"I can't set my eyes on you when your blood is floating over my head. A man with Double Hearts; what can I gain from you when you have sold your hearts to different lovers? What should I say to the red sea when it pushes you, down to the end of the mountain unknown to me? Adequately, the only word that I can speak is, farewell to you, Mr. Double Hearts."
It was a surprising moment, during the end of the winter season in Janport Island, Jessica saw James Parker, knocking at the entrance gate in the early hours of Tuesday when nature hits the clocks at 10:05 a.m. "This is a surprising moment in my heart to see you in my apartment. I can see that my dream has comes true. My dream had proved itself to be true, and it is all about you."
"What kind of dream do you dream about me? You had a dream two days ago and today, you see me in your apartment. True, your dream is all about me.
Is that what you mean?" James replied.
"I can't begin my imagination because of this dream. I am sure, the dream is all about you. Because life is all about believing in whatever you see and those that are hidden from you: if you neglect those things, unseen, it would knock you down. And that can put you to death as well. I think the dream is all about you."
" What was the dream all about?"
"What I saw in my dream was very bloody," she commented.
"Can you briefly, tell me about your dreams?" James responded.
"In my dream, we were eating together in the dining table. Suddenly, a lady walked into the living room and she met us, while we were eating. The next thing I saw, she started pointing hands on you: 'Mr. Double Hearts, Mr. Double heart, why are you here by this time? I have been warning you several times not to look for Jessica; don't you know that she is a witch?
She can kill you at any time. And I don't see the reason why you are so serious about her.
This is a lady who dumped your baby in a deep pit before she left your house? And you are still looking for her?' Then, she walked down on you; pushing you to follow her and you refused. She slapped you many times. While I was begging her to leave you alone, she shouted and pushed me down. Then five men, stroll in; they were laughing at me, as I was lying down on the floor. I could not recognize any of them.
The next thing I saw, she brought a dagger from her handbag. And she stabbed you on your chest. When she saw that a lot of blood – flows out from your chest, she ran away from our presence, including the five men. Then, I ran immediately to get her arrested and hand over to the Police, but it was impossible.
When I woke up from sleep, I thought it was in a real world: not doing, it was a dream. It is when you arrived here, I realize that, the dream was about you," she mumbled and sat behind him.
"What . . .!
This is unbelievable. Can you recognize any of them?"
"No, I can't recognize her, neither the five men, because they were covering their faces with black mask," Jessica replied.
"That can never happen in my life," he replied.
"Honey, don't say that again; anything that happens in the physical world must first of all, materialize itself in the dream world. It may be Katrin or someone's else. You should forget about Katrin." Said Jessica, "Tell her to leave you alone, you have your own life to live. If you like my word, take it – if you dislike it, leave it.
Let's go home . . .,"
In a little beats of their hearts, they walked down to Jessica's new apartment.
Immediately he sat down on a chair, closed to Jessica, he remembered what his father told him, when he was at school. "My father told me that it is dangerous to get married to two women. That, the one, I thought, she loves me, maybe the one to kill me; and the one that hates me, maybe the one who would save my life from danger." James whispered, "He also told me that if I may decide to befriend a lady, neither a girl before I get married, I should befriend only a single lady who looks so beautiful. I have seen the reason why my dad said that, it is worthless to get married to two women."
"What kind of lesson, have you learn from your father before he died?"
"It is true, our parents due see things in a far distance before we get notified." James replies,
"Two weeks ago, Katrin Oliver, my newly fiancée, wanted to poison me. Because I wanted to bring you back as my first wife. When I discovered that without you, my little kid, Lawrence cannot survive–"
"And then, what happened?"
"I saw her when she was about poisoning my food. When I saw that, I avoid eating her food for a while. Since then, I was uncomfortable to share my love with her. That was when I started searching for you as my first wife. And then, my heart became dark as the phase of a new moon."
"Then what is the difference between me and Katrin Oliver?" Jessica whispered.
"You are a selfless woman that cares about everyone around you. The only reason I offended you was that, Katrin Oliver was the first lady, who poison me with love charm in other for me, to hate you and love her, more than my expectations." He breathes in as if thunder struck him down, "I think, that is the reflection of your dreams; for seeing her, making an attempt to stab me before I died. As I decided to reject her food, she send some group of boys to beat me down. Then, I escaped such a tragedy of death. After one week, they also came to the house and look for me. As they came, they could not get me. Katrin Oliver, my beloved fiancée who I loved so much, tells those boys to searched me out from the neighborhood. Maybe if those boys saw me, they could have killed me.
To tell you the truth, God was so kind to me, He saved my life from the hands of my enemies."
James continued added more stories. "I wonder why, life always drives someone like me to misfortune–"
"What happened to you then?"
James stood up from where he was sitting down. "The other day, Katrin Oliver, my beloved fiancée, refilled a secret to me–"
"What can of secret?"
"She told me that, she is a twin sister to me, which they stole her from my mother, during the time of birth."
"Who told you that she was your twin sister?" she whispered.
"My mother was trying to tell me a story before she died. But I couldn't understand the story as at then---"
"After that what does she said to you?"
---"She told me that, she had no any other person to stick her life with; neither there was any other relatives to lay down her life with---"
"And so what," Jessica asked.
–--"I wonder why she said that . . .! She told me that, to marry me, is the best option in her life."
Jessica glittered her eyes on him. "What . . .?"
"That was what she told me. She told me, if I refused to take her as a wife, she would kill me and end every other relationship that I had with other women, including you. As long as I am the only person that left in the whole family, I have to marry her.
Then, I begin to wonder why such a mysterious story happened to me. Such an incident never happened to anybody else, since I was born.
O' my God, why me?
God, why don't you take such relationship away from me in other to save my life.
Honey! Tell me. How can I marry my blood sister, if what she is telling me is true; where would I start?"
"How can she marry you as one of her relatives?" said Jessica.
"That was what she told me. I don't know how she gonna do that! If she cannot looked for another man to fall in love with; a man that would kiss her more than I do. A man that would gave her love more than I did, let her go to hell. It is better for her to kill me and I died without marrying her as my blood sister."
Jessica bangs her hands on his shoulder. "Darling, let her look for another man to marry, it shouldn't be you."
"I don't know her mission, whether she wanted to kill me and force you to feel lonely as a widow," James replied.
"That is why I told you that the dream is all about the relationship you have with Katrin Oliver. You have nothing to do with her because she is a betrayer; she is not a true lover that would save your life.
I can remember what my mom told me before she died; she told me that, a true lover doesn't hates her fiancé, neither her husband. You have to be careful with Katrin Oliver before she kill you and declare my names as a widow," she added.
"Then what should I do?"
"You have to divorce her and marry me, alone; else, she would be the one, who is going to kill you. Then I would be here alone without seeing who is going to be kissing me and making love with me, which I missed for along time---"
"Why?---"
"Because I have never seen a sister, getting married to her own blood brother; I haven't heard that in my life," Jessica replied.
"If the story she told me is true. I don't care, let her kill me, as her own blood brother; then I would die like a coward and not a cowboy," James replied.
As it pleases the universe, nature kicks the clocks at 3:38 p.m. He arrived home and he walked down to the living room and sat down quietly. When Katrin Oliver saw him, she was not happy, she makes gaze of him. "Mr. Double Hearts, where have you been since morning? Is it right for you to go out without telling me? Why are you treating me as your housemaid? Is on fair for you to treat me like that; take me as your fiancée, and not a housemaid."
James was keeping her quiet, and she asked him the second time. "I'm talking to you, Mr. Double Hearts. Why are you keeping quiet on me Please, it is time for you to lend your heart to me. This is not the time to keep silent on me. Don't you know I am your fiancée who will soon become your wife?" James was they, sitting down as if he was a dwarf and dump, "Can't you talk to me as your fiancée? I said, where have been, since morning?"
James pulled down his eyes on her. "Why did you ask me such stupid questions? Do I look like money? How can I lend my hearts to you? If I look like money, Will you borrow me your life. I can't do that to you. I can go to anywhere, without questionable mark on my fourhead. It was your attitudes that drove me away from home, because you refused to borrow me your hearts.
Your questions has no meaning to me; you need to answer the questions by yourself."
"What was my reaction to you that prompts you to walk out of my present without telling me? What I said to you can't scare you away from home. I have been calling your mobile phone, since morning; you refused to pick my call. My words always soft, like a cream, it can never ever drive you away from home? Don't say that to me, you have gone out on your own. And not because of what I said," said Katrin Oliver.
James did not mindful of her and he asked her a different question. "Where is my son, Lawrence?"
"Oh, I thought you have become a dwarf. I was asking you questions, ever since and you kept mute on me. Why should I respond to your questions? Please, I have nothing to say. Let's call it a day," she hissed and walked away.
James walked into the master's room and carried his son, Lawrence, to where his car was parked.
When he was about entering his car, Katrin trip, close to him and asked him. "Dear, where are you going with the baby?" James did not say a single word to her, "My darly, can't you answer me?"
Katrin words was better as better leafs. "How can you ask me such silly questions, again and again? Lawrence is my baby? I can take him to anywhere. So, stop asking me such silly questions," he vocalized.
Katrin laughed. "You mean, I have no right to ask you any question concerning your son? Well, no problem."
James frond his eyes on her. "I can't answer such question – answer it by yourself."
As he was about entering his car; Katrin walked closed to him and drag the ignition key from him. However, she could not succeeded, either. James pushes her down and opened his car, and drove away with the baby.
On his arrival at Jessica's new apartment, she looked at the baby, he looks so sad. "Does she drag the baby from you?"
"No, no, no, my dear; she can't do that to my baby. But she was making an attempt to stop me when I was trying to get into the car. Then I pushed her down and went away with the baby," James replied.
"That's right! Where is she as at now?"
"Maybe, she is at home," James, replied.
Jessica took the baby from James. And she was surprised to see the boy so fate. "Oh my God, is this my son – he looks so fate like a ball." She looks at the young boy, "Lawrence, how are you? That's my boy. I missed you so long – I kiss you, boy . . . ." She kisses the boy as many times as she could and then threw the boy up – the boy smiles.
Three months later, Katrin began to look for James, when she was tired to stay at home alone. But she could not locate him immediately. As she was unconsciously tremble; James phone was bombard with calls, time without number. But he aborted her calls at last in different occasions. There she scrambled, crying like a baby; she looking for whom to comfort her, but nobody beside her.
Five months of James' escape was as five years to her. As a notorious gang leader, Katrin Oliver began to send her gang to haunt for him. Which they found him, together with Jessica at #21, Windfall Street, Delid City, when nature hits the clocks at 4:26 PM.
Approaching the gate, she calls his mobile phone and its rank. He refused to pick the call. After the phone might have ranked the third time, he realized it was Katrin. He picked the call and asked her, why she is haunting after him as a mad dog?
She responds to him. "I need you as much as I needed you before. Because it had been long, when you missed by my side – that is why I'm here to see you," Katrin replied.
Five members of her group were together with her, outside the gate. Then, James replied to her. "Any well, just wait, I'm coming to meet you."
When James met with her outside the gate, he saw her friends who stood side by side with her. Then he said to her.
"What brought you here? I don't want to see you for now. It is better you go home, soonest, I will be back.
Goodbye," he walked away from her and returned to Jessica's apartment.
As he greeted her friends, they refused to accept his greetings. While they were trying to hurt him, when James was making a U-turn, she holds his shirt,
"Go home to do what? Did you marry me to keep me lonely at home? I can't go home; your single word can't move me to anyway: we have already joined as husband and wife – I should not be staying at home, lonely. When you are still alive. Over my death body, I can't go home – except I go with you." Her friends were standing behind him and watched how she struggle with James. She holds his waist, together with the shirt as well. James struggle to relieve himself from the pains. "Katrin, what are you doing? Why can't you go home with your friends and wait for me? I can't stay here with you for now. Okay . . .," James pleaded.
She was franking her face and looked at him in a bloody where. "So your plans is to run away from me? It can't work.
Have you ever seen someone running away from his shadow? If you can't run away from your shadow, it means you can't escape from me. It is only dead that can separate us apart. Or, you died with me, now."
"Tell me, have I did anything wrong with you!" He wailed, "Is like you are not hearing me well; leave my shirt and go home, I will come home soon."
"No, let's go inside together," she whispered.
It was at a point of surprise to Jessica, when she saw Katrin Oliver walking in with James Parker together with her gang members in her apartment.
Jessica asked her. "Katrin, what brought you here with your friends?" Jessica stood up from the chair, "You have no right to come to my house together with your friends."
Katrin jerked her head and face her. "I didn't come here because of you: it is because of my fiancé." Said Katrin, "Point of correction, I knew James Parker before you; why do you want to take him from me? If you had been betraying others and succeeded, it would never ever happen to me – over my death body." She pulled her left hand to the front, "Look at yourself; you are happy, carrying a baby on your lap: if not me, would you have this baby? When you dump the little boy inside the deep pit, did you think he would survive? You are irresponsible to yourself and your family.
Nonsense–"
Jessica returns to her sit immediately; looking at her and she refused to respond.
Katrin suddenly jerked her head and looked at James. "A man with Double Hearts, I'm tired of you. Today is your last day in your life. Just begin to say your last prayer. You can't frustrate me and go free. No! It can't happen.
Before you dump me, I would first of all frustrate you.
I have been numbered your days to the end, today.
We have to go home, now or you lose your life. Which one do you prefer: life or dead?" Katrin whispered.
Her friends were standing behind them.
James thought that Katrin was joking. He was sitting down; watching over her, while his hands were fold up. And he froze his eyes on the floor. "Katrin Oliver the only woman that can kill her fiancée. Why don't you think like human, instead of thinking like a devil? I knew you like responsible lady. But now, you have become a devil." He stood in front of her. "If you are a God, it means you have the ultimate power to take my life. If not, you can only destroy the physical body, but you can't destroy my soul. Do what you think is right, nobody would asked you about me. But what I know, I have not offended you in anywhere. When life ends here, another one begins, somewhere." Katrin gang members were laughing at them, "Don't think of killing me, but think of renewing me. Moreover, if you killed me; you would lose me. But if you love me, you would benefit from me as long as I leaves," he whined.
Katrin boost laugh, together with her gang members. "A man with Double Hearts; what do you think I can gain from you? I have nothing to gain from you, because you have sold your hearts into two different lovers. One side of your heart may keep you alive; while the other side will kill you." She wind he voice on the air, "Did you know that you have offended me – I can't count all of them."
"In what way had I offended you as a fiancée?"
She put her hands on her waist and added. "You have abandoned me for months at home; you have planned to divorce me and go for your old school wife. Whom you have abandoned for months; you went back and ate with her like a hungry mad dog. It shows that you are a mad dog in human form – that is what you are," she ended.
James nodded his head. "Have you round up with your abuse?" he continued, "A lady who likes to mock her fiancé; continue to abuse me, more as your mind wishes you to speak. The where I see you, you looks like someone who lost out from brain cells; I have told you earlier, go home and wait for me, I would soon come home but you refuse. Why are you declaring war against yourself?" James asked.
Katrin bangs her legs on the ground. "I said no, I want to go home with you," she demanded.
"Okay! If we go home, what are you going to tell me."
"Follow me first; let us go home. That is what I want from you. Else, you would lose your life – nothing less and nothing more, "she boosted.
James was still looking at her, voicelessly. Then, Katrin opened her handbag and removed a dagger; and stabbed him on his chest and he fell on the floor. Blood began to spread all over the living room – screaming to the cotter of death.
Jessica ran after her in other to arrest her and hand over to the Police, but Katrin escape, together with her friends, like a spider. And no one could be able to trace them.
As Jessica was standing at the door-post, shouting and looking for help from the neighborhood: "Somebody should help me; my husband is dying over here.
. . . Can somebody help me?"
When she returned to the living room; James was already down on the floor. She grabs him up. "My dear, get up – let's go to the hospital . . ." There was no response from James. She continued to hits his shoulder; still, they were no response from him, neither the neighborhood.
As she was monitoring the breathe of her husband, James; nothing was huffing on him. She crooned. "Oh, my husband is death. You can't die and leave me, while am still young. If you die now, who is going to make love with me?
Dear, get up, let's go to the hospital for treatment." Still, there was no response from James. "So, Katrin Oliver had finally killed you and ran away! . . . But, you shouldn't have died by this time that I needed you most." She wailed. "Oh, the shadow that dwells in you had announced my name as a widow."
Blood upon blood was streaming out from James' chest, as running water in the cotter of death. His eyes became glacial; while the tears were shared with blood and it dropped side by side as Eric river. Who knows if he was crying in the abode of the death! But the tears that dropped on his face, signifies sorrow. His blood streamed into the extreme end of the room and he gave off the ghost.