🌹R O S E III🌹

🌹CHAPTER FOURTEEN🌹

"What?" I ask with confusion written over my face. I look at her and into her tear staining eyes to see that there is only truth hidden inside her eyes, a truth that I think she has had to bury for so long. "I don't understand" I speak. My voice just a whisper but she did hear it. I know that.

"Rose, please understand that I never meant for this to happen but it did and I'm so sorry..." She trails off but I take her hand and hold it tightly. Assuring her that I'm here with her. "No... no, Lena don't ever feel sorry for your feelings. You can't blame yourself for feeling this" I tell her.

If I could panic I would be right now but I remain calm. Sometimes that is a curse while other times it's a blessing. "I just didn't expect you to say this" I tell her but she only shakes her head. "I wanted you for myself because I love you" Lena says to me.

She snatches her hand from me and backs away. "You have no idea what I had to do in order to keep you from me. How much money I've had to spend but don't worry, I never run out of it" She tells me and I give her a confused look once more.

I never wanted her to sell her body for these things. It's horrible and I'm so ashamed that I never knew this before. I'm the worst friend to ever exist in the whole world. Lena is angry. She is pacing around the room in anger. I open my mouth to speak but she beats me to it.

"It's not easy finding someone to take the fall for you. Paying a blackmailer. Do you know how much money I had to get for that?" She asks me and I lightly gasp. "Fifty thousand dollars, and it took me months to get it but I set my plan in action and it worked... until he merges his company with yours, brining you closer to him" She says.

Then a laughter comes from her throat, laughter through her anger and I look at her with fear in my eyes. This isn't the Lena that I know. I'm not sure who she is right now but I know she has changed, somehow. But, I will help her in any way that I can.

"Killing him was the only thing that I could think of but soon he will be dead and you will be all mine" She whispers, her voice high yet so dangerous. I don't even recognize it but then again Lena is slowly becoming a person that I don't recognize myself.

The tears running down my face fall on my clothes as I sit in the wheelchair. "Lena... listen to me... murder is wrong. I'm here with you and I won't be going back. Please, don't kill him" I beg her. I can feel my heart breaking because of I can't imagine him dying.

It took everything in me when we were shot but now I must do everything that I can to protect him. But I also need to make sure to help Lena on the way because she needs help. "I don't have a choice, Rose, he will always be an obstacle in my plan and he needs to go away" She tells me as she takes the wheelchair and brings it to the bed.

"Now, I think it's best that you go to bed and let me worry about him" She says kindly to me as if everything that she said doesn't even matter. I open my mouth to speak but before I have the change to even let words out I feel a sharp punch in my shoulder and then the darkness takes over me.

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A scream forces me to open my eyes and I'm met with Lena against the wall. She has a phone to her ear and anger staining her face like never before. I don't think she knows that I'm awake. I lie still on the bed and make sure to keep my eyes closed while I listen to her.

I hear a faint speaking on the other line but I can't be sure what they are saying. I can't even be sure if it's a man or a woman. All I can tell is that the voice is an angry one, like Lena is right about now. I have no idea what has made her this angry but I can only know that it's not a good thing.

"You were supposed to bring it to me yesterday and now I find out that it's still in that blasted museum. That diamond is important to me and I want it!" Lena yells into her phone and it takes everything in me to not tremble in fear because of her voice.

I don't think I've ever heard Lena speak to someone in that matter. It's just so unlike her. "I pay you good money to steal it. Just get it to me before nightfall because I swear to God that I will find you and kill you if you don't get it for me!" She yells again before I hear a push of a button and I think she just ended the call.

This only leaves me more puzzled and I can't be sure of what she was talking about but I do think someone is about to steal something for her and that is so wrong. I stay still when I hear her stand up and from the ground that she had been sitting on by the wall.

Her footsteps bring her over to the bed that I lie on. I feel her hand touch the side of my cheek and caress my cheek. It feels nice to feel her touch but then I must remember what she has told me and what she has done, but on the other hand I think she's sick and as much as I hate to admit it, I think she's badly sick and it's not good.

I hear her sigh before she sits on the bed beside me. Her hand takes mine and holds tightly but not too tight. Her grip is more possessive than anything else. She lets out a whistle for a couple of seconds before she hums. Her thumb tracing circles on the back of my hand.

"Don't worry, Rose. Everything will be all right and soon we shall be together, forever" She whispers. Her voice is so unrecognizable to me yet my best friend is the one that is speaking and I can't be sure what is happening to her. My best friend is becoming someone else right before my eyes and I fear that I won't be able to do anything to protect her.

She lets go of my hand and then I feel her lips on top of mine and she kisses me lightly before she backs away. And I hear her stand up and walk out of the room. I wait a couple of seconds before I open my eyes once more to see the sun shining through the bars and I keep wondering how this much sunlight gets inside even when the trees are so thick.

My hand goes over to my lips and my fingers trace them. Lena just kissed me and not just on my cheek but on my lips. To say that I am shocked would be an understatement but only my thoughts are the ones that can be in this shocked state as my body itself is unable to.

I suppose that is just the cost of getting rid of the pain that wants to tear me apart and it will if I don't have this drug inside my system and I can't take any more of this pain. I can't believe that she kissed me. Lena just confessed her love to me and then she kisses me.

I can't be sure of how I feel about this. In full honesty, I've never thought of Lena this way and this has never been something that I've ever thought of. Lena has always been the girl that has many relationships with both men and women but I never thought that she was only with them because I didn't share her feelings.

The pain that she must've been agonizing for her, to having felt like this and I had no idea. Now, all I want to do is hold her in my arms and tell her how sorry I am for what I've done to her. All of this is because of me and I can't believe that she has had to suffer like this.

I sit up on the bed and look around. Something is different yet at the same time it's still the same. I can't be sure what is different about the room but I get the feeling that I'm about to find out soon enough. And whatever it is, it can't be good. Somehow I can feel that it's not good.

My eyes continue to scan the room as I look around. Looking at every object which isn't that hard since there aren't that many objects in this room. But then my eyes catch the wheelchair that is sitting there beside the bed or more importantly a tag that is on the wheelchair itself.

There are words written on it. A name of a hospital but I've never heard of this hospital before in my life. The tag is ripped and I'm sure that there was something else written on it and I don't know why but I feel like I needed to know what it said.

It's insane to think that and it has to be nothing. It's just an old wheelchair that must've come from a hospital or something. I don't get that much time to dwell on it before the door opens and Lena enters the room. She has a cheery smile on her face and she holds something in her hands.

Almost skipping to the bed she sits down. I can't be sure what she's holding until she shows it to me. It's a small Rubik's cube. "I brought you something to play with since I will be away for the rest of the day. I need to be somewhere, don't worry. I'll be back. I'll always be back for you" She tells me and hands the cube.

I look at it with a confused look before I give her the same look. "Where?" I ask her. I need to make sure that she's safe and not harming herself because she's in a fragile place right about now and I don't want anything bad happening to her.

"Just getting something important. I will let you know in the morning. Hopefully they will have got it from me. In the meantime I hope this will keep you company because I won't be here" She tells me and I take another look at the cube. I've never even attempted to solve a Rubik's cube in my life, I'm not even sure where to start.

"Will you be all right here alone?" She asks me and I nod my head, not sure what to say to her. "I knew you would" She tells me and Lena is out of the room before I would even blink or ask anything more. I just don't know what to say since she kissed me when she thought I was still asleep.

I'm left alone in the room with only my thoughts alone to keep me company and my thoughts aren't exactly the best right now because I keep thinking about this whole thing and how messed up it is but then again this isn't that messed up.

I'm beyond confused and as I attempt to solve this cube I can feel myself grow even more confused by the minute. My thoughts are running around everywhere and thinking about all that has happened to me. Sighing I keep going with the Rubik's cube wondering where Lena is going and what she will be coming back with.