Niall was attending his family functions after so many decades and of course, he was missing Sarah. He stood in a corner away from everyone and sighed thinking about how he made her yell at him. He never thought about how she suffering through so many hardships just because of him.
He was holding a glass of wine but he hasn't even tasted it.
'Is everything fine?' Johnathan asked.
He stood beside Niall keeping his one hand in his pocket while the other holding a glass of wine.
'Hm?' Niall asked as he suddenly got out of his thoughts. He looked at his father while his father looked in front into the void.
'You look down these days, is something....bugging you?' He asked further.
Niall thought for a while and Johnathan spoke again,
'Your eyes seem red and why are these dark circles below your eyes, is there something wrong in the company?'
Niall shook his head lightly and said,
'Nothing much just...too much of work.' He replied in a cold voice.
'If you...don't wanna marry Carla you can step back. As a father, I won't pressurise you at all.' John said and looked at him.
'I can't bear to see your face in this state.' He said further.
'Why are you so interested in me all of sudden when....when you kept me away from yourself when I needed you the most.'
'Is Drake busy somewhere?' Niall taunted him and started to walk away.
'After Merylin died...' He took a pause and Niall instantly stopped at his place but didn't turn around.
'I had a hard time to cope up with my daily life. I kept everyone away from me cause I was in guilt, in...in agony.'
'The woman whom I once loved the most, I never thought that she'll die one day without even meeting me.'
'But now when I think about it...' He took a deep breath.
'I feel I did wrong to you.'
'You were alone too and you needed me the most.'
'Now when I look at you and see how cold you are towards me I don't feel any anger for you.'
'Cause...cause I know it's my fault. Even Merylin wouldn't have wanted me to keep you away from me.'
'I did the wrong, son. And I feel that Meryli-'
'Stop it, dad!' Niall yelled at him gaining the attention of some guests.
He went towards John and whispered in his ear,
'That woman was selfish and cynical and mind me, you're no different.'
And this time without listening further Niall went away from his father. While his father stood in the corner looking at his son who was going far away from him every second. His eyes went a bit wet but he had to hide his tears from others cause he was Johnathan Edward Carter, the roughest one among in his family. But deep down he was hurt by his son's words, he had never thought that his one wrong decision could ruin so many lives.
****
Here Lisa was still struggling in proving Mel wrong but as soon as she framed Jeremy she got even more furious.
'Shut up Mel! Jeremy and Sam, they both are innocent.' Lisa shouted at her.
'Let's go.' They were about to leave again when Lisa heard a whisper.
'Nice, they are trying too hard to hide his secret.'
'Yeah, and they think we'll believe them.' And they both chuckled.
'Why?' Lisa went to them and said politely.
'Why can't you believe, uh!?' She asked being furious.
'He never even had a girlfriend.'
'Why are we even talking about this, Lisa. Let's just leave.' Sam said and pulled her arm.
Lisa jerked his grip and said,
'No!'
'I want to clear all this mess, wait!' She said.
No one had seen Lisa this much furious. She was panting due to so much of anger as she glared at those two girls gossiping.
'I want to clear all this mess before it becomes a rumour or worse than that.' Lisa continued.
'And about girlfriends, how do you know he doesn't have?' Lisa continued stressing the words do and you.
'Then...you mean he has.' someone from the people standing there asked.
'Y-yes.' Lisa said.
'Lisa enough let's go.'
'Then show us!' Someone said and everyone followed his lead.
'Yeah show us!' Everyone said in chorus.
'Lisa let's leave, you're making it even worse.' Sarah whispered.
'I knew they're lying, why make it a big fuss. It's fine we already have a variety of people in our company we should have one more.' Another guy said and the people surrounding him laughed.
'If I leave today, they will make it worse.' Lisa whispered back to Sarah.
Sarah knew that Sam meant too much to Lisa, she has seen in the past one month how deep their friendship is so, Sarah let Lisa go and do what she wanted.
'So, you all want to meet his girlfriend.' She asked.
'Well, if he has then we won't mind.' Mel said.
'Okay then.' Lisa took in a deep breath
'I am his girlfriend.' She proclaimed and everyone gasped.
'What the hell are you saying Lisa?' Sam whispered to her.
'As if we don't know the truth that you're the one who takes him on different blind dates. And now you're saying you're in a relationship with him, you think we're stupid?'
Everyone knew that the girl who said this was Mel's friend so...it was obvious that she might know everything about Sam.
'Lisa, it's going too far, let it be.' Finally, Ray broke his silence as he can't see anymore Lisa creating a scene.
'Yeah please take her with you.' Sam said.
'Let's leave I can't bear this bulsh*it anymore.' a guy said and started to leave with his friend.
'You think it's rubbish!' Lisa yelled again.
'What should I do to make you believe?'
'Whatever you do, we won't believe you.' Mel said and started to leave with her friend.
'No, I'll make you believe!'
Lisa said and she leaned towards Sam and kissed him.
Everyone standing there or were about to leave looked at Lisa, while Sarah, Emma, Cally and Sam's eyes went wide. On the other hand, Anna looked at Ray, his face was bitter and he clenched his fists.
As soon as Lisa stood away guilt could be seen in her eyes for what she did but Sam went furious. He grasped her wrist and said,
'Come with me.'
And they left the apartment.
Sarah and Cally followed them while Anna stood beside Ray who was quiet all this time and it wasn't a nice thing...