The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 40

40 I won’t be needing this 

As I lay on my bed I played around with the ring on my finger twiddling it back and forth as I reminisced my wedding day. I remembered how I had accepted his terms and from then on we proceeded to have a very pleasant marriage. It was a marriage I had prayed for, one where I didn’t have to fear my husband. I remembered my mothers wish for me before she died which was for me to find happiness. I thought it had come 

true. 

Before things used to be good. Dare I say I enjoyed my marriage with Keith before Diana showed up. Though were no romantic feelings between us but I thought it was ten times better than having an abusive husband. We were best friends working together to raise our son and I think we did a really good job. 

How quickly things change though. I never imagined seven years later everything would be completely ruined. After a while of twiddling the ring around, I finally removed it from my finger. I wouldn’t be needing it anymore would I? I thought to myself. In my past life I only removed it after the divorce. I was set to meet the divorce lawyer this weekend. I placed it on my bedside table. It was quite expensive I’m sure it would fetch me a pretty penny if I sold it in future. 

Just a little while longer I said to myself. My phone then suddenly pinged the message notification sound. I reached over to my bedside table where it was and saw it was a message from…Louis. My eyes widened in surprise as I remembered we’d exchanged numbers. 

Hey how have you been? Just checking in on you since I haven’t spoken to you since that day. The message read. 

I smiled at the message. 

Thanks, I’m doing fine. And you? I responded. 

After waiting a few moments I got a response. 

Been drowning in work all week. He replied. 

Life of a CEO must be hard. Sorry to hear that. I texted back. 

How are you faring at the restaurant? 

I texted him for a little while and I went to bed. It was funny how in my past life I never 

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once spoke or saw Louis again after I was married but now in this life one small decision to work for that restaurant had reunited us. 

That night I dreamt of my mother. 

I stared in disappointment at the report of blood tests results that I held in my hands. 

All the diseases they tested me for came back negative. I also had them check my internal organs for anything since they all failed when I died. The report said all was fine. 

I looked at the second report of my MRI results which was underneath. The results were clean. There was nothing out of the ordinary. I was perfectly healthy. 

I let out a sigh of disappointment. Looks like I was still fine at this stage of my life. 

It was funny to think I was disappointed that nothing was wrong with me. It’s just I knew it was coming eventually so I would prefer if I could deal with the issue now. 2 

Looks like I would have to continue getting tested. General checkups were 

recommended 

I put down the papers and looked at the woman behind the reception counter. 

“Thank you,” I said to her. 

I was back in the diagnosis department of the hospital to get my results of the various tests I had done the week before. 

“Sure is there anything else you want done?” The receptionist asked me. 

“No, that’ll be all,” I responded to her. 

“Let’s go,” I said to Tony who was seated in the waiting area nearby. 

Tony and I headed for the elevator. Next on my list of things to do was to meet with my lawyer, sell the rest of the luxury goods to obtain the full 50,000 and then spend time with Tony. Once I again I didn’t have the time to do a big activity with Tony. 

I had wanted to leave Tony at home since I was doing a lot today but he insisted tonight coming with me like the last time. He didn’t seem to mind waiting in waiting 

areas, 

Upon reaching the ground level Tony and I walked across the entrance hall of the 

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hospital making our way to the exit. As we were about the leave when I suddenly thought of when I saw my coworker, Mike rushed past me the last weekend in the entrance hall. 

Was he here now? I thought to myself. I probably shouldn’t pry or get involved but the sadness and desperation in his voice during the call I’d overheard was still on my mind. Mike was a young 20 year old college kid. It sounded like he was helpless and had no one to turn to. Even though he didn’t want anyone to get involved I wanted to see if I could help. 

I stopped us in the middle of the entrance. 

“Hang on there’s something I want to do quickly,” I told Tony. 

He looked up at me in confusion but accepted. We turned back and I had us go toward the general hostel reception at the centre of the entrance hall. I didn’t know which room Mikes fathers room was in or how I would find them. 

My best bet was the reception. I knew Mikes full name so if he was at the hospital they would have checked in among the list of visitors here to see patients. Now was to figure out how I could get them to tell me which room and department he was in. 

“Go sit down over there I’ll only be a minute,” I told him. I had him sit on a bench near by where I could see him from the reception. 

I didn’t want him to hear me lie to the receptionist. I then went up to one of the five receptionist’s at the desk that was free. 

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