You, Me, And My Baby

Chapter 2 Broken Hearts

"Yuki... what should I do? Sean is... I-- Hic!" I let my tears fall as I hug my knees.

I felt Yuki's arms wrap around me as she tries to comfort me.

"I-I will try to find a way! I am certain I can find something to help you... I- I am sorry--," her own tears fall from her eyes as we hug one another.

We are currently in my room in a hotel near the airport. Our flight is scheduled for tomorrow, and this is our last day here in this place.

Yuki's engagement was also been announced yesterday. She is engaged to someone within the Larkas family. A family that owns the most high-tech company in the world. While the man I am engaged to be is from the Ashton Family. They own a massive company that is currently taking the lead in the business world at least in the US. They have yet to expand their business territory outside.

But... my parents, especially my mother apparently became close to the wife of the current CEO and they made a promise to one another. And thus, I am to fulfill that promise.

"Are we really just going to follow their words?" Yuki whispers once we have managed to calm down.

I squeeze her hand as I lean my head on her shoulders.

"Is there anything we could do...? Don't we also need to fulfill our responsibilities as their children?"

"We can still do it but not like this! I... I don't want to marry someone I don't know. And what about Sean? Are you really going to give up just like this?"

My heart skips a beat the moment I heard his name. My Sean... You are no longer mine as I ended everything we had yesterday.

My phone kept on ringing nonstop ever since yesterday and I had no choice but to turn it off. I just can't bear to read the messages he left, and I can't bear to hear the broken tone of his voice The way he kept on pleading, wanting to talk to me, to see me... My heart kept on breaking into a million pieces because of it.

Because I know... I am the reason why the wall he built crumbled to pieces. Because I was the one who initiated this... I was the one who kept on poking holes around the wall he places to keep his heart safe. I was the one... the one who made him open up his heart.

Yet I am also the one... the one who stab a knife and made it bleed. I am the one who made a promise to fight for our love... but I failed to do so. I failed to fight for our love because the me I am right now is weak. After all, I am still in my fourth year of high school.

I have nothing to back up our relationship nor to protect him and his family from the repercussion of betraying my father's order. That is why... Before he can receive the punishment for my action, I have to end up stabbing him like this.

"You know full well what will happen to him if I decided to go against my father's wish. Especially with how sick his father is right now... I can't afford for him to lose everything, the way she did."

I can feel Yuki flinch the moment I mention the past that we both tried to forget. A past that made us realize just how powerless we are compared to the family we look up to.

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"Ashley!!" His familiar voice rung throughout the busy lobby of the airport making everyone stare at him.

With his messy appearance, his eye bags run deep, tears pooling in the corner of his eyes. He looks so broken... I am the one who made the once strong man break like this.

"Young miss it's time to go," one of my bodyguards whispers beside me, as I stand up from my seat and grab my suitcase.

Yuki's flight is still later this evening since she is flying with her mother. While I will be flying on my own together with all of my bodyguards, using my father's private plane.

"Ashley!! Please!! Wait!" He screams despite the guards of the airport trying their best to stop him from causing more ruckus.

I took a step, and another and another... until I can no longer count how far away, I am from him. Yet I can feel my heart continue to squish painfully inside my chest the more our distance grew apart.

'I am sorry... I am sorry for coming into your life Sean. I am sorry for causing you to be like this... I truly apologize...'

My sight has gone blurry as tears start pooling in the corner of my eyes.

"Ash!! Please!! I beg you!!!-- Let go of me!!" he continued to shout as I can hear him trying to push the guards away.

"Sir! Please come with us," I can hear one of the guards trying to reason with him.

"NO! Let go of me!! I need to talk to her!! Ash!!!"

"I'm sorry, Sean..."

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"What are you saying...?" his words falter as he clenched his fist.

"I... can't do this anymore, Miles. I-- I am tired of fighting for this relationship. So please... go back to them. I beg of you," her voice is shaking as she lowers her head to him.

His heart broke into pieces the moment he witnesses her current form. Her hands have been trembling nonstop, tears are threatening to spill from her eyes and her voice... she is barely holding herself back.

"Alecia... stop this," he whispers in a weak tone as his shaking hands try to touch hers.

But she avoided his touch... she took a step back away from him. Before completely turning her back.

"A-Alecia!" His fear of losing her pushes him to hug her from behind.

"...please. Let go of me, Miles... I can't -- I can't do this anymore..." she barely whispers as her tears finally spill, causing her sight to blurry.

His heart, felt like it's been stabbing with millions of needles from hearing how desperate and weak she has become.

Just what could have happened for her to be like this? For her to throw away all the hardship they have endured for the sake of their love? Just what... Are all his sacrifices not enough, after all?

"I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! Please! Don't leave me...! Don't leave me..." he begs her while his tears soak her long brown hair.

But... his world seems to crumble the moment she forcefully removes his hand away from her. Without even turning back to see his miserable state, she forces herself to run... leaving him kneeling on the cold hard floor of their once warm home.

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Two relationships that ended so bitterly...

Four hearts that have been broken so harshly...

Will they ever find peace? Will they ever find love once again?