Episode 30

Playlist~Savior - Beth Crowley

Fernando's POV Cont'd

"Answer me Micaela. Why am your savior? Or more like your guardian angel?" I ask sniffing in her fragrance.

"I.... I.. don't understand what you mean" she stutters and glance away.

"You don't understand? What about this...." I pause and tilt her chin up and she locked gaze with me. "Do you remember how you stole a kiss from me one month and few days ago? If you've have forgotten I'll remind you. I was in my lodge on the 18th of February 2021 preparing my bag to vacate my lodge and return back to Madrid when you came into my room wearing...."

"Stop!" she cuts me off and I smile slightly.

"I guess I just helped you recall that fateful day" I said and she took a step back and bows her head low for a moment.

"You don't have to remind me, my memory is still intact" she replied quietly. "And before you remind me of how you saved my life more than once, let me assure you that I haven't forgotten that either".

"Okay then, I'm glad you remember all that. Micaela?" I called her name in almost a whisper and she slowly gazes up at me.

"Yeah?"

"You and I have a lot to talk about and we can't do that by standing here, your feets are going to hurt badly if we do".

"So what do you suggest?"

"You tell me, I'm not familiar with the city".

"I'm really scared to sit out right now after what happened. If you don't mind we can go to my house and have a talk".

I don't need anyone to tell me she's still feeling scared over what happened with that douchebag of a guy because her body language says it all. "I don't mind" I replied. Afterall my backpack is in her house, so going back there to get it isn't going to be much of a trouble.

"Under one condition" she announced and I raised a brow at her.

"You're giving me a condition before I'm allowed to come to your house?" I snorted and she shrugged.

"I didn't mean it that way. I'm just desperate to know how you find me here. Have you been stalking me?"

"What? Stalking you?!" I exclaimed and she shrugs and her eyes went dim. "Hell no! I'm not stalking you. Your friend Sabrina gave me the address to this place".

"Sabrina? How and when?!"

"We'll talk about that later. Now is my turn to ask a question".

"You've asked a lot of questions already and...."

"And yet you haven't given me answers to anyone of it" I interrupted and she gapes at me. "Perhaps this question is much easier to answer than the rest of them. What were you doing with a rapist at the club?"

Micaela gave a shocking gasps and stared at me in horror. Why is she staring at me like that? I only asked a question though.

"Mario... Mario is not a rapist" she defended and I snorted.

"Oh really? You're even defending the asshole of a guy?" I almost raised my voice at her feeling pissed of how defensive she could be for him.

"I'm not defending him. I'm only saying I didn't know he was a devil in an angel clothing all this time we've been together without me knowing who he really was inside" she replied.

"For how long have you known him?"

"A month now".

"A month, and you trusted him already? Seriously?"

"It's not what you think. Hold on a second, why are you interrogating me and being protective?!" She half-yells with a frown.

I suddenly lost my voice and just stared at her. It's true anyways, what do I care if she's getting involved with men, huh? "I'm sorry if I intruded your privacy" I apologized and slide my hands into my pocket. "If you're ready we can hail a cab to take us to your house".

"I.... I'm sorry if what I said came out rudely" she apologized and touched my arm and I felt a burning sensation all over my body. That same spark I've been talking about has happened again.

I immediately flinched from her like her touch was burning my skin and she jolted. She furrowed confusedly at me and I blink away. I think I just overreacted, I shouldn't have acted that way. "I'm sorry, I...."

"It's fine. I'll hail a cab right away" she said almost inaudibly like she was about tearing up.

As she turnaround to hail a cab I held her wrist and spurn her around. I've been keeping my cool since I saw her. I was afraid I wouldn't meet her alive but seeing her again healthy and beautiful than ever, I felt so happy than I've ever felt before in my life. There was this relief and excitement that came from my heart when I saw her again. Right now staring into her eyes and filling my nose with her fragrance is not really enough for me. Only one thing is going to make my mind be at ease.

I did the unexpected.... I pulled her to my chest and hugged her so tightly like my life depended on it. I don't care if is just for a moment but it's all I needed right now.

Micaela's POV

My legs are trembling, wait..did I just say my legs? Sorry, I meant to say my whole body was trembling at the touch of Fernando. I stood there like a tree that was being hugged. My heart was about exploding and my breathing became still, I think I'm having an heart attack.

"I didn't realize how much I missed you until right now" he whispers to me and wrapped his arms around me tighter that I couldn't breathe well.

Fernando Perez my forever crush, the man of my dreams missed me? My throat went dried and the butterflies in my stomach started jubilating. I don't understand what was going on, I'm confused. This is so surreal to believe! When did Fernando start missing the female gender and of all persons how could it be me?

"You...miss.. me?" I croaked and gulped down some saliva to my dried throat.

"Yes, I miss you really" he replies and pat my hair.

I was stunned. I can't still believe what I just heard. If there's anyone that misses someone here then is me, I miss him so damn much that it hurts badly. Been apart from him this past one month was the loneliest time of my life, it was more better if we never crossed paths after Highschool than to cross paths and let go of each other again.

I couldn't hold myself back, I hugged him back and let my head rest on his chest while I sniff in his cologne. It was the best cologne I've ever came across with, it was a mixture of sandalwood, orchid, musk, lavender scent. Don't ask me how I knew about it because I'm a freak of perfumes. I have 10 different perfumes in my perfumes collection in my room and I can tell which is which. Most times I mixed 3 to 5 different perfumes and it gives me a unique scent that attracts men and ladies to me.

I'm so drowning in his scents that I'm almost forgetting one important thing... that I'm deeply in love with a gay. Remembering that, I pulled away from him like I didn't just enjoy his warmth embrace. My gaze were down on the ground because I was too scared and ashamed to accept the fact that Ferd is a gay, the worst part is I can't even confront him about it. I can imagine his eyes eating me up already for letting go of him like that.

"You don't like it I guess-" he said and I remained still and didn't gaze up at him. "You don't have to feel bad about it, I understand perfectly well that I shouldn't have said those words neither should I have hugged you".

That got me to gaze up at him. "You don't understand anything Ferd, you don't. If you do understand something related to this lady standing right in front of you then you shouldn't have ever become a gay!" I blurted and his mouth flew open in shock with his cute charming eyes wide open.

We stood there in awkward silence waiting for him to at least deny it or say it's true, but no response was forthcoming. "So it's true then? You're a gay and you have the nerves to...."

"Stop it already!" He barks startling me. "What is this? Tell me what story this is? Is this story mine or someone else's?"

"What do you even mean by that? Whose story should I be talking about if not yours?"

"Did you frame this story up or that your sick rapist of a friend told you to tell me this?!"

I gasps at his question. "What are you talking about? What does Mario have to do with this? He doesn't even know about you except for tonight".

"Then it should be your girlfriends. Sabrina the nosy one must have fed your mind with stupid assumptions that aren't true and you believed her more than you should me!" he yells angrily and I bowed my head in shame knowing he just caught me rare handed. Can someone tell me how he guessed so right?

"I'm disappointed in you Micaela, I shouldn't have come here afterall!" He shook his head and turnaround to leave.

"Leaving again huh? Isn't that what you're good at?" My words halted him but he didn't turnaround. "You're always leaving me without a goodbye. Do you know what is so annoying of it all? You couldn't keep to your promise to stay with me forever and never let any harm come to me! You left me all alone despite the fact you knew I was depressed and needed some comfort and help to get over my depression! What kind of man are you?!" I yelled for the world to hear that he's a man of broken promises.

He turnaround and fixed his gaze on me and took a step towards me. "Does that make me a gay?".

I was caught off guard with his question. I wanted to answer a 'no' to his question but I kept my cool. "What do you think, please tell me what you think?"

"I'm not a gay and will never be a gay" he replied.

"Then why didn't you kiss me back when I kissed you that day? Why did you stood still like it wasn't a lady that was kissing you? Tell me!"