Ethan

Tiara's POV....

A heavy breeze started passing over me, making my eyes dense with salty strings. This guy is making me cry now. I blinked my tears and quickly looked away from him. So did he.

Both of us observed the calmness of the sea for a while before I broke the silence. "Are you okay?"

"I'm perfectly okay." He muttered. I know he isn't. Why not try to make him feel better?

I was trying to find a way when I noticed him shivering. I scanned him doubtfully for a moment. "Die Land. Where's your coat?"

He scanned me from head to toe before glaring at me. "Where's yours?"

I pointed at my jacket. "I'm warm."

He tilted his head to me. "If you're warm and I'm coatless, there is only one friendly thing you can do."

"Go back and get your coat for you?"

He smiled. Reaching out to me, he pulled me close against him. I gasped in shock, totally dumbfounded. What is he doing?

He wrapped his arms around me, giving me another shock. I can now smell his manly scent. He smells so good.

Surprisingly, my arms got wrapped around his waist, trying to rub some warmth into his shivering shoulders and back. I swear, I wasn't planning to do it. I didn't even do it. It just happened.

"That's it exactly. You must keep me warm." Dylan whispered in my ear and shivers ran through my every spine as his warm breath touched my skin. My stomach turns over as my mind races to places.

Although it was only seven o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog blurred every detail with its rough masks. Our feet were soaked with the water and glittered under the waves.

A bitter wind, heavy with icy shivers, crushed at my face, its howling comprising the long notes of a melody, which instruments were the heavy waves of the ocean.

They say when you die of hypothermia, you get cold and sleepy, things slow down, and then you just drift away without feeling a thing. That sounded nice. That was the best way to die awake, feeling nothing.

But it wasn't that simple. He was making me feel those things that I shouldn't feel.

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Dylan's POV...

Why did I do that? I don't know. I was feeling so upset after seeing mom there after so many years. And she was staring at me with kind of affection in her eyes. No one ever looked at me like she did. And I became greedy for warmth. Her warmth.

Is she angry with me? I have no idea. Because when I released her, she just left without saying a word. But everything was normal when I talked with her. When I was about to say sorry for doing that, she simply changed the topic.

Okay, let's pretend nothing happened.

The next day, we were sitting in the living room and Tiara was trying to convince everyone to go to the cinema.

"Okay, we'll go. Let's get ready." She clapped her hands as she successfully convinced Rohan and Sunbin.

I know now her target is me. "You'll go with us." She blinked her eyes cutely at me.

I shook my head. "I'll not."

She pursed her lips together and sat beside me. "You'll love it. The story is about how a mermaid falls in love with a human."

"When you already know the mermaid will fall in love with a human. Why do you need to watch that?"

"Why do we live when we know we'll die one day?"

She made me dumbfounded.

She put a victorious smile on her face as I didn't reply back. "Die Land is going with us."

"Ethan is going with you too."

We got confused hearing a sudden voice from behind. Ethan? Her boyfriend?

We looked back to see the person. It's a man around my age. He is handsome, wearing a black t-shirt, holding luggage.

Tiara's expression went blank, her eyes and mouth dropped open. "Ethan." Her voice rang in my brain, it smashed my heart hard.

Ethan! He is Ethan?

Yes, he is. Look at her. Her eyes are sparkling, she is surprised. So happy that she is unable to express her happiness.

She managed to stand up and took tiny steps towards him. Her body was trembling, tears were pooling in her eyes. When she reached him, she threw herself in his embrace. "Ethan. I missed you so much."

"I missed you too, babe. That's why I'm here." The guy named Ethan tightened his hands around her waist, but it felt like he has tightened his hands around my throat.

Ah! Why is my heart aching? Why am I feeling like this?

"How do you know I'm here?" She asked, looking up at her so-called boyfriend.

Hello, Bonfire. Am I invisible?

"How do you think? I called Sunbin." He nuzzled his nose on hers.

Damn! He is annoying.

I looked away from them and stand up to leave, shoving my clenched fists in my pockets.

Before I could leave, Tiara called me. "Die Land."

So I wasn't invisible. Thank God.

"Yeah." I didn't look back at her. I don't want to see that lovey-dovey scene.

"It's Ethan." She came in front of me with her arm linked with his.

I glanced at their arms before looking at Ethan. He extended his hand to me. "Hi. I'm Ethan. Tiara's boyfriend."

"Hi, I'm Dylan. Rohan's best friend." I also extended my hand. But damn it's trembling. What the hell!

Even he got confused seeing my trembling hand. "Hey, dude. Do you have hand tremors disease?"

I shook my hand with him. "Now I think, I have heart disease."

Tiara laughed. "This kind of problem is connected with our nerve system. Not with heart."

Inhaling a deep breath, I shook my head. "It is. You'll not understand. Anyway, Ethan welcome back. Enjoy with your girlfriend. I'll go and get ready. Bye." I didn't wait there even for a second. I was feeling breathless there.