THE UNBEKNOWNST HELP(2)

Despite his nauseous state, he strived on to drag himself to a safe place. Her actions were still lingering in the back of his head and for some reason he thought being with her might will put him into more troubles. But an unknown force, exerted by her cold yet genuine eyes, leashed him along with it. He couldn't bring himself to think of any practical answers to all the what ifs. Whether or not, he knew that there was still a lot for him to suffer from and that this was not the end but still, here he is, developing some hope for no reason.

About ten minutes later, he found himself in a secluded place. Barely anyone or any shops were on the sight. All the shops were probably closed because of the heavy downpour of the end of the season. Without any further thought, he dropped himself on the pavement. He rubbed his throbbing head with his good hand and then meticulously checked the other arm that he assumed to be fractured or displaced. He barely could think of anything else while his lungs kept tightening, preventing him from breathing.

Just when he thought he got his composure back, he felt like someone coming towards him. But the revelation of the person made him release the breath he was holding a second before. She meekly kept striding to the place he was sitting. He could see her blood stained cardigan and still bleeding knuckle. He felt a weird pain surged within him for dragging someone in his trouble.

"Are you..fine?"

Upon seeing him, sitting on the pavement while holding his bad hand, she probed.

"Not fine of course, but better than before."

He forced a smile once he completed his words. Just only because he couldn't deliberately show her more of his problems or weakness just because she is benevolent.

"You sure? Your face's ashened and your composure doesn't look good either. D'you want me call the ambulance or take you to the hospital?"

Even though she herself wasn't in a good state to come up with a question like that but still she offered more help. However, no matter what, non of her words matched to her facial expressions. Her chilled eyes were still sending shivers down his spine and the memories of her previous actions was only making it worse.

What if I didn't stop her from doing so? Would she have killed him? And what she did after I ran away? Did she kill that man..?

He couldn't suppress those doubts and question idling in his mind. But then he merely shake his head inorder to brush them off.

"I really appreciate the amount of generosity that you've shown, but really I don't wanna push my boundaries any further and bother you."

He kindly rejected her offer of helping him further. Although he wanted a place for him to stay and hide but he can't afford to show up in a public place.

"Don't worry about that! It's not bothersome to help the needed ones. Besides, you are making me feel like I am doing a huge thing. So, stop doing that and come. Atleast let's find an inn for you to stay."

Again, her words were so kind unlike the tone she was using. He couldn't bring himself to find a better way to describe what kind of personality she had. She didn't has a rough voice particularly but a soft one with dominating way of speaking. It was like, she could control the entire room with just her voice or may be it was her grim aura. But whatever, it was surely working on him.

"Sorry but I can't accept that too. They have taken my credit cards along with my passport and other stuffs. So,I will not be able pay the bills.."

He lowered his head after reluctantly rejecting her offer. Not because he wanted to accept it but spurning her words relentlessly made him feel bad. Tearing his eyes from the ground, he looked at her to meet her slightly pitiful face.

"Don't feel bad. It's alright. I will find some way to get out of this. Well, at the very least I'll have to try"

As if trying to make her believe that he was sure about his words, even though he wasn't, he smiled. She was taken aback internally at his optimistic state. His smile was nothing but like a hope, which can make everyone believe that everything's going to be alright. They way his black tufts of hair protruded all over his forehead, leaving a small gap somewhere in the middle, makes him look so unreal. His brawny figure and smile were just a chef's kiss. However, she shook herself internally inoder to shake off the thoughts. Meanwhile, when he looked at her, she still held the same emotionless face with her eyes, piercing through his emotions. After staring each other, musing their respective thoughts in their heads, she broke the silence as the atmosphere got thick.

"Would... would you mind staying at my place?"

She mumbled something out of nowhere, which made his brows knit together in confusion.

"Pardon?"

As though unable to understand what she said, he meekly asked, even though he heard her clearly. But in addition to that only fool would believe that those words came out of a person like her..

"Er..I said would you mind stay—"

"No no.. I heard you but are really implying that you..you wanna take me home? I mean you don't have do this out of pity."

He tried to correct himself in hurry as she tried to repeat herself. He didn't want to push his limits and having her pitiful gaze all over him, made him even more self-conscious. Heaving a deep sigh, she gave him a serious look.

"I am not doing it out of pity. I just can't leave you here like this...." She, who didn't know what to say further, stopped in the middle. As though she didn't like her choice of words, she tried to change it. "..No one..... would. Aloft that, it might will rain in sometime and without a shelter, your condition will ultimately get worse. So just drop your gaurd down and come with me."

She tried to speak in a more stern tone but somehow failed at the end.

"It's not not like it..."

He got flustered at her word and stammered. For him, it wasn't his pride or self respect that was coming in between, of course. But in real bothering anyone like that didn't fit well for him.

"See, I might look like a cold fish but I am not. I am not going to beat your *** off if you come with me. If that's what you're concerned about. However, what I mean is that you are not pushing your limits or something. If I didn't mean to help you, I would've never said that in the first place. If you don't want to stay in a stranger's house, that's totally understandable. But for your knowledge, I don't have any issue with it."

C'mon now.. how can I elude such generous words. You are just making it difficult.

His heart fluttered while looking at her beautiful face and at the words coming out of her mouth.

"Thank you. I didn't get a chance to say this but thank you so much. I am really thankful for your benevolence"

"So, are you coming or not?"

She rolled her eyes at his formally spoken words.

"Yes, I will take it. Thanks..You are..??"

"Oh right! I forgot to introduce myself. By the way I am Zephyr Maé Black. But just call me Zephyr"

She mumbled as she extended her hand towards him. He held her hand with his good one, but what he didn't know was that she didn't extended her arms to shake hands but rather to help him to stand up. He bit his tongue to supress the pain he experienced while standing up.

"Care to tell your name?"

"Uh..yeah.. It's Enver Luise Fizherbert. Call me whatever you want."

He spoke and passed her a cheeky smile.

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