57 The Old Sarah.

Aunt Merylin was someone whose face I don't remember, but still, I'm trying hard to keep her promise. I don't even know how she died but I know one thing that dad loved her a lot and Niall needs to know how much his mother loved him. I still remember how dad cried silently while sitting in his office all day when he heard Aunt Merylin's death. That day I came to know how much he loved his first wife, else about Niall, he didn't show any emotions. When he got to know about her passing away, he didn't show his face for the next two days, But after two days he was looking all fine, he even attended some meetings.

It's quite hard to understand Niall and it's even harder to make him do something without his will.

Drake was thinking all this when Flora saw him,

'Drake? Why are you standing outside? Come in.'

He looked at her and she smiled warmly, as he came in she walked towards him and hugged Drake, tightly.

'Oh son! Where were you? I wanted to see your face so badly.' She said as she hugged him.

Drake hugged her back, patted lightly on her back, and replied,

'Was out of town to handle another branch of the company.'

After hugging for a while she went towards her bed, sat there, and motioned him to sit as well.

'Umm, mom Carla was here?' Drake asked as he sat beside her.

Flora looked at him and nodded slightly.

'Yeah, she came here earlier, why?'

'No jus- nothing.' Drake remained silent cause he knew something fishy was going on...

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'Emma? But she knows I never went to that woman's death anniversary..' Niall said and stretched back in his chair.

After thinking for some seconds he said,

'Anyways, just remove that from my schedule cause I'm not going there.'

And he stood up to walk outside.

As he passed by Sarah, she held his wrist. Niall turned around, his eyes wide open as he looked at his wrist which was held by Sarah, and then Sarah's face.

'Wh- what happened?' He stuttered again.

These days Sarah's actions were making Niall either shocked or confused and he had started to stutter a lot now.

'I guess you should go.' She said without even blinking for once.

'Why?' Niall turned towards her.

'Cause... it's what I've decided.' Sarah said further.

Niall chuckled. He looked down and again looked at Sarah with his one brow raised. Niall got rid of Sarah's grip lightly by his other hand and put his hands in his pockets.

'Do you even know what you're saying, Ms Brown?' Niall asked with a smirked plastered on his face.

'Do you remember that you once promised me, Niall, that you'll attend every family function of yours?' Sarah said and crossed her arms.

Soon Niall's smirk turned into a small smile and his eyes started to flicker with slight affection for his Sarah. He didn't have the slightest idea about why Sarah was talking about their past but he somewhat found it quite delightful for himself.

'What happened?' Saran asked borrowing her eyebrows.

She walked a few steps towards him and said,

'Answer me!' It sounded more like an order given to Niall.

'So, you don't remember?' She asked further while there was a bit of disappointment in her eyes.

Niall blinked twice and looked at Sarah who was right now talking like the real Sarah, who she was two years ago.

'Ye-yeah I'll go.' Niall said.

A slight relief could be seen in Sarah's eyes as she smiled and nodded.

'Nice then I'll add this to your schedule.' Sarah said further.

Niall nodded silently, can't understand what Sarah was trying to do. Sarah looked at the tablet she was holding and nodded while looking at the screen and walked out of Niall's cabin.

Niall looked at her as she walked out of the cabin, wearing a black blouse whose collar and the cuff was white while the skirt she wore was white too. She looked amazing, and this sudden change of her personality from the new Sarah Brown to the old one gave Niall a spark of happiness. He smiled widely and simply watched her walking out.

He finally met the old Sarah whom he missed a lot all these years. This girl walking out had the face as same as of hers but she was not as dominant as old Sarah. Niall really missed the way Sarah used to order him about what to do. How she lived whining and arguing around with him over every matter on which he disagreed with her. Now that he had seen the old Sarah once again he wanted to have more of that, his urge to hug Sarah and tell her how he missed her and loves her grew more. He now just wanted to grab her hand and take her out leaving everything behind. He wanted to live those days which were lost somewhere, two years ago.

Here as Sarah walked out and sat on her desk she kept her right hand on her chest and the other on her table. She was panting and her heart started to beat as fast as it could. She inhaled and exhaled as fast as she could and anxiety was written all over her face.

'What was that?' She whispered.

'What the hell I did just now?'

She bit her lower lip, furrowed her eyebrows even more, and shook her head slowly. She covered her face with her palms and kept whispering,

'Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!'

Sarah had no idea about what she did just now, it was like someone possessed her and she all of a sudden started blabbering about something which she doesn't even know herself.

'And what that promise thing? Ugh!' She kept blabbering within herself.

She was confused about what she just a minute ago, and the thing that she even addressed Niall informally made her even more embarrassed. She knew that this is the last day of her life.

'Sarah? You're okay?' Asked someone.

For a second she forgot to breathe thinking that could be Nial. But then she looked in between from her fingers and quickly put her hands down, took a deep breath, and looked at Sam who was standing in front of her.

'Yeah, absolutely...'