ROSE POV:
I could hear voices echo around me but fading off. As the moment passes on, the voice gets louder and my chest felt a strong push. Without warning, My brain got alerted when I felt lips sealed with mine.
Carter!
"No, don't touch me", I sobbed out, panting hard to catch up my breath. I curled up on the end of the bed and clenched the sheets against my chest.
"Baby", I was taken into a tight hug by Granny as my whole body started to tremble furiously without control, my brain couldn't able to conjure up any thought.
"Get some water", I heard her saying, as I pulled back from her wiping off my tears.
Grandpa held the glass filled with water as I drank until it got stuck in my throat when I saw John, Mark, and William who are standing along with My Friends.
What they are doing here?
Before I could question them, a wild agonizing cry of Carter's voice distinctively filled my ear.
"What's goin-", I got intruded by Aaron, who is Leah's boyfriend, as he stood in front of me breathing heavily.
"Rose, only you could save Carter. Your boyfriend behaving like a maniac down there.", Aaron confided under his breath.
Those words bounced around my head, first in disbelief, then my eyes flew up in shock. I felt as if I had been slapped. But I pushed it out of the way and focused solely on his words.
I looked at John, "Didn't you ordered us, that we shouldn't come here without him?", he smiled.
"He is here", I choked up on my words trying to smile through tears that were in my eyes.
He gave a reassuring smile as I rose with the same unchanging smile and ran dashed out of the room to see him. I raced through the downstairs, by skipping one step on the way.
"Someone help" I stopped in my track, my eyes went wide in horror by hearing the voice of Carter.
Oh, no! I forgot about Carter. Ferr is gonna kill him...
I slammed the main door open, scared about the condition of Carter. What he did is wrong but I don't want anyone to get hurt because of me.
Making my way outside, I saw Carter was ferociously getting dragged inside the field by Ferr.
But, I felt dreadful when I couldn't see his face, it was covered by a hoodie, his deep beard is the only visible thing.
"Rose, please save me", I saw Carter, crying out while reaching out his hands towards me, desperate for an escape, which made ferr realize that I am here.
As he tilted his head up slowly, and now his intense gaze fixed on mine. Despite the darkness that surrounds us, I could see his lips broadened into a faint smile under the moonlight.
"Ferr", I whispered in a quiet voice, when all I wanted to cry out his name and fall into his deep embrace. When I took a step towards him, but he stopped me, "Don't".
Hearing those words from him, pain shot through my heart was inexplicable as I could not keep back my tears that threatened to fill my eyes.
"I need to finish this Cunt", he gritted out each word in a cold rage, which left me terrified to death. With his one powerful drag, he took Carter inside the field completely.
"Ferr, don't", I shouted, running towards him. But stopped in the mid from entering inside the field, when I saw a long snake trudging in front of my eyes had my body writhing, sickeningly.
"Ferr, please hear me out. Don't hurt him, he was drunk", I lied, trying out a desperate attempt to save Carter.
In return, I watched Carter's neck was getting crushed by his leg, which made Carter twist on the ground like a dying worm, making me let out an involuntary scream.
"Rose, come on", John came along with Mark and William, turning on the torchlight, as we all made into fields. Behind us, Carter's friends followed.
Reaching as fast as we could, I pulled ferr away from him. Carter's breath became slow, he let out a muffled breath until he has gone unconscious.
"Oh, God! Is he alive?", I panicked, seeing him in a senseless state.
"He still has a pulse, but at a low rate", Luis held Carter's wrist, whilst examining the pulse.
"Then for what you guys are all waiting for? Take him to the hospital", I exclaimed.
"Yes, you're right", Luis and others, hoisted Carter up and moved out from the field as fast as they could.
"Here", John handed me the torch, signaling Mark and William to come along with him, as they gave a nod following John from behind.
Also, I saw My Grandparents and My Friends who stood along with Cooper's family watching me from the entrance of the field.
"Let's go, they will come.", Granny persuaded all to leave, smiling at me as I smiled back at her. Within a second, they all left.
A deadly silence hunged in the air, there was not a breath of wind to stir the young leaves on the trees.
I heard the sound of his footsteps which is crunching because of the field ground, which is crisp and dry. I felt him near me from behind, which made the hairs on the back of my neck bristle.
Inexplicable happiness filled my eyes as tears, my toes curled. I couldn't turn around to meet his gaze, while I died every day to see his face.
My heart pounded hard as I let out a satisfied gasp, when his warmth invaded the nape of my neck, I sobbed but as a silent cry.
His one hand brushed around my waist gently like raindrops sliding from the leaf. The intensity of his hold on my waist made me bite my lip.
As his other hand trailed across my shoulder slowly. I could feel his hands, they feel way more calloused than before. He cupped my face, insisting to tilt my head sideways to look at him, but I didn't.
The very moment, I felt his lips brushing against my shoulder blade, making me shiver as he rested his face at the crook of my neck, inhaling sharply.
"Flower", he whispered, which awoke my buried senses back to life after a long time. The word, which I yearned to hear every second of my life, and that must be heard only from him, from My Ferr.
He fondled my cheek using his thumb finger, which made me close my eyes involuntarily. It sent a giddy feeling all over my body, setting a lively fire on my dreary soul making me turn around in a flash of a second to catch his face in between my hands.
I crashed my lips against his in a bruising way, as my hands started to shake terribly against his face. His warm-calloused fingers explored my body roughly, weakening me to the core.
I cling to him parting my trembling lips as he wished for. His loquacious side-swept hair bangs kept on impeding us as I brushed it off using my fingers.
I choked back a sob but my eyes are not willing to hold back the pain I went through all these months without him.
I tugged him impossibly close to my body, willing to drown myself inside him if it is possible. My insides twisted into a knot, scared if I loosen my hold, he would leave again.
Feeling breathless, I pulled back from him and stretched my hand across his face as hard as I could, which rang through the field, that crammed with deathly silence.
A sob ripped through my throat, breaking out in a strangled cry. And my slap didn't faze him at all.
As I launched myself at him, burying myself in his tight embrace, clawing his back with my nails, craving to become one with him like blood and flesh as he gently stroked my hair, tucking a hair behind my ear.
Once my cry subsided, I broke the hug but his hold on my waist still tight as I cupped his face, finally meeting his gaze, the eyes I've been dying to look at till the last moment of my life.
I touched his cheeks gently, gazing at him to see if my slap hurt him. He just smiled and shook his head negatively.
In those brown eyes was the warmth of an everlasting hearth as if they were the wood that could burn with a golden flame.
But below his eyes have deep eyebags, looks like he didn't sleep well, and a long thick beard, covering half of his face and the side-bangs covering half of his right-side face. His looks so dreary overall.
He moves closer with those brown eyes that look so deeply into my own as his warm breath is fanning against my face, made an involuntarily smile spill from my eyes.
"My Little FLOWER", he murmured against my lips, with his breathing unfolds softer. The pensive look of his, melted into a smile, soft as the morning light.
"I hate you. I hate you so much, we are done. I am breaking up with you.", I hit his chest as he held up my chin roughly, making me look at him.
"As long as I'm alive, no one can take you away from me, not even you.", he nipped my lips roughly making me hiss out in pain but soon replaced it with a soft playful peck making me giggle as he let out a low chuckle.
I marveled noticing the hoodie that is covering his whole forehead ending just above his eyes. I tried to pull the hoodie down but he grabbed my hand stopping me from doing it, insisting in a serious tone, "Don't".
"Let me see your face, Ferr. After all these months, that is the only thing I craved for", I looked dejected, when he took a step back away from me.
He looked everywhere but not me, there is a hesitation in his eyes, that I've never seen before.
I took a step front which made him take a long step back, abruptly. Why he is behaving like this suddenly?
I took a step front again, before he could move back, I clasped his hand, tight.
"Sit down", I stated, he eyed me in confusion for a second. I gave him an assuring nod as he sat on the pathway of the field.
I kept the torchlight aside on the surface, but near to provide enough light for us. I settled opposite to him, but my breath hitched hearing the hissing sound among the field.
I should've taken him inside...
I let out a breathy squeak when he lifted me without a warning, as I ended up straddling him.
I smiled at him, trying to remove the hoodie again but he stopped me again declaring, "I am not the same man you loved anymore". Those words shocked me to the core, made me wonder why he is talking in this manner?
"I don't care and it doesn't matter for me, how you look now. You will be mine, always.", I smiled, as he loosened his hold from my hand.
I placed both hands on his hoodie, with our eyes locked onto each other, I pulled it down.
My eyes went wide for a second, but I covered it up to not make him uneasy.
With shaky hands, I pushed myself to touch his mid-forehead. I stroked gently and gazed at him to see any sign of pain in his eyes for which he shook his head negatively.
I began again to trail my fingers across the huge intense cut, that has sunken and deeply jagged, long in scorched brutal brown traveling from his forehead, it made a diagonal arc towards his back head, ending just above the nape of the neck.
The massive cut which is traveling across his head has noticeably pulled off stitch marks discoloration, turning those spot hairless on the lengthy medium-narrow white.
"Disgusting, huh?", he smiled, looking away from me. I can't help but chuckle at him as he failed to understand a simple thing, that this flaw doesn't gonna change the love I have for him, not now, not ever.
"Why are you laughing?", he raised one of his eyebrows questionably at me.
"Then what do you expect? Such a silly fellow", I giggled, as he shrugged off, trying to cover his head again with a hoodie.
"Enough with your stupidity, you idiotic bull", I leaned over, pressing a soft lingering kiss above the massive brown wound on his forehead. When I pulled back, he nuzzled his face against my neck, as I felt his lips twitch into a smile.
"It's not just my face, Flower", he mumbled out, against my neck. I lifted his head and tugged the side-swept bang aside from hiding his eye.
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