Our Second Life

Chapter- 15

Okayy so from here I'm gonna put more emphasis on Ian's POV in the storyline. Previously we had been only seeing the story mostly from Winter's point of view but now that we have proceeded to a decent depth, Ian's part also needs to have its own significance.
There will also be random shifts of POVs... so please bear with me.
But every 2-3 chapters there would be a flasback chapter as usual because those are the ones that build the major plot in this story.
So lets continue now......❤️❤️

Ian's POV

All I ever thought was that I would have to take all of my pain to my grave, but seeing Winter take my hand in hers and leading me, it made me realise that I still had a chance at life. But as I said, all I could afford to give Winter was merely nothing. Maybe all I wanted for this long was a friend with whom I could share anything and everything. And Winter was becoming that friend to me.
Never once did I think in my lifetime that oneday I would be sitting beside this lake with a girl almost half of my age sharing my deeply guarded stories.

Life is so uncertain.... ain't it!!

After Elena left me, I had spent all these years just solely focusing on raising my both kids. I never indulged myself romantically with anyone ever. Though many times my colleagues and friends tried to set me up on blind dates and constantly kept on nagging that I need to get a partner for myself, I never really paid much heed to their words. All what I cared for every single day was focusing on my kids and providing them the best life I could. I spent the whole of my day at work, the evening with Aiden and the night...alone. Even I had kind of got used to lifestyle, until a short cute girl with curly unruly hairs and fluffy cheeks moved next door. Her eyes held a lot of secrets I could feel, but those same eyes became the most attractive thing to me about her. She was kind, generous and sweet. But most importantly speaking, I could trust my little boy with her !!

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Thanksgiving dinner was always my favourite. Since childhood I had always eagerly waited for this day to come every year as I almost always stayed away from home. Thanksgiving to me meant coming back to my roots.... my hometown and my family.

After the grand Thanksgiving dinner, I offered to do the dishes while everyone went to relax in the living room. Aiden was watching television while sitting on my mom's lap. As I didn't allow him to watch a lot of T.V back at home so whenever he came here he just made up for all the loss. He would literally stayed glued to the T.V screen for all day long and his grandparents would literally spoil him with every possible thing he wanted.

"Mmhmm..."

I turned around and saw Winter standing at my back awkwardly fiddling with her fingers.

I gave her an assuring smile and enquired, "Hey do you need anything?"

She just lightly nodded her head left and right and looked up towards me with an 'I don't know how to describe' face.

This girl is literally going to be the death of me. Sometimes she talks like a matured person, behaves absolutely normally like a grown woman... while the other times she is just awkward af. She is weird....I repeat she is weird. Even at this particular point I highly doubt if she is bipolar.

Honestly speaking I don't really know why she is like that but I definitely know this that I like all of her sides.

I looked back at her and raised my eyebrows, "Then what??"

She looked at my hands which were soaked in water and then turned her gaze towards the utensils dipped in the sink and finally looked back at my face.

"I-I w-wanted to help....", she spoke up in the end.