Once Upon A Time, A Thousand Tears Ago #Wattys2017

Chapter 27: Picture Perfect

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"I have called Mark to make arrangements for Zara's departure. He'll do everything." Liam speaks out of nowhere.

Actually it's not like Liam is lost somewhere, it's me who is lost now. I feel like I am a numb piece of shit that had no courage to rectify its own mistake; the biggest issue is that the consequences of my dumbness will be encountered by someone else. And that 'someone else' had to be Zara, that naïve, innocent and undefiled girl. If I had a backbone in my murky skeleton, I would have stopped all this from happening. But No; I chose to be a crappy person and behave as if this is what I wanted to happen. Yes, at one time I wanted my filthy thoughts, of throwing her out of the band, to materialize but now I had a change of heart. Lack of courage made me sit silently while my band mates thought that they were supporting me by sending her back home.

I am pacing back and forth in my room but I don't know what to do now. The damage has been made. I had just begun realizing the actual worth of that altruistic creature when destiny decided to make us move apart. Blaming the destiny won't help in lessening the pain of repentance, though.

"I don't know what will she do?" Zayn mutters lowly.

"She will go back. What else do you suppose?" Liam makes the conversation and I silently listen.

"No, I mean, she resigned from her dream job for us. She won't get the job back. Her future is devastated." Zayn frowns, worry visible at his perfect face.

"We are giving her 20 million pounds, that'll be sufficient for her and her future." I speak but it's not me, it's the guilt speaking.

"Thank you for your generosity, Louis." Zayn sarcastically comments.

I glare at Zayn but he looks hurt. Zayn is a great person at heart so it was obvious that he will feel bad about all this. Yet, he chose to support me and decided against Zara. Keeping this in mind, I don't pass a snide comment in response and prefer to be quiet.

A knock is heard at the door and Mark enters in.

"Liam, this is the ticket for the girl and here are the documents to be signed by Zara." Mark gives a few papers to Liam.

"Thanks Mark. I will get them signed."

"What are these papers?" I ask him.

"This is the ticket." Liam motions to a single folded paper. "And these are the contract annulment papers. And by the way, we didn't make a note of the bank account details of Zara. We need them to transfer this huge amount of money."

"I'll ask her about the bank details." Zayn points towards his cell phone. Of course, he has her number.

"No, wait. I can do that. Besides, someone has to drop the ticket and contract annulment papers to her, I'll do that too." I quickly state in order to grab the last chance of meeting her.

Liam and Zayn stare at me, not sure if they actually heard what I said.

"Yeah guys, I can do that." I try to give a playful smile.

"No, you don't have to go, I want to go and meet her anyways. I can give all these documents to her." Zayn takes hold of the papers.

Shit, this dude does not understand and I can't elaborate it further so I snatch the documents from him.