**Nancy's POV**
7 years later:
The alarm clock beside my bed rings like hell. I toss and turn around the bed being ignorant to turn it off.
"Nancy! What the hell? Please, stop that damn alarm clock!" Mia shouts at me.
I reach out my hands to that silly alarm clock that is ringing beside my bed and turn it off and wake up.
I am on my sando and pajamas with my below the shoulder length hair dishevelled like hell.
I look like a devil waking up from dream.
"Why do you turn on that alarm when it has already been a year that we have left the college," she shouts at me.
"I am used to it. I don't get to wake up with its sound," I say and walk out of my bed.
I quickly get washed up and prepare some light breakfast.
"So, how's your new formula working? You have been working so hard for it?' she asks me.
" It's almost done. One final touch and my life long first ever cosmetic formula will be out in market. Trust me this is going to sell lots and going to be huge,' I say as I put the sandwich on my mouth.
Honestly, I had been working really hard on this since last two years. Being a chemistry student was really tough and being a cosmetician is even more tough.
I quickly changed outfit and rushed to the bus station. I need to work my ass off.
I studied my whole life like hell and now, I am working my ass off right now.
I get a call while I wait for the bus.
"Nancy, you remember what day is today, right?" he asks me.
How can I ever forget my mother's death anniversary?
"Yes, dad," I say with a painful voice.
It's been two years without her. Breast cancer and it could be such a huge disease. I hate the fact that she hid it from me such a long time and I regret that I didn't even get much of time to spend with her.
My dad's home is about three hours away from here. I have been staying here with Mia renting a room, since last two years. My only brother stays with him.
The bus stops right in front of me and I rush to it. I have saved quite sum of money. Next month, I am going to buy a car and I don't need to wait for the bus.
"Good morning mam!" I get greeted by the office assistant. I work here as a chief chemist in here. I am always focused in my work so much that I rarely have time to chit chat with other staffs and know about their personal life.
You call me workaholic and I am literally abusing my whole body like hell but that was the only solution I had long time ago and now I am habituated to it.
After my work hours, I directly went to supermarket to buy some stuffs for mom's anniversary.
After whatever happened, year's before I quite hate to go to my dad's home. It was a bad memory and I don't want to remember it.
After quick shopping, I rush towards the bus station and get a bus to the home.
Two high school kids are in front of me and they are quite lovable to each other. But I am getting disturbed with it."Excuse me! What the hell you kids are doing? Can you please stop whatever you are doing? You are making me sick," I shout at them.
Both of them give me weird look and move to back the last seat.
"What the hell is wrong with her? What's her problem seriously?" they murmur but I tuck in my earphone and close my eyes and get to sleep.
"I love you Nancy," this voice keeps on repeating on my head.
"It was a fucking joke. Do you think I will ever love you. You are a joke yourself Nancy," this statement rings on mind along with it.
What the fuck!
Why am I even thinking about these all? Is it because I am going back to home? Is that why?
**Nancy's POV**The car stops in front of my home. My home still is same although so many things changed all these years."Nancy!!!" my sixteen year old brother came running towards me. We used to fight a lot but since mom died, we became the closest ever."Why were you late? We were waiting for you since a long time," he says and pulls me inside the house.Dad has prepared everything for the anniversary. We have some quite time in her memory and some good words with her. Nathan, describes his experience in middle school in front of her picture and sheds the tear.I cannot help tearing out while he shares so much with mom."Nancy, your turn. I know you were always close to your mom. Why don't you have a quiet time with her?" he asks me and I nod my head.They leave me alone in the room."Hey mom! How're you doing? Does heaven have lots if garden over there like you used to tell me? I guess it does. No wonder you were lost
**Nancy's POV** "Excuse me! Who are you?"a sharp voice pierces my ear? A middle aged woman stands in from of me with a laddle in her hands. Like I have disturbed her in the midst of cooking. " Do you live here? Isn't the owner of this house someone else?" I ask. She ogles all over my body and then, says," I recently bought this house. Why you have problem with it?" she asks. "No! No! It just that this is my old neighbourhood and I haven't been here for while. Just checking around people. What problem would I have from your stay here?" I say and turn around. What an embarrassment? Why would he be here? I quickly walk to my room. I have to go to the company early morning and I couldn't be late tomorrow. I rush over my bed and then get back to sleep but I cannot help sleeping. Hell!!! I spend my whole night with tosses and turns and I absolutely wake up late in the morning.
**Nancy's POV**"Yes, Kevin I am willing to marry you," I say to him and he jumps in joy. In his enjoyment he forgets to out on the ring on my finger."Kevin, ring. I think it should be put in my finger," I say."Oh! Yeah! I was just so much happy Nan," he says."Nan? When did I become Nan now?" I ask him?"The moment you accept my proposal,"he says and out the ring on my finger.I smile at his childish behaviour. He is always childish around me. No wonder, I become so comfortable with him always.We have quite good time together and we set out to return back home.He is blushing all the way down to the parking lot." Wait for me here! I am going to bring my car here," he says and puts his coat above my shoulders and walks away while I wait for him outside the hotel.I am touched by his reaction. I blow the hot air on my hands and rub them while I wait for him.The twinkling sparkly city is in front of me w
**Nancy's POV**My heart clenches as I hear the sounds of crashing of car. It isn't quite away from me. Just some metres away from where I am standing.Wait!The car with Zion was going through the same way.Thinking that it might be him, I quickly rush towards that direction.The place is all smoky and the huge thick flames of black smoke is covering the air in there. The foul smell of lubricants and burning of car parts is quite sickening but it's not what I went to search in there.I see the car.The color is same. Same like that if Zion's car.My heart is anxious. I am scared to go near you the car fearing that it might be him.I loved him. I loved that fucking Zion for almost seven years and just now I start to hate him. Just now, I start to give up on him. And I don't want to feel attached to him anymore.He hurt me!He played with my feelings!!He made me feel that I was just
**Nancy's POV**I am in dilemma. I don't know with whom should I go. But my concise mind has already decided my decisions."Uhmm... I am really sorry but I was mistaken. There is my fiance," I say and run towards the ambulance on which Kevin was being shifted."Relative?" the ward boy asks me."I'm his fiance," I say with tears in my eyes and enter inside the ambulance.Kevin is hurt so much. I close my eyes as I can't see his condition. His face is all painted in blood and it's making me feel like vomiting in there.I feel nauseous.The ambulance moves away to the hospital. Both of the ambulance walking side by side with each other.I am holding Kevin's hands but my heart also is yearning to get a single glimpse of him.I can't explain what kind of serious volcano is erupting on my heart and seeking it's way among those difficult ways but it's lost in there. It forgets to erupt as it thinks it's better not to erup
**Nancy's POV**"Nancy!" My body feels a little hope when I hear Mia's voice. I quickly get up from my place and run to her to hug her firmly."What the hell happened Nancy?" she holds my face in her hands and engulfs me in her warm embrace."Zion...Kevin," I stutter with their names in my lips."It's fine. Let's get calmer first. Nothing is going to be alright with your tears. It's just your waste of energy," she pulls me in the bench there and I lean towards on her shoulders for a long time.I don't know when I got asleep on her shoulders. When I wake up, she is still there patting my shoulders gently with her hands while her eyes are a resting.I look at the operation theatre. It's been so long. It's been almost five hours they are there but still there is no news of then from doctors.I had never thought, waiting for someone's life could be the most hardest thing to do ever.The fear in each of your heartbeat is worst than
**Nancy's POV**"He's relativeless. What do you mean by that?" I ask?"I don't have more thing to explain to you but please, do me this favour. Our boss really needs your help right now," he says as he joins both of his hands in front of me.It's not like I don't want to take care of him. It's because I don't want to underestimate Kevin for him anymore.But my heart knows it doesn't want to see Zion even in a little pain."I... I will," I say."Thank you miss. You don't need to stay with him all the time. You just need to be with him during nights and in morning. We are shifting boss at home for better treatment and you have to shift at there for sometime too," he says."Sorry! But I don't want to. I am okay with taking care of him but I am not okay with living with him under the same roof," I protest."You will not love. You will just take care of him. Please, miss," he pleads and I stand there doing something I shouldn't have
**Nancy's POV**~Phone beeps~After long thoughts whole night, I was asleep late night.As usual, my day starts with a sounds of phone. But today, the tone is different.I never get the call at this hour of morning instead of alarm."Don't pick that call," I hear Mia's voice, loud and aggressive. It isn't because of call I am fully awake but it's because of her aggression that I am so much curious to know whose call it is."Why? Who is it?" I ask?"Nobody, you need to know," she says and grabs my phone and walks to another direction.The call repeats again."It's ringing again. Whose call is it? Why are you like that?" I scold her and grab the phone?The phone gets cut off in our small cat fights."Mia, what is wrong with you?" I snarl at her."What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you Nancy? How can you be alright when Kevin is in that state? How can you stay calm and even sleep at this cond
Final chapterNancy's POV:(Before the surgery)"Nan! I'm here. You shouldn't worry about anything. You know I love you, don't you? " He holds my hands in his as he gently caresses them.Me, sleeping in the bed, smile brightly as I look up to his face. His face creases as he looks at me. There isn't a pity in his eyes. There is only the love, care and honest commitment in his eyes."Thank you! Thank you for everything but will you let me go now," I say and he smiles."Yes!" He says and the ward boys take me towards the surgery room.I look around as the bed moves inside the horrible and scary surgery room. I have never been in the surgery room in my whole life.I hated it. I completely hated the surgery room after I lost my mother with the same disease and look at the funniest and most hilarious part of l
**Nancy's POV**"I won't do it. I won't just do it," I shout as I stand on the entrance of the washroom.How can this happen? How can this ever happen?Why me? I have never even imagined that it could be me. It could be I that should go through all of this.I break down in front of the washroom as I fall on the cleanly wiped tiled floor with my both hands supporting me to sit.The tears stream down my cheeks like they are flooded with that salty liquid and are never ever going to stop in my whole life.Zion runs to me as he sees me falling down on the floor."Nan! Don't do this please. You should stay strong and everything is going to be alright after you do your surgery," he consoles but I don't have any intention to get consoled by his words.H doesn't know how can I live without my bre
**Zion's POV**My eyes feel like tearing our right now when she asks me that if she has any problem?How can I say that?How can I literally say that she is diseased?"Miss Nancy, would you please take a seat first. We need to talk with you first," the doctor advises with the gentle voice and she sits right opposite to him sharing me a confused look.I walk to her and pat her shoulder gently."Don't worry, dear I'm always right here by your side," I assure her and she sits quite calm but I know more than anyone that she is so much afraid right now.The doctor explains all of her situation in front of her. She seems to be more shocked and worried when she listened to them."So, what is the solution? What can I do to treat it on time?" she asks with low and hopeless voice. Doctor has assured her that her disease will be alright and she will be healthy again but being a diseased itself is such a huge shock to everyone and wh
**Zion's POV**I get a call from the doctor. He inform me that I should make her ready as soon as possible for the surgery and this could be never done until I tell her what she has as a disease.I cannot hide from her anymore."I think I am all better right now. I don't need to visit hospital," she says brightly.Actually it's about what she went last day, it's about what she has been going all these time and doesn't know about it.It is because breast cancer symptoms are seen at the later stage and she hasn't still seen the symptoms maybe."Still we need to visit the hospital. I want you to meet someone at the hospital," I say as I increase the speed of the car. I am freaking serious right now and there is no joke regarding her health."Don't tell me you are going to set me up with some of your doctor's friend?" she chuckles and I become a little mad.Why the hell would I set up my girlfriend with some other guy?
**Nancy's POV**I tip toe towards my room as I enter inside the house. I don't want to encounter neither dad nor Nathan at all. I don't want our eyes to meet at all.I grab my heels on my hand and slowly tip toe towards the stairs in the pace of cat walks."Caught you," Nathan's voice rings on my ear like hell. Why him? Why of all people it should be him?"Nathan!" I breathe out the air from my mouth as his eyes gazes on mine playfully."Guess someone had a good time tonight," he smirks as he sips the lemon tea from the kitchen counter. He literally loves lemon tea which I hate so so so much."Don't shout. It's not like that. We just wanted to give you peaceful time with your friends and that's all." I throw both of my hands in the air and sigh breathing out loud that even the ants in the room can hear."Your sighs are making me think that
**Nancy's POV**My eyes magnifies as I hear him say that."Shower together?"He grins as he can see confused look on my face."But you are already done, right?" My brows arches up as my hands are still on his shoulders fiddling his bare muscular and toned skin in there."I can take bath again," he says as he closes the bathroom door and locks it from inside.God!Why do I feel hot?I feel like the bathroom is some kind of desert which is really hot and I cannot find any air in there.My cheeks are burning and I guess he can clearly see the blushes on my cheek and anxiety on my eyes.I quickly get down from his waist and stand in front of him."This is bad idea. I am not comfortable with this." I see downward. He grips my chin and lifts it so that my eyes could see him and
**Nancy's POV**The bed dips its mattress as his weight lays beside me, holding me amidst his huge arms and his body dangerously close to me.My heart races like a leopard, making it thump so much loud.Is he able to hear me? What about my heart?I gulp the saliva formed in my throat and I try not to make any sounds so that it will wake him up or he knows that I am not asleep. I forcibly close my eyes as I don't want him to think I am not asleep right now."Not getting a sleep," I hear his murmur which makes my eyes shit open all of an immediaten.I nod absent mindedly and then I immediately realize that I am not suppose to do that. I am just supposed to pretend I am asleep."Nancy! Turn your head to me. I want to see you," he says and I gulp hard on my throat.It's not like he has never seen or something like that. He has seen me and but his approach is always dangerously overwhelming to me.He uses his hand
**Nancy's POV**"Wear this." He hands me the white plain T-shirt which is obviously oversized. It must be his."Should I go out?" He asks. I have never seen him getting my permission while I am changing the dress. I mean I have to push him outside while changing the dress."Uhm... Would you mind?" I say."It's fine. Let me go out and wait for you," he says as he walks out of the room and slams the door gently.It is such a waste that I did quite a make up for the party but didn't even get chance to go over there. By the way, I got to wear the outfit which was rotting almost for years on my wardrobe.I curl up my fingers to reach the bottom of my one piece as I tuck it out of my body. I have rarely watched my body all this time.I mean I rarely get time to adore what I have. These beautiful shoulders, my slender stomach, white and soft skin which I have neglected all this time.And the beautiful busts of mine which are obviously n
**Nancy's POV**"Will you marry me?" Zion's voice enunciates in the whole hall like he has some speaker on his mouth. Or is it because my senses are all filled with his thoughts that I hear him everywhere."What do you mean by marry?" my brows rise up to get the glimpse of his eyes. They are sparkling like hell."I mean you are serious right now? Like really really get married? Right now?" My brows pucker gazing at his amazing smirk which are talking a lot more than his actual words.This man isn't joking at all."I am serious Nan! Will you marry me?" he reiterates."Uhm... Don't you think this is quite awkward position for marriage proposal. I mean who proposes like this,"" I try to wake up but be pulls me back and I yank hard on his chest."Yes or no," he asks firmly. His eyes wandering all over my face like he is scared of rejection that might come from me."Zion, please stop this!" I try to stand up one more time but he doe