𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐢 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮✓

HE SAYS YOU LOOK BEAUTIFUL TONIGHT

*Elena*

Weddings can be tiresome....and freaking annoying...if you ask me.

After managing to dodge the gossiping aunties and weirdly over friendly uncles for the whole evening....Here I am....hiding in the balcony of the floor....father rented for our wedding. I sighed peacefully as i rested my head against the wall...watching the last few remaining guests leaving in their luxury cars. A champagne glass in my hand.

The rest of the Mikaelson family....except of Mikael and Elijah were still inside of the banquet hall....laughing and dining together. Rebekah....Elijah's sister came to ask me if I want to join them for dinner and i refused her politely....stating that I was not hungry and they can carry on without me!!! Even though I felt terrible....looking at her disappointed face. I know she was eager to have some interaction with her new sister in law...whom she never met before until the wedding....but I had a very little energy left to carry on the facade of a happy bride anymore....for tonight at least. Rebekah gave me a understanding nod and left to dine with her mother and friends...whom she invited for her brother's wedding. While Elijah was still in his father's office....talking about God knows what. He left with his father almost 2 hours ago and still hasn't come back yet. I asked kol....my brother in law....whether it's an emergency...But he assured me that it's completely normal in their house and Elijah must be discussing something related to the business with their father and he'll be back soon.

The chilly midnight breeze hit my face as I closed my eyes....a wave of calmness spreading all over my body.

"As expected....Glowing more than the moon itself tonight!!! You know.....I've always dreamed of you in a wedding gown...looking like the most beautiful girl on earth!!! But damn!!!! The reality is way more marvelous than my wildest imaginations!!!"

The champagne glass slipped from my hand...spiling it all over my white gown. But I couldn't care less!!!!Hearing this familiar British accent...my heart stopped there suddenly....my whole body shaking with shock and anticipation. It...it isn't true...is it??!! I must be hallucinating....no...no way....It's not true!! He's not here... it's not true!!! It can't be!!! I was still trying to process everything....when I heard it again. His voice laced with an unimaginable amount of pain.

"So this was my fault huh???" He let out a small chuckle. "You know....all those countless nights i spend wide awake....wondering what went wrong...what did I do....what I could have done!!! I deserved an explanation....you know that right!!! I'm no stranger to heartbreaks....who better than you know that!!!!....and that's why....I made myself never be attached to something or someone...I was happy....living alone and never depending on anyone for survival!!! I was happy....when I used to not believe in love and soulmate and miracles!!! Why you made me fall in love with you Elena Gilbert?? Why took my fragile bruised heart in your hands and dropped it mercilessly....If you never meant to hold it forever in the first place???!! What did I even do...to deserve that???"

I closed my eyes....my heart breaking with every single word...he spoke.....and when against all of my better judgement, i turned to face him...I gasped in horror.

"What have you done to yourself, Nik???"

It was not a hallucination...he was there for real. But....Standing in front of me was not the mischievous, chirpy and ever smiley Niklaus....i fell in love with. Instead all i could see was a broken and lost person there...a skeleton...a hollow of his past self. His hair was messy and wet. His suit was torn from 3 different places and he was embarrassingly trying to hide them by last minute stitching. But the most heartbreaking moment was when I looked at his eyes. The beautiful Ocean blue eyes that I fell in love with....who used to shine with full of love and admiration....were now nothing but a pair of shallow and lifeless holes...they met my teared gaze and held it for a split second....before looking down at the earth.