Chapter Four
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Next morning Miss Parker woke up late. For one moment she forgot what had happened and when everything came back to her, she felt like she wanted to die. She thought of Debbie. She had grown up to be a very beautiful woman. With her long blonde hair, she looked like a model. But Miss Parker couldn't help but feel sad when she thought of what she'd become. Debbie deserved such a better life than she lived. And the truth was, everything was Miss Parker's fault.
Miss Parker reached for the album which was still lying in her bed. She tried to not panic, but she just didn't understand what was happening here? How was it possible to just wake up thirty years in the future? Miss Parker didn't want to admit it but she was terrified. She felt lonelier than ever. The thought of Jarod with Zoë was slowly killing her. And the thought of herself committing suicide scared the hell out of her… was she really going to feel so depressed? Was she really going to hate her life enough to decide to end it?
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When Miss Parker arrived to the Centre she felt scared. What other terrible news was she going to find out today?
The first thing she did was run into Debbie. She seemed upset.
"Parker! What are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to find out…" Miss Parker started but was cut off.
"If you don't want to stay here forever, I suggest you get the hell out of here and that's fast!" Debbie said, scanning the room nervously.
Miss Parker frowned. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"The news that Miss Parker has a daughter is spreading faster than fire here, and I have no idea of how, I didn't tell anyone. But now the Triumvirate knows and are planning to make you in charge of the Centre, temporarily maybe, I don't know… You're the only one left in the Parker family, except Adam Parker, but he's gone without a trace… and than there's Ethan, but he's gone too. Oh and Mr Lyle is in prison for murderer… so, there's only you left…"
"Adam?"
"Mr. Parker's son," Debbie answered, surprised that Parker didn't know.
Miss Parker nodded. Baby Parker… maybe he was smart enough to leave when he had a chance to… she thought. And Lyle? Her brother in prison? Miss Parker wasn't surprised, but she wondered how the Centre had allowed it, they would have helped him out of there. Miss Parker frowned, that was so strange…
"Debbie why don't you leave, you deserve a better life than this," Miss Parker said.
Debbie shook her head. "This is what I wanted…" she said, but Miss Parker knew she was lying. She wanted to hug her, but realized she wasn't Broots's sweet daughter anymore.
She just nodded. "If there's one thing I don't want to it is to be trapped in here… I guess I'm leaving then…" Miss Parker said. She knew that sooner or later the Centre would find out Miss Parker doesn't have a daughter, and then she would have big problems…
As she stood there watching Debbie and the stir at the Centre, she understood why her older self had killed herself. What did she have to live for? Everything and everyone she loved had died or disappeared, and mostly it was her fault. She didn't have a reason to live anymore. She gave Debbie one last look, then she turned and walked away. Tears slowly found their way down her cheeks. If this was what her future would hold, she didn't want to be a part of it. This was not a life; this was hell, her worst nightmare…
Miss Parker was crying herself to sleep that night…
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Slowly her eyes fluttered open and the first thing she felt was a throbbing pain in her arm. Her whole body was sore and she was soaking wet. Confused she made it to a sitting position. She saw her car upside down and suddenly everything came back to her. She was back!
But then a thought struck her, she felt a chill down her spine. She saw Debbie's face in front of her, she recalled what she told him happened this night… the car accident. Maybe it wasn't too late after all…
Desperately Miss Parker searched for her cell phone. It had slipped out of her pocket and she found it on the ground. She flipped it open and quickly dialled Broots number.
"Broots! Stop the car, do you hear me, you have to stop the car!" she almost yelled into the phone.
"What? Miss Parker are you all right?"
"JUST DO AS I SAID!" Miss Parker screamed.
Broots hit the brake in pure shock. He had never heard Miss Parker that desperate before. But he did it too quickly and the car started to spin, it hit a tree, and the phone was thrown away.
Miss Parker listened to the crash terrified. She couldn't believe it; this was not supposed to happen. This was not how Debbie said it happened.
"BROOTS!" she screamed. "SYDNEY!" she thought she heard Sydney's voice but wasn't sure.
The phone slipped out of Miss Parker's hand as she sank to the ground. Her eyes started to fill with tears. "Please, god let them be okay…"
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TBC.
AN/ Yeah, the plan is to kill Broots actually… but I don't know, what do you guys think?
