I wrote this whole chapter in my little book (OMG yes it was all handwritten) on the plane, when I was coming back from Canada. I sort of lost the book for a month and was too lazy to try to remember what I wrote, but now I've found it again, so here's the next chapter! Yay!


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Chapter 6 – Deeper Into Darkness

CPOV

I was sitting on the edge of a balcony again. Only difference was, this time it was in a hospital.

It'd been over two hours since I'd arrived there, feeling exhausted because I'd run all the way to the nearest hospital, carrying Sonny. Anyway, it'd been that long, and the doctors still weren't sure what the hell had happened to her. Or maybe they just didn't want to tell me – I feared the worst. And to make things even worse, Mr Condor kept sending me all these irritating texts, reminding me of my flight's departure later that day – not that I actually paid any attention to them. I turned my phone off after the fiftieth message. Frankly, I wasn't sure how my day could possibly get any worse.

I looked down from the balcony, and watched the busy street in silence. There were all these people there, walking. How boring. If I'd been down there, I'd have danced to the background music in my mind. But I couldn't.

I wasn't really sure what to do then, so I began to wonder what'd happen if I jumped off the balcony. If I jumped, I wouldn't have to go back to Condor and his stupid contract. I'd be able to stay with Sonny. But would that really be a good thing? She'd probably want me to be there to pull her into our little fantasy world, right? She liked it. She'd always loved the freedom she had with me. And I didn't want her to be trapped in that stupid prison of a home, with nobody to steal her away anymore. But wait. If I jumped, I could have died. Or broken all my bones. Not nice.

So I didn't jump. I went back inside to beat some answers out of a doctor instead.


That family hated Sonny. I swear, they hated her so much. They hated her almost as much as I loved her. They hated her enough to try to kill her; they set her up, those evil people. They knew about us, they knew everything somehow, and they were out to get us.

Or maybe I was just kind of paranoid.

I suppose that's what I deserved, though. It was obvious I'd be scared – after all, I'd fallen in love with Sonny, despite knowing the consequences. I knew from the start I wouldn't be able to get away with whatever it was that I was trying to do, yet I couldn't stop my stupid self. The heart wants what the heart wants, right?

Anyway, when I went back inside to talk to the doctor dude, he told me that Sonny fainted because she'd been poisoned. At which point, my heart almost stopped beating because I yelled out, "What kind of cruel, heartless bitch would want to poison her?!", and I ended up having some kind of extreme panic attack. After watching a nurse stab my arm with a random injection that knocked me out for a few minutes, I woke up and the doctor told me that Sonny might've consumed something with a small concentration of poison in it, and because it was so small, it took a while before it could spread around her body and actually cause any harm. And when it did spread, she fainted. The doctor said that she could've taken the stuff a day, or even a week before, at which point I concluded that it might have been why she was so weak, and I began to assume that her in-laws had something to do with it.

I didn't know for sure who'd done it, of course, but I didn't want to know. I wouldn't let myself find out, because if it was a certain someone's doing, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself going and murdering the son of a you-know-what-the-word-is. But I wasn't going to investigate. I wanted to stick with what I knew, and all I knew then was that I was definitely not leaving my Sonshine alone like that… I headed back to where she was, but the nurse wouldn't let me go near her. Stupid woman thought I was crazy. She made me sit in the icky waiting area.


"Excuse me, sir?" Someone shook me, and for a moment, I wasn't sure where I was. I felt a terrible pain in my neck – I'd fallen asleep in a weird position again. But then, it all came back to me. I was in the hospital. Sonny had been poisoned. And I'd been waiting.

"Yeah?" I mumbled, looking up at the nurse who had woken me.

"I'm sorry to inform you of this, but Miss Sonny Munroe is…"


Dun-dun-duhhhhhh. Sorry again for the long wait!

-Sarah :)

PS: please review. I want to see how many people are still even reading this story :P