"April.. April" Ariana screamed from the hallway. When April didn't respond, she hurriedly came to her room. April looked at her with disgust.
"April" Ariana screamed in a hoarse voice, twisting her eyebrow at April. "April" her voice pitch was in higher twice the time than the last one.
"What now" April replied finally stopped playing with her hair. At the time April replied, a crowd of patients formed at the door of room number 2.
"April, come here, help me serving the lunch to all" Ariana ordered going out of the room.
"Why would I do that Ariana? I am not the maid. You are the maid. It's your duty to serve the food even serving me too, maiden " April said in a shrill voice scoffing at the last word.
"What did you say, I'm maid!!" Ariana yelled roughly grabbing April's left arm.
"I just told a mate that she's a maid. Why are you agitating yourself!?" April calmly said.
"You crazy bitch! You think I'm maid and you're queen! Try to give people the respect they deserve" Ariana could explode at any moment. "And you try to do your work alone. Stop discriminating among the patients, Erica" April spat back.
"You stupid mad girl who can't even remember anything, who calls Ariana, Erica, have come to teach me what I should do and what I shouldn't. At least other patients pay for their treatment April. They don't stay here like an extra burden like you" Ariana screamed.
"Stop it! You worthless worker. I will report about all of you to the Government. Stop it, Ariana,stop it" April said holding her head with a hand and finding the bottle with the other. Now it started paining her. Her head was hurting. She could no longer endure the situation. Ariana was getting on her nerves!
"Excuse me, you will complain about us to the Government, to the King, huh?" Ariana asked raising her right eyebrow.
"Yes, I will, I will, you worthless bitch! " She finally found the bottle. But as she was going to drink it, Ariana snatched it from her. "You will tell people about it only when you'll get released from here, right April?" Ariana smirked.
"Give me my bottle back you bitch!" April said throwing her comb towards Ariana. "Ahhh" Ariana winced in pain. "Ahh, Mrs. Grey, Mrs. Grey... Mrs, Grey" Ariana screamed in a painful tone.
Mrs. Grey came literally running. "Wa-wat happened Ms. Parker? Why are you screaming like that!" She said catching her breath. She came inside of the room pushing the crowd away.
"April threw her comb at me, Mrs. Grey look at my hand" Ariana showed Mrs. Grey her hand. "Look, Mrs. Grey how badly she hurted me! It's bleeding Mrs. Grey, it's bleeding" She said while crying. Indeed her hand was bleeding. Mrs. Grey glared at April who was looking out of the window.
"Guards, guards" Mrs. Grey screamed. Three guards including Rodney came. Rodney confusedly looked at everyone especially at April. Mrs. Grey ran out of the room and came back in a minute holding an injection. April's mouth fell open after seeing the syringe. Ariana mentally laughed. "No.. No.." April timidly protested. Mrs. Grey came in front of her with the syringe. She got up from the bed and started running across the room. "No" she screamed.
"Rodney, Sherman grab her, grab her quickly. We need to push the injection to calm her down before she gets more hyper." Mrs. Grey ordered. Rodney couldn't make any head or tail about the situation. He went to the washroom for some minutes...
However after hearing Mrs. Grey's order Sherman held her strongly but she was just slapping his hand. "Ahh, you.. Rodney, come help me"Sherman barked. "Ye-yeah" Rodney held her.. "Nooo" April screamed in her highest pitch while being injected "Ahhhh.. It's burning.. It's it's soo... It's so irritating. Aahhh.." They carried her to her bed. Rodney felt terrible about it. He wanted to know why they had to give the injection but he had no right to ask. He was a mere guard. Finally, after four fucking minutes of hustling and rolling in the bed, she finally slept off.
"Seems I'm watching a video of how frequently someone can gasp not an interrogation!" The king said while watching the video. James stood there, eyes glued to the ground.
"You sure that they were beating him not you?" He mocked. James looked up at him then back at the ground. "I guess I asked you something" Christian said, his suddenly his voice got cold.
"Ye-yes si-sir" James stuttered. "Oh, good, actually by your amount of gasp and reaction I thought they were beating you not the suspect" He smirked. "Hey stop standing there like an idiot. Take a sit. As much as I remember, I didn't punish you and made you stand for the whole day... Did I ?" Christian said mocking his assistant. James sat there. He felt so humiliated. This guy is deliberately bullying me.. Mommy...
"How old are you? " His Majesty asked giving him back his mobile to him. James got startled to his question. What did he need to know his age for? He couldn't do any crime... Wait, did that mean he was going to be fired? No, mommy no - James mentally cried.
"I think I asked you something, James" His Majesty said clearly disturbed by his assistant's behaviour. James swallowed hard. His Majesty looked straightly in his eye.
"Nin-Nin-Nin... Exactly what's my age?" James said. Christian rolled his eyes. "Does your whole family stutter? Whenever you open your mouth, you always fucking stutter, can't even answer anything, can't even do a task properly, shiver constantly, always there to ruin everything. You know, Matthew came before you and reported about you that you interrupted their work and the interrogation in every two seconds. Listen carefully James, if you don't teach yourself, don't correct your behavior, appearance or everything, the whole disgusting you, if you don't correct yourself, I am afraid I might have to fire you James" His Majesty reprimanded James slamming a fist on the wooden desk.
James was at the verge of crying. He knew he was worthless, useless, a disgusting human being, he was immature, childish even his own family didn't like him. Even his girlfriend cheated on him with his childhood friend. After coming to the Palace, nobody called him even his family - they never called him. No one asked him how was he, about his well-being.
"Remember my words James. You are dismissed." His Majesty stated in a cold tone. James quickly left the room after bowing. He quickly ran to the washroom looking at the mirror. He hated that reflection, he cried. From childhood he had been hearing that he couldn't cry because he was a man. He hated that damn reflection very much, very much, he hated himself that whole disgusting himself .
Everyone makes it sure that men can't cry, I wish they would make it sure that men won't get hurt too - James sighed!
"I don't want to sleep Rodney. Everyone says that I disturb them. I am nothing more than a piece of shit that bothers them always, don't even let them sleep peacefully at night. They say that I sleepwalk Rudan. I don't want to bother them. If I don't sleep, I won't walk in sleep too." - April lamented.
Rodney looked at his wrist watch, it was 9:10 pm. All patients must fall asleep within 9 pm.. Rodney cleared his throat,"Ssh, nothing will happen. You won't walk in sleep." Rodney sat on the bed. A confused April was sat in front of him. He gently laid her on his lap. "Don't worry, April. Nothing will happen. I'll stroke your hair and you will fall asleep and then you'll wake up straight tomorrow. Now close your eyes."
After 10 minutes of tickling, April woke up. "I am not sleepy Rudan." She stated agitation was evident in her voice. "Relax April relax. I will tell you a story then, my village's story. You know I had a best friend the- "And she was pretty like me. She meant the world to you. She used to call you Rudan too. But you had to leave her because you had to come here for your work. That's your story right, Rudan? I have got bored of your story! Do something new- sing a song."
Rudan's mouth fell open at April's words. He gasped - "Wa-what song and me!? "
"Hmm"
"Oh okay then.. I will try to sing but you must promise me that you won't laugh at me." Rodney said stretching his hand to April for promise. April gladly took his and made the promised. Both of them looked at each other for a moment. April would forget everything but she didn't know why she would remember the story he used to tell her - his village's story. Is it some kind of magic? She thought herself.
"Song time" she smiled at him while lying on his lap. Rodney smiled back. He started singing in a low tone while stroking her hair...
"O my love, I would never leave you
The world is waiting to see us together
O my love, get well soon
Be my love, my forever love and that forever love.... "