Chapter 51 Horror

I immediately run and looked downstairs from the second floor to see a very beautiful girl maybe the same age as us downstairs looking around frantically. How did she get in here!? I remembered locking the door. She looked up and saw me.

"Where's my cousin Claire?" She asked demanding an answer.

Cousin? Does Claire have a cousin here? I pointed the door behind my back and she runs up the stairs towards the room, I followed her inside the room.

The moment she saw Claire, the girl cried sitting on the edge of the bed, and hugged Claire... wait! Her wounds! "Claire!" She called in between her cries while shaking Claire. Oh, shi*! But before I got near them to get her out of Claire who doesn't seem to care, Cassy already walked towards her.

"Hey, it's fine, she'll gonna be fine," Cassy said softly to the girl while holding her shoulder pulling her slowly out from Claire.

She sat straight and let go of Claire, I breathed out, I didn't realize I was holding my breath.

The girl wiped her tears. "No! I'm not fine!" She yelled. What!? Did I heard it right!? Claire was just looking at her blankly.

Is she really like that? It's like nothing happened to her. Like she wasn't stabbed two times and struck by a bullet. Seems like she was just having her nap. This is ridiculous!

"I'm not fine Claire! Your brother is scolding me, nonstop!" She nagged at Claire like a child.

Wait! Doesn't she know Claire is wounded!? But, she's facing a bloodied Claire... I looked at Cassy, shocked was also written on her face while I'm confused.

"And?" Claire asked plainly. Her breathing is normal which is impossible in her state.

"Claire! He keeps on demanding me to resign from my job!" She said in between her cries and hugged Claire for comfort.

Are you serious!? I was glued to my spot. "I love my job! I will never resign, tell him, Claire, tell your brother!" She cried again looking at Claire like a child demanding a bar of chocolate.

Suddenly my feet quickly moved and then I tried getting the girl out of Claire "Please give some distance away from her, she's wounded." I pleaded, holding her shoulder as she gave a distance and sat straight.

"Wounded?" She asked, like confirming in a way 'you done?', she's not even shocked or worried, is this really her cousin!?

"Yes, there was an incident earlier and-" Cassy explained with worry but she stopped with shock and surprise when we saw the girl lifted Claire's shirt and started taking the bandages off. Cassy and I were widely agape, what is she doing!?

"Hey! What are you doing!?" I asked anger laced in my voice but she ignores me. I aimed to hold her hands in order to stop her but I freeze at her question.

"Did you do it again?" She asked in a calm voice. Do it again? What does she mean?

Claire shook her head looking straight at the wall. "I let them." She said wearing no emotions.

I-I let them?? She just let them!? I looked at Cassy who was confused, standing on her spot not moving. It's like our breaths were stuck.

The girl smiled sweetly "Good! Or your mom will scold me if she will get to know about this." Good!? Oh no, I think, I'll gonna pass out.

The bandages were off so her blood is flowing out of her body again. "A bullet?" She asked calmly pointing at the side of her waist like it was just a scratch. Claire nodded.

"Did you take it out?" She asked, it was like they're having a simple conversation.

"Not yet, I'm waiting for them to come out," Claire said in her usual voice while staring at the wall.

What? Really!? Who are you Claire?

Suddenly, the girl looked at us "Give me warm water and alcohol." She ordered. Can she be polite, at least?

I looked at Cassy and nodded gesturing for her to go and get it. I looked back at the girl "I won't leave her." I said looking at Claire who seems to be spacing out.

The girl bites her lips "Okay, then." She looked back at claire.

She opened her sling bag and get a... knife and a scissor!? "How deep?" She asked in a calm voice. I watched them intently, seeing Claire wearing no emotions at all.

"3 and a half inches." She answered still staring at the wall, what could she be thinking? Wait- how did she know!?

The girl started cutting Claire's waist where the bullet struck using her scissor, what!? "Hey! Stop it! What are you doing!?" I yelled angrily.

She ignored me "Should I kill her?" She asked softly like I wasn't here which made Claire immediately looked blankly at the girl. Ki-kill me?

"I'll kill you first." She said to the girl, she didn't even flinch when the girl is cutting her skin. Am I hallucinating again?

"Just kidding." The girl smiled.

Suddenly, Claire stared at me. "Let her Drena." She said in her plain voice.

Her breathing, face, emotions... it was her usual, like... she can't feel anything... like there's no pain... she seems... numb.

Claire... What happened to you? Who did this to you? Who are you? I felt like crying as I feel her pain, she seems not to feel it but I can and it hurts. It hurts seeing her like this. A tear flows down from my eyes as I nodded at her and she looked back straight at the wall.

The girl slid her fingers inside her skin "Oh my gosh!" I flinched and bit my lip. She didn't even put anesthesia on Claire! But Claire seems not to care, it's like her body is her own anesthesia! I'm watching an impossible! Well, this is really ridiculous! I don't even know anything about my own friend.

She slid out her fingers with a bullet, then suddenly Cassy entered the room with the water and closed the door, then "Oh my! You took the bullet out!" Cassy beamed, oh Cassy, you don't know-how. I just watched a movie called 'The Ridiculous'.

"How did you took it out?" She asked smiling happily but with curiosity evident on her face.

"Magic!" The girl beamed and I snorted, it was horror.