Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
― James Baldwin

After a very tiring long hours of waiting. She entered at the main lobby of the hospital where Lucas was admitted. Her stomach churned, her feet got a little shaky, a worry and a sadness were painted on her beautiful face.

Lucas was still unconscious for almost two days and that made her more restless. She realized, she needed Leendon with her at this very moment, but Leendon had decided to stay at the hotel to watched her daughter.

She stood silently in front of the elevator while waiting for the lift to open. Then suddenly a tall beautiful brunette lady wearing a black skinny jeans and silver body hugging tank top stood beside her.

The beautiful lady timidly smiled at her with a visible sadness was also painted to her small beautiful face. She smiled back and and her familiar face hits her, but sadly she doesn't remember where she saw her.

The elevator opened and she waited for the lady to enter the elevator before she did. She stood at the right side of the elevator and the lady stood beside her.

As soon the elevator closed, they pressed the same button. The lady just nodded to her. Silence embrace the two of them while they were inside the elevator. So when the elevator stopped to their destination they are both got startled.

She breathed deeply, holding her emotion she was trying to control since she heard Lucas accident. While she waited for the lady to got out at the elevator, she looked around at the entire level.

While the lady, gracefully walked straight across the far end of the floor, she seems too familiar at the place.

One by one she checked every room she had passed by. She then she got so shocked when she stopped at the same room where the beautiful lady got inside earlier.

Reality struck on her and the immediate pang of pain hit her, for she realized, she doesn't have the right to come here in the first place. For he already had a beautiful girlfriend beside him right now. A beautiful next to perfect model name Arienne.

She immediately turned around to leave, while her tears started to came out. She gathered all her strength to walked back toward the elevator for she felt all her energy was starting to wore out.

With the pain she endured right now, and the combine tiredness of long travel, she almost stumbled before she can press the button of the elevator.

A ding from the elevator save her strength. She tried to move forward, when suddenly her surrounding started to blacken and her weak body  gave up.

She heard a familiar frightened voices before she lost her consciousness.

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A beeping sound of a machine woke her up. She looked around the entire place wondering where she is.

She instantly rose on her bed when she recognize the white painted walls and the smell of antiseptic. Dizziness still wears her off but she recognize the man laying on the next bed.

She rose in her bed and walked slowly to the sleeping man with a bandage in his head, to his right arm and his right leg.

"Oh! Lucas." she gasped. "Can you please wake up now?" she pleaded. "You already sleeping too much." she smoothen his handsome face. "You scares me. Even we are not together I wouldn't wish to see you like this, so please wake up." she pleaded again while lovingly kissed his forehead.

"That feel so good, I really miss that sweet kisses coming from you." Lucas rough voice echoed in the silent room.

"Oh! God! You finally awake. Let me call the doctor." she got startled and almost jumped from too much shocked, she didn't expect that Lucas will instantly heard her plea.

"Yes, I'm already awake since last night, and now I'm totally fine after I see you. I heared that you flew back with Leendon and Quien." he hold her right hand with his uninjured left hand and sweetly kissed her hand. "How about you? Are you okey now? You must not wear too much of yourself, you got fainted because of over fatigue. I'm really worried about you and to our baby. When you fainted infront of the elevator. Luckily you fainted infront of Mom, Dad and Alex. So, I insisted to brought you here in my room." he happily filled in what was happened to her.

"I'm sorry, I came to visit you but I only brought a trouble to all of you."she sadly whispered.

"You will never be a trouble to us, especially to me." he smiled at her. "But, I am wondering you were about to leave when they saw you infront of the elevator. You said you came to see me but I don't remember you came into my room." Lucas looked thoroughly in her eyes reading what's in her mind.

"I was just not ready to see you that's why I decided to leave and get back on the next day." she stuttered and looked down while hiding her face.

"Cheeky Pie! Did you know that I'm very much aware if you lied to me?" he tease her while he flicked her nose with his fingertip.

" I don't lie to you, I told you I'm not yet ready to see you." an angered and disgust showed her face even she tried to hide to Lucas sharp eyes.

"Oh! Athena Sandoval. You think I was born yesterday." he continued teasing her. "I'm very much well informed why you decided to leave. Hmmm, how about you got jealous when you knew that Ariene came to see me." he chuckled and winked at her.

"Me? Jealous? Hah! Did you know that you're self esteem is a torture to the people around you? Thats gross Mr. Montero, considering your just got back from death." she slowly pushed him, the she walked back to her own bed.

"Ouch! Ms. Sandoval are you trying to kill me? Look what you've done, seems my stitches in my head split up! Oh! God it really hurts." he acted like his totally in too much pain.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Athe turned back her heels toward Lucas. "I'm so sorry, let me see! Oh, wait let me call the doctor." she started to walked toward the door when Lucas pulled her closer to him and suprisingly kiss her in her lips.

"Lucas!" she gasped while she got mesmerized with his kisses.

"Got you!" he laughed and hugged her tight.

"Get off me instantly." she warned him while trying to lose from his grasped.

"Nope..." he whispered and kissed her head.

"Why I do forgot that your king of pranks? That's why I really dont know what's the truth and lies beyond your words and actions. And I must also don't forget that your the famous womanizer I've ever known." she used a little force to lossen his tight hug.

"Wait... Cheeky Pie! I was ... but not anymore." he winked at her. "Believe me Ariene and I, we never have a romantic relationship, we are just a mere friends." he explained.

"Oh? Come on? mere friends? How come a mere friends shared an intimate kisses or should I say intimate bed partner." she thrown him with a disgusted look.

"Okey... okey... I admit! A friend with benefit. But, we agreed that we wouldn't crossed beyond that. She knew that my heart is only belongs to you. I'm sorry Cheeky Pie, but believe me I never bedded any woman beside you since I came back home and I will never do it again." he sincirely promised.

"I will never going to believe in whatever you say! How dare you to accused me to be unfaithful to you when your the one whose unfaithful to me? she shouted him angrily, her pregnant hormones strike again.

"I never unfaithful to you! I was just hurt that's why I've done that aweful things!" he also shouted back at her.

"Really? Really? Wow! Mr. Montero that's a very lame excuse!" she continued to fire him.

"Why don't you just believe in me? Your the only woman I love! You must believe me!" Lucas talked back.

"I only believe in what my eyes had been seen. And I really despise your aweful actions with your ramdom women." she sadly said.

"What I am going to do just to prove to you that I already change." he seriously asked her.

"I don't know, all I know... that deep in my heart, that you had been unfaithful to me, and until now I can't accept the idea that you share your body to a diffirent women! And I hate you for that!" she leveled her angered eyes to him.

"Oh God help me, make this woman understand me!" he looked up at the white ceiling and breath deeply.

"I really really hate you!" she slumped back on her bed and started to sob.

"Oh! Woman! I'm going to get crazy! Athe, please stop crying. Can't you see, I can't go over there to comfort you. Come here." he pleaded.

"In your dreams!" she stubbornly replied and turned her back at him.

"Please..." he asked while smiling sweetly to her.

"No..." she replied not even tried a single move.

"Athena Sandoval! Come here instantly!" he ordered with his business like tone.

"Never!" she remain seated on her bed while avoiding his stare.

"I said..." he stopped and frooze when the door in his room suddenly open. His younger brother barged in without knocking and stood at the center of the room.

"Whoa! Hold on Guys! Do I entered the wrong room? This room seems a warzone!" Alex looked back and forth to Lucas and Athena."I'm positive you both ready to discharge." he laughed heartily. "So what's next lovers? he teased while enjoying to be part of his older brother ordeal.

"Prepare the discharge papers, we are going to get out of this hospital today."Lucas ordered his younger brother. "And you stubborn woman, you going to come with me." he sternly said. "I won't settle for any negotitation." he just plainly said.

"No! Never! Don't boss me around, I'm not going! Never! Againnn..." Athe bravely shouted through her lungs.

"Oh! Little Bro! Before I forget, please tell my bodyguards to assist this stubborn woman to deliver her in my suite." he ordered before he close his eyes to get back to sleep. Arguing with her wore him off, but he's very happy. For now, this time around his going to be the boss. He made sure of of that.

"Your insane! " she said with a defeated tone.

"Got it Bro! This is going to be a very interesting." Alex chuckled before going out of the room to fullfill his older brother orders. "I can't wait to see my brother lost his sanity. Go Athe! Shake my brother's world!" he laughed silently while looking forward to the very exciting scene between his stubborn future sister in law and his short-tempered brother.

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