I sat on the concrete bench in the park and let the tears flow through my eyes. All I could think about was 'He was lying to me all this time.' I asked him about his past, his relationships he purposely skipped that he was married and had a kid.
My phone vibrated in my pocket. I knew who was calling so I ignored it. I laid my head back on the back of the bench and closed my eyes. All I could see was dark as usual. It felt like now all the darkness in my eyes had engulfed my whole being in it and the last hope of being happy in life was snitched away from me.
"Hello!" I heard a voice. It was pitch dark and I was alone like always.
"Hello!" I repeated my words louder. I didn't know where I was. I was lost.
"Hey" I heard Ryan's voice and saw a flicker of light. My hope.
"Ryan... you're here?" I asked turning my head to the light.
"Yes I am" he replied in his usual calm and soothing voice.
A few seconds later I heard someone enter the room I knew everyone already thought that I was dating Mateo so I didn't bother to pull away. "Hey... what happened?" I heard Jessica's voice as her fingers grazed my cheek. I felt a different kind of emotion in the pit of my stomach and my eyes welled up in tears. I pulled away from Mateo abruptly and sprung up from my seat. I pulled her into a bone-crushing hug and let my tears soak her shirt. She was taken off guard but she wrapped her arms around after few seconds and rubbed comforting circles on my back. "Boyfriend issues." I heard Mateo whisper. I didn't have to tell her more before she started cursing my unknown boyfriend under her breath. When Jessica came back, she said she never believed I would do something like stealing a boyfriend but she had to go with Keith because he was his friend since they were kids but when Keith acted out that day in the café, she couldn't help but confront him and Keith being
"Noah get down honey. It's time to leave" Mum called me from downstairs. Today, I was going to have surgery. I sighed and trod down the stairs to the living room. Mum and Nick were waiting for me there. Eva couldn't visit but she said she'd come down for Christmas which was more than fine with me. I missed her. Mateo and Jessica would meet me after school. The only person missing was Ryan. That day when I misbehaved in the class, Ryan and I never spoke again. He never called me to his office and I never tried to reach out to him. Even mum got suspicious when I told her the other day about my broken phone. I don't know how but she somehow related it to having issues with my boyfriend. Eva even told me to ask him to visit me at the hospital but I obviously said he would be busy. Though my surgery would be long enough and by the time I'd be out of the operation room, it'd be evening and the school would be closed. "You ready, sweetheart?" Mother took my face in
I woke up and still, my head felt dizzy. I could feel the bandage on my eyes. I remembered when they gave me anaesthesia. I tried to open my eyes beneath the bandage but whimpered at the pain. "Noah..." I heard my mother's voice and soon a hand caressed my cheek. "Yes mum, I'm alive." I groaned trying to sit up. The skin beneath the bandage was itching and I really wanted to scratch off my skin. "How long this thing is gonna stay on my eyes?" I asked touching the bandage. "Dr Brian said he'll remove it in three days." She informed me. I groaned thinking, I wouldn’t be able to tolerate it for the next five minutes. "This is so uncomfortable," I grumbled. "Stop whining. Have some patience and tolerance." She scolded me. "By the way, Mateo and Jessica are here. They arrived almost 1 and half hours ago. They are in the café. I'm gonna go tell them and Dr Brian that you are awake meanwhile you stay put and stop messing with the band
"Are you ready?" Dr. Brian asked unwrapping the bandage. To say I was nervous is an understatement. I was scared. I mustered up enough strength to answer him. "Yes" I choked out. I was nervous as hell. "Almost done, I don't want you to open your eyes instantly, do you understand me?" He questioned and I could only nod in response because I didn’t trust my voice. I felt him slowly unwrap the bandage from my eyes. When it was completely removed, he removed the cotton pads that were resting on my eyes. I was nervous as hell, taking shallow breaths while he was wiping my eyes gently with something wet. "Open your eyes slowly, all the lights are dim so, you should be able to safely open them. But still if your eyes hurt I want you tell me immediately." He guided but my anxiety wasn’t letting me speak so, I just nodded. I took a deep breath and slowly opened my eyes. Everything was so blur. I couldn't focus on things. I couldn’t define the objects i
"So how are we spending our Christmas?" Jessica asked looking between Mateo and I. "Umm... I haven't got any plans." I raised my hand in surrender. "Christmas is gonna be busy for me." Mateo spoke. "Why?" I frowned. "It's me birthday a day before Christmas and my family tree is let's just say, not small. House is gonna be full." He spoke, resting against the headboard. I was still not used to seeing everyone so every time I realized that I was actually seeing a person, moving and doing their normal routine stuff in front of me, I got this strange feelings in the pit of the stomach that maybe it was just a dream but then again, I never had these kind of dreams. They were always dark. "So, you are gonna get double presents." Jessica teased him. "And gonna get double tired." He sighed. "Matt, we gotta celebrate your birthday if we can't be together on the Christmas." I spoke making Jess agree with me. "But-" He tri
“Happy Birthday!” Jessica and I screamed as the clocked hit 12. “Thank you.” Mateo said shaking his head on our childish behavior. I had arrived at Jessica’s house exactly at 9pm. Thank god mum didn’t try to stop me, Eva spoke in my favor before mum could say a word. Mateo would take me back home; that’s what I told mum because she wasn’t very much happy about the idea of me staying at Jessica’s place. We three literally had the best time of our lives. We danced though none of us knew how to dance. Mateo even whined about not having wine on his birthday party which of course Jess and I ignored because even if he hit his adultery, we were still underage for the drinks. “Matt, how are the things going between you and Tyla?” I asked him breathing heavily, from the couch where I just placed my arse to rest a little. “I invited her to my birthday party...” Mateo hesitantly replied. Jessica took a seat beside me and resting her head on my shoulder.
I stepped in and followed my instincts that led me to the living room. I didn’t know where to go but I had been here so many times that my feet did know. “Ryan…” I called him. I didn’t want to go to his bedroom. I felt like it would be too personal, considering that we were not on those terms at the moment. I walked further to the kitchen and just the kitchen of this mansion was bigger than my entire house. “Noah…” I heard his voice behind me and I froze in my position. If I turn around, I'm going to see him, for the first time ever. Am I ready to see him in this situation when I'm supposed to hate him? My mind was a mess of thoughts. “C’mon, I think we should sit down.” He spoke again and I shut my eyes tight. I was mustering up the courage to turn around and look at him. “Noah…” He called again and now his hand was on my shoulder. His touch ignited me. The spark, the burn that I was craving for, returned. I felt alive the moment his
He was glowing in the warm yellow light of fire. Though this whole mansion was advance in technology and had everything available on one click, I was glad he had a fire place. The shadow of his eyelashes on his cheeks was making my stomach churn and the way his chiseled jaw was looking under the only light that was coming from the fireplace made me look at him in awe. His jaw looked sharper and his eyelashes looked longer. I tried but couldn't look away from him. “I told you about my high school sweetheart, didn’t I?” He spoke after a while. I shook my head to focus on his words, not on his face. “Just that she left you after an argument.” I said honestly. “Ivy Martin, I met her in school. She was my junior. We started dating when I was in the senior year of my high school, before that we were just friends with benefits. When I went to college, being intelligent I chose both business and English major but because of that I couldn’t give our relationship the t