CHAPTER 19: 3 YEARS
LIAM
It’s been 3 years, 3 years had passed but the pain that was caused by the incident is still in here. For me, that only happened yesterday. I can’t accept that my brother was already gone, he was there to comfort me when I feel sad, he always advises me.
“ Liam we will go back to France tomorrow,” said mom.
“ by the way Liam, when we come back we will continue your marriage with Sofie”. Before when I hear Sofie’s name it makes me happy but now it was like a nightmare for me.
“ Okay,” I said. I don’t care about the wedding anymore because it can not be my brother’s back.
“ you will not hide anymore since you will marry her” added grandpa. I do not know if I will be ready to see her because I know that when I saw her ill get mad at her. After all, she should be blamed for what happened.
“ if that’s what you want” after my brother was gone I felt like my purpose of living is just to follow what grandpa and mom want me to do.
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We arrived in France but Sofie is not the one who waited for us, its Mr. Ronald
“ where is she?” I ask.
“ Young Master, Young Lady has a business meeting today” answered Mr. Ronald.
“ is that more important than us?” I was sad.
“ I’m sorry Young Master” I ignored him and went in the car
We were home and like before nothing changed except for the new curtains and the plants which seem to be taken care of.
I went into my room and as expected I am not the only one staying here. My grandpa fixed it for us.
“ Young Master, Young Lady is here. They want you to go down” I don’t know why I felt nervous, I just ignored it and went down.
“ Mom, grandpa,” I said. I look at Sofie she looks more beautiful than before but there’s something about her today.
“ Young Lady Sofie,” I said, She looks at me and I can see in her eyes that she was not excited to see me.
“ good afternoon Young Master Liam, “ she said politely
“ Why does it seems that you two are not excited meeting each other?” ask grandpa
“ I’ve known her before so why would I get excited meeting her,” I said, I sit down in front of Sofie and I look at her
“ Madam, Don Ricardo I’ll go and change my clothes and then come back after,” she said and I frowned
“ is that how a Young Lady acts? Are not going to ask about our flight?” I’m pissed
“ Liam she’s tired, go, Sofie, go and change your clothes so that we can have our dinner,” said Mom. She went to our room and I followed her.
“ Young Master what do you want?” she asks, she said it silently and I can feel that she is sad.
“ I don’t want to be with you in one room” she looks at me
“ okay Young Master, ill stay in the other room. I’ll let the maids transfer my things there, excuse me” I wasn’t expecting that will just agree to what I said. Now I’m We were eating our dinner quietly, I look at her and I’m still mad at her.
“ Sofie, why are you moving your thing to the other room? Ask grandpa.
“ maybe it’s not yet time for us to stay in the same room since we are not yet married,” she said. Why does she have to pretend? So that she can cover me that I was the one who let her out of our room.
“ That can’t be, you two will stay together even though you are not yet married,” said grandpa.
“ I told them to put back your things into your room, either you like it or not you will stay together” we look at each other
“ it looks like Sofie is not yet ready to see me, it seems that 3 years is not yet enough” I look at her seriously.
“ This is what you’ve been waiting for right, to see me?” I said and she look at me
“it’s okay, I can see your eyes that you are not happy meeting me and by the way I want you to come with me tomorrow” she just look at me
“ okay” that’s the only word I heard from her so I continued eating
Just like my grandfather said we are staying in the same room but I pick a pillow and a comforter and sleep on the couch. She's still looking at me
“ woke up early tomorrow, I don’t like waiting,” I said. Why is she so quiet.
“ next time I ask you, say something because you are not a mime for you not to say anything”
“ okay Young Master” she went to her bed and lay down. Why did my heart pound after hearing her say Young Master to me? She doesn’t call me that way and why do I care about those things right now. Urgh.
I can’t sleep because of thinking why Sofie is so cold to me when I heard a noise. I saw Sofie went to the veranda so I followed her.
“ since when did you learned to drink alcohol?” I ask
“ since the day my friends left me” I look at her
“ are you guilty because you are the reason why they died,” I said?
“ was it me?” said Sofie
To drinkes it’s you and Fatima” she frowned
“ how come it’s our fault?” she asks. I’m getting pissed
“ You don’t know? Let me remind you since you and your friend came here our life has begun to mess up. You were the one who brought a curse to our family. An incident happened and it killed my brother and it’s good that your friend also died because of it---PAK! She slapped me and I saw her cry.
“ you don’t know who’s the one to blame here that’s why we are the one you are blaming here. If that’s the case then put all the blame on me! But don’t you dare blame those people who are already dead, blame it to me and not my friend” she said crying.
“ for you to be contented, I am the reason why your brother died! I am the reason why my friend died! I am!” she’s pointing at herself while saying it.
“ I thought 3 years is enough for you to move on but it’s not enough, I thought the Liam I loved before will come back but he’s not but it’s okay I am willing to take the blame until the Liam I love comes back” I can’t believe what she said and she left me while crying.