Chapte Nineteen

"What the hell do you mean she just fainted?"

The voices around me had been becoming clearer as I stirred awake. My head pounded, and it sounded like they were whisper shouting angrily.

"I mean she just fainted, Fabian. She was fine one minute and then-"

"I swear to God if you did something to her water I'll f**k you up." I could recognize this voice as Fabian’s. I could literally hear the venom dripping from his voice.

"I gave her bottled water, genius. And why would I hurt the one f**king human being who can stabilize your f**ked up mind?”

This was getting too much. I shuffled a little as I tried to move, but the pounding in my head had me in place. I blinked my eyes open, and I could see that I was in a huge white room.

At the corner, Chad stood in front of Fabian, but Fabian had his back turned to me.

It actually became real. He’s here.

I’ve missed him.

“Fabi-“ I tried to call but I coughed instead. Luckily, this caught his attention and he quickly whipped his head in my direction.

“She’s awake,” he mumbled eagerly as he dashed towards me. I managed to sit up a little better in the extremely comfortable bed.

I actually got a chance to gaze around a bit, and I saw that it was Fabian’s room. I knew from all the pictures and videos he sent me.

The bed dipped, telling me that someone sat beside me, and my heart fluttered in my chest when I came eye to eye with him, sitting in front of me with a small frown on his lips.

I bravely reached out and rubbed the creases from his forehead before trailing my hand down his cheek to cup it. I didn’t want to see him frown.

“Hey,” I mumbled in a croaky voice with a smile, and I could see Chad waiting at the door with a ‘I told him so’ look on his face. The sight almost had me laughing if my head wasn’t pounding so much.

“Sshhh.” He brought a glass of water to my lips so that I could drink.

I greedily gulped it down before continuing my greeting. “Hey, I missed you,” I told him honestly, but he didn’t look too concerned about that.

“I miss you too, Paris. Trust me, I did.”

“He did,” Chad shouted from the doorway, and one glare from Fabian had him retreating with his hands lifted in surrender and a smirk on his face.

“But you fainted, Paris. Can we talk about that?”

I fainted? Well, that explains the headache.

I could see the worry on his face. And from what I overheard just now when I woke up, he thought Chad did something.

I sighed. “It’s not a big deal Fabian. It’s something that used to happen.”

“Used to happen? Is that why you seem so nonchalant about it? Does this happen a lot?” he asked with furrowed brows.

“Probably a couple months ago, but they stopped.”

“Why did it come back?”

Why did it actually? Well when I went to the doctor a couple months ago, I was low on iron which explained it.

I stopped taking my iron tablets about two weeks ago, and I haven’t been eating much since…

Well that just about sums it up.

Plus, the sudden level of stress when I started thinking about my family and what might happen soon… it might’ve just about sent me in a panic attack.

I explained this to Fabian, leaving out the part about my family. When I was done, he did not look pleased.

“You haven’t been eating? Why not?”

I groaned, feeling flustered. I also felt like I was being scolded.

“It wasn’t something I did on purpose. I guess I haven’t had an appetite lately after you left.” I held my head down as I mumbled the last part.

I heard him sighing, before he shuffled all the way on the bed beside me and pulled me into his lap. I immediately adjusted and rested my head on his shoulder. Just like old times.

He rubbed the back of my head like a baby before he started talking again. “Paris, you know I didn’t want to, right? “

“But you did,” I said, suddenly feeling defensive. “You haven’t even returned my texts or calls.”

His chest rose and fell in a sigh again. “I-I didn’t…” I could tell he was having a hard time talking, so I asked the question that has been on my mind since forever.

“What did Colton say?” I asked, immediately making him tense. He didn’t say anything for a while, and when I lifted my head, I could see that he was deep in thought. “Fabian? What did he say?”

“You’ll never look at me the same,” he mumbled with his head down. What was he talking about?

I held onto his cheek and tightened my grip around him. Now I understand clearly. So Colton did find something on him, and he used it against Fabian. I bet he said something like ‘she’s better off without you’.

I couldn’t believe it.

“You know that our past is our past right? And you know that I won't ever, ever push you away for something that you are obviously not proud of. We’re humans, Fabian. We do shit sometimes that holds us accountable but we can move away from it.”

“You don’t know that, Paris.”

“I do know.” This came out sternly. I hated that he thought I would leave him. “It's me. You can trust me. Please trust me.”

“But-“

“Whatever Colton said is a lie. Colton obviously doesn’t know me that well if he thought this was best for me. You are the best for me Fabian. I know that now.”

He gazed at me in complete awe before pulling me into a hug. He placed a kiss to the base of my neck before meeting my eyes again.

“Okay,” he mumbled in defeat. “But first, I need you to eat something. That’s my only condition.”

“Well let’s go then.” I eagerly jumped from his lap and the bed, but I started staggering immediately. Luckily, Fabian caught me.

He chuckled a little before holding me in his arms, where I felt safe, and happy.

Why would Colton try to take this away from me?

Maybe he really is jealous. Well, too bad. Because one glance at the dark-haired boy holding me, and I knew that he completely lost his chance.

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Hey Guys! Please read:

I know, I know it has been over a week since I updated! :(

If you were a waiting reader, I apologize.

You see, as we all know, we are recovering from a pandemic (somewhat).

Where i live, we had curfews, which reduced the hours of work greatly.

Well, the leaders have lifted the curfews, so my day job is back to a FULL day! Ugh (sobs). I am adjusting, and the new hours have made me fall back on sleep and stuff. So now that I've gotten a feel of real life again (lol), I will try and squeeze writing in my scheddule because I am literally so miserable if I dont write.

Well, this chapter was short, but thank you all for reading! See you again soon <3