Chapter 10

**Acacia Point of View**

The moment of realization brought an absolute level of fear in me.

The ridiculous idea of being a pregnant and a virgin threw me off the little balance I gained in the past months. If it were something like insemination, then I can understand but even with the case of insemination, a girl should have to go through a lengthy process and a little pain which I clearly didn't.

Heck, where the hell is a hospital or doctor here? There's no one on this land other than me.

The nerves in my brain are thread away to give up and burst out. Yet again, my body started to shake involuntarily and fear was drowning me.

I mean, how the hell did I get pregnant?

There should be some sort of - something that should've caused it?

No, first, who caused it?

Tears continued to flow down my cheeks and a hiccup escaped my mouth when I felt so damn vulnerable.

I might be pregnant. Heck, I'm pregnant and I don't know what to do.

Why is this happening to me?

Am I locked here for this reason? To carry a baby?

"What do I do now? The baby - who's baby is it and -" I couldn't help but cry.

Pregnant. I'm pregnant.

"No no no." I feel on my knees. The whole abnormal situation is sending chills down my spine and I'm still hoping I'm not in diagnosis even though I know I'm not.

"Who did this to me?" I cried out. "How dare you do something like this to me? Who the hell are you and how did you do this?"

I was already exhausted and the whole crying and yelling is giving me a hard time. My head spun as I stood up and I felt so pathetic at the moment.

"I know you are out there somewhere. You hide from me, lock me up and keep me a prisoner here all for this? To carry a baby for you? Come out, I need to talk to you." I smashed the vase against the wall as I called out for the mysterious person.

I can't take this anymore.

In the haze of absolute fear and blinding anger, I forgot that the baby I'm carrying now is as much mine as the mysterious person's.

I walked to the side table and broke another vase in a fit just so this mysterious person can come before me. He can't do this to me and stay hidden like nothing happened.

"I hate you. I'll kill you, dammit." No sort or threatening happened to affect him because there was no clue of another person alive in the castle just like always.

How did everything come to this? Why me?

What did I ever do to go through such hell?

I moved towards the vanity table to break other things and when I looked at myself in the mirror, looked how disheveled and helpless I was, I felt like everything fell apart.

I feel broken, scared and clueless.

Heaving a little, I steadied my dizzy body and broke everything that was on the vanity table. This time, I'm not giving up. I need to know who this person is who kept me locked here and mysterious made me pregnant.

"You are stubborn, aren't you? So am I." I said as my eyes caught the sharp broken pieces of things I broke.

"Either you come out in front of me and explain this madness or I am stepping on them and hurt myself." I threatened, putting one of my leg on a few shards as I waited for that vile person show up.

Minutes later when I was all alone, I pressed my leg on the shards with a stubborn look. A hiss left my mouth and I stubbornly gulped down the pain.

Gritting my teeth, I lift another foot and stepped on sharp shards again. I pressed my lips, not letting any sound out but the tears did not stop. The more the time passed, the more my anxiety was getting best out of me.

My brain stopped to work properly and nothing mattered to me anymore. I was in an invisible maze that I couldn't get out of.

"You are still not showing yourself? How cruel can you be? Show up you bastard." I cried out loudly as I continued to walk on the shards.

Bloody prints of my feet were on the floor and blood was oozing out of my feet, tainting the carpet which I didn't care at all.

My body went off the balance and started to sway as dizziness took over. I held the wall for support and walked persistently out of the bedchamber towards the stairs.

No, I am not succumbing to this. I have to do this. I will bring this person out of his hiding be what may.

My feet hurt so much that the pain is killing me. On top of that, the other symptoms of pregnancy are making it hard for me.

I can feel the small shards piercing the skin as they go deeper into my foot. My body started to stagger as I was slowly losing control over it. I shook my head to keep myself fainting and falling down but it's getting hard to focus anymore.

My eyes lost their focus. The oxygen I'm taking from my nose seemed to be not sufficient as I started to breathe through my mouth loudly.

Soon, I was hyperventilating and my eyes were rolling to the back. I held myself conscious until I reached the stairs and held on to the metal railing tightly.

"Still not coming out of your hiding?" This time, I could out breath out as I was in no position to shout anymore.

I opened my mouth and was about to call that person out when my conscious finally gave in. The grip on the railing loosened before I knew, my eyes rolled back and I stumbled forward.

With the last bit of awake, I wrapped my hands around my stomach instinctively and everything went black.

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I was walking, walking aimlessly and don't know where I was. Thick white fog was surrounding me and I was unable to see anything.

It must early hours of morning and I was walking wearing a long gown in some sort of garden. The grass underneath my feet is wet and cold but I wasn't feeling cold though.

I felt free.

Spinning around, I saw nothing but the fog. Such thick fog that was covering everything from me!

I walked aimlessly only to find myself all alone in an unknown place. It felt like I was walking for hours but nothing could be seen around.

I stopped walking for a moment and looked up to the sky. There is light but I could see the sky due to fog.

I was getting nervous now. Anxiously, I ran around not knowing where to go and which direction to follow. Everything was just misty and unclear.

The freedom I felt moments before was now gone replaced by the fear of getting stuck here and not being able to escape.

Where am I?

How did I come here?

"Mom? Dad? Ruby? Guys, where are you all?" I called out, praying to be heard but I was only disappointed.

Running for several minutes, I bend down and put my hands on my knees as I panted. My lips went dry and I had to roll my tongue over them to bring them back to life.

A long period of walking and jogging around aimlessly, when I was inch away from giving up, I was startled and body jerked when I felt a hand covering my eyes.

"Who? Who is this?" I asked as I hurriedly caught the hand that closed my eyes. Touching it, the hand felt muscular and manly.

Without answering me, he pushed me gently to walk. And so we walked, me in the front and him behind me with my eyes closed.

"Who are you? Where are you taking me?" Again, no answer.

He continued to lead me somewhere and after minutes of walking, he suddenly stopped. Talking off his hand from my eyes, he stopped me from turning back.

"I'm here for you. Go, Acacia." He whispered close in my ear.

Go where?

With a frown, I blinked my eyes and looked to the front. The fog slowly started to clear out as something seems to get visible slowly. I felt the man behind me move back and by the time I turned back, he disappeared.

Turning around again, the fog cleared out and what stood in front of me shook me. It was the castle.

The castle from the island where I was locked.

"No." I yelled out loudly and woke up panting. "No, no." I repeated myself as I rubbed my hands over my face to wipe the sweat.

Gulping in fear, I looked around and found myself on the bed with my feet wrapped in white band-aid cloth and everything came back to me.

I'm still here, in the castle.

Locked like a prisoner and now - pregnant.

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Hello Sweeties,

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