'Its so easy to hate someone after you're told that they did something against you or broke a promise"
Ashton abruptly woke up from his comma after some days, with only one person on his mind, Ariana!!
He wanted to meet her right away, but his mother didn't let him.
She made up lies of how Ariana was a gold digger, just using him for his money with fake proof. She manipulated him.
" Where is she?? I want to talk to her!!" He said to his mother, anger evident in his voice.
"She's gone son, she left you" his mother replied.
"What!! She can't leave me,, she would never leave me mom!!" He broke down, while his mom tried to calm him down.
"I love her! I love her so much that I'd even forget she used me! I just want her back ...but she left me"
" I HATE HER" he hated himself, and he hated her for making a fool out of him, yet it wasn't true.
He was so broken and yet incomplete without her. She was the biggest part of his life and heart, he'd never loved anyone before like the way he loved her.
His mother took him abroad, to complete his studies, but it didn't really help him. He grew cold and distant from everyone, including his own family...he changed completely.
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"I lost the baby!" Ariana had just received the news from the doctor, after regaining consciousness.
"I'm sorry Ariana, but there was nothing we could do"
Her very last memory of Ashton had also vanished just like that. She lost everything all at once.
"No!!! I HATE HIM!!"
How could he do that to her .
Ariana believed that he'd just used her like his mom said, he was even going to get married!!
Any sane woman would react the same way. She cried again and again, clutching to the sheets of the hospital bed....who knew her life was too good to be true.
"I hate her"
"I hate him"
They were countries apart, but they still felt immense hate and anger for each other.
She'd even cancelled her dream just to stay with him, but this is how he paid her back! Breaking her trust.
"Ariana Lissio?" An unfamiliar voice asked.
It belonged to the man who'd just entered Ariana's ward.
"Y...yes that's me! What do you want?" She asked,cleary scared.
"You don't have to be scared, I'm the one who saved you" he replied.
"In that case, thank you so much, but I'd like to be alone right now" Ariana's breaking voice said. She was clearing mourning her child and broken heart.
"Ariana, I don't think you remember me, but It's me Samuel,,, remember,,from your childhood" he said, moving closer to her.
"S...Samuel?" It did ring a bell in her head, she clearly remembered,he was her childhood friend.
Taking a closer look, he was all dressed up in a custom made suit, and designer accessories with a fancy hairstyle.
" Yes,, and Ariana,, I don't want to see you hurt like this, if you let me, I'll gladly marry you and make your life better" Samuel said pressing the issue.
" I'm sorry Samuel, but I don't want to get married anymore, especially if it's someone I don't even love..." Her words broke him too.
She had had enough of these rich kid drama, they just use and leave you.
"I don't mind if you don't love me... I'm willing to bare with that" Samuel humbly stated.
" I've made my decision, please respect it the best I can offer to you right now is friendship, nothing more than that" Ariana insisted before she lay back down on the bed and faced the other side, crying again.
She knew her next days were going to be very difficult to cope with, but she had to move on with her life.
Three days later, she was discharged from the hospital, and back to her home.
She chose to continue with her studies, after everything that had happened, it was the least she could do for herself.
She started living on her own without her mom.
She rented an apartment with the money she got from her part time jobs while trying to get a better job in big Engineering companies to start her own career.
She forced herself to forget every trace of Ashton in her mind and her heart.
Meanwhile, Ashton did the same. He completed hus studies in business and engineering and took over the family legacy at such a young age.
He continued the work of his father who'd passed away, and made it grow across the whole world. He'd gained much more money than before,, but his anger towards Ariana motivated him to work even harder, so that he could prove to her one day, that she made the wrong choice to break her promise and walk away from his life.
He rarely ate, and he took it as a punishment for loving Ariana way too much because even after all that had happened, he still longed for her, and wished to see her again, just once and hug her.
He loved her deeply and at the same time hated her.
" If we are to ever cross paths again Ariana, I'll take my revenge for what you did to me, and I promise, you won't get the old me back again" Ashton vowed, while holding the ring he'd bought for her, with their initials on it.
It was a symbol of their love that wasn't meant to be.
"You lost me Ashton, and I won't go on looking for you again, everything we built is all gone thanks to you, Good bye and I hope we never cross paths again"
Ariana threw every last of her memories with him in the ocean and walked away...