18. First encounter...
The door to his office suddenly flew open., and the person standing there was non other than his dearly beloved...
"V..V..VANESSA... He saw the look in her eyes.., it was disappointment., sorrow., agony., pain.., unbelief.., but mostly., what he could clearly see was a feeling of betrayal...
She didn't even utter a single word., she just stood there tears rolling down her cheek..
Then she just turned away., and the door closed behind her... That was when he realized that he was still in that same position... He withdrew himself from Ashley..., put on his pants as quickly as he could., picked up his shirt and busted out the door... He ran to the elevator., and saw it was going down.., so he took the stairs instead and went down after her...
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As Vanessa walked away from the door., she headed straight for the elevator.., but the elevator was already on the 45th floor., and was going up... She could not wait for the elevator she needed to breathe., the room was choking... So she took the stairs., but she had not gone down like Mark thought., she had gone up..
She had to climb up twenty more floors to get to the rooftop., so when she got there., her whole legs were shaking...
The moaning sounds haunted her ears., the position she met them stalked her eyes...
Why.. Why did all these things happen to her.., all at once...
First that creepy kid tried to rape her., and then he blamed it all on her, and made her the rapist instead of the victim..
Then she thought she had some hope when they called Wells over., but he was not on her side either... Then she got fired from her job... A job that she just got.. She always knew that the school was too good for her.., and now she is out of the school., never to go near the school again..
And then the one who she thought she had., who was her major source of hope., the one she called her boyfriend..., who was to be by her side in this kind of situation... Had done this to her..
Why did he do that to her... Why... Just why....
After all they had been through together., he had to cheat on her.., and it was obvious he had been cheating for a very long time, all the signs were there... she just never saw it, or maybe she did, but she just chose to ignore them...
But why.., if he was tired of their relationship, he could have been nice enough to tell her to her face.. He didn't even have the decency to break up with her instead he was sleeping with someone else while she the good girlfriend was kept in a corner... A dark.., dark corner..
All these thoughts were what filled head, as she moved to the edge of the roof... The edge of the roof looked dangerously beautiful tonight... It was like it called out her name.. A voice in her head kept on telling her to move closer to the edge...
'what if she gave in to the voice in her head., what if she let her legs move her to the edge., what if she just let's everything go right here and now.., what if.., what if she ends her life., her miserable life.. It was better to end it all in such a beautiful place.. At least she would die with a pleasant view stuck to her memory..
She stood there at the edge of the roof., ready to give in to death., ready to let it all go once and for all... She didn't even remember Jenny who would be devastatingly depressed and torn apart when she hears the news of her best friend's death... She wasn't even thinking straight.., in fact she wasn't sure she was thinking at all...
She closed her eyes., the cold wind beating her equally cold body..., she was ready to jump.., ready to end it all there and then...
But then suddenly.., someone spoke.., it was a masculine voice., a deep sweet tenor voice...
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Daddy was just going to go up to the roof to enjoy the view of the night sky., when he saw a lady who was drenched., and was crying climbing up the stairs... She looked like she wasn't in her right mind., like she was lost.. She moved up the stairs slowly, her legs shaking., and it made him wonder from which floor exactly has she been coming from to make her legs tremble so much...
She was so out of it that she didn't even notice he was following her... She just kept on crying uncontrollably...
They got to the roof and he stood there watching her cry her heart out for a long time before she finally moved slowly towards the edge of the roof..
He didn't really expect this.. He just thought she needed to clear her head., and cry her heart out., but jumping off the roof??...
What kind of madness was that... He always felt that people who committed suicide were just selfish.., they never thought about the once they would be leaving behind., all they thought about was themselves and how they were tired of the world., and the next thing was to take their own life's... Just complete nonsense., complete cowardice...
And here right in front of him., this crazy young lady who didn't look older than twenty was about to jump off the roof.. What could she possibly have gone through at this young age that would make her want to commit such an atrocity...
Not only was this act wrong.., it was also a sin against God.. And it's straight to hell if she succeeded...
"Do you have any idea what you are about to do??...
you know if you jump from there, and if you die.., no not if.. You will definitely die it's a fifty storey building.., so you will die..
But you know that when you die, you're going straight to hell?? He asked in a calm and cool voice...
" I mean why did you choose today of all days to come here and do this.., why today., why this place., why this place this time this hour?? He asked still with a calm voice, but was obviously disgusted by the sin she was about to commit....
Vanessa was shocked., she had no idea that someone was there... And the fact that the person was not even trying to stop her from jumping was even more shocking...
Who the hell was this person?... This question had her wondering, so she turned around slowly to look at the person...
But then she slipped...
Maybe thirty seconds ago she was ready to die., maybe she was ready to give it all up., maybe she was prepared to commit suicide.., but right now.., right now she was not prepared., she didn't want to give up.., and she sure as hell wasn't ready to die anymore...
But she slipped... It was unexpected.., she was no longer ready to die but she's falling., the voice of the unknown person had jerked her back to her senses.., but why did she slip... How in the world did she even end up standing on the edge of the roof in the first place...
'help me., please save me... She cried inwardly... She couldn't breathe., fear of falling down a fifty storey building had suddenly gripped her and taken her breath away... She was really scared of dying...
Fortunately for her, she still had her matrix coat on.., and as she slipped., the man was quick enough to hold onto it., and pulled her away from the edge...
They both landed on the floor., with her atop him...
"Hey.., hey..., hey miss... He called out to her., but she didn't say a word.., she had gone numb... She just laid there looking like a Zombie... She was cold.., so cold.., but he was warm... She could feel the warmth that his body emitted... And somehow she found it comforting... She leaned in closer to him.. Like a child wanting to be snuggled... He was a total stranger., she could not even see his face clearly in the dark night., all she could see was his eyes.., those lovely Grey eyes were all she could see clearly., but yet.., yet she felt like she was safe in his arms., like he could shield her from the harsh cold that stung her bones., and from the clutches of the harsh world in general...
" Miss are you okay??... He asked again.., but all that came out from her mouth was....
"Please hold me tight.... And then she passed out.., laying her head on his chest like she had found solace...