One year later…….
Sebastian rose to fame after the release of his solo album which made him become the world’s best idol of the year.
He won many awards and got nominated for many shows and was listed as one of the most searched male idols.
When the whole world is celebrating his success, he launched a brand new limited edition car from his company, Wild Motors and that only doubled his popularity.
While his professional life flourished with each passing day, his personal life deteriorated as he couldn’t move on from Zara.
He tried every possible way to forget about her but nothing helped.
He started dating famous models and actresses, thinking perhaps they can help him but that only increased his longing for her.
As much as his stardom grew over the years, his personal life messed up a lot.
Meanwhile, Zara’s situation is not favourable either.
Once she returned home, her father started pushing her for blind dates.
She rejected each one of them politely and even gave her father valid reasons before urging him to stop setting her up with bunch of idiots every single day.
Andrew started getting impatient when his daughter is being stubborn about marriage and gave her an ultimatum to get married within six months but it’s been more than two years yet she’s not ready.
But Zara is unbothered.
She is twenty four and is very happy with her job as a Business Analyst.
Whenever her dad brings up about marriage topic, she would fly to her sister’s place.
She likes to spend time with her nephew and half a year ago, Jenna gave birth to another cute little baby girl Emma Turner.
They’re her stress busters.
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“What’s with that face?”
Paula asked with her stuffed cheeks as she took another bite of the sandwich.
“I have to attend another blind date.”
Zara spoke lazily, leaning on Paula’s shoulder.
She couldn’t tolerate her dad’s nagging so she came to Paula’s place after work to spend the weekend.
Paula put her sandwich down on the coffee table and wiped her fingers with the tissue before turning to her friend.
“How long are you planning to stay single Zara?”
Paula is serious about her question.
It’s been more than two years since that incident happened which changed Zara a lot.
The change is good because she became more mature and considerate but also silent which is not a good thing.
She really missed her mischievous Zara who would smile all the time and cracks jokes every now and then.
She blamed Sebastian for making her like this and used to curse him a lot but Zara warned her not to talk about him in her presence.
She stopped browsing about LTW, isolated herself from social media and it’s only because she wants to avoid thinking about Sebastian.
Paula wishes Zara to move on from the past.
Whenever she brings that topic, Zara only says one thing ‘I am not thinking about anyone, I just feel it’s not right time to settle down.’
Of course Paula knew she was lying but she can understand her situation.
“I don’t know.”
Zara closed her eyes and answered softly, her mind drifting back to that fateful night.
Even though she tried her best to avoid everything about him, she couldn’t erase that night from her mind no matter what.
“Zara, I know it’s hard for you to move on but you are never fated to be together.”
Zara opened her eyes, staring at the ceiling while her ears registered harsh bitter truth coming out of her friend’s mouth.
Paula knew she is being hard but she should help her friend.
“Why not give yourself a chance to be with someone who deserves you?”
Paula caressed her hair lovingly and pulled her into a warm hug.
She doesn’t want Zara to waste her time on a man who spent a night with her.
She wishes her to be happy with someone who loves and cherishes her in the way she deserves.
“Someone who deserves me?”
Zara raised her head from Paula’s embrace and looked at her friend in confusion.
Is there really a man who deserves her?
Can she find him?
Can she really move on from her Bash and fall in love again?
Paula cupped her face and nodded in assurance but Zara shook her head.
“I am really not ready.”
Paula squeezed her face, making her lips pucker and spoke in annoyance.
“When will you be ready? Oh wait!! You don’t know right.”
Her sarcasm is evident in her voice but Zara didn’t take it to heart.
“Let her be Paula. Don’t force her.”
Paula’s husband, Richard spoke coming out of the kitchen and sat beside his wife.
Zara grinned widely, raising her hand to give him a high five but Paula slapped her hand away with a poker face.
Richard and Zara laughed in union looking at Paula’s angry face, making her more angry.
Zara loves to see her friend live a happy life with her husband.
Richard is the epitome of perfect husband and a gentleman.
He’s generous, thoughtful and respectable.
When he got to know about her thing with Sebastian, he didn’t judge or blame her.
He said it’s normal to have sex with anyone of our choice and one shouldn’t care about the past if they want happy present and bright future.
“Did you clean the kitchen counter?”
Paula asked her husband who is having fun with Zara.
Richard grunted with a sigh and made a pitiful face at his wife but Paula gestured him to leave. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
“You are cruel. Do you know that?”
Zara taunted her friend angrily when she saw Richard do the chores but Paula didn’t care.
It’s not the first time she let her husband work in the kitchen.
In fact, he volunteers to help her.
“I am happy for you darling.”
Zara said with a little envy because Paula is living the best life she can with her better half unlike her.
“And I want you to be happy baby.” said Paula, hugging Zara and kissed her forehead.
After sometime, they pulled away from the hug and Paula looked at Zara with a frown.
“I still can’t believe you lost your first kiss and virginity to someone who you can never have.”
She said, still processing about that night.
Zara’s face turned red with fury and she pushed her friend away.
“Everyone can’t be as lucky as you Mrs. Aiken. You got yourself a handsome, caring husband to whom you gave your first kiss and virginity on your wedding night. But wait!! I am the luckiest one here. Who can be lucky enough to be with someone, who made millions of girls go crazy to even get a glimpse from him?”
Zara stood up, placing her hands on her hips and said proudly, making Paula laugh at her madness and that’s how they spent the rest of the weekend, laughing, talking and having fun.
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One day, when Zara is playing with her niece and nephew, Jenna started listening to LTW songs which annoyed her.
Her sister knew about her hatred towards them yet she is doing this to irritate her.
She yelled at Jenna from the playroom and warned her to turn off the music but Jenna increased the volume.
Zara had enough of her sister’s craziness and rushed to her bedroom where she’s setting the bed with new sheets.
“Are you crazy?”
She chided her, trying to switch off the speaker but Jenna pushed her away.
“You are the crazy one.”
She scolded Zara in return, fed up with her actions and continued…
“In the past, you used to listen to their songs everyday but what happened now? From the time you returned home, you stopped following them on social media, not listened to any of their songs and even forced me to boycott anything related to them. What the hell is wrong with you?”
Zara stood there like a pole, not able to counter attack her sister.
What can she say to her?
She can’t just say, ‘I slept with Sebastian Wild and am trying to forget about him.’
“You are really unlucky. You missed their concert back then and you missed it now as well. I talked to Selina last night, she said that the venue is close to her house.”
Jenna laughed at Zara for not being able to attend LTW concert but she didn’t have a clue about what her sister is going through.
Zara is shocked when she heard about the concert venue because the place where she lived with Selina in the past didn’t have a stadium.
How can they perform the concert over there?
While she is immersed in her own thoughts, she suddenly heard Sebastian’s voice and a shiver run down her spine, shaking her whole body.
“Mine!”
Beads of sweat kept dripping from her forehead as his voice continued to echo in her ears.
She searched for the source of the sound and found out that it’s a song being played in the speaker.
What scared her most is the word ‘Mine’ because when they were together in the woods, he kept whispering that word in her ear the whole time he claimed her possessively.
Her world spun around her, listening to his voice and felt dizzy because of the intense stimulation.
She staggered towards the bathroom as her breaths came out shallow and her nerves vibrated every time she heard that word.
MINE!!