~Zara Todd's POV~
"Zara would you like to dance?" He asks me.
Of course yes! I would.
But I don't know if he knows how to dance cause I'm afraid if he even knows how to do that.
"You know how to dance?" I ask.
"Honestly no! I have never dances in my whole life but I can start practising if you like to," he says.
I can see how much hard Xavier is trying to get into my environment. He wants to do something out of his league just for me and that makes me happy and sad at the same time.
"You don't have to try so much Xavier. I can be happy with the already changes you have in your life. No! I wouldn't say changes. I am happy with the good Xavier that's hiding right inside here and is coming out one by one nowadays. You don't have to try so hard on love. It's a natural thing and it will just happen the way it wants to and that's the absolute beauty of it," I say as I lift my head towards him with a smile.
He smiles and then gently p
~Zara Todd’s POV~“What happened to you in the past Xavier? What are you so much afraid of?” I ask as I hold his hands.“What I am afraid of? I am not afraid of anything,” he says as he breaks the embrace and walks towards the table.“I’m really sorry Zara. I didn’t mean to. I just didn’t mean to ruin this moment but can we just get back right now. I am not feeling quite well,” he says.I can see the complete discomfort in his eyes. I think I should try to understand him rather than trying to argue more with him.Xavier Dawson has never been an easy topic for me. He has been the most difficult topic that I am not able to understand. The more I try to understand, the more I get entangled with the curiosity. I know Xavier has gone through something so much wrong but he isn’t telling me at all.And I should respect his decisions. I should give him the comfort so that he could tel
~Zara Todd's POV~"Do you think we should wear this on our next date?" I ask him as I show him the bag of couple hoodie."Next date? I can't wait till that time," he says as he takes the hoodie away from me and wears it on the car."I wanted to wear that on special time with each other," I make a face as I turn away from the steering and look outside, quite disappointed."Who said we won't have a special time together now? We're going for a movie now," he says as he forwards his car and my eyes blink towards his side."Movie? But we never planned about that?" I ask."You didn't even plan about this date. This was all my doing and I know where have I went wrong already. So we are doing something that actually makes happy. I know a great place for street foods and till then I will book the tickets for the theatre," he says.He cares. He actually cares so much for my choices. I have never imagined once in my life that somebody woul
~Zara Todd's POV~Devi brings us some snacks to go along with the movie and leaves the place. I am amazed by the fact that Xavier seems so comfortable with Devi more than his mother. They seem like they are actually mother and son instead of Jennifer Dawson.I keep on putting my hands on popcorn and eating them while watching movie.Then, I suddenly find his hands gripping mine on the pop corn."Stop it Zara! You're going finish em' all," he says as he holds my hands."Aren't they made to be finished?" I blink my eyes as I turn back my head to the television."Obviously but I'm sure you won't leave a single piece for me," he says as he keeps the bowl of pop corn on the side and slides himself towards me and keeps his arms around my neck."I hope this feels warmer," he says. I can never imagine how cheesy Xavier can be. Like I am almost melting on his actions every time he does something like this. When did he even learn these kinds of
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Y…eah,” my voice doesn’t seem to be exactly like of mine now. It feels as if it has start to melt on the rhythm of his doings on me.“I am glad you feel so. I love the way you react to my touches and I feel like touching you more and more,” he says as he takes off my hoodie from my body and throws right at the corner of the couch.I am only on my white T-shirt. He smiles as he sees me on my white T-shirt.“I can see you red bra Zara,” he says and I quickly cross my hands against my chest as he smiles with his lopsided lips.God damn! This is so much embarrassing. How can I be so much shameless in front of him? This is just so insane.I close my eyes stressfully as I feel so much embarrassed and so much scared right at this time. I know we are going quite too overboard tonight. I mean I didn’t even had thought that we would be having all these things today a
~Xavier Dawson’s POV~“Who? Zara? Who was here? He tried to do what?” my voice turns solemn as I hold her closing her eyes slowly.“What the fuck is going on?” my eyes stresses with lots of worries when I see the thick beads of sweat in his forehead.“Zara? Don’t just close your eyes?” I shout but she doesn’t seem to hear me at all.“I need to call doctor. I fucking need to call doctor,” I shout as I put her in bed and get a phone to make and call. I rush back immediately to her after making a call.Her legs and palms are suddenly turning to cold and blue and it’s scaring me to the hell. I have seen a body as cold as the ice and I never want to see anything as cold as that in my whole life. I am so much obsessed with that cold body that I don’t even used to eat any frozen things and not even walk in the cold and frozen snow.“Zara! Just wait a bit and the doc
~Zara Todd's POV~The sounds of utensils and the sound of water running wakes me up all of a sudden. I feel as if I have been to a really long deep sleep. Like I have slept for years.I open my eyes as I hear those sounds and I see that it is actually not my room, not the one which I had woken up last night.My eyes rolls around the room as I clutch the corner of the duvet and try to remember what happened."I'm still on Devi's," I shout all of a sudden and try to wake up from the bed when I find IV drop being connected with my body.What the hell is going on? I mean why am I on this IV drop?"What's wrong?" Devi comes rushing towards the bed room as she sees me waking up with the laddle in her hands."No! Nothing. How long has I been asleep and why am I like this? Why mean why is this thing connected to my hands?" I ask showing IV drop in my hands."Oh! You've been asleep for the whole night. And you were unconscious last nigh
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Changes? What kind of changes?” I wipe away my eyes with the back of my palm and look at her with such an expected eyes.“What should I say to you? He has completely turned to be the person who is actually not him. I still remember the first day when I came to this house. Young master used to hide from everyone. There was no fear in his eyes. He didn’t hide from us because he was afraid of us but because in some way he thought that his cruel and rude behavior would hurt us and just because of that he would lock himself in the room almost for all the time except in the school. For almost four years, he was locked in a room without even letting him go outside. He didn’t go to lower secondary school. He was educated at home,” she says.“What? Why wasn’t he allowed to go out? Why was he locked?” I ask gulping the saliva on my throat.“I don’t know the reason but t
~Zara Todd’s POV~“I killed a person. I just killed a person, Zara,” she says. My eyes widens with disbelief when she says that. I don’t want to believe what she said to me just few minutes ago. That’s just impossible or I could say that is the thing I could never believe at all.I mean Melanie is just some jolly and life enjoying person right now and I am quite aware of the fact that she said, she has bulled some people in the past but killing someone is just too extreme. I just can’t believe when she said that she killed someone. I want to know more. I want to know what was the actual thing that she is not telling me completely right now.“I don’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it. How can that ever happen? Just tell me that thing never ever happened? The words that you told few seconds ago, tell me that it is all wrong,” I ask her as I hold her hands on mine with my brows curled up.&ldqu
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