I Swear It All Over Again (Book 1)

Chapter 5

~~ Annabel~~

I felt myself run into something and hit my head on the object. I slipped on a small amount of water that was covering the sidewalks. I close my eyes and braced myself for the hard hit on the pavement, but that never happened when I felt arms quickly wrap around me.

A squeal escapes my lips as my feet gave out on me, causing the arms around me to grip, harder. My breathing hitched as I opened my eyes, slowly and my eyes instantly meet with chocolate brown eyes. I couldn't help but stare at his dirty blonde hair as the wind blew past us, his hair swishing in front of his forehead. He had a grin that made my heart melt with desire, and without warning he lifts me up and off the ground, setting me aside from the water.

"I-I-I'm so sorry." My cheeks instantly flush and I smile sheepishly as he lets out a deep chuckle. I force myself to slowly walk away, backwards watching him look back up at me. Unexpectedly the back of my shoe hits part of the sidewalk that was deformed and I swing my arms around, getting my balance as my other foot lands on the curb.

"You just love tripping and falling don't you?" He grins as my jaw drops and I shake my head.

  "No I'm just in a rush to get back home." I point out as I stand on the curb and held onto a tree branch next to me. "And for your information I am actually really good at not tripping and falling." He lifts up an eye brow, titling his head to the side.

 "My names Henry Hart."

 "Annabel." He puts his hand out for me to shake and when we let go, our eyes meet each others. Everything around us was nothing as his chocolate brown eyes, stared passionately into mine and for a brief second.

 We were one.

 "I-I got to go," now he's the one stumbling over his words, "I'll see you around." Henry quickly turns around and I watch as he enters a store called Junk N Stuff.

 ~~Henry~~

I walked up to Rays desk and noticed that he was asleep holding a picture frame with a little girl in the frame. She had short brown hair, blue eyes, wearing a short pink dress that flowed in the wind, grinning up at the camera. "Ray?" I whispered, watching his thumb moved up to the girls face as his eyes slowly opened.

"Henry what are you doing here?" Ray asked while yawning when he noticed that I was staring at the picture, he put it behind his back.

"Ray are you okay?" I asked and he nodded wiping his tear away. "Who was that in the picture?" I asked sitting on the desk making sure not to hit any buttons.

"Henry I don't want to talk about it." He said loudly about to cry again but he held them back.

"Ray you've been there for me and now I'm here for you I'm all ears." He pulled out the picture again, taking a long look at her. I saw a tear escape from his eye then another, and when he finally looked up his eyes were red. He met my gaze as he sighed, and finally spoke.

"She's. . .my daughter."

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