AUTHOR’S POV
Taking a bath hurriedly, Sara wore her Night suit and sprinted down the corridor to reach his room. She turned the doorknob but it didn’t open.
“ Ungrateful Bitch locked the door! ” She hissed to herself and smiled creepily.
Climbing down the stairs, she got the spare keys from the kitchen drawer and came back up. Inserting the right key, she unlocked the door and turned the door knob, pushing it open.
Humph! Her smile widened. She stepped inside the dark room and closed the door instantly.
Running to the bed, she plopped down on it when a yelp sounded from underneath her.
“ Oops! Sorry. I thought you sleep on the left side! ” Sara snickered and rolled away from him to lay on the empty side.
“ You did it deliberately. ” Silas accused, pushing the duvet away from his face.
Sara held her laugh back because she knew he was right this time. This was the payback for locking the door and making her walk down the stairs and then come up again.
“ You forgot your phone again? ” Silas asked sarcastically, making her recall the stupid excuse she made some time ago.
“ Nope. I forgot my husband here. ” Sara shot back bluntly before she sneaked closer and threw her right leg and arm over his body.
“ What’s wrong with you?! ” Silas gasped out in disbelief while his hands tried to push her arm and leg off his body.
“ Everything is wrong. ” Sara yawned out and scooted even more closer, clinging to him like a koala.
Her head came down to rest on his chest leisurely as Silas struggled harder to free himself from her death grip.
When Silas didn’t stop trying to pry her off, Sara lifted her head. Her eyes found his orbs in the darkness and he stopped for a moment.
“ I was so worried. Your phone was turned off. I couldn’t reach you, find you and you didn’t return home. ” Sara blinked her eyes and decided to finally have this conversation now.
They always needed conversation.
“ You wanted me gone, remember? ” Silas reminded her, his eyes lost in her green orbs.
“ I thought I wanted you gone… ” Sara whispered weakly, her mind replaying the old days.
She had stopped eating, sleeping, thinking, working…living.
It was all because Silas was not there anymore. Unknowingly, he had become some form of support system for her and she needed him now to function properly. It was scary…She had never wanted anyone in her life before.
Sara had seen him for the first time on that swing when she went with her mother to give toys in the orphanage. His parents had died in a car crash and he was in that car but he survived.
When Sara heard her mother talking to the headmistress about that poor boy, she had ran to him after getting her mother’s permission.
As expected, the boy didn’t talk or even spare her a glance but she was Sara. She was taught to never give up. She kept going to him every time she visited the orphanage and talked to him until she stayed there.
She had called him friend on their fourth meeting and the boy had looked at her for a good minute with his eyes wide before he uttered only word. “ Friends? ”
It was supposed to be a question but Sara took it as a confirmation and kept bothering him until the question actually became a confirmation.
He never told her, his name so she named him on her own. ‘ Grumpy Kid. ’ She used to call him and he never stopped her. That’s when their friendship truly began.
At first, she felt pity for the poor child who lost his parents but then, it became a bond – a friendship bond.
He had began smiling eventually and they had turned into an unbreakable duo. The first and last friend, Sara ever had.
She had told him that she was not allowed to make friends because she was taught that people only take advantage of your goodness. She also told him that she wanted to stay with him for the whole life because he was the only friend who never tried talking her into letting their parents meet for business purpose.
There was only one safe way to stay together for the rest of their lives for Sara.
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