Couldn't be with you

"Hey!" she greeted him in a calm voice.

"Hello, Isabella. How are you doing?" he asked?

"Yeah! I'm doing great. How about you? After moving you didn't even bother to reach me!" she raised a question and a feeling of letdown could be imagined in her voice.

"I got busy so, maybe because of that I couldn't get you!" he said while pushing to the limit to put on about getting energetic with his life.

"Okay, no problem!" she said.

"Can I ask you something?" he pleaded.

"Yes, tell me what is it?"

"How's Lisa doing?" he put on a question that was hard for her to answer.

Rather of an answer, he came upon with a pure stillness from her side. While she was still over the thought that whether to let out or not.

"Isabella?" he whispered her name to call her out of her imagination.

"SHE IS DOING GREAT!" she told an untruth about her and felt regretful for falsifying it.

"Did she remember anything about the past?"

Lying to him was hard for her but again he came off to raise a question for her.

But again standing up to the same stillness from her side, he moaned and said, "Why are putting up with so long to answer?"

She sighed and spoke to him.

"I don't think so. She's still with Noah!" not understanding the truth she juggled the reality.

"I see,"

"You are not in contact with her anymore or what that you didn't know about her being?" she asked while getting confused over that.

"No, I changed my number and I am not in contact with her mother nor her," he asserted.

"Why but?"

"I wanted to move on because I couldn't hurt my feelings besides," he grumbled.

"So, Have you moved on or still on her?" she begged him a question to know about his emotions.

"You know that I will be in love with her forever!" he confessed his love for Lisa, who did not open his eyes then.

"I know!"

"Okay, so, when you gonna come back??"

"Can't say!"

"Okay, take your time but you have to come!"

"Yes!"

After that, she hung up the call and sat there with a guilty face.

"I called him to notify him about Lisa but I couldn't bear, him in pain again!" she uttered to herself to put on relaxation to her heart.

She sighed and made her way to the room.

Beyond the bounds, there was Louis, who was getting relaxed after knowing about Lisa for so long. He needed to talk to her but the reality avoided him every time. He was embracing the moments of her when he got attentive by the noise of his phone.

Bending down to take a glance at the ID of the person.

But his eyes go large when he saw Noah name popping up on his phone screen. He was surprised to see that from where he got his number.

Not wanting to answer but end up picking up his call.

"Hello," Noah greeted him.

"From where did you get my number?"

"I have my ways!" he said in a proud tone.

"Okay, so what is the reason you called me?"

"Before that, tell me how are you doing in your life?"

"I'm great!" he replied in a troublesome expression.

"Good! So, the reason is that will you attend the award show that will be happening in country X and on top of that you are also invited!" he explained all the in one go.

"I don't think that I would go!"

"What's the reason for that?"

"Nothing but not in the mood of attending any show which is of no use for me now!" he expressed sadly.

"But-,"

"Anything else?"

"I wanted you to see the performance that I prepared without the help of anybody!" he whispered to him.

"You have many people to look after so, why you alone went through all?"

"What is the use of those who didn't care about me as much as she. I'm talking about Lisa, without her being with me, made things difficult!" he expressed the toughness.

"Why? What happened to her?" he asked in confusion as Isabella didn't come up with something like the same. So, his words made him think about it.

"You don't know about her condition, you are her best friend even then?" Noah said in a confused tone.

"Bring up the issue, please!" Louis instructed him.

"Ahh! it's hard to think that happening again. She is in a coma presently," he expressed.

Louis breath deepened by his phrasing, those words were hard to believe.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO HER EXACTLY?" he asked in a cracked voice.

"She encountered an accident in the past month and because of that, she is suffering now?" Noah presented the whole situation before him through words.

"And what about now? How's she doing?" he asked him in a worried tone, and it was obvious for him to be that way, after knowing about the person he loved, was facing a hard time.

"I couldn't know about that but soon after the performance I will visit her house," Noah uttered. And which bought Louis to the fact that they both were in a relationship.

"Are you still in any kind of relationship with her?" Louis asked out of curiosity.

"Yes, but we do not spend much time together!"

"Okay, Thank you!" Louis said.

"Why are thanking me?"

"For telling me the truth!" he said and hung up the call. While Noah breathed over his words.

"What truth I told him?" he muttered and blinked his eyes several times, and got back to his practice.

"This can't happen again? he murmured to himself while getting out of his room to look after his mother presence.

"MOM, WHERE ARE YOU?" he shouted.

"I'm in the kitchen," his mother yelled back.

Making her way towards the kitchen, he found his mother cooking dinner for them.

She turned to him, and to ask him the reason why he was searching for her.

"What happened? and why look so upset?" she asked him, as it was quite noticeable for her to know that he was upset over something. He hugged her figure from behind and she felt something wet on her shoulder. And she turned to see his meaningful tears.

"What happened? Tell me!" she asked and wiped his tears away from his face.

"Lisa met an accident and now she's in a coma!" he uttered sadly to her mother.

"What?" she whispered to him, shocked at his words.

"I just come to know a few minutes before, !"

"Did you contact her mother or something?" she asked worriedly.

"I want to go but I am afraid to face the reality!" he affirmed.

"I know but she was your best friend and ignore that fact and go look after her, she needs you, !" she said and comforted him.

"But-"

"Don't let this thought come up in your mind before your lover, she was your best friend," she let out while struggling to encourage him.

"Okay, I will be back soon," with those words, he left from there, towards his room.

Hurriedly, he booked the ticket. And after waiting for few days, he started to pack his stuff in a bag, thereon 10 minutes, he got down to go towards the airport.

He bid bye to his mother at the airport and soon went away from her sight. The worry took over him as he was so scared for Lisa.

In those days, he didn't contact her which was enough for him to regret the happenings with her.

Sitting for 6 hours in a plane, his plane took off at the airport. After following the rule and regulations at the airport, he waited for the taxi.

After looking for some minutes, he got one and asked the taxi driver to follow the given address. The drive was long so, it would take time to reach there.

Thinking back to the past days, he remembered Isabella, she lied to him about Lisa's well being.

So, taking out his phone, he called her.

"Hello?" he muttered.

"Hey, Louis!" she cheered up from the other side.

"Why did you lie to me about Lisa?" he went straight to the point and it made Isabella surprised that how did he come to know about her.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh, please cut this act of yours and tell me why did you do that to me?"

"BECAUSE I DON'T WANTED YOU TO EXPERIENCE THE PAIN AGAIN, I WISHED THAT YOU COULD LIVE HAPPILY. I KNOW HOW HARD YOUR LIFE WAS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS. SO, I DIDN'T LET YOU KNOW ABOUT HER CONDITION." she let go of the guilt of lying to him but somewhere she told him about her insecurity.

"And now I came to know about this from someone else,"

"I'm sorry but I just asked for your happiness!"

"It's okay!" after that he hung up the call and thought about Lisa for a while.

After one hour of travelling, he reached her address. Getting out of the taxi, he made big steps towards the entrance of the house.

He knocked on the door and was greeted by