Chapter 6: Maria

I don't know how long I left that kitchen but it already feels like hours already, I am still pissed at him for his behavior at the funeral and we are never going to move on if we don't clear the differences between us. He was standing right where I left him, still arranging the food in place, " you acted like a coward that day, you just came out of nowhere and tried to leave the same, nothing even trying to know about the person who was going to look after your little sister, not even making a move to take your sister away from my care as if you never cared ", " why are you shouting Maria?, Hope all is well?". I never knew I was speaking so loud if not for the intervention of James into the kitchen, Scott was now facing us with anger in his eyes, I have been observing the way his mood changes whenever James was in the picture, he doesn't like him, not even a bit " it's nothing James, we aren't really quarrelling, just having some conversation about something between us ", James seems to also understand the situation and decided to give us space, " I am sorry for being so loud, just frustrated for reasons I don't actually know ", " okay ", he shut me out with his reply and returned to what he was doing as if I was never there.

Where might she be?, I have been moving around the house searching for her for some minutes now without knowing her where about, I have shouted her name a few times now with her returning no response, maybe she's asleep wherever she was, maybe I should search outside for her. " what the fuck are you doing?, You need to evacuate from there before the policemen gets to you guys, make sure all the boys are with you and never let any of the girls to escape, you hear me?", I have never heard James sound so hot tempered like he is right now, and what kind of call was that he was making?, " was you listening to my conversation on the phone?", his face was blank, I can't tell whether he was also pissed at me too, " Am just coming out from the house now in search of Eva, have you seen her?", I asked him without any sign of flinching, he is definitely observing my body language to know whether am scared or sincerely telling him the truth, " is anything wrong with your conversation on the phone? Did something happen?", after giving me this unusual look where both of his eyebrows furrows, he smiled and acted like he was just acting, " Am just playing around like always, what did you say happened to Eva?", " I have been searching for her everywhere and she's still nowhere to be found, I decided to come and ask whether you have seen her ", " No, I haven't, let's go and search together, she's definitely inside the house ", he said as he passed beside me and headed inside the house.

Oh my God, " Eva!!!", I screamed on top of my voice out of shock as I ran towards her, she was sitting on the floor with her back on the wall near the head of the bed, the window was open, letting in air into the room from outside, I have never been inside this room before, it's always locked when Raphael was still around, looking much more like a cell than a room, quite dark in here, I can't believe this was Scott's room, or maybe it's actually it, because he acts wierd just like the look of his room.

I was now kneeling on one knee as I held the back of her head on my left hand, her nose was bleeding a lot, looking like she fell down and hit her nose somewhere, I can hear the sound of footsteps on the stairs before someone barged into the room behind me, I turned around and found James standing there with both of his hands on his hips looking exhausted like someone who just ran a marathon. " Evangeline food is.......", he stopped with his speech, he has this look on his face showing angry, surprise and confused the same time, " what is going on here and why is everyone inside my room?", he spoke with a lot of anger buried in his voice, I am speechless right now, we really intruded into his privacy and no one takes that likely especially someone like Scott, James was about to speak but he shut him up by raising his palm up showing off a lot of command within him, he walked to me and saw me holding Eva, " what happened?", he asked again but with a gentle nice tone this time, stretching his arm to Eva's forehead, " shit, she's burning up, we need to take her to the hospital right now ", Scott was a lot more in control right now and I admire that about him, she carried Eva up like she weighed nothing, then stood still looking at James, giving James that look that he should leave his room first, James understood his look and head out of the room first, Scott followed suit carrying Eva with him as I followed behind but was stopped when I noticed what looks like a military uniform behind his door like he was intentionally hiding it away from people's view, I closed the door confused, I thought Scott was a professor, I never saw anything concerning military on his Data when I looked him up signalling he was the youngest professor to ever teach history.

We got to the hospital and Eva was admitted, James didn't come with us to the hospital, he said he needed to attend to something important and it's urgent, My phone ranged and it was Mary, she's been calling for a while now, I never knew I had five missed call from her already, (" you need to come home and I mean right now ") she disconnected the call, it was not a good timing, I want to be here for Eva, my sister requires my presence right now, I just overhead a weird call from James, Scott the professor has a military uniform in hiding inside his room although there was nothing connecting him to the military on his personal Data, so much for a professor who just graduated three years ago, what is really going on?.