Two hours had passed and no one came out of the room. Leo was at the bench, staring at the door written PATIENT’S ROOM. His two arms brought together and his chin resting on them.
“Leo Felix..?”
This soothing voice woke Leo. His eyes landed on an Amazonian figure sitting well on a wafer-thin body. His mouth was left wide open looking at the lady’s decanter shaped waist. His heart stopped for a while when his eyes fell over the pencil-thin eyebrows eased down to her black beetle’s leg eyelashes.
In front of him, it was a girl who subjugated his mind since morning. He didn’t know how and when, but the badge on her shirt read class representative.
“I’m already famous!” he mumbled
“You scoundrel!” the girl shouted, “What did you do to her?”
“Her? Who..?”
“The girl on your table”
Leo shrugged, “nothing!”
Her face was flushed, “Nothing?”
Leo nodded
“Expecting us to believe?”
“That’s your choice”
“Something happens to her, it’s a murder case and you know it.”
Leo smiled, “You’re being so vindictive!”
“Pray she comes out alive”
Leo smiled
“You jerk!” she thumped his shoulder, “Someone is dying in there and all you can do is smiling. If she dies, you will rot in the─”
Leo’s lips landed over her heart-shaped lips. It was a nippy and unexpected kiss. The girl struggled to get off him.
“You scoundrel..! How dare─”
“What’s wrong?” a brawny man of about fifty-something appeared. The badge on his shirt read warden. “You are disturbing patients.”
The two laid their heads low
“You Leo Felix..?”
Leo nodded
“Follow me”
Leo followed the man to a well-arranged office. On the walls, he saw several pictures of the man in boxing outfits, holding medals.
“Went to boxing school?” Leo said
“You were with Rachel?” the warden asked, ordering Leo to sit
Leo nodded
“What did you do to her?”
“Why does everyone ask me that?”
Warden clenched his fist, “You were with her and she suddenly collapsed”
“Think I’m responsible?”
“Heard your dream is to live alone?”
“How does it relate to this?”
“Well” warden crossed his hands, “you were alone in your table until the girl appeared. After a few minutes, she was down.”
Leo chuckled
“What did you do to her?”
“Nothing”
“Mr. Felix” warden sighed, “I’m trying to help. If you tell us what you did to her, we can save her. If she dies, you won’t escape the police’s hands.”
“I did nothing. We just sat, ate, and drunk. I─”
Warden pounded the table with his fist, “So what did you put in the food or drinks?”
I wonder how long Adam sat with Eve. I just spent less than ten minutes with a girl and here I am, my life threatened.
“If you can’t talk then I’ll hand this case to the police”
“I’m innocent!”
“Prove!”
Leo stared at the ceiling
Warden dug into his pocket and came out with a phone. He typed something Leo couldn’t see. Before he did what he wanted, someone knocked and he rushed to the door. It was a woman Leo didn’t know. The two talked to each other for a minute and warden returned to the table.
“You can go now,” he said, leaning on the table. “Be at alert, we will need you at any time.”
Leo walked out of the room, his head was baffled. He only wanted to know how Rachel was doing, so he hurried to the
school hospital. On the corridor, he saw four nurses coming out of the room that Rachel was sent. The nurses were pulling a wheeled stretcher and on it, a body covered by white sheets from head to a toe rested.
The group of nurses passed Leo whose legs were losing strength. He wanted to go to the room to check what happened but at the same time, he wanted to follow the nurses to confirm the body they were pulling. Being in a state of dilemma, somebody tapped his shoulder.
“Leo Felix, right?” said a man in a white coat
“Yes, I am”
“Follow me”
