"You don't worry, we will deal with it", Liam assured someone on the call and then proceeded to eat his breakfast. Scarlett was lost in her own thoughts...Those lines from her dream were still afresh and she definitely knew they had meaning. But what can it be...Why does she feel suspicious of something really bad is gonna happen...
She was dealing with her thoughts when the doorbell brought her out of her thoughts.
She went to open the door only to be met by a cheerful Sam and Mia at her doorstep...
"SCARLETT..", Mia squealed and embraced her in a bone-crushing hug and the same was for Sam. Behind Mia Scarlett noticed two pairs of big eyes and little hands clutching Mia's leg tightly...
Scarlett looked at the kid and bent down to her...She forwarded her hand for a handshake to which the kid hid behind his mother more...
"Danny baby shake hands with Scarlett", the boy forwarded his hand to shake hands with her... Scarlett smiled at him and adored the boy.
As soon as Scarlett's hand touched the little boy's both of them felt a sudden jerk in their bodies...The little boy immediately snapped his hand away and looked at Scarlett scared, Scarlett was utterly confused too...
She had never felt this jolt before, not with anyone else but why this boy...
They were all inside the house seated on the sofa, while Danny was dangling his little legs to and fro. Liam's eyes stuck on his foot and he saw a red thread was tied in his foot...Wait!!
The same thread which Scarlett and Liam wear on their wrists. Then he ignored his thoughts thinking *Maybe it's an ordinary thread*...
"Uncle Liam", the kid approached Liam and sat near him...
"It feels that I have met you before", he says innocently...
"Oh really Baby", Liam adorably admires the cute boy and pinches his cheek...But as soon as his hand made contact with the boy's cheek his body jolted, he felt the same as Scarlett.
He was unaware of the fact that Scarlett had also felt the same towards this little boy. Something was really fishy but what could it be?..
They had no clues...
"Liam you finally found your Scarlett", Mia said proudly.
"We already knew you two are made for each other, isn't it Scarlett?" Sam added...
Liam and Scarlett smiled on their constant teasings and Scarlett proceeded to serve breakfast to everyone.
Today Scarlett looked happy, because after a really long time she met Mia and Sam who were close to her, and belonged to the list of very few people who didn't look down upon her disability...She talked to Mia for a really long time. Mia taught her the ups and downs and the not-so-serious fights in a marriage and how it can be worked out. Danny being a sweet and nice kid liked Scarlett a lot and was sticking to her all the time. He even whined to Scarlett and asked her to feed him.
Liam looked with red jealous eyes towards him. He eyed Scarlett and the kid from time to time throwing daggers at them.
*How could she even agree to feed this kid and this kid how dare he asks her to do such jobs. It is only me whom Scarlett can feed food and no one else.* He thought and puffed his mouth...
TIME SKIP
"Scarlett gf", the boy called to which Liam's eyes widened...
*This little boy has the audacity to call my wife his gf, I will not leave him*, he banged his hand on the table...
Scarlett and others looked at him in surprise.
"Are you alright Liam?" asked Sam.
"Yeah" Liam answered and then stormed from there furiously...
"Gf I want to paint. Do you have colors and paper?" Danny said cutely.
Scarlett smiled and gestured for him to follow her. Both of them went to a room where Scarlett handed him some crayons and plain papers from Liam's office sheets. Danny happily started sketching.
After about an hour when he was done with his masterpiece he came to show it to everyone.
"Wow our boy is so creative", Mia and Sam praised the boy's creativity...
Then he approached Scarlett and Liam who were sitting on another side of the sofa...
"Uncle and Gf, see I made this" he forwarded his painting.
On seeing his drawing Liam and Scarlett's eyes expanded. Something caught their eyes.
"What is this?" Liam whispered in horror pointing at an old man's art sitting on a white cloud in the painting.
"This old man comes into my dream many times and teaches me good values" Danny replied in his childish voice.
Danny had drawn the same old man who visits Scarlett and Liam's dreams, the one who took Scarlett away from Liam.
Liam and Scarlett were stunned. This meant that this little kid is connected to this man who is also connected to Scarlett and Liam.
In the evening when Sam and his family departed Liam had a long contemplation with his thoughts. Something was not right? He had missed something very important from his past and Scarlett's past which he didn't know or will know in the future. Then something struck him and he called Sam.
"Hello!! Sam"
"Yes Liam", Sam answered.
"Isn't it true that you had adopted Danny 2 years ago?" he asked.
"Yes we had indeed adopted him because we came to know that Mia is infertile", he told Liam.
"Okay thank you", Liam said and hung the call before Sam could ask anything else.
Liam's pov
It was making some sense to me. All this is happening for a cause and not just a coincidence. Scarlett and Danny are orphans and they have the same soulmate thread. But why do I have that soulmate thread? What if I am? But I have parents. I thought deep and then I realized that I have never seen pictures from my toddler age. Yes, that's right. All my friends had pictures of them when they were babies but I didn't. I had asked my mother a lot of times but she said that she had lost the camera which had my born pictures. Can it be possible that she was lying to me?
I have to ask her.
Author's pov
The next day Liam wasted no moment and went to his parents. He went to their company.
"Oh, Liam what a pleasant surprise" his mother tried to fake her affection and forwarded her arms to engulf him in a hug.
"I don't have time for all this fake love", Liam straightforwardly said.
"I am here to ask you something. Answer me honestly."
"What ?" his parents questioned.
"Am I adopted?" Liam asked and looked at them wanting an answer.
Liam's parents' eyes widened, they weren't expecting this kid of theirs to ask this question after so many years.
"Liam you.Who told you this?" his mother stammered..
"Means I am adopted", Liam said.
"But Liam---"
"I don't need further explanation. I got my answers",
he cut his parents' words and left their cabin.
In the apartment, Scarlett was worried about Liam. He had taken his leave in the morning and now it was past 10 and there was no trace of him. She neither had a phone to message him. Her heart said something wasn't right. After meeting Danny, Liam had been behaving weirdly as if something was bothering him. She definitely acted cold but deep inside her heart she cared about him. Her soulmate energy told her that Liam was in a bad mood and indeed gloomy or worried about something...
The door opened revealing a wary Liam. He didn't pay heed to Scarlett and went towards his room. The important thing Scarlett felt at that time was to talk to Liam and know about the reason for his wariness...
She went to their room and coughed a little to grab his attention. Liam looked back, his eyes teary and face tear-stained. Her heart ached on seeing his condition but the most important thing was to know the reason for his sadness..
*Why are you crying?* she gestured...
"Scarlett...It's none of your matter. You can go from here* he whisper yelled in his teary voice.
*No* she nodded.
She sat beside him and kept her hand on his shoulder...She cupped his face and forced him to look into her eyes.
As soon as Liam made eye contact with her he broke down into tears...
He encircled his arms around her small figure and let out his pain. He was crying... Scarlett also comforted him, not through words of course but emotions and actions.
"Why --Why Scarlett?"
"Why is everything wrong in my life?" he asked her moreover complained.
*What happened?* she gestured ...
"My parents...they are not my real parents, they had adopted me that is why they always kept me away from them. They never wanted me in the first place" he spoke all at once...
Scarlett was shocked on hearing this sudden information. She knew the pain of being an orphan but after believing for almost half of her life that some two people are your parents and then one day finding out that you are an orphan was a big pain to inculcate.
She had no words or actions to soothe Liam's pain. What should she do?
"I don't have anyone in this world Scarlett. No one can be mine. Guess I was born to be unloved and stay alone. That is why you also hate me" he spoke in his quivering voice and wept silently.
Scarlett's heart ached on listening to his confession. She knows the pain of feeling unloved and unworthy. No, she can't let him feel that way. Had she become selfish that she had started ignoring Liam's pain and efforts to win her? Yes, she had and now she should stop this. He loved her dearly, his actions showed and now it was time to return his love. She can't let him live in pain. It would be no justice in doing it.
She hugged him back without thinking as tightly as she could as if he was a fragile feather who would glide with the air if she loosened her hold.
But the next words by Liam shattered her heart.