Chapter 2: Chapter 2
Liam's pov
Currently, it was 4 in the evening, I was laying down on my bed comfortably…
I, again and again, looked at the red thread around my wrist…
Why did I find this thread so amusing?
What is so special about it?
All sorts of questions were arousing in my mind, and I tried to close my eyes and sleep…
As soon as I shut my orbs, an image of a girl drowning in a river sprung up in front of my eyes…
I tried to ignore that uninvited thought …who was this girl, why was she haunting my head, I didn't know….
I just ignored it and went off to sleep….
Author's pov
Liam was trying his best to drift off to dreamland, when his body twitched and turned, flashes of water and a girl drowning in the river just ran like a blurred movie in his brain…His heart ached on the mere image of some unknown girl drowning in some water body….
He quickly woke up panting, trying to inhale oxygen….
Liam held his head in frustration…
"Aaaaaaaaa", he shouted…
His head was aching and burning….
He could soon hear water splashes and he started panicking as if he himself was going to die….
He couldn't able to comprehend what was happening with him….
He ran outside the house to grab some fresh air…
But those water flashes and voices weren't leaving his head….
It was disturbing him, he held his head in frustration…
The Red Thread effect was eating him up…
He ran to a bridge and saw river water flowing, then he took a deep breath and decided to search all the water bodies in his city…
His subconscious mind was giving him hints that he has to find and protect someone….
He wandered in the city, he had foraged pretty much all the rivers and the lakes when his steps took him to the place where Scarlett was drowning ….
His intuitions told him to jump into the river and he did….
He dived in the river and searched inside when he saw a girl lifeless drowning in it …
He swam towards her and scooped her in his arms and brought her to the surface…
He quickly pumped her chest …
"Hey !! Wake up ", he said ..he checked her pulse which was very slow…
He decided to carry her to the hospital…
AT THE HOSPITAL
Liam was pacing back and forth, nervous, frightened, and in utter shock…
A doctor strode towards Liam…
"How is she?", Liam asked.
"She is fine and awake, you saved her at the right time young man", the doctor said with a smile…
Then he handed Liam a piece of paper with all the meds and ointments required to treat Scarlett…
Liam was bewildered whether he should enter the room and take a look at the girl or not…
Why do I care? I will just leave her alone and go, my job is over…he said to himself….
But his subconscious mind again took the lead and his steps made their way to the hospital room…
As soon as he opened the door his jaw dropped to the floor ….
He saw the most adorable and prettiest view in his life, the girl…
She just looked like an angel half laying on the bed with wet hair and semi-wet clothing…
She wore a pink crop top tucked in with a floral printed skirt, too immature for a 17-year-old to wear such attire….
Beautiful, he mumbled to himself….
He ogled over her for pretty 5 minutes…
He came out of his trance when Scarlett opened her eyes and sensed a deep stare at herself…
She quickly sat up and looked at Liam ….
Her heart started accelerating at the speed of light…
She felt butterflies in her stomach…
"This boy saved you miss ", said the nurse who had just entered the room, interrupting their sweet euphoria moment…
Scarlett quickly used her hands and gestured a
Thank you which Liam didn't understand…
"She is mute, she can't speak, she is trying to say Thankyou to you young man", the nurse again explained…
Liam made an Ooo face….
Being the heartless boy he was, he just murmured its okay and decided to leave the room…
But seemed like his heart had no plans to go, he felt something weird but magical on seeing Scarlett….
He felt happy and concerned for some stranger girl…
He was content on seeing her safe…
He was just about to leave when the nurse spoke
"Plz take her along with you young man, she isn't our responsibility, she is well now and she may take her to leave".
Liam twisted his face and gave an annoyed look but anyways soon the two of them were outside the hospital on the streets..
"Where do you live?", Liam asked
Scarlett just looked at him in disbelief, scared and shaky…
She tried to speak but nothing came out, she mentally smacked herself, she knew she couldn't speak…
Liam understood and took out a cell phone from his right pocket…
He pressed something on the screen and gave it to her…
"Type, whatever I ask you"…
Scarlett took the phone from his hand and wrote
*I don't have a house*
Liam got pissed by her answer ….
"So do you live on the street or did you just bang your head and forgot your address, try to remember where your house is,I don't have enough time to waste on you", he raised his voice a little making the already timid girl scared….
*I don't know* she wrote…
This time Liam got frustrated and snatched his phone…
"Fine live on the streets then, goodbye", he shouted and stormed away….
Scarlett saw his disappearing figure, sadness took over her again…. Once again she got abandoned ….she thought to herself
At some point she was angry at Liam for saving her…it would have been better if she was dead, she would have united with her parents up there in heaven….
Her innocent self again started questioning her purpose to live and again she found No reasons ….
TIME SKIP
Liam's pov
I was sitting comfortably in front of the television…
My favorite action hero "Iron man" was saving people from danger and death…
Today I felt like a hero for that mute girl, I saved her life…
But why did I save her life, why did I travel from one part of the city to other just to save an unknown girl…
And why am I thinking only about her, I can't even concentrate on the movie properly…
That idiot girl has summoned my brain...
"Huh!!", frustratedly threw away the remote across the room….
Author's pov
The remote struck the wall and broke into pieces….
"FUCK", Liam cursed under his breath….
Liam lived alone in his apartment, his parents were careless and egoistic, they had a lot of money, they ran big business industries but they never cared about their only child Liam …..
Hence Liam grew up to be heartless and stubborn ….
He had all the materialistic ways to fulfill his desires and needs but he felt unloved by his parents….
He lived alone in his luxurious apartment…
He had little interest in girls and always thought of them as gold diggers…they would always follow Liam everywhere in the school, they would die for his looks and money…
But Liam had zero interest in any of them, except once he had confessed to the queenka of his school and he suffered rejection…
Girls at his school were envious of that queen-ka but later were very happy because she left the school due to her father's transfer….
That was the first and the last time he ever had developed feelings for anyone…
He was always into tough and strong girls, he hated those who always adhered to him like a leech, he wanted to punch their faces caked up with makeup and dig their graves but
Throwing hands over girls was just out of league…
Instead, he chose to ignore them…
He was never an easy type, he barely got excited about anything, he had few friends which were with him since diapers and he only counted over them…
Sam and Mia were two of them…
And they two were also a couple so many times he felt like third-wheeling…
AT THE HOSPITAL
Scarlett sat on a nearby bench …
She emerged in deep thoughts, eyes were glossy and there wear tear marks on her face….
She had just sobbed her heart out and now she sat quiet rummaged in her thoughts….
She gazed at her empty trembling hands…
She was wrecked of her happiness, she was born to suffer and endure this pain…
Happiness was too big a word for this pathetic girl…
Now she yearned for nothing except death to take over her…
She thought that either the sky could swallow her up or the ground could dissolve her forever…
She cried more and more. She let her tears fall, that way she could tell the world about her miseries and pain because the speech was something she was not blessed with…
Soon the night fell and it was pitch dark, thanks to the street lamp which showed away in the darkness….
Suddenly Scarlett heard a voice from a distance….
She looked in the direction from where the voice came…
A boy came running at fast speed…
"Hey !! River Girl".
Scarlett gave a sadistic smile on seeing the owner of the voice,Liam …
"Huh!! Thank god you are here…I thought I lost you", Liam spoke...
"Now come with me."
Scarlett looked at Liam spectically ….
She had thousands of questions running in her mind, but she couldn't comprehend what was going on…
She agreed without any second thought and followed Liam to his apartment….
AT THE APARTMENT
"You can live here until you start earning on your own, I don't know why I am doing this, my mind is making me do it unwillingly, I don't even know who you are, all I know is I have to protect you….So I would request you to plz find a living for yourself and leave me and go away as soon as possible",
Liam's request was more like a threat…
Scarlett nodded her head in a yes and gave a reassuring smile…
Liam for a second felt goosebumps on his skin…
Her smile is really pretty, he thought to himself…
Jerking away from the thought he showed Scarlett her room, upstairs, and told her that she can stay here untill she doesn't bother him and interfere in his personal space ….
"You may now get changed and come downstairs to have dinner", Liam instructed…
When Liam was about to leave Scarlett held on to his t-shirt…
"What?", Liam made a questioning face…
Phone, Scarlett gestured with her hands…
Liam handed her his phone….
*What is your name?* Scarlett wrote in the notepad…
"Liam", he replied...
"And yours?", asked the boy…
*Scarlett*, she wrote …
Again she typed something…
*How old are you?*
"I am 18, and you?"
*I am 17*
After this Liam took away his phone and went downstairs…
Scarlett sat on the soft mattress, once again her mind was filled with numerous thoughts…
Why did this guy bring me to his house?
Is it safe with him?
Is it a new start in my life?
She had many questions bidding in but answers to none….
All the life she had been living with strangers, she trusted no one other than Emily…
Once again life had brought her to the same stairs where she was compelled to trust a stranger, this time a handsome one, she thought to herself…
Wasting no time she quickly changed her outfit to a night dress…
A sky blue color polka dot printed knee-length dress…
She looked cute in it and had no idea how it would affect Liam's, poor heart…
She was too innocent to the dark side of the world…
She quietly went downstairs, she sensed Liam was in the kitchen trying to cook something …
She went to him and offered help...
Being in the habit of hand gestures, she used her hands to convey what she wanted to say…
*May I help you?* she gestured
Liam didn't understand, and handed his phone to her…
She typed down what she wanted to say…
To which Liam replied, "Can you cook?"
*Yes* she nodded…
"Good then, cook something for me, I am hungry…my maid has been on the leave for 6 days and I barely know anything", Liam told her…
She excitedly started to prepare a meal for both of them….
Liam noticed all her actions, how careful she was while cutting vegetables and handling the stove….
Her dress was just perfect for her, cute like her …
She looked so attractive in this…
Liam was getting some unholy thoughts which he tried to jerk off…
In no time the meal was ready …
Scarlett had made fried rice with some special sauce and she served the platter to him….
Liam was practically starving and he gobbled it all at once and went for a second serve….
"Delicious", he spoke….
Scarlett smiled to herself because for the first time in her life someone appreciated her cooking skills other than Emily…
Before all her foster family would abuse her and hit her for not cooking properly and coincidentally she would always make a mistake while cooking for them….After eating the meal, Liam just walks past Scarlett to his room as if she doesn't exist...
Scarlett was used to people purposely avoiding her.
She quietly walked upstairs and sat down on the soft mattress...She observed the room carefully, it was luxurious and comfortable...
Nude grey shaded walls with white ceiling and black and grey furniture perfectly matching with the color...
It looked aesthetic, but Scarlett liked pink and purple more...
Then she walked to the closest and started arranging her things inside it...
She had three knee-length frocks , a school dress, and two-night gowns which also went till mid-thigh...
She never bought clothes for herself, she always wore the discarded clothes of her stepsisters...
She always went to the shopping malls and bazaars to carry bags for her stepsister and mother...
They treated her more like their house slave rather than their daughter...
She took out a small pink soft teddy bear from her bag and placed it on the bed ...
She loved plushies, she was always given the worn-out old plushies to play with ...
This teddy was one of them, she had sneakily kept this in her bag before leaving the house...
The plushie was clean but looked old and worn out...
It had a small lined stitch on its front...
Scarlett got reminded of the time when Lisa, her step-sister had torn her plushie purposely with a blade. Scarlett had cried but later she had stitched it with the help of needle and thread, that is how she found her interest in stitching and knitting ...
She had once collected some money and bought some thread and wool to knit a scarf but Lisa had taken the scarf away because she had liked it a lot...
Scarlett happily handed her the scarf because of the kind heart she carried...
In spite of being poor and helpless, she would never deny giving her things to anyone.....
She only got 50$ as her pocket money, every month and she carefully spent it on her expenses...
She had even collected around 700$ after cutting away a lot of necessities, but unfortunately, her piggy bank was taken away by Mrs. James...After arranging her shelf, she kept a bit more of her books and registers on the study table and then laid down on the mattress...
Soon she drifted off to dreamland...She was tired and a good sleep would be best to lighten up her sad mood...
LIAM'S ROOM
Liam's pov
I tried to avoid that silly girl and went into my room.
I need some privacy, earlier I used to keep the door of my room open but today I shut it off so that idiot wouldn't disturb me or enter inside without my permission...
Her innocent smile was, again and again, flashing in front of my face...
I stormed into the bathroom and splashed some cold water on my face...
"Damn it!!", I murmured to myself...
I don't like to share my things , my house, or anything with anyone then why did I even bring her here...
After taking a quick shower I went out and slept on my king-sized bed...
Author's pov
That day The Red Soulmate thread had done its job properly ...It was successful in bringing two people close under the same roof ...
Now next task was Cupid's to shoot an arrow and unite these two by soul, heart, body, and mind...
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