Chapter 7

My thoughts jumbled and my emotions crashed together as my jaw dropped and my eyes widened in disbelief.

"What???"

He didn't reply but looked at me in concern, his eyes having that bizarre , stormy look and his arms folded over his chest as he stayed silent waiting patiently for my answer.

I tried to contain my anger, disappointment, madness as I replied folding my arms while narrowing my eyes at him "what makes you ask me such a question?"

"That only depends on your answer," he responded coldly with a shrug.

"No, I've never even thought about committing suicide." I answered gritting my teeth.

He stayed silent his eyes focused on me studying me as if to figure something out. I did the same but I barely got a clue about what he was about to say or what was at least rolling in his mind.

He unfolded his arms before running his hand through his hair and ruffling it in what seemed like anxiety "remember the first time you collapsed?" He asked referring back to the first day we met when I suddenly broke down and ended up fainting.

"Yes?!" I replied softly my anger easing off with every word he says.

"I checked your temperature and it was way above 40 c*."

"What do you mean by way above?" I questioned my brows creasing together in confusion.

"Okay, I'll tell you everything right now but you just need to listen carefully, is that understood?" He said his eyes never leaving mine. I didn't know what was coming out of all this but I had to listen to him.

I nodded slowly before he resumed "after measuring your temperature and getting that high number I was sure that something was wrong so I measured your temperature again but it still gave me the same number, 45. I was shocked, maybe even startled by what I saw. People usually die if their temperature reaches 40 and you got 45! I then measured your heartbeats and it was also abnormal. I thought you had a sever disease or something but when I checked your watch you had no list of any type of disease. I got confused. Really!! I was worried that you might end up dying the next day if your temperature rises more. After thinking about it so much I had to make a test on you to make sure you weren't taking some type of drug but once I tested your blood -"

"Wait!! You drained blood from my body??!!" I cut him my voice rising and falling in confusion, terror and frustration.

"That's not the point here, the point is your blood type was changing every five minutes. I don't know how and I don't know why but it just does." He explained swiftly before dropping his head and ruffling his hair harshly in puzzlement. I tried to give a better reaction than this but couldn't since my mouth was fully opened and my mind was trying to register what he just said. Blood type changing?! I've never heard of this kind of thing before!! Was he lying to me? But why would he?

He raised his head slowly to look back at me again before speaking "the second thing is that your blood cells were being attacked by energy sucking drugs."

"Energy sucking drugs..." I trailed off as my mind recalled the memories of Josh forcing me to drink some sort of drug every two to three times a week.

Brody noticed the look on my face so he blurted out furiously "why? Why did you try to kill yourself? Every person on this planet knows that these drugs are forbidden to take!!"

"No, you don't understand!! I was forced-" I immediately paused once I knew that if I say another word I may end up bringing my whole life on record, because I knew that if I start now I may spill everything that I've hidden from everybody.

He waited and waited for me to complete but I just shut up and looked at my hands hoping that a hole would swallow me up. I can't tell him anything about me, we're still strangers. I couldn't trust him, could I?!

"Look Suzen I know it's hard to open up to people but sometimes you need to. If you tell me what happened with you before I may be able to help you." He said his voice calm and soft this time making me want to tell him but as soon as I opened my mouth to speak as soon as I closed it again.

"Why do you care? Why do you want to help me?" I asked giving a straight face. I just couldn't bring myself to tell him when I don't even know much about him anyway. I can't just open up to every stranger I meet, that would be ridiculous.

He looked at me in the eyes and I did the same before breaking it into a stare down. I knew I was bad when it comes to staring but I guess he was worse since his eyes began to crunch and close. One, two, three and there he was closing his eyes before they opened swiftly as he answered with a hint of annoyance and madness in his voice "I'm a doctor that's why. My job is to take care of people. I can't see you losing your life and just stand there like nothing is wrong."

"No!" I spat out "even if you were a doctor you wouldn't help me that much. I mean you could've taken me to the hospital or to some medical clinic." I knew there was something behind this whole helping thing. Part of me told me to accept his help in the beginning as him being nice, but another part was very curious to know why and what reason he held behind these generous moves.

He looked at me startled before I rose up from my seat and looked at him with an apologetic slight smile "I'm sorry, but it just doesn't make sense." And as my right leg took a step forward my wrist was grabbed with power enough to stop me.

"You looked familiar," he paused long enough "your face, your smile, it feels like I've seen them all before but I just can't remember where or when." He completed shaking his head at the last few words.

I spun around to face him properly before saying "I understand, but I guess I should leave now." His grip around my wrist loosened and I pulled it away "thank you for your hospitality. I'm glad I met you Brody." I said thanking him before heading toward the guests' room and grabbing my bag to leave the place.