Pills //HS (COMPLETED) ✔

Ch-57 : Loyal as crabs 🦀

^^ Salim, Paul, and Ken.

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I yawn and watch the sunrise fully. It's 6 am in the morning now. I'm still sitting at the edge of the bridge trying to recover the shock from my mind. But it feels like it's tattooed in my head forever.

I feel devastated, angry and disappointed. Angry on Harry that he hid the whole thing from me. Disappointed on Harry that he knew I was scared to let myself fall for him and when I did he didn't catch me. Devastated because I might lose Harry as I'm a GMO.

And.....he and Zayn look a perfect couple.

I don't know what to do. In one side, I'm like 'yay' cause Harry might get his family back along with his first love. On either side, I'm like 'Nah' cause I might lose Harry.

"Woman," I hear someone calling the name given by Harry to me. I lift my head up to see Salim. He has a bunch of white roses in his hand. He's looking at me with a frowned face. I look down and ignore him. He sits beside me and stays silent.

A minute passes and he doesn't say anything. "Do you want something?" I ask him with an eye-roll. I look at the flowers from the corner of my eye and smile at them. Strange but those flowers really brought a certain peace in my mind.

"No." He says.

"Are those flowers for me?" I ask him. I feel like those are for me. I feel like they belong to me in some way cause they're giving me some sort of peace.

Salim looks at me with a smile and says, "No. These are for my mom. She beat cancer and I'm going to the hospital to give her these flowers." I smile back at him knowing how happy he is now. But in the back of my mind, I really wanted those flowers for no reason.

"But.." He smiles widely and takes my hand before handing me the bouquet of white roses. "They can be yours now." He winks at me and I watch him with my lips agape. "Why?"

"I feel like you need these more than my mom does. I'll buy another bouquet on the way. Don't worry." He pats my shoulder. I inhale the roses from a distance and smile at them.

"You're the girl from the club. Right?" He asks me with a knowing smirk. I nod reluctantly without any hesitation.

He nods as well and gets up on his feet. I start to feel empty beside me. I look up at him and he offers his hand to me. I grab the bouquet in one hand and take his hand with the other. "What's your name?"

"Ruby," I reply him. He walks me to the other side of the bridge and leans his back on the pillar. "Did that bastard do something again?" He smiles making me smile with him too as I nod.

But I shake my head in the negative and defend Harry. "He has no fault. I hid something from him that he justified knowing. And I can't rebuke him for what he did. I have to take the guilt."

"Are you okay with hiding that information?" He asks me. I shake my head in the negative.

"Do you think he deserves to know?" He asks again. I nod my head.

"Will he hate you for that?"

"Maybe..." I say, confused.

"Then let him know." Salim just shrugs his shoulder.

"What if he despises me?" I ask him.

"What if he admires you more when he comes to acknowledge?" He wiggles his eyebrows. I sigh and smile with an eye-roll saying, "Unlikely."

"Is the fact something bad?" He frowns.

"Uh...I guess so...It's just he doesn't know the original me. And believe me, the authentic me is sickening." I make a puke face and chuckle. Salim laughs throwing his head back. "Just this much...Allah...You should unquestionably tell him then."