Aira told her grandmother everything. From the contract to their relationship, how he had made it like her father was going bankrupt.She had clicked her tongue at that cursing her father for being a stubborn old goon.After telling her the whole tale Aira’s hat felt lighter. It felt extremely light and freed as if she had been holding it all down for so long.“If only it hadn’t been for that stubborn father of yours,” Her grandmother sighed at one point, “But my dear, I would have expected nothing less from you. You’ve always held your family dear since you were young no matter how much they hurt you… How much WE hurt you,” She muttered,“Grandma, I told you to stop beating yourself up about that,” She said wiping her tear-swollen eyes.“Oh, what is it that I have left if it’s not for my lamenting and wallowing? At least let me wallow about it for a while…” She said and Aira smiled at her grandmother’s antics.Her grandmother smiled back and covered her hand with hers.“Honey, I know
Aira ran up to her grandmother’s room as she barked orders to the butler to call the doctor. Another seizure? So soon after the first one?!Aire made her way to her grandmother’s room where her health monitors were beeping. Her heart had stopped beating.Without hesitation, she made her way toward the bed fixing her position and beginning to perform CPR.With each pump, Aira felt her heaving breath as fear and adrenaline gave her the strength to push again and again until she was on a rhythm. But to no avail.The machine was beeping loudly telling her that she should make more effort.But her arms failed her and for the second time that week, she felt really weak and defenseless.A sob escaped her lips as she looked down at her grandmother’s pale face.“Grandma, please,” she said with a pleading voice as she went on not stopping her compressions and just as she was about to give up. Or more like as her hands were starting to dive way underneath her, she heard the cheerful beep of the
Vincent woke up the moment he felt Aira move in his arms. She had fallen asleep from exhaustion as soon as he let her go. He had leaned on top of her and watched her for a while memorizing her sleeping face, her body, everything about her.Then taking her into his arms he fell asleep wondering what he was going to do tomorrow when they were both awake.But he didn’t have to worry about it. Because Aira slipped out of his arms as soon as she woke up despite barely being able to wake because of how hard he drove her body to its limits last night. Then she pulled her clothes on and left the room as quietly as a mouse without looking back at him.Opening his eyes, he stood up pulling his pants on, and made his way to the window watching her get into her beetle and drive away from the house without a single look back.One night…His fists clenched as his anger and frustration rose. There was no way that one night was going to be enough. A lifetime isn’t nearly enough with her. He wanted he
Aira was in pain, she felt hot and uncomfortable and her body ached all over leaving her unable to move a muscle. Even opening her eyes felt like too much effort but still she tried hard to open them her mind still foggy.She looked around her vision blurry ti see a figure she recognized by her bedside sitting in the dimm light.“Vincent,” she whispered her voice hoarse and Vincent’s eyes snapped to her widening when he saw her awake.“How are you feeling?“ he asked,“I don’t know…” she blurred out still foggy probably from all the crying and her fever.Crying… Her grandmother…She felt tears well up in her eyes and she closed them feeling the hot drops running down her temple.“Your fever is still high, you should get some more rest,” He told her pressing his cool hand to her forehead and covering her eyes, “I will only stay here until you feel better. I promise you won’t have to look at me after this.” He said and Aira wanted to protest, to tell him not to leave but she couldn’t.Sh
Aira stood there in front of her mother and uncle staring at the table.“Honey, I know how hard this-““No. You can’t do this to me,” she muttered.“You have no choice, Aira, you’re an artist, you need to finish that painting. It was her last wish,” Her uncle said in a hard tone.“No!” She screamed and they were both taken aback, she took a step back startled at her own outburst.“No… I- I mean…” she stuttered taking a few steps back feeling stares on her piercing through her skin.Suddenly she felt overwhelmed, dizzy, and out of air. She wanted to throw up.“Aira, honey, are you okay?” Her mother asked looking at her with concern Aira took another step back when her mother reached out for her.“Don’t touch me…” she said dazed and her uncle stood looking at her with confusion.“Are you like this because we asked you to finish the painting?” He asked and she felt the mocking tone in his voice.“Don’t talk to me,” she gritted out glaring at them, then she turned around to find everyone l
Vincent stood by the door and watched as Aira’s family fussed over her. Her mother and sister were hugging her tightly as they cried and her uncle stood away awkwardly as her father spoke to him clearly giving him a piece of his mind about what he said to her.“Thank you for finding her,” Ian said as he came up to stand beside him, “Amongst all of us, she is the one who has the hardest time.” He said.“I know. They were pretty close together,” He said with a smile his eyes never leaving her.“They were. Which is probably why she sold the mansion to you. She wanted Aira to have it one way or another.” Ian said and Vincent remained silent for a while not bothering to answer that comment.“She told me that you had a fight. She seemed upset over it, I was wondering if she would agree to come with you.” Ian added and this time Vincent looked at him.“I was wondering the same too. To be honest, I screwed up pretty badly this time and I wouldn’t have been surprised if she had refused. I had
Aira opened her eyes after a few hours from her nap feeling rested and peaceful for the first time since she discovered what Vincent had done.Jumping out of bed, she could barely fight the urge to take the brush into her hands. So without stopping to think about anything and like a lunatic with an illusionary fire chasing after her, she changed into her jeans not bothering with a new shirt, and made her way toward the workshop.Opening the door. She headed toward the untouched painting left as she had left it before the butler had come to get her.A bang in her chest sobered her but she still made her way toward it and stared at it for a few moments before she picked up a new brush and started mixing the colors and preparing for everything.After a while, she was already painting the rest of the painting unaware of what was going on around her.Vincent came barging into the room at some point and she looked at him absently wondering why he looked so worried. Then he sighed in relief
A few days later, Aira sat down in the second row as she watched her mother present her eulogy. She felt drained and cried out. In the three days since her grandmother died, Aira had been doing very little.Other than painting or staring at the painting, she spent half the time crying and the other half trying to suppress her tears. Her family was grieving and each time she found her mother sitting in a corner crying by herself, she felt her heart break a little more as she went to try to comfort her.She was tired. So tired that she felt like she was going to sit anywhere and fall asleep as soon as the funeral was over.She felt a hand sneak around her waist and pull her sideways against a muscular chest. Grateful for the support, she didn’t tell Vincent anything. She didn’t need to.He had been hovering over her since that day but she couldn’t say that his presence bothered her. Sometimes she barely noticed his presence but most of the time, he would always be in the right place at