TRUST

Chapter Seven

Leyla is looking at the message that has just pinged on her phone, she looks up at Can and Sanem.

"Anne and Baba are on their way. Can, you cannot be here when they arrive."

"Why not?" ask Sanem.

"No one knows Can is back in Istanbul except for us and his Baba. Metin will know if he gets here before he leaves." she pauses "The only problem is Huma is lurking around and she most definitely cannot see Can or it will ruin all our plans."

Sanem is thoughtful, the door opens and Emre and Metin walk in. Metin stops short when he sees Can. He acts as though he doesn't know what he should do. Can had told Metin he never wanted to see him again and now here they both stand. Can is the first to move and speak, he walks over to his old friend and stands before him.

"Metin, please forgive me." he simply says and then the two men are hugging as only brothers will do. 

"Can, I knew in my heart, you should be told but."

Emre speaks up "I told him not to." Can looks between the two men, simply nods and returns to Sanem's side.

"Our parents are on their way here." Says Leyla. "We have to get Can out of here."

"I know of a way." Metin says, then leaves the room. He soon comes back with an orderly and a gurney. "Lay down Can, Emir is a client of mine, he will take you to a back way out of the hospital."

Can lays down and Emir covers him from head to toe, so it looks as if he is transporting a deceased person. Sanem cannot help but laugh. Emir wheels Can out of the room and it is not even 5 minutes before her parents walk in.

Mevkibe is stunned to see Metin and ask if there are legal issues. "No." Leyla speaks up "Emre and Metin are meeting about the situation  with Huma."

She can tell by the look on her Anne's face that she doesn't truly believe this explanation.

Emre and Metin say there goodbyes and leave the Aydin family alone.

"Anne, I feel so much better today." Says Sanem, trying to take her Anne's mind off the two men who had just left.

Her mother takes her in and sees that Sanem does have a glow about her as if she is truly happy but still has some sadness in her eyes.

"What is making you sad still, my babek?" she ask.

"Anne, I just am still upset about what happened between Yigit and  Can and the fact I let Can walk out of my life."

"Garbage" Shouts Nihat "Can chose to leave, he left you here to clean up his mess." Sanem took a deep breath, then looked at Leyla for encouragement, Leyla simply nodded her head and smiled at Sanem.

"Baba, you don't know the whole story. Can, and even Anne, had told me that something was not right about Yigit and how he was acting. When I learned about the book deal, Yigit could get me, I was so elated but Can still kept saying that he didn't trust Yigit. I thought he was just jealous. Then when all our wedding plans were put on hold, I thought Can did not love me or want to support me."

"Why were your plans put on hold?" asked her Anne.

"Well, with the way Leyla and Emre got married and how upset you were, Can wanted us to slow down and do things the way you wanted. In my mind, with all that had happened between us I thought he wasn't sure he wanted to get married." she paused "I treated him badly, questioned every thing he said or did,  the last thing was he wanted me to meet another publisher, someone who had published a book of his photographs, I took at a sign that he wanted to control me and my writings. Instead, he was trying to give me a second option, to compare how one publisher did things as compared to another. He didn't trust Yigit, so I thought he didn't trust me."

"Ah, Sanem. That doesn't explain how he could just leave you after what he did." Said Nihat.

Tears sprung to her eyes, because she knew the truth but couldn't tell them everything. 

"Baba, Anne, Yigit was pushing me in a direction that if I wasn't so blind to see what Can was saying, I would have seen what he was doing. He wanted me away from Can, I now see, that he said and did things to make Can think we were getting closer to each other, and not as friends."

Mekvibe was starting to understand "Yigit wanted Can to think, you might have doubts about your love." Sanem simply nodded.

"He kept pushing me to let him publish my journal about Can and mine's love, I wouldn't do it without Can's agreement. So I gave Can the book, I knew he would go to the mountain hut to read it, he wanted as far away from Huma as he could get. Yigit kept telling me I was going to miss the deadline to get the publishing company on board, that they wanted chapters to read, I needed to start on the story or else my chance would be over." she became silent "If I had only listened to Can, his publisher friend, did not give me the short answers or tell me I had to rush through my story, like Yigit did."

"Sanem" stated her father "That doesn't explain why Can hurt Yigit."

"Baba, you don't know what happened that day between the two of them, no one does but them, Can wanted to talk to me that night, tell what happened but I wouldn't listen. In my heart, I knew that Can would never burn my journal or hurt Yigit intentionally but my mind kept asking why?" she stopped for a few seconds. "If I had just taken five minutes and let Can explain, how different would things be now?"

"No, different" Shouted her Baba, her Anne placed her hand on Nihat's and watched her youngest daughter, she knew Sanem was not telling the whole story, but she would wait for her to tell her on her own, she knew she couldn't push while she was in this delicate state. Sanem hadn't been told that they knew about Huma and Yigit.

 Leyla, on the other hand, had been walking a hole in the floor, the whole time Sanem tried to explain, this daughter she would question.