Chapter 123 - Its Either You Live or I Die (2) (1/2)

As time passed on, there hasn't really any big changes that happened. But inside in April's consciousness, she had become aware and could hear voices. Unfortunately, no matter how much she yells and calls, no one seems to hear it. She could not see anyone but could only hear them.

Every time someone visited her, her heart would ache in pain. Especially when her son tells her stories of his days. What he had been up to lately and how he was doing.

She had also heard her parents, the Smith's, the Hawthorne's, Colm and Alex. It felt like years had gone by. Inside this darkness, she couldn't really tell the time.

What boggles her the most was, there was another man who was talking to her. He rarely speaks though and when he does, somehow, she felt comforted. Unlike Colm's and Alex's, the man's voice wasn't hurrying her to wake up. Instead, he told her to take her time. To let time heal her and to let her face whatever was holding her back to wake up.

His voice was so familiar and yet, she somewhat couldn't put a finger in it. She doesn't remember how she had gotten to this place. The last thing she had remembered was, she had been kidnapped after running away from Alex. She felt like there should be more than it. Like some memories she had forgotten, but what was it?

As time goes on, she had gotten used to the voices. Like what that unknown man had said, she decided not to force herself to wake up. Whenever she heard voices that were talking to her, she would reply inside her mind. As if they were talking to each other.

If made her actually comforted. The more she tries not to fight herself, the more she had become used to the darkness. Until one day, she heard a different voice inside her head. Odd thing was, it was her own voice.

”It's either you live, or I die.”

This sentence had been confusing at first. What did that mean? She knew that the voice was hers and yet, it feels like it wasn't something that she would've said. What exactly did it mean? How could she live yet and her other self dies?

Every night, she would hear this sentence repeated on her mind. Was she going crazy again? These thoughts had been bothering her since then. She already doesn't know how long she had been in this state. Hearing this kind of thought was not something she wanted to hear. It felt scary and unnerving. Like some ill premonition was set to happen.

At some point in her darkness, she heard a new voice.

”Hahaha! The bitch had finally arrived!”

”Francesca?!” She thought. ”Ain't that her voice?!” Somehow, remember Alex's wife, it brought a headache inside her head. Unconsciously, it actually stimulated a response into April's body. She hurled in pain and held her head with both of her hands. If her family and friends had seen this, they would've become astounded and be worried.

”What's happening to her?! Hurry up and let's get out of here!” Francesca ordered her subordinates and left the area. They had kidnapped April.