[Adam's POV]

It's been almost 3 days, I have called her a million times since the day we met Sharlene. She keeps on saying she's sorry that she can't pick up or any other reason. She only texts and never picks up calls. She also has been avoiding me, She kept on saying she's busy and all and I keep on getting frustrated. I rake my hair to the back as I sigh, Nea still didn't pick up her calls. My class has ended and I am at the cafe with the boys and Sara.

"What exactly happened Adam?" Sara asks for a thousand times and I don't feel like telling her. She will definitely go berserk and I couldn't promise Sharlene safety, I mean Sara got a black belt and it will be worse. The boys also have the same thinking as me so they didn't tell her.

"Are you seriously ignoring me, Adam? Lucas, I know you knew, so just tell me." Sara leans closer to Lucas and I see Lucas wavering. Lucas' eyes met mine and I shake my head slowly.

"Okay! You know what, I'll get it one way or another no matter how you guys wanted to hide it from me." Sara picks up her bag and walks away furiously, Lucas caught up with her and hold her wrist, pleading her to stay.

"It's regarding Nea, Luc. I can't just let it be, you know how I care about her." Sara said slowly and I decided to tell her as I ask Lucas to drag her to our table again. So I filled her in on what's happening, but I make her promise not to be violent.

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Sara is furious after she knows what happened, so she said she'll try to meet Nea. I decline as I said I wanted to fix it myself, so here I am now in her college area, waiting for her. I knew her schedule so I have been waiting for her on time she's out of her class.

I saw a crowd of students walk out of the college and my eyes instinctively looking for her. I saw her not long after that, she's wearing a brown long sleeve wool shirt which covered until her neck and her hair is messy. She didn't notice that I was walking towards her as usual because she didn't look around much.

I grab her wrist slowly but she still jumps in surprise, and her eyes widen when she saw me.

"A.Adam... Hi! What are you doing here?" She looks around trying to make sure she's in the right place but I still quietly look at her. She gets nervous as she tries to remove my grip from her wrist but I stand firm.

"We need to talk," I said in a demanding tone.

"I... I... I can't. I've promised Kris I will meet her in the library... In a few minutes." She says as she looks at her orange baby-g.

"Why are you running away?" I can't contain my thoughts anymore.

She stops wriggling and she stands still while looking at me in the eye, "I'm not."

I scoff, "You're not?? Not picking up my calls, and only text. Avoiding me, saying you're busy. Is that what you called not running away??" My voice cracks, and I know I'm hurting by her actions.

She looks at me in the eye and she sees right through me. My breathing is getting heavier and the cold weather is not helping at all. Nea walk closer to me and she put her hand to my cheek, I can feel her warm hands on my cheek.

"Let's get to the cafe." She said as she drags me towards it.

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We sit on the spot next to the window and we sip on our hot chocolate quietly. Nea looks outside and I can see she's thinking about what she wanted to say, so I am waiting for her patiently.

"I need to gather my thoughts and get my head right," Nea says as slow as possible, but I catch her words every bit of it.

"What thoughts?" I ask, but she still didn't look at me and stare right outside the window.

She finally turns to me and her blue eyes strike my brown eyes, "My personal thoughts. There's nothing to worry about, I'll be okay from now on."

"But, you need to speak.." I wanted to ask her so speak her mind and be carefree around me but she cuts me.

"It's okay. I don't want this to be brought up again. Please." Nea says and I can't say anymore further when she pleaded that way. I feel a pang of ache in my heart and I could only think.

She doesn't trust me enough to open up.

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I walk her to her dorm, and we're both silently walking. I don't want to let her go yet, I want to hold her hand and body close to mine, but I'm more afraid of her rejection.

The walk from the cafe to her dorm takes 20 minutes by foot and almost 20 minutes we have been silently walking. Upon arriving, both of us again stand silently in front of her dorm entrance. After about 5 minutes, Nea hesitantly takes a step to me, but then she turns around to get inside of the dorm while I can only look at her from behind.

I take a heavy step away from her dorm while my head hung low. Suddenly I felt a warm body hug me from behind and the warm arms hug my body tightly.

"I'm sorry if I hurt you." I hear Nea soft words and my heart warms again as I put my hands on hers.

"No, I'm sorry that I hurt you," I say, trying to calm her down because I can feel her rapid heart-beat from the side of my back. I heard a sniff and I quickly turn around as her grip loosen, her eyes watery and her nose reddens due to the cold.

"No, don't cry baby." I hug Nea tightly to calm and warm her up.

I hear Nea chuckles, "I don't believe myself for saying this, but I do miss you calling me 'baby'."

I also laugh at her comment, "I can call you that every single time and day."

"God! don't. I don't want to hate it that quick." Nea says jokingly.

"You know you can't hate it or me, baby," I say teasingly as I lean my head in the crook of her neck and I can feel her shiver slightly. Nea smacks my back twice and I can only laugh at her reaction.

I feel my heart at peace again", although there's a bit of tiny worry, I push it to the back of my mind.

"I don't want us to not talk or avoid each other anymore. I hate being gloomy or stress for not being able to see and talk to you Nea." I pour my heart to her and she snuggles her head to my chest.

"I'm sorry." She says apologetically, but I shush her.

"There should not be any 'sorry' between us too, besides in this case it really is not your fault, to begin with." I stroke her hair and I miss this moment between us.

I push her slightly to the back as I cupped her face, "Deal?"

She looks at me and smiles, "Deal." Both of us smile and at that time I see her twinkling eyes and I slowly leaning down to her face. I can see her face blushes but she did not push me this time. My eyes flicker to her eyes and lips in between.

When I see she's not resisting and her eyes close when my lips are only a few inches from her, I dive in. Our lips touch each other, not moving at first, but after a moment I move slowly and she replies by moving in rhythm with mine. I can feel the spark and I can't think of anything else at that moment except for her and only her.

I don't remember how long we've been kissing, but we stopped when we need air and we both panting as we lean on our forehead. I see her flushed face even in this cold weather she couldn't be less beautiful from the day I first see her in the wedding hall.

I cupped her face as I say, "Thank you for not rejecting me."

She hugs me instead, "I wouldn't ever reject you, I couldn't actually." I smile and we're both hugging each other until I send her back to her dorm reluctantly. She also seems reluctant to leave me as she walks into the dorm backward and keeps waving her hands slowly. I still look at her until she's out of my sight, and on my way back to my car I can only think to myself.

Dear God, I hope you don't take her away from me. I don't think I can survive another day without her.

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