LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT - SEASON 2 CHAPTER 35
Jeru followed Thea, who walked with a bottle of alcohol in each hand. She had got it from the bar before heading outside of the hotel.
She sat on the sand and downed the bottle in her right hand. Then she shouted at the top of her lungs, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…”
“Ahhhhhhh…”
“Ahhhhhhh…”
Jeru looked around and let out a sigh of relief when he saw that no one was around. It was already midnight, and usually, no one came to the beachfront at this hour. Hence, the place was deserted.
“What’s this? Does she plan to shout all night long?” he mused as he observed Thea, who kept on drinking the alcohol directly from the bottle. He presumed that Zach came clear with Thea about his feelings during that talk because the two looked serious then.
He let out a long, deep sigh and kept watching her. Right now, he was seeing himself in Thea, because that was exactly what he did when Keira told him that she already had a boyfriend, and it was none other than Zach-the man whom he often was compared with, the person whom he often lost to at the Military Academy.
Jeru smirked, even when it came to heart matters, he still failed and lost to Zach.
Then he recalled how he got drunk that night when he found out about Zach and Keira. He sat alone at his balcony and drowned himself in alcohol. He felt dejected and broken. He was so devastated, he was not able to face reality back then. He was sure that the same was now happening with Thea. She might be feeling the same or even worse than him.
Moreover, she and Zach had practically grown up together, her attachment to him must have been really strong. The only difference in their situation was that Thea and Zach had been in a relationship earlier, while Keira had been honest with him from the start- she told him that she only saw him as a friend. Compared to him, Thea’s wound was deeper.
Thea was shouting to dissipate her heartache and frustration, while Jeru did not shout but punched the table instead until he bled. So he somehow understood Thea’s feelings.
“Stupiddddd! Thea, why are you so stupid!!! Very stupid! A very stupid woman!!!” Thea screamed as she gulped down another mouthful of alcohol, and helplessly stared at the sea.
While Jeru was witnessing Thea’s broken state, he blew some air on his own forehead.
“Why do I feel as if I’m a stalker, following her and watching her from a distance?” he irritably mused as he took out his mobile phone from his pocket. He should ask his men to look after Thea instead.
But for some unknown reason, he put his phone back in his pocket, as he stared at Thea and let out a long, deep sigh again. He helplessly shook his head and thought, ‘Isn’t she cold?’ seeing that Thea was wearing a backless gown.
“She looks so pitiful right now,” he muttered.
“Ahhhhhh!!! It hurts! It hurts so much!” Thea screamed and started crying even harder. She was hurt, really hurt up to the depths of her heart. The pain was agonizing, and it was going to take her some time to redeem herself from this agony.
The realization that there was no hope for her to be with Zach again was ki||ing her. She knew Zach so well and could read every emotion on his face. She could read him through his eyes.
And tonight, by what she saw in his eyes and on his face, she just knew that those eyes, that heart no longer belonged to her. His affection was centered at Keira now.
His every action screamed of his love and affection towards Keira. Thea had no place in his heart. It was painful, it hurt her… It hurt like hell.
She was crying hard as she hit her chest several times. She felt she was lacking air to breathe…
She drank more and hissed when she realized that the bottle was already empty. She opened the second one. She wanted to get drunk, so she’ll be wasted and would not feel the pain once she passed out.
She was already hiccupping, and her face flushed as she started mumbling “Wow… Look at those waves! They are so beautiful, they don’t know how to stay in one place and keep moving, they know how to not get stuck at one beach and move on.”
Thea stood up and walked towards the sea, she was practically drunk-walking already.
“What the hell?!” Jeru cursed when he saw Thea walking towards the ocean. ‘Does she plan to drown and ki|| herself?’ he thought, annoyed as he ran towards Thea.
“Stop!” Jeru shouted, but it seemed that Thea was oblivious of his presence as she continued to walk to the ocean.
Thea, on the other hand, could not hear anything but the sound of the sea waves. The water was cold, and it felt good on her feet. She walked a little forward so the waves could reach her knees.
How she wished to be completely numb. She wanted to scream again, with the roaring waves accompanying her. She wanted to scream as loud as the sound of waves, that were gently slamming on her knees were.
She was lost in her thoughts and opened her arms wide. She closed her eyes and was about to scream when she felt a hand pulling her arm.
“Are you crazy? What are you thinking of doing?! Are you that fickle-minded to take your life simply because you are broken-hearted? Does your world revolve merely around Zach?” Jeru furiously shouted at Thea that left her open-mouthed with wide eyes, gaping at him in bewilderment.
“What is wrong with this man?” she mused as she scanned Jeru’s gloomy face. She abruptly pulled her hand from his grip and yelled, “Leave me alone!” She wanted to release her frustration and anger and scream to her heart’s content, but this man was interrupting her.
“No!” Jeru shouted as he pulled her back. By this time, the alcohol she had drunk started to kick in, and Thea could feel her world swirling around, and her stomach felt weird.
She felt as if her stomach was turning upside down. Jeru was pulling her trying to take her out of the water. But Thea was pulling back to get free from his hold. She was feeling very weird.
Jeru sighed and in one swift move finally, pulled Thea into his arms. However, Thea suddenly threw up on Jeru’s suit.
Jeru cursed as he got wind of the gross smell of Thea’s vomit on his suit. At the same time, he felt Thea’s weight on him.
“What the hell?” he mumbled, seeing that Thea had passed out. He had no choice but to carry Thea back to the hotel.
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The next morning, Thea woke up with a heavy headache. She sat up on the bed and held her head in her hands. Her eyes were still heavy and closed.
She cursed and tried to recollect the incidents of last night. She remembered her talking to Zach, his affection for Keira, her broken state and going out on the beachfront with two bottles of alcohol. She also remembered drinking heavily, the waves touching her feet; but how did she reach back to her room?
Thinking all this when she opened her eyes, she found the surroundings a bit strange. ‘Why does the size of the window in the room look bigger?’ Thea pondered, even the decor of the room looks a little different than it was! Realizing something was not right, she sat looking around with her mouth agape.
Her eyes widened in horror when she noticed she was in someone else’s room and not in her hotel room. And then she felt that was not the only thing that was different…
“Yes! MY CLOTHES! Where are my clothes? I am not wearing my clothes but… but a SHIRT? I am wearing a shirt A MAN’S SHIRT! Where did my clothes go? What happened again?”
Thea tried to recall what happened after she got drunk last night, whom she was with before she passed out, and she almost fell from the bed when she remembered everything. The last thing she remembered last night was… was actually… ‘Oh Noooo!!!! Not Again!’
She remembered Jeru trying to pull her forcefully interrupting her beautiful time with the waves. He was the person she remembered seeing before she passed out.
“Why him? What sin did I commit to end up in his room, in his bed again? And why does it have to be such an embarrassing state? This is not fair!”
While she was complaining in her thoughts she heard the sound of the water coming from the bathroom and she presumed it was probably Jeru.
She panicked, quickly stood up from the bed and ran towards the door. She did not care how awkward she looked walking in the hotel hallway in just a shirt and barefoot towards her room. Then she suddenly halted and cursed because she had no card key.
“d@mn!! There is still more humiliation and embarrassment to come for me in front of that man!” she garbled.
She was too embarrassed and she tapped her feet in frustration and scratched her head annoyingly as she walked back to the room where she ran away from. She dared not go to the hotel concierge with her current appearance and she did not know any room number of her team members too.
“$h|t!” she muttered as she felt drowned in embarrassment while she pressed the doorbell. ‘Why did I bother to run away when I had to come back in the end?’ she scolded herself. She couldn’t bear to look at Jeru when he opened the door.
What she did was enter the room immediately before anyone could recognize her. As soon as she was inside the room the first thing she looked for was the telephone as she made a call to the reception.
Then she turned her gaze at Jeru and quickly retracted it when she saw that he was drenched and seemed to just come out of a bath because the only piece of cloth on him was a towel around his waist.
She saw his bare chest, water dripping in small and big droplets from his body and landing into his V-curve… He was fit and lean and those abs…’Is he flaunting those packs intentionally?’ she hissed inside because Jeru did not even move an inch from his spot even though he noticed Thea checking him out.
Thea cursed inside because of the awkward scene as she asked, “What is your room number please?”
Jeru gave her the room number and Thea gave it to reception on the other line so they could instruct someone to bring her card key.
“I had your clothes sent at the hotel laundry because they were gross,” Jeru said pertaining to her vomiting at him. Thea felt extremely embarrassed because she clearly remembered what happened.
“Thank you by the way for everything… And sorry for the trouble..” Thea murmured, her head still tilted down. She felt uncomfortable to look at Jeru and his bare chest.
Jeru was about to say something but his doorbell rang. Thea stood up and said, “That must be for me…”
Jeru arched a brow seeing how Thea was in a hurry. ‘Is she for real? After all the trouble she had caused me, she is simply trying to run away?’ he mused disappointingly.
Unconsciously, Jeru held Thea’s arm to stop her. Thea creased her forehead and hissed, “What?”
“What? Seriously?” Jeru exclaimed as he scanned Thea from head to toe.
My shirt… I want my shirt back. Now…” added Jeru with a smirk.
Thea’s face reddened with embarrassment as she realized that she was still wearing Jerus’s shirt. But what? Did he say he wants it back now?
“I am not going to eat your Shirt! Don’t worry, I will return it to you. So can you please let me go to my room now to allow me to change and return your shirt later?” said Thea, feeling annoyed.
“Alright! Remember to wash and iron it before you return it. Also, use your own hands, don’t use the machine for this costly shirt of mine.” Jeru said nonchalantly.
Thea almost vomited blood hearing his dissing words and just agreed with wh@??ver he said.
As soon as Jeru let her arm go, with quick movements, Thea opened the door and immediately ran back towards her room as soon as she got hold of her room card key from the bellman outside.
She felt her cheeks still burning up…’What the hell? Why do I have to cross paths with him these days! She mused complaining.