Chapter 72: 72

I snapped out of my flashback when I found myself laying on the bed. But my luggage had already arrived in my room but I couldn’t find Ayla anywhere.

"Where did she go?" I said and tried to call out to her.

I came out of my room and started calling her name even louder when I found myself standing at the top of the stairs where I could see everything from up. My feet started trembling.

"No, no, this many stairs is nothing."

"I need to hold on and follow the stairs downstairs", I said and started moving forward but at the third stair my leg gave up. I felt as if I missed a place where I needed to place my feet.

I think this is the last time I ever came downstairs as this is giving me flashbacks of the last time when I was so near to death.

"Ayla"

"I got you"

I don’t know who holds me but I’m sure I’m saved.

He was holding me from behind but suddenly he carried me down and made me sit on the couch while I was still trying to breathe.

He checked my body temperature which made me look up, making me realise it was Jace.

"What is happening to you?" he asked.

He sounds worried but I still couldn’t speak as I needed time to get a hold of myself.

"Ok you calm down first", he said while I took my shoulder as a resting space.

I didn’t sleep but gained my energy when I felt another presence which was my dad.

"What happened to her again?" dad asked.

"She will tell. Let her gain some energy", he said while I was trying to breathe nonstop as if I stop now I will die.

Minutes passed while I was reviving myself.

***

"Ayla, you ok?" As I opened my eyes I found dad just sitting in front of me.

I nodded.

But I know they have lots of questions which I can answer but still I want to. I want to share everything without misunderstanding anything. I know what my brother did was a misunderstanding made by Freya and Yona because I have tons of happy memories with him that anyone can replace.

"Ask me anything I will answer", I said while Jace asked, "Why did you keep on falling? Is there anything wrong with you? Should I get a doctor?"

He asked but his hand was on my forehead all this time.

"I’m ok but I’m not ok also", I said.

"What do you mean?"

"You remember I lost my memory when I was in my teens?" I asked.

"Yeah, we do so? Do you still get a glimpse of how you used to?" dad asked.

"Dad those glimpses never stopped coming but I was only avoiding them till the day when I left the home again 5 years ago when I was pregnant with my Ayla", I said.

"Is it affecting her?" Jace sounds concerned.

Of course, he has become so freaking mature that I could barely recognise how Mrs White used to prepare him for school.

Oh, wait a minute! Where is she? I didn’t see her from the moment I came. No one even mentioned her. Am I missing something? Probably not. Still what’s happening?

"Tell me, Baby, is it affecting her?" Dad asked again.

"No dad, it is not affecting her. It’s just...

I stopped again.

"I regained my memory", I said.

I noticed how Jace looked away from me while dad kept on showing me his sorrowful expression which I saw when I was bleeding and looking at him as well as telling him, "Thanks for giving me birth."

I know they didn’t give me birth but still, I’m glad I said as I don’t think anyone who is not blood-related may take care of me better than dad did.

"How?"

"Huh!"

"How did you remember?"

"I contacted Dan and he said it’s a very low chance for you to gain those painful memories then how? Are you hiding something from me?" Dad asked and yeah I could have told him when I was in contact with him for the last 5 years but I didn’t but waited for this moment.

"Dad"

"Yes, tell me...

"You remember my bully?"

I noticed Jace clenched his fist.

"Yeah, that girl?"

"Yes, the girl from my class named Freya", I said.

Brother was not even looking at him as if still remembered the day very clearly unlike me who once forgot about that time and now when I suddenly remember I still have a vague memory of the situation.

"Ayla, speak!!" Dad again asked.

"So when I left home that day I went to my friend’s place so on the way when we were resting and I was roaming beside the road but that road is actually above a mountain which is completely empty and scary when you look up from the road."

"So, what’s next?" he asked.

"So that’s where I met her and she pushed me off the road and accused me of what happened years ago."

"She told me I ruined her life."

"She told me how she lost her entire life in the detention centre."

"She told me how she lost the one she loved ."

"She accused me again that if it weren’t for me she would have still been with Jace living happily but I ruined it so she wanted me dead."

"She told me how she was following me for years but now she finally got the chance to kill me when no one could find even a single bone of me as that road was placed so high and if I were to fall from there then I wouldn’t be alive."

"Seeing her like this made me remember the day I had gone through in school. It was painful seeing myself getting hit by her when no one was helping me. When her nail kept on piercing through my skin I felt the pain again which I couldn’t even describe."

Everyone was silent hearing me.

"So this is where I had the best of height."

"Whenever I stand over someplace and look down, my body doesn’t even help me but laugh at me."

"This is so refreshing and painful. After giving birth to her my body has become so weak that even today Josh and Ayla made me fall. But that is not my worry but I worry that Ayla starts to hate me when she likes all strong people. What should I do?"

I was saying but I forgot Jace hasn’t said anything for a while now.

"Jace?"

"I’m going to my room", he was about to leave. I held his hand and made him sit beside me.

"What are you doing?" His voice was a bit loud.

"Nothing just stopping you so that you will not run away anymore", I smiled.

"What do you mean by I’m running away?" he asked.

"Now what you are doing is called running away."

"What?"

He is even more confused than before. Ha ha, it’s hell funny.

"Brother, I never blamed you", I said while his eyes widened for a second.

"I’m telling you again that I never hated you nor blamed you for a second but I did feel inferiority which you know the reason but believe me what happened then was not your fault but if I were strong enough I could have stopped things from happening which I failed to do."

I kept on saying.

"Ayla", his voice was gentle.

"Yeah yeah don’t be so emotional", I teased him.

"You little best who see you teasing ha", he started tickling while dad said, "You don’t need to go to the upper floor rooms but we still have rooms empty on the ground floor so stay there."

"But, isn’t Mrs White staying in the ground floor room?" As I said, all became silent.

"Yeah, she is but...

"But-

"She doesn’t usually come out of her room but stays inside and Keeny takes her food to her room and she does all the things inside so you don’t need to bother with this", Dad said but something feels off.

"But-

I was about to ask but Ayla stopped me.

"Mom, you woke up?" she was holding my waist tightly while Josh ran after her holding his toy and now pointing at her.

"Yeah baby I woke up", I said, kissing her forehead.

"You don’t seem mad at little Ayla right?" she started snuggling on me reminding me of a certain someone.

"You will come back to me right?" Aaron said snuggling on my chest.

"Mom"

"Ayla"

"Mom"

"Ayla"

"You are not mad right?"

"Ayla, you are not mad right?"

I can’t believe they have so many similarities.

I thought their faces only matched but they even talk so much alike.

"Mom?"

"Yeah baby, I’m not mad. I was only three so I was resting. You tell me, did you have fun with Josh?"

"Fun? With this kid? This kid is an idiot", I don’t think I can show any expression seeing her telling me like this.

I can see how this little brat is going to keep him under.

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