Tormenting Her Innocence novel Chapter 2

The clouds were roaring loudly. The rain was falling heavily. The darkness of the evening had turned more inky because of the gloomy weather. Zian halted his car in front of the hospital. Stepping out of his car, he went straight inside.

He saw Leo standing outside that room where that girl was kept. His facial features hardened as soon as Leo's eyes darted towards him. It was clear that he didn't like Leo, not only because their vibes never matched with each other but also because his father always told him to be like Leo…..A so-called responsible person.

Zian mentally scowled. Who was going to tell his dad that Leo was being responsible and faithful to him just because he was paying for Leo's and his mother's, Romana, livelihood and expenses, from Leo's childhood. So he was just returning his favour by being faithful towards his father.

"Are they inside?" Zian asked him, clearly indicating that he was in no mood for a long conversation with him. Leo also just wagged his head.

After that, Zian pushed the door open and went inside the room. This was the second time he had come to that hospital. Zian saw his parents sitting beside the bed where that girl was lying. He was going to see that girl for the first time who had saved his mother's life by putting her own life at stake. He wondered whether she is too brave to do something so selfless like this or is she too naive and dumb?

He knocked on the door, gaining his parents' attention. They looked at him. A clear sign of confusion washed on their faces as they saw him there. His parents walked towards him.

"Zian? What are you doing here?" His mother asked him. Zian sighed before answering.

"I was worried about you both, so I decided to come. I hadn't seen you both from the past couple of days,"

Zian noticed a small smile formed on his mother's face, at his answer.

"We are fine. Don't worry," his mother uttered, smilingly. Zian was about to ask them when they were planning on coming back home when a knock on the door halted him.

"Mr and Mrs Karlson. The doctor is calling you both in his cabin. He needs to talk to you both about the patient's condition immediately," The nurse, standing in the door, informed.

Zian noticed his parents exchanging a worried glance after hearing the nurse.

"Zian, stay with her till me and Zia don't come,"

Zian turned stunned, hearing his father, because he didn't want to stay with that dying girl, but nonetheless, he agreed by understanding the situation.

He nodded and then his parents left the room, leaving him alone with that girl who was still in coma. With a frown on his face, Zian walked towards the bed and stood beside it.

Finally he got a glimpse of that little girl who did that courageous act of saving his mother. He couldn't watch her face properly because of the oxygen mask she was wearing. She looked like a teenager. Her entire head and neck was wrapped in white bandages. It felt like she was on the edge of losing her life. Anybody would have mistaken her for a lifeless body if not for that electrocardiography machine monitor running beside her.

Zian didn't know what to do there to pass his time. He just waited for his parents to come back, so that he could leave this lifeless breathing body alone.

To pass the time, he decided to play a game on his phone. Taking out his phone, he sat on the bed, beside her and started playing.

"Damn…." He snarled, losing the game. In annoyance, Zian placed his palm on the bed beside him and scowled at his phone's screen, but then he felt something warm and tender tickling against his hand.

He turned his head and his eyes widened a bit, witnessing that girl's fingers moving slowly. Hurriedly stepping down from the bed, he looked at her face and saw her eyelids were slowly moving too.

She slowly opened her lashes and Zian got a glimpse of her light brown eyes through her half closed lids. She was awake. Turning alert, he decided to call the doctor and his parents, so he dashed out of the door.

"Leo, where is mum and dad? Tell them, the girl is getting back her consciousness," Zian said to Leo, still in shock.

The news enlarged Leo's eyes too. He nodded immediately and called Zian's dad, Damien.

Within a minute, the team of doctors and his parents reached the ward room. They all went inside, but Zian was in no mood to go inside again, so he settled himself on a chair outside the room and decided to play another game on his phone again which he had lost a little while ago.

………..

Her vision was blurry and drowsy. She didn't even know where she was. All she could feel was a painful numbness running across each and every nerve in her body.

Blurry figures came in front of her vision. She attempted to blink her eyes but even moving her eyelashes were feeling painful to her now. Somehow, she managed to blink her eyes slowly and cleared her vision a bit.

She saw a couple of strangers but one face among them seemed familiar to her. That woman, whom she saved from that car hit. Finally, things started becoming clearer to her. She remembered running away from those monsters, that park and then this woman who was standing in the middle of the road and that car which was about to hit her. She recalled everything, how brutally that car hitted her and how much pain she had felt at that moment.

"Can you hear us?" She heard a man asking her. Looking at his dressing, she understood he was a doctor. She slowly blinked her eyes in her reply to him. Nodding head seemed painful to her.

The doctor checked the ECG monitor. Her heartbeat was running at a normal speed, so the doctor decided to remove her oxygen mask to check whether she could breath without it or not.

Luckily she was able to breathe on her own after the doctors removed the oxygen mask from her face.

Now her eyesight turned more clear. She could see everyone's faces clearly. She slowly wandered her eyes at everyone but her gaze stopped at that woman whom she had saved. She saw that woman had tears in her eyes as she was looking down at her.

"What is your name?" She heard the doctor asking her again. Slowly unlatching her mouth, she tried to answer but all she could feel was a painful throbbing in her throat. She moved her lips and tried to speak but no sound came out of her mouth.