Chapter 55: 55

"Why are you crying now?" Chairman asked sarcastically.

"Didn’t you say what have you done to make me treat you like this? So I showed you what have you done to me. You yourself don’t know how your mother was. You have no idea how you brought into the house where my daughter was staying. And you didn’t know a single thing but you are asking me as if being with Morris was a pain for you when it was actually a heaven?" Chairman kept on saying while James didn’t stop crying.

The guilt kept on reminding me why Aaron was showing so much hatred toward him. Why after so much afford Aaron never opened his heart to him? But how did just a single letter make him realise what was his fault? Just a letter told him that the one who made their life miserable was not Aaron’s mother but the one James kept on defending was at fault.

"Sorry whatever I said before", James said and walked away from the place but before he could cross the room Chairman stopped him.

"Hand the file here and leave", he ordered.

James had no choice but to hand him the pen drive and leave the place.

Next day

"Xen"

"Xen"

"Xenon"

"Wait!!!" someone kept on calling from behind.

Aaron turned and asked, "What is it now?"

He sounds annoyed.

"I was waiting for you to ask if you are coming to the club today?" that girl said.

"Club? Do you think I once agreed so I will agree each time?" he replied.

"Xen", her voice lowered.

"Never come to ask me this if you don’t want me to call you a slut seeing how you are lusting over my body", he glared.

"But, didn’t you like me as well?"

A smirk bloomed on his lips.

"Like? Do you even know the meaning of like?" he bent down to her level while looking straight into her eyes. But it was nothing affection, not that the girl had the guts to call him anymore but started to shiver like a newly born lamb.

"Xeeennnn", she started shuttering.

"You got it right? Now fuck off", he said while the girl ran from the place without looking back.

He started walking toward the classroom when his phone buzzed nonstop. He ignored each ring but it wasn’t even stopping which made him let out the phone and check.

It wasn’t even a minute which made his expression change so freaking fast.

"What the fuck is this?" he mutters to himself.

There was an unknown number who kept sending pictures of James and Ayla nonstop. There were almost 50+ pictures which made him boil in anger.

"Did she choose him?" he muttered.

Aaron POV

I’m again losing my mind as if my other self is capturing my consciousness. I wasn’t even this angry when I saw the little Ayla hugging James when I was a teen. But right now some obsession is taking over my feelings.

Is this the thing which made him annoyed last time?

I thought maybe I was being too much which made him annoyed and shout at me because he never did it. I thought maybe I tried to understand him but he will never change just the way he did once with an innocent girl. I thought I forgot the moment when I saw him in the corridor of school while a girl whose face was not visible to me was crying loudly and asking why he did this to her.

I thought maybe I misunderstood back then when he clearly said he acted to be in love with her because he thought she was in love with me. But now he is proving his action. He is sure after everything I want. First Ayla and now too Ayla.

My anger took control over me but my feet kept on walking but I didn’t know how I hit someone.

"You ok?" I came to my senses when I heard the other person’s voice. It was a girl.

"I’m sorry, I was out of my mind so I hit you", I said and helped her pick up her books when my phone fell on the floor making her see those pictures which I least wanted to show to the public.

"James?" she said, attracting my attention.

"You know him?" I asked.

"Yeah? Who are you? Are you his friend?" she asked while I was still trying to control my anger.

"I-

I stayed silent.

I don’t even have the answer if someone asks me what our relationship is.

"I’m asking something?" she asked again.

"He is my brother", I said.

"You are Aaron?" she said as if she knew me.

"How do you?" I find myself dumbfounded.

"Ha I can’t believe he is doing this again." she sighed.

"What do you mean?"

"Could you please explain things to me?"

" I’m already out of my mind. And if you speak in riddles I may end up doing something I don’t want to", I said when she pulled my hand and made me sit on a bench.

"You calm down and let me explain", she said and she is still holding my phone.

As I sat she started explaining that it may not be true what I’m seeing. She even explained she is the girl who was in my mind a while ago. I can’t believe I kept on meeting someone to who I did something very bad to, even though it’s not something I did directly. She explained how James put on an act to tell her he is in love with her just for the sake of him. She explained that she met him yesterday at the same place where these pictures were taken.

"So did you understand what I said?" she asked while I nodded.

"I don’t know if it is staged or not but if it is not then I don’t want something to happen with her with this fake act", she looked sad while saying when I noticed James standing behind her.

As soon as I saw him my anger kept on growing.

I got up from the bench and walked toward him holding his collar the way I did before numerous times.

"How many times do I need to tell you to get your eyes out of my fucking business? Just how many times? Do you think I have lots of patience to handle your foolish act each time you do something?" I asked while my face had a drowned expression which I have each time I see him.

"Is this the work which made you come late yesterday? Is this the freaking annoying thing which made you lose your mood? Tell me, you bastard!!! Is this the thing?" I asked while showing those photos but he didn’t say anything but kept on looking at the girl who told me about these things.

"What are you looking at?" I asked but he didn’t budge at all.

"Chloe", he called her name, making me flinch, to be honest.

What is it? Did he just call her name with full of affection? Why? Didn’t he just use her to make me feel miserable then why is he looking at her as if he is the one who is hurting as if she is the one who could make him look this way? Why?

"Aaron, I’m leaving I hope you shut out your feelings well", she said and started walking from the place while at the same time James broke through my grip and ran after her.

In a blink of an eye, I was all alone in a dilemma.

"What the fuck just happened?"

"Didn’t I want to ask him the answer behind his actions? Then why did he leave after someone he used years ago as if it’s not some act but he really loves her?"

My mind is in a mess but the moment I thought of coming out of the mess I saw Ayla right in front of my eyes. She was not going in the opposite direction of me but coming toward me.

"Xen" she called my name.

"We need to talk", she still has her stern voice.

"What do you want to talk about?" I asked putting on a bad boy act but this time it didn’t work in my favour but instead, she held me by holding my collar the way I did with James and pulled me near her face making me shocked.

"Don’t you dare act this way with me when I’m asking gently or I will forget the relationship between us and no matter how you cry holding my leg I will never return? Did you get it?" her eyes kept looking at my eyes making me melt and follow her like a dog which lost its way.

"I understand so I will go wherever you take me", I said and I looked at her with a gentle smile.

Her way of speaking and behaving without caring about the bad boy act made me forget why I was angry just a while ago.

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