Author's note : Okay, I love Will and Lou together. I have two plotlines for them swirling in my head. One is where Lou saves Will from the accident and gets immobalized for a year or so. Will helps her through the tough time and they start getting close. Another one is where Lou works as a secratory for Will and Will has a dark brooding Christian Grey persona and tries to dominate Lou minus the BDSM crap but she refuses to bend to his orders.
Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of the novel, "Me before You". They are the products of the wonderful Jojo Moyes. I am just playing around the idea of them being together without the accident.
Louisa's Perspective
Will showed us to some of the places of the castle that really had me staring at them in complete and utter awe. For instance, he took us to the terrace where we could have an ethereal view of the entire property the Traynors owned.
"Feel free to let me know if you have any problem," said Will.
We slowly nodded our heads to let him know that we were completely fine. The realization that Will was the only heir of this vast property and had a huge responsibility to preserve it lying ahead of him gradually dawned over me. He held a certain aura of confidence that didn't go unnoticed by me. I believe that this would help him to perform his duties quite well. He had that sense of maturity and intuitiveness that I happened to lack while making sensible decisions. He held a calculating demeanour that didn't allow him to cloud his sense of discernment while I spurted into action without thinking things through. Treena was the star kid of our family who did well in literally everything. Even though she was younger than me, I sought her advice and trusted her better judgement than mine.
After an hour, Treena started telling me in a hushed tone that she needed to get home so that she could check on Thomas. The truth is I didn't want to go home and really wanted to explore this mysterious castle. Will sort of understood my dilemma.
He said, "No problem, Miss Clarke. My car will drop your sister home and you can keep exploring the place as long as you want." Treena had that overwhelming smile that I rarely saw on her face becuase she seemed so serious about virtually everything.
She gratefully said, "Thank you. I'll send the car as soon as I reach home." With that, she secretly winked at me with a playful grin gracing her lips and left. I was kind of dimwitted to understand what it meant or implied.
"So, here we are, You and me. You are my guest for today." said Will. "There is a place I want to take you to. It is this complex maze where you could really get lost in. When I was a kid, my sister Georgiana and I used to play hide and seek there. It has childhood memories embedded upon it."
Hearing this, I had a change of color on my face and all the memories that I buried deep inside the recess of my mind started assualting my senses in full force. When I was of the age of twenty, I was drunk with a group of rough boys who took me to this very maze and had their way with me. I was repeatedly told by Treena that I was responsible for whatever happened to me. I brought that assualt on me by dressing and behaving recklessly. Since that day, I started wearing the most bizzare kinds of dresses that I could get my hands on. I reverted to that three-year old Lou who was overjoyed at the sight of yellow and black bumble bee tights and glittery boots. My parents didn't know why I picked my exotic choice of outfits and gave them the impression that I just wanted to be someone different who would stand out as someone strikingly unique in the ocean of millions of girls.
When Will sensed my discomfort, he assured me, "It is okay if you don't want to go there. There are many good places besides the maze. Dont think I am prying into your private life but I would be really glad if you considered me a friend and shared with me the reason for your not going there."
"Friend!" The word held some sort of alien meaning to me because I barely knew anything about him. Yet, he was here trying to make me feel at ease in his house more than Patrick, my boyfriend ever did in our 7-year relationship. Patrick only cared about his fitness routine and we hardly talked about us being together for such a long time and our likes and dislikes were enormously overshadowed by his new-found obsession to participate in the Xtreme- Vikings. Something about Will gave me the assurance that he would not look at me with judgy eyes and paint me as the reason for the assault.
I took a deep breath and started recounting exactly what happened on the horrid day. His eyes darkened and changed colors as he understood how that incident shaped me to be who I am today. His fists clenched and unclenched as I started to tear up at the memory of it.
"Clarke, You really shouldn't let that one incident define you as a person. You are not responsible in any way for what happened. Those men acted lik savage beasts preying upon a young innocent girl. Can you tell me the names of those monsters." said Will
"I don't know them. Can we skip this subject?" I inquired
Shaking his head, he relented. He slowly took me to a grand dining hall and welcomed me to feast upon a lavish meal. I ate to my heart's content and told him things I never imagined I would be saying to a person I met at a cafe just a few days ago. I really felt care-free around him and could afford to let go of the burden of supporting my family at the cost of my wishes and aspirations. I wanted to study fashion at Manchester before Treena got pregnant with Thomas. Since then, I kept stifling my wishes for the sake of happiness of my family members. I never had any actual say like Treena did in matters of my family. Will made me feel safe and spread a cocoon of warmth that I found exceedingly difficult to shake off. He never even complained when I ate like some maid who never saw such food before.
After the meal, we chatted till it really started getting late. Will even took the pain to drop me home as he couldn't even let the idea of me going home alone trouble his mind. Even though I told him I would be fine on my own, he remained adamant i his determination. Will Traynor was slowly growing on me with his caring and sweet personality. It was rather strange that a person of his stature would care so much about such an insignificant person as me but I allowed myself to relish in this idea and pinched my skin to really see if I was living in any dream where such a handsome man cared so much about my well-being.
