The night stretched into a tragedy of seperation from my friends as I packed some essentials to go back to my marital house .
I was not moving in permanently again . Just for few days I would stay so my father would stop to nag me and when his attention was diverted, I could always move back in the dorm again.
I did not want to share the air with Liam Anderson's poisonous breath
But I had long learnt to give up in life .
This was going to be painful , but I could not avoid it anyway.
Our house was two hours away from the city , beside a stream and a hunting reservation spot of Sunshine corporation - so too close to nature , too much far from the population.
Most of the essentials and food ingredients were delivered in three phases - morning , afternoon and evening.
Three maids and two cooks who had signed non-disclosure agreement stayed with us along with a half a dozen security , one gardener and two stuffs who helped us here and there in the house .
Chairwoman of Sunshine corporation had done to make the house as comfortable as possible for her one and only son Liam Anderson.
The three stories house had the ground floor wrapped around with only glass walls with a pool in the middle so it could also be used for a party or celebration in needed . Other than that there were also a swimming pool at the rooftop a mini sauna , a gym and gaming room and some other useless things like virtual golf room , massage room that we never really used .
Liam had the first floor all to himself where he had his own music production room and a dance studio with his dressing room and a bedroom with whose half of the wall was an aquarium filled with exotic plants and colourful fishes .
I stayed at the third floor where I had my own makeup and dressing room and a greenhouse where I had long planned to grow my own garden.
Eventually I had given up on that idea and now the greenhouse sat as empty as my marriage.
My heart beat started rising as soon as our house was in my view .
Please let him be drunk or locked up in music room .
I prayed for all the possibilities that could help me avoid meeting Liam face to face .
I was grateful to the God when the cooks informed me there would be only one dinner -served for me as Mr. Anderson was not scheduled to return today .
The news filled me with relief and bitterness.
My husband was out somewhere, probably playing around with his new girlfriend.
After dinner , I went to the rooftop to an ice cream bucket .
My schedule tomorrow only had my practice seasons since I had been kicked out of the show , promotion shootings - pretty much everything I had been working on.
I doubted that the meet and greet with the fans would be as cheerful as it used to be before .
I watched the stars and wondered how nice it would have been if the world stopped rotating and I could be here forever in this blissful loneliness.
Sleep took me in his arms as I lied beside the swimming pool watching the breeze rippling the blue water .
I shivered in cold but I felt too tired to move at all .
My dreams were nonsense as usual . In it I saw myself being flown up and lifted into the air as if the wind was going to take me away .
I clung onto a tree as much as I could so I could not be taken away .
The warm branches wrapped around me making a safe haven .
I slept like a baby until morning shone on my eyelashes .
My thorat felt dry and I was still half asleep as I nestled myself cozily among tree branches .
Tree Branches?
It took my brain some time to find logics of reality and seperate it from my dreaming nonsense.
I snapped my eyes open and saw a pair of arms holding me tightly- I knew those arms too well .
It did not take much time to meet eyes with Liam Anderson.
He was awake beside me . With sun sparkling in his blue eyes like they were some priceless gems , his gaze made me feel like my bones were melting like ice cream in a hot summer day .
In past four years , this was the second time we had shared a bed like this .
" Let go," I complained , delivering my words as if my heart was not panicking like I was going under a cardiac arrest .
" You first ," he raised his eyebrows, his hair was a mess , his voice was hoarse in the morning - everything about him was too much distracting for me to concentrate on even my very own existence.
" What ?, oh ."
I realised I had my arms and legs around him in a desparate grip - like a coala hanging from a tree branch during a tornado .
I had noone to blame but the cursed dream about tree and wind last night .
My face burnt red. I wanted to lie back and pretend it was just a nightmare - a very toxicly addictive nightmare that I was having because I yearned for a man who would never be mine .
It took me a minute to untangle my limbs from him , but I realised that he had given no effort to move an inch .
" Hey ," I struggled with no win , so I tapped on his arm ," Won't you move ?"
" I am too sleepy , let me just rest ," he closed his eyes .
I was filled with annoyance .Did he really have to be so stubborn when I was having such a hard time with him ?
And what was this now ?
What did he want anyway ?
" You can sleep after I get up from the bed ," I looked around and saw the aquarium that had taken most of the walls of the room.
It was Liam's bedroom .
" After what you have put me through yesterday ," his voice made it sound like he was upset , but a smile was almost playing at the corner of his lips or maybe not , it was just my imagination ," The least you could do is stay still and let me sleep ."
" That -," I was like a fish gulping out of water , why did he have to be so close ? I swore that I could get lost in his perfect eyebrows and dark curled eyelashes," I just fell asleep by the pool ."
" Yes , I thought that you were poisoned from eating too much ice cream and was dying by the water ," Liam opened his eyes again , his voice was like honey as it tickled my ears, I curled my toes in defense ," I thought that I had to take you to the hospital but when I picked you up , you did not let go ."
" You could have woke me up " I tried to get some distance between us , by pulling myself as far as I could manage while being trapped in his arms ," This is not appropriate."
His eyebrows scrunched ," What is not appropriate ?"
"This !" Me and You on the bed !
" We have never been like - ," I tried to finish my sentence, but my heart would not let me hear my own thoughts, the stupid thing kept beating too loud for my brain to work ," It's been too long where we have not been living as a married couple ."
That was true .
It had been four years and we had always been just two people living under the same roof , barely sharing our lives .
So why now ? After so long , there was no reason for him to act like this .
That was what I wanted to say .
I knew that he understood it. I could see it in his eyes .
But then his lips curled into a smile that twisted my heart .
" You are right ," he said with a devilish grin ," It's time I should start acting like a proper husband."