Dark Billionaire Series : Marked by Him

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7. Cold as you

"What are you doing here, Winter?"

I learned that she is the Vice President of the student council here. That's why she was in the cafeteria when the commotion happened. She also asked the student council staff to sort that incident in the cafeteria. When she told me to come with her, Ethan tried to accompany me. But I said it's not needed. He insisted further but Summer gave him a glare. She look scary with that look.

She brought me here in the school soccer playgrounds. We sat in one of the benches with silence.

"Ate Summer." I happily said after a few seconds. Finally, I found her. I just missed her so much. But when I look at her, I can't see any reaction from her face. She looks at me blankly. My heart sanked but I didn't show it. Instead, I smile more. "How are you? Did you know that I was worried when you're gone-?"

"I asked what you were doing here, Winter." She coldly said.

"Ate Summer, I..." I murmur sadly. Did you not miss me? I thought. "I went here for you." She is just staring at me. "I search for you. Why did you go?" It made my heart saddened on how she is looking at me. Like I was just nothing. "Ate..."

"Yanna." She looks at me intently. "Yanna Santiago."

"Huh?"

"Call me on that name." She looks at me blankly. "There is no Summer Howe here."

"But that's not your name! Summer is your name!" I frown. "You are Summer. And I am Winter. Season sisters-" She cut me off.

"Enough." She looks tensed. "Just please, Winter. Stop this nonsense."

"This is not nonsense." I argued. "Come back with me in London, Ate. Let's go home."

"No." She harshly said. "You go back. You're not supposed to be here, in the first place." She shrugs. I didn't like this. Why is she acting like this?!

"I will not go back!" I bursted out as she seems shock. "I went here for you, I told you! Why are you being stubborn?!" She gave a cold glare.

"You are the one being stubborn here." She calmly said but I can feel her anger. Summer is always good at emotion since we were young. She's quiet and calm. The opposite of me, as they said. "Just go, Winter." She gritted her teeth while looking at me for a while. Then she turns away from me. Just like this?

"Why don't you want to come with me?" My tears began to fall down from my face. "Don't you miss me?" I cried. "You were gone for a year, Ate Summer! Not even a single word came from you. Do you know how worried I am?"

"Did I told you to worry for me?" She stop walking but still not looking at me. I was hurt by her cold words. It was like a knife stabbing on my very soul. My own sister Summer, why do you say that?

"Ate Summer..."

"Don't you Summer me." She said in disgust. "Go back, Winter. You don't have a sister here."

"How can you say that to me?" I cried.

"Do you really like to know?" She slowly turn on me.

"Please don't be like this-" I trail.

"I hate being your sister." She said harshly. My eyes widen on her words.

"You don't mean that..."

"Just leave me alone, Winter. You're just wasting my time." She smiled bitterly before turning away. I thought, it hurts when she turns away without a word. But now I realized that it hurts more to know the reason why she turns away. I wonder, why she hated me, when all I did is to love her dearly. Is it too much?

I'm still crying about what happened a while ago. I stay here as I can't still move on from my sister's words. 'She hates me.' I sadly thought. The wind suddenly blows and some of my hair went on my face. I am about to fix it when a warm hand stops me. I felt a familiar tingles on my skin. Ethan. As I look at him, I notice that he is down on one knee – looking like a boy proposing to a girl to marry him. Just like what I had read on the favorite novel. He put some of my tousled hair on the side of my ear. Then, he gently touched my right cheek.

"Stop crying." He softly said which made me cry more. He pulls me closer to him and hugs me. He pats my back in a gentle way as if saying that 'it's okay'. He didn't utter any words. He just held me in his arms. It made feel somehow relieve. I thought, how a person like him made me feel things? When I just met him a week ago. But still, I am thankful that he's here. I wish he will always be by my side.

"Thank you, Ethan." I murmur.

"Nah." I felt him shrug. "Do you want to talk about it?" He gently asked. I pulled away from him, but regretted it as soon as the comfortable feeling were gone. I guess, that's how he made me feel. "It's okay if you're not ready to talk about it." I shook my head.

"She is my sister, Summer Howe." He nods.

"I see." He stand up and went to sit by my side. "She is using the name, Yanna Santiago."

"She told me that also." I said feeling depressed as I remembered that she didn't want to use her real name. "She hates me." I start crying again.

"Sshh." Ethan hush me as he pulls my head on his broad shoulder. "Maybe she doesn't mean that." He murmurs while touching my hair.

"You think so?" I ask unconvincingly. He nods.

"Maybe she was just surprise to see you." I felt him smiling based on his voice. "Just give her a time. She'll get over it."

"Really?"

"Yes. Really." Maybe he is right. I'll just give her time. And just maybe... Maybe everything will be fine the way it was.

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