The Waterfall's Nymph

Chapter 11 – No Forgiving

"What do you mean with 'very sick'?" said Sulfus, his voice with no doubt showed worry, even after what had happened, deep inside he still worried and cared a lot for Nymph...

"Let me explain everything from the beginning..." said the girl, sitting down on a chair next to Sulfus' bed where he and his mother were both sitting. She opened her purse and took out something from there, giving it to Sulfus. He took it and realized it was a CD, he looked at his ex-girlfriend, confused but somehow suspicious..."She is innocent...it wasn't her who stole that pearl necklace...moreover, that necklace was never stolen..."

"What...?"

"The proof is in your hands, this CD can prove that she is innocent..." still suspicious Sulfus ended up giving into the curiosity of knowing if what she was saying was true or not, so he turned on his laptop and put the CD in there, a paste opened that had a few files in there

"What is this?"

"The photo that proved that she was the one responsible for the stealing..." said the girl clicking on an image that was the same one Sulfus had seen, he was about to tell her he already knew about it but the girl continued immediately "...it's fake" this made Seraph and Sulfus even more confused, what did she mean? Kabale answered the question by clicking on two other images, there appeared the same photo of Nymph but without the necklace and on another the necklace itself.

Seeing this Sulfus didn't want to believe..."You mean that...all this time it was a photo manipulation...?"

"Yes, Sulfus, that's exactly what I mean..." Sulfus had to sit down...he couldn't believe in what he saw...the photo he had seen a week ago was nothing but a photo manipulation...Nymph had never stolen that pearl necklace, she was innocent...somebody had framed her...but that was a question that only Kabale could answer...he frowned when he thought about that and turned back to face his ex-girlfriend.

"Kabale...how did you have access to this...? If you had access to this CD that is the only proof in how Nymph is innocent...then it's because you have something to do with what happened...did you do this?"

The girl shook her head slowly "I only found out today...I have nothing to do with it...I found out just by chance when I heard this conversation..."

"Kabale...tell me...who did this...?" said the boy cautiously, trying to control his anger

She shook her head again "I can't tell...but this CD is enough to proof that she didn't anything bad...so, you can go pick her up at the prison" not being able to hold himself back any longer, the boy grabbed her by her arms tightly and stared at her hard, shaking her with every word he would say

"Tell me who did this! A girl was arrested for something she didn't even do! Tell me who framed her, WHO, I know you know who it was! Stop covering that person and tell me who it is!"

Tears started running down the girl's cheeks "It was my father okay?"

"Your father...?"

"Y-Yes...I d-don't why he did this, I swear I don't know but...today when I was going to his office...I...I heard this conversation between him and a man...by the type of the conversation he seemed to be paying him for a well done job and...I saw him putting the CD inside the table's drawer and...I don't know, I don't know why he would do something like that but I couldn't handle!" she said still crying "I know I told you I would get revenge for you having left me the way you did but I would never be able to do this, I have nothing to do with what happened to her! I know I can appear to be the kind of person that would do something like this but...the truth is that I'm not and...as soon as I found out that she was innocent...I couldn't carry this weight on my conscience in knowing that she was arrested for something she didn't even do and that I knew that and wouldn't do anything...so I went to the prison and showed them the CD...I told them it was my father but, nothing proves that it was him ordering the stealing...unless they catch the man who he was talking to, they can't do anything against him...they didn't come here to bring her yet because...she is very sick, I saw her with my own eyes, she was burning up with fever"

"And...the necklace...?"

"It was my mother's necklace...my father simulated the stealing and I don't know he managed to get it in the middle of that girl's things...then he just needed to make an anonymous call...and that was enough..." Sulfus released the now red arms of Kabale, he was in shock...he couldn't react...what had he done...? He had blamed Nymph, he hadn't believed in her and after all he was really innocent...and to make things even worse, she now was sick...he had to settle things...

"I..." he started staring at the girl "I can only thank you for having done this for her..."

"I didn't do it for her, I did it for you...you may not have understood yet but I did, it's noticeable in a huge distance that you like her and that she likes you...our story may have not worked out...when you truly love someone, we need to learn to forgive and let him go...and that's what I'm doing...I don't want to become an avenging person...I just wanted to be happy and I believed that I would have that happiness next to you but...seems like I was wrong..." she looked down...

That when suddenly Sulfus hugged her, she was caught by surprise and so didn't even react "I repeat again that I thank you for what you did for her...that shows that you have got a good heart and...that you're not like your father...I know I shouldn't say this but whatever it was the reason that made him do this...it can't be forgiven..."

"No you're right...I'm still trying to understand why...he has changed...he wasn't like this..." she looked down but only for a few seconds "Now go, you have to go and get her" Sulfus nodded and together with his mother left the room, both entered in the car but before they left Seraph had called the doctor that always went to their house when one of them was sick, she told him to go to the house because they were going to get someone who needed help.

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At the prison they were guided to the cell where Nymph was, there was a guard together with her checking her temperature and by her face, it seemed to be very high, the young girl shook underneath the blankets that covered her and had her face completely red. Sulfus thought his heart was going to stop when he saw that...

"She hasn't been eating at all ever since she got here, I'm the one who is responsible to bring food to her and she didn't eat once, as to sleep it's exactly the same thing. It's very probable that both these two things are the cause she is like this" explained the guard

"Did you gave her some medicine?" asked Seraph

"Yes, we had to force her to eat some food so the medication would have effect, but I don't understand why the fever hasn't gone down yet, we have given her the medicine a while ago"

"Because she hasn't taken the medication..." said suddenly Sulfus, who now was next to Nymph, crouched down, in one of his hands was the pill that Nymph should have taken..."It was hidden under the pillow...she never took the medication, so the fever hasn't gone down"

"But how? I stayed here until I was sure she had taken it" said the guard

"Probably she faked to have swallowed it and when you left, she spit it out..." said the boy, wrapping the girl's body in the blankets and picking her up in his arms, Seraph helped him put her head against his shoulder. The three left the prison as fast as they could. Sulfus spent the whole trip back home with Nymph in his arms, he was worried about her temperature, probably it was reaching 102ºF and that was no good...

When they got home, the doctor was already there who, after they took Nymph inside her bedroom, started immediately taking care of her. The only one who remained inside the room was Seraph together with the doctor, Sulfus and Elisabeth had stayed outside the bedroom, the reason the first had remained outside was because he had to tell everything to his father.

About an hour later the doctor and Seraph left the room. Sulfus stood up from the chair he had been sitting on as soon as he saw them, anxious for the news "Is she going to be okay?"

"Yes, she certainly will. This time I made sure that she swallowed the medication, a few days of resting and she shall be back to the normal. But be careful; don't let her catch cold air, which would only worsen her state"

Sulfus hesitated "Is...she awake...?"

"Yes she is but if you want to talk to her, don't take much time, she needs to rest" the boy nodded and walked in the room, she was awake just like the doctor had said and she was turned to the door's side...as soon as she saw him walking in, the boy couldn't help but show her a small smile...which she didn't even returned...she just looked away, looking at whatever she wanted, she just didn't want to look at him...not after what he did to her...

The small and hesitant smile on Sulfus face disappeared as soon as this happened, he looked down a bit and sighed...he should have excepted this...but still he approached her, sitting on the bed, as soon as he did that, the girl turned on the bed, turning her back to him...

"Nymph..." he said slowly..."I know that you're angry...you have reasons to be...but I'm sorry, I should have never doubted you..."

She didn't even react, Sulfus tried to touch her arm but she immediately escaped from his touch, he sighed again "I know that this isn't an excuse for what I did to you...but on that day I was already so bothered that when I saw that photo, it was the last straw...I exploded completely and didn't even think about what I was saying..." this time he managed to put his hand on her shoulder "But I promise that it won't happen ever again, I-"

He didn't even manage to finish talking because the girl stood up from the bed suddenly and pushed him away from her, tears were running down her cheeks, you could see the pain in the girl's blue eyes, she was really hurt with him and wouldn't forgive him that easily...staring into these eyes Sulfus understood that...the girl laid down on the bed again and turned once more her back on him, the boy took that as a 'go away' sign. For now he would leave...but he wouldn't give up, he would get her trust back.

But when he left that room he felt devastated...Seraph and Elisabeth looked at him as if waiting to know how the conversation had gone, he just shook his head "She doesn't want to see me..."

Elisabeth frowned "And she has all the rights to be!" Sulfus looked at her surprised "She trusted you and you betrayed her trust!"

"Elisabeth Marie Zolfanello, don't talk like that with your brother!" scolded Seraph but the little girl just run into her bedroom "Elisabeth come back here!"

"She is right mom..." said Sulfus, his mother turned to him "I ruined everything...we had a very strong connection and I...ruined everything..."

"But you can't give up"

"I won't give up...but maybe it's better if I leave her alone for a while..."

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On the next morning Sulfus was awaken with someone shaking him "Wake up!"

"Elisabeth what do you want..." grumbled the boy, still sleepy...

"Nymph is missing!" yelled the little girl, the boy sat up on the bed immediately

"What?"

"Me and mom went this morning to her bedroom to check how she was and she was gone! The sheets of her bed were tied to the bed's bar making a cord towards the window!"

"Damnit!" in a blink of eyes he had changed clothes and run downstairs

"Where are you going Sulfus?" asked his father, the boy had the door already opened

"I'm going to get her"

"But there is a snowstorm!"

"Exactly! I can't leave her out there in the state she is!" he run outside the house, he went to the stables and after he had saddle up Basilisk, he galloped towards the forest as fast as he could, the forest was the only place where he was sure she had gone to and sick as she was Nymph couldn't have gone too far. And actually it didn't take him too long until he found a clue of her, the white rose of her hair was in the middle of the snow. Sulfus took the rose in his hand and looked forward; trying to see better what was in front of him...

It didn't take him too long to notice a figure laying down in the middle of the snow, covered by it. He run there and realized that it was indeed Nymph; she was unconscious and cold...very cold...

TBC...