It's almost 6 o'clock, just wait for me and we'll go together Anathii, I wanna see them too."
"No babes, you stay focused on fighing those accusatory rumours," Anathii squeezed her hand as she stood from her chair whilst facing the little article with a picture of herself and Anathii. "We looked so good together didn't we?"
"A wedding that started off heavenly," he felt her nails didding into the back of his hand before she faced him excitedly, "how about we rephrase our vows, at the honeymoon."
He smiled as well, in search of amusement. "Would love that very much, but for now I have to go, mom and sis been on my mind the whole day." He gently lifted her cheek and pasted a light kiss on her lips before leaving another on her forehead.
"Wait, I can't bear seeing you like this," She liked her lips and reached for his bicep as he was about to turn around. "At least let me walk you to the car, I miss you already."
It was then when he held her hand and walked around her before leaving her smiling in a pond of tickles, shortly before letting go of their hand partly letting go of the smiles they had on thier faces. Her proffessionalism couldn't be compromised, nor could her strict demeanor which warned all of her subbordinates to remember their place as soon as they snifffed a fragment of her cologne - of not of the same air which she breathed. Even though Anathii nor longer stood to face her wrath - he could tell that other that others still feared the flames she would breathe on their back whenever necessary.
Though both straight faces where inhailed away by their very nostrils as soon as they got into an elevator and both felt a rush of romance, before it led to clash of tongues as he held her against the elevator wall as he braced her neck with both palms. As their souls elevated from their body and left only broken hour glasses of innocence written in the morror opposite the elevator's entrance. As their previous smoochy hesitances rode our of their bodies through sweat/respiratory glands. Fast enough to leave his hands trailing her curves, her breath beating against his neck and her intruding hands barraged through the buttons of his shirt and explored the smoothness of his skin, his lips forsaken in the pings of her bites, as he too got tempted to leave his palms tracing the clips of her bra after weighing the density of the double mass which inhabited them - closely neighbouring her heartbeat...
Until they both realized the nearing end of their ride, before quickly descending into the hands of times, parting their lips and emigrating their hands from each others bodies, just as the elevator reached the ground floor and left creases of infatous touched running of the shirts and tops. Before ignoring greetings from incoming elevator passengers - two whom she'd scheduled for the end of the day - and continuing towards the black Range Rover which Anathii had become accustomed to riding.
The same one which he soon found himself riding towards the Clairemont Kingbury Hospital, about 6 miles to the esat of AMANDA MANDALAY"S premises, just after they finished off their elavator business in the back of that Rover - leaving her Italian cologne drenched all over the backseat and her hazel lipstick sittng on his cheeks, and the warmth of her purr-adise coated arouund his third arm. His breath still ahead of him and he swerved through traffic as a happy man - shortly before realizing that their unprotected sex could lead to another child - making him a baby daddy of 2 unborn cutiepies.
Somehow, despite the recent pleasure he'd indulged in, he still couldn't get the man he'd seen on Aneni-Anesu's bed, two nights prior, out of his head. Due to the nonsensical statement he'd uttered. Like how could the same man which terrorized their childhood and led to his father's financial demise before causing them to run away still claim to be his sister's father? How dare he claim to break them apart like that? Only his aunt had answers to that, despite his claims that she'd tried to kill that same man - currently leaving Anathii to question as to why she hadn't succeded in doing so. Despite unfair how that would be to Aneni-Anesu.
"Don't mean to be jealous but I wish she'd killed him - A-A doeasn't deserve a father like that, nor do I deserve my own." He said to himself as his phone beeped with a notification as a Range Rover similar in colour overtook him - leaving him in a lane of stress when that hospital's notification over the doctor's urgency to see hm. "What could be the outcome of this little meeting - is my blood even compatible with A-A's?" Excess worries, feauring thoughts of Caith and his beloved mother left him lowering the window, and enjoying the fresh winds of the evening as he stepped up to the gas challenge and accelaterated anxiously to get those answers he solely deserved, as a short prayer began passing his lips.
"Rather save their lives Lord, even if at the expense of mine, I can not live without my mother and sister... I need them both, and Cathy too." In that moment he felt the wind rushing in through the window soothe his skin as the wellness of his mentality found itself surrounded by 3 choices. Either give his lung to his mother or his blood to his sister, if not let the hospital take care of it whilst he's away with Zanele. Yet before he could decide on his situation with Caith, the same phone he'd thrown to the passenger's seat began ringing and he anxiously reached for it twitching his hamstring in the process and pressing too hard on the accelerator pedal - only to see Genna's name written across it before attempting to retain his position in the seat though as he gets back behind the wheel - he looks up and see an incoming light flashing before his eyes as time freezes and leaves him regretting he had invested too much energy with his sexercise with Zanele - due to being unable to move his twitched leg - as a familiar face catches his eyes in the other coming car...
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Whereas Genna Gumede had just left a mark on the faces of the people and employees of the House of Gumede when she'd spent the day introducing her fiesty presence to the company's various departments - long enough to realize the power behind her assertive expression.
One which she seemingly replicated that of her mother's, at least according to the rearview mirror which she looked at to check her brows as soon as he car came to a stop by the traffic robots. Just as traffic lights had begun lighting up, since it were quater to seven. Which was the more reason he had to rush to the hospital - fully knowing that Darren was probably headed there to deal with Aneni-Anesu.
"Even though hurting Aneni-Anesu will make my mother proud, and grant me enough trust to assert myself in HoG business, I will not compromise my morals by hurting someone whose been that good to me!" Her voice collided with the sounds of cars and hooting as the green traffic light finally allowed her begin her race against time towards the hospital, which was about 3 miles to the west of the Hog building and premises. "I will not elude myself to arrogance and vengence, as my brother Dumisanii does, just to achieve my long."
The radio helped her stay calm as her favourite new songs inspired her to imagine a better idea, as sang along to "Without You" as her eyes raced through the traffic and carved a line of possible ideas regarding forgiving Anathii without shattering his heart. With his mother in hospital, and his sister and cousin too - losing his sister would obviously shatter his emotional glands and leave him heartily paralysed.
"But since Aneni-Anesu likes girls and has confessed to being jealous of me almost marrying Anathii... Maybe that's the sweetest vengenge route," Saying that left her reminiscing of the look in Aneni-Anesu's eyes on the her, Genna's, prom night. When Anathii took her hand and walked through the diameter of a small circular pool of friends and family as they headed to the Hummer limosine which Dumisanii surprised them both with. How A-A's smile had shone with glitters of resentment, her eyes lit with fireworks of fury when Genna and Anathii had walked past her - and let her hug consume Genna longer than usually; one which had ended with a mutual spark in the eye contact which soon followed.
Such nostagic memories relating to Aneni-Anesu left a lake of of watery-memories forming beanath her eyes, before rising to the corner of their lids - especially upon remembering that the first person she'd actually kissed had been her best friend in the middle of grade two - shortky before she'd kissed that best friend again at her 2nd birthday party at the Gumede palace infront of their mother. Only for her to be moved to another school a week later - after several lecturers which left her barnished from even kissing other girls on the cheeks.
A thing which she felt her mother had deprived her of, for far too long - though now since her mother were far away... Genna could finally catch up on the joy of kissing other girls - an experiment she now badly wanted to try out with Aneni-Anesu. Whom she knew would certainly cause a jealous-driven heart attack on Anathi. Whilst perfectly making him wish he had never chosen Zanele over her, and ruining the pool wedding she'd youthfully planned for them. Plus that wouldn't break the promise she's made to her father on the day very last beloved hug they'd shared before he was taken to the police van, right infron of their police yard, just after telling her: "hopefully you'll find it in your heart to forive me and remain my little angel."
Her memories were cut short as she switches lanes, finally seeing the Claremont Kingsbury Hospital traffic signs, and heldon tightly to the steering wheel as she sped up, seeing that 7 was nearing the clock - just as Darren were to Aneni-Anesu. The same Darren whom she soon reached her phone and called - before realizing that he weren't answering. Shortly before turning to Anathii's number and dialing.
Though as it rang, ringing the idea that he was ignoring her to the back of the head, she was suddenly surprised by the by the floding notifications of news of classified Intel leakages. Some which held headlines like: " Former Mayor's current connections exposed, Mr Gumede's brothel for Criminals, Dee Monique smashing Gummy Bear, Gumede's exposed by Former..."
Headlines which led her sanity haywire and stole her eyes from the rearview mirror as a she felt her father's image being shattered by the dark and corrupt of him which she'd never known despite his allegedly framed imprisonment. Just as she'd become imprisoned in a haze a state of absolute shock, which drove her car into the wrong lane, before she saw a white light and caught sight of Anathii's enchanted eyes.. just before a big bang theory left her head knocking into the steering wheel as her car french kissed another Range Rover - just near the junction which led to the hospital...
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Meanwhile Zanele had thoughts of her husband Anathii hidden behind her serious expression as she sat in the pitch of 3 young interns which seemed oozing with confidence...
"Henceforth I present to you this waterproof, Ankara jacket, alongside the jumpsuit and tracksuit of the same tracksuit," He'd said to the powerpoint before smiling to his two partners who then modelled to the front whilst wearing those very same those same green and yellow, peacock like jacket and jumsuit."
"I absolutely love it - but besides the waterproof and the busy patterns - what actually makes it stand out?" Her sentence was concluded by the sight of her P.A's figure looking at her from the door, before the Intern could even respond. "Finish up here Claire and give a brief report of this assessment team's overall verdict on this pitch... And please, dare not let me here gossiping regarding my wedding."
Zanele then stood and left the table of her 10-member design assessment team's focus compromised as they promised not to gossip about her wedding, after complimenting her silver ring of course. Unfortunately she was too busy facing the traitor infront of her, whom she definitely knew had been sent by her mother.
Walking past her P.A and turning left before modelling past the transparent rooms of other departments, where othere were busy with fabric and sewing machines, other's sitted on desks and planning, whilst others feautured a small runaway show and photoshoots; similarly to all 6 floors which made up the AMANDA MANDALAY"S building's premises. Until her admiration of the system she'd put in place - also making the 1st and 6th floor strictly for new desin storage was interruted by her P.A's lying tone: "she showed up unanounced."
"Whatever honey... Did you organize that blood donor for Anathii's mother though? I am her daughter-in-law after all." Zanele smiled to that thought, recent steamy memories of Anathii still rolling on her tongue.
"Yeeees Zanele, I traced down Anathii's father and offered him money for A-A's possible lung transplant," She coughed a little but kept her head and pace high. "As for the mother, I just spoke to the hospital's director to put Nomsa at the top of the blood needing patients list."
"Very well then." Zanele tucked away her smile as her P.A pushed the door for her, revealing her eyes to the sight of her mother walking about her office - which was one of the only 5 which had conceleang walls - tinted, soundproof, glass walls - still assessing the changes for the second time after the press conference. "Mom why are you so obsessed with this office."
"It's now my office after all, since you agreed to stepping down as CEO," Amanda Mandalay ran her fingertips on the glass desk before turning around to her daughter. "I'd missed this baby of mine after all, time I steer it to the heavens."
"Cassidy please excuse us mom and I need to talk!" Without looking back she said, gaze-locking with her mom.
"Let her stay, I want her to get used to her new boss' way of doing things," her mother's words left a wry smile beneath Zanele's nose, who wasn't really surprised to see her P.A obeying.
"You don't have to pretend Ma, I know you two collaborated on turning my wedding into a sacrificial parade!" Zanele turned to the same P.A which she hired to have her back, and looked at her in the eyes - leaving her fumbling for words - before looking to the floor.
"All those competive copy cats, rose to prominence working under me and still has the audacity to compete with me." Amanda Mandalay laughed and pulled up her long green dress to show the crown she'd tattoed on her left calf. "After catching your father in bed with Darwin Mandalay - he came out at the expense of my image." She walked to Zanele and held her cheeks. "My employees laughed at me and made me a laughing stock, that's why I left Zanele - and went to devise a great way to get those traitors back - do you really think those wedding invites were randomly sent."
"Cassidy over here sent them, she seems to have known what she was doing all along," a wave of emotion washed over her at that thought.
"All because she was working for me all along, also watching after you, and advising you with my ideas." Amanda Mandalay looked to the ceiling as she explained the truth after all those years. "Cassidy has been the messenger, I assigned her as your guardian angel before I dissapeared she was my most trusted intern and had similar interests as you."
"I'm sorry Zanele, I did what I had to, the truth would have hurt you - and all those devious wedding guests would have crippled the company's profits with their growing influence," Cassidy's eyes twinkled with mischief as she passed on a gentle smile.
Zanele was now looking at the window at the newly renovated building, which had some House of Gumede name signs being patched on its exterior, just above the entrance. "And now the Gumede's will be directly opposite us - how can you let them close to you - especially when you taught me to hate them, yet now you're playing catchy-catchy with them?"
Her mother laughed with serous intent. "We've united for the greater good, for now that is." She laughed some more, though before Zanele could decipher the deviousness of that laugh. Her phone suddenly rang and it was from Claremont Kingsbury Hospital - her doctor friend.
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Elsewhere, young Sir Riley and young Lady Roselyn walked inn behind a few Roses. Barging into the apartment suite in which Kimm was last seen entering, hoping to find her and get some brutal answers on her deed against their father, and the contract too.
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"Fooound Somethiiing!" loudly called out one of the Roses, igniting Riley and Roselyn to walk through the dark apartment's kitchen and cojoint lounge before they walked into the right one, of the three rooms. Walking past their Roses only for Lady Roselyn to awkwardly face the music upon walking into a scene of a young man lain across the bed , his right arm and right leg cuffed to the headboard and theof the bead.
"Heaven's grace, why findeth yourself in this situation?" Roselyn asked and she stepped right infront of him - causing the Roses to giggles before he sarcastically shrieked with fake laughter."Nevertheless...," she cupped her mouth and brought her humour under control, "where's Kimm JM, my sources tell me she was here."
"Well, my situation is a result of lack of trust within a relationship,"his cheeks blunts pulled in a smile, "but as for Kimm - I can only tell you after you help me out."
"I don't like negtiating with prisoners," she smiled at his cuffs, "so rather tell and let me help you out of those eggshells."
Riley then interupted her without her statement: "we're currently on a negotiation streak, and we're aren't about to break that winning chain." His words ignited Mastermind's arrogant laugh, who clearly had pride to spare despite his situation. "In that case then..." Roselyn and her brother looked a nearby Rose and noded, Riley turned to the door and left her putting on gloves and smiling as she walked to Mastermind - her eyes and hands looking at his boxer shorts - the suspect clearly looking unshaken.
"Nooo! wait! Hey! Waaaay! Oooouuuh! Riley could hear Mastermind's pleasure turning into pain, as the tickles, strokes and squeezing of his private particles seemed seconds away from producing answers. Yet the wait just seemed much of a drag, and young Sir Riley soon found himself wandering in the dim lounge, before stumbling across a table, directly opposite another flat screen. Before he switched on the television, only to come across a live feed on trending leaked files 'Incriminating Former Mayor, Rosebank, Dee..." as the headline read before subtle images of his father and other figures in a brothel, with bundles of money in hand, caught his eyes. Almost making him lose his mind before walking forward only to knock on the table. Only to look down on it and see a fresh document titled "Unravelled : working inside JWB and Rosebank himself." (Including his connection, authurity structures, busy hour habits, and the crime figures at the other side of his calls).
"She's at the hospital, what are we waiting for?" Roselyn walked out of the room victorious, sounds of MM's stings of pleasure swimming in the background, until she saw her brother frozen to the document in hand.
"Father's shade has been exposed Roselyn, let's let Dumisanii handle her, right now we need 4 great lawyers." His words were dodged by her ears as she too noticed their father counting money on a women's body, smoking a cigar close to a notoriuos man on the other side of the poker table - before the news anchor began talking of more Intel leakages which were taking the country by storm. Just before both Riley and Roselyn looked at each other, to the spark caused by their synced thoughts.
Yet it was then when a lady's voice, similar to Dee Monique, laughed a bit before being intercepted to coughs of pain - espeacially to the bandages wrapped around her upper torso, just before a man who looked like Divvy Jaars knocked and walked in that room and handed her a big plate of velvet cake. "For risking your life to save others," he winked at her, just look how cute kids are." Divvy watched the house he'd helped bugged, the very next day after the hijack.
"Don't underestimate them, they have their father's genes and they are two - time to move on to the second phase of the plan," she opened her mouth and waited for Divvy Jaars to fork down a piece of the cake and feed her. "A+ for the texture, and another for the job I've for the department, yet upon my dissapearance I'm not even being remembered - I'm better of in the shadows - yet in the limelight of the underworld." She giggled cautiously to her gunshot wounds and winked at Divvy Jaars, who then laughed too - maybe thinking of his underworld debut.
"I've got to go though - got to catch Dumisanii," stated Divvy, before kissing her on the forehead, before her words delayed her with; "but before you go let us..."
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Meanwhile Kimm Jayde walked deftly with powerful strides towards the reception of the seemingly busy hospital, before lighting up the receptionist's eyes with a bright smile. "Here's my card, just here for a few patients. starting off with Aneni-Anesu."
Her words opened up a can of silence. "Let me check," her tone didn't sound convincing but a few seconds later she took out a file from hidden within her desks displayal archives, "This one has the latest patient admissions."
"And where did you say you were coming from again?" The receptionist, Neliswa, said and looked at her with guilt-fishing eyes - until a bank notification, probably from Zanele's P.A, made her giggle enough to let Kimm go from her encaging gaze. "But it's fine, take the file and go to suite 404, you'' find her and Caithie there."
"Much appreciated," Caith grabbed the snatched the file from the counter which Neliswa had placed it, before turning away and heading towards the elevators. Several doctors and patients walking the same path as her whilst some stood i her way and nodded in dissproval of the trending news reports incriminating the former mayor, several other politicians and high ranking business figures. "A-A is hospitalized, MM says Dumisanii dealt with Dee Monique, hence who leaked the files?"
Kimm conscience had just began digging through a thoughful list of possible suspects when surgence of screams and calls of urgency rushed into her ears from the back, as two more doctors rushed out of the elavator and left Kimm hiding her face as they ran past her, heading for the two stretchers which were at the centre of attention - coming in from the hospital's entrance.
Tempted to use the opportunity to rush upstairs she almost dashed at the chance, until Genna Gumede's name struck her eardrums, forcing her to turn around and face the horrific possibilities which were suddenly bulldozing their through her mental que of thoughts...
Only to find Genna bleeding from her nose and forehead, as two nurses fought to keep her pulse afloat, calling her name and demanding her to stay alive. Whilst, Anathii's stretched raced from behind as the woulds on his chest and legs left him bleeding from the mouth. Leaving Kimm paralysed to the full view as she watched from the forth step of the stairs, while the mediacal personels' efforts and calls left traumatic stretchmarks etched onto her irises and ears.
"Doctor! Hello!" Neliswa's presence was finally detected by Kimm. "That blood donor, alleged to be Aneni-Anesu's father said he'll try to make it."
"No! That wouldn't be good enough - make sure he does make it," Kimm insisted with azure, "I have to see him." Letting a small smile find haven between her lips, Kimm gripped tighter to AA's file, turned and walked up the stairs, rushing to the forth tier of royalty suites. leaving Neliswa wondering at the vigour of her tone, but too happy to question - due to the funds which Zanele's P.A had graced her with for her poisonous part in Zanele's wedding catering.
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Meanwhile upstairs as Nomsa's suite's warmth heated up aunt Emma's heart and cheeks, especially due to the trackpants she was wearing. One which Nomsa herself had bought her. She found herself missing Nomsa's voice and affection as she saw Nomsa laying comfortably in the hospital bed. Emma found herself recolleting the past as she cried for her younger sister-in-law to wake up and hug her...
"Nomsa please wake up and let's go home," she whisphered softly yet fast enough to match the pace of her falling tears. "If this is the Lord's punishment for the deed I helped you commit 21 years ago, then God please let me share the same fate." Guilt showed on her face as she kept facing up, before closing her eyes to stop those tearful memories from escaping, only for them to seduce her into diving down memory lane.
Before seeing herself waking up in the early hours of the morning and bump into Nomsa, soon after, who'd been on her way to Aunt Emma's bed. So as to realize the plan recently advised to her by Emma herself. One which both women had come to believe would end the alcoholism addiction which Nomsa' father and husband had, alongside Malum' Innocent's love for it, in an attempt to stop the curse from affecting Anathii...
Leading to an agreement to take him to a powerful witchdoctor, a famous one in the township, so that Anathii could be blessed and protected against that curse which had seemingly hung over the family's men. Before they found themselves rushing away from the witchdoctor's house of consultation - running through the swamps which surrounded it, as hidden hisses which infested it remain hidden in the darkness of the husky hours, just like the three fighures which thay soon ran past - making their way to that house, their faced too hidden in the dark. Whom they could havediscovered to be their neighbours if weren't for the Witchdoctor's rules to make apointments during daylight, but visit in pitch black hours between dusk and dawn.
As they now continued running, whilst recent visuals of a year old Anathii being dipped into a bubbling dish of portions mixed with blood-red powders, kept swarming into Emma's head and heart... Espacially judging by how the doctor had held the beloved todler with 1 arm around the armpit area - as though not even scared to drop him whilst adding feathers, bones and little stones into the dish with the other hand. The Witchdoctor himself singing some enchanted hyms whilst Nomsa's linked hands pressed against her mouth as she watched intently as her son's guarenteed success was being moulded into his heart, skin and mind. Until the humming and singing ended and Nomsa instisted on paying a tip - only for him to refuse the bribing of the ancestors, shortly before he laughed and countered his words and taking the money after giving them a red towel to bathe Anathii in, for three weeks, promising that it would make him more attractive to the opposite sex as well as enhance his loyalty towards his mother, Nomsa...
The same Nomsa, who was seemingly suffering the consequences of those deeds, which Emma was now blaming herself for - despite the success-cultivating, motherly-loyalty issuing, alcoholism-dodging effects that that deed had on Anathii.
"Heyy doc, didn't even see you there,"Aunt Emma was surprised by the unexpected sighting of the doctor who was now standing closeby. "I just really miss her, so so much."
"Good news ma'am, thanks to Zanele her daughter-in-law, three blood donors came forward and the tests have been conducted, hence a blood transfusion will be skillfuly performed on her within 30 minutes." The doctor smiled at Emma and looked to Nomsa too with glittering eyes.
"Do you hear that Nomsa? Everthing will be alright," she touched Nomsa's leg, before asking herself if Zanele had falled for Anathii naturally or a result of their deed. "Thank you doc and thanks to Jesus Christ for his enduring forgiveness." Especially after she'd previously wished for it to be Aneni-Anesu who'd been bathed in portions for protection - since she was hospitalized.
"Doc, sorry to interrupt but your expertise is needed, two patients need your expertise, they were involved in a car crash outside the hospital." The familiar looking doc said, though her glasses ensured that her disguise was effectively concealing her Jayde-Maxworth identity, before she closed the door and left the doctor running out two - as Emma's resiliance clashed with her curiosity and left her tempted to follow too.
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Whereas, Yonella dashed up the stairs, from the third floor, looking for A-A's suite, before walking on the left side of the squeaky clean floor. Some cleaners busy cleaning the floor, several nurses' smiles motivating her to keep her smile, despite the emotional torment that she was going through - until she began looking through the doors, both on the left and the right and seeing doctors and families alongside their patients, before eventually running into an image of Aunt Emma crying next to a bed whilst talking about something.
For a split second she almost barged in, until Aunt Emma moved to the side a bit and Yonella saw A-A's mother laying on the bed. Which further motivated her to want to find Aneni-Anesu faster - in fear that she might have been the reason for Emma's tears.
Without trying to raise suspicion, but careless to possible attention she began dashing and checking the other doors as well, looking for her beloved Aneni-Anesu only to find her bout 10 seconds later - in the suite not so far from her mother's.
"Aneeeniii-Aneeesuu!" she dragged that name and kept glancing at her, despite the doctor which she saw assessing Caith, quietly. "Get well so that we can go on that hike we've been talking about." Yonella pressed the back of her hand against A-A's cheek and was happy to find it warm enough. Her pulse seemed okay too but as for her ears she weren't sure so she said in her mind instead: "please cling onto life, Darren and I are over - you don't wanna know what the former mayor, whom the former mayor he introduce me to - did to me." Brushing AA's hair with hair fingertips she continued her little mind speech; "but I kept my head steadfast, and the secret sealed between my lips despite that dickhead's attempt to unravel the secrets between my tongue." The bittersweet tastes of such thoughts were still prevalant, enough to finally make her spill out the obvious, "But I did it for you Aneni-Anesu, I did it for you, now wake up my love."
"And let me just do this... and that... There, she should be awake in 10 minutes - this injection guarantees that," the blonde doctor looked at Yonella, who seemed to have been hit by those words, like a slap in the face. "Her lung infection isn't as bad as previously thought, I've got to go and tell her mother and aunt." Blondie the Doc. then patted A-A's leg before walking out and turning towards the direction of Nomsa - towards the suite where Yonella had just seen a teary Aunt Emma.
"Plus you'll wake up to a less corrupt society, I've finally leaked those confidential, criminals' files and exposing documents." Yonella smiled at the good news, plus the best part is Darren is behind bars - hope we'll never see him again."
"Is that so?" An unwanted voice crashed into her ears and ruined her moment, before a few footsteps left the door closing on its own. Just as she looked and surprisingly found the person she so badly hated to see. "What are you doing here," those words crawled out her mouth in a trembling voice, before the sharpness of his eyes led here to a rising gun in his hand.
"Yonella, Yonella, aren't you atleast going to hug me? Even a small kiss on the lips wouldn't hurt," Darren whistled lightly and stepped closer, switching the focal point of his gaze between both Yonella and Aneni-Anesu. "Unless you want me to shoot your friend over here, you'll honor me with a kiss Nella."
"Nooo Darren! But wait," seeing him pointing the gun at her Aneni-Anesu didn't sit well with her. "What exactly do you want, haven't we been over this a hundred times.
"I was simply sent to kill her, but if I choose to spare her life then you must give me yours in reeturn Nelly." Darren licked his lips and cocked his gun, waiting for subservient words to jump out of her mouth and let his wish come true. "Maybe I should give you 3 seconds to think it through, after which you must tell me the benefits of me marrying you."
"Honestly I need more time," she faced Yonella but the gun was still pointed at her, leaving hair caught in the palm of a handful of conflicting emotions.
"One! I'm running out of patience, and she's running out of time - I suggest you decide now Yonella," Darren smiled, realizing he had her exactly where he wanted her.
"Then put the gun down and let's talk this out as a couple," she gestured at him to relax. "No one needs to die today, espeacially not in my presence."
"After the intel leakage stunt you pulled today you are the last person to be dodging death," Darre breathed in and pulled his gun away from A-A's face, "But long as you're with me I'll protect you from me, and the others."
"I highly doubt it but now I know who leaked those files..., do you two know how hard I worked and risked my life to collect that confidetial Intel - how dare you girl?" She pointed her gun at the both of them, dropping the integritty held by the doctor's uniform which she was wearing. "Forthly, place that gun down and kick it towards me!"
"Rather shoot me, because I came here with an objective and I'm not leaving before succeeding," Darren kept his gun in hand, and kept his eye between both Yonella and the deadly doctor.
"Calm down Kimm, I had to leak them before it was too late - A-A too wasn't certain that you'd reach this far," Yonella justified her hasty decisions. "Plus I wanted her to wake up to a cleaner world, a less corrupt city too."
Kimm pointed her gun towards Darren, who was pointing his gun at her too, a squinted her eyes at him, without facing she whom her voice was adressing. "Bottomline is that that was my hardwork, I had my own plans of distributing it to the public - under my very own pseudonym"
"My sincerest apologies Kimm, but wouldn't that be selfish - wouldn't that be seeking glory whilst doing the right thing," Yonella explained, walking towards Kimm, before Darren's hand to her shoulder stopped her in her tracks, making her to inaudibly hint out to Kimm to try and shoot the monster behind her.
"Not only that but the former mayor's political influence and powerlinks will be weakened - who knows which younger crooks will emerge out of this power leakage mess?" Darren wondered of Dumisanii, and if he'd take advantage of his father's influential disruption.
"I was also going to publish it through Journalism Without Borders, due to its international accreditation and recognition," Kimm Jayde-Maxworth's eyes dimmed concerningly, as the ache of her hardwork being misused poured a triggering adrenaline into her veins, "but now that it has been leaked, and bluntly exposes Rosebank himself - there's no controversy in that -nor in the ill-structured pattern in which you leaked them Yonella! In that moment she swore she were about to pull the trigger, if it weren't for Vulisanii's voice which stopped her."
'All of you stop, there a patients in here," as much as he'd planned to join the game of gunpointing, seeing Aneni-Anesu in her current situation put him out of his gangstalicious mood, despite the pugnacious friend of him who was standing closeby.
"As a matter of fact let me help myself in forgiving you," Darren forgot about Kimm, held his gun tighter and jumped at Vulisanii -forcing a gunheld fistfight to ensue. "You left me to get arrested Vulisanii and forced me to switch sides to Gummy Bear's enemy - but I'm glad I did." He headbutted Vulisanii and made him drop his gun - leaving both of them to fight for the gun which was in his hands.
Just as Yonella attacked Kimm, who'd been trying to shoot Darren, pushing her to the door whilst striking her right hand to the side - to avoid the incoming shot from hitting neither Darren nor Vulisanii - though the gun still fires and both of them look to Caith's plastic blood bag and sees it dripping blood - down onto her face. Leaving both Yonella and Caith rushing out to call the doctor - to avoid Caith from losing blood - though it is then when another gunshot goes off.
"I wasn't actually going to pull it off," Darren gasped out blood and squeezed Anathii's arms before dropping to the ground. "Was messing with you."
"Darren, stay up," Vulisanii's eyes itched and twitched as his anger for his friend ran away with his innocence, "we've gotta fix things - you can't leave like this Dee."
"Wish I had done more with my life - at least now I have rest from guilt, enemies, vengence and my own problematic greed," Vulisanii could see the hole just above his chest, almost as big as the void which was in his own heart. "say sorry to Yonella for me, I really lo..." Darren finally ran out of breath and Anathii ran out of pride to hold his tears. As all their memories together flashed before him - the best brother he'd had in a while.
"Hadn't even told you about Dee Monique yet," He closed Darren's sullenly dimmed eyes with brotherly love before taking off his jacket and covering the hole in his chest, just before he got up and looked at Aneni-Anesu. Slightly tempted, but avoiding, to touch her due to the guilt in his heart and the blood that was litterally in his hands - from killing his own brother from another mother. "I will have to dissapear for a while, at least till the leakages' buzz and the investigation of these occurences subsides.
Standing up he then saw the nurses rushing in - to his girlfriend's cousin's rescue -due to her blood bag's burst - just before another nurse picked sight of the body behind Vulisanii's footsteps just before she ran past him - as he kept a tunnel vision before hearing a voice which sounded like his allegedly dead uncle coming from outside the suite - left of the hallway as screams invade that whole passage. Though when he stepped out and looked, he too was surprised by what and whom he saw.
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Meanwhile Aneni-Anesu
"Bring another blood bag, quick! We don't need to lose her." Their voices were the first thing she heard, waking out of sedation working up to so bright lights before seeing some medical personel in the room as a body was being carried away - leaving her puzzled enough to wink several times before eventually pressing her fingers against her eyes and her hand against the slight pang within her left lung, as she she stood and slid off against her bed. In order to figure out the matter with her mate, and cousin, Caith.
"Caith! Caith!" Calling her cousin's name leftr her in tears especially when her voice yielded no response, before a tissue was placed in her hand before her arm was gently pulled - only to look and find a tearful Yonella too, opening her embrace for A-A's indulgence. "Yonellaaa!" she called out expressively and hugged her back."
"Caith will be fine, no doubt, but your mother is undergoing blood tranfusion procedure." Yonella's words left her counterpart's voice cracking within her throat, "Caith's blood bag was shot, and I finally managed to leak those files."
Yonella almost succeeded in calmly hiding the truth from her, but as they got close to stepping out of that suite, looking back to Caith's fight for life - their sad little moment was worsened when Aunt Emma grabbed her and hugged her... "You have to come see this," she grabbed and pulled A-A's hand, who then pulled Yonella hand as they all rushed through the passage towards the suite farther down - where they could see a doctor coming out with hands at the back of the head - in defeat.
Many seconds, and a few sweatdrops later, they found themselves running into that suite and pushing aside the nurses which were standing aside two beds, only for Aneni-Anesu's scream to go off before she grabbed and shook her brother's life with every chakra and energy within her soul. Though not even the 6 pack upon his bruised torso could save him - as the nurse continued wiping and patching up his bruised, handsome face - as Aneni-Anesu caressed the last bit of warmth beneath his skin. Her tears slipping in between those caresses and helping her to wash away his sins.
"We have to wash them and take them to the body mortuary," One nurse insisted, as AneniAnesu began crying for Genna as well. Her youth and cuteness preserved in her eternal sleep, despite the small tattoo which she had of Anathii's name on her shoulder. The cuts on her forehead bleeding similarly to her nose as the nurse nursed them kindly.
"Her mother is away, but his aunt and sister are here," the nurse tending to thier wounds exclaimed softly."
"No, they're are coming with us - I'll arrange a cross-family body viewing for the both of them," Aunt Emma dabbed beneath her eyes and walked to her cruing niece, before patting her on the back. Yonella too crying for her best friend, as she watched her dearest exhailing and steadying herself whilst shaking her head slowly from side to side in disbelief - leaving Yonella herself consumed with an overwhelming sympathy, just before her eyes fluttered and yawned - as whisphers emerged behind her - due to the arriving sounds of patients and personel which had finally caught up to the circulating rumours of the car crash.
Yet amongst that crowd, a defeated Gummy Bear with his classic man look and staff pokes his gaze through the heads infront of him - and sees his daughter in agony as well as her aunt, the woman whi tried to kill him, as she tries to calm her down as she cries between the two beds -of her brother and secret lover.
I can't look at her like this - I can't tell her the truth right now - even though she need me now than ever right now - both as a brother and a lover." Vulisanii began walking away as more hospital inhabitants came forth to stick their eyes into the morbid suite. "Plus Dumisanii is on his way here - aside from the fact that I still have to look for Kimm, after taking a good look at A-A's mother of course." His conscience beat him up as he walked away from his uncle.
As for Yonella, she finally managed to calm A-A down and managed to walk her out into the corridor in search of some fresh, air just before they hsaw Zanele and her P.A, both in matching jumpsuits, shout out Anathii's name - just before Dumisanii walked in behind her and yelled Genna's name with regretful agression. Shortly before Zanele's P.A could be heard asking the doctors: "But can't they be cloned though, this is 2029 after all," shortly before giggling with an evil-ish intent.
"Oh snap, mom! I need to go see my mother Nella boo," said A-A before pulling Yonella's hand, as though she hadn't just had Zanele's P.A's words. Just before they ran past a room where a bodybag was being put onto a bed - leaving her to think as to whether that had been Caith's body - or Darren's - if not both.
"Let's check this out A-A, this could be Caith's body, if not Darren's," Yonella walked in, and Caith followed shortly before seeing Darren's body next to that of a young lady - before A-A held her hopes high as she walked closer to take a good look, shortly before seeing a cute Caith in a halfclosed body-bag - before screaming and running out in search of her mother - next door - only to see Vulisanii taking out a gun before she called out his name - whilst wishing to wake up from that nightmare of a day.