Chapter 34: 34

"Ayla,"

"Did you see the notice?" someone called me from behind being all breathless.

"What happened? Why are you acting like this?" I asked, turning toward her when I saw Kylie was calling for me.

"You won’t believe that our college is organizing a prom night?"

"Prom night? Our college? You must be joking, right?" I laughed.

"No, no, I’m telling the truth about what I saw on the notice board. It was written that this time we will have a prom night despite having a strict rule even though they never let us have our way," she was still out of breath when she finished her word.

"I still can’t believe it", I mumbled while Jenifer joined us.

"Did you hear?" here she goes with the same news.

"Yeah we hear", both of us gave the same reaction and walked toward our classroom.

I went and sat in my seat when the thought kept on circulating in my mind. Prom? Does that mean a couple of entries? But do I even have anyone who I can walk there with? Do I?

I was thinking when an icy hand wrapped around my neck, making me shocked.

"Baby", he whispered in my ear, making me feel butterflies in my stomach.

"You? What are you doing here?" I asked in a panic tone.

"What am I doing here?"

"Did you forget that I’m in the same class as you and..."

"And what?" I asked.

"And you must have forgotten that there was a clause on the contract that we should act like a couple in front of all?" he said in a low tone, but his eyes kept on piercing inside me.

"Yeah, I-

I was about to finish my sentence when I saw Jennifer and Kylie looking at me while standing at the entrance. Gosh, they saw me. What should I do? Should I pretend that he is my friend? But it will make me the one to break the contract, then I won’t be able to meet him or I could talk to him my entire life. What should I do?

I kept on thinking while they walked toward me.

"Ayla, what’s going on here?" Kylie asked.

"What do you mean by what is going on here?" I kept on shuttering.

"Ayla, don’t act smart as you are forgetting his hands are still around your neck tightly as if he is claiming his territory," Kylie said, making my eyes widen.

Damn, how could I even forget this?

Yeah, this always happens to me whenever I panic and I couldn’t do anything about this.

"So you are going to explain to us?" they insist.

I tried to say but when I was about to, he stopped and said, "Yeah, you guessed right. We are a couple."

They kept on looking at his face, but I wasn’t any different from him. I’m also like them as no one ever said we are a couple, whoever I was with. We are in a relationship and they used to hide it. They used to keep on saying to me it will keep our relationship secure. They kept on saying that if we made it public, it will only make the evil eye toward our relationship and I used to obey as if I was a doll, but this seems a completely different scenario than I ever imagined.

"Ayla"

"Ayla"

"Come to reality"

Someone shook my body, making me land on reality.

"Hey, what are you thinking?" they asked.

"Ah nothing", I replied.

I turned toward Xenon but he was nowhere to find.

"Where is he?" I asked.

"Who?"

"Xenon?"

"Oh, isn’t he gone in front of you? Or are you really so into your thoughts which made you unable to see your boyfriend leave?" they laughed.

My cheeks were turning red.

"Oh, so you can be shy too?" They were basically teasing me.

"But I think you should keep your eyes on him more", Jenny suggested.

"Eye on him? For what?" I asked.

"I don’t know if you have noticed or not but the entire class heard him when he said you guys are a couple and I saw a few girls kept on looking at you with those weird eyes which may bring trouble for you in the future," Jenny stated.

"Yeah, and we have been looking at you and your family situation where you may look extremely strong but sometimes you look all broken as if you could break if one could lay a single finger on you, so be careful", Kylie said and left.

Which made me realize I don’t know much about his life, nor does he even bothers to share. It has been more than fifteen days since I met him and mostly we have sex like some rabbits in heat, but about our personal life we never opened up nor do we even have the chance nor we will ever have, according to the contract.

I wish I could have added that I don’t want this relationship to be only on paper, but I want to be with him my entire life. Every time I was with him he made me feel safe feelings just the way Aaron did. Even though my memories are vague still somewhere I could see his smiley face looking at me asking me how am I? Asking me if I need medicine or anything even though that is not something I’m feeling.

I read in my diary which I have written before I lost my memory that I met someone who may look good but he is like an empty shell without having any good nature but I know Aaron and that guy wasn’t the same still I kept on imagining both of them in the same way.

My heart kept on telling me that yeah, he is the one with whom old Ayla fell in love with but couldn’t understand. Yeah, he is the one who I can say Ayla came to know about the word LOVE. But I have nothing to justify my feelings.

Why are things so difficult?

I took a long breath where emotions lead me to my memories of where I found myself in a classroom. But the chairs were empty while I’m standing at the back of the room. I tried to move, but my feet didn’t obey me when I felt the classroom keep on filling on its own, making me startle.

"What’s happening?" I said, but no one heard me.

I was still standing behind when I saw I came inside with a girl while I was shivering with fear.

"Is it really me?" I mumbled.

"Hey, who did you bring with you?" a girl said.

"Oh, she? I don’t know. She was standing alone at the entrance so when I tried to talk I came to know she is the newly transferred student of our class so I brought her with me as she was hell nervous", she said.

I could see my old self still fidgeting and searching for a place to sit when she again approached the girl.

"Now what?" That girl raised her voice making both of us flinch.

What the fuck is she doing myself? Can’t she act normal or does she have to be so rude to someone who just came?

I grumbled in anger.

"Uh, I don’t know where to sit?" my old self spoke.

"Ok you can sit with me", her voice was low, making the old self lose her self-importance.

I kept on standing behind when my eye fell on the other students, who kept on gossiping about me nonstop.

"Hey, look at her, she is looking at Aaron", a girl spoke while I turned toward the other Aaron guy who was shining dazzlingly. I couldn’t even say if it was my illusion or if I really came to the memory which I had long forgotten.

I can’t believe he looks exactly like Aaron and they have the same name the way I knew him.

I tried to move my step forward, but again I couldn’t. I tried so freaking hard, but it only hurt my feet but didn’t benefit me in some way. It kept on hurting me seeing him so near, yet so far. I couldn’t describe the overflowing emotion of mine which I kept on hiding till now.

I looked at my older self who was looking so scared the way she heard all judged her just because she looked at Aaron.

"Yeah, he only has a pleasant face, but he is nothing but a useless empty shell who doesn’t have any outstanding characteristics", the older self said, making me remember the lines I read in my diary.

"I will never come across him. I will never go to look at him but why does my heart keeps on beating so loud, making me feel as if it will pop out of my chest any time soon", she mumbled, but I can hear it damn clear.

"Why is it like this with me today?" she said.

So that is when I realized he is my first love.

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