After planning everything Liam headed to the bed of course after eyeing Scarlett and confirming that she was fine. He decided not to disturb her more and let her be lonely for some time. Further, he even thought that she needed space and time to accept everything and most importantly accept him.
Scarlett on the other hand had come out of her little sad and crying moment. She was not thinking straight, she had just thought that no one needs her and she is useless. But she didn't know that though no one needed her she was the one who needed herself the most. And then there was Liam who needed her, besides having wealthy parents and all luxuries he still was lonely because no one ever loved him except for Scarlett, who cared for him, taught him the definition of love and being together with someone but now she was trying to be distant. What games were destiny playing with them that they couldn't even be happy despite being together under the same roof...
Scarlett came back into the room after wiping her tears and composing herself. Liam was actually asleep this time. She knew that sleeping on the couch would actually make Liam angry, but now again she thought what if he didn't like that she slept with him, what if he didn't like sharing his bed. She very well knew that Liam had never shared anything with anyone, he was always alone. Though the fact that he could have made some girlfriends or maybe any one-night stands could have ended in his bed.
She remembered how the village girls told her that rich men in the city had sugar babies who could satisfy their needs. At first, she didn't know what all this meant but as time passed by she started understanding. Her innocent self finally was exposed to the dark and not-so-sweet side of the world. Now this information was making sense.
So, what should she do...
Should she sleep on the bed or couch? She gave another thought and then proceeded to sleep on the couch.
Next day when Liam woke up the first thing he did was glance at his right side expecting a small figure sleeping there. But no that figure wasn't there. Then where was it? He glanced in the room carefully. Oh yeah found that figure. It's sleeping on the couch. But wait why on the couch why not on the bed. He thought to himself.
Was she scared to sleep near me? Do I have thorns on my body? Or wait yes she was uncomfortable because I am a boy and she is a girl.
So now it was clear why she chose to sleep on the couch. He approached her sleeping figure.
A very bright and thin ray of sunlight was filling the room with warmth. It was enough for Liam to examine Scarlett's facial features. Her big eyes were now closed with long eyelashes and a pointed nose with a square-shaped face and thin pink lips.
"She still looks innocent", he muttered to himself. He was about to raise his hand to touch her soft cheek but then Scarlett moved in her sleep and her eyes flutter open. She quickly jolted and rose up feeling a presence near her. She looked up and then found Liam staring at her.
"Good morning", he said in his morning raspy voice. Scarlett suddenly felt some electric shiver inside her hearing that voice of his, Omaygawd what was he doing...Just his voice could flutter her and here she was planning to be distant. It would be extremely difficult for her.
"I said good morning Scarlett", this time Liam said specifying her name and she came out of her thoughts.
She looked at him and then gave a forced smile which of course didn't reach her eyes...
The boy felt bad about receiving a fake smile, but never mind he composed and continued to carry out his plan.
Today Liam was extremely soft with Scarlett. He didn't go to work and decided to spend some sweet time with his wife. But seemed like his wife was not at all interested in him or she was pretending not to be interested. Whether she worked in the kitchen or wrote her diary and read a book Liam followed her steps and kept his eyes on her. He was looking like a baby who would not leave his mother's side.
Scarlett was nearly pissed off by the end of the day, but she kept her hold and acted stonily. In the evening Liam decided to take Scarlett out for dinner, Scarlett agreed and got well dressed. Liam noticed how her shelf only had few clothes which looked worn out, in fact, the clothes she wore looked old and used severely. He remembered how once he went on a shopping spree with her and bought her clothes and all the necessities. He decided to do it again, it won't harm, right? Plus she will be happy after getting everything she needs.
The next two hours were spent buying everything Scarlett needed. From her hair clip to shoes everything was bought. Liam kept on spending his money on every little piece of need girl's wanted. Despite receiving a lot of no's from Scarlett. After having dinner in a fancy restaurant they headed back to their house.
Liam expected that today she will be merry and have some mood change but to his surprise, she didn't show any emotions the same old sad and pendulous face.
Why? Didn't he do what every girl liked? Yes, he did then what?
He felt that his first attempt had drastically failed. Now he wanted to carry the second attempt to win her.
That night Scarlett had a dream wherein she saw an old man with a white beard, that old man looked familiar. He was sitting on a cloud. He dropped something on the ground and flew away. Scarlett went and picked the thing he dropped. It was a tiny paper scroll with something written on it. She read it carefully, It was written...
*the one who gives will get what he desires*
Her vision became blurry before she could process anything and she woke up from her dream. She was in her and Liam's room sleeping on the bed. She pondered through her thoughts and those lines pictured themselves in front of her. And that man, yes he was the same man who took her away to the north where she got adopted by that old couple. Was he again here to take her somewhere? No, she won't go anywhere now, she thought to herself. No more people should suffer because of her. Not again...
But she was adamant to know the meaning of those lines. Her dreams were no joke, she knew that. The fact that she somewhere knew she and Liam were connected was true. This was no coincidence that she would meet Liam again and get married after being separated for so long. She looked at her thread, oh yeah this thread is the reason for all this. So she should remove it she thought, but she can't. Because then she would end up forgetting everything and become the old weak and fearful Scarlett.
The moon shone bright with its white light entering the room. Scarlett glanced at her side and saw a peaceful Liam softly snoring. Wait!! What am I doing on the bed? How did I land here? She thought maybe Liam brought her here. She got up to leave but then an unknown force pulled her back. She looked back only to find that her right hand was tied with Liam's left hand. Who did this? She thought. It was Liam who had brought her to the bed and tied their hands so she cannot escape. What a brilliant idea Liam. Now she had no other option than to sleep beside him.