The Best Friend's Contract novel Chapter 68

Without me realising, I've already leaned closer towards her face, eyeing down at her lips for a few seconds before placing my lips onto her forehead, closing my eyes. Just like that, I start to lean back—standing up straight, away from her.

''I guess I will never know,'' I mutter.

I walk out of the room and straight down the hallway, seeing Mia staring out of the window with her hand gripping tightly onto her phone. My legs make their way towards her, immediately catching her attention as she wipes away her fallen tears. ''Hey,'' She says.

''Hey,'' I reply before taking a seat.

''You okay?'' I ask, looking at her features and how her brown eyes move to look at me; it appears dull and somehow sad but aren't we all, today? Question of the day.

''Yeah . . . I guess. Just a lot on my mind. Where's Kenna?'' She replies as she tucks a few strands of hair behind her ear, pulling her knees up to her chin—her eyes are slightly swollen and she seems to be out of place, somewhat her body is here but not her soul.

''Asleep.'' I frown, ''Are you sure you're okay, Mia? You can tell me anything. Problems in school or problems with Tony? Did he hurt you?'' Tony—Mia's boyfriend of two years, they've been together since they first started university and things have been fine. I assume. When she first fell in love with some kid back in high school . . . or more like a crush thing, she was miserable when things didn't turn out great but Tony made her realise how he was her first love, all along.

She chuckles, ''Tony wouldn't hurt me, Aidan. He's not like that,'' She replies as she turns to look out at the sky through the window. ''I'm just going through a hard time. Every college student go through that . . . don't they? I'm sure you were as miserable as me,'' She smirks.

I smile, ''I was miserable. Not fucking miserable but things were hard. Just don't worry too much, okay? Shitty things like this will pass and you won't even have to turn back and see how it went because fuck it, right?'' I stand up to mess with her hair in which she groans before pushing my hand away, laughing.

''Great advice, bro. Great damn advice,''

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That night,

After changing into a plain shirt with shorts, I glance at Kenna to see her still sleeping soundly since earlier—causing me to smile, realising how she's going to feel slightly better when she wakes up after all of the crying and heart aching moments she went through a couple of days ago.

I step out of the room and walk down the stairs, surprised to see Julia sitting all by herself in the living room, staring onto a stack of albums.

''Oh . . . Aidan, I didn't see you there.'' She says after realising that I'm currently standing in the middle before gesturing for me to take a seat, ''I thought you were already asleep. Where's Kenna?'' She asks, wiping away the tears on her cheeks.

I take a seat, ''Kenna's still sleeping. She was tired,''

Julia nods before pointing at the albums, ''His favourite songs. I still remember how we used to sing each one, all the time, in the car. He never gets bored of it even though he listens to them, every single day.'' She clears her throat, ''I was just playing some.''

I look down at her phone, seeing her putting it beside her before tucking a few strands of hair behind her ear. ''I'm sorry . . . Julia. I'm really sorry,'' I mutter as the room falls silent, not a single sound is heard—only the sound of our breaths, ''He deserves so much more. I swear,''