As the wind blew over my shoulders, I could feel the coldness growing amongst our phone call.

"Scent of rain?" I laughed slowly.

Mieal's voice faded a bit before she spoke again, "yes, and that is how it lead me to choose a weirdly different path that I don't believe I could have chosen in my senses."

She never makes mistakes, that's not her.

"Regrets?" I asked sighing a little.

"He is annoying, crazy, stupid and now my husband." She huffed before adding, "but he is annoyingly caring, crazily polite, stupidly honest and now, my calm and peaceful husband."

"I'll take that as a no to regrets than?" I smiled pitying my sister.

What magic had Noah Martin done on her? Mieal Renaldi saying she didn't make the choice in her senses and yet she doesn't have any regrets, Oh boy, there's a lot left to happen.

Miael hung up our phone call after speaking her heart out. I was partially satisfied with the answer. After all, everyone finds their scent of love sooner or later. Maybe this was Destiny's way of getting them together. I looked down the roof to find Liam sitting in the parking lot with his friends on the bonnet of his car. I can't get rid of ever, can I?

Venicia and her gang of girls surrounded him, eating him alive with their eyes. He too looked contended, as if he was enjoying the treatment. Such a Besharam Jerk.

Lele was right about half of them. Jeff was with 4 girls, two on either side of his arm, one hovering over his back while one simply flirting with him facing him. Periodically he would kiss the one on his left while asking the one on his right to kiss him back. His hand had been exploring a lot of places I would never let any guy closer to randomly. The girls seemed unbothered, rather they were enjoying it. How old I grow, I was never going to get used to these stupid things.

I turned to Jade, he was busy smoking his cigarette while caressing the love of his life, his motorbike. It is known, if you wish to live, leave Jade and the love of his life alone, always.

While I was busy feasting on the lovely scene of Jade Martin being more human to a motorbike than the real breathing things around him, something weird caught my eyes as Eric rushed to Liam all of a sudden parting the girls away from him. He bent down to his knees trying to get a grip on his breaths while speaking to Liam. At first, there was confusion on Liam's face but later he quickly turned his face upwards towards me.

All of a sudden he matched my gaze and his expressions stiffened. He got alerted— began to run inside the building and disappeared. I avoided his thoughts and tried to get down the railing but slipped a little. That is when I realized it was pretty high for my height to get down on my feet without taking support and if I fell towards the back, it would be falling down from the 7th floor. People wouldn't be able to find my bones for days. And to add the cherry on top, I had a problem of anxiety which was usually triggered by my fear of heights.

Above this, the chilly weather was causing my mind to be blocked completely. It was the winter breeze, my enemy.

I began to breathe heavily trying to find a way to get down safely or at least alive. My eyes searched every corner of the place to find anything I could use to get out of this condition, my throat completely dried making it impossible for words to escape my mouth. I was getting restless when suddenly I heard footsteps approaching me causing me to distract a little. Hopefully, I was about to be rescued, I was expecting Lele to come up but it turned out to be someone I would die but never trust on.

"Are you crazy, why would you jump down a building just because I said something mean to you?" Liam cursed storming towards me.

Geez, what is wrong with this guy?

"No! Stop! Get back! Get back!" I panicked yelling repeatedly.

"What the hell? Come down! What are you doing?" He yelled back. His body curiously inclined towards my left as he scanned the distance from the terrace wall to the parking ground. His eyes practically calculated how many days it would take for him to find my bones if I go down the wrong side.

I looked down again following his gaze only to feel nauseous and turned back to him, "Look, Liam, go away! I don't have time for your nonsense now!"

His eyes flickered back to mine,
"I apologized, didn't I? Why do you want to die now? Why would you give your life for such a small reason?"

Huh? Give my life? What?

"Liam please, stop! Don't come here." I ranted freaking out. This is not how I wanted my end to be.

"But why do you want to die?" He asked reminding me I actually don't even want to die.

The goosebumps that ran down my spine to toe continuously now stretched to my forehead, I knew, I  was done for, "I'm not jumping down, idiot! I'm stuck here. So stop reminding me that if I fell down I'll be transferred to heaven directly!"

"What?" He seemed taken aback, "I wasted my time for such a silly thing?" He folded his hands without disappointing me.

Huh? Jerk! My face turned crimson as the fear took over me entirely, "Look, get back! If I fall down and die, you'll be the first one I'll haunt once I return after becoming a ghost!"

"Leave! Liam, please, go away! I'm scared already. Stop irritating me." I kept on whining.

Tears finally began to blur my vision as my head also took to spinning a little more. I wasn't fated to die like this, was I?

Liam was being stubborn too, like he was, always. I hated it when he thought himself off as some superhero and tried to make me feel protected under his care while smirking over smartly all the while.

"Riri, stop! Look at me." He finally decided to use his charms.

Don't do this now, you idiot!

"No, please, go away. I don't want to die." I cried, yelling out again.

His eyebrows stiffened, "Riri! Look at me! Look at me!" He scolded ordering me. He lifted up his hand and showed me all his fingers. My whole attention was drawn to those magically long fingers. He closed them one by one calming me down. I looked back at his face once he took his hand away.

It was like a chain of flashbacks from my childhood with every single finger being tightened into his fist. When the thumb went in, I remembered the swing we used to play on, when the index winger went in, I recalled the songs that we used to sing, when the middle finger went in, the lullaby that we used to sleep listening to began buzzing in my ears, when the ring finger went in, the Martin engagement ring that he promised to give me while we were still kids flashed before my eyes and finally when the last finger went back into his fist, I recalled how smoothly he used to trick me into the same trick to calm me down even when we were 8.

"Look at my eyes and don't move." He murmured. 

I kept on staring into his eyes trying my best not to think about the height. Ironically, he was saving me from this situation the second time. He used his old trick to calm me down which he used to use when we were kids. I felt a firm grip on my waist as he slowly pulled me up. My eyes automatically shut themselves trying to escape the fear finally as my arms encircled his neck in a strong grip. I was so scared, I almost died out of fear. His scent was another reason I believe I was able to trust him in this situation. Maybe I was over judging him, but how can I be at ease with my heart that just can't take his nonsense?

He slowly placed me down away from the railing but I was still reluctant to leave him. Yes, I was so scared I was actually ready to hold that asshole. I didn't even realize that by now, the whole Golden Spoon boys had followed this idiot and I was actually hugging him in their presence. And as it wasn't embarrassing enough, my head was buried deep inside his chest while I enjoyed inhaling the scent of dawn.

"Ehm?" Jade coughed all of a sudden.

My still scared body got goosebumps again.

Liam leaned a little closer and whispered in my ears, "You're safe now, Missy."

His husky voice took me by surprise more than Jade's voice. Now I know, why al these girls can't get over him.

I quickly parted away from him and took a sigh of relief. Finally, I wasn't going to die but someone else surely was. How dare he trick me again!

I punched Liam's chest pushing him back, "Are you nuts?"

"What?" He smirked bending down in pain, "That's not how you say thanks."

"Thanks my foot! Why would you think I would commit suicide because of your stupid words? You're not that special Mr. Wet-your-pants! Clear your head, I'm not someone who does stupid and crazy stuff for seeking attention. I was born fiery and it's not my fault that I attract eyes wherever I go. So deal with it, you Psycho self-obsessed moron!" I yelled bursting out all the anger that I was holding in for the past 19 years.

Yes, I hated him so much that even these words didn't feel enough to me. I wanted to bury my nails inside his chest, pull out his black heart and feed it to the crazy girls who have been dying after it!

Gosh, I hated him.

All the boys glared at my face while Noah stood at a distance enjoying the scene. I was so annoyed by these people I just wanted to leave and so I tried. Well, I could only try to leave because my hand was stuck in the very strong grip of Liam Martin. I tried to free it but his grip just kept getting tighter.

Seriously, after all this, he still dared to mess with me?

"You're right. Actually you all were right. She's not an attention seeker. She is just a drama queen." He mocked rolling his eyes as his head danced on his neck with each of his words pouring out in a taunt.

I jerked his hand away and stretching mine back slapped him hard enough to remind him of the same slap he had gotten years back when we were kids.

However we grow, where ever we grow, Liam and Eleanor were two names written on a single death card and thus, I was going to fight till my end to teach this moron the lessons of life he needs for his survival, at least around me.

I turned around and began to walk away, I knew how crazy he would go after receiving that slap and that is when he took me off guard by suddenly calling me, "Eleanor?"

Yes, yes, yes, today is the day you die, Eleanor Renaldi, brace yourself and your lovely mouth for using his childhood nickname.

My steps froze in their place as I bit my lips cursing my stupid mouth and overly active hand. I turned around to face him while Jade laughed out loud and Noah gave an almost faint smile folding his arms.

"Why are you so slow-witted? We knew it the first time we saw her." Jade muttered between his laugh.

"Stop fighting now," Noah commanded before walking away from the crime scene where my identity got exposed.

"I knew it way before," Liam pouted rubbing his face, "I just didn't know I'll irritate her to this extent that she'll end up hitting me."

Awe, little Liam knew who I was? Huh, not even in his dreams could he know I had returned.

"Yeah right." Jade mocked before leaving us alone too. He took his side dude downstairs with him as well.

I was left with the massacre of my efforts lying around a super egoistic moron.

"I don't believe it. You didn't know who I was." I exhaled looking away.

His jawline creased out as he shoved his hands into his pockets, "well, even I didn't believe it when I first saw you. For someone like you..." his eyes checked me out thoroughly, "...how did your body grow like a girl? Weren't you supposed to be a little boy?"

At least he remembered what he used to call me back in the days, but that didn't give him the right to judge my figure.

"You're too much." I rolled my eyes before trying to escape another fight. He grabbed my hand again, this time tighter than ever.

"Let me go," I ordered.

"Never." He smirked.

"Stop fooling around Liam, let me go," I ordered again.

"Not in a mood." His smirk widened.

"Liam, let me go!" I said jerking away my arm from his hand one last time, "What's wrong with you? Why do you have to behave like you own everything? Don't you get it? I'm already tired of all this drama, please let me be. You've already irritated me enough, it's just been one day."

"That means I was successful. I'll take it as a compliment." He smiled winking at me.

Yeah, as if you knew who I was.

"What? Please! You had no clue who I was!" I said confidently pestering a smile over my lips.

His eyes glistened, "Ahh, that means my acting skills are way much better than I thought they were."

"Stop pretending. I'm not falling for it." I pretended to yawn ignoring his charming smile filling the air with the scent of Dawn. Gosh, he was annoyingly hot too.

He took a step closer and with another proud smile whispered, "I knew it was you. I knew it at the entrance, I knew it when you got offended when I disrespected your dad, I knew it when I called you an attention seeker in front of the whole school, and I knew it when I saw you sitting on the railing from down there. I knew you're afraid of heights and I knew you were going to encounter this situation." He continuously whispered in my ears sending lighting current through my veins.

I stood still in my place while his words made sense to all the events that I encountered today and yet I gathered up the leftover courage and asked, "How did you know it was me?"

He lifted up my chin with his fingers, just like Noah did, this time I got butterflies in my stomach unlike earlier. He gave a faint laugh and leaving me stunned began to walk away. He was always like this, leaving when he shouldn't, confessing when he shouldn't and abandoning people when he shouldn't.

Weirdly, this time he stopped before crossing the door, turned towards me and said, "It's easiest for me to recognize you in the crowd of millions. Don't you know, You smell like spring blossoms."

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