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"Harry..."

I was shocked beyond belief, he was here, he came for me, wait, maybe he just randomly dropped by but he asked  'how is she,' who is that she! I wondered.

A sudden pang of jealousy coursed through me.

Jealousy is an ugly feeling but in the long turn of events, I've realized that you only feel jealous if you love that person, heart, and soul.

I still love him but have no right to feel jealous, he is no longer mine to feel possessive about, I wanted him to move on, 'isn't that the reason why you moved to a new city' barked my subconscious.

It was true, I want him to move on but seeing him now, his eyes sunken as if he was lacking sleep for a long time, jaw unshaven, his suit rumpled and his hair messy made my heartache, I wanted to reach out, scoop him up in my arms and ask him about his day, tell him that everything will be fine in the end.

But I stayed frozen, my reckless actions would only hurt him more, haven't I hurt him enough so I sucked in my feelings and stood rooted to the ground.

However, Harry looked straight at me, not making any effort to peel his stare off of me, we kept staring at each other for a long while, when Dr. Maya started talking, snapping us out of our daze.

"Hello Mr. Brandon, sorry for disturbing you at your busy time," she said to him.

Harry nodded at her politely, but his concentration flickered back to me.

"She is fine, just a little weak," she continued.

He heaved a sigh of relief to Maya's assurance, still looking at me.

Who were they talking about?

Harry walked towards me without breaking our eye contact, it was like our eyes were having their own silent conversation, pleading and mending together.

"How are you feeling?" He asked me, his voice a bare whisper.

Silence.

"I'm fine," I mustered out after a minute.

"You should avoid walking alone at night-

"-were you following me?" I challenged, anger rising with each passing second. impossible!

"What am I supposed to do?" He raised his voice in irritation.

"Huh, I'll give you two some privacy," Maya said uncomfortably and spun out of the room.

Now it was only me and him, it was dangerous territory.

"Why are you following me, Harry?" I reiterated, trying to calm myself.

"I didn't have a choice Aini," he said, sighing.

"But why?" I pressed, I did want to know why.

"Just because I let you go doesn't mean I stopped loving you Aini, stop pretending like you don't care."

His words punched me hard, it was scary how he was seeing through my facade, how long has he been following me?

He loved me, yes but I wanted him to move on, not wait for me. Harry standing next to me was enough torture, the fact that he was still holding hope for us swayed my heart, I don't deserve him.

"Please don't follow me anymore," I started, defeated.

A thought crossed over my mind, "did you take me here, to the hospital?"

Silence

"You paid the bills," I wasn't questioning, I knew it was him. He completely ignored me, looking everywhere but at me, what else did he do for me? Moreover, why was he here in this city?

A thousand questions I wanted to ask him, and I could get all the answers I want, after all, he was seated next to me but I didn't know where to start, talking with harry, staying this close by but still far away from each other, hurts.

I wanted to ask him to leave me alone, scream at him to move on, lie that I don't care, or pretend that I'm seeing someone but,

"Why are you in this city," I asked instead.

"Business meeting," he replied, too quickly like he was prepared.

I searched his face, he wasn't blinking, a neutral expression veiled his face, his stature dangerously at ease, a polite smile tugging at the corner of his lips, I have seen this act before, it was a smooth facade but I know him too much to know that he was lying.

"Yeah?" I said flatly.

He quirked up his eyebrows but kept quiet.

I sighed, "whatever the reason you're here for, I don't care about it but please stop following me, I'm completely fine and I will transfer you the bill amount, thank you for taking me to the hospital," and started walking out the door.

"Difficult damsels!" I heard him mutter under his breath but I heard it, I gave him a quick glare and walked out, leaving him to stare at my retreating figure.

From my countless amount of past experiences, I knew Harry wouldn't stop, he would just keep coming back but more discreetly this time, however, I felt an ounce of confidence that someone was looking out for me.

That feeling that when you know, no matter what you mess up or how badly you mess up, no matter what you do that there is still someone out there looking out for you, that was one of the best feelings in the world, you feel secured, confident and at ease.

I love Harry for giving that to me, he is the only person I would gladly call home.

It was always me, Harry, and Zara, the secret trio in our office until fate decided to play its own game, it wanted Zara, and it took her from me, breaking my heart and in the process, I broke Harry's heart too.

Fate was cruel,

Wicked,

And unforgiving.

I was out of the hospital gates, walking on the pavement. I didn't have my car to drive back to my house.

'I'm dead A, come to terms with it'

I heard my Zara say, she was really gone, I need to see her, I wanted to talk to her, one last time.

I glanced at the sky, a small drop of water fell on my cheeks, I wiped it from my hands, realizing that I was crying from the moisture of my soaked cheeks.

A few more drops of water sizzled to the ground and it started pouring, so were my eyes. It was like the clouds were mourning for my dead friend too.

I left out a soft whimper, "Zara, I'm sorry," and fell to the ground, pouring more tears to the ground than the rain.

"It's okay A, I forgive you," I heard Zara's voice whisper and her arms gathering me to her body...

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