Chapter 5
As Natalia and Finn are flying from Edinburgh to Atlanta to set their plan in motion, Aislinn decided to sit on her couch and eat a bowl of ice cream watching a rom-com movie. She smiles as she remembers her and Berlin used to do the same, laughing and eating out of the same bowl. Now she knows she will never be able to do that. She thinks to herself and frowns,
"It's been 3 years since it happened.. I don't think I will be able to move on from this.."
She tried to go on dates with men and women. It just didn't click with her. She still loved Berlin, but Berlin would've wanted her to move on. Be happy. But she was going to marry her, for Heaven's sake. Why would she move on? Her thoughts goes to the mysterious man she met in Atlanta. Finn Galloway.. She couldn't help but wonder about him and admire his looks from memory. She keeps pondering the thought in her mind and tells herself,
"Maybe I can move on with the right person."
As the sunrise peeks through her blinds warming up the room, her phone begins to ring. Aislinn wakes up from her deep slumber on the couch and blindly grabs her phone.
"Hello?"
"Good morning, sunshine! I hope I am definitely waking your ass up!"
Chirps Natalia, making Aislinn groan and sighs as she sits up on her couch, rubbing her face.
"Do you have to do this every morning? Call at 6 in the morning and wake me up from my beauty sleep?"
Aislinn stands up and walks to the kitchen and passes her front door. Before she walks into the kitchen, she notices a white envelope on her floor.
"Of course I do it's my job. Who else would do it?"
Aislinn picks up the envelope and walks with it to the kitchen.
"Hm. I'd be glad if it was no one. How was the trip?"
Aislinn gets a knife and listens to Natalia explaining the trip and things she saw in Edinburgh and as Aislinn opens the envelope and reads the content inside, she turns as pale as a ghost and gasped.
"Aislinn? You okay?"
Aislinn whispers,
"They're back."
"Who's back? Hey, answer me."
As Natalia asks questions and begs Aislinn to tell her, she sits in the stool and hangs up the phone, looking at the picture of her sleeping on the couch with a sentence saying
"We see you, but you can't see us."
Natalia looks at her phone and sees that the call was ended and yelled to Finn, who was currently staying with her at her house for the moment,
"Hey, I got to go. Something is wrong with Aislinn. She wasn't making sense.. I'm worried.."
Natalia rushes out of her house before Finn could calm her down and ask her what was wrong. He follows her out the door, locks it and runs to Natalia's car before she could leave.
"Hey! I am going with you."
Natalia tries to complain but Finn wouldn't take no for an answer. She sighed and motioned him to get into the car and they drove off to Aislinn's house.
On the ride over Natalia wonders what she is going to say to Aislinn on why Finn was with her. Finn answered like he read her mind.
" We can tell her that you set up an interview with me and that we were meeting her at the office later that morning."
"Are you sure that's gonna work?"
"Maybe? I don't know. We will just have to see when we get there."
Once they pull up to the house, Finn starts to get nervous. He realizes that this will be the second time he's seen this beautiful woman. As he pulls himself together, they get out of the car and rush to the door with Natalia banging on the door.
"Aislinn! Open the door!"
A quiet whimper is heard through the door and it starts to break Finn's heart. They realize that she isn't coming up to the door so Natalia unlocks the door and they both walk in seeing Aislinn sitting on the floor with her knees to her holding them. They notice the picture and envelope on the table and ignore it for the time being.
Natalia bends down and rub her hands up and down Aislinn's arms.
"My dear, what happened? What's wrong?"
Aislinn whispered with tears stained on her face,
"They're back. They won't stop!"
Aislinn puts her head down into her arms as Natalia moves to hug her close, hating to see her like this.
"Who's they.. Aislinn?"
Aislinn sits in silence, ignoring the question and looks up at Natalia and notices someone behind her and looks up to see worried grey eyes staring at her.. Finn noticed that Aislinn saw him and spoke up quietly,
"Um.. Hello, I am Finn Galloway. We met.. Before in Atlanta. Sorry to intrude on you in your own home."
Natalia smirks and hides a chuckle from seeing how Aislinn was reacting to the handsome man standing behind her. Aislinn thought those eyes could suck up her soul. She admires his face and notices that his hair looked out of place than the last time she saw him. She snaps out of her gaze and moves to stand up with Natalia helping her and turns towards Finn feeling confused and replies,
"I remember you, Finn.. You are fine. Although I am wondering why you are here with Natalia?"
Before Finn could reply, Natalia answered,
"I scheduled an interview with him. To take photos of you and Mairead. To see who's behind the business."
Aislinn looks from Natalia to Finn who has a small smile on his lips. Aislinn smiles back at him.
" I guess I better go get ready.."
Natalia shakes her head yes and tells her they would wait for her. Aislinn started to walk away, but before she did she remembered the photo and shivered from it. She stops and turns around facing Natalia, and walks back to grab the photo and gives it to her. She frowns and says,
"They are my parents. They are the ones who sent this."
She walks away with tears in her eyes. A shocked Natalia looks at the photo and with a determined look on her face, she knew her and Finn would have to protect her best friend at every cost. She shoved the picture into Finn's chest and walked away into the living room with an angry sigh. Finn then glimpsed at the photo and felt anger towards Aislinn's parents for treating their daughter this way. He felt an unknown feeling towards her but couldn't place what it was. He shrugs it off and follows Natalia to the living room to wait on Aislinn.
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