Chapter 73 - Noah and Eva
Avery and Raina were devastated when they found out about Emily's parents. It was not normal for them to hear that. Avery and Raina knew that Emily was an orphan but they did not know that her parents had been brutally murdered. Emily's story was not over yet.
"He was very happy because that day words came out of my mouth after a whole four months. But after asking his name, I went into silence again. I still don't understand why I asked his name all of a sudden at that time.
That night had become a nightmare for me .... Whenever I would close my eyes, all those things were running in my head like a movie .... Every night after that incident I would wake up screaming. I was scared to sleep alone.
At that time, after the death of my parents, there was no one in this world except Noah.
I was scared at night so he was always with me. There was no one living in that house except us. He was in charge of everything from my breakfast to dinner. He also used to do the housework. He was also washing my clothes. He never left me alone because I tried to commit suicide. He was treating me like a little baby.
He used to do everything for me but I didn't even talk to him. He was always talking to me but I was like a living corpse. The years went by like that but it made no difference to me.
He tried his best to make me speak. I was taken to several doctors but it didn't make any change to me. Only one thing had changed in me and that thing was trust. I was beginning to trust him more than myself.
But one thing I didn't understand was how he got into the forest that day. And why he had saved me.
Thus six more months passed. I never went out of the house once in that year and a half. I had no idea what was going on in the outside world.
Due to my situation, we were living in the same bedroom. One evening I was sitting on the bed. Noah came into the room and suddenly took all his clothes out of the closet and started stuffing them in a bag. After filling the bag, he went out of the bedroom with that bag.
I had no idea what had happened to him. I immediately followed him. Seeing him go towards the door, I couldn't help but run and grabbed his hand. He quickly shook my hand and put the card in my palm. 'You will use this card if you need money.' With that, he went again towards the door. I went back to him and stood in front of him.
In that year and a half, he had known me completely. Because of that, he knew what was going on in my mind. So he answered a question I didn't ask. 'It's too much now and I can't stand more than this. Even though I tried my best to make you speak, there is no change in you. And now I understand that you don't need me at all, so I'm leaving now. The card I give you is unlimited. You will never run out of money.' With that, he left.
It all happened so fast that I didn't understand anything. I stood there for ten minutes holding the card in my hand. And when I understood the meaning of what Noah said, tears started flowing from my eyes. But it was too late and Noah had already left me alone.
Now I was alone in that house. I began to remember every moment I spent with him. He had left me but I was confident he would come back so I waited for him. It had been three days but Noah had not returned. Those three days had been too heavy for me. I hadn't eaten anything for those three days and I was remembering that horrible night again and again.
But now I was convinced that he would never return. I realized that like my parents, he had left me. I had no way to survive and because of that, I decided to commit suicide.
There was no energy left in my body due to not eating anything. I somehow managed to get to the kitchen and picked up the knife. I put it on my wrist and I was about to cut the wrist, there was a loud voice came 'What are you doing, stupid girl?' As I looked in the direction of the sound, Noah was staring at me through Kitchen's window. Tears welled up in my eyes as I gazed him. I can't tell you how much happier I was at the time.
He jumped in through the window and dashed towards me. He immediately pulled me in his arms and hugged me. I hugged him back and began to cry. 'What were you doing ....?' He asked me but I cried a lot in his arms without answering his question.
He picked me up and led me into the bedroom and laid me on the bed. I don't know when I fell asleep while crying. Noah was not in the bedroom when I woke up. I shuddered, thought that he had left me again.
'Noah' I screamed and started to cry again. As I was about to scream again he came into the room.
'What happened, why did you scream?' He had a knife in one hand and a pumpkin in the other. Then I noticed that he was in the kitchen. I called him close to me and hugged him tightly.
'I thought you left me again.' And that was the largest sentence came out of my mouth in that year and a half. He was very happy to see me talking again. Then he told me that I should return to normal conditions. For that he had left me. But in fact, he was at home for those three days without me knowing and he told me this later.
Then he told me that my dad had a device. Because of that, he was able to reach us. Then I realized that he was talking about what my father had pulled out from the cover of the seat that day.
I had more questions in my mind like how he knew my father. What was he doing? But he didn't answer my questions. He avoided my questions by saying that you will know everything when the time comes. I was in a normal state but I was always scared. I was afraid to go out of the house.
He pushed me towards the sports to get those things out of my head. And his methods proved to be effective. Gradually the fear in my heart began to subside. I dropped out of school after that accident. So, I used to practice games all day long.
Now there were two things in my life. Noah and Sport. I was practising in the stadium all day so Noah didn't have to worry about me anymore. He didn't stay at home all day like before.
The day for both of us had become a busy time table. We used to get up at six in the morning. After jogging, we would finish all the morning work and have breakfast together. After that he would take me to the stadium at ten o'clock. I used to practice all day as per the coach's instructions. He would pick me from the stadium at six in the evening. Thus two more years passed.
We had been together for three and a half years. In these three and a half years, he had given me the love of both my mother and my father. He never hurt me in those three and a half years. I was never allowed to do any housework. He never tried to take advantage of me. He took special care of me when my period came. In those three and a half years, we had a special kind of relationship. An unbreakable bond was formed between the two of us. For those three and a half years we not lived my birth place . We lived in a small town.
One day he told me to get ready for going out.
After a two hour journey, we reached outside a large gate. The gate opened automatically after our car approached it. Then our car stopped in front of a large building. We both got out of the car. I was shocked to see her building. The building was very big, but it was also very beautiful. He grabbed my hand and led me inside the building. After we went inside, all the people inside were saluting Noah. It was then that I realized that Noah was not an ordinary person.
He took me to a large room and told me that it was his office. He left me there alone for a while. When he returned, he had a red box in his hand. He handed me that box and told me to open. When I opened the box, there were some doc.u.ments inside. There was also a passport in it.
I was shocked when I opened that passport. Because the photo on that passport was mine but the name was not mine. That passport had Emily Lewis 'name written in Eva Lewis' place."
Raina and Avery were shocked after hearing this.
" When I asked why I had to change my name, he said that from today onwards, this will be your identity.
He told me it was necessary for my safety. And from then on I became Emily Lewis from Eva Lewis. The name Emily is given to me by Noah. From this I understood how much he cared for me."