"Aww, my baby. Don't work too much, we don't want to get sick now, do we?"
"Ok," I said and embraced him again.
It won't take much time before Lily finds out about the clinic and I would have to go there and find out the truth of that day.
But there is a part of me that screams I'm not going to like what I find out.
And I'm afraid.