Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen

I think I fell asleep.I must have fallen asleep because when I opened my eyes it was already dark.I heard a loud slamming door from the next door, followed by dull but thin footsteps echoing in the thickly carpeted corridor, and then, as expected, I heard Emily's voice. "Odell, Odell!" she slammed on the door, "Are you there?" I rubbed my eyes, reluctantly got up from the bed, and walked over to open the door with bare feet. "What's wrong?" I said angrily, without any intention of hiding my bad mood. But obviously, Emily was in a worse mood than I was. "This hotel is horrible!" she yelled, jumping on her feet. "No one came to clean up our room at all! Is your room cleaned up, Odell?"

I yawned and ran my hand through the messy sleepy hair at the back of my head, "Not today, but maybe it's because I've been sleeping." "Did you not go out today?" Emily looked at me with a deceived look. "I went out this morning." I hurriedly said, "I went shopping on the Rialto Bridge and bought a mask." I pouted at the cheap souvenir I bought casually on the table, "But it's okay to go shopping alone. I mean, so I came back early." I didn't mean to please Emily, I was telling the truth.But it wasn't her that was on my mind. It was someone else, the one who was supposed to accompany me on a sightseeing trip.But of course, the ardent Miss Emily is once again turning the tables.

"Oh, I just said you should go to Lido Island with us today!" She pouted and complained. "How are you three doing?" I asked casually. "The three of us?" "You, Siegfried, and Heath. Didn't you three go together?" Really, who else?The nerves of this American girl are too dull.I thought so, but for the first time Emily's answer surprised me.She asked me, "Who is Heath?" I was stunned.I watched her silently, hoping she was just joking with me.But Miss Emily never joked.She just looked me in the eyes seriously and asked again: "Is he your friend?"

"Emily! Let's go!" Xiao S's impatient voice sounded in the corridor.I poked my head out and saw him and Heath suddenly appear without warning, standing side by side about three meters away from us, as if they had crawled out from under the rug.Seeing my sight, Xiao S turned his head awkwardly as usual, and Heath showed a smile. "Haha, I'm just kidding." Emily turned her head and made a face at me, "We're going upstairs to eat now, come together?" I was really hungry. The sausage on the corner of the pizza at noon didn't give me much energy in calories.But the palpitation just now made me suddenly lose all appetite.

Emily wasn't joking.She is not a girl who likes to joke.In that instant, her eyes told me she wasn't lying.There was no Heath in her memory.Not then, and never before.But when she turned and saw Heath, she immediately acknowledged the man's existence.If my theory is correct, I think I know why Heath is always with them.Because if he wasn't there, they'd forget him.Forget about him, his life, everything about him, as if he never existed - and that's what he's trying to hide. I remembered that the first time I saw him was in the small coffee shop at the corner of St. Mark's Square. He got separated from Xiao S and the others in the heavy rain, and then happened to meet me.But in fact, there is no question of "whether or not to get lost" here, because he was originally alone.Heath Westwin, he is not from the United States, and he is definitely not their classmate.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help feeling sorry for Little S. He and Emily were forced to fly across the Atlantic to be his puppets just because they (unfortunately) met me. ——Whenever you leave, we will leave. Yes, now I finally get it.His target is me.or D.Regardless of the outcome, I'm going to take another chance. "Okay." I stepped forward and took Emily's hand, "Let's go upstairs together." Emily was elated.Because my intimacy made her happy, as if her constant enthusiasm had paid off, I finally opened up to her, the awkward wooden person.I took her hand and walked forward. When I passed Heath and Xiao S, I saw their eyebrows twitch at the same time.Little S is easy to understand. Normal boys will not be so calm when they see their ex-girlfriend and current girlfriend walking together (not to mention holding hands), but Heath's expression is hard to say.

There is still no electricity in the hotel.When I closed the door of the guest room behind me, the hallway was plunged into darkness. Emily screamed. "Where's the candle? Where's the candle?" she cried. "I'll get it." Xiao S said immediately.Then I heard footsteps, groping in the dark, the door of the next room was opened and then quickly closed, the corridor was silent again, and there was an indissoluble darkness in front of me. I heard Emily's breathing, heavy and fast, and her hands gripped me tightly.I know she's scared.I could see her trying to keep her eyes open, staring into the absolute darkness of the corridor, trying to make out something.

But she couldn't see anything. Blessed are those who cannot see.Because with my supernatural vision, I can clearly see that at the end of this corridor, in the direction leading to the stairs, there is a mass of black shadows.No, everything in front of you is black, so that shadow should not be black.But it is black again, because there is no other color to describe its appearance except black. That group of black shadows rose from the ground, like ink stains, like cloudy clouds, like a dense fog, with different shades, changing shapes rapidly in the air.No, it has no shape, just a black and vague nothingness.It comes from the abyss of hell, from another dimension, and it is darker than the pitch-black darkness in front of you.If darkness is light, it is shadow.It is the shadow cast by the shadow in another world.

The shadow floated up the stairs, then disappeared.Where it disappears is the restaurant we're going to. A beam of light suddenly rose in front of him.The door of the next room opened and closed again, and Xiao S appeared in the corridor holding a candlestick. "We can go," he said. Emily cheered.But I hesitated.I don't know what the creature in the darkness was just now.I don't have the courage to take a step.For the first time I thought of D.I thought maybe I should wait for him to come back.I thought maybe it wasn't a good idea to rush myself here.Yes, I am a devil.Which is kind of ironic, since I have a spotty memory and I don't even have any supernatural powers (well, except for horrible vision to see in the dark, and a few other completely useless abilities).My appearance is an ordinary human girl, just like the Emily next to me, and my inside is by no means superior to my appearance.

what should I do?Should I go to the restaurant with them?I don't know what will be waiting for me there. As if responding to my call, Heath, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Tonight is a French couple." "what?" "Our story is solitaire. Tonight it's the old couple's turn." Heath smiled at me in the halo of candlelight, the shadow behind him expanded without limit, filling the floor, walls and ceiling, and then with the boundless The boundless darkness blends perfectly. "Are you going to continue?" I couldn't help asking, although the question itself was extremely stupid.

"Of course." Xiao S suddenly said, the candlelight in his hand reflected his excited face, "Tomorrow night I will also tell a story about lizards." "Why not tonight? Who set the order?" I couldn't help asking. "Because today is the last night for the French couple," Heath said. My heart skipped a beat because of the adjective he used, and then I heard him add, "They're checking out of Venice tomorrow." "So it's our turn to be the finale." Xiao S shrugged his shoulders and glanced at me, "Why, are you not interested in listening to my story?" "Of course, I'm honored." A familiar voice came from behind me.Hearing this voice, I finally let go of my previously hanging heart.At that moment, all the previous dissatisfaction and doubts disappeared, and a more important thought hit my heart hard, opening a gap, allowing the warm current in my heart to slowly flow through my limbs and bones. That is, I know I'm safe. Because D is here.He is back.