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Chapter 5

Author: Toxic_Mg
last update Last Updated: 2021-04-16 12:40:25

Aubree's Pov

Three days later, I was ready to go back home. After tons of checkups, and millions of blood tests, I was now sitting in a black Mercedes, ready to go to the place where I was living with Jaden.

It felt so good, that I would finally be leaving the place where I ended up mysteriously, even though all the staff was so good, but still living in a hospital is depressing on it's own, let alone when you have forgotten all the memories from the past ten years of your life. I hated it, like I did not even remember my wedding day, a day that I had been planning since I was just a little girl and when I used to watch fairy tales with my childhood friends and we used to dress each other in wedding dresses made of pillow covers and have fake weddings to each other, obviously it is strange that I remembered my childhood but not my youth.

Neverthless, even though all my test reports came out to be good, still I wasn't strong enough.

But still, I had not regained my strength and I could not stand up for more than ten minutes. And Jaden being a sweetheart that he is, picked me up in his arms, and put me in the car, and then sat beside me.

"I'm so excited." I told him with a smile on my face, and he smiled at me with a big grin on his face. Oh, so much I loved to see that smile on his face. He's so pretty.

"Trust me, watching you all bubbly and piled up with happiness makes me feel so better." He said and kissed my knuckles. It is like all my childhood dreams were coming true, with my prince Charming sitting next to me.

"So tell me more about us." I asked him while he began to drive. I wnted to know everything, all about the best dys of my life.

"Well, after you graduated with a degree, you found an internship with my mom. And you did not even know she was my mom. You got to know about it some months later. And then, my mon hired you fully." He told me with a smile on his face, as if he still remembered everything clearly.

"But you still haven't told me about us, as in, how did we get married?" I asked him. He looked at me and again I saw that weird expression on his face. Why was he acting so strange?

"I simply got married to you because of mom. She fell in love with you while you worked as an intern with her, and then she asked me if I liked you, and then we got married." He said and put a smile on my face.

So it was all because of his mom! I became so happy to know this. But the only thing that teared me apart was that I did not even remember a single thing about us.

"I want to see our home." I said and he shuffled on his seat, looking a bit uneasy with the mention of home.

"We're going to my parent's home, not ours." He said with a sigh.

"But why not our home?" I asked puzzled.

"Mom said that you cannot take care of yourself alone, and also, some bad memories have been associated with our home, so until I find a new place for us, we will stay with them." He said and parked his car next to a big mansion, then he opened my door and made me walk into that big place.

"This is so big!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah I know, this is dad's house." He said with a smile on his face and took my hand in his with such gentleness that I feared that he thought I would break.

"I'm sorry that you missed all the memories, but like I said, I will make it upto you. I will give you memories that you would  cherish more than those you experienced earlier." Jaden said and took my hand, while I saw his mom and dad waiting for me at the entrance of the home.

They greeted me with such warm embraces and smiles that I instantly felt as if I were the luckiest person of them all. Then once I was in the house, I looked around and saw that the whole place was covered with lillies and roses. The place smelled like heaven and it made a smile appear on my face.

It was such a contrast to the hospital walls. But soon enough, I realised that I do not have sufficient strength to stand up any longer, and I was about to fall, when Jaden held me in his embrace and made me sit on a couch. My knight in shining armour was next to me, what else would a girl need? He told me that I was prospering in my career, I was earning a self-sufficient salary, while also being married to the person I really liked. 

"You should rest." He said and gave me a glass of orange juice to drink, which I refused to drink. I mean, who drinks orange juice? It is so disgusting. Out of everything in this world, orange juice is the only juice I do not drink and he gave it to me.

"What happened? You used to love it?" Jaden asked me, and my eyes widened at his statement.

I suppose the Aubree he had been living with was utterly different from me. She drank orange juice, she married her crush and did not even tell him that she had a crush on him. What the hell had happened to me?

Then after a while, Jaden gave me a glass of water, which I gulped immediately. Then he picked me up in his strong muscular arms, while his body heat seeped into me, and made me the happiest person on Earth.

He took me upstairs, towards our room. And let me tell you, that was the moment I had been waiting for my entire life.

He stopped in front of a door, and pulled it open.

The view I then saw was the best part of the day. The room was very big. It had a double bed in the center with golden curtains and a couch at one corner, and there laid thousands of books on a shelf, next to it.

But the best part was that the entire room was full of photos. Every inch of the room consisted of a pic, I immediately got on my feet, and slowly walked towards the wall.

The photos were arranged year wise I suppose. The first wall was full of the photos from our university. And I became immensely happy to see that almost every pic had Jaden in it. But as we began to go towards the end of the session at NYU, I saw that some other people appeared more in the pics, than Jaden.

He came behind me and began to rub my shoulders with his intoxicating hands.

"Our group circle increased as the years passed by in NYU. We used to hang out together, but it wasn't the same as in the beginning." He told me and began to point on the people in the pics.

"This is Kate, she became your best friend in the second year. You two used to be so close that you used to ditch me in the cafeteria, saying that you have some 'Girl's talks'." Jaden said and a giggle escaped my mouth.

"Oh! And this is Jeff, he said that he fell in love with you and purposed you in front of the entire college, while you just punched his face and moved away as if nothing had happened." He said and looked at me in the eyes, causing me to laugh again.

"Oh and this." He said and pointed out towards another girl.

Looking at this girl made me feel uneasy. She was beautiful, with long blonde curls falling over her shoulders, with caramel brown eyes and a dimple on her cheek, making her look like a model. In that photo, I was standing with a glass of water in my hands, while she stood with her hand slung across Jaden's shoulder. I don't know what was it, but looking at her made me feel a pain in my head. Maybe it was because she was standing with him.

Obviously it would be the fact that she was standing with him, while I had a glass of water in my hand. It was really odd.

"Her name is Isla. She beacme your best friend in the second year." He began to tell.

But whatever it was, it made me stumble on my feet, and soon, I sat on the bed, before I could fall off.

"I think you should see this later sometime, right now you should rest." Jaden told me, while he placed me on the bed and placed a blanket over me, and then laid next to me, and I slept.

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