Sauna's POV
I bolted awake from bed the next morning. It seemed like a dream, but it was too real to be just a dream.
I run out without changing my clothes and hailed a taxi sharply and got in.
How can he leave me like this, without saying goodbye?, I cried all the way there.
When I arrived, I knocked on their door and after a few minutes, a lady opened the door.
She told me she was the caretaker and the family had left a few hours ago.
I couldn't stop the tears. I walked away empty mindedly with tears falling all the way.
I arrived home and walked into my room, shut the door and sat on the ground sadly.
What does he want me to do. He just left, just like that. Doesn't he know how much I need him.
I tried his phone, but it was switched off. It seems he is on a plane.
After a few minutes, I raised my teary eyes and it fell on a piece of paper on the table.
I hurried to it and opened it. From the writing, it was from him.
"Hey there my Beauty, why the sad face. Smile, I love to see it, even though i wouldn't be there to see it. Right now as I write this, I staring at your beautiful sleeping face,but I'm already miss you. I know you wouldn't meet me by the time you awake, but just know I'll always be with you in spirit and heart. We might be oceans apart, but that would never stop me from loving you. I promise you my angel, I'll come back for you. This is no longer a high school story. Five years might seem like forever, but I'll keep our memories in my heart. You'll be the only one I'll be missing everyday and my joy to keep me going. Remember Sauna, I love you very much. Wait for me.....
................Luke.
I held the paper to my heart and let out all the painful tears. I wanted no where else to go than my bed.
That was the last time I heard or saw him...
SEVEN YEARS LATER
" Oh my God, work was so stressful ahhhhhhhh.....",I said to myself, lying on my bed.
Being a doctor is something.
I think I go for a cool shower and have some sleep. God, my head hurts like crazy.
The next day.
"Doctor!, we have a patient in room 102..", a nurse called out.
...
I had a visitor during my free time.
" Hi Sauzy.",she walked with some stuffs in hand.
"May, its good to see you", I said hugging her.
She had brought me some lunch.
We talked about girl stuff as we ate. She and Jake had broken up for some reason. But Jake kept pestering me to help him get May back. I had talk to her a couple of times about it.
....
I finally arrived at my house after work tired. After a shower, I took out my laptop to go through some stuffs. Then, I came across something.
I opened it and I was shock to see .....some photos of I and Luke. There was one I kissed him on the cheek.
When I saw his face in the photo, I felt lost. I've missed that face so much. He promised five years, but an additional two have passed. Waiting for five years was like hell, but as the sixth year passed with nothing, I gave up.
How can I hold on to some high school dream. He must have, by all means found someone he loves even more than me. I can bet he doesn't even remember me.
But darn, I can't ignore all those times. I really do love him and keep a little hope.
I was hurt a lot, so I channelled all of that into studies, and that's how I got this far.
I closed my eyes. Maybe I should forget the past, and move forward. Start a relationship and future.
.......
A few weeks later..
After work, I was asked to come to a mysterious place at seven that evening. All my colleagues were invited as well.
So after taking a bath, I drove there. Upon arrival...
"Happy birthday!!!", they all screamed when I entered.
" Oh my.....",I had completely forgotten today was my birthday. Maybe it was because he left on the night of my birthday.
"Thank you so much guys", I said hugging people. They were my colleagues from work.
" You work really hard doctor, so we decided to organise this party for you",one said.
May was there too.
"Happy birthday, girl!", she said.
" You haven't celebrated your birthday for a couple of years. So I took the opportunity when it came",she added pulling me to have a drink.
It was a nice party.
Some one brought me the gifts.
I looked through them. There were nice jewels, chocolate which was from the guys and other stuffs. One caught my attention. It was a flat folder in black stylish strappings.
I picked it out and looked at it. I asked the one who brought the gifts.
"Who brought this?", I asked.
" I don't know, it could be anyone",she said.
I ripped it open. It seemed like some documents or something.
I read it and freaked out.
It....it was the documents to my dad's company. Over the years, it had raised up a lot. It would take a lot of money to buy it back.
Who would bring such a gi.....
I froze. There was only ....one..person I told.
It couldn't be. There was a message attached, it read...
"Happy birthday, my beauty. Did you forget about me...", I froze still. The files slipped through my fingers and I just stared at them.
I raised my eyes sharply, gazing around until a couple of men walked in. My heartbeat came to a halt.
His eyes wandered round until it fell on me. There it stopped.
My eyes met those eyes. I would know those eyes from a distance. Those eyes that I fell in love with. Those eyes I've missed so much, and was dying to fell their stare.
He let out a smirk from the corner of his lips.
And that smile.....
I felt a tear run down my cheek. I was frozen in place for a while, time stopped.
I don't know whether I carried myself, or my legs carried my, but I flew off my chair and run towards him.
I fell in his embrace and he held me tightly, twirling me around. I couldn't hold back the tears.
He came back. He really did and after so long.
Then I realized I was suppose to be mad at him, not happy.
I tried to break free, but his embrace was too tight. I stop. I didn't even want to leave his embrace, but I just wanted to show him some anger.
" You promised....you promised five years. Five and not seven",I said in tears, completely ignoring the stares of people.
He said nothing, just stared.
He was still the same or maybe more handsome. There was just something, something different.
I tried to be mad, but I just couldn't.
"Sauna...", he said from above. I shook a little. Its been a long time since I heard his voice, or him calling my name.
He looked around for a while, before taking my hand and walking to another room.
I looked at his hand holding mine in a daze.
You don't know how many time I've wished I could hold his hand again.
As soon as the door closed, he walked up to me and hugged me tightly.
" God, how I've missed you, like hell",he said as he held me.
I broke free and took a step back.
"How could you leave me like that!, you promised me five years. Do you know how it felt to wake up and see no sign of you", I said, crying again.
" I used to dream everyday of us. No contact with you, nothing ,for seven years",I emphasized.
.....
Luke's POV
The moment my eyes met hers, I felt my heart bump in my chest.
Its been years, but it seemed like everyday for those years, I fell deeper in love with her.
The moment I stepped on that plane years ago, it was like I had left my heart behind.
Seeing her again has suddenly filled that void.
I stared at her face. I couldn't get enough. She has grown more beautiful over the years and I've missed her.
She talked about how I had left her behind, and I couldn't say a word. I indeed left her behind...
I walked up to her and held her cheek, wiping the tears.
"I'm sorry, beauty. But I came back didn't I, I kept my promise", I said to her
" I thought you had forgotten about me, and found someone else",she said with lowered eyes.
I pulled her to sit on my laps. She blusheda little.
"How could I, when I spent every minute of the day thinking of you. I told you, you'll be my one and only", I said looking in her eyes.
She looked away.
" Say it",I said.
"Say what", she asked.
" My name. You haven't said my name even once since I arrived",I told her.
"Um.....Luke..", she said shyly.
" I've missed hearing you say it",I said. I was tempting. I missed the taste of her lips, I wanted to kiss her. I looked at her lips close to me.
"I might have left you behind, but from now on, you go any where I go", I said.
She hugged me tightly, then she said something.
"You know, you've picked up some muscles", she said mischievous, felling my chest.
I couldn't help myself anymore. I raised her chin and captured her lips with mine.
She was surprise at first, but then..
" God only knows how I've missed you",I said in between the kiss.
"I've missed you too, Luke",she replied, putting her hands around my neck.
Sauna's POV
I think when Luke came, Jake came along.
May was picking up the documents I dropped. When she saw Jake, she run off and Jake went after her. I don't know what happened between them, but that May's love story to tell.
Luke was now the CEO of his father's company, while his father and mother retired and now lived in a beautiful house somewhere.
Luke's POV
I watched Sauna from a distance. Even though a se ven years had passed, she was still the same.
Still the same beauty I left behind, still the same beauty I loved in highschool, and still the same beauty I'll forever cherish.
My beauty.
The only one I love truely, and is willing to spend the rest of my life with. I don't know what the future holds for us, but I'm willing to face it together with her by my side.
I love you so much, my dear angel and beauty,Sauna Drakes.
THE END