Chapter 30 Footsteps

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"Isabella?"

I saw a girl that look like me, sitting on the bed. The blinds were closed. No light was streaming from outside. It was so dark.

"Isabella?" The voice said again.

I was nervous. Why do I get the feeling that she had just lost her baby? I had only ever heard of that once from a woman. She looked sad.

"You haven't come out of your room, Isabella" the voice said calmly.

"Come, here." The girl said to me.

I look around...there was no one in the room except of her and me.

I gulped as I slowly approached her bed. Her voice sounded like a frog, groggy and crackled.

I crawled into her bed.

I felt her arms wrap around me.

"Do not cry." I said nervously.

"I am sorry." I said as I felt her tears fall into my hair.

I did not know what to do or say.

"You can have my children." I blurted out.

I felt her stiffen.

"You cannot say such things dear" she said.

It sounded like a sob and a laugh.

I had gotten her stop crying. Her hold on me tightened.