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       Chapter Five

 
    Sky didn’t go into work the next day, because she was in far too
much pain. The red lines were up to the middle of her back and stomach, and her
leg was swollen twice its normal size. She started to panic when she remembered
hearing that if you get blood poisoning and the lines reached your heart, you
died. She hurriedly called her doctor first, then Anthony. She informed Anthony
that her doctor told her to get to the emergency room as soon as possible.
      Anthony explained why she
couldn’t, and sent his car for her immediately. By the time the driver arrived,
Sky was too weak to walk down the staircase, and the driver had to carry her.
What no one realized was that her neighbor from
across the hall had been calling her step mother, telling her everything that
she had witnessed over the past few days and nights. Including the night Sky
went out, Anthony’s short stay and the three strange men turning up and
starting trouble. Now that Sky looked ill and was being carried in the arms of
a strange looking man that was huge in stature, the busy-body was frantically dialing the number to Sky’s step mother’s cell phone.
    Sky’s step mother, Bonny, called Sky’s father insisting that he meet
her at Sky’s apartment with the extra set of keys to find out what was going on.
He did as she asked meeting her as well as Tiffany, Sky’s step sister, who
started going through her things as soon as they were in her apartment. Henry
stayed in the kitchen talking to the neighbor lady,
while Bonny and Tiffany went through Sky’s bedroom and personal belongings.
Bonny hoped to find some form of a clue as to her whereabouts.
    “I bet she’s into drugs,” Tiffany remarked, going through Sky’s
panty drawer.
    “Did you hear what Annie said about the men that have been here the
last few nights?” Bonny replied, opening the closet.
    “I can’t believe a man would even come up to this place, much less
date a toad like her,” Tiffany laughed, pulling out a pair of white granny type
panties.
    “Oh please, look at this,” Bonny added snickering, holding up a
yellow and green striped sun dress that looked like it morphed straight out of
the seventies. “It must have been the old hags. Found plenty of this trash when
I first moved in with Henry.”
    Both women cracked up laughing so hard that Henry left Annie sitting
at the table to find out what was going on. As soon as he stepped into the
bedroom, Bonny placed the dress back into the closet, while Tiffany closed the
dresser drawer, both shutting down the huge smiles they had on their faces. Bonny
stuck her nose back into the closet, because she didn’t like the stern look
that Henry was giving her. He looked over at Tiffany who snobbishly looked down
her nose and walked over to where her mother stood, pretending to look for something.
Henry slammed the door so hard when he walked out, that both women let out a
small yelp, jumping around, before looking at each other and bursting out
laughing.
    “Ignore him, look under the bed and see what she’s hiding under
there,” Bonny instructed Tiffany, while she fumbled through the jewelry box that sat on the bedside table.
    Tiffany was still giggling at the look on Henry’s face, when she
lifted the bedspread and bent over as she got down on her knees. She was
reaching in saying, “It’s too dark to...,” when she started screaming at the
top of her lungs. She was bouncing on her knees, and swinging her arms wildly,
begging for her mother to get it off. “It’s killing me!” were the words of her
desperation. Screaming other than hers rang out, along with spats of hissing
and growls. Holiday jumped up onto the top of the bed with his fur puffed out
and the adrenaline daring him to join in, as Doc held tight to Tiffany’s arm.
    Bonny dropped the star pendant onto the carpet, and grabbed the
pillow off the bed