Chapter 85: finally meeting
"You look beautiful, out of this world"
She blushed and said thank you
"I wanted to tell you something, I don't know if this is the right place or time for this but I want to tell you everything today, cause tomorrow is not promised And I don't know how you're going to take this but I...I…"
"You what?!"
"I….. am"
Aileen's heart kept on beating so fast she was anticipating something from him and she hoped it was what her heart was anticipating
But then she saw someone behind Julius that made her facial expression changed from anticipating and happy face to a shocked, scared and confused face
"Rìan???!!!"
"Rìan??" Julius asked as she walked pass him
She saw someone who looked like Rían so much at the hospital that she followed him calling his name
"Rìan!!!!" She called out and he turned, it was really him
He saw her
"Aileen?!" He said softly
"Is that Rìan or am I dreaming, Julius I think I am hallucinating again, he's dead right?" She said and got closer and touched him
"But I can touch him" tears fell from her eyes
"Yes sorry I am sorry you just look like a friend of mine who died" she said and turned
Julius just stared at her
"Was I just your friend???" Rìan asked
"Huh??" She turned and asked
Julius came for her
"Let's leave" he said and Aileen nodded
"Why? It's best that she knows I am alive, you didn't tell her right?"
"Shut up!!!! Not like this!!!!" Julius said
"Aileen let's go" Julius told Aileen, Julius held her hand and tried to take her away but she took her hand away she was in shock and she kept on crying
She sat down
"You're alive?? He's alive How??? I saw you dead I saw your tombstone your brother blamed me for your death… Julius I think I am overthinking again I am scared Julius I can't go back to the past" she said hugging Julius tightly and he was broken to see her like that
"Aileen I am sorry" Rìan said and she closed her ears
"I am overthinking" she kept on repeating whilst shaking her head as she sat down
"Leave her alone!!" Julius told Rìan
"No Aileen it really is me, I am sorry for everything Aileen I just needed time to heal" Rìan walked closer to her and removed her hand from her ears and said that
Aileen looked at him and tears fell
"More than seven years of healing? And meeting like this? If I never saw you today you would have still played the dead person and I the guilty one. You failed me even till the end and it hurts so much I had so much expectations when I met you for the first time and that was my first mistake" she closed her eyes and the tears flowed
She stood up and walked away crying and Julius followed her, she stopped when it started to rain and he came to held her hand to get her out of the rain but she just looked at him
"You didn't look surprised when you saw him and he said you already saw him why didn't you tell me"
"I am sorry I will tell you everything just get out of the rain"
"No tell me why?!! Why did you lie to me?"
"I never lied to you Aileen I just didn't tell you
Aileen you will fall sick, let's go"
"You care so much about me but why didn't you tell me"
"Because I was worried for you, he doesn't deserve any of your tears!!"
"And who are you to say that??!!! Julius you do not have that right?"
"I thought I was your friend, at least I had this right because I saw how much of a mess you were but maybe you are right I should have left that decision to you" he turned to leave her and she just looked at his back and cried
"Don't leave me alone!!!!" She screamed inside
He stopped and came back he removed his coat and placed it on her head
"No matter how sad and angry you are please don't fall ill" he said and turned to leave
Aileen remembered his apologies and him asking for assurances when they returned back from that wedding
"Was this it" she said and ran to hold him at his back and cried
"Please don't leave me Julius!!" She cried
And Julius heart felt a little at peace, he breathed and closed his eyes
"I am never going to leave you"
Rìan followed them and saw this
"Has he become this important to you?? Did he succeed in making you his??" He said and turned around