This is the last chapter! Then there's an epilogue, but that's going to be really short. Thanks to everyone that reviewed.
"You owe me a lot of explanations Milena." The red head demanded closing the door to a sunroom.
"Explanations? About what?" She asked nerviously, shifting uncomfortably.
"About why you left, why you didn't even say goodbye, or even give a clue about where you went to!" Tala's voice rose higher and higher, to the point where he was almost yelling.
"I had my reasons, and don't yell at me!" She replied blinking back tears.
"You know I really liked you…it really hurt when you just left without a word." Tala spoke suddenly so softly she could barely hear him.
"You're just saying that now! You obviously didn't feel that way when Cathy told you how I felt about you!" The blunette protested.
"When did Cathy tell me how you felt?" Tala asked frowning.
Milena scoffed as she rolled her eyes.
"Sure, you forget now! Don't you remember! During the finals for soccer! Right after your game Cathy came up to you and told you everything!"
Tala's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Holy shit! Are you serious! Is that what she was blabbering about?"
Milena felt shocked.
"You weren't listening to her at all?"
"Psh…no…you know how stressful it is to listen to her whine? And I was already ready to faint from my match." Tala smirked. "Anyways, tell me…what did she say?" He asked, his smirk widening.
"Um…that is…why do you want to know?" Milena asked getting flustered again.
The red head didn't answer, but kept on staring at her intently with those bright blue eyes.
"Alright…I liked you a lot, I had for a while then. Cathy finally told you, but you know what you did? You went and hooked up with another girl from the other school an hour later. You know how much that hurt me?" Milena asked, unable to hold back the rush of tears anymore.
Realization dawned him. "I'm sorry, I really had no idea." He apologized softly, wrapping his arms around her back and letting her cry onto his suit.
"I really liked you! I might have even loved you! I couldn't believe even you would have the heart to do that! It killed me inside!" Her screams were muffled by his firm chest, as he let her take out her pent up rage.
Her yells got softer and softer, as she just stood there and cried in her former crushes arms.
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Brooklyn walked hesitantly down the bright corridor. He had lost the blunette, after two turns, but he didn't want to give up looking for her. The scene he saw just kept tugging at his mind, as he tried to let go of his suspicion, trying to convince himself Milena would never cheat on him.
He suddenly heard a girl shouting down the hall, as he quickened his pace to see who that was.
He opened the door quickly, but stopped quickly, as he heard what he know determined as Milena was shouting.
"I liked you….you…another girl…how much…hurt me? Brooklyn could hear the pain in her voice.
"I'm sorry" Brooklyn opened the door a little bit more, only to find his girlfriend hugging with the soon to be groom, as she cried into his chest.
Brooklyn took a step back, as his eyes widened. He couldn't believe this. This couldn't be happening to him! Not again! He thought desperately, as he ran away blindly, not knowing which direction he was running in, but he didn't really care, he would go anywhere, as long as it was away from that scene.
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Milena looked up at the door. She could have sworn she heard something. It took her a moment to realize the door was open. She could have sworn Tala closed it.
"Someone saw us." Tala stated what she had suspected.
"I should go…" Milena looked away, not daring to meet his eyes. Tala didn't object, as he slowly removed his arms from her.
"I would still like it if we could get together." Tala spoke up.
"Don't be silly! I already have a boyfriend…and you're getting married tomorrow!" Milena forced a laugh, her back facing her, so not to reveal how much she wanted to just cry at those words. Those words which she would have jumped at four years ago. In fact, it still tugged at her heart strings four years later.
"I'll cancel my wedding." Tala announced. "It was my parents idea anyways. Marry Hilary and with our two corporations combined we'll be unstoppable in the business world."
"You shouldn't do that. Besides, you didn't even ask if I would be willing to break up with Brooklyn."
"Are you?" Tala asked dead serious now.
"I…" Milena stopped, not sure what she wanted anymore, all of her old feeling for the red head came back at her like an avalanche.
"No, I'm not." Milena answered firmly, pushing down her old feelings, knowing it was in the present now, and Brooklyn had never hurt her, though Tala never meant to either. A little voice in her mind screamed.
Milena walked briskly out of the room, before that little voice could convince her to go back into Tala's arms, as appealing as it sounded.
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The party had ended, as people started to stream out of the house slowly.
Milena started getting really worried. Where did Brooklyn go? She hadn't seen him since she returned from her "talk" with Tala, and she knew that he wasn't familiar with this area, so he probably couldn't go anywhere far.
She had decided to start asking people, but nobody saw him after she had left.
Soon, she was one of the only guests still left.
"What's wrong?" Tala asked, coming up from behind her.
"I can't find Brooklyn, I think he left." Milena replied sighing.
"Is your car missing?"
"No, that's the problem, but he's not in the house or the gardens."
"Maybe he went back to your house already?" Tala suggested.
"I doubt it, but I guess I'll back and check. Tell me right away if he comes back ok?" Milena pleaded.
"No problem." Tala gave a weak smile as she quickly strode out the front door.
He collapsed on a recliner in exhaustion.
'she really does love him.' A voice in his head laughed at him.
'look how worried she is over him, she obviously never felt that way about you, or else she wouldn't have left you without a word would she?' the voice kept on going.
Tala let out a sigh, rubbing his aching temple.
"Aww! What's wrong sweety? Headache?" Hilary asked striding up to him, now changed into a skimpy red nightgown. She went up behind him and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Get away from me!" The red head growled, flinging her arm away as he got up and left.
"Fine! Be that way! Just don't be like this tomorrow, or I am going to be fucking pissed!" She screamed as him.
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Milena slowly drove home in the heavy downpour, it was as if even the god's above felt her emotions, and decided to match the weather with it.
She walked slowly up the grand porch leading to the door, not caring if she got soaked to the bone.
She walked in dripping wet, and as she wanted, soaked to the bone. Yet she didn't feel the chill, or anything else.
The whole day's events kept going through her mind. Tala shared her feelings, Brooklyn disappeared, Tala wanted to get back together, he was getting married tomorrow…The list went on and on.
She decided it would be best if she just took a hot shower and went to sleep, and try to put what happened away for the night.
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Milena tossed all night, imagining the worst-case scenarios about what happened to Brooklyn.
It wasn't until four in the morning that her dreamed up vision of what happened to him actually came true.
The sound of the phone ringing had woken her up. Seeing as nobody else was going to answer it, she grudgingly got out of bed, ready to swear off whoever dared to call at four at four in the morning.
"Hello?" She asked sleepily.
"Hello, is this Ms.Hiwatari?" a man's voice asked on the other end.
"Yes, who is this?" She asked grumpily, it better not be someone selling something, she thought to herself.
"I am from the Vancouver police department, and I'm calling regarding a man named Brooklyn Kingston, he is residing with you correct?" The officer asked.
Milena's eyes popped open immediately, now completely awake.
"Yes! Did something happen to him?" She asked stricken with worry.
"I don't know how to tell you this, but he was caught it a major car crash downtown tonight. Would you mind coming down to the station to clear up some things for us?"
Milena's breath hitched in her throat. This couldn't be happening!
"Yeah, I'll be right there." She managed to choke out.
She quickly ran to Kai's room, only to find it empty.
She was starting to get hysterical, she needed to tell someone.
She dialed the first number that came to her mind.
"It-it's Milena! Broo-Brooklyn! He-he got into a-a accident…can you meet me at the po-police station as-as soon as possible?" She begged as she got dressed.
"Thank-Thanks so much!"
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Milena arrived at the station in ten minutes, looking like a complete mess. Her shirt was backwards, and her hair remained unbrushed.
Her eyes were already swollen and she was still crying.
"Thank god you came!" She cried out in relief hugging the person waiting for her by the front desk.
"It's so problem…Just calm down ok?" The red head soothed, stroking her hair.
"Ahem. Ms. Hiwatari? Are you ok?" A stocky officer asked.
"Yes…" She replied wiping the tears away.
"Alright then, please come this way."
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"So what happened?" Milena demanded to know as soon as they walked into the small office.
"Brooklyn Kingston had been completely wasted at the time of the accident, and he was apparently trying to walk back to your house from a small bar downtown, and he crossed a busy intersection. Unfortunately, since it was raining and slippery, the car couldn't stop on time. But again, due to the rain, it had caused multiple cars to crash there, including an oil tanker." The officer explained, looking at the girl in front of him sympathetically.
It took a while for the words to sink in.
"So…everything blew up?" She asked pitifully.
"I'm afraid so. Everyone involved in the crash died, we were barely able to identify some of the bodies."
Milena couldn't say anymore, all she could do was burst into tears.
Cathy stormed in at that moment, with a worried Kai.
"What the hell did you call me here for in the middle of the night? You better not have gotten yourself into jail!" She demanded loudly. She stopped short when she saw the crying blunette.
"Hey…whatever it is, it's going to be ok…" She reassured, giving the crying girl a light hug.
Kai glanced at Tala for an explanation, as Tala motioned for them to leave the room so he could explain without worsening the wounds Milena had already.
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Dawn had arrived now, as Milena realized Tala still had to go and get married that afternoon.
"Shit! Tala, you better go! You're wedding is in like…9 hours."
"Nah, I'm skipping it. I realized yesterday I really don't want to get married to that bitch."
"What are your parents going to say then?" Milena asked worriedly.
"Who cares?"
"Alright then. It's your decision, so I won't bug you anymore about it."
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Since Milena was the closest thing left to Brooklyn, she had to take care of all of the details, something she really didn't want to do.
She had decided to bring the body back to Toronto, which was where Brooklyn had said was the closest thing he ever had to home.
It was after Tala's phone rang with a screeching Hilary on the other end that made Milena realize she hadn't checked her cell in a while.
She quickly went home to pick up her cell.
She then realized she had a message on there, from Brooklyn!
She quickly fumbled it open and hit view.
Brooklyn's voice slowly came out, except his voice wasn't it's usually calm tone, instead, it carried a sort of crazed/maniacal tone to it.
"I hope your happy now! Is it some kind of sick game to you guys? See who can fool Brooklyn the best? Because I have to tell you, you did a much better job then MingMing! You just needed someone to latch onto while your actual lover was across the continent from you isn't it? Well, I hope your happy, but you'll never be happy with that kind of guy! After all, he got himself engaged while you were away, which kind of shows you what kind of guy he is doesn't it?" Brooklyn's voice suddenly became it's usually gently tone. "Anyways, I wish you the best, because you won't be seeing anymore of me, but I hope I won't cause you that much grief, because I really loved you, you know? In fact, even now, I still love you, and I probably always will, no matter what you do." With that, he hung up.
Milena lay her arms on her steering wheel, as she cried uncontrollably. It was all clear now. The person that saw her and Tala was Brooklyn. It wasn't it spite that hurt her, she knew she deserved it, but it was his last words that pained her. He had loved her so much, and yet she threw all of it back in his face.
She felt like she was the most horrible person in the world at that moment.
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This time, the god's seemed to be punishing her.
It was an unusually sunny and cheerful day, except it was the complete opposite for Milena.
It was the day of Brooklyn's funeral.
Because of the blast and all the fire, the casket had to be closed, no amount of fixing could make him presentable unfortunately.
All of their Toronto friends had come to pay their respects, along with some teachers and other acquaintances of Brooklyn's.
'I hope you can finally find true happiness wherever you are now.' Milena wished silently as she placed a single white rose on his casket.
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It was only a few days after the funeral when Tala called.
"Hey, I know your still grieving and everything, but I was wondering, do we still have any hope of trying to get together?" He asked gently, not wanting to inflict pain on the still open wounds.
"I…I can't. Brooklyn died because of this, and I just want to honor him and you know, I just don't think I can be with you." Milena replied softly, remembering Brooklyn's message for her.
"Are you sure? I mean, I know you're grieving right now, but you have to move on eventually."
"I'm sure, and I know I will move on, but I won't be moving on with you. I'm sorry."
"Alright, but tell me if you ever do, because I'll always love you."
"Thank you, but don't say that. I'm sure you'll find someone else who'll love you even more." Milena replied, hanging up quickly, as she buried her face in her arms.
She had promised herself she wouldn't cry anymore. Yet his last words touched her. It was exactly what Brooklyn had told her in his last words to her.
"I'll always love you too." She answered back softly, to no one in particular, "Both of you."
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