16 Chapter 16 (1/2)

Gillian slowly opens her eyes, her vision is still blurry, but her vision slowly begins to become clearer.

She can feel jitters and slight jolts and when her vision became clearer, she looked around her.

She realized that she is in a car.

She first gets onto her elbows, before attempting to lean onto the palm of her hands but her whole body feels numb.

Instantly, she falls back down, letting out a gasp as she felt a sharp pain in her right palm.

”Gillian? Are you alright?” Frank asked her, driving down a wrecked road. He sees a few potholes, Frank tries to dodge them, but he drives over a few, causing the car to jitter abruptly.

”Ouch...” Gillian mutters, as her body begins to hurt.

”We are almost there,” Frank says to Gillian as he drives up to a roundabout and takes the second exit.

”Ahh...” Gillian yelped as she felt pain in her left abdominal. She places her hand onto the spot, but she could feel something moist.

She looks down at her stomach and she could see that she is bleeding, the area on the seats where her stomach is, is wet, wet with blood.

”I... I...” Gillian begins, but she could not speak, she feels like she is suffocating, as she is fighting for air.

”We are almost there...” says Frank.

Gillian could sense fear in his voice, vulnerability.

”F- Frank?...” She calls his name out.

”Hush... hush...” he tells her as he quickly glimpses back at her, ”Oh... god” he mutters.

Suddenly, Gillian opens her eyes wide, ”T-t-...” she begins speaking.

”What?” Frank asks her.

”Truck!” she shouts, but it is too late.

*loud inhale*

”Gillian?” Frank says, walking over to Gillian.

”Are you okay?” he adds.

She nods, as she looks around her. ”A-are we...” Gillian begins speaking but it interrupted by Frank, completing her sentence.

”We are safe, in your house,” he says softly as he sits on the bed, beside her.

You look at him and you feel so many emotions, you could see him frown as he looks at you.

”Are you okay?” He asks her again.

But all Gillian does is nods, again.

”Okay,” he answers as he stands up and that is when you notice that he is shirtless, all you can see is his grey tanked top covering his body.

Gillian watches him as he walks away from her, towards the window.

She begins to bite her lower lip, before looking up at the ceiling.

”Did you find anything?” Gillian asks him as she looks at his back.

There was a brief moment of silence before Frank turned around, facing you, ”nope...” he says bleakly.

You continue to look at him, you can see that he is disappointed, but you can also see that he is giving you a suspicious look. Gillian knows that something is not right.

”I... Is everything okay?” Gillian asks him.

Gillian continues to look at him, as he looks at her. Gillian could feel as if there is a hole in her chest. His look makes her feel guilty as if she did something wrong.

Gillian tries to talk, but she could not speak out a single word.