Chapter 54
~Zara Todd's POV~
I gaze around the strange eyes of people like they are
e spying me around and I don't know why."Isn't that Xavier Dawson?" I hear one of the girls voice and my head turns automatically behind me.
Xavier? Why would he be here?
And when I turn back right at exact time, the bus starts and I am pushed behind and Xavier holds me promptly on my waist.
"He grabbed her waist," the same girl shouts suddenly and all of the people look at me.
"Leave me!" I try to pull out his hands from my body but his hands are still firm.
I straighten my bent body and then he leaves my waist.
He stands right beside me. He is tall, has such a gigantic and muscular body standing right beside me and I am almost like little bird wandering around him.
"Why are you here? Weren't you supposed to go with Asher?" I whisper near to his ears.
"I want what I want. No explanations," he says in a rude voic
~Zara Todd's POV~"Stop! Please, we don't want to go to station. You see we have our classes soon," I say."We haven't stopped you from going to your classes. You can move on and only this guy is needed by us. We need to investigate in him as he is the one who has attacked on the second party," the cops say."But I have to be there with him. He is my friend and I need to be together with him," I say.I don't know why did I say that. Telling the cops that I am the friend of the assault means I am going to be his accomplice as well."Someone wants to be friend with someone. Fine! Let's go together. You can take half of his punishment," the cop says."What? Half of the punishment? But we have to be in school by 8 and it's already half past seven," I say as I look at my watch."Take them all," the cop says and we all finally end up in police station. I regret telling cops that I am his friend. Why? Why the hell do I have such a loos
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Thank you,” I speak with a low voice. I think thank you is needed to tell to him. I feel as if he is helping me even though he doesn’t know about it.“What?” he speaks as I turn my head to him and my eyes fix on his face.“Thank you so much for helping me,” I say.“I never helped you,” he says.“I know. But still, thank you so much. I never knew that guy was going to act so much perverted and I know you are the one who saved me on the day of my birthday party,” I say.“Birthday party? When did that even happen? I never helped you at that time and not this time too. I will never help you,” he turns his head away from me and I become quite sad from his answer.His answer just saddened me and I don’t feel so much good inside. I am sure the guy who saved me that night was him. That guy had the same scents like that of him not
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Did you see that?” Melanie asks me while I am gulping the chicken burgers into my mouth. She pushes me so quickly that the burger in my hand is almost not getting dropped and I glare at her for some short seconds.“I’m really sorry but don’t you notice something weird Kate?” she turns her head quickly as she sees me glaring her playfully.“I do but I don’t know why it is?” she says shaking her head up and down.“Tell me what did you notice?” she asks to Kate.“Don’t you think there is less chicken in this burger? I have been noticing this since some days and this is heartbreaking. Why would they reduce the chicken part instead of veggies?” she becomes quite sad as she looks at the burger pitifully.“I don’t think the burger needs your pity Kate. I am talking about something else. Don’t you see Xavier right now? Have
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Zara!” Melanie runs through the corridor in her sports shoes while she calls me loudly after the school finishes.“Melanie, slow! Why are you running like that?” I stop her as I feel that it is quite hard for her to stop in the way.“I have to tell you an important thing. Would you like to listen it?” she says. I nod my head. She is like my closest friend and a friend I could trust in the school. So, I just decide to go with her.“You’re going to love this,” she says excitedly as she holds my hands and walks me away from the class to the stadium.“Yes, but what is it?” I ask her.“You will get to know once we reach there,” she smirks as she runs from there together with me.She stops when we reach at the door of stadium where the major programs are held and catches her knees with her both hands.“Will you now tell me why
~Zara Todd's POV~"Girls, no! I can't do this. You know I have never drank in my whole life," I protest as I try to run away from there. But it's all waste you see.Both of them catches before I even dare to run and they make me sit together with them."No one is going anywhere. You have to sit over here and have a drink over here," Melanie says as she holds my hand firmly. But I keep on refusing."I can't. It's bad" I say."We know it's bad but you see we've got to try this or else you know we won't even know how does it taste or how does it feel. Life's just about getting an experience. Why not grab the opportunity?" Melanie says.I know whatever she said is right but there is time for that. We can do that when we have graduated from the high school of we can just do that when we are going to college.We still have lots of time, right? But why today?I feel like I am soon going to be doomed with these girls."You
~Zara Todd’s POV~“ We don’t much time to enjoy our lives. Life is too short to enjoy ourselves. So, I want to live every moments of life like there is never a thing called tomorrow. Today is what we have and I want to have and I want to live in today, always” Melanie says as she plops down on the bed and stares ceiling curling her fingers and making it into hand binoculars.I steer my head towards her. I had never thought the girl who knows how to rock, how to do parties and how to be chilled out all the time knows the depth of life in such a way.I see Melanie eyes are quite watery and her tears roll down her eyes. That is when I realized something is wrong with her. Melanie is going through something weird and she isn’t telling it to me but I want to know it like hell.I don’t know why but before I didn’t care about whether she wants to tell me or not but now I want to know what she is going through. I want to
~Zara Todd's POV~"Xavier? You are kidding right now, aren't you?" she says."No! I'm not," I say."You mean you are for God real? You are wife of Xavier Dawson?" Her voice elevates suddenly and I quickly palm her mouth with my hands."Will you low down your voice please?" I leave my hands from there."God! I can't believe that you are wife of Xavier? How can this be possible? Like when did he get married and how come I don't know about it?" I say.I also don't understand the fact that she doesn't know about the marriage despite being family friends with each other.Isn't that quite strange that she doesn't know about all this?But whatever it was his mother's choice after all."Yeah! But I am. I am unfortunately his wife and I have to tolerate him for all my life. Can you imagine how troublesome and how tiring being his wife is? He does literally everything that I hate to do and bullies me every time. I don'
~Zara Todd's POV~I just don't understand what does she mean by getting married. Is it with Xavier? Or is it with someone else? Does she have someone she like so much?I don't just get it.I get all of her wishes but to get through all of this, I need to know who she likes first.So, I wrap the paper and keep it in my pocket quickly and rush out of the washroom when I suddenly fall hard on the floor.Maybe falling hard on my own ass is my new favourite thing. So, I keep on falling on the floor again and again."Fine!" I try to stand up when I suddenly see a hand approaching near to me for help."Melanie! How did you end up coming so fast? " I tell as I lift up my eyes to her but I find that it isn't Melanie at all."Xa...Xa..." I try to say his name when he suddenly palms my mouth with his hands and pulls me inside the washroom and locks the door."Don't make noise. You see they will come running here if they
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