Another City Of Lights.

Chapter 44.

December, Karachi.

Aaron's POV:-

I feel like I'm in a dream. A dream that is too real and too vivid. A dream that I don't want to wake up from anytime soon.

The night is far from over, although I have been here since a couple of hours, it feels like morning is still so far away. The sky is lit up, millions of stars shining down upon us as I sit back in my designated chair, and watch all of them from a distance. This is my fifth, or maybe sixth, glass of whatever cheap alcohol someone managed to bring, and I have no intention of stopping. I'm not buzzed enough for this.

I didn't know what I had been expecting really. Of course I knew Sam had a boyfriend now, but I still didn't expect her to completely ignore me. When I first saw her, I thought she was surprised to see me. But then, instead of a happy reunion or anything close to that, she threw herself at that boyfriend of hers and hasn't left his side since.

I'm a pretty shallow person, but I don't want to ruin anything for her. I don't necessarily like that guy, but I also don't hate him. Initially, I had imagined him to be some sort of freak that was probably taking advantage of her, but that wasn't the case. This guy, he was completely whipped. And he looked as if he genuinely cared for her. He moved around her protectively, and smiled whenever she did. It was incredibly disgusting to watch. But it also made me weirdly good to see that at least she had someone to take care of her. And that thought made me cringe. I couldn't decide if he was more whipped than I was.

I didn't even care about that guy. I was ready to play all friendly with him too, but Sam wasn't even looking at me. She wasn't looking, or talking, or coming any where near me. And as much as I was trying to act indifferent towards it, I couldn't deny the fact that that stung.

So I had propped myself on this chair, chugging down one drink after another, and watching the four of them talk and laugh and have fun. Dash and Hailey seemed to be enjoying themselves now, it was literally like a double date and I was a fucking dimwit who had bothered to show up. I had considered getting up and leaving three times now, but I have no idea why I wasn't able to.

I knew that I was staring. It was very obvious and prominent, and Dash had caught me looking multiple times now. And I knew that I didn't want to start anything with that boyfriend of hers, but I couldn't help myself. I hadn't seen her in over a year, and I had to know for sure if I was just going crazy for her in my imagination or it was something real as well.

It was real, of course it was. It was hard to not feel this, and I kept wondering if I was going insane. Because she had a boyfriend, who had a arm draped across her shoulders, and there was no fucking way she could ever look at me the same way she looked at him.

But she was so alive, and she was so beautiful. And I had begun to notice things about her that I never noticed before.

She looked like herself, more like herself than she had ever before. She had cut off her hair, and it was just a bit past her shoulders now. She looked like she had helplessly dressed herself, but she looked like something I had never seen before. And I had seen a lot of girls trying to play dress up. And here was Sam, just in some jeans and a black sweater and I couldn't think straight.

Dash came trotting over, and plopped down next to me, snapping me out of my insane thoughts.

"You're lucky that guy's nice. I would've punched you for staring like that", He laughed, and I rolled my eyes.