Chapter 10 Chapter 10

Next day, Lisa was jogging at the park. Just then her phone rang.

She stopped and looked at her phone and a flash of worry and panic appeared on her face. She answered the phone with shaking hands, "Hello."

"Miss Lisa Mathew." A lady asked. "Yes" Lisa answered.

"Your father again tried to commit suicide, we have admitted him to Holy Spirit Hospital please come immediately."

"Yes." Lisa said. Her voice hoarse and than she fell on the ground and tears started falling down from her eyes.

Augustus was as usual, following Lisa while jogging. When she suddenly stopped and answered call with shaking hands. He was thinking why her behavior suddenly changed by this call just than she fell on the ground holding her phone tightly.

Augustus rushed towards her and crouched down opposite her. She seemed to be numb all of a sudden, and her eyes were empty, blankly looking at her phone. There was even no sound when she cried, but only tears kept falling from her eyes.

By looking her like this, Augustus only felt that his heart had been ripped out of his chest. He touched her shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Are you ok.?"

Lisa who was lost looked up and saw deep blue eyes looking at her with concern and didn't say anything. When seeing that she didn't speak Augustus called her name. "Lisa"

When Lisa heard her name. She immediately came back to her senses and realized she needed to reach the hospital as fast as possible. She stood up and rushed towards the road to take a taxi.

Augustus followed her quietly. She was not in her senses and tried to cross the road on green light. Augustus saw her trying to cross the road impatiently. He pulled her back and said angrily, " Are you blind? It's green light."

Lisa looked at him, tears still falling down. Augustus held her face and asked softly, "What's wrong? Where are you going.?"

"Holy Spirit Hospital. Take me there please." Lisa said in a trembling tone.

"Okay." Augustus replied. Then, he called Lester and within few minutes Lester brought him car. Lester handed him the key and left.

Augustus than opened the door to the passenger seat and let her get in. Lisa got in the car and sat down. He bent down, pulled out the seat belt, and buckled it for her. When he got up, his face brushed gently against her pink lips.

It was as if he had touched electricity. He could only feel the heat on his face, and his heart beat as it would jump out of his throat. However, Lisa didn't change her expressions. She was still lost in her thoughts.

Augustus closed the door and sat on the driving seat. He started the car and set GPS for Holy Spirit Hospital.

He looked at Lisa from the corner of his eyes. She was wearing track pants and a sleeveless top. He thought of something and reached at the backseat and handed Lisa his hoodie.

"Wear it. Your clothes are not appropriate for hospital." He said while looking straight on the road.

Lisa looked down on herself and realized he's right. She took hoodie, wore it and said, "Thank you."

Augustus parked the car at Emergency Gate. Lisa looked at him nervously. "You go ahead, I'll wait for you." He said calmly.

Lisa immediately refused him and said, "You go first, I am fine. Thank you once again."

After that she opened the door and rushed in hospital without looking back. Augustus watched her disappearing and couldn't help but thinking what happened?

Lisa went straight to the front desk and asked, "Is there a patient name Frank Mathew.? He has shifted to this hospital from Mental Asylum an hour ago."

The receptionist looked at her computer while typing and then said, "Yes, there is one patient. He tried to cut his wrist. Wait for sometime, we are shifting him to room 39'a'."

Lisa asked, "Where is it.?"

"Go straight. Take elevator on your right to third floor. On your left, you will find the room." The receptionist instructed her.

Lisa followed her instruction. While she was heading to the door, a male doctor came out of the room. Lisa called him from a distance. "Doctor.. Wait..!"

Lisa ran to the doctor and asked, "How is my father, Doctor.?"

Doctor frowned. He looked at her and then the patient inside the room. He gently asked her, "Are you his daughter.?" Lisa nodded. "Come inside we need to talk." Doctor said while opening the door for her.

She went inside and looked at the man lying down on the bed. The man was skinny, pale, his beard has grown, his hairs were also long, white and messy. His left hand and left leg was tied by a handcuff at the bed. Looking at him in this condition Lisa felt very pity for her father.

"I can't believe a heart-surgeon like him would ever do that." Doctor said in disbelief standing behind Lisa.

Lisa turned in shock and asked, "Do you know.?"

Doctor shrugged and said, "Of course, I know. He once came to our university for lecture that's where I saw him first. He was such a good man full of life. No wonder what happened to him now."

"Love is cruel." Lisa sighed looking at his father.

"Anyway, it was very hard for us to stable him. So we have given him overdose. He won't get back his consciousness until tomorrow." Doctor explained. Lisa thanked doctor and send him off.

After doctor left, Lisa looked at her father's pale face and kissed on his forehead. She then held her father's hand and sat on chair close to the bed.

"Pappa , why did you do this pappa.? Don't you love me? Do you only love your wife? .. not your children..?" Lisa complained while sobbing. "Please pappa don t... ever... leave.. me, please.. Wu... Wu... Wu.."

Frank Mathew was a well-known surgeon of the Italy. He got married to Stella Mathew after falling in love with her at his cousin's wedding. They both were the most lovely and perfect couple of that time. They had 3 kids together. Two daughters and one son.

When Lisa was 15 years old, Her father brought home his second wife named Betty. She was a nurse at the hospital. Stella Mathew couldn't believed it at all and soon after she died because of pain and grieveness in her heart.

After that Frank Mathew completely cut-off from his kids. He used to give them limited money and met them once in a month. As Lisa was the eldest so she has to take care of her two younger siblings.

After she got married to Tom. He took the responsibility of her siblings happily. And Frank didn't bother at all. He was so much in love with that woman, Betty. He couldn't see anything at all.

But as people says, what you sow you shall reap. It happened to him when he got his first fit, after four years of his marriage. And got addicted to drugs thanks to Betty and his boyfriend Johnson Reed. She took away all his money and proved him to be mentally ill. Soon, he was admitted to Mental Asylum.

After looking at his condition, Frank Mathew realized that he had been betrayed by love just like Stella was betrayed by him.

Now, he has regrets but it's of no use. When Lisa got this news she went to see him alone. Her other siblings denied by saying, "He deserves it"

However Lisa cared for her father. When she first met him, he cried like a baby and asked for her forgiveness. He felt very much ashamed of himself and after some of her visits her father asked her to not come here anymore. He won't be able to face her in future for what he did to her and his two more kids.

Lisa kept crying until her throat gets dried, she looked in ward for water but there was no water at all. She went out to get water and saw Augustus sitting outside the ward. Lisa frowned and thought why he is still here? Didn't she tell him to Go? She also noticed that he has changed his running shorts into an ink colored suit. Lisa walked over to him.