Monarch penthouse (12th floor)
Gavin's POV
It's already 10 in the evening when I hear my phone ringing and it's Dad. Him calling me at this hour means he is mad at me again, I open the door and he gives me a hard punch on my face.
"The school just started early today and you already caused trouble?"
"What did I do again this time?" I am laying on the floor massaging my face
"You don't know? Well then let me remind you, you punched someone inside the infirmary and Rainne fainted twice today because of you."
I shake my head in disbelief and try to stand up.
"She did not call you but it still reached you.... I forgot that you're the director of this school and you know everything that is happening."
"I'm warning you, I don't care how many girls you want to fuck but make sure that it will not affect our family business and you know what business is that, marry Rainne no matter what." And with that he leaves my place.
I throw the nearest object that my hand is able to reach and punch the wall.
Law Building, room 203 (8 am)
I still go to school even if I am not feeling well, I feel dizzy that what our professor is saying sounds really irritating to my ears.
Then I received a message from dad "Make sure to prepare a surprise for her on Friday. It's your chance to make it up with her" I slid back my phone inside my pocket and smile sarcastically.
It's her damn birthday and everyone is so eager to make her happy. That makes me mad at her even more, she really knows how to get into my nerves.
I really hate her for loving me and pretending that she understands everything because damn it, how can she act okay knowing that my father is just using her damn emotion and situation to get hold of what they have.
"You're spacing out." The girl that I am with yesterday says then she pulls her chair closer to mine.
"What?"
She smiles at me "Professor Levin asks us to find a partner and I want you to be my partner, is it okay?"
"Partner for what?"
"Study in some cases, let us have self defense it's a very interesting topic and if we can get a good story maybe we can have an A for this subject"
"Did I already say yes?" She's pretty but not as pretty as Rainne. I shake my head with that thought and look at her. "I mean, yeah let's do it together."
"Good! By the way, Lorrie Jenkins." She offered her hand and instead of shaking it I grabbed it and put a little kiss.
"Gavin Mowry" She smiles at me and gives her phone, I grab it and dial my number. "You're so pretty, you know that?"
She plays with her hair and rests her chin on her hand "but not as pretty as your fiance'?......."
I smiled at her "If you want to click, never mention her name or that word."
"Okay then."
The whole class of Torts is very that I end up playing mobile games while I leave all the tasks to Lorrie.
Actually she is beautiful and smart, no wonder why there's a lot of guys who look after her but sorry guys, her eyes only focus on me.
After our class, Lorrie and I headed to the cafeteria together with Blake and Seth who's with his new girl again.
"Guys, meet Lorrie Jenkins."
"Hi Lorrie, Blake." Then Blake offer his hand
"Seth here and this is........... Wait what's your name again?" We all laugh and Blake punches Seth's arm.
"Hi. I'm Isabella." The girl offered her hand to me and Lorrie.
"It's nice meeting you all."
"Let's have our lunch, we still have class at 2"
When we are on the line,I saw Kaiden with Rainne, Madi and that stupid guy again.
"O my god is that Madi?"
The girl named Isabella giggles while fangirling over Madeline.
"And who's that super gorgeous girl with her? She's so pretty and sexy. Do you know her?" She asks Seth, who is now looking at the same group of people that I am looking at.
Blake wave and approach them. He cannot control Blake since he is friends with them too and Blake is really a nice guy.
"That's Rainne Henderson," Seth tells her.
"Even her name is gorgeous, your friend seems close to her tho."
"If you want to stay here, don't mention her name."
Isabella looks so shocked that she pushes herself into Seth asking for protection but Seth pushes her a little.
"I thought you're my type but you're too noisy for me. Let's breakup!"
The girl ready her hand to slap Seth but before she could, Seth grabbed her hand.
"No one ever tries to touch or slap my face. Just leave." and with that the girl walked out with strapping foot steps.
After getting our food we sat at the table reserved for me and my friends and bad for me. The table reserved for Rainnes' friends is near ours.
I can hear how she laughs in the corny jokes that, that stupid guy is saying and when did she start being friends with stranger. She never mingled with others aside from the people she already knew and I am 100% sure that this guy is new in our place.
No matter what she does, she's getting on my nerves and I hate her for that. I stood up and walked to their table, everyone in their group looked at me with confusion.
"Let's talk!" I order her and when she's about to stand up, Kaiden grabs her hand.
"She's still eating, Gav."
"Am not talking to you. Let's go!"
I saw Rainne take a deep breath before grabbing her bag and follow me outside.
"Stay away from that guy." I face her and she's just staring at me
"Axel?" She asks
"So the arrogant devil has name"
"Stop talking about him like that, he is nice." She defends him "Is that the thing that you're going to tell me? Stay away from him?"
"Just do it, I don't want to see you spending time with him and besides when did you start trusting strangers?"
She smiles at me before trying to walk inside again but I stop her.
"Are you going to do it or not?"
"I don't see any reason for me to do that and besides since when did you start caring for me? Oh...... or is this part of your act again?" Then she walks inside the cafeteria.
I already lost my appetite, so I just decided to skip my 2 pm class and go to the penthouse.
Football Field (4:00 PM)
The whole team is gathered in the field and as lucky as I am today, that Axel guy is part of the team. According to the coach he's a good player from London and passed all the qualifications to be part of our team.
After a short briefing, Coach ordered us to sprint 10 times inside the field, then do the footworks, passing, drills and 7 aside.
And God is in favor of me because we're not in the same team. I'll make sure that he will bend down his knees later after this game.
I play as the striker and he's one of the defenders of their team, 20 minutes had already passed and there still no score. He's defending me hard but I'm determined to score too.
I give him a not so obvious jack, so the referee just gave me a warning but I know that his feet are in pain.
And five minutes before the end of the first half, I kicked a top corner goal. Everyone in the crowd is shouting my name and cheering for me, there I saw Rainne who's smiling and happy for that goal too.
The more I wanted to score, the more he hardened his defense over me and our 90 minutes game ended there with a 1-0 score.
Our coach gave us a briefing before dismissing us. We headed all the way to shower room and I don't know why but it seems like he is waiting for everyone to leave so he could talk to me and when it's just us, he starts to talk.
"Is that how you play"? He ask
"Why? It's normal in our sports, you should have known better since you're from London."
He smiles at me and grabs his bag "I like, Rainne." Then he walks pass through me
"I don't care! She's very devoted loving me, but then there's no wrong in trying." He leaves me inside and there I punch the mirror.
I went outside with my fist bleeding and there's Rainne waiting outside.
As she saw me and my bleeding fist, she ran to me and grabbed my hand.
"What happened?" She asks full of concern
"I punch the mirror and that's it." I pull my hand and started walking but she keeps on following " What do you want?"
"I'm sorry about what I said a while ago." She stops in front of me
"Do whatever you want, I don't care." I'm about to walk again when she grabs my arm.
"Let me treat your wound first then I leave." I saw her concern and I don't have time to have an argument with her.
We headed to my penthouse and she knows where all my things are located. We sat on my bed and she started cleaning my fist before putting an ointment.
With this kind of situation I always remember the Rainne that I used to care so much back then.
Flashback (Grade six at Grand Forks School)
It's our graduation day but it's almost time and Rainne is still not here. I'm the valedictorian and she's the salutatorian of our batch, we both prepared our speech for today's special moment but she is not here.
When I was almost done giving my speech, I saw El crying while talking to someone on her phone. I ran into her and asked her why, and there she told me that Rainne was rushed to the hospital. I started to cry and ask my Dad to drive us there and he did.
Rainne is in the same hospital where my Mom is also confined. She has this tube in her mouth that obviously supplies oxygen to her, she looks so pale and weak.
According to her Mom, she's getting a hard time breathing and faint last night, and then she got her very first operation. She's now sleeping for almost 6 hours and no signs of waking up.
It's been 3 days now and everyday I pay a visit until the visiting hours end.
I was changing the flower in her room when I saw her open her eyes.
"Rainne?" I sit next to her and grab her hand "Rainne..... " I cry my eyes out then she give me a weak smile
Her doctor enters the room together with her family, they were all happy seeing her wake up from the surgery.
Once the doctor is done checking Rainne, he asks Mr and Mrs. Henderson to talk in his office, so it's just me and Rainne.
Her oxygen mask is replaced by a nasal cannula and she can now talk.
I am still crying while holding her hand.
"Are you just going to cry?" She asks me while smiling at me so sweetly
"Are you really okay now? You're not going to faint anymore?"
"As far as I know, yes."
"How are you going to marry me if you always end up in a hospital bed?"
She smiled at me again and started to spread her arms requesting for a hug, then I hugged her.
"I will live as long as you want me to live"
"Then promise me to live forever" Then she offers her pinky finger and we seal our promise with our pinky swear.
When her parents came back, I excused myself to give them time alone and I went straight to my Mom's room.
She looks very pale and her breathing is very thin, I sit next to her bed and grab her hand before kissing it.
"Mommy, Rainne is already awake and you know what we made a promise to live forever." I happily tell her the conversation that I and Rainne had a while ago and she smiles at me before caressing my face softly.
"You two are so lovely, tell her not to make you cry okay? And promise me that you will make her happy" She says while her tears are rolling on her cheek.
"Mom?" I wipe her tears "Don't cry, I will tell her that and I will make her happy."
She smiles at me again and shows her pinky finger "I'm happy that Rainne is now okay.....Now Gavin, can you.....make.....make me a promise too...?"
I nod at her while my eyes is now starting to cry but she's wiping it off
"Promise me.... Promise me...that you will be happy even.....even if....am not by your....side any...longer"
I don't know what to say what to react, I don't want her to leave and I don't want to make a promise that I cannot fulfil.
"Promise me....so............."
Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut..........
That day April 29, 2011 when Rainne wokes up from her operation and my Mom died in the same condition as her.
End of flashback..
My tears are already flowing and when I realize it, it's already late. Rainne is staring at me with a confused look and when she's about to wipe my tears, I push her hand.
"I'm tired, just call your driver or stay the night if you want." I immediately wiped out my tears and went to the bathroom.
What the hell is that? Stupid memories of mine.
I take a shower just to relax myself and when I'm done and about to check Rainne, she's not in my room anymore. There's a note, sleeping pills, and a warm glass of milk on my side table.
"I already went home, Kaiden picked me up while you're in the shower. I left your pills there just in case you find yourself having a hard time to find your sleep. Drink your milk. It can help you relax and have a good sleep too. See you tomorrow!
Love,
Rainne "
I put the note inside of the drawer and grab the glass of milk together with the pills.
When is she going to stop caring?Isn't she tired of me and my Dad's ambition?
If only she will find another guy to love, maybe we can go back to how we used to be.
Rainne's POV
I lied to him, I just called a cab to drive me home because I don't want him to worry about me but when I am already outside, I saw Axel who's about to enter the building and he smiled at me when he saw me.
"It's already late, why are you.....Oh.. I forgot.. Gavin is living here but where is he, why are you alone?" He asks
"He's not feeling well and besides I can go home alone."
"I'll drive you home, let's go." He got my bag and started to walk to his car.
I just followed him since I know to myself that it's more safer to be with him rather than to take a cab.
We're very silent along our way home and it's a loud silence that makes me deaf. When we're already in front of the main door of our house, there I find the courage to ask him.
"Are you not going to ask why I always faint?"
We are still inside his car and he unbuckles my seatbelt.
"Get inside now, it's already late." He ignores my question
"Are you not curious? I already fainted twice and you already sent me to the clinic twice too."
He faced me and smiled "Whatever is the reason why, it will not change my feelings for you."
"Axel?" Why is he like this to me, why is he so nice?
"I will not get tired of carrying you, I know your heart is weak so, from now on I will be your strength." He smiles at me and pet me before heading outside his car and opening the passenger side.
I went out and smiles at him
"I'll go inside now, thank you for the ride."
"Goodnight, Captain." He's waving his hands while watching me go inside our house, until I hear his car drive away..
I go straight to my room and to my surprise, Mom is there.
"Mommy......." I shout and hugs her like as if we never seen each other for a decade.
"What are doing here? Not like I don't want you here but it's just Tuesday.."
She kissed my forehead and intertwined our hands before sitting on my bed and I followed.
"I heard that you faint twice today."
"How did..... Of course Kaiden."
"No.... It's Mr. Mowry, he called me but don't worry I did not inform your Dad."
"Uncle Miguel but...."
"He informs me that Gavin is there and we don't need to worry but then I don't know not to."
"Gavin?" Wow. I didn't remember Gavin visits me.... Oh well once and he humiliated me. I just smiled at Mom, I don't want her to think that I and Gavin are not the same as we are when we were a child.
"Gavin is so sweet, princess. No doubt why you love him so much."
Sweet? Sweet my face.... Hay... Why did I love him though? He always reminds me that loving him is my biggest mistakes in life.
"Yah.. He is." I lied, no matter how he treats me, I always finds the reason to love him.
"Did he straightened his hair?"
I tried to remember his hair and it's still a little wavey. "No.... Why?"
"Then why is his hair looks straight from the back awhile ago. Isn't it Gavin?"
I unconsciously widen my eyes because of shocked. She saw us? O my God. I'm doomed if Gavin finds out that Axel brought me home.
"Ah..... Maybe you're just having an imagination, Mom. Gavin never straighten his hair." I smiled nervously..
"Maybe you're right. Anyway, it's getting late already, get some rest now and I'll go ahead as well." She kissed me on my forehead before heading outside my room.
I changed into my pajamas and do my skin care routine before heading to bed.
I thought about Gavin, he cries while I am cleaning his bruises and I know he remembers his Mom again.
I still remember that day when Mrs. Mowry died, that day is the day when I recover into my surgery and the day when Gavin and I made a promise but that day is the day when Gavin started to stay away from me too.
I thought that the surgery of mine is a 100% success but when I am already in my 9th grade my heart started to get weaker and weaker again. That's when the doctor discovers that I have congenital heart disease and my arrhythmia tachycardia got worsen.
I was inside the hospital every now and then but my family never tells the public about my condition, except for Mowrys', and my two best friends. My family and Gavin's family are close since Uncle Miguel is my personal Cardiologist and Gavin and I are childhood friend that we were arranged to get married when we reach our right age.
But as my heart got worsen, my love for Gavin gets stronger. I know he has reasons why he put some distanced between us and no matter how he hates me, I know deep inside his heart, he still cares for me.
