Together Forever

Evelyn's POV

I wake up to something tickling my nose, probably someone's hair. Groaning, I slowly open my eyes but close them almost immediately as the bright sunlight hits me. I place my hand on my face and rub my eyes with the back of my hand till they adjust to the light. My head throbs continuously as if someone hit it with a hammer and my body feels so weak.

Feeling hot at the side of my cheek, I slowly turn around and a loud gasp escapes my lips as soon as my eyes fall on him. Ethan is sleeping beside me almost upon me with his face clinging to mine and his hair messily falling on his face which was tickling me all this time.

What the hell?

I slept with Ethan?

I mean...no, no, I slept beside Ethan?

Someone, please scream on my behalf.

On instinct, I jerk up from the bed trying to sit but soon my body falls back with the exact force and I look down to see his hand lying on my belly clutching me so tight as if I am some kind of teddy bear.

How did I even come here?

Well, I should calm down.

Calm down...deep breaths.

I shut my eyes and try to remember what happened last night.

It was raining, I came home, I thought Ethan wasn't home but he was there in my bloody room, he was angry, he scolded me and…

My hand comes toppling over my mouth like whiplash in utter shock as I remember what happened next.

My Gawwwwd…

Ethan...kissed me!

It happened. Oh my God, it happened for real.

He kissed me and I let him kiss me. Was I in an illusion? I…

My head falls on the pillow in defeat and I look back at his sleeping face as a long sigh breaks free from my lips. I turn around to face him, he stirs a bit and wraps his arm around my waist again, pulling me closer. I place my hand under my chin and eye him carefully.

It happened finally.

I'm surprised.

I can remember him asking me if I regret it or not. Well, I don't. I mean why should I? If he wasn't the one to kiss me, then who? He was the one who made me feel different for the first time in my life. He does things to me no one ever did and nobody even has the power to do so. Then in this case, why wouldn't it be him?

I knew it was going to happen. Still, I tried to stay away from him just for the sake of it but I couldn't. He didn't let me. Like he is holding me now, implying no matter how much I try, I can't go anywhere. I'm just shocked.

Because never in my life, I thought this day will come when I will stay in someone's arms like this. Someone will kiss me. I never wanted to but like when flood submerges the world and deluges everything away but it still keeps raining, at that moment as a person looks up at the implacable sky in utter hopelessness, then to God how he looks, so helpless and so weak having no power to stop the torrent other than praying and watching the devastation; just like him, to Ethan's ruinous power and dominance he has on me, I was helpless. I tried but everything was in his hand and I was just a mere victim of his precedence.

I raise my hand and softly touch his face, getting a shiver at the contact. I move my face closer leaving inches between us as his hot and steady breath strokes my face when my fingers gently caress his soft skin. A smile creeps upon my lips bit by bit and I close my eyes to devour the moment but just as those words come flooding back in my mind, they shoot open.

I can remember something. He... he said something.

My eyebrows furrow at the outcome of me trying hard to recall everything.

As my mind gets cleared more and that moment replays over and over in my head, my eyes get bigger and my hand stops moving. The effect of those words causes me to release all the adrenaline in my body, making it flow through my bloodstream and my eyes stop blinking.

I'm sure. He did say it. It wasn't a dream.

When I can't keep staring anymore, my eyes hurt, and the moment I blink, a single tear rolls down my face.

Then another. And another.

Soon the pillow beneath my face gets wet but my stream of tears doesn't seem to end.

I love you…

He said it before I lost consciousness last night.

He loves me…

He loves me.

remember saying him those three words over and over, my heartbeat quickens and

reason is the person I don't know what I feel

I do,

feels

when someone... to

the tears off my face and look back at Ethan. He seems so innocent as he sleeps with his hair over his forehead like a baby. I lift my head and balance it with my hand and use my other hand to push the curls away from his face. I gently caress the side of his forehead when my

and every half of each side is inked black while the other half

try to touch it however I don't get the chance as Ethan suddenly gets a hold of my wrist and pulls me on

chest and my hair flows on both sides of my face as I take

always

smirks at me and pushes my hair back, "Look I again caught you gawking at

are too high. I wasn't

as hell I

trust you." He

my face, suddenly his smile vanishes

hand on my face and softly

were

"Umm...no?"

"But…"

I cry?" I try to reason as he

to lie

as he places his hand

doing?" I

checking if you are still burning or not because you were last night." He says, "No, you aren't. Then what's wrong?

am alright." I

but he lets it go and sits

written 'Boss' in bold letters and look back at him, puzzled. It seems boyish. I definitely wasn't

of my uneasiness as he

what's this?" I say, holding out

and replies, "It's

didn't know

"It's not mine."

nods, "Yeah.

Oh my God!

it what I am thinking? I didn't change myself.

"What the hell? Who the hell changed me?" I

course, me. Who else?" He says,

fuck? He fucking changed my clothes and now

Speechless

shock not finding anything to

Why did you do that? Ugh… You saw everything! My God... I am dead." I

as he falls

so I couldn't keep you in those wet clothes. And you

face as I glare at him, "It's not simple at all. That doesn't

pauses and I narrow my eyes at him causing him to

Much?

Yeah, that describes everything.

be so unaffected after doing such a thing?

had the right to change me?"

just stop talking about it now? I'm hungry and you too. We didn't eat

have another question,"

"Shoot."

room? Why didn't you

turns uneasy at my

and I didn't feel like sleeping alone in my room. So I stayed here." He flashes me the most innocent

as I sit upon the bed, "That's a freaking lame

like me staying here. You seemed pretty

I thought you were

cheekily, "I would love to be your panda

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