~Zara Todd’s POV~
I wake up sweating like hell. This hands!!!
I don’t want to remember them. I don’t know whose hands were those but I don’t want to see them. It wasn’t the hands of my uncle who harassed me years ago. This time, the hand was different and I really hated that hand for no reason.
I grab my head tightly and grip my hair with my fingers and close my eyes for some seconds trying to recall myself and forget about that dream.
“It’s alright Zara! It’s just a dream. Nowadays, you are just seeing something weird. I really need to tell everything to Xavier before it get too late or before I lose control over myself for these things and he starts to claim me as the mad girl.
I breathe out heavily as I seek water to drink but I find that my jug is almost empty and I need to walk down to the kitchen to grab some water.
I know Miss Jones would just come to my room if I ask help with her
~Zara Todd's POV~The door opens as I try to leave and Xavier gets out of the door with a question."Why would I hate you Zara?" he says as he holds the knob of the door."Xavier! I... I...," I want to tell him everything but then I cannot say anything to him."It's cold outside. Get in," he says as he holds my hands and pulls me in.He leads me to his dark room and for the first time, he switches on the light of the room and the whole room looks completely different right now.I hadn't been able to see this room with the lights on. It was just a scary room before but now it looks different.My room is quite big but this room is even more bigger than mine.I can see some exercise stuff at Northern part of the room. Seems like he works out a lot and at the southern part he has a drumset, bass guitar, acoustic guitar and a piano set. I don't know if he knows how to play those all or not but I hadn't seen this be
~Zara Todd’s POV~ Xavier stands in front of me. He looks as dashing as he always looks. He has that rare and priceless smile on his lips and his hands offering towards me. I stand almost five feet away from him. But I can clearly see his white tanned face smiling along with his lips. His fluffy brown hair falls on his forehead gorgeously making him look extra sexy and his deep blue eyes are just so much fascinating when they look at the light turning them into lighter shades. “Come to me Zara! Just come to me. I have been waiting for you over here for so long. I want you here. I want you to be with me. I missed you so much and did you miss me all this time?” he asks. “Yes, yes, I did. I missed you so much. I missed you a lot that whenever your face came in front of my eyes, I clouds of tears would just cover them up. I missed you so much,” I say as I run towards him, to become one with him in his embrace. But as soon as I rush towards hi
~Zara Todd’s POV~My eyes cannot get away from Asher who just stormed out like a volcano right now.“Is something wrong with him? Why is he like that?” I say as I keep on staring at him. I have never seen Asher being so much troubled. I am sure there might be something huge going on behind our backs and he doesn’t want to share it with us.“I think so but what I don’t care at all. It’s his problem?” he says. How can he so much cool after seeing his friend being in so much trouble?“You shouldn’t say that, Xavier. We need to see if something is wrong with him, don’t we?” I say as I stand up and gesture him to stand up as well.“Why? Why should we help him? He should help himself and I don’t love him,” he says as he gulps the orange juice lying on the table.“You don’t hate him to?” I say as I hold his hand pull him to stand up fro
~Zara Todd’s POV~“What the fuck are you three arguing about that we weren’t even informed about? Why the hell is Zara the topic of you discussion? May I know why the hell did you take her name in your discussions?” he shouts like hell.“Xavier! Just get your nose out of this. It’s none of your concern,” she holds his shoulders trying to calm him down but he seems to be resistant of all her effort.“Just tell the fuck what’s going on. Or else I have other ways to know what’s going on over here. Would you mind telling us Asher or you decide to lock your lips too? See that girl standing over there. Don’t you how much she was worried for you just because you were her fucking friend? Don’t you think she has the full right to know about what’s going on about her right now?” he shouts as he points his index finger to me.My whole body turns colder. I don’t know what topics
~Zara Todd's POV~"Are you serious Xavier? How dare you give me such a measly job?" Asher shouts as Xavier hands him a mop to clean his bathroom."Really? Bathroom? What do you think me as?" Asher shouts while Xavier ushers his eyes to him and asks him to get done with the job.I couldn't help but laugh seeing at them. Since the day, I have come over here I have never seen these two being closer to each other. I have felt like they were some swoon enemies but I guess they aren't actually."What should I do?" I ask him with my hands on the waist. I just hope he gives me some easy task to clean his room."Your task?" he rubs his chin with his thumb and then smile looking back at me."Come here," he grabs my hands and makes me sit in the couch."Sit here," he says as he kneels down before me and suddenly grabs my legs and I flinch suddenly with his cold hands on my skin."What are you doing?" I whisper with a worried eyes. I
~Zara Todd's POV~"Xavier, what should we write for the movie review?" I ask."Write anything that you want. I will just accompany you with anything," he says. I feel quite disappointed when he says that."How can that be okay? I mean we need to work together and I really want to work together with you in this project," I say with a sad face.He doesn't know how much I love to see him studying. It just makes me so much happy when I see him working for the school."I hate to study Zara," he says as he plays game on his laptop, preferably pubg."But I don't believe that. Melanie told me that you were the best and topper student in your primary class," I say with excitement."You met Melanie?" he asks."She came to meet me this noon. She isn't a bad person and she has a short life Xavier. We should consider about her wishes until she is with us," I say."You like her?" He asks."Yeah, she is such a sweet girl and she
~Zara Todd's POV~I become so much glad when I see him doing that. I want to wake him up but just seeing how he innocently he is sleeping on the table makes me don't want to wake him up.But I can't let him sleep on there for whole time."Xavier! Xavier!" I try to wake him up.He rubs his eyes like a little child."Is it already time to go to school?" he asks."We still have some time. Why don't you go and sleep in bed till then? I will take a shower and will wake you up after two hours," I say. He nods his head and goes back go sleep in bed.I take a warm got water shower and arrange all of my books and copies.I arrange his books and copies as well.I pick up the review from the table and read it. It is written so well. I just don't understand why does he want to hide the talent he has.I keep it inside his bag as he was the one to write it and I start getting dressed up for school.Asher rushes to my roo
~Zara Todd’s POV~“What the hell are you doing Xavier? Everyone is watching at us,” I say as I try to free my hand from his grip.He smiles lopsidedly as he looks back at those students and then to me.“Don’t you dare do anything to her. She is my girl now,” he says with a huge smile on his face and I can see Asher smiling on his statement as well.What’s wrong with you Xavier? Why should you say that to everyone? I feel so much embarrassed right now.“Xavier! Why did you do that?” I ask.“You fool! I just saved you,” he says and I suddenly hear a guy slipping on the floor. He slips in such a bad way that I’m sure he is going to rest in the bed for next two to three days.“What’s wrong with him?” I ask.“That was for you Zara. Thanks god! I saw it before anyone else did and fortunately you walked the another way. I need to warn them
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