Chapter-9 The Longing for Each Other

While entering the porch area of the hostel, Samantha noticed someone was there by the car. By seeing carefully, it was Alvin's car. 

She jittered for a second. Then composed herself and checked her clothes if they were not revealing much. Correcting her hair with her thin fingers she stepped toward him slowly. Alvin just stood there looking at her with a flat face. 

She checked her cheeks if they were not heating up much. 

"Alvin." She reached to him and maintained a decent distance.

Without saying anything Alvin kept on staring at her, only changing his standing position from left to right. 

Hiding her anxiety, she asked. 

"What brings you here? it's very late. You should be at home." She tried to touch his arm but didn't dare to look into his eyes. 

"I should be the one asking you the same." He taunted.

His statement forced her to leave his arm. She felt pain in her heart. So many things happened with her today and she was at the point of breaking. Her eyes were cast down. The sadness and loneliness were hovering. She wanted to show them to him. She wanted to hug him tight and cry her heart out. 

But she has to hold up everything inside her. She has lots of things at stake and telling everything to him could ruin everything. 

Tears clouded her vision but quickly pushed them back and sniffed slightly.

"I am tired Alvin, You should leave too." By saying that she turned to leave but quickly felt a yank in her right arm. 

"Hold on," Alvin stepped close to her. 

She didn't retaliate. She was longing for the love and comfortable embrace he used to give her earlier. 

"Where you were today?" He asked again looking at her back.

He loosed his grip on her arm and put her hands back in his overcoat's pockets. He waited for her to answer but she didn't buzz. 

Standing still at the place Samantha was thinking of lots of excuses to put together. Her mother's dying face was flashing in her eyes again and again. Derek and Martin's murky deals echoed in her ears. 

She felt a pain in her head and quickly closed her temples. 

"Samantha, I demand an answer." He asked again when there were no words from her side.

When she didn't reach any choice of words she started to walk.

Alvin felt her behavior weird and ran behind him. 

"What happened to you, Sam? Why are you not listening to me?" He was hell-annoyed by her attitude toward him now.

Hearing his gloomy voice, she stopped and turned her face which was all red and bearing tear stains. She kept on staring at him without a word.

"For God's sake, say something. Don't test my patience. What's the problem with you" his anger was on the verge of exploding. He yelled at her.

His thudding voice shook her badly.

"You are my problem. You know what, ever since you stepped into my life nothing happened right with me. All I received was pain and sadness. I wish we had never crossed paths. That day was the biggest pain of my lifetime." She said filled with sobs and tears. 

Her heart was cracking with all those words. She wanted to create a rift between them before something more disastrous happened to their relationship. She didn't want to do, what Derek told her to do with him. So, she thought of ending everything as soon as possible and saving him from any future problems.

Alvin looked at her face and scanned her. It was like he was reading her soul. For once his anger was about to volcanicise but when he saw her pitiful look, it subsided.

He stepped very close to her and cupped her face in his palms. He forced her to look at him. Their eyes looked. For some time they didn't say anything just felt each other's presence. Their breaths were heavy like dark clouds.

That night, Alvin was trying to search for her hidden pain, which she was successfully guarding. 

When he arrived there first, he was angry and making mind about scolding her and interrogating her for not picking up his phone today but when he saw her pathetic state, he forgot everything and all he wanted was to hide her within himself far away from this world's vulturous eyes.

"What are you doing? Leave me alone." She wiggled and tried to remove his hands from her cheeks.

Suddenly he took her in his embrace and caressed her back lovingly. He wanted to remove all her pain and only fill her life with happiness. 

"Samantha, you need not worry about anything. I am always there standing by your side. You are everything to me." He was talking continuously while embracing her. 

She found solace in his hug and wanted to stay like that forever. 

"Forever." She looked up after hearing his words. Her eyes were scanning his charming face, which was illuminating even in the dim moonlight. 

She could find the loyalty, compassion and devotion for her. This feeling of his for her pierced her heart. She felt not worthy of it suddenly. 

She kissed him on his soft lips. She filled this with only love and no other intentions. This might be the last time when she kissed him with all her heart. After that, what would happen? No one knows.

"Why are you staring at me like that?" He asked out of nowhere.

She averted her gaze and looked elsewhere. 

"Because you are looking so handsome, and my eyes can't control staring at you. I envy them." She shyly said, still hugging him. 

A grin flashed on his face.

"Then you should let them see my other beautiful parts as well." He smirked and grinned naughtily.

"You scumbag! Do you have anything else on your mind?" She pushed him by punching his chest lightly. Her cheeks turned crimson red in embarrassment. The scenes from last night flashed in her eyes, making her cheeks rosy.

"I want you forever by my side." He kissed her lips softly and held her face in his big palms.

Holding her racing heart, she removed his hand. 

"I love you, Alvin. My heart beats for you only. And always do remember, there is always a reason if I made any mistake." After saying this, she left him in a daze, trying to pursue the meaning of her words. 

Alvin looked at her retiring figure and got confused about why she said those words out of the blue.

Once she entered the hostel and after a few moments her room's lights turned on, he decided to leave, too. 

When he turned to open the car door, he heard a rustling voice of bushes and turned immediately towards the source of its origin. He chased over there, but no one was found.