Chapter 27: Waking Up

Chapter 27: Waking Up

Downstairs, in the kitchen.

Serah and Emma were talking to each as they got ready to prepare dinner, when they heard a bone chilling scream.

"AHHHHHHH."

The both of them immediately raised their head and looked at the concrete ceiling above them, where the scream came from and they turned and looked at each other with the same question in their mind.

"I-Isn't that his voice?," Emma asked with a slight shaky voice. The scream gave her a big scare and a very bad feeling.

"Yes, it is and It seems he's in pain," Serah replied as she raised her head and looked at the ceiling again with a worried and anxious expression on her face.

It only took a seconds and she turned and grab Emma hands before dragging her upstairs alongside with her.

"Come, let's go check out what's happening. We won't get an answer if we keep standing there, looking at each other and the ceiling," Serah said, dragging Emma upstairs.

Emma could not react in time and could only be dragged along. She looked at Serah and asked, "Are we going there? what if it's something dangerous?"

"Emma, what do you mean dangerous? What could possibly be dangerous in this house that we have been working in, for almost a week?," Serah replied Emma's question back with a question.

"If it's nothing dangerous, then why did he scream so loudly and why does it sound painful?," Emma couldn't help but ask back.

"It doesn't have to be something dangerous, besides household accidents can happen."

Their loud, hurried footsteps came to a halt when they got to the door of Silas' bedroom. Serah wasted no time as she pushed the door and barged in, still dragging Emma along.

When they got into the room, they saw that it was empty, but what caught their attention was the mist that was in the room. The two of them walked slowly deeper into the room.

Slowly, they walked deeper into the room and got to the bathroom's door, where they saw a small empty bottle on the floor and the door of the bathroom wide open with steam pouring out the bathroom through the open door like someone poured hot water on dried ice.

Seeing this, Serah anxiously rushed into the bathroom and Emma followed along.

Inside the bathroom was filled with so much steam that it affected their visibility.

"What's with this steam?," Emma asked as she waved her hands to clear the steam in front of her to increase her visibility.

Serah did not reply to Emma's question as she also waved her hand, clearing the steam and moving deeper into the bathroom.

It took them some time for their vision to finally get used to the steam around them and they were now able to make out a view of the bathroom vaguely, and there, they saw a hand sticking out of the bathtub, unmoving.

"MR SILAS!" Serah screamed and ran towards the bathtub.

When she got to the bathtub, she saw an unconscious Silas lying in a bathtub filled with hot black liquid. She didn't know whether to call it black water or liquid as it looked somewhat like a lotion. She saw that his body and his clothes were also soaked in the same black liquid.

As she scrubbed his body, she could see that his body was becoming clearer and fairer. The color of his skin was improving and Serah could not help but think that it now looks way better than before.

If Silas' face before has some semblance to someone that has gone through the rough path of life, then his face now looks like that of a prince from one of those fairytale stories.

Serah kept on scrubbing his body but she avoid the region from his waist to where his boxer ended as she felt uncomfortable going to that region.

Emma returned with the item just when Serah was about to finish with cleaning Silas up.

Seeing Emma, Serah immediately rounded up what she was doing and told Emma to drain and refill the bathtub with water again as she collected the bag from her and started putting the dirty clothes into it.

Serah knew that Emma would not agree to touch the clothes if she told her to put them into the bag, so she decided to do it herself.

Throughout the whole time, Serah and Emma's head was filled with questions but they could only keep it to themselves as there was no one to give them an answer.

Even if there was, Serah decided she won't ask but wait until Silas decides to give them an answer. Serah has a saying that she usually says to herself.

A saying that goes: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask and don't care about what you shouldn't care about. Keep your curiosity in check"

Emma continue to drain and refill the bathtub with water everytime and each time the bathtub was refilled, Serah would scrub and clean Silas body.

After multiple intervals, the girls could finally relax as Silas now look very clean and now completely devoid of the black substance, the same goes for the bathtub.

"Emma, why don't you go and prepare something for him to eat? He might be hungry when he wakes up. I will stay here to look after him,"

"Ok," Emma replied and left for the kitchen to prepare dinner.

After Emma left, Serah continue looking at Silas sleeping figure and watched his chest move up and down slowly in rhythm with his breath, in slight admiration.

Serah continue to admire Silas figure, his slightly ripped chest and abs, his cherry red lips and his handsome face.

Serah felt that she could compare him to the most famous South Korean Actor.

Time passed slowly in silence throughout the villa. The villa was usually silent but this one in particular was more noticeable and somewhat heavy.

*****

No one knew what time it was when Silas finally came to and opened his eyes.

He looked around him and saw that he was still in the bathtub with some difference being that he was stripped down only to his underwear and he was no longer feeling that scorching heat in his body.

He turned and looked at Serah who was now asleep with her head resting on the bathtub.

'I feel like I almost died. Phew... I was so stupid and impulsive.'

[Ding!]