Angel was so excited to find Ash's location that she forgot to take the left money from the café. But was it worth it?
She went down the train and found herself in a huge crowded city filled with buildings and towers, as she was directed on the website she went to the hospital by a taxi. And at last she arrived the crowded hospital, she entered smiling and went to the reception table and asked about the emergency room
"Excuse me, where can I find Ashton in the emergency section?''
"Was he from the bus accident?''
"Oh yeah sir he is. Where can I find him?''
The assistant checks in the computer in front of him "Go to the 3rd floor and find room 37, you will find him in that room, we have put him in a private room"
Without listening the rest of the talk, Angel rushed to the stairs and went step by step upstairs with a fast beat in her heart. And here is the surprise as she opened the door of the room, there was no one on the bed. She ran out and found a nurse and asks her about the patient.
The nurse replies, "Oh! The patient was sent to another hospital because his case was a little bit harder than our capabilities, oh I forgot when he was sent he went with someone his name was mmm...His name is joseph I think so, if you want I can provide you his number''
She gives Angela a card with Jo's number in it. While Angel was looking at the card and at the name on it she was finding in her memories about joseph.
"Joseph, Joseph… I know this name it is not new for me. Where did I saw him where, where? Wait! Is it he? Is he the same joseph I am thinking of? I can't believe it''
And she decided to find out. She went out of the hospital and walked to a nearby bench and sat down. She took out her cellphone out of her pocket and dialed on the number that was given to her,
"Hello"
"Hello are you joseph?''
"Yes, that's me who is speaking?''
"I am a friend of Ash and I need to know in which hospital he is now"
"First tell me who are you''
"Well ok I will tell you but can you tell me first your full name please''
"Ok, Joseph Harrison''
Angel became silent when she heard the name
"Hello, hello where are you? Tell me who are you''
"I am, am … I am Angelina "
By his turn Jo also became silent when he heard the name
"Hello, hello Jo, Jo where are u? Tell me where is Ash please''
"I am here but where are you now? I need to meet you now, and if you have reserved a room in a hotel, pack all your materials from it and wait me outside''
"Ok I will send you the hotel location "
And she ended the call, went to the hotel, packed all her materials and stood outside thinking of why he needed to talk to her and why he ordered her to pack her backpack. She was thinking of going to Ash and how to apologize from him and suddenly a brand new car in front of her is blowing its honk and the window of the car slides down and a nice man wearing an eyeglasses between the age of 24 and 26 puts down his eyeglasses and looked at her, "As I see, you are Angelina''
"Yes it's me are you Jo?''
"Well, yes if you are not sure you can examine my face properly?''
She smiles "the same jo I know "and gets in the car
"I have never thought that I will meet you in such event but that's ok, well how are you? What are you doing here and how did you get here?''
Jo smiled while he was driving and replied in a polite way, "I am fine, I came here by a scholarship to finish my education and here am I, I have finished it and I started working in a company and by saving money I bought this sweetie car. So what about u?''
"I am good, as same as before living in that big house with dad and Ash is still our gardener''
He looked at her a moment and returned back to his driving
"Do you like him still?''
She turned her head to the window. The car stopped in front of a sturdy guest house that was some kind of old. She put on her backpack and got down the car.
She became surprised from the question, she giggled
"Why are you asking me a question like this or are you still a fan of me?''
"No I didn't think of that but any person can see that from your worry about him.''
While they were walking to the door Angel recognized that there is a small garden through the path, she remembered the garden in her house and the black rose and how Ash was talking to it, she smiled remembering these memories
They arrived to the front door, Jo pressed the bell button and a lady opened the door and welcomed them.
Jo went to his own room and had ordered the lady to take Angel to her room, the lady takes her upstairs and went with her to angel's room, "well miss Angelina this is your room and jo's room is next to u, so if you want anything and If I was not there you can ask Jo''
Angel smiled politely "ok thanks ma'am."
She entered her room and shut the door behind her, put her bag on the bed and laid tired on the bed. Looking to the roof she thought of Ash, she missed him, she missed his greetings on the morning, and his bright smile when he looks at her.
Next morning Angel woke up with a pain in her neck because of her improper position of sleep, her door knocked, she got up and opened and found it was Jo
"Oh good morning Jo''
"Good morning Angel, let's take breakfast in a nearby café, what do you think?''
She smiled "ok I have no problem but let me once change and I will come'' she shut the door
"Ok I am waiting you" Jo smiled with an excited feeling
…..While they were walking beside each other, Jo turned to Angel, "U didn't answer me Angel of my yesterday's question, do you still like him?''
Angel turned with a surprised face, "Who? Ash? I told you not to ask me questions about these things.''
Her face started to change to seriousness, "You know after mine and your relationship failure I stopped thinking about these things. Oh here is the café let's go" she pointed to the café and went in hurry
He smiled a fake smile and continued walking. They sat and ordered the breakfast from the menu, the food came and they started to eat. Jo looked towards Angel and asks
"But what I don't understand is how our relationship failed? What happened was just an accident, you saw me with a girl and you became angry on me and that's it, then the thing closed between us. I went to my scholarship, you continued living with your dad and that garbage boy and then…''
Angel threw her fork on the plate and shouted on Jo, "He is not a garbage boy! he is a gardener, an honest and truthful gardener, do you understand? If you have better things to talk about you can talk, if you don't, just shut up and eat your breakfast''
She continued eating with an angry face
He was so surprised from her reaction, "wow okay calm down Angel, calm down I am sorry for irritating you but now I became sure that you like him, didn't you see yourself when I talk about him?, did you recognize you reaction?''
She gave no response and continued eating.
Both finished their breakfast and were on the pathway to the home
Angel was thinking about Ash, she turns to Jo, "Hey Jo when will you take me to Ash? Why are we wasting time, let's go to him now Jo''
He answered strictly and quickly "no… I mean ok I will take you to him tomorrow.''
"But why not now?''
"That's because only on Thursdays it is allowed to visit patients ''
She gave a sad look "Ok''
"Well, until tomorrow can I invite you to dinner today?''
She smiled for him and accepted.
At night the moon's light spread everywhere with the little stars sparkling like glitters on the sky, Angel looks so beautiful as usual and also was Jo.
Jo knocked the door, Angel opened the door and tells him that she was ready he was amused from her charm, "U look so beautiful Angel''
She smiled "thanks''
After walking for some time, angel was surprised from the place they arrived. The restaurant was an alfresco restaurant indeed. With its outside seating tables the place was quite old, classic and kind of romantic. The light, the music, and even the candles were so calm and looked elegant, most of the visitors were all couples having their moment in such a place.
Jo held Angel hands and opened for her the fence gate, he found their table and sat, and they ordered and started eating their dinner. They were so happy and enjoying the moment.
While they were eating Angel asks Jo
"Hey Jo, did you find a partner?''
"Well no, but I had a one that we have broken up before and until now I still love her but she doesn't know that''
"You should tell her or she will be for another person than you''
"Angel, how do you describe me?"
"well you are cute , good , a little bit annoying, but you are all over a good hearted person''
Jo smiled a big smile from what he heard
After they returned home, Jo in front of his room asked "oh Angel can I come to your room after you change? I need to talk to you about something important''
Angel nodded ok
After half an hour Jo went to Angel room and knocked the door
"Angel can I come in?''
"Get in''
Jo got inside and sat beside Angel on the bed, she was watching a movie, jo started to sit nearer to her , he came closer and closer ,his thigh was touching her thigh, she didn't recognize that because she was concentrated on the movie
"Mmm… Jo what was the thing you wanted to talk to me? Wait a second, oh! Did you see how he fell from the building?''
Jo started moving his hands towards her waist, just when he touched her waist she shouted and moved away from him, "What are you thinking you are doing? You crazy mean, get out!''
She shouted, "Get out and send me Ash's location on the phone''
She pushed him outside her room.
"But Angel… listen me Angel… wait … I still love you"
"But I still hate you because of your dirty actions. You know? I thought you became wiser than before but you are still in the same level of fooling people to fulfill your needs and now I hated you more''
She pushed him the last push outside the room and locked the door behind her and with hard breathings she slept that horrific night.
The next morning Angel packed all her materials. While she was packing, she wanted to check how much money is left with her and here was the surprise, BOOM! Only 100$! Where did the 200$ left vanish? She was finding and searching between her materials and clothes, she knew that she can't ask her dad to lend her money or he will start to doubt her. She searched and searched and searched and nothing was found, she packed all her materials and went out of the house.
While she was walking on the street she called Jo on the phone to ask him the hospital where Ash is sleeping but he was not answering. She understood why he was not answering and she became angry. Suddenly a message buzzes on her phone, she opens her phone to check it, and it was from Jo saying
I took your 200$, did you think you will stay here for free? In your dreams. Let me see how you will find Ash, I will not send you his location, ok Angel enjoy the journey
And here was the surprising reply from Jo to the hopeless Angel.
Chapter 8
The journey
Angel became angry and mixed up of the message, how will she find Ash without knowing where he is? She stood for a while and thought for a solution, an idea came to her, "I can go to the previous hospital and ask the doctor about the reference he gave for Ash''
She smiled and was filled with hope, she started running to the railway station, took her ticket and waited.
While she was standing she saw a young boy selling flowers, she called him, and the boy ran to Angel happily
" yes ma'am each flower costs 50 cents please ma'am please buy from me the whole bouquet I need the money, my family are hungry and if you buy the whole bouquet I will go and buy for them food ma'am. The whole bouquet is only 30$ please buy it please''
Angel became emotive of his story, she accepted to buy the whole bouquet, she took out 35$ from her bag and gave it to him. The boy became surprised
"But ma'am you gave me 35$ while I told you to pay 30$''
TO BE CONTINUED.....