Alex and his friend Emma started to move towards their destination. Alex once again turned back to look at Liam but he was long gone. 

Emma was Alex's friend. He met her during one of his gang war escapes in a bar. Emma was the owner of that bar. She was an independent and bubbly girl; she moved to this city around two years ago. She had an incredible talent for stitching wounds; this trick she had in her hands had made Alexander her friend.

Yesterday after a serious phone call, Alex had received Emma’s message which was telling Alex to come to her home. She had some problem related to business and she asked Alex to handle it on her behalf. Alex was not the type of person to help others, but as he felt indebted to Emma, he went there. 

Emma’s place was near to Liam’s place and because of such a real coincidence they both met this morning. Today’s incident had affected both of them deeply. Alex was on verge of losing his composure and the same happened with Liam too as Alex behaviour had triggered Liam’s past. 

After having morning breakfast at Emma’s place Alex went straight to his home. At home he went to the bathroom to take a long shower, this was his secret technique to cool down and to think more effectively.

Alex remembers Liam’s face. Liam’s beautiful eyes, his soft lips curled up in tension when Alex was close to him, all those details were evoking something inside Alex's chest. Alex clenches his fists in frustration. He has the desire to get close to Liam again to feel that desire again, but suddenly his attention diverts as he hears a soft chuckle outside in his room. 

Alex wraps a towel around his waist. His body dripping with water looks cleaner and more sculpted. His muscles were showing his strength. Alex's facial expression feels more surprised than shocked. His sharp Black obsidian eyes were looking for the source of the sound. His lips were thin but beautiful while his long sharp nose sniffed across room for traces of the trespasser. 

As Alex moves forward towards the living room the sound of gentle laughter becomes clearer. The mysterious sound said “Don’t do this?” 

“Hey, it tickles. Stop it. Don’t you have work to do.”

“Hey, Why are you poking my tummy with your nose …. Hahhhhahhahahahhahahah”

The voice coming from the living room started to sound familiar to Alex. His eyes gleamed with happiness. He ran towards the living room but froze in his position. Tears started to flow down from his eyes. He couldn’t stop crying. His eyes got filled with tears and his vision started to get blurred out. 

Alex gets shocked as he sees Asher sitting with Alex(himself) on the sofa. The memory of them playing together starts to play before his eyes like a movie scene. He gets down on his knees and breaks down. 

Alex tries to reach that beautiful illusion but before he even gets close to it the memory suddenly disappears. He screams aloud again. To him it feels like someone had just pierced his heart with a sword and had left it in his chest. 

In pain as Alex stands up, he takes a knife from the table and cuts his own left hand with a sharp move. Blood starts to drip from the fresh cut and flows down, touching his towel to the floor as he lowers his hand. The sudden sharp pain of the flash being cut had brought Alex back to reality. 

He takes a first aid box from his room and stitches his own wound. After that he picks up his grey suit from his almirah and wears it. He then takes slow steps towards a compartment in his wardrobe and pulls out a red box from it. Inside that box was a pair of shining diamond rings. He keeps looking at those rings for a while before putting them back at their place. 

Liam takes a bus to reach his university and attends his morning lecture. He was feeling shocked and angry both at the same time and was gloomy. Today he has a history lecture, which he was not interested in taking but out of rule of attendance he plans to take it. 

The lecture room again got filled with many faces, some were familiar; others were still new for Liam. Alex entered the lecture hall and the whole class went silent. Liam who was sitting again in the back gets surprised to see a bandage on Alex’s left hand. 

Liam was staring at Alex continuously. Alex feels the pressure of that piercing gaze and looks at Liam’s direction. As their eyes meet, tears start to form on the edge of those sharp green eyes. Liam didn’t even realise those feelings. Alex breaks eye contact and starts to teach. 

Liam was still looking for those tears traces he just saw in his professor's eyes. He began to think again. Is Alex sad? Why is he looking so sad? Why is there a bandage on his hand? He was just fine in the morning. What is going on here? Did he hurt himself during a fight or did he do it to himself? What should I do? Don’t tell me he did it because of that morning quarrel?

As the lecture ends Liam follows Alex. In the hallway Alex notices the pretty stalker and grabs Liam hand gently and takes him near to the staircase. Alex again looks at that beautiful face and speaks with a gentle voice.

“Liam, I am sorry for the morning incident. I did not mean any harm.”

“It's just that you always feel like you are lost in some thoughts, it's as if you are not where you are supposed to be. Your wandering mind made me angry. I’m truly sorry.”

Liam was looking at Alex's hands only as he heard those words. Alex’s gentle voice and those words feel like they were not said by the person who is standing in front of Liam.

Liam shockingly asked “What happened to your hand? How did you get hurt?”

Liam grabs Alex’s injured hand and caresses it gently then looks toward him with a demanding gaze to answer.

Alex suddenly senses similar feelings he used to have once, resurfacing again. He frees himself from Liam’s hold and responses – “I am fine it is a minor injury. I get it while preparing my food.”

Liam looks again at Alex and as he was about to say something he gets interrupted by one of his friends Garon. Garon looks at both of them and says “I am sorry professor for interrupting.”

Garon looks at Liam and again says “You forgot we have another lecture going on. Do you want to miss it? Come let’s go. Miss Elena is looking for you.”

Liam looked at Alex who was still standing there, there was some kind of sadness and pain in those eyes. He looks into Alex's eyes and says “Excuse me professor, I have to attend the next lecture.”

“I want to talk to you. Can you spare me some time from your busy schedule?”

“It won’t be a waste of your time. I promise.” Liam chuckles softly and gently caress Alex right hand and without hearing the response went running towards his class. 

Alex was still standing in the same place and was in daze, every interaction with this pretty boy had shown him a side of himself he never witnessed before. The side which was as gentle as the breeze.