Isabella's POV"Dolly! Wake up!" I tried waking Chloe up by shaking her tiny body gently that was covered by the thick blanket.She slowly got up rubbing her eyes and frowned at me. "Why are you waking me up so early?""It's 8 O' clock now." I pointed at the digital alarm clock which was on the drawer and she exclaimed."Ohmigod!!""Why? What happened?" I questioned with a puzzle look on my face but she ignored me, searching something on her bed and finally grabbed the thing under her blanket which was the TV remote and turned on the television which brought a bright smile on her face.She put the Nickelodeon channel which was showing the kids' all time favourite cartoon Dora The Explorer."Dolly you shouldn't-" I cut off by her."Oh please Bells.. I will do whatever you say after this cartoon finishes, I promise." she told sincerely glancing at me and I agreed as I didn't want this little doll to get hurt by refusing.Twirling a long strand of my hair with my fingers, I too started to
Isabella POV "Next is Miss Bells.." Chloe called out and I slowly walked towards the mini table which was a doctor's table now. I carried the Barbie doll in my arms and sat down on the pink couch across her. "Hello miss Bells! May I know your problem?" She sounded so formal with her strong accent, adjusting her stethoscope which was hanging on her neck. "Uhm.. I don't have any problem, Doctor. My daughter is the one who has high fever." I stated and she shook her head in disbelief. "You don't know how to play, Bells." "Why? What did I do?" I asked completely confused. "Doctor is the only one who tells the illness of your daughter, not you okay?" she explained and I suppressed my giggle before nodding. "Dolly- I mean, Doctor, actually my daughter has some kind of problem that I even don't know what the name is, so could you check her?" I questioned, acting dumb and extended the doll towards her and she nodded, grabbing it from me and placed the stethoscope's chest piece on the do
Isabella's POV"Okay Trevor. No worries!" I managed to say, trying to sound normal."Don't get mad at me. We'll surely meet sooner and I'll inform you when I free up my schedule." His voice convinced me as I could hear the sincere in it."Okay. And one more thing-""Babe, I'm getting another call so I'll talk to you later. Bye!""Trevor wait! I'll get the phone once in a week-" but all I said was useless as he hung up on me already. I took my phone from my ear and stared at the screen for a few moments to process every word we spoke in today's conversation.Why was he behaving weird lately? and he didn't say 'I love you' before hanging up.You're overthinking Bella!-----I had dinner with Hayden and he was such a cool guy than I expected. If Christian had spent more time with him, then he could've seen some changes in his behavioral."Even I'm so eager to get married but no one wants me to be their husband." he said sarcastically, stabbing the meat with his fork.Stirring my soup with
Isabella's POV "Is this your boss, Rosie?" I asked in a low voice to confirm my doubt and she blushed while nodding which shattered my heart into tiny pieces. I stood there like a statue, staring at Trevor who had no idea about my presence and the current situation, as he approached the hospital entrance twirling the car key with his finger. Christian and Hayden too approached me at that exact moment, as Christian said. "Let's go" but I ignored him completely and focused my gaze on Trevor. When Trevor made his way towards Rosie he slowly acknowledged my presence and gaped at me with widened eyes. "Babe!?" Hearing that word, Rosie turned towards him with a huge grin and he quickly averted his gaze to her and dragged her into the hospital, pretending to ignore me. "L-Let's go in." Who does he think he is? "Rosie! is he your boyfriend?" I asked at Rosie, keeping my gaze on Trevor and I could see his eyes widened as if he was thinking how the hell did I know Rosie. "Yeah, Bella. Thi
Isabella's POV Christian was lying on the floor, staring at the sky while I was resting my head on his chest, drawing circles on his body with my fingers to distract myself as we were staying quiet for God-knows-how-long; but neither the silence nor the position we were in right now was uncomfortable though. My tears have stopped flowing down and I could feel Christian was rubbing my arm now and then in a consoling way. "Thankyou." I uttered, breaking the silence. "For what?" "For this.." I mumbled against his chest. "..For trying to make me believe that everything will be alright." "I know how it feels when the person you love the most, do not give a shit about you." I heard him say and I raised my head up to look at him but his gaze was focused on the sky. Is he referring to his wife? I placed my head back on his chest and remained quiet, letting him continue. "She didn't like me at all. She only loved my money and the fame I had. But even knowing that, I loved her blindly l
Isabella's POV When I stepped out of his room, Hayden approached me. "What happened, miss White?" I glared at the direction of his room before responding. "What made you think that he'd listen to me?" I muttered, turning on my heel and went to my room, slamming the door shut. I sat on my bed, burying my face in my hands and really was frustrated about his mood changes. I knew that he was dealing with PTSD and this was an affect of it but sometimes it was really pissing me off. After quite some time, I heard my room door slowly open and I raised my head up to see who it was. Christian? He was in the same shirt which had some blood stains. His face was soaked by sweat and his bruised knuckles was covered by my handkerchief and it surprised me a little that he didn't bother to throw it away. I sat up properly as he slowly approached my bed, staring at the floor and sat down beside me, scratching the nape of his neck using his non-injured hand nervously. "Don't you know the manners
Isabella's POV I was going to call my mom after a long time. I knew she would be outraged for not being in touch with her as I promised and staying in London for more than a month. I dialed her number and brought the phone to my ear and it rang for a few seconds before I heard her voice which was mixed with anger. "Wrong number!" I chuckled. "I'm sorry mom.. Actu-" "Bella! It's been more than a month and still I couldn't see any signs of your arrival. And you have broken up with Trevor and you didn't bother to share your worries with this poor soul, yeah?" "W-Wait, how do you know it? Did Trev-" "Rosie did. And she said she's carrying Trevor's child for almost three months. He really owes me an explanation for playing with my daughter's feelings." "Now he's playing with Rosie's feelings too. Why don't you give an advice to her?" I suggested. "It's none of my business and her mother is there to be taken care of. Now stop changing the subject and tell me when you're coming home.
Isabella's POV "Christian.." I mouthed wide-eyed and he chuckled. "Oh, sorry." he said casually, raising his hands in surrender. Chloe couldn't understand what was going on, and I was glad that she didn't ask anything. "Isabella, it hurts but try to bear it." Christian stated and placed my foot on his lap again and rubbed it before twisting it to the other side and I yelped in pain, gripping the blanket on the either side. "Fuc-" "Uh-uh.. We get it." Christian quickly cut me off, slowly placing my leg down. "Now you feel a bit better, don't you?" I frowned looking at my leg but yes, I could feel it wasn't hurting that much like earlier. "Yeah, I guess." I muttered and he nodded, standing up. "Thankyou so much.." "No problem." he stated, waving his hand dismissively. Then Christian looked at Hayden and nodded at the door, signaling him to leave and Hayden nodded curtly before exiting. Christian turned to Chloe, ruffling her hair. "Pebbles, we'll be going to your favourite amu
Emma Davis-Wilson"How long will it take?" I asked, glancing at Hayden through the mirror who was drying my hair with the hair dryer and he shrugged, keeping his full focus on my hair."No idea. Maybe an hour?" He deadpanned and I grunted in response and was about to stand up but he gripped my shoulder and made me sit back on the vanity chair again. "Don't be rushed. Today your hair is more wet than you, so it needs time."I gave him a flat look before speaking. "I'm starving here and you're trying to make some lame-ass jokes.""I stated merely a fact, Em." Hayden said, giving me an amused glance through the mirror while blowing out my hair. "You look cute when you're mad by the way.""So you're implying I'm not cute when I'm not mad, huh?" I asked and he shrugged, setting the dryer down on the table."I guess. Because as far as I know, you've always been mad with me." he stated and I shot him a mock glare."Because you've always been an asshole.""Ouch. that hurts." he placed his hand
Emma Davis-Wilson When my brain processed what Hayden said, I literally started panicking.Why on earth did Christian disclose this which no one had brought up for more than a year?I cleared my throat, trying not to meet Hayden's eyes. "I- um, I should head back. I'm.. tired."Before I could leave, Hayden gripped my elbow making me stop. "No. You can't leave unless you tell me everything.""Wh-What's there to tell?" I played dumb, shrugging my shoulders and Hayden let out a groan in response."Em, why won't you let me know you? Why can't you just open up to me?"I stared up at him and let out a soft sigh, shaking my head faintly. "It's not that easy..""But it's not hard either! I mean, you confessed all of this to Christian but you couldn't even share a single detail of your life to me ever since I've known you? How is this even fair?""Because you've never understood me even in the slightest!" I admitted bluntly and he seemed taken aback as he looked at me with furrowed brows."Wh
Emma Davis 2 years laterI scrolled through my Instagram and when I tapped on his profile, I noticed there was a round circle around his profile picture which meant that he had posted a new story.I instantly viewed it and my eyebrows shot up in surprise when he posted a picture of mine that was taken almost two years ago, in which I was obviously fake-aweing while showing my ring finger to the camera which had a giant diamond ring wrapped around it. And he has written 'Happy Birthday Em! Imy.' below that picture and didn't even tag me.Bruh!Eventhough his wish was so bland, my heart warmed as he has still remembered my birthday and never forgot to post it every year eventhough there were so many things that have changed over the period.Contrary to what I said above, I was still engaged to Hayden and he began the wedding plans three months ago when I told him I finally graduated.I didn't mind when he didn't attend my graduation ceremony. And neither did he mind that I was still no
Emma Davis The worst feeling, in my opinion, was when your life was falling apart and you couldn't do anything but pretend everything was fine as an Oscar award winner.I've had a lot of plans to do on Bella's big day but screwing my own life and being a broken-hearted maid of honour, wasn't one of them.I stood behind Bella with an impassive face, trying my best not to cry while she was confessing her vows to Christian. You may assume I was tearing up because my cousin's finally marrying the love of her life, but no, to be frank, I couldn't even be able to be happy for her, No matter how much I tried. All I wanted to do was, throw up because I was starting to worry that she'd get played too. That even the person you'd be ready to take a bullet for, would pull the trigger.And to make my situation worse, I caught Hayden glancing at my way now and then and it was really hard not to make an eye contact with him as he was straight ahead of me, standing a few feet away from Christian.Ha
Emma Davis "You've got any photo of him?" Hayden asked with a clenched jaw and I was suddenly fazed by his raw anger."No.. why?" I answered honestly as Kyle and I have actually never taken a single decent picture together as he hated being photographed and I never forced him either."How long have you guys been together?""Why do you care-""Just fucking tell me!"I glanced around at the people but they didn't seem to acknowledge our conversation as all of them were too busy to care about anything but Bella."Hayden, we're at church." I hissed and his jaw hardened as if he couldn't care less but nevertheless, he nodded at the entrance."Catch me outside." with that he stormed out and I sighed inaudibly before following him behind."Now tell me. How long have you been dating?" Hayden questioned, the minute we stepped out of the church."It's almost five months." I stated and crossed my arms over my chest. "But what's up with you actually?""You met him at your town?" He asked, comple
Emma Davis Wilson I waved one last time at Bella who was waving back at me through the window of her car.Chloe and Haley drifted off an hour ago and one was sleeping on Bella's lap while the other was in Christian's arms.Christian was totally wasted just like Hayden was, so he called his driver to drive them back home.Hayden has walked out with Christian to send them off and they were still talking, leaning on the car as if they didn't spend the half of the day, conversing with each other.Just as if they heard my thoughts, Christian nodded at Hayden and got into the back seat with Haley in his arms.I glanced around the place and it was a total mess, yet I didn't mind cleaning it all night because it was all worth it.It's been awhile since I've had fun like I had today and suddenly all the memories from the good old days flooded my mind.I smiled faintly, walking around the counter and grabbed the dirty dishes and put them into the sink.Then I put on the gloves, deciding to was
Emma Davis I unpacked the luggage that was lying on the bed when a pair of arms encircled my waist.I looked at Kyle over my shoulder and smiled as he pecked my neck and then my cheek. "Thankyou."I turned around, raising my eye brow at him. "For what?"He shrugged. "For everything. Especially, for respecting my boundaries."I smiled faintly as I, to be honest, didn't even know why I was agreeing to everything he said but maybe my heart was saying he was the right one and I was just listening to my heart.A couple of hours ago, we reached London and he refused to stay with me at Christian's mansion or the guest-house as he found awkward to stay together in a house with people he barely knew except me. So I agreed to let him stay at the hotel and I'd meet him once in a while, and he didn't mind much about my leaving as he had some business arrangements with some people in London too which would keep him occupied.My phone rang, interrupting my train of thoughts and we both looked at t
♡ Emma Davis Wilson ♡I called Hayden for the twelfth time but as per usual it went straight to voice mail.I peeked a glance at the living room and Bella and Christian were having a serious conversation which would be, doubtlessly, about the positions they'd be planning to try on tonight.But I silently thanked God as they still didn't any sneaking feeling, though Bella came to the kitchen a couple of minutes ago, asking if I needed any help and I just dismissed her telling that all I was planning to make was, tea and some popcorn.I tried to give Hayden a call one last time but when I heard the "Hi, you've reached Hayden. Leave a message." I placed my phone down on the counter, sighing heavily.What if I was in danger? He knew I wouldn't call him continuously unless it was serious, but yet this scumbag let his ego win.Way to go, Hayden!I began pouring the tea to the cups from the teapot, trying to think of ways to kill him that'd make his death more painful. Speaking of which, the
Emma DavisI stared at myself and noticed my hair has gotten two inches longer and I've gotten more tan which were not so huge difference, but for me, it was a major glow up.I was seeing Kyle for more than four months and maybe I barely knew about him and maybe I didn't know what relationship we were having, but still he was the reason I was serene again. He was the one who made me forget about the guy who I once thought would be the love of my life.I let out a heavy sigh when Hayden's face popped into my head. To be honest, after I came back home from London a few months back, I haven't had any contact with him till now.And the most important thing was, Christian has found Bella two months ago and they both have welcomed their second daughter, Haley Roberts.Then he proposed to her right after she gave birth and by the end of this month, we were going to celebrate their big day. And no matter how many fights we've had in the past, she inevitably chose me as her maid of honour.It'