Chapter 30: Something To Remember Me

BLADE went inside the bathroom to take a shower while she remained on the bed to rest. Her whole body aches, red lashes on her front and back. Despite that she feels good, she feels alive, she feels that she made the best choice of her life when she met him that night.

Her cheery mood suddenly changes to a hint of sorrow as she glances at the calendar on the bedside table. It's already September. By October, she will no longer see him. By October, she will be married to Thomas Sinclair.

Her eyes reddened, and she clenched her fist till her nails dug deep into her skin.

The sound of an opening bathroom door catches her attention and immediately hides her emotion. She sees him fresh out of the shower, hair still dripping, a towel barely covering his lower body. He took the other towel and used it to dry his hair. He then sat on the bed next to her. She moved close to him and took the towel and helped him dry his hair. He blushed but did not show it to her. "This feels nice," he thought to himself as he discreetly grinned.

None of them speak, she just stares at him as he puts on his clothes, his socks, his shoes and prepares to leave. He stood up and took his phone on the bedside table, then she remembered something.

He was about to open the door when she yelled in her hoarse voice, "Wait!"

"What?" He asks with a soft voice.

She covered herself in the blanket, stood up to take her bag, inside she took out a box and gave it to him. "Here, take this!"

"What is it?" He asks while looking at the box in her hand.

"It’s something to remember me by." She says, then she puts the box in his hand. "You can go now!" She says, then she opens the door for him. He went out, and she looked at his receding figure till he was no longer visible. She then closed the door.

Her heart was pounding, she slowly sat on the floor and stared at the ceiling. The voice inside her head starts to speak and takes a form that resembles her.

"You gave him a box without telling him what’s inside?" One of her voices that was sitting on the bed said.

"What if he threw it away?" Suggested the other one that was standing in front of the bathroom mirror fixing her hair.

"He didn’t even look back at you." Whispered another who was sitting beside her.

"Shut Up!"

"Shut Up!"

She yells to herself while her hands are covering her face. She then lay on the floor in a fetal position.

**

It was 10 pm when he got home. He stared at the box on his passenger seat and remembered her words "It’s something to remember me by."

He took the box and went inside the house. In his room, he quickly changed his clothes and then texted John to tell him about his fine.

(10:20:32 PM) Lucian: I’m all good, thank you!

(10:21:21 PM) John: I got worried, and skipped dinner.

(10:22:45 PM) Lucian: Your lunch is on me then.

(10:23:56 PM) John: Good!

John heaved a sigh of relief, knowing that Lucian was fine. "I told you everything would be fine. Now go to sleep." Viv said to him. She was already lying on the bed with a sleeping mask on. He smiles, puts his phone away and tucks himself to bed beside her.

*

Before going to bed, Lucian stared at Malena’s photo with the other man, his heart began to pound and his hands trembled.

He grips his phone tightly and touches the bridge of his nose, he’s about to throw his phone on the floor when the box catches his attention again. He let go of his phone and opened the box. Inside he saw a dark brown scarf with a gold colored Sagittarius zodiac sign embroidered on it.

On the other end of the scarf there’s a small logo LR, the letter L is in cursive and looks like it's hugging the letter R while the R is in a bold capital letter there’s also a small crown above the letters. "LR?" He says he tried searching for the logo on the internet, but he was unable to find anything that looks like it.

He gave up searching after a while. He smelled the scarf, and it smelled just like her. He wore it and felt that it was too warm to wear. He then realizes that it's already September the next day and by October Sieve will no longer be there. She won’t even be at his birthday on December 6.

This left a sore spot in his heart. "Why do I feel sad? If this is one of those one-night stands that I have, I should be happy that the girl is already leaving me."

"Am... I... Starting to actually like her?" He asks himself while holding the scarf. But he soon brushes off the idea and laughs it out. "Of course not. She's just...a girl that I fuck." He mumbles with a hint of gloom in his eyes.

From that night, he promises to himself that Sieve will be his last. After her, he would focus only on Malena, and then he could finally ask her about the guy in the photo.