Chapter 5 Chapter-5

I was in a country side farm, the entire field is covered with grown grass. Breeze touched my face gently. I looked around, it was large farm. Where am I? What am I doing here? I got confused. Suddenly a big tree appeared in distance. Under that, I saw a man standing.

I ran near to that, closer I got my heart jumped in excitement. Omg! What is this? I finally stopped gasping for air. The man before me smiled, it's...it's my Grandpa.

"Hello, bunny" he wished me.

"Omg! Papa!" I hugged him, droplets of tears rolled down my cheeks, "How are you? I miss you so much".

He gently rubbed my back and replied in his old voice, "I'm fine sweetie. I too miss you".

My Grandpa, Thomas. He died an year ago. I looked at him, he was same as he left the world. Lean, specs covering his eyes, sweater and pants with a shoe. His right wrist had a 70's quartz watch he's the reason why I wear my watch in my right.

"Then why don't you come back?" I asked him.

"Darling..." He sighed, "You and I both know that can't happen".

"But, I miss you.." I replied sadly.

"Yeah, I know that. That's why I came to see you" he caressed my face, "Don't worry, whenever I think you are depressed, I'll meet you like this".

I looked him with a teary eyes, "Hope you are good there, up?"

"Look at me!" He spreaded his arms, "What do you think?"

"You are perfect" I smiled.

"Good! This is what I need to see in your face" he pinched my cheeks, "uh-oh! Now I need to go, because I got what I need".

"But...but...wait!...you just now came here".

"I'm so sorry Darling, that's how here works. I need to go" he said in a worried voice.

We both hugged once again, it felt real for a second.

"Also, I think you already aware of this, but still tell me you are in path to HUNT HIM DOWN".

"Yes Pa, I'll never forget what he did to you. Just now, I've started to ROOT HIM. I promise I won't step down until I defeat him".

"I'm again saying, don't do that for me. Do it for you..ugh..your Grandma keeps calling me. I really need to go...bye" he kissed my head.

"But...no..no..stop.."

"Bye..she wants to say that she loves you..bye for now" I saw his smiling face disappearing into a bright white light...I came back to reality gasping for air.

"Ana! Ana! Relax!" I heard Chris voice, "My God! You are sweating" he panicked.

It took me second to realise where I am. I was in a hospital room. I could clearly hear the beeping sound monitor and see the white plastered wall around me. My both palm is bandaged with a white cotton. After that only I remember what happened, oh! Grandpa, he is a dream and I stopped a man stabbing Chris.

"Ana! Are you okay? You need something? Talk something please!" He asked me in a concerned voice.

"Yeah..Yeah..I'm fine..it's just" I sighed, "Can I get some water please?"

"Sure" he raised from his chair and went near the table. He was wearing a half sleeve white plain t-shirt and khaki pants. I looked around woah! Seems like an expensive hospital. I hope bill won't exceess my insurance.

He bought glass of water to me. I tried to grab it, "Ouch!" I moaned in pain. He saw that, "Here, let me" he bought the glass to my mouth.

I gently sipped it two to three times and thanked him. He kept the glass aside and sat on the chair.

"Are you crazy, Ana?" He sounded pissed, "Why you did that?" He asked clenching his jaws.

"I'm sorry..I don't know why I did that. All I had in my thought was to save you".

He signed and I could sense he is really worried about me.

"Umm...who is that guy?"

"Don't know. I asked Chuck to investigate on that".

"How many days I'm here?"

"20 hours and you freaked hell out of me that entire time" he again went back to his angry mode, "Seriously! Ana! Don't do this again, please!" He slightly broke down, "It's just...I hate myself for your condition".

"No..no...you shouldn't..you have nothing to do worry about" I touched his hand. Ouch! Again! It pained terribly.

When he opened his mouth to yell, luckily an elderly woman came inside with Chuck. She was in her mid-fifties but her skin failed to say that. Her short ponytail and high quality beauty products showed her 40.

Chris went near them, she kept her nail polished hand on his shoulders and cheered him up. They three looked at me,"Ana, this is Beth Taylor my publicist" Chris introduced her.

"Hello, Mrs. Taylor" I smiled and waved at her.

"Hello sweetheart. I'm so sorry for this".

"Don't be, cause you have nothing to do with this".

She raised her index finger, "Actually, I have. Because no media will speak about this incident. I took care of that" she smiled, "Unless, you want to use this to your Magazine's publicity. My client is okay with that" she looked Chris.

"Yeah" Chris came front, "If you want, you can exclusively write about this. I am okay with that".

"What?" I replied in a confused voice, "No..I'm definitely not going to use this in my magazine. Chris, I already told you I don't wanna use this type of things in my magazine. Besides, it will alarm your killer. So, I'm out of this" I replied firmly.

"Seriously Baby?" Taylor asked me in a suprised voice, "Many will die for this type of popularity".

"No, I'm not that many" I looked her into the eyes.

"Ok well, then problem is solved" she said dramatically, "Now, my job is officially over".

She and Chuck headed out. He came back to me.

"Umm..Chris..have you or not informed my friends?"

"I did..umm your friend Jamie and some other fellows came. They were here for past 10 hours. I only asked them to get rest. So they headed back to their homes. I asked Chuck to call them, they are on their way".

"Then what about this?" I showed my hands.

"If you stopped yourself doing something stupid, you won't had this punishment. But anyways, you did. So, you need to be in rest for two weeks. Don't worry it won't give any scars".

"Nooo!" I said in a weary voice, "I hate it".

"Told you so" he crossed his arms.

"Listen! You can't burden yourself for what happened" he sighed and turned other side, "Hey! Please look at me" I asked him.

He looked me, silence covered us. His green eyes once admiring was in a pain, a terrible pain. I stopped smiling and looked back at him. I'm sure that he is in edge of crying. We had a breathless staring moment. He touched back of my palm. I felt the warmth of him. Omg! Why my heart beat is increasing rapidly. Stop it Ana! Just breath!

"Thank God Ana!" I heard Jamie's anxious voice.

We came back to our senses. Chris raised from his chair taking his coat. Jamie hugged me, "You idiot! I should not let you alone, anymore".

"I'm fine".

"She's lying Jamie" Chris said, "She is in terrible pain".

"No Chris, you are not helping me here".

"Don't blame him. I know even if he didn't said that".

"Busted!"

Followed by Jamie, all 6 monkeys came and fell on me, "You fucking Ana! We'll kill you if you do this again".

"Guys! I can't breath" I said gasping for air.

I looked Chris, he lowered his head and smirked.

After a minute, they moved away from me. I finally let out a breath.

"Mr. Rovan, thanks for looking after her" Jamie thanked him.

"Wait! Are you here for past 20 hours?" I asked with a shock.

"Mm-hmm" Jamie nodded, "Only time, he left you was to change his clothes which got soaked in your blood".

"Come on, it's nothing" he brushed it off.

Chuck came inside, "Chris, since Ana's friends came here. I think we need to go back. We have a bunch of works for tomorrow".

"Yeah, Mr. Rovan. We'll take it from here. Go and get some rest" Aaron said.

He weared his coat and came near me, "Take care of you, Ana. I'll meet you when I have time".

"Sure and thanks for looking after me".

He nodded and turned to leave, but stopped, "I need to say, you have good friends" he said that from bottom of his heart.

"I know".

He smiled and went outside the door. Chuck asked me to take care and left with him. I felt sad that he is leaving.

"So.. I heard Chris gave green light to run this news exclusively for us" Jake asked.

"Yes, but we are not doing it" I replied.

"But why?" Alex asked, "We are not creating any fake news, then why you don't want it?"

"I said No!" I ordered them, "That's it! No more talks".

They all gave a worried sigh, except Jamie.

Meanwhile Chris,

"Chris..we..." Chuck tried to speak with me from the front seat of the car.

"Not today Chuck. I don't wanna talk anything. Let me alone in peace" I stopped him from back seat.

"Ok then, we can speak tomorrow morning".

I still felt guilty for what happened to her and she really didn't want to talk about this. I don't know how many will do this.

We reached my apartment, Driver went to drop chuck. I came inside the house removing my coat. My mind revolved around her.

When I entered the living room, I saw Janice in her lingerie, "Omg! Janice! What are you doing here?"

"What?" She spreaded his arms, "I've waited for you entire afternoon. You didn't came, so I came to check you".

"How you got the keys?"

"Mack, gave it to me".

Bastard Mack! You are not getting it again.

"Yeah..I'm fine. Wear your clothes now".

"Are you sure? You want me to do that Baby?" She came near me.

"Yes, do it".

"But this night will get wasted" she tried to wrap her arms around me.

I stopped it, catching her wrist and turned back, "What do you want, Janice?"

"Ouch! It's paining! Leave my hand" she shouted.

"No touching me" I released it informing her, "Come to the point! What do you want Janice?'

She rotated her wrist, "Fine! I wanna relationship with you".

"What? Are you kidding? We just hooked up twice. Only because you are not that clingy and followed my rules. You know I don't like that now".

"No, but you are ready to do with that magazine girl" she said changing her clothes.

I became serious, "Who told you?"

"I saw how you both looked in the party".

"Don't bring her into this".

"See now, you are doing it. Listen Chris, I don't wanna real relationship. I want you to do this for my publicity. Currently my movies were flopping and people started to forget my face. If this continues, I'll be out of A-list celebrities. So, if I date you I can be in spotlight again. I'm asking as a favour, do this for me".

"Get out before I can snap your neck. If you come back to home with this intention, I'll kill you. Get out, bitch!"

"You called me bitch?" She asked angrily.

"Yes, I did bitch. Oh! Here comes again, Bitch!"

"You know what? You appear to be great and amazing to the society. But, deep inside you are a dick. Fuck you Rovan!"

She came out of the apartment building. Chuck was standing there, "Janice wait!" he ran behind her.

"What do you want, Chuck?"

"I know what do you want, you wanna be in spotlight. I can do that for you".

She stopped walking and asked him, "How do you know that?"

"I noticed your movies flopping and sudden closeness to Chris. So, I guessed it. Besides, now you are here trying to seduce him. I promise you, it won't work out until he is interested".

"Fine! Hands down! What do you want me to do?"

He explained everything, "I can say for sure, this will bring you to spotlight".

She gave a thought for minutes and shaked his hand, "Fine, I'll do it".

"But you need to be patient, until the time comes and also I need to ask permission from the boss".

"I will wait".