Chapter 40 - 40

I feel sad that I won't have a friend as great as Zane in my life again. Today is my sixteenth birthday once again and unlike before my whole family wished me a happy birthday first thing in the morning. My dad has everyone running around to make this day special for me.

He has promised that there would be a grand party later on to celebrate my birthday and everyone who is anyone has already received an invitation to the party. All this attention and love is new to me and I can't say that I dislike it that much, having my parents notice me and shower me with love feels nice.

I get dressed quickly because I still need to go to the cafe and meet Reiner. I have to see him again and just the first time I want to fall in love with him again but this time I won't let him go away from me so easily. Jack the man who brought me back to the past was able to convince my family to stay by my side as my bodyguard. Until he unites me and Reiner together has is stuck here with me.

I wear blue jeans and a simple white shirt with white sneakers. Leaving the house with Jack by my side we walk down the streets towards the cafe. My heartbeat increased the beat as I took a step closer to the cafe.. We finally reached the door of the cafe that held the pages of my incomplete love story.

Pushing the door open I take a long breath to relax my anxious body. I walk over to the last seat in the corner and settle down as my eyes wonders around the cafe trying to find him. Jack takes a seat next to me, he picks up the menu and calls for a waiter.

'This is it,' my heart screams with happiness. He will come and talk to me.

The waiter comes in from the back and stands next to me. My heart falls to the bottom of my stomach with disappointment as he is not Reiner. "Kye," I call out subconsciously wondering what could have gone wrong.

"Yes," he answers making me conscious of the situation. My eyes drift to Jack and I send him a dark look as I am ready to incinerate him.

"Why are you here? Where is Reiner?" I ask him.

"..."

He stands there and looks at me with suspicion. I don't understand why he is giving me that look and I don't care as I just want to meet the love of my life right now.

"Can he serve us please," I say when he refuses to say anything?

"Uhh, Reiner doesn't work here," he tells.

"But Rocky owns the cafe and he likes to come by and help her outright?" I ask with desperation oozing out of every word from my mouth. Jack has changed so much in my past that nothing seems to be going according to the original line.

"I will be back," he says and walks away.

I turn and glare at Jack who acts like he has no idea why I am glaring at him. I seriously can't believe that I listened to him and let him ruin my life like this. First, he took Zane away from me, and now Reiner and I might never get to meet. He claims that he came into my life to fix everything but why does it feel like he just made everything worse. I should have just stayed in the hospital with Reiner and helped him recover instead of listening to a stranger and have my life turn upside down.

"Why are you glaring daggers at me?" he asks.

"What do you mean why. You have ruined everything," I mumbled.

Kye comes back from the back and behind him is the beautiful boy that makes my heart skip a beat. He looks different from the first day that I saw him. He has long hair just like he did in the hospital. His hazel eyes looked so gorgeous in the morning rays that came from the glass windows. My breath hitched and my heart stopped as everything around me seems to be going in slow motion. His hair bounces on his shoulder as he walked a step closer to our table. My eyes watched his every movement not wanting to miss anything.

"I heard you were looking for me," he said in his melodious voice that sent a shiver down my spine. My heart reacted with excitement and increased Its pace in my chest.

"Hello," he told shaking his hand in front of my face to get my attention. I pinched myself to be attentive. "Why were you looking for me?" he asked slightly irritated.

I got up from my seat and pulled him into a hug. It felt like forever that I got to hold him in my arms and not worry about him lashing out at me. Just to have him near me and by my side with nothing to hold me back from being close to him was like a dream come true.

"I missed you so much," I whispered to him sweetly with a grief wide smile on my lips to compliment the warmth that I was feeling inside. I held on to him tightly, I didn't want to ever let him go again.

He breaks the hug, he stares at me. "Who are you?" he asked and I could hear all the sound of my heart-shattering in my chest. My heart broke into a million pieces when he asked who I am. The realization that he probably doesn't know who I am stung my heart. I bit my lower lip to prevent the tears that had gathered in my eyes from flowing down my cheeks.

"He is Brandon," I heard Jack say. I would feel grateful to him for saying something when I couldn't with the words stuck to my throat but right now I feel like murdering him. He made the one person that I love forget who I am and now I am stuck unsure of what to do.

"Why did you want to see me? And why did you hug me when we are not friends?" he asked me, that statement that he said reminded me so much of the time when he distanced himself from me. How he expressed repeatedly that we weren't friends and that there was nothing between us. The thought itself made my heart ache with so much pain that bitting my lip couldn't stop my tears from flowing.

My tears flowed down my cheeks and I let them. Being rejected by someone who means the world to you is so painful but not as painful as looking at them and gave them look back at you like a stranger. I had seen this look in him even before he forgot about me and it doesn't hurt less today. The pain still hurts the same as it did before even though I know that he didn't plan to hurt me.

"What a heartless monster. You broke him, Reiner," I heard and turned my head to see where the voice came from. I stood aghast with my eyes popping out of their sockets in shock from who it was that spoke.

"I haven't even said anything to him. It is not right for you to accuse me," Reiner said in his defense. "Zane, I swear I haven't said anything to him. You can ask Kye if you don't believe me," he added.