Chapter 26: Chapter 10
1,538 words<html><head></head><body><p>**Acacia Point of View**</p> <p>The moment of realization brought an absolute level of fear in me.</p> <p>The ridiculous idea of being a pregnant and a virgin threw me off the little balance I gained in the past months. If it were something like insemination, then I can understand but even with the case of insemination, a girl should have to go through a lengthy process and a little pain which I clearly didn't.</p> <p>Heck, where the hell is a hospital or doctor here? There's no one on this land other than me.</p> <p>The nerves in my brain are thread away to give up and burst out. Yet again, my body started to shake involuntarily and fear was drowning me.</p> <p>I mean, how the hell did I get pregnant?</p> <p>There should be some sort of - something that should've caused it?</p> <p>No, first, who caused it?</p> <p>Tears continued to flow down my cheeks and a hiccup escaped my mouth when I felt so damn vulnerable.</p> <p>I might be pregnant. Heck, I'm pregnant and I don't know what to do.</p> <p>Why is this happening to me?</p> <p>Am I locked here for this reason? To carry a baby?</p> <p>"What do I do now? The baby - who's baby is it and -" I couldn't help but cry.</p> <p>Pregnant. I'm pregnant.</p> <p>"No no no." I feel on my knees. The whole abnormal situation is sending chills down my spine and I'm still hoping I'm not in diagnosis even though I know I'm not.</p> <p>"Who did this to me?" I cried out. "How dare you do something like this to me? Who the hell are you and how did you do this?"</p> <p>I was already exhausted and the whole crying and yelling is giving me a hard time. My head spun as I stood up and I felt so pathetic at the moment.</p> <p>"I know you are out there somewhere. You hide from me, lock me up and keep me a prisoner here all for this? To carry a baby for you? Come out, I need to talk to you." I smashed the vase against the wall as I called out for the mysterious person.</p> <p>I can't take this anymore.</p> <p>In the haze of absolute fear and blinding anger, I forgot that the baby I'm carrying now is as much mine as the mysterious person's.</p> <p>I walked to the side table and broke another vase in a fit just so this mysterious person can come before me. He can't do this to me and stay hidden like nothing happened.</p> <p>"I hate you. I'll kill you, dammit." No sort or threatening happened to affect him because there was no clue of another person alive in the castle just like always.</p> <p>How did everything come to this? Why me?</p> <p>What did I ever do to go through such hell?</p> <p>I moved towards the vanity table to break other things and when I looked at myself in the mirror, looked how disheveled and helpless I was, I felt like everything fell apart.</p> <p>I feel broken, scared and clueless.</p> <p>Heaving a little, I steadied my dizzy body and broke everything that was on the vanity table. This time, I'm not giving up. I need to know who this person is who kept me locked here and mysterious made me pregnant.</p> <p>"You are stubborn, aren't you? So am I." I said as my eyes caught the sharp broken pieces of things I broke.</p> <p>"Either you come out in front of me and explain this madness or I am stepping on them and hurt myself." I threatened, putting one of my leg on a few shards as I waited for that vile person show up.</p> <p>Minutes later when I was all alone, I pressed my leg on the shards with a stubborn look. A hiss left my mouth and I stubbornly gulped down the pain.</p> <p>Gritting my teeth, I lift another foot and stepped on sharp shards again. I pressed my lips, not letting any sound out but the tears did not stop. The more the time passed, the more my anxiety was getting best out of me.</p> <p>My brain stopped to work properly and nothing mattered to me anymore. I was in an invisible maze that I couldn't get out of.</p> <p>"You are still not showing yourself? How cruel can you be? Show up you bastard." I cried out loudly as I continued to walk on the shards.</p> <p>Bloody prints of my feet were on the floor and blood was oozing out of my feet, tainting the carpet which I didn't care at all.</p> <p>My body went off the balance and started to sway as dizziness took over. I held the wall for support and walked persistently out of the bedchamber towards the stairs.</p> <p>No, I am not succumbing to this. I have to do this. I will bring this person out of his hiding be what may.</p> <p>My feet hurt so much that the pain is killing me. On top of that, the other symptoms of pregnancy are making it hard for me.</p> <p>I can feel the small shards piercing the skin as they go deeper into my foot. My body started to stagger as I was slowly losing control over it. I shook my head to keep myself fainting and falling down but it's getting hard to focus anymore.</p> <p>My eyes lost their focus. The oxygen I'm taking from my nose seemed to be not sufficient as I started to breathe through my mouth loudly.</p> <p>Soon, I was hyperventilating and my eyes were rolling to the back. I held myself conscious until I reached the stairs and held on to the metal railing tightly.</p> <p>"Still not coming out of your hiding?" This time, I could out breath out as I was in no position to shout anymore.</p> <p>I opened my mouth and was about to call that person out when my conscious finally gave in. The grip on the railing loosened before I knew, my eyes rolled back and I stumbled forward.</p> <p>With the last bit of awake, I wrapped my hands around my stomach instinctively and everything went black.</p> <p>~*~*~*~</p> <p>I was walking, walking aimlessly and don't know where I was. Thick white fog was surrounding me and I was unable to see anything.</p> <p>It must early hours of morning and I was walking wearing a long gown in some sort of garden. The grass underneath my feet is wet and cold but I wasn't feeling cold though.</p> <p>I felt free.</p> <p>Spinning around, I saw nothing but the fog. Such thick fog that was covering everything from me!</p> <p>I walked aimlessly only to find myself all alone in an unknown place. It felt like I was walking for hours but nothing could be seen around.</p> <p>I stopped walking for a moment and looked up to the sky. There is light but I could see the sky due to fog.</p> <p>I was getting nervous now. Anxiously, I ran around not knowing where to go and which direction to follow. Everything was just misty and unclear.</p> <p>The freedom I felt moments before was now gone replaced by the fear of getting stuck here and not being able to escape.</p> <p>Where am I?</p> <p>How did I come here?</p> <p>"Mom? Dad? Ruby? Guys, where are you all?" I called out, praying to be heard but I was only disappointed.</p> <p>Running for several minutes, I bend down and put my hands on my knees as I panted. My lips went dry and I had to roll my tongue over them to bring them back to life.</p> <p>A long period of walking and jogging around aimlessly, when I was inch away from giving up, I was startled and body jerked when I felt a hand covering my eyes.</p> <p>"Who? Who is this?" I asked as I hurriedly caught the hand that closed my eyes. Touching it, the hand felt muscular and manly.</p> <p>Without answering me, he pushed me gently to walk. And so we walked, me in the front and him behind me with my eyes closed.</p> <p>"Who are you? Where are you taking me?" Again, no answer.</p> <p>He continued to lead me somewhere and after minutes of walking, he suddenly stopped. Talking off his hand from my eyes, he stopped me from turning back.</p> <p>"I'm here for you. Go, Acacia." He whispered close in my ear.</p> <p>Go where?</p> <p>With a frown, I blinked my eyes and looked to the front. The fog slowly started to clear out as something seems to get visible slowly. I felt the man behind me move back and by the time I turned back, he disappeared.</p> <p>Turning around again, the fog cleared out and what stood in front of me shook me. It was the castle.</p> <p>The castle from the island where I was locked.</p> <p>"No." I yelled out loudly and woke up panting. "No, no." I repeated myself as I rubbed my hands over my face to wipe the sweat.</p> <p>Gulping in fear, I looked around and found myself on the bed with my feet wrapped in white band-aid cloth and everything came back to me.</p> <p>I'm still here, in the castle.</p> <p>Locked like a prisoner and now - pregnant.</p> <p>**~*~*~*~*~*~</p> <p>Hello Sweeties,</p> <p>Next</p> </body></html>