Today's weather was cold. Ethan James was wearing suitable clothes for the weather today as he chopped more piles of wood.
Since he stepped foot into this neighborhood people began to admire him with questions, especially women. Even the girls students, the teenagers obviously.
Trying to get his attention, he ignores it by doing his job. He doesn't want to get fired yet, with his own reason why he had applied to this school, not another school near and good for him.
And then he met this ten years old girl, Mia Luna Decker and her twin brother, Arman.
Every time Arman will accompany Mia to see him. Ethan James begins to like the twins, considering them like his own children. The twins feel safe around him so did he toward the twins.
He looks over his shoulder when three high school girls approach him with a blushing face. He did not know about them much, all he knew was they would always visit him with nice gifts, sweets and lots.
He did overhear these school girls. Some said these girls are very famous and the sexiest living creatures ever born. Those men out there will kill each other for having these girls in their arms. It doesn't bother him that he doesn't care what they are.
Ethan James may be a school gardener but his ears, his eyes are everywhere.
"I'm trying to be polite. You three high school girls shall not be in here. This is school property that you three didn't belong in here".
One of them spoke, "Actually we are. Haven't you not notice? Our classroom is right over there". His eyes spotted where she pointed. "Definitely we three belong here".
"Ah! I see. They call you three 'The Spoiler Trash Mean Girls'. He chuckled, "I cannot blame them".
"Those losers are freaks!"
He smiled, "That includes me". He turned to the girls. "Because I said that just now. I am that freak".
"No. You are the prince charming who has been banished from his own kingdom in a fairytale and we can go in or out whenever we like including here the most". They smile. "I'm Jo. This is Paris and Aleesha. We've been checking you out since".
Ethan James nodded his head. "Go back to your class. I don't need you three in here".
"We are super rich in town. People know us. Whatever you try to push us we can pay you". said Jo. "You can't deny that. I know you here because you need money to survive on your own, why not listen to us and you'll get what you want".
He sighs, shaking his head. Continue chopping the piles. "If we can control the school, why not you?" He stops, turns back to them.
"You don't own me! Neither you can't control me, especially like you three teenagers. I will chop your three heads if you don't just go. It reminds me of when I used to kill someone like you. A whore!"
The girls were shocked. Smirking. "That's right I did and I don't want you three to become one of mine victims and today is no exception".
He raises the ax then points at the girls. They scream, run and vow to get him back. Ethan James laughs at the girls.
"Run girls run! RUN!"
The corner of his eyes caught Mia walking toward him, something at her hand like a pink tupperware.
He lowered the ax down, laying it down on the ground not wanting her to be scared of him. He smiled and soon he caught her sweet smile.
"I saw that. It's okay. I don't afraid of the ax you are holding on, what you did to that bitch it's kinda funny".
"I'm glad you are not afraid. It's just a joke to scare them away". He points. "What you brought with you, Mia?"
She looked down at the pink tupperware on her hand. "Rumor says they want me. I hated that". He said with sighs.
They took a seat on the tree stump. "I bring you something today. Arman got his science project today in the labs so I walked myself to you. I let him know before I came here".
Ethan James nodded smile. "My mom made us cookies so I thought I wanted to share it with you. Fresh from the oven, she baked today, wondering if she had time for this".
Mia handed him the pink tupperware. He took it. "She's the best cook in our family".
"Your dad must be proud of her then".
Shook head. "Me and Arman never had a dad. He died before we were born, something like he was protecting us from this woman. He had to sacrifice himself to protect his loved one".
Ethan James nods understanding. "My mom is beautiful". Chuckles.
"You try to matchmakers me to your mom or what?" He chuckles, Mia blushed. "Your dad's love was pure, Mia you should be proud of him".
Ethan James ate the cookies. Mia spoke back. "What about yours?" He looked at her. "Do you have a wife or kids of your own". He nodded yes. "Can we meet them?"
He laid the pink tupperware on his lap, his mouth won't stop eating the cookies.
"I have. Once. She's beautiful of course that's why I fell in love with her. She took my heart and we were so happy back then but I made a huge mistake that I had to break her heart. I couldn't forgive myself for what I did".
Mia could see him in tears, how regretful he was toward his own wife. "Where is she now?" asked her.
"Somewhere. A place that brought her joy and happiness she wanted in new life without me".
"Don't you miss her?"
Nodded his head. "Every single day. I'd never forgotten about her no matter how I tried to forget. She will always be in my head and my heart". She smiled, "These cookies are delicious. I will return this by tomorrow if it's okay with you".
"Okay. But don't you ever lose it. Every mom will start the wars with their own kids if they accidentally lose the tupperware". Ethan James nods then smiles.
Belle walking through the hallway ward checking on the patient who couldn't not be released was for threatening behavior.
She stood at the number of 302 cell doors which had been occupied by the charming man named George Cooper.
He has been here for a year.
George Cooper is an overly doubting and abusive husband. He can't control his anger and rage and he continuously beats his wife. He even went to the point of murdering a doctor that treated his wife when she was early pregnancy.
Everyday and night the neighborhood will hear the couple arguing for some stupid reason. His wife is the victim.
Later that the neighborhood helped his wife escape from George's while he was away for a moment by calling the police with a report for almost killing her and his unborn child couldn't survive from the abuse.
Later that the local police take him to Salem Rockhaven Asylum, where he meets the other patients in the ward and the rest of the doctors and nurses that includes Belle.
She knocked on the door. "Mr. Cooper?" He didn't answer, he was laying on his bed facing up the ceiling.
"Your ex-wife said 'Hi' to you". Hearing him growled. "Oh, she also gives you this Turkish Delight for her happiness frees from your abusive behavior".
Luckily the doors were automatically locked from the monitor system when he suddenly jumped off the bed and attacked the door.
He confronts Belle in anger. He spat when he talked. "Romana is my wife! We are not getting divorce". He grit. Belle nodded her head.
"I know you will say that. Obviously you have been divorce man since you got here. She files the divorce papers without you knowing. She's happy without you, George, you wanna know the best part was?"
He waited for Belle to say. "She found a man that could take her and the child". Growling. "Oh yes she is. She introduced me".
"She is not married to that man because I am still her husband. And that child is mine!" He began to rage behind this door with great force, banging it. "Mine!"
"No wonder she files for a divorce. Look at you, George".
Belle smirked, "Happy for her when she did that. I will keep this dessert in my office until you're completely insane. After all you won't claim this".
She was about to walk but stopped, she said this.
"Oh. That baby wasn't yours, yours is dead because you already killed the innocent little one. The baby belongs to the man she loved and will not be yours... Never!"
She walks. George Cooper screaming echoes through the hallway ward as she left the floor. She entered the entertainment room where most nurses or doctors stay there for naps, chatting and resting.
Belle sighs as she sunk herself on the couch. She closed her eyes. "You drive him crazy aren't you, Belle". ask the doctor across from her. "We still can hear him scream from here".
"That my job is to torture a man like him. Despite that, it's been one year since he came here. He still thinks his wife loves him and waited for him to come home. Mental is he".
"Of course that is why he is here. Mental disorder".
The nurse said, "I hear his ex-wife is getting married. Hoping she didn't find a man with the same behavior like her ex-husband".
"Speaking of ex- things, is it true this hospital is haunted? I mean this building has stood still since 1901. It Was rebuilt back in 1910. After two years running this hospital they shut it down again".
The doctor nodded. "Lots of lost life happens here. Every day. Until in 1970 they were back to business till now where we stand".
'Don't say it, Doctor!" said one of the nurses. "It happens every time. We even see that spirits wander around this place after midnight. Patient wears straitjacket, patient with no head..."
Belle slowly nods her head, biting her lips. "So is it true then? Wonder why they stay in my office whenever they want".
"Stop that!"
It's been over years since the last dream Belle ever dreamt. Once again she meets Emma who is never aging like Belle, a sixteen years old young Emma smiling at her.
They took a seat on the bench as they were facing a very beautiful garden. Belle remembered she was there before. Very beautiful places.
"How are you, Belle?" asked Emma. "You did very well with your life".
Belle eyes on Emma, "Why now? Why did you come back".
"Don't you miss me?" She smiled. Belle nodded her head. "I didn't want to come back but you need me, Belle".
"Last time I was sixteen".
Emma nodded, "You're getting old, Belle, while I am not. I'm still what I am... the age of sixteen".
"How is that possible?"
"Everything is possible here, Belle, what did I tell you huh? You will miss him don't you".
Emma meant Victor Gibson. "He couldn't never had a chance to see his own kids. What a beautiful name, Arman and Mia".
"You didn't tell me!"
"Of course I do. I warned you not to, I just didn't say why. I asked you to be prepared for what comes to you and Gibson".
They were silent for a moment. Belle couldn't argue with Emma. She was right after all she did miss him.
She wants to hug him and tell him that he is now a father that he desired for a long time ago. She wiped her tears.
"I'm sorry. That has to happen. I'm proud of you, Belle you went through this all alone".
Emma knew what Belle was thinking, she smiled. "He's not here, Belle. I don't know where he can be. Just expected him in Hell already I guess".
"Are you kidding me!"
"I swear for the love of God, he is not here. Or perhaps he wasn't dead either. He could be hiding or ashamed of what he did to you".
"I saw his body laying on that table. He didn't even breathe. He must be somewhere, perhaps Heaven. God must have already forgiven him and gone there. If this Heaven... he must be in here somewhere that you barely saw him".
Emma bit her bottom lips, nodded her head whatever Belle was saying. "Okay. If I walk past the gates of Hell, if I see him there I will say 'Hi' and welcome him".
"Welcome to Hell?"
"What do you want me to do fight with the Hades? Or Lucifer whatever names run the hell. But?"
Emma smiled wickedly, Belle waited for the next word. "Veronica Bilson? Hell yeah I saw her there. Definitely she is. Apparently the demon from Hell is torturing her now for what she did on earth. Very painful if you were there watching".
"She deserves that". said Belle.
"I passed and went through Heaven, that is why I don't see you much in your dreams. This room is my place now, so I'll be here if you need me".
Belle looked around, said. "So? I cannot see Heaven". Emma shook her head no with a smile. "Her punishment isn't it?"
"Straight to Hell. But I heard from Heaven that she went there all by herself without Gibson. That is why I don't know where he could be".
She sighs, "The angel of course brings her there. Let's change the topic how are your twins?"
"If you saw them you know it. Troublemakers of course like their dad. Actually it is half from me and half from Gibson. The great DNA combination".
Emma elbowing Belle's on her wrist, chuckles. "I know you will be a good mother, Belle I just know you will". She reached her hand.
"When I need you please be here for me. Promise me". Emma nodded. Belle hugs her then cries. "I missed you!"
Belle jolted from her sleep as she felt someone shaking her body. She gasped for air and found Mia standing beside the bed.
Furious she stares at her own mother. She spoke. "You've been talking in your sleep?"
"I was?"
Mia nodded her head. "Something like the name of Emma, who is she anyway". Belle sighs.
"She's my best friend. I saw her in my dreams because I've been missing her very much. She died at sixteen".
Mia slowly nodded her head again, Belle couldn't tell Mia that she died because of Gibson.
"How long have you been standing here?"
"No long. I'm thirsty so I went to the kitchen when I'll come back I hear you". Mia takes a seat on the bed. "So, a dream huh?"
"It was a wonderful dream. I even see a wonderful place that you can barely imagine and will never exist on earth. I've been there before. Happy that I come back again after this years".
Belle stares into her daughter's eyes. "Go to bed. One day I will tell you about her, including your dad. Now go".
Mia shrugs then off to bed. Belle laid silent on bed for a while, before sleep took over her again.