THE CONDITION

"What condition?" "By the end of this day, if I couldn't catch you then I'll free you, by all means," She blinked, "Now run. Run away and hide and keep hiding till the date changes but if I caught you, Sheharzad," his voice dropped octaves down and now he stared directly in her eyes, "I swear, you won't be able to save yourself from me," She whimpered uncontrollably at his statement. His eyes that were prior bored in hers, moved down to his wrist watch, "your time starts now. Tick tock. Tick tock," And it didn't take her seconds to run away from there. Flashback ends. A nurse, named Maria, sat there, helping her drink some soup. With every spoonful of liquid, she took in her mouth, a certain area in her jaw hurt. She could see the sympathy invading in the nurse's eye. "You'll recover soon," The nurse said. There was hope in her voice. "Thank you.. but what happened to me?" "Your bones suffered a fracture," she answered, shortly and a tear made its way to her eyes before she quickly bli