Chapt. 32

Ella's PoV

I smiled nervously.

"Hello. I'm Elena, the owner of this restaurant. Can I help you?" I ask formally.

Why do these faces look so familiar?

"Happy birthday to Ella!"

"We love you so much."

"Congratulations, Ella! You did it!"

I suddenly felt so dizzy.

What is happening to me?

"Excuse me for a moment." I excuse myself and stumble out.

I felt so dizzy. My legs felt so weak. I gave in but a pair of arms grabbed my waist and caught me before I could fall.

I tried blinking my eyes a lot but my vision is still blurred and my hearing became fuzzy.

I looked up at the person holding me. He's lips were moving and he looked at me concerned.

"Ella? Ella? Can you hear me?"

"Shh. Calm down. Open your eyes. Listen to my voice."

I obeyed him and after a while my hearing and vision was back to normal.

"I'm so sorry for the inconvenience." I looked down ashamed. I could feel his burning gaze on me. The guy from the office. What was he doing here again?

"It's okay." He says softly.

"How do you know me? Do I know you?" I asked bluntly. Oops, I hope I wasn't too harsh.

"You don't know me?" He asks hurt flashed over his God-like face.

"Am I supposed to know you?" I asked even more bluntly this time.

He chuckles. Holy shit he sounds like a sex God.

"Never mind."

"Ella?!" I hear Ashton's voice call out.

"Stop shouting I'm not freaking deaf." I say to my dumbass brother.

"Oh thank God you're okay." He says and hugs me. I just stand there awkwardly and pat his back.

"There, there." I say awkwardly.

I hear the guy's chuckle and it's addicting. I think it was Damon? Darien? Luke? Ugh whatever I give up.

"What the hell happened to you?! You haven't answered my calls or messages!" He grips my shoulders.

"Wait a second. You knew she was alive?!" The guy...Damien! Yeah that's his name, Damien shouted.

"Err, guys, please lower down your voices or I'm gonna have to ask you to take this somewhere else." I say. "You know what? Just take this somewhere else, probably where there aren't a lot of people watching this scene unfold like a movie." I say motioning towards the crowd looking at us.

"Fine. Let's go to my hotel room." That Damien guy says and walks away.

"Ella, please, please, please call or text me later. You better not be on those eating habits like before." He says in a warning tone.

I gulped and swallowed all the guilt flowing through me.

"Of course." I say with a fake smile.

"Catch you later." He waves and catches up with Damien.

I sighed and apologised to the customers for the inconvenience.

I walked to the kitchen to take a minute but a lady whom I recognised from earlier stops me.

"Hello dear, I think we'll just end this event here. Thank you for everything and sorry for earlier." She says kindly.

"Oh it's nothing. You don't have to apologise." I say.

She smiles and walks away before thanking me.

I walked to the staff room and took my stuff.

I left and started walking to my condo.

I went up the elevator and it went up so freaking slow.

Finally, after what seemed like an hour, the elevator doors open and I walk to my couch.

I literally melt into the couch and somehow fell asleep.

Damien's PoV

"You knew she was alive?!" I yelled at my so called bestfriend.

"Well, kinda?" He answered nervously.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'KINDA'??!!" I yelled louder this time.

"Woah, take a chill pill dude." He day like nothing's wrong.

I sighed.

"What's going on?" I sighed in defeat.

"I'm not sure if I should tell you..." He trails off.

"You should." I say.

"You might wanna sit down."

I obeyed and motioned him to continue.

"Well, about 4 years ago, there was teenage girl named El-" I cut him off.

"Cut that shit. Just tell me." I say.

"Whatever. Just let me tell." He says and I roll my eyes. "4 years ago, there was a girl named Ella. She had cancer..."

After he said that last sentence I couldn't hear anything.

Ella has cancer?

Why didn't she tell me?

What have I done?

"Helloooo? Damiennnnnn?" Ashton waves his hand in front of my face.

I shook my head. "Continue."

"She didn't want to tell you because she was scared. She didn't want you to be heartbroken if she died. She wanted you to hate her so you could move on. She never cheated on you with Ryan. Well, she never meant to. She told me he might've drugged her and taken advantage of her. You were nowhere to be found. She wanted to make you hate her. That was the easiest way. She lost her memory after the surgery. Somehow she doesn't remember anyone but me and my mum and dad." He finishes.

I was trying to take everything in.

Ella never cheated on me?

She had cancer?

I broke her heart?

"I never hated her." I whispered with the smallest voice that even I barely caught it.

"What was that?" He asks.

"Nothing. I need some rest. I'll see you tomorrow.

"Okay, man. See you tomorrow or whenever." He said and left.

I sighed and leaned my head on the couch.

"What should I do?" I whispered to myself and drifted away into a world full of darkness, which is a poetic way of saying falling asleep.

-•-

The next morning I woke up with a stiff neck. I guess it wasn't such a good idea to sleep on the couch.

I thought about Ella and just how much I miss her.

I want to hold her in my arms again. I want to feel her fingers tangled up in my hair again. I want to feel her soft lips on mine again. I want her to love me again.

Fuck! Why did she have to lose her memories?! Our beautiful memories! Why?! Fuck, I wish she could remember! Remember me! Remember us...

What if, I could jog up her memory a little and she would remember everything again?

I jolt up from the bed and stood up.

"We could finally be reunited again and I won't have to be a lonely depressed guy anymore!" I jumped in excitement. "And the bestest thing is I'm finally able to be with my one and only princess, my one and only baby."

"I love you, Ella. And I know you're not here and I'm talking to myself but I'm coming for you."

-•-

A/n: okay I'm sleepy and lazy asf so sorry if it sucks and sorry for the late updates. I've been saying sorry so many times nowadays. I feel like all I do is say sorry. Lol.

Btw I love you guys soooooooooo I love you guys so much. I love your support and I just become motivated when I read your amazing comments. So thank you. It feels like someone doesn't want me dead out there soooo yeah I'm being stupid bye?