House of Secrets

Chapter 5- The Unknown Number (part1)

Jerome's PoV

Hospital

12:10

Someone just kill me now. I just told Elena, a girl I hardly know that I want to kiss her. She's probably going to slap me like the other girls I have said that too and most of those were just me trying to flirt, and I didnt mean it at all. I looked at Elena and saw that she was staring off into space. 'I hope she is just thinking' I thought to myself.

And to just make things worse, an akward silence fell over the already too quite room. So I just got slowly moved off the bed and was just about to run to the door, Elena grabbed my arm, so I turned around and went back over to sit on the bed and then she started to speak. And when I thought she was going to yell at me, she didnt.

"Did you really mean that Jerome" she said in a calm and happy voice? I just smiled and sat back down on the bed and grabbed both of her hands in mine, which made the smile she wore on her face bigger and brighter. Then I said the speech that Ive saved for when I met the right girl (and shockingly, this is the first time I have ever said it so wish me luck).

"Yes I did and I dont care that we know nothing about eachother, because I feel like I already know you from that dream even though it wasnt a very good one. I feel so happy with you and you bring out the best in me Elena, you might not want this and I'll be okay with us just being..." was all I got to say. Because Elena stopped me, with a kiss.

I smiled and kissed her back with all the joy in my heart (and i dont even care about the fact that was the corniest thing Ive ever thought.) We pulled away and she was smiling as big as I was. And when I was about to kiss her, Trudy and the others came through the door. So I quickly slid off the bed and in the chair and I could tell that Elena was just as upset as I was about the interuption.

When Trudy saw that she was awake, she ran over and hugged Elena with tears running down her face. "Oh sweetie I was so worried about you, what happened anyway?" she said with sniffles between everyother word.

I saw that Elena was getting nervous, Trudy shouldnt get involved in this. So I decided to take action. "She doesnt want to talk about it Trudy, when I tried to ask her she started crying and I if I were you, id wait til she is ready talk". I felt pretty confident about what I just said. I looked over at Elena and she smiled and mouthed 'thank you'.

"Since when did you care for other people Jerome" said Patricia with the same annoyed tone that she always spoke to me with. "You should be happy that Im being nice at all" I said back with the same tone.

"He's got you there Patricia" said Amber. She just huffed and walked out of the room. And soon everyone but Nina and Trudy left the room. " Are you sure that you're alright sweetie?" Trudy asked Elena. And she replied "yes".

"Okay then I'll be taking the kids back to school, call me when they let you go" she said then bent down and kissed her forehead and walked out with Nina and before she left I told her that I'll talk to her when I got back to the house. She nodded and walked out, leaving Elena and I alone again.

"Hey Elena, have you gotten any texts from an unknown number who calls themselves 'The Immortal'?" I asked her, I wanted to know if that was something else we had in common.

"How did you know?"

"Ive got a text on the way to the hospital saying 'beware, she has been marked' which Im thinking had something to do with the weird mark thats in your chest".

But before she could answer me, both of our phones beeped and I saw that I had a text from the immortal. "Speak of the devil" I said which had Elena mumble "no kidding".

I opened the message and this is what it says:

"Spend as much time as you can with her, because it wont be much" -The Immortal

And that gave me the chills. Does this mean who ever did this to her is going to try and kill her again? If that does happen, it better not happen soon. I looked over at her and saw she had the same horrified expressinon on her face. I gently grabbed her phone and saw she had been sent the same message.

There is only one thing we both said after that:

"Who is the Immortal?"