Love Trap (Slow Updates)

Seventy Five.

Harry's pov;

As the black van moved out of the driveway and turned around the corner to leave from my sight, I looked at the file in Emily's hands. I had barely seen what was written on it, but what I saw, was making my stomach twist.

I lowered my eyebrows and looked at Emily. "Give me that file, Emily" I breathed.

"No. If you trust me, you don't need to read it. This is the file they held for me ever since they got me in" She said, her gaze intense on my own, setting me on fire.

"Do I, Emily? Do I trust you? You come out of the dark after two damn years and I find out more and more information as you deny everything Louis and Aria say. If everything you  told me was true, you wouldn't need to repeatedly fight for it" I said, crossing my arms in front of my chest.

"Why, why would I ever lie about such thing, Harry? To the person I fell in love with?" She asked. I can practically see the thousand thoughts running in her mind, through her intense stare, but I can't decipher any of them. That's what she always was to me; an indecipherable book.

"You fell in love with me five years ago, Emily. Five years after, being in another place for so long, I don't know what you think of me anymore. What I know is that I have fallen in love with somebody else and you're accusing her of something I know she can't have done. She cannot have lied about being assaulted, not about a death. I saw it in her eyes whenever she spoke about it, she was being truthful" I said.

"So you're going to believe her instead of me? I thought you'd come back to me, Harry. I thought we've made some promises" She said.

"I've made some promises to Aria too and I can't leave her. Let me read the file, please" I said, letting out a sigh of frustration.

"But-But... Harry..." She said, hope leaving her desperate eyes.

"You're only making it worse for yourself" I shook my head.

"You know what? Fine. Take it. I hope justice is served after this" She said, handing me the file.

I let out a huff and run a hand through my hair. "You can stay with me until I make a decision"

She nodded and followed me back upstairs, as I stomped back to my apartment. My mind is too muffled to speak anymore. I need some time alone. Sometimes, before making any decisions, you just have to sit back, sit higher, to look at the world from a different point of view. Contemplate your choices and truly see what is wrong and what is right.

I walked into my room and sat down on my bed, on the edge of it. I swallowed and nervously opened the file. The first thing I noticed, was Emily's picture on the top right of the first page. Her lips were painted red, her statement lipstick color. Her blonde hair cascaded down her shoulders and her blue eyes shone bright, but through that light, hid a darkness I had never really took notice of, until now. Until now, that my opinions have changed, now that I'm sitting here, objectively. Ever since I saw Emily in front of my bare eyes, my judgment was clouded, because all I could think was how grateful I was for having her back into my life. I hate myself to have forgotten Aria for a slight second, but it was no more than that, even if she probably believes otherwise. She will never understand my logic but... When I saw her alive in front of me, I froze. I didn't know what to do, all I managed to do was take her into my arms and get her under my wing to keep her safe again. I didn't even think of the possibility of her being the bad guy in this case.

I have seen how Stone looked at Aria, ever since that event. He was undressing her with his own eyes, I had to keep her safe but I did none of that, I only gave her more trouble.

I continued reading Emily's file and breathed heavily, my heart pounding in my chest. Every word, every sentence, it felt like a knife was stabbing my heart over and over again. I couldn't believe my eyes that she has done all that, that she was working with Stone all along and agreed to break my heart like that. I know, at some point the three years we were together, she did love me. But after the second year, at the beginning of the third... Something changed. That's why I devoted my time to her, I felt like our days were counting down to the end of our relationship and I tried my best to keep her happy and prevent that, but then she died.