The Temptress: Tempting the Devil’s son

As they awaited the results of her CT scan, the anxiety in Emily’s heart grew. She didn’t know why but since she woke up, she felt awfully better and she hadn’t coughed since she left the house and even as they were in the hospital.

She didn’t know if she was getting worse or if she was actually healed? She stared her son who was seated beside her. His small legs were crossed and his facial expression was that of repose. Now that she actually thought about it, she didn’t really remember much from last night. She only remember running into Blake’s room and seeing him ablaze. That was all she could remember and the next morning she was waking up beside her son! Weird?

“Blake, do you know what happened last night?”

He pursed his lips and replied casually, “You just fell asleep.”

Her eyes went wide with surprise, she couldn’t just fall asleep. Or was it the drug she took last night? It made her drowsy though.

She pouted her lips and didn’t ask anymore questions. A nurse soon came out of the doctor’s office and beckoned on them to follow her.

“It’s your turn now Madam. The doctor is waiting,” she announced with a kind smile.

“Okay.” They both headed into the doctor’s office. Once they were inside the office, Emily and doctor exchanged pleasantries. He was her attending doctor so it was quite normal to have a good relationship with him.

“This is my son, Blake! Blake say hi to doctor Roland!” She nudged at the boy and he quickly mouthed a “hi”.

The doctor laughed and complimented, “You have a lovely son, madam. Come on, sit down!”

Once they were seated, he took out a brown envelope on his table and opened it. When he gazed at it, his jaw dropped in surprise. Emily’s smile slowly began to falter. It seemed like her condition had worsened, if not why would the doctor’s facial expression change?

An impatient Blake opened his mouth and asked hastily, “What does it say?”

Blake’s hasty words seemed to bring him out of his reverie. He shook his head and stared at the CT scan again and then he stared at her name on it. Could it be that her results has been mistaken for another? But that was a mistake that rarely ever happened in this hospital! He thought.

He handed to CT scan to Emily who just stared at it in confusion. She didn’t seem to understand what was on the damn piece of paper!

“According to this CT scan, it shows that you no longer have a brain tumor.” He explained and it was now her turn to be astonished.

“Huh?” Was the only sound that she could muster. How could that be possible?!

“That’s great news, so that means we can now go home and no more talk about death!” An excited Blake said breaking the silence between them.

The doctor cleared his throat and told Emily who was very much in a daze, ” We may have to carry out another scan to be sure. I believe your result may have been tampered with.”

She bowed her head in anguish and muttered, “I believe so too.”

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Blake wandered about the hospital in search of Liam’s room. When he finally arrived his room, he took a deep breath and exhaled. This would be the first time in a month since he would be setting his eyes on Liam.

Not like he didn’t want to visit anyways, it’s just his parents wouldn’t allow him anywhere close to his room. Each time he tried to sneak in someone was always with him and he ended getting chased out in the end. So he naturally gave up trying and now standing in front of his door, he nevertheless felt guilty for giving up.

He pushed the door opened and peered into the brightly lit room. His eyes darted to the small figure on the bed. He looked lifeless and had bandages and braces all over his body. A lot of tubes for delivering both drugs and oxygen were connected into his mouth, nose and the rest of his body while the heart monitor was beeping steadily.

He felt heart clenched painfully at the sight. He tried so hard, so hard not to cry but he didn’t know when several drops of tears escaped his eyelids.

The door soon opened and a disheveled looking middle aged woman walked in. Her eyes were red from the tears she had shed for the past one month. Her once curly and shiny brown hair was now a shadow of itself as it looked tatted and unkept.

Her once beautiful face was now red and had so many stress lines. She seemed to have lost a lot of weight, looks like she hasn’t been eating much.

“Blake?” She called out in a croaky voice.

“Ma’am Helen,” he bowed his head and muttered, “I was just leaving.” He pursed his lips and was about to leave when he heard her voice.

“I’m sorry,” she croaked in a whisper. “We shouldn’t have blamed you. It wasn’t your fault, it was my fault as his mother. Liam told me about the woman Jessica murdered. I thought he was being playful again and brushed it off. Now I feel so guilty. I didn’t listen to my son. I-I failed as a mother.” She choked on her tears, weeping bitterly.

Blake frowned when he thought about all the mean treatment he had received from her. If she hadn’t been Liam’s mom, he might have as well killed her last night.

“Can I have an alone time with Liam for twenty minutes? It’s the least you can do for me since you pretty much haven’t let me see him ever since.” He said through gritted teeth. She bowed her head in guilt when she detected a little hatred in his tone. She couldn’t blame him though, she had been awful to him. It was really stupid of her to Blame a seven year boy for the condition of her son!

She blamed herself for listening to Jessica’s lies about the boy being evil when she was clearly the evil one. That backstabbing bitch!

“I know you must hate me right now, but…”

“Yes, yes, I do hate you! I hate you so much! You were never really in support of my friendship with Liam, were you? You really shouldn’t apologize cause I don’t accept your apology!” He cut her off with a yell, making her cringe and her insides shiver in fear.

She didn’t expect the boy’s childish voice to change within seconds and his aura had become powerful. He was no longer the old Blake she knew.

She gulped on her own saliva feeling suffocated and quickly said, “I don’t expect you to forgive me immediately… but, I’ll leave you two,” she glanced at her son on the bed and then at the fuming boy who glaring at her. She quickly walked out of the room and shut the door. Once the door was shut, she exhaled deeply.

Blake trotted to the bed with a saddened expression. He slowly placed his palm on the boy’s forehead and Liam’s body glowed and then black fumes entered into his body through Blake’s palm.

Blake removed his hands from the boy’s head and closed his eyes. The black fumes found its way into his brain, repairing every damage in his brain and regenerating the brain cell, it then found it’s way into his spinal cord, rearranging every broken bone there is. As the bones of his spinal cord re-arranged, the cracking noise of bone could be heard from inside the room. Lastly, the black fumes then seeped into his legs, arranging the bones of his femur. Once the healing process was complete, the black fumes seeped out Liam’s nostrils and then re-entered Blake’s body.

Seconds later, Liam opened his eyes and gawked at the white ceiling. He slowly moved his hands and then his legs.

“Liam, are you okay?” His eyes flashed with concern. The boy turned his head to Blake and wanted to say something but the restrictions on his mouth didn’t allow him to.

Blake seemed to have noticed this, so he slowly peeled off all the tubes that were placed on his mouth and nose and every goddamn tube on his body.

He then helped him sit up on the bed and he couldn’t help but wince.

“These are pretty uncomfortable.” He was referring to the braces on his body. Blake nodded and muttered, “I’ll remove them.”

Liam couldn’t help but ask with a cheeky grin, “Are you a doctor?”

Blake chuckled and answered, “For your sake, I can be one.”

After Blake had successfully removed all the braces, Liam couldn’t help but smile. “Much better.”

Liam turned to his friend and asked slowly, ” What happened?”

“You were involved in an accident…” He paused.

A curious Liam couldn’t help but ask, “And?”

“I don’t know much but I know you suffered from major brain damage, your spinal cord and legs were badly fractured.”

Liam sighed deeply but he felt something was wrong so he couldn’t help but ask, “How come I’m alive? I mean if I had spinal cord injury, I should be paralyzed right?”

Blake pursed his lips and replied, “You were indeed paralyzed and in a coma. I-I I…” Blake suddenly felt anxious. He was scared to tell him who he really was because he feared that Liam would not want to be friends with him anymore if he told him.

“I know who you are.” Liam however blurted out.

“What?”

“I know who you’re, dummy. I know you are you’re the devil’s son. I knew everything from the beginning.” He said it like it was no big deal!

He gaped at him, shocked. Even he didn’t know until a few days ago but Liam knew since a year ago?

“Y-you knew. How?” He stuttered as he tried to calm his raging heart.

“Remember when we had just became friends? We had a school project so we looked in your storage room for some materials. I happened to stumble across your mother’s old diary. I didn’t know it was a diary cause it was just a jotter that had a few writings in it. That was when I found out who you really were.” Liam revealed in a low voice.

“You knew? And you still became my friend?” Blake muttered, hot tears were threatening to spill from his eyelids. He suddenly felt loved, like he didn’t deserve Liam as a friend.

“You were lonely Blake. I didn’t care who you were, I just wanted to be a friend and a brother to you.”

Blake shook his head rapidly and hesitantly replied, “I don’t deserve you…”

“Shh,” Liam shushed and pulled him into a tight hug. He patted the boy’s back and slowly said, “You deserve more love than you can imagine. Only love can change your heart.”

His tone was calm and soothing but Blake didn’t seem to understand what his last sentence meant.

‘Only love can change your heart’

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Only love can change your heart. What does that mean? These two are like brothers