CHAPTER 3

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The sun's rays slipped through the gap between the light yellow curtains and illuminated her room .Roseanne was staring at the ceiling completely oblivious of her surroundings.

It had been a hard night for her, the nightmares never seemed to leave her alone. It haunted her, every single night and promised to return the next day. She feared to close her eyes at night, her nightmares included that certain green eyed man whose face she was unaware of ,but very well knew the holder of those orbs that she had fallen in love with many years ago.

Pain. That's all she felt. The pain of loosing her family and the pain of loosing her one and only love. The boy she had grown to love at a very tender age. The charming, handsome and silent boy, whose green eyes never left her life, even after he left.

A small part inside her that existed without her knowledge, still craved for him, craved for his touch, presence and comfort that he used to always provide her with when they were young.

A small part inside her wanted to see him, see him for one last time.
She tried to picture her little Alex into a full grown man. A man whose face she couldn't fix other than those eyes. She was sure he would have become a handsome young man with full of muscles at all the right...

" No Rose.. No, you can't think about him. No."

She shook her head from side to side and let out a breath. She wiped away a stray tear that unknowingly escaped from the side of her eyes disappearing somewhere into her hair.

She got up,folded her blanket and stacked it at the foot of her bed .
She entered the bathroom, the cold tiles gave her chills all over. She made her way to the basin and stared at the mirror in front of her , only to be welcomed by a disheveled, swollen eyed, broken women.  She pitied herself. But somewhere deep down, she knew that she would come out of this nightmare and start living a normal life in this beautiful place. A normal life, where she would wake up in the morning with a smile on her face and look out of the window at the world in front of her with happiness.

She picked up the tooth brush, squirted some toothpaste on it and started brushing her teeth looking at the mirror. She stared at herself while she was unconsciously being carried away to a distant memory she had with her elder sister.

"ROSE. I said move, I want to stand in front of the mirror first. Your chance got over yesterday." 

Her elder sister Lisa shouted into her ears, pushing rose to the side with a small giggle.

The two sisters surely knew the best ways to fight..

"Nope, I am standing right here.  I came in first Lisa. You can brush your teeth after I am done."

Roseanne pushed her sister away and stood there smiling smugly at her sister through the mirror.

" Fine then", she said and made a run for the bathroom door picking up the toothpaste from the stand.
She stood near the door and toyed with the toothbrush in her hand

" You have to move now sweet Rose, or else I am going to finish the contents of this tube on your teddy bear, like I did the last time. And you surely know that I will do it"

Lisa said and looked at the mirror with a smirk on her face at a very irritated rose.

Rose sighed and shut her eyes gripping the basin with her toothbrush cramped up between her hand and the edge of the basin. She pressed her lips into a thin line and controlled her tears from falling off. Without wasting another minute, she quickly washed her mouth and splashed water on her face after which she made her way out of the bathroom. 

A loud knock at the door brought her back to her senses. She felt as if the person who knocked on the door saved her from floating herself back into the memories she dint want to think off. She wondered who it would be. She never had any visitors since she settled here. She made her way towards the door and opened it slightly peeping through the small gap to see who the visitor was.

Her visitor was a man. His back faced her. He was looking around  the place standing at her door with his hands tucked inside his pockets. He was tall ,with black hair and perfect muscles . He wore a blue sweater with a shirt inside and black jeans. She could see the collar from the back.
She opened the door fully and cleared her throat. Her visitor immediately turned towards her and smiled at her.

"Wow" that's what she thought looking at the handsome young stranger standing at her door step. Perfectly sculpted jaws and cheek bones. Tantalising brown orbs and a perfect body.
She gulped and smiled at the stranger hesitantly.

" You can take a picture you know" he said and winked at her.
She blushed furiously at his comment and bit her lower lip.

"Umm...am sorry, I..I was just thinking about something. I..I got lost, am sor..."

" hey, calm down..I was joking. You need not be sorry for checking out this handsome stranger here." he said with a teasing smile playing on his lips.

Rose just smiled at him not knowing what to say for that.
She was very bad at making conversations with people. She left her social circles and dwelled in her own confinement since years.

"Brian Stephen"
he said removing his right hand from his pocket holding it towards her.

Rose kept her small fragile hands into his and smiled.
" Roseanne Hart".

His hands were big and warm. It provided the warmth she needed for her cold hands. She could feel the warmth providing her comfort like how a certain someone's hands used to provide her with the same comfort and warmth many years back.
She smiled at him and removed her hands quickly from his.He looked at her with an amused expression.

"I am your neighbour. I stay right there" he said ,lifting his index finger pointing it towards his house at the end of the road.
Rose got out of her house and stepped onto her porch next to him and looked at his house. The house looked somewhat like hers but that was a little bigger, with a wider porch and area.

" That's nice" she said ,still looking at the house which he pointed at.
She had looked around all the neighbouring houses once when she was sitting on her porch a few days back, this house had caught her attention then.

" I have never seen you here anytime." Rose said turning back to him.

She caught him staring at her. He diverted his eyes away and  cleared his throat

" I am at work all day. I go in the morning and return back late night." He said smiling.
She noticed that he had a habit of smiling always. A very happy person indeed.
Just the opposite of her.

"Oh, that must be really tiring" she said with genuine concern.

" Yeah, used to it."he said

"Mrs. Peterson told me that we had a new entry in our neighbourhood, so I dropped by to introduce " he said with that breathtaking smile once again.

" Oh that's really nice of you. Thank you for coming."

Rose said feeling happy that she had found someone who cared to talk to her.
She then realised that she hadn't welcomed him inside.

"Where are my manners, please come inside, I am really sorry, I kept you standing here the whole time."she said in embarrassment.

" That's alright beautiful Rose..."

She froze and blushed furiously at the little endearment and looked at him. Expressionless. Alex had once called her that.

  Alexander.

"....so I will drop by some other time..? I will have to go now" he said, smiling at her.

She had zoned out and missed out on what he said earlier.
She just nodded her head and said " yeah..that would be good."

"Yeah..may be we can get to know each other then" he said with a genuine smile and turned around to leave.

" Bye rose, see you soon." He said once he descended the steps of her porch and started walking away.

" Bye " she said waving back.
She entered her house and shut the door. Her nerves slowly started to calm down and she wiped her sweaty palms onto her night dress.
She felt happy that she got to know someone from her little neighbourhood.  She smiled to herself and for once she was genuinely happy and felt that everything would go back to normal , that she would be normal again.

Brian stooped walking once he heard the lock of her door click and turned back.

"Exquisite black haired beauty". He thought and smiled looking at her door. He sighed and started walking back home to get ready for work.

She looked mysterious, calm, hurt,puzzled, matured, Innocent, and much more, everything at the same time.

"I will unravel you rose, I will come back soon" he said to himself as he reached his door step . He looked at her house one last time and unlocked his door to get inside.
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Hey there my dear readers!!:) hope you all are doing good:)
I am not done with my exams yet.
It goes on till 26th.
There are a few grammatical  errors in the chapter. Am sorry for that.
I Hope you enjoyed the update.
What are your thoughts on this chapter?
Moreover, what would our already possessive Alexander do if he found out that another man  was trying to make a move on his Rose? ;)
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Until the next update,
-INSPIRE19

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