THE UNWANTED (COMPLETED)

32-HARPER NOLASCO 2.0

Harper Nolasco

   I'm dying. I can't breathe. Her presence is killing me.

She touch the thing on her leg. She lifted it. She composed herself again. She lifted her shoulder and chin. The old Natasha but with a dark aura.

"Miss Natasha!" Her personal driver called her. Picking her up. 'Is she standing there that long? Did she heard everything?'

She plastered a smile. A fake smile. A smile that separates us now. It's not real. I can't see the Natasha who plucked her affection to me. She started to walk straight to me. The others make way. Her stares making my knees weaken.

"Natasha!" Chester. He's stopping her. She only glanced quickly at Chester.

"Thank you, Chessy!" A dead voice make us shivered. So cold. So, unlively. She turned her eyes to me again. Then, she stop a few inches to me. Her dead smile faded. She roamed her eyes to my face. Familiarizing every small part of it.

'Natasha!'

I wanted to call her name but I can't talk. I am stunned. I am like a statue. She lifted her hand and touched my face. I stiffened. It's unexpected. She never did this before. She never touch me.

"Happy birthday again, Harper!"  She greeted me without joy. A dead greet. A lonely greet and a farewell greet.

'W-what? N-no.'

She moved her hand and let it traveled to my face. With her shivering hand. Her cold hand.

"Why is it always like this? I always wanted to surprised you but it ended up, you always surprised me....with pain!" I swallowed hard. I can feel her pain. It's unbearable.

We stared at each other. A rare moment. A moment that I'm always avoiding. I'm always scared to stare at her eyes. I'm afraid that I might get caught. This moment. She got me. She caught me, in a wrong situation. She dropped her hand. There's something disappointing I felt inside of my heart. 'No!' She lifted her thing.

"Here, this is my gift for you!" She's still insisting her business here. I slowly get it to her. She then lifted her hand to my face again. I stiffened again. She's looking straight to my eyes. Like she's reading it.

"Happy birthday again, Harper!" She greeted me again. She smiled. A painful smiled. She inched our distance. I stop my breathing. She tiptoed. Her lips near my ears. Like she's going to whisper something to me. My jaw tightened quickly again. I groped tightly the gift she gave to me.

"I love you so much!" I gasps. I am shocked. My lips gaped again. She really whispered it. Only she and me can heard it. I feel like I am pulling deep into nowhere. It's her first time saying it to me. She never said it. She never.

My heart race painfully. 'Why? Is this really a farewell? Why is it painful?' She moved away. 'No, please!' She erased the pained smile on her lips.

Her aura changes again. She became emotionless. She's very far from me now. She's very far away. She's slowly fading to me. She again roamed her eyes to my face. For the last time. My heart is aching.  She steps backward. Not letting our eyes go.