Ivan's P.O.V.

"And this is how we'll solve this equation", I said and the blonde junior girl nodded whilst adjusting her spectacles.

"Thanks a lot sir. It means a lot that you helped me out in understanding this one stupid subject", she said blushing and I smiled at her in a friendly manner.

"Don't be so formal. I saw you struggling in this subject so being your senior, it's my duty to help you", I replied and she smiled with blush creeping all over her cheeks.

"Thanks", she said again.

"If you need my help anytime, just give me a call", I said and write down my number on her notebook. She nodded hesitantly.

"I wish I could be of any help to you too", she replied.

"I'll let you know if someday I'll need any help", I said and forwarded my mobile to her side.

"Can I have your number please?", I asked and she bite down her lips due to shyness. She nodded and picked up my mobile and added her number.

'Amber', was the name she feeded in my contact list. I smiled and after explaining a few more questions to her, I left the library.

I walked to the canteen to grab a cup of coffee. As soon as I entered the canteen, I saw Hazel standing near the counter placing her order. I walked to the counter and said, "One black coffee". The boy on opposite side of counter nodded and I payed him the bill.

I glanced at Hazel who didn't spare one stare at me and kept looking in the front. One boy came and gave her a tray of sandwich and a cup of cappuccino. I kept looking at her and she left the place after giving a small quick glance with a poker face.

I grabbed my cup of coffee and started searching for a seat to sit. I roamed my eyes all around the canteen and saw Hazel having her lunch alone. I can't leave any chance to be near her. Only by pushing her, I can get some new out of her sealed mouth.

Sighs!!

I walked over to her table and sat down on the chair on opposite side of her. She stopped in middle of taking a bite of her sandwich and glanced up at me. Her eyes followed my actions of standing near her seat and then sitting right in front of her. Her eyes moved from up to down without breaking any eye contact from me.

She placed her sandwich on the plate and raised her eyebrows at me. I sipped my coffee without uttering a word. She placed her plate on the tray and her coffee mug and was about to leave the table but I held her tray before she could even get up.

"Don't leave. I'll follow you everywhere, so it's useless. We need to talk anyways", I said and she rolled her eyes.

She didn't reply and started eating her sandwich and enjoyed her coffee completely ignoring me. She started reading something in her mobile and I felt annoyed at her talent of making my existence questionable. How can she act that she doesn't have any affect of me sitting here?

"Hazel", I said and her eyes searched for mine instantly.

Wrong name, my inner self remained me!!

"It's Mrs. Vena Aniston, Mr. Ivan Green", she said bluntly.

"And why is it not Mrs. Vena Ron Hamithway? Ain't you married already?", I said trying to start a conversation with this unbearable girl just for sake of Joe, my crush, my love.

"Why does it matter to you?", She asked.

"Well, better give me an answer or else, Emma be the other person asking you this question", I replied and her expressions turned from calm to pissed. She's getting angry now.

Now, I can be at ease!!

"Isn't it funny?", She said after studying me for a moment and then smirked.

"What's so funny?", I asked.

"That a tall, strong, powerful bad boy need to take support of her weak sister to get answers from a powerless girl like me. I never knew you're such a coward", she said with a smirk and I held my cup tightly. Only if she had been a guy, she would've been digged six feets below the ground, right now. But I've to play safe, I can't act anything stupid.

"Just because I'm asking you gently does not mean, I'm afraid of you. I don't want to waste my power and name for a worthless girl like you. Cops can do that thing for me", I said shifting back in my seat.

She scoffed and said, "It would be better if you don't talk about cops and bars. I know you're familiar with police station for the kind of person you're but everything must stop at some point. Do you miss your second home?", She provoked me but I just smirked. I am not gonna give her the satisfaction of getting on my nerves.

"Sure. Police station is my second home so what? Wanna be my guest?", I asked and she rolled her eyes.

"I'll prefer dying than be your guest. Don't compare me with a trash like you", she spat out and I just tightened my jaws.

"Hmm, you're way too brave for the amount of lie you've told Emma. I'm guessing how will she react when she got to know that Aiden is not your baby?", I said and her mouth was wide open. I sipped my coffee whose sweetness increased to double to see her all panicked. Her hand which was holding the cup stopped in middle.

And that's how you show your cards, step by step. Stupid girl !!

"What rubbish?", She asked but the shaking of her voice proved my point. I smiled in satisfaction.

"I was thinking of giving a call to Ron too. How about I call him to pay a visit to meet his baby boy? What say? Sounds fun", I said and enjoyed her face turning pale with my each word. Her forehead was covered with sweats by now and with shaking hands she wiped her forehead and portion over upper lips with a tissue paper.

"What happened? Did this trash person freak out a powerless girl like you without help of his sister? C'mon, praise me now", I said and she glared at me. She didn't say anything but just open her bag and took out the water bottle.

I noticed her silently. She held the bottle so tightly that her knuckles were white. She tried to open the bottle cap but her hands were shaking. She was breathing heavily and after a lot of trying, she opened the bottle. What is going on with her? She brought the water bottle to her lips to drink the water but her shaking hands result in the bottle slip from her hands and the water drenched her shirt.

"Shit. What are you doing?", I asked getting up from my seat. She was still shaking and breathing heavily. Her eyes were filled with tears. I walked to her and picked up the water bottle.

I gave her the tissue and she quitely wiped down her neck. She got up from her seat but she stumbled so, I held her by her shoulder. Now, she was freaking me out.

"Are you ok?", I asked. She turned towards me. I gave her the water bottle. She gulped down the water and then she looked up at me.

Something broke inside me as soon as her eyes met mine. I became uncomfortable to see the helplessness in her eyes. A tear passed across her eye and she was struggling to keep herself gathered.

"Hazel", I said when she didn't say anything but kept staring at me.

"Please..", she whispered and then closed her lips tight. Her lips were trembling. I saw her throat movingly up and down.

I was too stunned to even speak anything. She placed the bottle back in her bag and took deep breath. She closed her eyes and tears flow down her cheeks. Wiping them, she threw her bag over her shoulder.

She glanced at me and said, "Please don't tell anything to him. He'll kill the baby". Saying so, she left the canteen. She walked past me but I kept looking at her retreating figure.

He will kill the baby!!

Her words kept repeating inside my mind. A few moments before, I've witnessed a strong girl like her, having panic attacks and the fear of losing someone in her eyes. The look on her face was the same as Joe's. I still can't forget the way she used to react when Ron was used to be with her.

Although, I also did so many mistakes in past and gave her a rough time but never ever I've made her feel helpless. The night before people declared her dead, I had seen the fear in her eyes. Same fear which was evident in Hazel's eyes. It was making me restless.

I walked out of the canteen and reached upto my car. I drove away to my favourite spot. It was a lake side area a few kilometres away from city. Joe used to come here often to get some inner peace. I used to come here to see her.

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(Flashback):

"Why are you here?", Joe asked being mad at me. She crossed her arms across her chest and stood right in front of me in a demanding manner. I scratched the back of my neck feeling a bit shy.

"You look hot when you're angry", I admitted biting my lips. She rolled her eyes and walked to sit on the bench.

Joe had bunked the school today because she had a fight with her boyfriend Ron. I hate that boy with all my heart. He made her cry, still she likes him so much. I don't know when my efforts will work and Joe will realise how much I like her and would like me the way she likes Ron, the dog.

I walked to the bench and stood behind. I started massaging her shoulders but she hit my hand.

"Don't touch me", she demanded. I smiled and walked to her side and sat next to her.

"Why are you sad?", I asked.

"Ivan, stop following me everywhere like a creep. I've already told you that Ron doesn't like you being with me. Only because of you, we had a fight", she complained.

"But I'm your friend. I care about you, forest", I said and hold her hand. I call her Forest because she likes being close to trees and nature. This word defines her love for nature and her forest green eyes.

"But I don't want to keep any friendship with you", she said angrily and tried to free her hand from my grip.

"Why? Will you do everything which your trash boyfriend will say?", I asked feeling pissed. Why does she defend him so much?

"Leave my hand. You're hurting me", she said and I got up without leaving her hand. She too got up.

I pulled her towards me and placed a hand behind her waist. I twisted her one hand behind whilst she tried to push me with her free hand.

"Leave me Ivan. I'm saying, just let go", she yelled.

"No, I won't. I don't care about whom you like and with whom you're. I like you and you've got to like me", I demanded and leaned down to kiss her. Today, I'll make sure to make her realise my love.

But Joe hit her feet on my knees strongly making me losen my grip on her. Next moment, I felt her slapping hard on my cheeks.

"How dare you touch me? You're a psycho and a worst person ever. I hate you", she yelled. Her slap had an opposite affect on me.

I clenched my jaws and held her by her shoulder. I pushed her back to the tree behind and when her back hit the tree, I held her both hands and tucked them behind the tree with mine.

"I can touch you whenever and wherever I want because you're mine. I love you. Did you get that?", I asked increasing my hold on her hands. She cried out in pain.

"Don't you dare hate me", I yelled and she looked up at me with complaints in her eyes.

"And I thought that you'd save me in future. Thanks for proving me wrong", she said sarcastically and her words hit me hard.

I immediately took two steps back and leave her. She cried and sat down taking support of the tree. She folded her knees upto her chest and hide her face by bowing down and kept on crying. I sat by her side and stroked her hair slightly.

"I'm sorry", was all I could say for next half an hour.

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(Present time);

I stroked my hand on the tree and felt restless just like that day. If only I had behaved nicely to her, she had came to me asking me to protect her instead of running away from me.

"I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Come back forest. Your Ivan needs you. Give me another chance, I beg you", I said to no one in particular. After glancing at the tree again, I walked to the bench and sat down.

Hazel's face passed across my mind. Why did she say so? Why will Ron kill the baby? What can a baby do to threaten him? Doesn't she love him? They're a couple then how can he not know the truth of Aiden?

There were so many questions going on inside me. Hazel is much more to a story. There are so many folds in her life which are not yet unfolded and one of them is Joe.

All I care about is Joe only. Once, I'll be able to contact her, I don't give a damn about this con girl, Hazel. She's a lier, a player, manipulative person with a messed up life. I've no interest in solving her issues as long as those issues aren't concerned with Joe.

Who are you Hazel? How do you know Joe?

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