His Favorite Scar

Chapter 19: Ivan Vasiliev

Scarlett's POV

Soon enough after brunch, David left along with Ryan and everybody else left for their respective works too while Samantha couldn't stop whining about her terrible head ache, so she decided to go back to sleep to soothe it.

Well, that's what you get for drinking like a maniac, I shook my head at the thought.

And with that, Vienna, Charlotte and I were left alone in the beautiful backyard.

I mean seriously, Ryan and Vienna's new home is so beautiful and the view from here, the backyard, is to die for with greenery everywhere and a small lake running along the side.

I was lost in the beauty of nature and it was Vienna who snapped me out of it, asking if I was okay, saying that I've been too quiet during the brunch while everybody else was busy chitchatting and how it's just not like me to remain so quiet for too long.

It warmed my heart that she was so concerned about me and also noticed how I wasn't being myself, when nobody else did. She's an amazing person with a heart of gold and she's not less than a sister to me. I'm so glad that my brother has someone like her in his life, he really needs the light, the happiness that she brings in his life.

Anyways, it took a while to assure her that I was doing fine before I hugged her and congratulated her on the big, happy news.

The next few days went by in a blur as I focused on my studies and also was too engrossed preparing for my brother's wedding, from going gown shopping with Vienna to shopping and picking my own outfit for their big day, time went by quicker than I realized and before we knew it, we were just left with a week, well eight days to be more precise if you count today as well, until the wedding day.

"So you're really not gonna sort this out with him?" Charlotte's curious voice snapped me out of my thoughts as we headed out of school, to the car waiting for us, to take us home.

I sighed. It's been a while since I told her everything that happened between David and I that night because, let's be honest it's Charlotte that we are talking about here, she's very persistence. She just wouldn't stop bugging me until and unless I told her everything and by everything, I mean everything, that happened that night.

And out of all the things that I told her that how he said some mean, hurtful things to me and in return I did the exact same, all her peanut sized brain could conclude out of it was that David actually feels something for me or else he wouldn't have kissed me in the first place, and by asking me to forget about it he just confirmed his feelings and also that he has been trying to hide them since forever.

And though whatever new theory she came up with, deep down did make sense to me but I did not allow myself to think too much over it and get ahead of myself once again since I've decided that I will anyhow move past him and finally stop obsessing over him...because if even for a nano second, I let myself to think that he feels something for me...that he always has, then I'll most definitely find myself in the loop of wanting him and never being able to have him, again.

So it's better if we just leave whatever happened in that alley that night, there itself, not make a big deal out of it and move past it...move on with our lives. Separately.

"Charlotte" I sighed as we reached our car.

"I really did want to apologize to him for my bad behavior but the next day, what I saw at the brunch...the way he never even spared me a glance and instead tore his gaze away whenever our eyes did meet as if my gaze burned him alive..." I paused.

"Made me realize that things have gone too far and he's never gonna give me any chance to apologize to him, let alone talk to him" I continued, my voice distant.