YOU AND I

YOU ARE SO DAMN ADORABLE

CHAPTER THIRTY:-
YOU ARE SO DAMN ADORABLE

Emarald's POV:-

"The person with me in this photo is my brother. Real brother." I released the breath I was holding in and looked straight into his eyes. He looked on too, without saying anything. His face was as blank as blank canvas and my heartbeat was going haywire. I could feel every second passing, the wind blowing outside making the closed window chatter loudly. When I was certain that he was not going to say something on his own, I whispered, almost incoherently,"Will you please say something?"

"Wh... what do you want me to say?" There was still blankness in his eyes that kept torturing me to no ends, I shut my eyes trying to keep the onslaught of tears at bay.

"Something, just something..." I felt like my voice was not mine anymore and it was of someone else, someone pathetic. Someone broken. I was almost on the verge of breaking down, almost on the verge of showing how truly everything around me affected me, how I had gone through so much without anyone being by my side and most importantly what I had gone through.

"I... I don't know how to start. Okay, why did you lie before, when I asked if you had any siblings?" His questioning gaze was enough to put me in spotlight and go speechless.

"I... Technically, I didn't lie. I just told you that I had two cousins, so that is not lying." He gave me a look that clearly stated, 'You should know that I will not let you change the subject now' and I shook my head exasperately.

"Hazel, I have told you before and I am telling you now, you can tell me anything, anything and I mean it. So will you please just tell me why you didn't tell me before?" The amount of sincerity in his eyes made me say what I said next.

"He left me. He left me when I needed him the most." I cast my eyes downwards, trying to get the words out of my mouth, in the most audible normal voice I could muster up.

"When? Wh... why did he leave you?" He looked so confused and so damn adorable that I said the most inappropriate thing I could say.

"You are so damn adorable." The second this left my mouth, I blushed, hard, and a little, barely there redness invaded his cheeks.

Am I for real? Like literally, what the hell? Why can't I just say something that is actually appropriate?

You can not for the life in you, say something that is actually required, so let's just not enter your self pity party.

Shut up, brain.

"I would say thanks to that, but I don't think it would be appropriate for this situation." He smirked, the nerve of this guy, but I did not call him out on it because I was the one that went ahead and brought this on myself, I shook my head again.

"Shut up. He left two years ago, four days after my parents death. He was really close to me, you know. So I was almost nothing when he left. I get it. I get that he left because he thought that our parents died because of me, I mean I think... I think that too, but it hurts, it still hurts. Even after two years of no contact with him, I still ask Ben about him, everytime, everytime I talk to him." I was not crying right now, so I could still say that I had some dignity left, but there was never a time where I felt that I could ever loose anything to him, specially my dignity.

He came from beside my bed and hugged me and I swear it took everything in me to just forget about my self control and break down in front of him, tell him everything that has ever happened to me. I took deep breaths while he continuously rubbed his hand up and down my back, I could feel how stiff he was and I knew that his temper was rising.