Forever Mine

Chapter Eleven

Sara.

After all the tears have dried from realizing Hadin is gone. I gather myself up on the floor of his penthouse living room. The letter is still in my hands. How could he do this to me? He didn't even say goodbye. He left me stranded in Bangor waiting for him. I grab my phone and call his number knowing it will be disconnected when I do.

"You've reached Hadin. Leave a message." His voicemail states.

"Hey." I cry. "How could you do this to me? How could you leave me like this? With a damn dear john note." I sniffle. "I loved you Hadin and I thought we were working things out and you just leave on me." I cry. Tears are pouring down my face. There is no stopping them not for a while. "I hate you. How could you go and leave me all alone?" I cry as I throw my phone across the penthouse floor. The pain is too much for me to take I fall to my knees running my hands through my hair when the elevator door opens. I turn quickly as I stand on my feet, maybe that's Hadin. "Hadin?!" I scream. When the man that exits the elevator isn't Hadin, it's Erick. "Erick?" I question my eyes.

"I didn't feel right. I followed you here. I was worried." Erick tells me. "Where's Hadin?" he asks me. I shake my head tears continue to fall from my blue eyes.

"He's gone. He's gone." I repeat. Erick walks over to me as I lose it again and hugs me letting me fall onto the floor. Erick falls right beside me. I cry and cry my hardest as his arms hold me and his hand lies over the back of my head.

"Sh," Erick whispers to me. "It's going to be okay." He tells me. He continues to repeat the same things to me. I don't know how much time has gone by but enough time that the crying has stopped and I have gone into darkness, Everything is dark.

Day 1.

I wake up in a bedroom I don't recognize. I sit right up knowing that I'm not in my apartment or Hadin's penthouse. Where am I? I hear music coming from the other room. I look down to see that I am in a large maroon shirt and leggings. I walk out of the bedroom and down the long hallway to see Erick is standing in the kitchen in nothing but red shorts, he's cooking pancakes. I watch as he raps to the Machine Gun Kelly. I can't help but smile. Once the song ends I start clapping and his head turns toward me. He smiles and throws his head back in embarrassment.

"Since when are you a rapper?" I joke.

"It's a hidden talent." He jokes back as he places another pancake on the mountain of pancakes on the bar.

"So, I'm assuming this is your place?" I ask him.

"Yeah. Sorry I didn't want to leave you alone after how I found you last night." He tells me.

"You don't have to be sorry. Thank you. This was very thoughtful." I take a breath as he looks at me.

"What's wrong?" He asks me.

"It's just weird I was in my boss's bed. We didn't do anything right?" I ask him and he laughs.

"No. I grabbed some clothes from that penthouse you were in for you to change into and I left you in my room with the clothes. I slept in the living room." He points over to the couch. I look back to see pillows and blankets on the couch folded up neatly. "And for the in my boss's bed thing. I'm also a friend that cares about you Sara. I didn't want you alone to do something you'd regret." He told me.

"Well anyway thank you." I smile at him.

"Well I made a lot of pancakes." He gestures to the plate. "Dig in." He tells me. I grab a plate from the table and put some pancakes on it. He laughs and sits across from me.

~

As I sit in my office looking at my computer screen full of emails and manuscripts that need to be read. My mind is blank. I can't think. All I can do is replay the last time I saw and talked to Hadin. What changed? Why did he up and leave suddenly? I still feel his lips on mine, the thought of his warm body on mine makes my eyes fill up with tears again. I can't go back to his penthouse, I can't go back to Ashlynn's. I need a break from everything that includes Hadin James. Maybe I'll move up here earlier then expected. I pull up a google chrome browser on my computer and search for Apartments for rent in Bangor Maine. As I research apartments, I find one that looks amazing. It's an open concept at 35 Husson Ave, only 15 minutes away from the office and an hour and fifteen minutes from campus. I can make that work. I look up to see Erick knocking on my door.