Present day. New York. A woman stopping at the red light, she rubs her nose and takes a glance over the mirror.
As the light turns green, she hits the gas and drives to the nearby cafe where she always gets her nice hot chocolate with four different flavor donuts.
That woman is Andriana Belle Decker, a twenty seven years old beautiful widow and mother of twins, Arman Spencer Decker and Mia Luna Decker.
Usual morning routine after she drops off her kids at school before going to work.
A few days after Victor Gibson died. Belle confirmed to be pregnant with his child's. She received her graduation along with Doctor Craig, her parents and the twins.
Belle holds her title as Psychiatrist Doctor and works at the mental Institution named Salem Rockhaven Asylum. She owns her office, definitely she had one.
Gibson's tragic death had changed her life and opened her eyes for the future of her own family.
Hoping he was proud of her achievement. If Gibson wanted her to be happy and yet she did. He gives her a new life inside her, a beautiful baby she raises on her own without a husband on her side.
Gibson wanted to see how his child, born in front of his eyes, turns out he won't. He died before the child was born. For Belle, life must move on and she is living happily with her kids now.
As for Doctor Craig, he engaged with the woman he loved. Never ever he failed looking after Belle and her kids as Gibson asked him to.
Without turning off the engine, Belle bolts out of the car and runs inside the cafe to grab her thing on the counter.
"Thank you. I owe you!" as she ran back toward her car and drove. "Why does this place always creep me out".
Yes, that place is the scariest place that ever exists in the biggest city of New York. Before reaching the destination, she has to go through the scariest road, a scary forest, and at the end of the road there is a building for insane patients to live.
The place where she works now for over years.
Later. Belle arrives at the institution and parks the car. Before she could turn the engine off she already heard an insane person screaming from the inside of the building.
She breathed heavily, quickly locking the door car as her eyes looked around the place. She got a bit of a phobia, once she heard the same scream and suddenly one of the patients attacked her with the pocket knife from the door she forgot to lock.
Injured. The patients were sent straight to white room and never got out for two weeks. Belle got her injured on her right arm.
"You gotta be kidding me, Alice you come back in here!" She begins chasing one of the insane patients. "Security, nurse, police what the hell!" She shouted, the security blew the whistle from afar. "GET HER! GET HER!"
They circled around the building as they chased the insane patient named Alice, one of the nurses almost caught her but failed, instantly Belle caught Alice by the legs. She sat on top of her, the woman struggling.
"Stay still, Alice gave me the syringe I put her to sleep!"
Belle reaches the syringe from the nurse then aims it on Alice's arm. A second later, struggling Alice now is calming down.
The nurse dragged her back inside the building. "What the hell just happened?" asked Belle to the nurse who stayed behind.
"She bit Jonas' ears and ran away".
Belle sighs, "I've told you not to get any closer to Alice, she is different from other patients in here". She walks back to her car, following the nurse behind. "How, Gabriel?"
"Dreaming inside his room. He bit himself". said the nurse. "Oh, that little girl's parents are waiting for you inside your office".
Belle nod okay, grab her things inside the car then walk inside the building.
"Do you need something, Doctor?" shouted the nurse. Belle didn't hear, "Guess not".
Later. Belle stared at the little girl's blue eyes, with a light aiming on her eyeballs. She studied this girl for a moment then broke eye contact and smiled.
The little girl's parents spoke, "How's my Atalia doctor?"
"She's fine. So she told you that she keeps seeing this blonde woman inside the house?" The parent nod yes. "Have you seen that woman?"
"Of course not". said the father. "I'm working. My wife work at home so mostly my wife keep an eyes on our daughter. I've never known Atalia will act aggressive like that. She bite me look!"
The father shows the injury he got from his daughter. Quite deep the injuries are.
"And she talks about something I don't know".
The wife spoke. "She keeps calling the name Martha. Martha and Martha. I mean who the hell is, Martha?"
Belle smiles a bit, asking the parent to leave the room for a while. She sat on the carpet facing the little girl who was playing lego sets on the floor.
She smiled again, "Atalia?" The little girl looked up at her. "Atalia, who is Martha to you? And why does she keep coming for you and what is it she wants". The little girl didn't answer her question. "Atalia!"
"Dad had an affair with her". said the little girl without hesitation. Belle was shocked. "She got cold when nobody tried to help her out. She was alone".
Belle bit her lips, said. "Down there? Where? If she is still alive then where she's been living". Belle reaches for a small notepad and pen on the table, writing down. "What is Martha's full name, Atalia?"
"Martha Abigail Santiago".
Belle ran back to her desk, searching for the name of Martha Abigail Santiago on her laptop. Knowing something about what she believed.
It revealed Martha Abigail Santiago had gone missing for a week without trace. According to the statement from her family, the last time they saw Martha was right in the house.
Could be this Martha's spirit trying to communicate with Atalia because her father had an affair with her. A connection.
Who knows. No one knows whether Martha is still alive or not. "Atalia, this is her isn't she?" Belle shows the photo of Martha, the little girl nod yes. "Have you seen her before, like when she was alive?"
"No. Martha says my dad is the reason she lived down there". Belle blinks. "Ask him".
Belle breathed heavily, she called the security from her office. Leaning back on the chair as she rubs the back of her neck.
"I think we just found our killer on the loose in here". She then walked out the room. "Can I speak with your wife alone, Mr. John".
Nodding his head, he walked inside the room again alone with his daughter.
"Mrs. John, can I ask you something?"
The wife nodded. "Sure, Doctor what is it?" Belle bites her lips.
"Do you believe in ghosts, Mrs. John?" The wife nodded yes. "I mean actually you believe because what I am about to say was I think Atalia had spoken with a spirit. A ghost of Martha".
Before Mrs. John could argue, Belle spoke. "Don't get mad. Atalia wasn't crazy. You should send her to me".
"She probably had an imaginary friend from our house. How dare you say that!"
Belle sighs harder, said. "Trust me, Mrs. John, I handle the same case like your daughter and they end up behind bars when the truth comes out".
"My daughter just had her imaginary friend!" Suddenly the security and the police show up behind Mrs. John. "What is all this?"
Belle points at the door where Mr. John is. The police hold him. "Mr. John, we need your statement regarding the missing woman named Martha Abigail Santiago".
"What? I don't know her and why you hold me down!"
The police turn to Belle, "Will you take full responsibility for this case if it wasn't true?" Belle nods.
"I'll take full responsibility for this case, Officer please update me".
The police nod, then bring Mr. John out from the building. Mrs. John looked panicked and confused about what the hell just happened.
"Why did they take my husband!"
Belle spoke, "For interrogation".
"Because of that woman who never existed! Are you insane? My husband had nothing to do with it".
Belle smirking, "Soon you will find out. And I can't wait to hear from the police. As for you, Mrs. John, you must stay here until the interrogation is complete".
"I demand to know what they will do to my husband!" Belle didn't answer, she walked back inside the room.
Later that, after the interrogation is done. It reveals Mrs. John is the killer of Martha Abigail Santiago when she finds out her husband had been cheating on her behind her back.
Before that happens, while waiting for the interrogation done in Belle's office. Mrs. John apparently had a seizure as her eyes looked up in shock without a reason.
Belle steps closer to her, and smirks. Knowing Mrs. John is the reason Martha died, not Mr. John. How did Belle know?
When Mrs. John had a seizure, she spoke to someone whose very own eyes couldn't see what Mrs. John had seen.
Mrs. John begins to grunting and growling references to someone name like 'Martha, I already kill you. Stay away from my family'.
Mrs. John kills Martha by stabbing her on the chest with the kitchen knife when the woman confronts each other.
Reveals Martha breaks into the John's house while Mr. John is away for business and Mrs. John just got back home after sending Atalia to school.
Martha told her that Mr. John was having an affair with her and she was pregnant with his child. Mrs. John couldn't resist and stabbed her.
Later that, Mrs. John had buried Martha inside the wood not far from the neighborhood where no one couldn't find the body.
The police arrested Mrs. John for murdering Martha Abigail Santiago. Case closed. Belle leaned back on her chair.
"What a twist!" as she rubs her head.
Noon. Belle had fallen asleep inside her office. Realizing how loud she is snoring and muttering in her sleep. And then her cell phone is ringing.
With closed eyes her hand reaches the cells then slides it to green. Amazing is that.
"Hello?"
"Ms. Decker? This is your kids' school teacher regarding your kids".
Belle yawned, "What are they doing this time, Teacher?"
"Just come to the office. I'll tell you what your kids have been doing in school".
Yawning again, "Okay. Thank you I'll be there a.s.a.p!" Belle reaches her car keys, her purse then bolts out from the office without checking her face on the mirror.
"Doctor Decker, where were you going?" ask the nurse. "Are you alright?"
Belle stretches her body, and more yawns come out. "Twins. School. If there is anything... Call me to understand!"
"Yes, Doctor, be careful because your face looks like an insane patient has escaped from here".
Belle turned to the nurse, "Thank you. I appreciating that comment".
Belle arrived at her car, and hit the gas, speeding up. She needs to get to school as fast as she can. These twins are so unbelievable that they inherited from their dead father's behavior.
"Oh. Make a window! Move your ass, your f*cker!"
Belle knows her kids, she gives birth to them, she raises them without a husband on her side. She's the wonder woman of her kids.
The twins weren't the troublemakers just... Well, she knows they are not. Something is missing here; she needs to find out why.
Moments later. Belle parked the car and ran inside the building through the hall she burst inside the principal office. She panted.
"I'm here!" Her eyes locked to her kids, Arman and Mia. "You!" She growled, "What did you two do this time".
The principal calms Belle down, asking her to have a seat which she did. The principal spoke.
"Ms. Decker. Relax".
A late age woman who glasses at the bridge of her nose. She pulled it down then laid the glasses on the desk.
She studied Belle's face for a moment then she smiled. "Did I tell you how beautiful you are, Ms. Decker? So are your kids to".
"What it had to do with my beauty and I am here to school".
"Because I've been asking myself where Arman and Mia got their beauty from".
Belle breathed, said. "From me and their father. Yes. Can we proceed why I am here, Mrs. Principle".
"Yes. Urmm. Ms. Decker, after you drop your kids at school well the twins suddenly have been approached by the bully. So they push the twins on the ground, so the point is that these bullies did not expect what Arman and Mia could do to fight themselves.
"Well, the bullies are in our unit care, broken nose, bruised face, quite bone fracture and their parents it's on their way in here".
Belle leaned closer to the principal, she said. "So, you blamed my kids because they protect themselves from the bully?"
"Ms. Decker, actually I am..."
"Oh. I can see you trying to point that out to my kids".
"Ms. Decker I don't mean to!" The principal lips stuttering. "The point is.."
"The point WHAT!" Belle eyes red, "You allowed the bully to happen in your school and you didn't take any action of that. Their children are the problem, not mine! Have you forgotten that I'm studying law and I am the law!"
Both Arman and Mia look up at their mother. The principal bit her lips, and Belle spoke again.
"If you can't tell them the truth I will. I will sue them if I want and all of you rot in Hell!" she grit her teeth then smiles. "Anything else, Mrs. Principal? Can I take my kids home".
The principal nodded with pale face when Belle's face turned into a psychopath woman. She will slit people's throats with her teeth.
"Then fix the problem if you hadn't told me, Mrs. Principal. Don't you underestimate me. I respect you when you respect me back.
"You tell those brats parents what actually really happened in your school today. If you don't? And they begin to point at my kids, I'm not hesitate to drag them to court and file the cases".
The principal nodded and gulped. "My apologies, Ms. Decker, it won't happen again. Your kids are very sweet. I have never seen one in my life. Yes I will do as you're told".
"You hear that, kids. If your principal disobeys my word. You know what consequences can happen".
Arman and Mia nod agree. Belle smiles again. "Thank you for your time, Mrs. Principal, let there be no more incidents again".
Belle brings the twins back to her office. The twins hadn't spoken since. Turning off the engine, she turned to her kids.
"Did you two really really kill those brats?" Belle asks. One of the nurses runs toward Belle's car. "Say it!"
Mia looked up, "Is it caused by that accident?"
"No. You are trying to protect yourself. Arman?" The boy looked up, "What do you say?"
He bit his lips, said. "I say. We kicked their ass!"
"What happened?" ask the nurse.
"I can't believe the bully tried to hurt my baby! They have been taking care of. Which I don't care".
Belle and the kids get out of the car, "Do not touch anything, especially Alice you understand?"
"Did she really bite Jonas' ears and run away?" ask Mia.
"How did you know that?" Belle, eyeing the nurse, "You kidding me!"
The nurse smiled. "I'm sure the twins want to know their mother's routine at work. So I text Mia".
"Right. As for your punishment, you ordered me three pizzas and soft drinks".
"Can I get extra cheese and I chose the topping?" ask the nurse.
Belle rolled her eyes, "Whatever. The twins didn't picking their food".
"Yes!"
Night. Belle standing at the balcony apartment after dinner. The twins are in their room doing homework.
The views at night are very beautiful when you are staying in New York. She can't believe what she's been through years since her husband, Victor Gibson, died.
Without Doctor Craig, her parents and friends support, she won't be here and successful.
When she reaches twenty, Doctor Craig suggests if she wants to start dating someone other than Victor Gibson. Her answer is still no, perhaps she is still in love with Gibson.
Besides, she had a kid to take care of. Study. There is no time for dating for her.
"Mom?" Belle looks over her shoulder. "I finished my homework, can I have ice cream?".
"Go ahead. Everything you want is in the refrigerator".
Mia nodded, "Beside the ice cream, Mom we didn't mean to..."
"I know. I don't blame you two. I hate bullies! It makes me feel like I want to kill them all with my very own hand".
Belle breathed heavily. Mia gets the ice cream as she hears her mom speak on the balcony.
"Kids nowadays think bullies are the best. That stupid shit! Unluckily they didn't know my kids got training in Ninjutsu".
Belle chuckles, and speaks back. "For your own protection. Not for fun, understand?" Mia nods, she takes a seat on a small chair on the balcony with ice cream with her. "Is your brother sleeping already?"
"No. After he finished doing his homework he played games".
Mia takes a large bite of ice cream. "You never spoke about our dad since we're born. What is he like? Is he handsome? If you and dad are beautiful that means we are beautiful".
Belle nodded and smiled. "Of course he was. The most handsome man I never met when I was sixteen. He's my English teacher in my school".
"You married your teacher? Sheesh!"
"Wasn't my choice, wasn't I?" Belle turns to her daughter. "If it wasn't him... you two never were born".
Mia scoops more ice cream inside her mouth. Belle smiles remembering those days. Mia speaks.
"I feel a bit jealous when I see someone's dad with their kids at school. I wish I had one. Knowing it will never happen".
Belle then reached for the spoon from Mia's hand, and she ate the ice cream. "Why suddenly asking about your dad?"
"I don't know. It feels weird, me and Arman need to know whether we had a dad or not. You can't have a baby just like that without a man. You are not our surrogate mother, am I right?"
Belle laughs and almost drops the spoon on the floor. She can hear Arman shouting from his room when he hears the laughter from the balcony.
What the hell is that!
"Language, Arman!" Belle shook head. "I am not your surrogate mother. I am your real mother of course you had a real dad just he is no longer with us. He is probably watching us from Heaven up there".
Mia looked up at the sky. She points at the stars. "Up there?"
"He died before you and Arman were born. Like I say I was sixteen that time. If he is still alive, he will be a great dad for us. I can't produce a baby by myself. I need a man like your dad inside me..."
"Mom STOP!" Mia's face turns red, Belle laughs. "Ridiculous. You talk about s*x in front of your kids".
"That's because you wanted to know where you had come from. From me and your dad. That's all I know. He died".
Mia losing her appetite eating ice cream, she pushed the ice cream box to Belle. "Did he really do something bad that's why he died?". Belle shook no.
"No. Your dad died with dignity. He died to protect me, you and Arman from this woman. He didn't know I was pregnant that time, nor did I know I was pregnant. I can't keep a secret from you, he is still your dad just how I forgot where I put his photo".
Belle sighs, "It's late, Mia. One day you will know the truth between me and your dad when we were young. If I had free time to tell. I'm sure you will be ready for that".
"Really?"
Belle nod yes, "Arman! Shut the games off and go to sleep. Make sure he brushes his teeth alright". Mia nodded, "Arman, I still can hear the games still on! I burn that thing!"
Belle hears Arman mocking her back from his room with laughter. "Haha. Try it, Mom". Then he shut it off.