The Love in Between

Chapter 7

It has been two days since my secret was out.That day, Zane helped me to the beach without a word and left. Since then,I haven't seen him around.I asked Austin where he went and found out that he went back home for a while.The shock must have been too much for him but it was all for the better because I also do not know how I would face him.

The day before school started,I received a package from Zane.Inside was the necklace,just the necklace and nothing more. However, the next news that Jean told me, shocked me and everyone else.It was published in a newspaper that Zane is engaged to a girl with the same status as him, an arranged marriage to a girl for business.

I don't get it but does the necklace means that he's cutting all his connections with me? That night when he told me that he was looking for me, did he meant that he was just looking to give back the necklace? Do I really have no place in his heart at all?

"Are you okay with this?" Jean asked after she told me the news. I forced out a smile.

"I'm fine, why wouldn't I be? It's just Zane." I replied nonchalantly while everything inside me is in turmoil.

"Well, I just thought, you know...if there was something between you and Zane. The two of you were always closed since the first day you met so I thought the two of you would definitely end up together." Jean explained then shrugged. She returned to reading the article.

When I returned to my room, I closed the door and just stood there for who knows how long. I feel numb from all those emotions that exploded inside me since I heard about Zane's engagement. Suddenly, I started to taste salt on my lips and finally realized that I was crying. When I did, I couldn't stop it anymore and slumped down to the floor, crying everything out. I cried for love and cried for my life.

I know that Zane and I had nothing but friendship to define our relationship. I have no right to be hurt but going so far as to stay with him as the reason meant that I was hoping. It was hope that was easily crushed by my assumptions. This is why, there is nothing else to do or say because it seems that I only stayed for a one-sided love. It's time to leave.

I wrote Zane a letter and slid it through the gap of his door before I left.I did not say goodbye to Jean and I know that she'd hate me but she's not going to see me once more anyway.Everything that happened here is just a dream and like a dream, I will disappear and be forgotten by Zane and the others.

*Zane*

Thank the heavens that the problem is over.It took me a week to break the engagement that the old man decided himself and it had to be in the exact time that I found my savior.Luna must be misunderstanding everything now and is mad at me so I sent her the necklace to reassure her but I forgot to add a note to wait for me.I just wanted to clear anymore problems and misunderstandings before I would try to start a relationship with Luna.

I love her,I knew that from the start. I had fallen in love with her at first sight even though we met at a disagreeable moment. But I was too stubborn to find the owner of the necklace and now that I know she's the owner,I'm more determined to repay her with all of me. However, I just really love her for who she is and not because she had saved my life.

"Zane?"Jean was standing by the entrance of the dorm building.She looks depressed.

"Hey.What's up?"

Jean approached me.

"Luna dropped out of school."My heart seemed to stop beating and the smile on my face fell.

"What?!When?"Was it because I found out about her secret?

"A week ago when class started,I didn't see her attend first period so I went to her room but nobody opened it.I thought she just went somewhere but the next day,it was announced that she dropped out of school.Then after that a group of men came and emptied her room but one of them gave me all the dresses.He said that it was from Luna,he called her 'my lady'."I patted Jean on her back as she cried while my mind is full of questions and panic.

If that's the case then there's a possibility that Luna won't be coming back to the human world.It must be a rule to them that they can't be revealed.Damn it!I was too late!I punched the wall when I was inside my room and that's when I noticed the piece of paper on the floor.

Dear Zane,

When and if you're reading this,I must be back home.I haven't had the chance to tell you this but I came to the human world to find you and my necklace,I needed the necklace for something.Do you remember the story that I told you about my first love?That was you Zane.You were that boy in my story.I fell in love with you at first sight when I saved you and I still love you,for the whole 11 years until now. It' really unfair to be telling this to you now that I'm gone. I just could not stop myself for at least telling you. But just like the story about The Little Mermaid,you don't belong to me but to someone else so I wish you happiness with your fiancee.

Goodbye and I love you.I'm so sorry.

Luna

I stared at the letter with a blank face before I gritted my teeth in anger and frustration. We were both too late.