A Forbidden Name - Part 7

 "Hey".

Why do my mornings have to be so damn different everyday?
I am in my jumpsuit with my hairs totally out of line and he's standing at my doorway with his hands on the side bars, making it seem as if he's known me for years when we just met yesterday.

"What?" I say with thin line eyes and making it totally obvious that I am not happy he's here this early like 5am in the morning.
"I thought we could go for a walk."
"You dont have any friends." I think i am blunt.
"True." He says smiling.

I grunt at his response at shut the door at his face.

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"Where are we going?"
"I thought i should keep it a secret." He is looking forward and i am already tired of walking straight for 15 minutes.

"Its 5am in the morning and you're taking me somewhere Idk when I am out of every single breath in my lungs right now."

He starts laughing. "Its okay. We will be there in 2 minute. It's actually a 17 minute walk."

"You should've told me that before." I frown at his response.
And if that's a ditch place, I'm leaving this uni.

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But its not.

"Is it the flower garden?" My mouth is still open in awe to see a vast stretch of lined roses of unexpectedly totally different colors and mixes.
"Yeah" he says laughing a bit at my reaction.

I blink a few times before looking at him with strained brows-
"How do you know its here?"

"I come here each morning like this."
I am still looking at him like I don't know how he knows about this place. Ofc everybody knows but it's actually hard to make out the route because it is. I couldnt find it on the map.
"Did you like it?" I ask him waving at the beauty.
"Ofc." He smiles at me and I think he loved it that i loved it.

I move my steps forward to check the area. This is so unreal. How does this uni has so many unexpected kind of gardens. Like it's not normal to have so many gardens. At least not for me.

I crouch down beside a bush and flip the petals of a pink rose. Its so beautiful.

"Why do you come here so often?" I say still looking at the rose.

I don't hear a response.

"Jeff?"
I still dont look back. I can feel he is still here.
But its odd that he's not answering.

I finally turn back and see that he's not at the place he was standing on before. I look at my sides and its not that big of a garden where you cannot find another person.

This place is open to the sky but surrounded by big concrete walls. It's dark at some places but this fact is overlooked by the beautiful roses. The entry gate is golden and big as if this part of the uni is some kind of related to a fairytale.

I don't know but growing with everyday, this university is not how I thought it would be. Its more of hidden from many things.

I stand up concerned that Jeff is not here and I am alone here. You know the flower garden, reader.

"Jeff!" I shout running from one corner to another but jeff is not here. He is nowhere. Did he left me here? Seriously? That's the very reason why I don't like boys.

I start to head to the gate and out, but suddenly I hear a silent humming.
Isn't this where every story takes a dark turn?
Hearing voices you don't want to?

Someone is humming in a low tune. A song I think i can recognize.

"Mmmmm..mmm.."

Is it growing closer? Closer? Closer? Closer?

I turn around to search the voice. Its coming from a corner. But....there are only two corners. 2 at the front. The walls at the sides of the gate end at a point at equal distance.

Who's humming?

I can still hear it. I dont know. I think i will start crying.

Is it the....?

"Jeff!" I start crying from the fear. This is not the morning I ever wanted to....
The humming is getting louder. There's a soft pad of footsteps. I can hear. The stomp on the grass. The lingering feeling of a person being near. I dont know.

I turn and start to run when I abruptly take back a step seeing Jeff at the gate with his back to me. He's leaning on the side bar, his head down and his heads are on something. Maybe he's using his phone. But seriously.

"Jeff what is this?"
He doesn't budge when i say his name.

"Jeff!" I shout at the top of my lungs at a distance from him which should make him quickly look back, but he doesn't. This is so weird.

My eyes start flooding with tears and pain and I start to get out the door. And say a curse to him.

I reach by his side and by watching him still on his phone, acting like he didn't just hear a dying scream isn't making me smile now and not ever from now on around him. I swear.

"Jeff, this isn't a joke." He doesn't flinch. "Jeff!!"
He quickly looks at me. With questioning eyes. Then he looks behind at the garden and his brows stiff with doubt. Doubt for what? I run inside the gate and again look around for something. Or someone?

"Jeff." I again say. But he doesn't looks at me this time. What is happening? What? What? What?

I run to him but he doesn't responds to my presence.
His mouth opens a bit in, maybe, fear. And then he runs over to the left corner of the garden.

He pushes at the wall and it....the wall opens to a bright place. I can't see it since the opening is small but Jeff quickly turns the stone wall and inside the opening. And he disappears round the corner.

There was a door?

What is happening?