Chapter 4

-Chapter Four

As I run through the airport doors, the first thing that I see is Daniel. And the next thing, a woman that looked like she’s 35 but after putting on her makeup –in fact, extreme makeup- made her look like she’s in her 40’s. Weird, but its true. And they apparently seem to be in a fight.
The first thing I noticed was that the woman was crying while yelling some harsh things to Daniel. Secondly, Daniel looked liked he was at his wits end to handling that woman. Third, the woman looked like she was about to throw her extreme large luggage onto Daniel’s head. Lastly, and the worst ever, Daniel looked my way and ran and jumped on me before I could even make my escape.
‘’Wassup, Mark boy!’ he said with eyes saying ‘Please save me from this devilish woman!’
And my reply was ‘Uh… Yeah.’ While giving him back a look that says ‘What got you into trouble first?’
‘Okay, fine. I’ll answer that later when we get back home. Ah, home suddenly sounded so good. Let’s go!’ he said hurriedly while pulling me hand in hand like we were just married.
‘Hey! Quit it, Daniel! Explain what happened just now!’ I said in protest.
‘I’ll tell you later and… Oh crap. She caught up even though she has that bag as big as a buffalo.’ He stared at the woman huffing and puffing while making her way to us. ‘Daniel… You… Big little… Jerk!’ she yelled while swinging her bag towards Daniel and he dodged it but unfortunately not me.
Again, like how I ended up in the watch shop, I suddenly felt numb and the whole world suddenly turned black.
When I woke up again I saw Lancer’s face near to me. His face and lips were so close until I could feel the heat coming out from his face. ‘Lancer!’ I yelled angrily at him while shoving him away and he dropped onto the floor. With a big ‘bam!’ coming from the door.
‘MARK! My deah boy!’ Daniel said gleefully while coming my way to give me a big bear hug.
‘Daniel! Stop! My… Ah…’ I said angrily while pushing him away with one hand and the other holding my head which is spinning.
‘I’m so sorry, Mark! You… Okay?’ he asked timidly.
‘Luckily I am. But my head feels… Sort of dizzy…’ I said in pain and fell back down onto the bed.
‘And Lancer, please, do not do that again. It’s a pain in the ass. In fact, my head.’
‘Sorry.’ Lancer looked down while saying this.
I leaned down on the bed painfully and then asked ‘Where the heck is this place?’ This place looks so familiar. Almost… Too familiar.
‘It’s the hospital, Mark.’ Lancer and Daniel chanted together. I shook my head. ‘Oh.’ No wonder it all looked so familiar. I was in here before. Wait. That means I’m in the same patient room from that time when I fainted at the watch shop, right? Suddenly everything seemed so blur to me.
Suddenly there was a timid knock on the door. ‘Come in.’ Daniel said.
The woman from the airport walked in. ‘Sorry, about just now. I got too emotional and…’
‘And?’ Daniel asked as sarcastically as he can. ‘…And, I accidentally knocked… You out.’ She looked really apologetic. ‘Don’t ever listen to what her face says, Mark. She’s at her best for that. It’s why she’s called the Face of a Double.’ Daniel whispered to me.
‘Huh? Face of a Double? You mean that actress on ITV 2? That’s… Her?’ I felt anxious. This person, on ITV 2, knocked the hell out of me? This kind of things don’t usually happen in real life. But now, it has happened to me.
‘Yeah, that one named… Meh… Mo?’ Daniel looked helplessly at me for the answer to her name. When I wanted to correct him, the woman who knocked me out suddenly stood before Daniel and me.
‘You alright? No big injuries or anything right?’ she asked anxiously.
‘And there’s the woman who smacked you in the face.’ Daniel remarks.
‘I know. I didn’t lose my memory or anything.’
She suddenly let a killing stare at Daniel. Then she said ‘Ah and my name is Meg. Meg Ryans. ITV 2.’
‘Yeah, I heard about you.’ She gave me this questioning look then I added the ‘From Daniel.’
‘Oh? You heard about me, from Dan? Well… How nice.’ She said in this nice tone which seemed so scary. Then she continued the conversation to Daniel ‘You told him about us didn’t you, my dear Dan?’
‘Er…’ Daniel hesitates while looking at me with his eyes clearly saying ‘Please help me!’ Again.
‘Ms. Ryans…’ I said while treading carefully about what I say. ‘Us?’
‘Oh? Then evidently Dan didn’t tell you about him shagging me, then suddenly went lost for a few days then I saw him again at this hotel, where he was flirting with a girl, then pulled me away and said that he was g…’ Meg’s last words were interrupted by Daniel’s irritating song of ‘La do di ho, la do di ho, I’m happy!’
‘Daniel! Shut it please!’ I was evidently irritated by Daniel’s stupid song.
‘I see… He’s your next eh, Dan? So that’s why you didn’t tell him about that.’ She made the ‘that’ seem so… Suspicious.
‘That?’ I asked Daniel suspiciously like a cop interviewing a suspect. ‘Er… Can we not talk about this, like, now?’ he said.
‘And you got to explain to me about your disappearance a few days ago.’ I add.
‘I got to? No, I don’t think so.’ I give Daniel a sharp glare until I could see him shudder. ‘Ok, I will, but later.’
Meg turned away and briefly said ‘Since you’re fine, I’m going first. If I can help you with anything, call me.’ Then she looked over to the table and I saw her card there. ‘Then can you please manage Daniel?’ I almost said but stopped myself in time.
After Meg walked out, Lancer pranced onto me and asked ‘What happened buddy? Tell me all about it.’
‘Yeah.’ I said while looking at Daniel walking out too. It looked like he wanted to catch up to Meg to talk about something. I stopped myself from asking Daniel where he was going because Lancer threatened that if I don’t tell him about it immediately, he’ll give me a smacker on the lips.
I guess when I get Daniel to explain later, I’ll ask him to explain everything I wanted to know.