Those eyes

 Author's note: Buckle up.

The one who has ever witnessed a storm would agree that the calm before the storm is actually scarier than the actual storm, of course, depending on the strength of it.

Rose pretended that everything was perfectly fine the entire day which hurt Daniel more than the sudden outburst the day before.

The next day he didn’t hear from her.

It wouldn’t take a genius to figure that she was hiding something that was wrong with her. What bothered him the most was the sorry, why could she apologise?

It was perhaps one of the mysteries she came along with. Daniel knew he was lucky just to be along with her, she rarely showed her real self to people. The girl with the cheeky laughs, the dimpled smiles, and shy carnival excitement just was hidden behind the confident and intelligent woman.

For some reason, Simon wasn’t seen at the office the next day too. Maybe he too was tired from the party, he was among the few who left it the last.

The entire day the one nagging question about Rose was poking in his mind. So he decided to call her and address the elephant in the room. He called her.

Once. Twice. Thrice. The ring kept ringing but the voice he wanted to hear never answered. She must’ve fallen asleep, he thought, she won’t just ignore me like that.

So he did the most obvious thing that popped in his mind, he went over to her house the next morning. He practised his question once (okay, probably way more than once but no one has to know that) and giving himself some encouragement he rubbed his hands over his thighs and went towards her door only to find it locked.

Locked?

It was just 8 in the morning. He hoped for her to be there. Masking the hurt over his face he went to work.

Just as he had parked his car and was entering, a whirlwind of brown hair passed from next to him.

Rose.

He called out her name just as she started crossing the street. The green eyes that had him mesmerised from the start were welling up with tears. She was trying so hard not to cry. Daniel’s eyebrows frowned looking at her. What was even happening?

She looked at him and gave an apologetic smile. It was a hurtful smile and a shrug of the shoulder like she did something that she didn’t have a choice.

She reminded him of the time when he stole his father’s black car because his friends had planned a trip and his car was at the mechanic’s.

Wrong timing, Dan.

His thoughts were interrupted when he heard Simon next to him whisper, “Always loved those eyes.”

Always? Was there something that he was missing? Didn’t he introduce Rose to Simon just a few days ago?

Just as he could go towards Rose, he saw her tilt her head to a side and give him another beautiful smile. Gosh, how beautiful she can look even with tears filled in her eyes, he thought as he started walking towards her.

And then it happened.

The face that he had grown to see from cold to warm swooped off across the road in front of him. It all happened so sudden that he didn’t get time to process what actually had happened.

Then all he saw was blood…

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Yes, some vehicle collided with Rose and the blood that Daniel is seeing is hers.

Too many questions for this chapter but which ones are you focusing on?