My Crazy Housemate: What Makes You Happy - Chapter 276

“She is still not out?” Jeremy asked when he stopped by Leo’s apartment the next evening with Ellie.

“She isn’t. Shehas been inside this room for the past 24 hours. I don’t know what’s going to happen if she spends more hours inside.” Chloe shook her head.

The previous day, she got to know from Jeremy that Mia recieved a call from her mother and left in a hurry after saying something about a police station. They didn’t know when she returned because the two of them including Ellie had gone to the park to have fun. But Chloe later told him in the evening that Mia was inside the room but refused to come out and she suspected Mia was crying.

“Do you know anything about Mia’s family? Anything at all? Maybe you heard from your brother?” Jeremy asked.

“Nothing.” She shook her head.

Jeremy sighed deeply. It was already past 8 in the evening. She had been inside the room for probably more than 24 hours. No food, no water, and crying her eyes out.

He had been there that morning to knock on the door and ask her to open up but she didn’t. That was when he realised Chloe was right about Mia crying inside the room.

“How long is she going to remain like this? She is making me worried sick. At this rate, she may fall sick and probably collapse and that would be worse.” Chloe said.

“What about your brother? No calls yet?”

“I haven’t been able to reach him for thr past two days. I think he is in an environment where the signal is bad.”

“What are we going to do? Maybe if your brother was here or even called her, she would open the door?”

Chloe seemed to think about it seriously. “May-be?”

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Mia had felt this way before so she knew what was happening to her. She was slowly falling into depression. The last time, Leo had been available to pull her out from it. Now that he wasn’t present, she knew she had to start depending on antidepressants or else, she may kill herself soon.

The worse part about it all was the fact that she really didn’t have anyone. Yes, there was Jeremy, there was also Chloe, but those weren’t the people she really needed. She wanted a close family, a loved one, someone dear to her heart, someone who loved her.

She had been crying for quite a while until she felt she had exhausted all the tears left in her eyes. She didn’t know what time it was. The curtains were always down so it was dark inside the room, the lights were turned off and she had turned off her phone after leaving the police station because Linda kept calling her.

So she didn’t know what time it was or what day it was. Everywhere was pitch black.

What happened to her father was too much for her to bear. She couldn’t handle it.

Remembering all the times she was putting up fliers in search of her father, those sleepless nights when she was worrying about his whereabout, and praying her returned. Linda didn’t want to believe he just disappeared back then. She believed he had gone to look for some money to pay up all their loans. Still, she cried herself to sleep every night. Linda had blamed Mia as the bad luck who caused her family to turn out the way they did. It got to the point where Mia believe she caused it. She prayed everyday for him to show up but a year passed and he didn’t return. Two passed, three passed until the eighth year. They still believed he would come one day, but this was the news they got.

Why didn’t he just sacrifice her instead? Why didn’t he give her up since she was the bad luck and not a real part of their family?

The Lucas family would have lived happily ever after. Joe Lucas wouldn’t have died, Mary wouldn’t have run away from home, then, they would all be happy while she helped paid off their debt through prostitution. Maybe that was why she was born right? To be the sacrificial lamb just like Linda and Mary had done to her.

Tears began to form in her eyes again. She felt so weak, tired, her head was aching, all her body ached, her throat was dry, she was parched and seriously starving. If she continued at this rate, she would collapse. She knew that quite well, but she thought maybe collapsing would help her. It would help numb the pain she felt. It would help relieve her of the heartache.

“I just… want to die…” She said in a broken sob. “I just want to die, Leo..”

“Mia?”.

“I want to die.” She continued.

“Mia? Open the door.”

She heard Leo’s voice again and paused. She had thought it was her imagination.

“Open the door!” He said again from outside the door.

Mia sat up immediately. A wave of dizziness struck her and she almost collapsed back on the bed but she tried her best to stand.

She blindly staggered to the door as her heart kept beating rapidly from anticipation. When she opened the door, she saw the familiar face and more tears dropped from her eyes as she pulled him into a hug and began to cry on his chest.

“I missed you. I missed you so much. Why are you coming just now?” Her brain refused to register anything else except what she wanted to believe.

The functioning part of her brain knew that hairstyle wasn’t Leo’s, knew Leo didn’t use this kind of cologne, knew he wasn’t a doctor so there was no need for him to wear doctors’ scrubs, she knew Leo would have hugged her back and not just stand there stiffly.

But she wanted to believe it was him. She badly wanted to believe this was him and her brain bought that illusion.

She looked up at his face with longing, trying to touch him but before her hand could reach his face, he held her hand. All the while, he kept looking at her with pity and worry.

“You are coming with me to the hospital.” He said in a voice which clearly showed there was no option for negotiation.

It was only then that Mia slowly returned to her senses and noticed how worried Jeremy, Chloe and Ellie looked. They had been watching the whole time.

She didn’t know what else happened, but at that moment, she fainted.