A Month To Fall In Love

CHAPTER 2

XAVIER's POV

CHAPTER 2

Song for chapter - Moon and moon by Bat for Lashes

I see some pale white looking thing from my blurred vision. Unable to make out what it is with my head aching like it was paid to. I blink a few times and let out a girly scream at the big eyes hovering over me. A lady in a nurse's uniform is bent over my bed, staring at my face without blinking. What is wrong with her? I carefully moved my pupils downwards, trying my best not to move my body and I shout as I see her hand almost touching my chest. Hey, she's not moving. What the hell is going on. I carefully shift my pupils back to look at her face, and I shriek at her expression. Her mouth is wide open that I can see the back of her throat and her tongue raised a little. Was she screaming?

'She is confused, go and help her.' The words of the ghostly looking man enters my mind and all he said followed.

"s.hit. Zevia." I slide off the bed like slime to avoid touching the scary looking nurse and rush to the door, opening it in haste.

"What the f***k!" I shout as soon as a man's hand comes into contact with my stomach. I look up to see the doctor who I bumped into, close to opening the door. He is also not moving, weird.

I sprint into the hallway so as to get to Zevia quickly and I meet everyone frozen, making me slow down my pace. I search for the clock with my eyes and it's also frozen. I guess he gave me access to everything I need without any interruptions and he made it, so she would not be able to go far from me. I run out of the hospital, making a mental note to create a 30 days calendar with one day gone.

"I last saw her with the emergency officials before I passed out, considering that she might be scared, she would not have gone too far from here. Hospitals make her sick so she would not be around the hospital premises. She goes to the park whenever she wants to cool off, she should be there. Nearest park to the hospital." I stand outside the hospital building trying to determine her location.

I run to the park while dodging all the frozen people scattered around. I stop to catch my breath as I spot her hugging her knees to her chest on the park bench. The evening breeze scatters her hair, raising it from her face to reveal her depressed face. A depressed look that had been on her face for much longer than I can remember, but I did not pay attention to it.

She buries her face into her knees as I start to walk towards her. She lets out a ear piercing shriek, jumping in her position as I touch her shoulder. I hold her from falling and she exposes her terrified expression.

"Xavier.." she calls my name softly, almost in a whisper. "I am so scared, I thought I was the only moving person. I... everybody is frozen... I... yesterday...you...what is..." Her eyes well up as her words become disoriented and I pull her to sit beside me hugging her face into my chest as her tears leaks and soak the hospital cloth I am wearing.

"Don't cry, you are okay." I try to imitate what she does when I'm down by patting her hair. She pulls away from me and wipes her face with her palms before putting a distance between us on the bench.

"Everyone's frozen because of us." I explain and she raises her brow. "When I was unconscious, I met a god and he said he came to ease our pains and bring us back together, so he gave me a very rare gift. When I woke up, I realized the gift is the freezing of time and..." Her scoff cuts me off and she eyes me with a weird look.

"I think you need to go back to the hospital, your brain is still asleep. Do you think we are in some kind of movie or we are fictional characters and there is a god somewhere that came down because two people broke up. If that is the case then there would be no divorced person. Please save that sick story for yourself. If you wanted to come to me to say you want to get back together, at least find something more reasonable and logical to use to convince me. You just want to use the excuse that everything is frozen, like you use every opportunity to your own gain..."

"Zevia, stop this."

"Ah, I forgot that I cannot express myself freely around you. Once you don't like what I am saying you shut me up. I thought we have broken up so I can say whatever I like. I would not be here talking to you if every goddamned person here is not frozen."

"Zevia, what I said about all this is true and you can express yourself freely around me. You should put all of that in the past and let us move on together."

"Past? There you go again not caring how I feel about anything. You just want to sweep all my hurt and pains and all my dedication to your care and all the years of my life I've wasted loving you without any good thing in return, not even a single show of affection from you and bearing with your horrible behaviours without complaining under the rug and call it past. You think I am a fool who would just go back to the person that broke her heart, trust, self-confidence and every hope of her happiness!" She screams in my face bringing her face closer to mine in her standing position, leaving me stunned as her eyes well up again.

"Zevia... what happened to you, you have never behaved like this to me."

"Yeah, I have changed. I decided to stop putting up with your s.hit, to speak up for myself, to put myself first and consider my own feelings. I can see you don't want me to be a better person. You still want me to be your slave and whor.e, the rag you use to clean up your mess, a fool that doesn't have emotions. I am glad I left you." She takes steps back and turn around to leave. I get up and immediately hold her arm back, standing by her side.

"Where are you going?"

"Away from you."

"I know that. Where are you going to stay."

"Like you care." I tighten my grip on her arm as she tries to yank my hand off her.

"You do not have anywhere to stay."

"Yeah. Thanks to your busybody god who froze everyone up like we are in a movie, I can stay in anybody's house without any disturbance. Now, please let go of me, your face saddens me." My hands fall off involuntarily at the last sentence. My face saddens her?

I raise my head to see her walking off at a small distance. I walk up to her with a fast pace and grab her shoulders roughly, turning her to me as she lets out a low whimper.

"You are not going to walk away from me again." I shout in her face as I feel my eyes bulging out and my veins popping up on my skin.