Hello Again

9.

A faint, distinct scent reached my nostrils, filling up my lungs like a delicious aroma, making me escape a small sigh and before I could even realize what was happening my eyelids had already fluttered open, finding myself gazing into the most beautiful sapphire gems I've ever seen, making me feel so entranced...So attracted...

"Are you okay?" That oddly familiar, slightly grave and masculine reached my ears, like from a deep trance suddenly snapping me back to reality as my gaze quickly roamed all over his features, finally noticing the male currently being so close to me, too close  as I could now also feel his strong arms around me, like constrictor snakes circling me, suffocating me, to the point where I forcibly pushed against his solid chest, desperate to free myself from his unwanted embrace.

"Don't touch me!" I seethed, crawling myself a few feet away from him as we were sat on the freshly trimmed grass, noticing the confusion quickly replaced by hurt marring his features as he wordlessly stared at me, my mind now reeling back over and over again to that disgraceful moment back at that damned bar, forever engraved to my memory.

"What's going on here? What did you do to me? Is this another one of your sick jokes?" I practically screamed at him as my mind still struggled to comprehend the current situation.

"What the hell are you talking about?" His brows quickly furrowed in confusion as he kept staring at me, seemingly clueless.

"Oh, so now you're playing dumb with me huh? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?" I screamed at him from the top of my lungs, feeling small tears gathering at the corners of my eyes as another panick attack threatened to wash all over me, my breath now coming out in short, laboured pants.

"H-have you abducted a-and took me here? A-are y-you planning t-to...Wait..." I suddenly paused as I took a glance at my current "outfit",
"D-did you..." Those last two words never made it past my lips as a large lump suddenly formed in my throat, making it hard for me to even breathe, let alone speak.

His thin lips opened and closed, seemingly shocked as he stared at me for a few short moments, letting out a small, humorless chuckle,
"Are you fucking crazy? Why the hell would I do that?" Now it was his turn to yell at me, seeming so outraged by my accusations, his gaze holding mine so fiercely.

"I-I...You...Well, you came on to me at that bar and I thought that..."

"What? That I'd freaking abduct and rape you like the fucking "psycho" I am?
Well take a second guess, princess. Not everything revolves around you, so get your butt off that freaking high horse!"

My mouth simply closed as I sat there, speechless, my mind now a blank space as I didn't know what to think anymore.

"So...What, umm...W-why are we here?" I lightly stuttered as I tried to form a coherent sentence, blinking a few times as I curiously stared back at him, quickly noticing how his broad shoulders sagged, momentarily gazing at the ground before those clear sky eyes once again found mine, an unknown emotion swirling inside of them as he finally answered,
"I don't know...All I remember is that I was still at that damned bar after you left, having one too many drinks and being constantly pestered by those assholes, until I've finally snapped and started one hell of a fight. What happened after...that I really have no clue about.
All I know is that I've found myself here, in this stupid park or whatever the hell this is, having no one else around, not even a freaking living being. Until you came around."

Complete silence followed after his short "story", casually noticing his very similar attire as I took a glance over him, still failing to find a logical explanation for our current situation.

"Are we...Is this a dream? No, this is a dream. It has to be," I nodded to myself  in approval like a mentally ill person, forcing to convince myself since I couldn't find any other plausible options.

"Or we could be dead," He so nonchalantly suggested, my eyes instantly widening as I escaped a small gasp, staring at him like at a nutjob, intending to scold him for even daring to say such thing when he suddenly asked,
"What is the last thing you remember?"

My brows quickly furrowed as I've concentrated to remember, those horrible moments once again coming back to me as I quickly answered,
"Well I got really upset after what you did to me, obviously," I momentarily paused to give him an angered glare,
"So I ran outside and hopped on my bike, and then..." The words never came out my lips as I suddenly remembered that loud honking and blinding lights, followed by nothing...

Nothing but complete darkness...

"Oh my god!"

My entire body suddenly started to violently tremble, feeling so weak that I couldn't even support my upper body anymore, my fingers burying themselves in the short grass as I struggled to hold myself still, small sobs making their way past my lips at the so sudden and horrifying realization, drop after drop falling in between the green specks, swallowed by the greedy dirt.

"Oh my god, no!"

My voice shook with each word, further exposing my current inner state, once again feeling those warm arms surround me as I let my tears fall, desperately clinging against him as I refused to believe.

"No, this is not...No! It can't be true! No! We are not-NO!"

I violently struggled against him a few more times, straining myself to let air past my seemingly closed-off throat, my consciousness once again quickly losing the battle, brutally tormented by the so vile reality.

"No..."

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