'Lisa are you out of your mind?!' Sam said as they reached the parking lot.
Lisa looked down in embarrassment and guilt for what she did earlier. Sam kept his hands on his waist and sighed cause he wasn't able to tell yet Lisa much.
'Okay fine, don't make that face I won't yell at you.' He said.
'Really?!' Lisa said in a small voice still looking down.
'Hmm.' Sam replied and nodded his head slightly.
Instantly, at his reply, Lisa looked up at him and a small smile formed ok her cherry red lips.
'But first, tell me why did you do that?' Sam was frustrated and it could be seen on his face.
'But you saw already how they were making fun of you!' Lisa started to say in a high voice but gradually after looking at Sam's expressions her voice went low.
'Why did it mattered even?' Sam said.
'But I can't stand you know th-'
'Shh!' He exclaimed angrily while his brows got knotted in between on his forehead.
'What they think doesn't matter to me, what you and my friends think matters the most to me.' Sam said and as he kept his hands n her shoulder.
'Whatever they might say or think, my status of mind is settled about how am I.'
'You understand that.' He looked into her eyes as he bent a bit.
Lisa nodded lightly and he let her go. Sam turned around and said,
'Come, I'll take you home, I have to take Sarah too.' And he walked towards his car.
'Sam!' Lisa called him out and he looked at her. Her voice echoed in the parking.
'Sorry about what I did to you.' She said.
'What you did?' He asked.
'About that ki...kiss.' she was quite embarrassed to even mention it.
Sam sighed and said,
'Forget about it.' He said and started to walk again.
Lisa looked at him as he kept walking, a smile appearing gradually on her face but she got startled as Sam said,
'Hurry up!'
'Hmm?..Oh!...Yeah! Coming.' She said and ran toward his car.
****
Here Niall, feeling suffocated was about to leave the hall in which the death anniversary was being celebrated. He went down the hall and was about to sit in his car when someone from behind said,
'Aunt Merylin did nothing wrong, Niall.'
Niall turned around and saw Drake standing on the last stair of the entrance gate. He looked at him rolled his eyes and started to sit again,
'No matter how much you run this is the truth.' Drake continued.
As Drake mentioned the word run Niall lost his temper.
BANG!!
He closed the door if his car and went towards him. Drake also walked towards Niall. They both finally stopped as they stood close enough to glare at each other.
'What do you want now?' Niall asked in a monotonous voice.
'You shouldn't have said that to dad he doesn't deserve to be treated like th-'
'Now you'll teach me how should I treat my own father and how not!' Niall yelled at him.
'Niall I'm just saying telling you the tru-'
'Shut up! You slave!'
'I don't need to know your point of view, it's my life let me live it.'
Niall wasn't in a mood of listening anything he turned back to leave when finally Drake yelled,
'You should know my point of view Niall!'
Niall stopped without showing any great expressions.
'Aunt Merylin wasn't selfish, she wasn't even cynical.'
'She loved you more than anyone else, Niall.' Gradually Drake's voice getting low.
Niall rolled his eyes and turned his head towards him,
'And why should I believe you?' He questioned roughly.
'Because it was me and my mom because of whom she had to leave.' A tear rolled down up to his cheek
'Because of us, she had to sacrifice her son and her husband.'
When Niall heard this he eventually turned towards Drake and looked at him with his brows furrowed. It was something which Niall never heard if of. And thinking about it he instantly spoke up,
'Because of you?'
Drake nodded feeling guilty once again,
'It all started twenty years ago...'
Drake told Niall all the elements he knew related to their past, how the rumours said that Johnathan had an affair and how they were brought home. But two things he didn't tell him was, the promise he made to Merylin and how Flora dragged Merylin from her hair that night as Drake knew that Niall only trusted Flora the most among all his family members.
Niall's eyes were flooded, it was his second time crying in all these years when he tried being all stone-hearted. He never knew that his mother was someone who loved him.
Drake patted his shoulder and said,
'I know what you're thinking but...'
Suddenly Niall jerked Drake's hand aside and yelled,
'You ruined my mom's life!' Hos eyes gave up and tears escaped one by one from his eyes.
'Niall-'
'And I thought she left me.' Niall said and his voice broke in between.
He sat in his car and drove on a high speed leaving Drake alone. Drake squat down where he was standing as he felt the most guilty out of all. No matter how hard he tries, but now in this life, he can't get rid of the truth that his birth ruined many lives.
Here Niall drove to reach an unknown destination as he kept wiping the flow of his tears. Some memories now flashed in his mind...
'Mom...will..da..dad leave..us?' Niall questioned while his voice broke down in between.
He finally remembered how Merylin hugged and replied,
'No honey, who said so?'
'My friends...they..te.tease m..me mom. Will..dad leave us?' Niall said as he hugged Merylin back.
He remembered how his mother sat on the floor bending her knees and wiped out all his tears from his chubby cheeks and then held his small hands to pacify his scared heart,
'No one will leave you, my son. Don't you worry, mamma will be always there to protect you.'
He remembered how his mother gave her a warm smile, but he still, wasn't able to remember her whole face which made him even crazier.
He drove to Carter's mansion where his parents live and barged into every room just find any photo of his dead mother.
He finally found one in Flora's room, picking it up he left towards his house ignoring the maids and guards. Niall's rage was at his high, he had guilt and remorse. As he reached his home he sat down on the floor near the sofa in the hall.
He looked at the photo of his mother carefully just to find out that he has seen this face earlier too.
'You're not dead, are you?' He questioned the photo while whispering as he drank a whole bottle of wine in one breath which was kept on his centre table.
No one knew, not even Drake that Niall might be affected this much from this tale which was never told to him...