"Sis?"

Lesley heard her little brother Harley as he knocked on her door.

The door slowly opened, revealing Harley.

"Sis, I know you've been crying every night. Is it still because of him?" Harley asked her.

Lesley didn't answer and just hugged his little brother.

"I want to kill him, even before. He has been hurting you ever since." Harley continued.

Lesley just sobbed as Harley patted her back.

"He said he wants to explain. But everytime I see him, everytime I hear his voice, everything in me shuts down in too much pain." She cried on her brother's shoulder. "I don't want to hear from him he doesn't love me anymore."

Harley sighed. "Sis, you know you can't move on and let go if you will not hear his side. As much as I want to kill him for hurting you, he still has the right to explain his side, otherwise you'll just continue to hurt yourself." He wiped the tears of his sister. "Try listening to his side first, okay? Maybe, after you listen to him, you'll find peace in your heart already. Maybe you can let it all go and start anew."

"B-but I don't think I'm ready enough to listen to him. I can't."

"You have to, Sis. It's for the better okay? He's not the only man in this world. It may be difficult for you but someday, you will find the right one for you okay?" Harley hugged again his sister. "As your little brother, I am always right here for you, Mom and Dad also, plus your friends. Many people love you Sis."

Lesley hugged her little brother back, still with tears on her face. She was so busy crying by herself that she forgot she got people who really loved her.

"Thank you little brother. I'm sorry that your sister is so weak."

Harley looked at her at smiled. "You're not weak Sis. You're the strongest woman I've ever known because you survived after all the pain that you've felt."

Lesley smiled, a genuine smile, for the first time ever since he came back.

"It feels like you are my big brother and not little brother now."

"It just proves that I'm more mature than you." Harley joked.

Lesley laughed and ruffled his hair.

"Hey! Not at the hair Sis!"

Lesley just laughed. Her brother was still concious about his hair until now.

Maybe, I should really listen to Gusion's explanation. I'm tired of crying over him.

Harley stood up. "Anyway, breakfast is ready. And Mom said you have a reunion later right? Are you ready?"

Lesley sighed. She was so sure that she would see Gusion later. She wanted to ready herself to listen to him.

"Yeah." Lesley nodded.

Harley smiled, "Good luck Sis. I hope you can be genuinely happy again after tonight."

Lesley frowned, confused on what Harley said. "What do you mean?"

Harley shrugged, "I got a feeling that your life will change for the better tonight."

Lesley was still confused by what her little brother said. But maybe, he meant that finally, she could move on after she listened to Gusion's explanation.

Lesley nodded. Yeah, maybe that was what he meant.

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Lesley looked at the mirror to see her reflection. She was wearing a peach offshoulder dress with a length that was an inch above her knee and a two-inch high heel white sandals.

Her hair was not braided like the usual. She styled it in a half up and let the rest of her hair were down freely. She applied a light make up as she was not very comfortable on applying heavy make up.

She grabbed her purse and took one last look in the mirror before going down.

She said her goodbyes to her parents and little brother as she went to Fanny's car.

"You look good! Is it for someone?" Fanny teased her.

Lesley rolled her eyes. "Oh please shut up."

Fanny just laughed and drove to the venue of their reunion.

They saw familiar faces once they arrived. Many how are you's and nice to see you again were uttered.

Lesley was having fun, not until she caught a glimpse of someone who just arrived.

Her high school classmates looked at her with tease.

"Gusion! So nice to see you again after five years!" Alucard said and gave Gusion a brotherly hug.

Gusion smiled a little. "Yeah." Then he stared at Lesley.

Lesley can feel uneasiness with Gusion's gaze, and it was not helping that her classmates also looked at her teasingly.

"I-I need some fresh air." Lesley said then she went out in a hurry.

Her feet brought her to a garden. Lesley sat on a bench and stared at the full moon.

Lesley sighed. I guess I'm still not ready.

She closed her eyes as she breathed in and felt the cold breeze.

She opened her eyes, only to see Gusion was already in front of her!

She was startled that she moved away from him. Forgetting that the bench had no support at the back, she closed her eyes as she expected herself to fall.

But she didn't.

She felt a strong pair of arms enveloping her.

She opened her eyes once again. She saw worry in Gusion's eyes.

"Are you okay Les? I'm sorry for scaring you. I didn't mean to."

Lesley sat properly, gently disentangling Gusion's hands from her, "It's okay. I was just startled."

Gusion sighed and sat beside her.

None of them spoke for a while, both of them just feeling the cold breeze. Until Gusion decided to break it.

"Are you still not giving me a chance to explain myself to you?"

Lesley sighed and slowly looked at him, "I wanted to Gusion. I-I don't know. All I can feel now is pain."

"Even just for live minutes?"

Lesley shook her head. She could feel the pain was slowly creeping to her heart. "N-no. I'm so sorry Gusion. I'm still not ready to hear your side. The pain is slowly creeping to my heart again. Give me some rest please. I'm so tired from hurting."

Tears fell down once again from Lesley's eyes before she stood up and walked away from him, again.

But just as Lesley took her first step, something was covered to her nose, making her feel dizzy.

"I'm sorry to do this to you love. It's the only way for you to listen to me." Lesley heard him whisper to her ear, before her vision went black.

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Lesley slowly opened her eyes, her vision was still blurry from her sleep.

Wait, what happened? I remembered I was with Gusion before I passed out. Did someone kidnapped me?

Lesley was horrified with the thought. Her hands and feet were not tied and she was lying on the bed. She could escape easily.

She was about to get up, but she was enveloped by a strong pair of arms.

Lesley's eyes widened as she looked at who was hugging her now.

Gusion! He kidnapped me?

Lesley was more horrified with the new thought so she tried to disentangle his arms from her.

She heard Gusion hummed, "Baby? You're awake?"

Lesley stopped struggling from Gusion's hug for a while as she watched him opened his eyes slowly.

God, how can you make someone this handsome?

Gusion slowly smiled at her, "Hey love."

Lesley came back to her senses so she tried again to disentangle Gusion's arms from her but it was no use.

"Don't hey me you jerk. Where on earth you brought me? I need to go home now."

Gusion pouted and hugged her tighter, "No! You're not going home. Not until you listen to my explanation."

Lesley narrowed her eyes on him. "So you kidnapped me just to listen to you?"

"This is the only way for you to listen to me."

Lesley frustratedly brushed her hair away from her face. "Gusion, what part on I'm not ready sentence that you didn't understand?"

Gusion sat up on bed and pulled her also then he cupped her face. "Lesley, whether you're ready or not to listen, you have to. To end our miserable lives."

Lesley closed her eyes in frustration and then she looked at him. "Fine. This will be the last day that I will cry because of you. This will be the last day that I will be hurt by you. I will listen."

Gusion pulled Lesley once again, making her sit on his lap, facing each other. Gusion made her legs wrapped around his waist.

Lesley felt her face heated up because of their position. "Is it really necessary for us to be in this position while you explain?"

Gusion grinned at her as hugged her closer, as if they weren't close enough. "No, I just want to. Can't help myself from holding you."

"J-just explain already, Gusion."

"But I love our position right now love. Can we do the explanation later? Can we do something else for now?" Gusion asked as his forefinger brushed against her exposed collarbone.

Lesley shivered in his touch, but she still composed herself, "You'll explain or I'll leave? The choice is yours, Gusion."

Gusion hugged her tightly, afraid that she might leave. "Alright, alright. I'll explain now. But it's not my fault that you look so ravishing right now."

Lesley felt a blush crept on her face, as she hit him on his arm.

Gusion chuckled and dropped a kiss on her shoulder.

Gusion looked at her eyes. "Okay, I'll explain now." He took a deep breath. "You know I went to London the day we broke up right? I really don't want to break our relationship that time Les, to be honest. But I have to. You know that I have a long lost sibling. Our private investigator told us that he found the one who adopted my sibling in London so we wasted no time."

Gusion brushed Lesley's hair as he continued, "I wanted to find my sibling as soon as possible and I was afraid that time that if we would continue our relationship while I was away, I can't give you all my time for I would be busy finding my lost sibling. I don't want to encage you in our relationship. I want you to live normally by spending time with your family and friends, without worrying about me."

"I know, that was selfish of me. I'm sorry. But that time Les, I know it was for the better. If I didn't do that, you were not able to spend more time with your family and friends, meeting many people and expanding you world. There's a little assurance that I would come back in a short period of time, I don't want to give you false hopes."

Lesley could feel her tears were falling down once again, "But you knew we could work it out if you just told me before."

Gusion wiped her tears, guilt was written on his face. "I know, I'm so sorry for hurting you all these years Les. But mind you, I was updated of you for the past five years because of our friends, and Harley."

Lesley's eyes widened, "My little brother?"

He nodded. "I'm sorry for a keeping a secret to you baby."

So my brother knew all of this that's why he said some weird things earlier huh? Lesley thought.

"And did you find your lost sibling?" Lesley asked.

"Yes." Gusion nodded, kissing away her tears. "Lesley, Angela is my long lost sister."

Lesley felt her world stopped for a while with Gusion's revelation. Her eyes widened.

The tears, all of her sufferings, the pain she felt for the past three months were for nothing?

I feel so stupid! That's what you get from jumping into conclusions, stupid Lesley! She scolded herself.

Gusion noticed her silence, "Love?"

Lesley covered her face with her hands, feeling ashamed in front of him. "Oh God, all this time, the moment I saw your picture, I thought it was your newly-found love and you just dropped it like a bomb that she is your sister. I feel so stu–"

Gusion hugged her tightly, stopping her. "Hey love, stop. You're not, okay? Of course, you will having conclusions like that because I didn't explain it to you as soon as possible. And when I wanted to explain it to you, you were avoiding me."

Lesley sobbed, feeling so ashamed. "I've hurt myself for nothing. I made myself miserable for nothing."

Gusion lifted up her face but she was still covering her face with her hands. "Baby, look at me."

Gusion put her hands away from her face. "I'm so sorry for all the pain that I've caused you Les. I'm sorry for the late explanation. Can you forgive me and let me offer my lifetime to make it up to you?"

Lesley teared up once again, but this time it was because of happiness.

"What have I done to deserve a man like you? You're too good to be true Gusion."

Gusion smiled at her, still wiping away her tears. "Shouldn't it be the other way around? You know I am so blessed to have you in my life Lesley. And you all deserve it because you're worth it." Gusion pecked her lips. "You know, I was just getting by in those live years love."

Lesley frowned in confusion, "Getting by? You had money problems?"

Gusion shook his head, "Not getting by like that. I was getting by because you were not with me. I can't believe I actually survived for five years without you. My life was so miserable in those times."

Lesley's eyes continued to tear up with happiness, "Oh Gusion."

"Please stop crying now love."

Lesley hugged him tightly, "They were tears of joy."

"They are still tears." Gusion hugged her back. "So you're forgiving me? You're accepting my offer of my lifetime making it up to you?"

Lesley looked at Gusion and nodded, a smile formed on her lips, "Yes."

Gusion smiled and pulled her for a kiss.

It was just a lip locked at first, until it turned to a passionate one.

Lesley moaned in Gusion's mouth as he licked her lower lip for entrance which she gladly granted.

They fought for dominance but of course, Gusion won.

Lesley felt his hand on her side, squeezing it from time to time, while the other one was on her left thigh, caressing it.

Gusion left her lips for her to gasp some air. She thought Gusion was going to stop but his lips travelled down to her neck, licking a certain spot and dropping wet kisses on it, making her moaned loud.

"Ahh... Gus, please." She gripped on Gusion's hair, encouraging him more as she leaned her head on the other side so he could have better access on her neck.

Gusion's one hand now was playing on the hem of her dress while the other one was supporting her back.

Lesley can feel the bulge on his pants. She adjusted on his lap, directly sitting on his hard member now, grinding on it which made Gusion moaned. He grabbed her by her butt, pulling her closer, making her to grind harder on his member. Both of them moaned by the addicting pleasure.

"Ahh... You naughty baby." Gusion groaned as he went down to her collarbone, licking and gently nibbling it. "As much as I wanted to leave some love marks on you, I won't." Gusion's lips went up on her ear, his hot breath fanning her, "On the second thought, maybe I'll leave some on hidden areas."

He nibbled her earlobe then running his tongue on it, earning a loud moan from her.

Gusion looked at her. Her hair was now a mess, her lips were swollen from their intense kiss and both of them were panting and radiating heat from their bodies.

"So sexy, so tempting, so lovely... You look so ravishing now, my vixen love. And you're mine. Mine alone. I love you so much Lesley." Gusion licked his lips while looking at her with full of want and desire, like the most delicious meal was in front of him.

And yes, the most delicious meal was in front of him indeed.

Lesley bit her lips, "Yes, I'm all yours. And I love you too Gusion."

Gusion kissed her lips passionately once again. "As much as I wanted to do it with you now, we have to reserve that for our wedding night." His lips went down on her shoulder blades, placing wet kisses there. "I want to do it with you when you have my last name and a wedding ring on this finger." He said as he put her left ring finger on his mouth, sucking it.

Lesley smiled at him and was about to say something but he suddenly pinned her down to bed, hovering over her.

"But it doesn't mean I won't take a bite of you now, baby." He smirked as he slowly peeling her off-shoulder dress from her body. "Let me taste your sexy body, love."

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And that's when the author laughed at herself for typing this and for leaving the readers hanging and unsatisfied. HAHAHAHA.

And that's it for The Art mini series!