~Zara Todd’s POV~
“Just sit right over here,” he says while his blue orbs shine brightly and I feel like I am hypnotized and I should sit right over there.
I feel like I am almost lost in his eyes. But then I realize that his eyes aren’t that beautiful ocean that I wish to see. They are deepest secrets and tsunamis instead of the ocean.
I get myself back and say,” No, I won’t. Why would I? To be bullied by you one more time,” I say.
He smiles as I try to leave and he doesn’t let my hand go away from his.
“What’s so wrong with you? Why are you holding my hands? You know now all of the students will be entering the auditorium. Will you please stop now? It’s not like we are that much close,” I roll my eyes.
“We are husband and wife and I shared such a passionate kiss with you twice already. How close do you want us to be?” he says with that that smirk on his bot
Chapter 44~Zara Todd's POV~My eyes open wide and my face becomes numb when I see Xavier on the stage.I feel like I am lost in the whole auditorium. How can someone be so much handsome while playing piano?I have thought that he knows nothing but guess I was wrong. Xavier knows something that's just from his talent and not from the money he has.PI couldn't help but gaze at his fingers which are moving swiftly and with beautiful piano tunes.I cannot help but look how well he is seated on the stool and playing the piano. His fingers are slender and so much beautiful though there are number of bandages in it. His ruffled hair which keeps on coming in front in his forehead and he keeps on leaning his head back to adjust it looks so much natural and beautiful.I become completely flat when he closes his eyes while playing with the tunes feels it and then open his eyes and looks at the music notes tha
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Zara!” the door flings open and Asher stands in front of the door. I get myself away from Xavier when I see Asher standing over there.“What are you guys doing? What’s going on over here?” he asks.I don’t know but he’s voice is quite rude and quite aggressive like he is angry with me for this.“It’s nothing. We were just trying to …,” I am saying but Asher stops me in the middle.“We were just trying to what?” he snarls.“We are just trying to solve our own problems. That has nothing to do with you,” I say. I don’t know why is he being so nosy or why am I being so much irritated for being asked like that?“Solve your problems! I was fucking scared that this monster could have done something to you and you guys were trying to solve your problems,” he feels agitated and walks away from there in an angry
~Zara Todd's POV~"Yes! I mean no!" I say and both of them laugh."What is the meaning of yes and a quick no," Kate looks at me suspiciously like I am trying to hide something from them.And it's a truth. I am actually trying to hide it from them, the fact that I am wife of him and I am interested in his history because I want to more and more about him. Like why he is like that and why does he live his life like that?"Okay! It's yes. I want to know about him. He is interesting in either way. I just want to know about him and why he is like that? There is nothing else in that and you guys don't have to make such weird faces," I say."Okay! Whatever. What are you going to do tonight? You see Halloween is around the corner and I am throwing a party at my house," Melanie claps her hands being quite excited."Halloween Party?" I ask with my eyes wide open. I had never been on the one. I have always heard of the party when Jane talked abou
~Zara Todd's POV~"Zara! Will you please leave your hands off me?" Xavier shouts as I find myself holding his hands in fear.God damn! This silly lightning.I quickly leave my hands and try to adjust myself back when I realise this thing.Xavier just said please to me or did I just misheard about it.No! No! That can't be. He definitely said please.I turn to look outside the window. It is down pouring the whole city. Why of all days, today it has to rain like this?And it's way too colder than the other day.And then again another lightening strikes and it's quite start than that of before. I am waiting for that scary sound that it is going to produce in few seconds.And there is loud sound of thunder that I have to jump from my seat in fear.God damn! That was huge.I whole body shivers and shakes in fear while I hold whatever thing I find right at this moment.My hands grip
~Zara Todd's POV~What the hell is so wrong with him? Why tell me to turn back if he was going to make me return in halfway?"Are you out of your mind or what? Why should I turn back? We are going over there together," I say."As always you are stubborn and you are stupid," he says and he suddenly turns my body to behind."What are you doing now?" I get scared all of a sudden. What the hell is he going to do now.Then I suddenly feel something placed over my head.What's going on? I don't feel cold anymore."I am afraid this heavy rain might poke your head from all the axis," he says all of a sudden and walks way from there.I quickly follow him.I don't know but suddenly when he does that something happened to me and my heart and I don't know what it is.Something weird that made me feel that he isn't bad at all and he is quite gentleman.Maybe he is starting to show that innocent Xavier
~Zara Todd's POV~What the hell did he do right now? What the hell?I can smell the breaths of alcohol from his mouth. Does that mean he drunk right now?He holds my both cheeks and presses his lips into mine and quickly pulls off and shakes his head and walk outside of there.I stay aloof over there like what the hell did just happen now? This is impossible, completely impossible. He is such a....argh...jerk!"Wait! What happened just now? Did I saw the ghost of Xavier right now?" Melanie is as aloof as I am right now.Her mouth is opened and her eyes are so much wide and bigger than any days.I stare back at the face of them all. They are watching like they have seen something scary and suddenly the girl shouts. I mean the one who gave me that task."No! This can't happen. I won't agree with this. The rule was she has to kiss Xavier and not he has to kiss her! So, I don't find this valid," she shouts.What? What
~Zara Todd’s POV~“I want to kiss those lips, can I?” he says and my eyes flutter in confusion.For the first time in all this time, he is asking me a permission to kiss me and that’s absolutely amazing to know right.“I…I…,” I could speak nothing. What can I say to the question which is weirder than any other thing in the world and getting from the most weird person of all times?But before I could even answer him, I can feel his hands on my cheeks and smiling gorgeously at me. I can die for that smile.“Actually, you don’t have to answer. Your eyes speak way more than your lips does and I trust your eyes more than your lips,” he says as he presses his lips against my forehead and I have never felt so much beautiful like I am feeling right now.It is just a kiss on the forehead but it feels so much special. It feels like I am being watched over by someone. This
~ Zara Todd’s POV~Her eyes magnifies as I say that.“You cannot like him. What made you think that a cheap and a middle class girl like you can like a guy like him?” she says.God damn! Doesn’t she have a mind? Doesn’t she know love is the game of hearts not of the mind? And heart doesn’t require economy at all to love someone.“And what made you think that I like you? Aren’t you a mad girl too? Who told you that I am going to like you?” Xavier’s voice sneaks in while his head hangs down to the ground.“What? Xavier?” she mumbles.“You know what I hate the girl of your type. You guys suck like hell. You know how I am, don’t you? You know how I treat people. Even after that you try to act a coy with me just because I am rich, isn’t it? I saw you flirting with that Asher last time. He didn’t go with your plans and now you are upto me? Y
Epilogue~Zara Todd's POV~I walk down the graveyard. The day, I have been fearing all this time has finally come up. I never wanted Melanie to leave my side.But what was supposed to happen will always happen. Sometimes we can't just take control of our lives. It just goes on the way we never want it to be.We all stand in front of her grave, all of the friends of our class. She has been such an amazing friend to everyone.The whole class mourns in front of her coffin and you won't believe who is mourning the most right now.Yes, it's Nathan. I can see how much hard it is for him. He has been in love with her in last one month. I never thought that the last wish of Melanie could ever be fulfilled. I thought it was im
~Zara Todd's POV~"What?" Xavier freezes at that same point."You liar! You must be lying," he shouts."Why would I lie at the edge of my death? I'm not a fool to joke with my own life," uncle mumbles and Xavier leaves his hands away from him.He becomes hopeless all of a sudden. He surely hated his mother. She never loved him. She never even cared for him.But how much we hate our parents, how much they don't care about us, it's certain that we won't love to hear any bad things to our parents.I don't know what is it called but it's a special bond that connects us with our parents. Even we don't love them we can't hate them hundred percent and that's because they are our parents.Uncle runs away as he leaves his hands from his body and aunt follows.One more time, it's just two of us standing in the midst of the room, speechless and lost.Before, I thought it was me and at that time, it hurt him.
~Zara Todd’s POV~ She walks away from the room and we are left in the room together. Both of us being unanswered of the secrets that she wasn’t even willing to tell both of us.“Xavier! She said I killed my parents,” I want to stand up and walk to him but I don’t get to stand up from there. My knees feel so much weak right now. I don’t have any energy to cope up with anything right now.I feel like the whole world around me has become dull and even the air isn’t moving around me. I feel both the hot sensation of burning on my skin while the inner part of my body shivers with the pain.“That’s not truth. I am sure she is telling a lie. She is such a liar. She has been lying to me all her life and she is lying to you as well,” he says as he walks to me and kneels in front of me.He pulls me into his arms and caresses my shoulders a little faster than he u
~Zara Todd’s POV~‘You don’t deserve to hold that picture.’That sentence triggers Xavier all of a sudden. He looks at her with a mad eyes and then looks back at me and I know what he is going to do the next.“No! No! Don’t do that,” I run to him and quickly grab the picture from his hands and take it away from him.“Zara!” he calls my name with a soft voice as he sees me holding that picture against my chest and tearing out loud.“What the hell are you doing Zara? What’s going on? Who is this man?” he asks.I know he has the same curiosity that I had some moments ago. We young people are so much out of patience. We want everything to be quick and just to be at the time in which we feel okay with.We don’t like when people try to keep us in dark. We have lots of secrets with us. We can hold a lot of secrets tha
~Zara Todd’s POV~“How do you know them?” I shout at Jennifer. This thing is just knocking the air off me. I don’t understand what the hell is my dad and mom’s picture doing with her. And they are together as well.I only had a single picture of my parents and for the that single picture of them is the world. I don’t remember lots of things that I did together with my parents. I just have some vague memories of them creeping on my mind. I wish I have more of their memories.But still after that, just with a single picture of them, their image is deeply engraved in my heart. Just with that picture I have imagined my mom and dad in so many of my dreams and have cried for them. So, I know the image of my dad and mom clearly.How can a daughter do a mistake in knowing her own parents? I know these person along with her in those eighties picture is non-other than my own parents.“Yo
~Zara Todd’s POV~ “You lied to me. Why did you lie to me?” I ask this question in front of Jennifer without even being afraid. Why would I be afraid?She tried to trick me with her such an unbelievable game which is so much nasty and unfair. Why the hell did she do that for god’s sake.“I didn’t lie. That’s the truth,” she says.“Oh! Please! Would you please stop being fake? I have asked Xavier about all of this and he knows nothing about Jack and the relationship was never fake for him,” I say.“And you believed?” she raise her brows.“Yes. Why wouldn’t I? He is my husband and he wouldn’t lie to me. I have heard every bits of truth from his own lips. Why would I believe in you instead of believing in my husband who loves me so much,” I say.“You’ve gained the courage.
~Zara Todd’s POV~“What the hell are you speaking right now? What kind of hospital? Who is in the hospital?” he asks me with the shock plastered on his face.“Xavier, please don’t lie to me now. I know everything and I ... I saw him in the hospital. Hurt, with so many injuries and so much bandages in all his body. How can you do that? How can you just do that Xavier?” I grab his clothes on his chest as I lean my head on his chest and cry so much on his chest.“I don’t get that. I just don’t get the things that you are telling right now. Just fucking tell me what the hell are you talking about?” he shouts as he grabs me away from his body and fixes his eyes on my face but I just cannot face his eyes. I look down on the floor as the tear rolls down my eyes.“What is it Zara? Just fucking tell me,” he shouts.“I met Jack! I met Jack in the hospi
~Zara Todd's POV~As soon as we enter the venue, the colorful lights welcome us. This all seem to be extravagant to be just a normal high school ending party. This party feels more than just a high school farewell.I can see all the students who has been so much studious and quiet in last few months are all different today.Beautiful dress, amazing bodies, that huge smile on their face for coming out of that locked prison like study compartments, is making them so much happy.They look different. And when I look around I don't see any teacher over there. Seems like this party is just for us. Just for students."Let's get inside," Xavier says as he holds my hands but I just don't feel that warmth from his hands. Is it because now, I know about all his truths which he has been hiding from me? Or is it because I see him differently now?I just nod my head and we walked in. Asher follows us from behind.
~Zara Todd’s POV~I rush to the hospital where Jack has been right now as soon as possible. Everything inside me is breaking into pieces. Everything within me is making me weaker from deep within. I don’t want to believe the single thing that she has told me. Who would want to believe all those things?No girl in the world would love to hear and believe the things that she told me some time ago. I hurriedly walk towards Jack’s room and open the door. And …He indeed is lying on the bed. He has the bandage on his head and there are bruises in his face. His right leg is bandaged and hung on the air as well.“Jack,” I close my mouth with my palms. I can’t believe I am seeing Jack like this right now. And the foremost thing is I can’t believe Xavier did it.It can’t be. It just can’t be. How can Xavier do all of this? He was changed. He is changed. At least I thought t