The car stopped right in front of the hospital. Her footsteps are busy approaching the receptionist to ask about Edward who hasn't contacted her yet. Her heart feels like it's getting pierced with a needle. She doesn't care about anything in the world at least, he should be fine and all well.
"No wonder he has been avoiding me, saying such random stuff overall" she talks to herself and looks at the receptionist who welcomed her with a soft smile.
" Hello. Ma'am!"
All she could do is nodding off her head and hurriedly take the card out of her purse.." My husband is here to get treatment. This is his visiting card. Can you tell me where is he? His name is Edw-"
" You are great, Prince Charming. When will I return home? I hate to stay here."
A familiar voice that causes her instant crawl in her skin forces her to turn back. A painful memory suddenly strikes her mind.
" Charlotte! Since I am your only best friend. You can at least let me use your laptop. I need to finish the project." A voice that had the worst intentions behind, them made her give her laptop away.
However, she got a result for being so a devoted friend and a kindhearted person. Her entire project was stolen from her in the name of friendship and she was tilted as friendship betrayal.
But Her bloodshot eyes turned bloodless, her worried expression turned blank, and her welled-up eyes become dry and empty. Her pounding heart suddenly stopped for a second to take a break. The colorful world she has been living just a few seconds ago turned black and white. The entire basement of her beautiful dream collapsed very well that it didn't take time to cause her heart to bleed.
Her hands form a fist, digging her nails into her palm, and the sound, chattering, and chit-chat around her become deafening silent. She got no signal to feel something. Like numb and frozen. Even her brain doesn't feel like working. They're all stopped by a sudden flash of the scene.
" Ms., Are you okay? You look so bad. Hello."
The nurse who notices her trembling, approaches her and calls her multiple times.
However, she slowly moves, her heels stepping on the floor with no sound, slowly, almost crawling, stumbling, and tripping, she follows the pair of people who are walking towards the general Ward.
Her eyes follow the certain person's legs. They are well, very well, and walking normally. The only scene stabs her heart more cruelly and painfully. Her emotional turmoil in front of the scene lost its balance.
When the couple stops in front of the door and she witnesses the softness of those pair of eyes towards the girl, she laughs at herself. She doesn't know what she should do to get back to the time and never believed him. She shouldn't have come here either. She should have stayed in her room and never seen such an intense painful scene.
Her mind keeps playing those words. I love you. You are my future. Blah. Blah. Was he feeling guilty and that's why he wanted to comfort her with empty words?
Disgust crawls into her skin. Every second she has spent with them makes her disgusted. She loved a liar, a betrayer. He acted like he can't walk when he is standing on his two feet, all well and happily enjoying the time.
But she couldn't move more. What if she has to see the face of her beloved with guilt or something else? She doesn't want to see him feeling guilty. It will provoke her anger, sadness, and despair.
He made her feel special and made her believe in love once again. He promised he would be her future. But her future is in front of her eyes. She can't watch more. When, How, and Why? All of those questions are erupting with desperation in her heart to ask him.
But she loves him. Despite being in pain, she doesn't want him to feel guilty and sad. Probably, she is weak to her love. But it's better to leave first. He will think she doesn't know anything about it. She will act like nothing happened until he opens his mouth.
" Madam! Are you okay?" Her bodyguard huffs leaning forward while panting. He rushes inside after following her.
" True love never dies. Does it? Maybe I couldn't love someone truly. That's why they never want me to be their last page of the story." Her eyes are watching Edward being so helpful and carefully helping the girl walking in the elevator.
Her bodyguard sighs deeply.." Please don't misunderstand. Master has-"
" Shion!" She turns, giving away a soft smile.." I don't want him to know that I saw him today. Maybe this is our last meeting."
" Madam! Please. At least you should..."
The phone Charlotte has been holding was crushed on the floor when her eyes widened after seeing the girl hugging him, kisses on Edward's lips before the door of the elevator closed.
The tears which were fighting to shed, escape from her bleeding heart, finally said goodbye. Her hands reach her mouth to cover and prevent her to make a sound. The pain inside her heart feels like someone stabbing her, punching its wall constantly.
" Madam! I will call Boss. Right now. It's not what it's looking like. Please wait. " The bodyguard runs towards the staircase, leaving her alone. She chews her bottom lip, slowly walking outside.
She doesn't dare to face him. She loved twice. But to them, she was the second option.
Now, to her, love is for only the lucky one, not her.
Closing the door, she sighs deeply wiping her tears, while her heart is pounding and clenching with pain. She doesn't want to think more. It's great that Edward found his love of life back. And His true love for whom, he has been waiting.
Driving the car, somehow, she reached the hotel. Grabbing nothing but her passport, the files from Rachel, leaving the wedding ring on the nightstand. She bought a ticket online and left as soon as possible to avoid anyone.
Turning off the location, she takes public transportation to head to the airport. She doesn't want to look back. Life has taught her a lot of things that she never wanted to learn.
No one is indispensable to anyone. Charlotte thought she would be someone's happy ending, their true love, or someone like the protagonist in someone's story. She believed and trusted Edward when he said she was his oxygen. All of his empty words were utterly breathtaking. Giving her indescribable overwhelmed feelings inside, a thousand butterflies to the unstoppable escalated heartbeat.
But, it became a lie and fake when reality simply plays the moment like a sad story in the movie. She didn't know how to feel much when Brian cheated on her because Edward replaced all the pain she had like magic.
He extended his arms with love, care, and healing. Healing her, giving her all the love she thought she deserved, making her madly used to being with him, He tossed her feelings, her love like a lie.
Now, she has no heart to beat for love. Love becomes an expensive treasure for the rich and she is incapable of loving someone again. Her heart doesn't respond to the word love anymore.
" Sandra!" She whispered calling her bestie's name who just got a proposal to marry Andrew.
" Charlotte! Shall we talk later? Just five minutes."
Her eyes go to the phone screen, and a soft yet bitter chuckle escapes from her mouth. Standing in front of the plane, she looks at the sky. What a beautiful and shiny day! She whispers staring at the sky for a second and then heads inside.
To look at her past, an uncertain Desire to see Edward being here to find her, suddenly popped out in her mind. But she knows it's just wishful thinking. He found his true love. And she is just a moment of his life. He doesn't have to waste time.
She takes her seat, sighing heavily. It was great that she didn't have to see him. Or she may not have been able to hear his explanation. How he finds his love and how he is going to fix everything. It's better to separate without being awkward.
" Where are you going?" The passenger next seat asked.
She doesn't reply as she looks at her with a tilting head.
" I mean we both are heading to the UK. Which City are you going?" The girl asks shoving the chewing gum in her mouth.
" Don't know yet." answers nonchalantly.
She looks at the family property deeds when she found a penthouse in the UK under her grandmother's name. Her paternal grandfather gifted the villa to her grandmother on their tenth wedding anniversary. She may reside once she goes back there. After all, she gets nothing to stay in the USA in her hometown. She will create a new identity where she will live herself, and die there all alone without any more hope.
He was her home and she is just lost and said goodbye to him.