A week after Doctor Craig left.
Belle suddenly got her high fever and she missed him damn much. Gibson couldn't bear to see her like this, barely to leave her alone.
The rumor said, the school began suspecting between Gibson and Belle's relationship. They are suddenly absent.
She makes him worry, he never dares to send Belle to the hospital so he gets help from Craig through the call.
Gibson followed Doctor Craig instruction day by day, carrying Belle inside the bathtub with ice and water on it, letting her body temperature back to normal.
Manage that. He was told what to do and what he had to do to save Belle out from this dangerous sickness.
Her temperature was slowing down, so he took a seat beside the bed. Her skin, her lips totally white and pale. He damp wet towel on her forehead. Belle looked exactly like a ghost bride he had married.
Burning and sweaty sometimes, he rubs the back of his neck.
Since Belle got sick he hadn't had enough sleep, sometimes he went to school to avoid the rumor then quickly went back home for Belle. He even sleeps inside the classroom because of his lack of sleep.
Doctor Craig suggests that Belle must be sent to the hospital for further examination, Gibson refuses because he is afraid Belle is running away but the public he is afraid of the most.
People already know Belle was abducted and he is the culprit. He would rather look after her at home than send her to hospital. He sighs.
"What can I do to see you back to normal? I miss arguing with you, fighting with you. To see you running around the house, your babbling, your cursed mocking words on me. Everything. Please make me annoyed just once".
Belle didn't respond to him. He sighs again before heading his way downstairs.
"Get UP, Belle!" Her eyes wide open again. Emma stood in front of her. "I can't believe you coming back in here after you shout me out".
Belle looked around the room, said. "What happened to me?"
"You sick, Belle! You got a high fever and Gibson helped you out. Look".
There is something you cannot imagine but Belle really can see Gibson inside the house beside her unmoving body on bed. He was looking after her, and he's completely tired.
"Still you want to kill him if you had a chance?"
"I didn't ask to be sick, I just miss Doctor Craig".
"Oh yes that Doctor. You can't ask him to stay with you, Belle he had his own life. Your future is with Gibson not with the Doctor. If you want justice, my justice, what I will tell you is that you will regret it if you hand him over to the police".
Belle shook no, "I will not regret".
"For now, Belle one day you are". Once again Emma pointed out Belle's flat belly. "One day what will you tell them about their dad".
"I am not having HIS baby!"
Emma smiles then she laughs. "That is why you are here, you miss me. Don't be such an ego, Belle you'll see if you act like a five years old kid. Something is going to happen and you need to be ready".
"Like what?"
She smiles, "Be ready, Belle". She jolted from bed again. She is back to reality where Gibson eyes shoot up on her. She is awake now.
"You awake!" his large hand cupped her face. "Oh, Belle, I was so worried about you. Are you hungry or do you need anything I can do for you? Don't do this to me, you scared me to death. I am not ready to let you go if I had to... I will keep you beside me no matter what. No one will take you from me".
Her face looked confused. She asked, "How long have you been not in school because of me?"
"A week. Well I had to leave you several times alone at home. The school started to have a rumor about us being absent together. They suspected that we had a relationship".
He kissed her hand. "I've missed you my darling".
"What time is it?"
He looked over the time, and said. "You've been sleeping. It's six-thirty in the morning. Why?"
"I need a shower. We're going to school!"
"So soon? No. I will not let you go to school like this, you just awake from your dead. What if you pass out? Who will help you then, the school doesn't know what kind of relationship we both had. Craig is not here to help you!"
Belle jumped off the bed, circling around the room. Gibson still worries about her health. "We tell them".
"What!"
"We. We tell them that we are married. Like you say we cannot lie forever. I don't care for what it takes and I'm sure Emma wants me to do this".
He stepped forward, "Emma? She told you to tell the world that we are husband and wife. Are you gone crazy my darling!"
"I am not. My head is ninety eight percent better than you".
Gibson refused, "What will they expect from us, the truth? The truth that I am your culprit and you are forced to marry me and I try to kill your parents if you disobey. Is that what you want?"
"We had to try".
"This is not you, Belle, you will never want to admit that I am your husband. You hate me, shamed on me. Does Emma change you and why did she say that".
Belle stops circling around the room, their eyes gaze to each other. "I don't know what Emma wants me to do and I just know this is what she wants. She wants me to love you".
Gibson's face shocked. She spoke back. "Because she forbade me to kill you. She told me there was something coming up that she asked me to be ready".
"Does you know what kind of thing she talks about?"
Belle shook no. Gibson sighs hard again.
"Belle this is just your dream. Emma is... dead. I kill her. I know you miss her but are you sure about this feeling if we tell them?"
Belle nodded, "I am not gonna lose you. Like I say you're still sick and your head is messing your mind".
"She didn't hate you even after you killed her. Wasn't she forgiven but... that's it. That's all she said, I don't know where she was when I met her. The room is empty and white.
"Her unfinished business is why she is stuck inside that room and I must give you love, so she can freely go. Perhaps that was her last wish, she wanted us to be happy together".
Gibson bites the bottom of his lips, he doesn't know what to say. "Then do you really want us to start all over again?"
Belle nod yes, he smiles. Pulling her closer to him, "If you say so. Do you think the principal will accept this?"
"Absolutely NOT!" shout Principal Jackson to Gibson and Belle. "How could you! You, Mr. Warren, how could you marry someone underage like Ms. Warren? Oh my God I've been fooled by both of you".
Begin circling the room. "No wonder 'Warren' is so familiar to me. You both are married!"
Gibson sighs, he spoke. "Don't blame my wife, Mr. Principal".
"Oh now you call her your 'wife'!"
Gibson wet his lips, "Mr. Principal. This is all my idea. She wants to graduate and I give her permission with conditions. And this is the condition to keep our marriage from people".
Principal Jackson leaned on Gibson. Smirking. "Oh really. Or you two were running from the police? Was your name really Ferhat and Asli Warren".
Gibson eyeing Belle. Principal Jackson noticed. He spoke to Belle, "Did he force you into a marriage, Mrs. Warren?"
"Wasn't. I love my husband, we are sort of soulmates and we love one another". Belle eyes the principal. "That's the truth".
Laughing. The principal spoke back. "You both lied to me. I accept you in my school with my open heart and you two betrayed the trust I give you". he breath.
"This is outrageous, this is a scandal! I demand that you both be expelled from my school. You two made me like a fooled man on earth!"
He stares at both Gibson and Belle. Continue. "I can't keep you in my school. Soon enough the parents will find the truth. Where should I put my face? My reputation? My school.
"And because of you two they will seal this school shut and never reopen again. This is the best school my students had to achieve their goals and YOU!"
Belle eyes stare up to the principal. "You...!" breathing heavily. "So, the man who calls himself a doctor. Is he fake too?"
"He's real". spoke Belle. "He is the real doctor and not my cousin".
The principal slapped the forehead, he cried on the couch. Eyes back to Gibson and Belle again.
"Is there anything you hide from me that I should know now. Stop torturing ME!" he shouted, patting his chest. "Please say anything. I beg you". he pleaded.
Belle eyeing Gibson mouthing him it's time as he nods understanding. Today is the day.
"May I begin, Sir. If you really want to know our deep secret. The name Ferhat and Asli Warren wasn't our name either". said Gibson.
The principal patted his chest, he couldn't breath.
"My real name is Victor Gibson and my wife, Andriana Belle Decker. For short you can call her Belle. The doctor is my brother. I have known him since I was a boy. I didn't have a family until I met him".
Gibson sighs, continuing. "Belle had her own family which I took from them. You wanna know the truth, yes, I abducted her and forced her into a marriage.
"I became obsessed with her. And now... she fell in love with me". he smiled at Belle, and so did she. "I hope you will understand. I did this because I love her so much".
The principal stood up, walk to them. "Did you realize what you have done?". Gibson nodded his head.
"This poor girl you took from her family and changed your real name so then they can't recognise or detect your track. What is in your head when you do that, Mr. Gibson should I call you that name?"
Gibson nodded his head again. "Tell me what I should do then?" ask the principal.
"Should I report you both to the police? Or perhaps your parents already did. This is a kidnapping! You took this poor child as an adult. I am ashamed of you, Victor Gibson!"
Belle studied Gibson for a while. What the principal said about it was right. Everything was absolutely right and the principal had a right to call the police towards Gibson.
She must do something. Doesn't mean she loves Gibson but she is doing this for Emma. If Emma can sacrifice herself for her why not herself.
"Well? Anything".
Belle looked up. "If you notice that your desk has my friend's picture, Virginia Stackhouse, I could call the police on you too as a stalker".
Gibson turned to Belle and looked where the picture frames stood. The principal's face suddenly turns white, he must have forgotten to hide that away from the desk before Belle and Gibson enter.
"So, I'll keep your secret and you keep our secret. How's that sound?"
"Are you threatening me, Mrs. Gibson!"
Belle nodded with smirking, "Is my word against yours. Do we have a deal? We stay in this school, let's say my parents allow this marriage and nothing has a problem here. There is a reason why I just want to graduate after that you will not see us again".
The principal's face turned to red, he took a seat back on his chair. "What if you get pregnant? I can't accept pregnant students in my school".
"We know the ways to hide my pregnancy. There will be no problem". The principal leaned back, and Belle spoke again. "Just follow my lead and we are both safe".
Gibson smirks as he is proud of his wife, damn this girl really kicking someone ass after marrying him. Or she acts like one.
"What about your name should you keep it or what should I call".
"Ferhat and Asli Warren".
"Just like that?"
Gibson spoke, "We may share our last name. But we are not related or married as my wife told you, Sir. Act normal. Tell them we are not in a relationship".
"Why don't they know about it? I'm sure they will understand".
"You say you wanted to keep this school a priority. Your reputation".
The principal shook no, "I've changed my mind but you must keep my secret and keep the name". Gibson did not agree.
"Keep our secret. They will be no more".
The principal nod understood, "You have my word. Your nice girl, Mrs. Gibson deserved your life. Then what about your husband's relationship with Ms. Bilson? The rumor".
"I had nothing to do with her". said Gibson. "I had no feeling. I have my beautiful wife beside me, why should I cheat just for her".
"I will give you a warning about Ms. Bilson, Victor she will do anything to keep you both apart if she finds out the truth. And don't blame me if she does".
They two nod together, "Later I will hold a meeting with the teacher that includes you, Mr. Gibson, as for you Mrs. Gibson will return to the classroom". Gibson nodded with thank you.
"Can I urmm... tell my friends about it".
"If you wish but you need your husband's permission".
She turns to Gibson as he nods yes. He smiled. "They deserve to know. Sure they will understand".
Later. Natasha slammed her fist on the door locker beside Belle. She turned in shock. Natasha smiles. "What's up?" the group circled around Belle. "Is it true, Asli seriously?"
"About what?" Belle slammed the locker door.
The group spoke, "That you and Mr. Warren had been called by Virginia's man crush office because the rumor says you both are a married couple".
"Yes I am!" the group gasped heavily. "But I just tell you guys that's all".
"You really are married?" said Rosie. "How does this happen, Asli?"
Belle smiles, "It's a long story, Rosie but you guys please don't push me as your friends. I am no one". Natasha smiles.
"Asli darling. You secret's safe with us at least you told the truth. You didn't hide it. Not even the teachers know about this am I right?"
Belle nodded her head again, Natasha spoke back. "Virginia had a crush on Mr. Jackson. Why not marry our English teacher? What is the difference?"
"That I'm married, Virginia is not".
The group nodded. The boys spoke. "We make sure no one will know about it". Belle feels safe. "Ms. Bilson is obsessed with your husband, you know that".
"Yeah I know, Mr. Jackson told me. He says that we must be careful with her, she will do anything to know our secret. She's a bitch isn't she?"
"Way more of bitch". Belle suddenly had her daydreaming while the group was still talking about this. Natasha patted Belle's arm. "You'll alright?"
"I'm hungry".
"Right. Donald got an extra meat sandwich. Seriously, you have to try it's delicious when his mom starts to cook".
They turned to Ronald, he spoke. "I've got plenty. I don't mind sharing. I always get hungry and my mom always prepares".
The group nod agree with his word. "Don't be shy as you were inside my house. My house is your house too".
"Thanks, Donald".
Gibson takes a seat beside the principal while facing other teachers to clear his name of the rumor about being married to Belle even if it was true. He sighs, sitting silently beside the principal.
"I've got this, Gibson". whisper the principal to him. He stood up.
"Teachers". spoke the principal. "With all due respect as we all in here hear already about the rumor which Mr. Warren had married with one of the students in here. As I say it just a rumor. Mr. Warren had confirmed himself that his absence was truly devastating for his dead friend on the other side of the country.
"As for Ms. Warren, her cousin, Doctor Craig, denied the rumor that Ms. Warren was recently sick at hospital and had nothing to do with this rumor".
One of the teachers raised their arm, "Are you really, Sir? You think all this was a coincidence".
"Doctor Craig came to my office. He even brought me Ms. Warren's sick record as proof she was in the hospital. You want to see?" the teachers shook no. "Great. Anything else?"
"We want to hear from Mr. Warren about this rumor".
The principal turned to Gibson. "Indeed. As they say, Mr. Warren". Gibson nodded, smiled, and stood up.
"My apologies if I offended other fellow teachers here. Yes, I recently went away to visit my friend's funeral. My best friend and the car crash took him. He was riding a bicycle when the car suddenly ran over him while crossing. The driver is drunk, my friend died at the scene".
Gibson cried, wiped the tears. "I miss him so much". The teachers approach him with a hug but not Veronica Bilson. She sat there studying Gibson knowing something went wrong that she must find out. "Thank you".
"Let the man rest in peace and be with God".
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