I pretended to have cooled down. She let go of me and I walked towards the knife and picked it up.
Before Lizzy could say or do anything, I had already slit my wrist and blood started flowing out and dropping to the floor.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?" She asked,as she got to where I was.
"Watch attentively." I replied to her.
We both watched attentively, but she watched in disbelief as the blood that was still around the cut flowed back into it and it started healing and finally healed completely without any visible trace of a scar.
"You see?" I asked her and laughed softly.
"What did I just see?" She asked.
"It's so unbelievable." She added and laughed softly.
"You have seen it, so believe it." I said to her,
"Hope this is not a prank you pull on me just now?" She asked, still not believing what she just saw just now.
"Try it and see for yourself." I said to her, as I handed the knife over to her.
"No. Do it again by yourself on your other wrist." She said,
"You have got trust issues." I said, as I slit my other wrist, it bled for a while and started to heal again completely without any visible trace of a scar.
"Oh shit!" Lizzy exclaimed.
"Do you believe me now?" I asked her.
"Yeah." She said,
"But it's still unbelievable." She added.
"Does anyone else know about this?" She asked.
"No." I replied and nodded.
"You are the only person I have told about this." I added.
"Should we let the boys know about this?" I asked her.
"No, not yet. Don't tell them." She instructed.
She walked closer to me, took the knife from me and returned to the kitchen.
The house was strangely quiet and it's got to do with someone's absence, Hale.
I wonder where he is at, I haven't seen nor heard his voice today.
I hope he is okay.
When she returned to the living room, I asked her,
"Where is your boyfriend?"
"He is still inside his room, he is sick, really sick." Lizzy replied to me.
"Let's take him to a hospital." I said to her, concerned.
"No,he wouldn't." She said to me,
"Why?" I asked.
"He is popular now, remember?" She asked.
"Oh, that's true." I replied to her.
"Shit." I exclaimed bitterly.
"Will he be okay?" I asked.
"Yes, he just needs some drugs and he will be okay." She replied to me.
"Thank goodness." I said and sighed with relief.
"But there is a little problem." She said with a frown.
"What is it?" I asked, concerned.
"We need someone who can help us go get the drugs and the only person that can help us now is still the only person that is yet to become popular like us." She replied and her face brightened up a bit.
"J.J?" I asked her.
"Yes." She replied, nodding her head at the same time.
I sighed very deeply and said,
"Yeah, that's true. You are correct,very correct."
"There is another problem." She said to me,
"Another problem?" I asked.
"Yes,'' she replied and nodded her head at the same time.
"Which is?" I asked her.
"I need someone to tell him. You know that he and I are not very close, but you both are.
"That is not a problem at all. I can always talk to him about anything, don't worry." I told her, lying for the second time today.
"I want to see Hale, may I?" I asked for Lizzy's permission first.
"Yeah, sure, let me go make breakfast." She said and walked into the kitchen.
I walked towards the door of the room that she and her boyfriend shared.
I knocked twice and waited for a reply or an order to come in, but I got none.
I knocked again,but three times this time, once again, I got no reply.
"Hale." I called out his name before knocking twice again.
"Eunice?" Hakee called out back from the other side of the door, inside the room.
"Yeah, it's me." I replied to him.
"May I come in?" I asked.
"Yes, sure." He replied to me.
I opened the door and entered the room, he slowly sat up on the bed when I entered the room.
"Hey Eunice. Good morning." He greeted me.
"Same. Lizzy told me that you are not really strong,so I came to check up on you." I said to him,
"Thanks for coming over." He said and smiled at me.
"Are you sure?" I asked, concerned.
"Won't you go to a hospital?" I asked.
"At least for a medical check up." I added.
"No." He said.
"I will be fine. I will just take some drugs." He added.
"Is there a medical clinic around here?" I asked.
"Yes, it is before the railway station." He replied to me.
"I will have J.J fix his car and you both will go there together. Okay?" I asked.
"Can he do that?" He asked me.
"Yes, he said he can." I replied to him.
"Are you sure?" He asked me again.
"Yes, he told me this morning that he will fix his car later, that it has only a minor issue and….. whatever else he said." I didn't know what to call it.
"Why are you asking?" I asked Hale.
"Nothing." He replied and started frowning.
"Are you sure?" I asked him.
"Yeah, nothing." He replied, nodding at the same time.
"Let me go meet him." I said to him,
"Okay." He replied and nodded.
"I will be right back. Let me go talk to J.J about it." I said to him, Hale nodded and laid back.
"Lizzy is preparing breakfast, you have to be back before the food gets ready. Start getting ready to leave." I said and finally left the room.
I was going to J.J's room when I met him coming out of his room, holding a toolbox.
He was wearing an overalls.
He looks so hot.
I stopped when he saw me and I stood in front of him and said,
"I was on my way to you."
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"Where does it look like I am going?" He asked me back.
I rolled my eyes and asked,
"Going to fix your car?"
He laughed softly, nodded and replied to me,
"Yes. Do you mind joining me?" He asked me.
"I will join you." I said and smiled.
"Let's go." He said and started to walk away, while I followed him.
We got to where his car was parked, he opened the bunnet and started working on the car.
"Here is the key, go start the car." He said to me,as he handed me the car key.
I opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat. I tried starting the engine,but it was not coming on.
He worked on it again and said,
"Turn on the engine again."
I tried turning it on again and it came on this time.
"Yeah!" He exclaimed and sighed
"Thank goodness." He added and closed the bonnet.
He arranged the toolbox and was about to walk away when I came out of the car and rushed to meet him.
"J.J?" I called out when I got closer to him.
"Yeah." He replied, stopped walking and faced me.
"I need your help." I said to him,
"What is it?" He asked, concerned.
"Hale is very sick. I need you to help Lizzy take him to any clinic you can find. Anyone around." I told him.
"Okay. Let me drop this box and change into something else." He said and started to walk away.
"Thanks." I yelled and returned to the car.
I removed the key from the ignition and came out of the car.
I went to Hale's room again and knocked on the door, there was no reply.
"Am back." I yelled, as I knocked again on the door.
"Come in." He yelled from inside the room.
I opened the door and went inside the side.
"Hey, I'm back." I said to him, the moment I closed the door behind me.
"Is he done fixing the car?" He asked.
"Yes." I replied to him and nodded at the same time.
"He did it himself?" Hale asked, surprised.
"Yes." I replied while nodding at the same time.
"What is he doing now?" He asked.
"He wants to go change his clothes." I replied to him.
"Please excuse me, so I can change into something else too." He said to me,
"Oh!" I exclaimed.
"I am sorry. Bye." I added and left the room.
I decided to go and meet Lizzy in the Kitchen, maybe I will be able to help her do one or two things.
The Kitchen door was wide open.
I knocked in the door twice, she turned to face me when she noticed me and said
"Hey girl, have you met Hale?" She asked, as I began walking towards her.
"Yeah." I replied and I picked one of the fine and thin sliced tomatoes and threw it inside my mouth.
I spat it out immediately.
"What?" Lizzy asked me.
"It's bad, rotten." I replied to her, as I bent down to pick up the tomato I spat out from the floor and put it in the bin basket.
She picked one of the sliced tomatoes too and ate it.
"What do you mean that it's rotten or bad?" She confronted me.
"I will never cook with a bad or rotten vegetable. You know how much I love veggies. I grew it myself. It's fresh and very natural." She added angrily.
"Are you sure that the one I had wasn't rotten or bad?" I asked, as I scanned the bowl of the thin sliced tomatoes.
"No. Aren't your taste buds or something?" She asked me.
"It's not. It's your tomato." I replied to her.
"Have you brushed your teeth today?" She asked, as she joined me in looking all over the tomatoes, searching for any bad or rotten one.
"Yeah. Of course, yes. I have brushed my teeth. I did before I had J.J go out for a walk this morning." I replied to her, as we both gave up in searching for a bad sliced tomato.
She picked up another of the thin sliced tomatoes and ate it too.
She chewed slowly and carefully to detect any unpleasant taste.
She shook her head and said,
"It tastes just fine."
"Are you sure you won't join the boys to buy some drugs for yourself too?" She asked me mockingly and giggled.
"No, thank you." I said to her and rolled my eyes.
Just then, I saw J.J coming out of his room,
"Thank God your boy is finally coming out of his room. I will ask him to taste one. Don't worry, I won't tell him anything." She said to me and laughed softly.
"Whatever." I said to her, rolled my eyes and shook my head.
J.J started coming towards the kitchen when he saw me inside.
I quickly looked away, pretending not to see him.
I quickly grabbed a knife and started slicing an onion.
He changed his direction when he saw Genevieve and started heading towards Hale and Genevieve's room.
Genevieve turned to see if J.J had gotten to the Kitchen when she saw him heading to her and Hale's room instead.
"J.J." She called out his name.
"Yeah." He answered her, as he had already raised his hand to knock on the door.
"I need your assistance, please." She said to him,
"Come over here." She added.
"Okay." He said to her and started walking towards the Kitchen.
"What am I needed for?" He asked her.
"Come closer." She said to him,
He walked closer to her, but stood between us.
I raised my head slightly to look at him. He is wearing a red top, baggy trousers and sneakers.
Damn. He is looking so fine and so hot, the sleeves of his top were so short that almost every part of his upper arm, his muscles, was very visible and tempting to touch.