Melodies Of Love

Chapter 3: Echoes Of The Past

Lily

It's funny how nobody knows what Alex's brother looks like.. we only know his name but nothing else about him, even though he's the only brother of THE Alex Barlowe. He's really secretive about his identity probably because he knows people will treat him differently if they know that who's brother he really is and probably the reason why he decided to spend his teenage years abroad. Casually thinking about this I entered the hospital again and bam who do I see here? My childhood bestfriend more like my friend who had a crush on me the entire 5 years that we spent together. I recognised him immediately even though we met after 11 years. His aura, his features, his style had a lot of change. I felt sympathy for him as I saw the nurse strolling him on his wheelchair, I observed he had a kind of plaster that made it obvious how serious his leg injury was. Sighing I walked up to him even though he was the one who broke all contact with me suddenly and disappeared, later on I got to know from my friends that he had gone out of the country, to some foreign place. I stopped infront of him. "Hey Noah, remember me?" He stared at me blankly for a few minutes. It took a while for the realisation to hit him. "Lily? Lily Katz?! Omg it really is you! It took me a minute to realise, you've changed so much.. also your dressing style changed too haha you used to dress so quirky before and look at you now, so.. stunning, so beautiful. Puberty hit you hard huh?" He said the last sentence with a smirk plastered on his face. I was freaking flabbergasted. Did he still like me? After all those years? "Well mister Noah, it seems puberty didn't even try to touch you" I said jokingly with a hint of sarcasm in my voice. He grinned "I know that isn't the case, hmm?"
"Well you already know the answer but I know you're trying to hear it from me. Gosh yes you're much more handsome than before". He had a sheepish grin on his face now. "Did you just call me handsome?" I saw the look on the nurse's face, she looked bewildered, shocked and confused.. I wondered why. "Omg, you're still as flirty as before huh?" I said facepalming myself. "Well yeah lilybug, old habits and old feelings don't change just like that." He said emphasizing old feelings plus with that weirdass nickname he had for me and hearing it again made a shiver run down my spine. "Hey! What's with that nickname huh? You still remember it.. anyways what's up with you? You look like a broken doll." I heard a chukle escape his mouth. "I got into a terrible accident but my brother is taking good care of me here along with the doctors but he won't be here for a week later... Can u take care of me then?" He said with some sort of doe eyes that I hadn't really seen him using before. "I'm sorry I don't know if I'll be able to.. my grandmother is admitted here too, I gotta take care of her." His expressions told me that he just realised where he met me and a person wouldn't be in a hospital just for a random stroll. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't really think before speaking just ignore what I said." He said. " I still remember the day I met you and smile. Because it was the best day of my life." He said abruptly which had my brain go into fog with more than normal blinking. "Uhm ahem, what happened to your grandmom if I may ask? I still remember her. She was so sweet to us." He said changing the subject to which I was glad for because if he carried on with this flirty side of his I would have become vapour with the amount of steam and fog of confusion and amusement was building up in my head. "She had a fatal heart attack and went into a coma because of the trauma that her body faced." I said. And now he was the one looking sympathetic for me. "I'm sorry for you, I know she's your only support after your... parents death. I got to know from others while I was abroad. I'm sorry I wasn't there for you during such a critical period of time. What am I even doing I'm just increasing your misery right now.. I'm sorry lils" He said feeling ashamed with another new nickname now. Wow. "Is my real name that hard for you to take Noah boah? And it's ok I don't feel that much sorrow.. they passed away when I was 15 and now I'm 25 it's been 10 years, time has done it's part in healing me a little." I said also finally using the nickname that our friends had for him in middle school. His face beamed as he heard his nickname since leaving us when was 14 years old. "Um excuse me, but I have to take the patient out for a walk in the garden and for some checkup afterwards. I hope you don't mind?" The nurse said facing me and I realised how much time I took. "Oh yeah, sorry" I said to the nurse. "See you around Noah" I said waving my hands as the nurse started strolling the wheelchair outside to which he turned and waved me a goodbye. I walked towards my grandmother's ward and entered and saw that there wasn't any change in her condition from before. Disappointed I just sat there holding her hands for 40 minutes. Then got back to my feet, talked with her doctor in charge and made my way out.