Chapter 171
- KILLIAN -
I run after her. I’m not supposed to do so in broad daylight but I’m not about to let her experience anything alone again. Not when I’m here. My purpose of being here is to be here for her and only her. I want her to lean on me, and maybe, someday, I’ll be able to open up about myself fully to her then lean on her too. But that’ll be when I’m done with this life of mine.
When nothing of my then past will haunt either of us.
Hazel makes a turn, running into the pathway. There are barely any people here which is a good thing for her. I chase after her.
“Hazel wait, talk to me.” I call.
She turns to look at me without slowing down her pace. “Stop. Go away.” She breaths. I can’t. I won’t. I don’t care what she has to say to me, be it mean, but I won’t leave her alone to sort anything out by herself again. “Stop chasing me, people will see you.”
I don’t care. None of them matters to me as much as you do. But logically speaking, as a professor and her professor, I shouldn’t be having this cat race with her in public. “Only if you stop running.” I respond coolly.
A scoff slid in my ears as she spares me another look. Tears. From that short look she gave me, my eyes caught on the tears in her face. Hazel runs into the women’s bathroom.
Fuck.
Does she think this will stop me? I will wait out here till she comes out if I must. But how long will that be? I don’t know and I don’t want her there alone. My eyes wander over the door of the women’s restroom and it lands on a sign hanging above it. A half grin forms on my face.
Sometimes, nature just favours me. I reach out to the sign. It’s an ‘open’ and ‘closed’ sign. Just at the right time.