Chapter 12

The truth was very disappointing: I did believe that Vincent was special but he was just like all men.

And men used to defraud me. I felt helpless because this scene reminded me of all the anger I felt towards Manuel and those images of Vincent and Manuel stuck in my head.

My heart was slowly falling for Vincent and the strong feeling of betrayal made me feel sick in my bones.

Right now I couldn't escape without being seen by Vincent but I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of hearing my sobs so I pressed my face into the pillow.

When I heard, that the frond door had been closed, I expected that Tori had left.

Knocks on the door: I stayed quiet. He knocked again: "Catherine?"

He waited:" Are you… ok?"

And then he just came in.

Before I knew what was going on, he caressed the back of my head, my hair.

No, I won't let him touch me. I sat up, wiped my tears away and fled into the corner of the bed, away from him.

"Nothing!" my voice was hoarse but my hope was that he was too blind to see the pain in my eyes.

"I'm fine." but I felt weak and my heart was shattered into pieces.

"Ok, Catherine, why are you crying?"

No, he didn't even see me, he didn't recognize that I had watched everything?

I played ignorant:" Someone came by a few minutes ago, right? I heard how the door closed and when I was calling for help, you didn't show up!"

He didn't even bother to answer.

"I saw her, Vincent. I saw you! And right now I find it quite hard to believe that you still need a lawyer for your divorce."

I had no control over my voice and it broke when tears of anger ran over my cheeks.

But he got angry too, stood up and furrowed his eyebrows. "Yes, she still is my wife but for the record, she kissed me."

I huffed in anger. That was so cliché, that's what they all say.

"Sure, that's probably the reason why you were about to undress yourself?" This was not the whole truth and in fact quite unfair and childish but I couldn't hold my emotions back any longer.

"Catherine-"

"Oh stop ´Catherine- ing´ me" This made things even worse.

"I didn't even know what we were, you know?"

"We are friends, Catherine, that's all. What did you think?" His voice was calm, his tone serious. He meant that? Friends! This was just bold. But friends wouldn't work for me.

And by the way, I was stuck in his apartment for now.

"Sure!" I nodded and swallowed the huge lump in my throat.

He got up as if nothing had happened:" You hungry?"

Smile, Catherine. By the way, when did I become such a bundle of nerves?

"I'm starving." the smile on my face felt weird but since he dropped the `let's be friends´- bomb on me, I needed my time to recover.

He left to prepare dinner and because I had nothing better to do, I continued with the diary.

´JT woke me up and he was in the best mood I had seen him in in all those months since I came back.

He wouldn't tell me lies to keep my hopes up, not if he wasn´t sure that he found anything.

But today he said that he found a cure.

He had tested it already and the last step would be to test it on me.

We tried it today, mostly because I had nothing to loose.

JT has this plan. He would write down the changes he expects and compare them to the changes that I feel.

The feeling of the serum in my veins was similar to the injections Muirfield gave us.

My scar is gone now; JT didn't see that coming but all I feel is relief.

At med-school the students learn to have a look at the long- term effects of their experiments. For now we have to focus on that. But no matter how hard I try, I can ´t sense the presence of the beast anymore.

JT had set up several hints to lure Muirfield out, traps, wrong paths to find out whether they were still searching for me. Another thing we would need to find out, if I ever planned to be out in public again.´

This entry was 6 years old, so Vincent was human after all and this could have been just another story after all.

Vincent's POV

Friends: Vincent, really?

I was a complete idiot for pushing her away like this.

This ´friends´- thing wasn't working for me, not when I constantly felt the urge to comfort and kiss her when we were close. It was easy to admit that I had just f*** up big time.

And she had every right to be jealous, though I told her the truth, Tori kissed me.

And if I saw her with another man I would surely react jealous too.

There had to be a way for us out of the ´friend-zone´, I just didn't find it yet.

Fixing us dinner surely wouldn't hurt.

Catherine POV.

My phone woke me up, the ID of the caller made me wonder.

"Evan?! Hey."

"Hey, Cat! It's good to hear your voice again. I'm at your apartment…! But apparently you aren't. Don't you live here anymore?"

"Evan…no, I … uhhm" I cleared my throat and tried to answer again.

" No, I moved… it just didn't work out, you know?"

And before I knew what I was doing I had told him my current address, Vincent's address.

Evans charming british accent made me remember how much I missed him. In fact I realized, just how much I had cut my friends out of my life in the last couple of weeks.

"I'm on my way!" I would change this right here and now. Since Vincent was my ´friend´, why couldn't I invite Evan to visit me?!

Vincent's POV

Dinner was ready and I would use my chance to talk to her.

"Catherine..!" I called for her to avoid any awkward conversations before dinner.

She came out of her door and when we both heard the knocks on the door, she smiled widely.

"Who…?"

She opened the door:"Evan!"

Ok, this was going to be interesting.

Hello everyone, sorry for not raising before this chapter, I have had many exams this week. I know many that you follow this story you have several questions: Vincent is not a beast because jt find a cure and Muirfield has he disappeared completely, all unhappy that again VINCat history and I will, there will be no more beasts. What will happen to our wonderful Evan? As Vincent react? Please this story is getting very exciting. I continue? This story will be updated soon. Thanks Thisisjulchen ! xx