Latest news, Lucas Saavedra was seen last night at the opening of the biggest gallery in Crimson City which was said to be structured and designed by the young architect.

Lucas Saavedra went on a summer vacation with his friend's family which is also the famous chef, Stephan Draco and Arianna Draco at the Miami Beach.

Still a mistery, Architect Lucas Saavedra, 26, is still recovering from his recent motorcycle accident. The bachelor suffered minor injuries but still suffering the impact of it.

Lucas Saavedra once again made women drool over him as he shows his latest beach body at the cover of Fierce & Kisses. He is not just busy with making and designing buildings but also constructing his own body.

Damn, I didn't know Lucas is this famous. What happened to the shy and conservative guy that I married before? Jesus, he seems to be so comfortable in front of the camera and became an architect and a famous model. Who would have thought?

I kept on scrolling news about Lucas. One after another one and everything about him. He blurted out of the blue then appeared to be loved by the people. Who drags him to this fame? Or did he got this because of his skill as an architect but really, how did he manages to even study such course?

His life became wonderful without me and that might be the reason why opportunities wowed him and take the chance to prove that he is not a garbage.

Shit.

The harsh words I said to him before...it is really unforgivable but can anyone blame me? I was played by him and Silvia. They are dating behind my back and that doesn't matter if its a fake or not. They are all together and one fell for the other.

The memories came flashing to me again causing me to slam my laptop shut and buries my face under my covers.

I just moved into my new aparment a little far from the hotel. Honestly, I just couldn't live under one roof with my parents or else I might go crazy. This pain inside my chest against them is still here and it would heal quicker if I go out of their way. That is my way of moving on and it is better. I can visit them once in a while but not live with them. I just can't.

Especially with my Dad.

In those seven years of my disappearance, he never bothers to even ask for me or ask for any forgiveness for destroying my life. Seriously, none of this will even start if he didn't meddle with my life.

He really needs to change his attitude while he still can. He's weak and he's old. He needs to learn his mistakes and not look down on people who are not rich.

This aparment that I bought is not really that big. Just an average size for a single woman like me, living alone and has no one else to hold. Great.

I have one neighbor, who just happens to be on the other side of the door and I haven't see who was living there so I haven't greeted them yet. This is a very secluded and the security is great. That's why someone from the lobby told me that there are many celebrities who lives in this building.

I raised my head from the covers to check out what time it is. My eyes widen to see that I only have an hour to get really before 12 and noon was the time Lucas said at the Nueva Café. My feet rushes towards the bathroom and made a very quick shower before picking out something to wear. I don't want to look too casual and I don't want to wear too formal as well. And I don't really have that much clothes with me so I just have to rely on what I have.

I wore my favorite yellow sundress and decided not to give a feminine look to it so I put on some creamed coloured stilettos. Put on an eyeliner, nude lipstick and mascara but with my hair, I just let it down and wavy. A blow fried and simply laid out look who is aboht to meet her husband. This is what I should pull off then.

Nate gave me a temporarily car that I can use around so I can just drive myself at the coffee shop. On the road, I keep on checking my watch because I'm technically early. I still have thirty minutes and Lucas might say that I was too excited to see him again.

Which is true.

I am excited to see him and I don't know why.

Arriving at the place, I quickly scanned my eyes around the café and for a moment, I said it is too early and Lucas is obviously running late again because he was never early. Never in my life that he came before the time he said he will come back. Its always a few minutes late.

And now, I am dumbfounded seeing him sitting at the corner, a hand on the desk while the other is holding a newspaper.

Okay, he's early.

I slowly approached him and brings out a soft smile when his eyes finally reached mine.

Damn, why is my heels shaking just because he shows me that genuine smile that I missed so much. He stood up like a gentleman and helped me to sit down on my seat. "I am sorry I was late." I replied, sounding calm but my inside is spinning.

"No, I was just too early." Lucas pulls his own chair then sits down on the opposite side, leaning back and rested his elbow on the arm rest, while I assumingly think that he is checking me out. "You got a tattoo?"

My eyes went wide for a second then realizes that my tattoo at my back shows. It is just a small runic alphabet used to spell Ezekiel. He must have checked it out when he pulled my chair for me. "Yes, I got it a few years ago." I gather my hair to my back to somehow cover it because I don't want him to check it out closer and wonder about it. I felt his eyes went down to the length of my neck, down to the collar bones and it made me shiver at the heat of that gaze. Damn, this thing he gives me is burning me. "Erm...so...how have you been doing, Architect Saavedra?" I tried turning the topic into something else.

"Well, it's been a long journey." He replied, snickering then my next question was interrupted when a waiter approaches, placing the menu in front of us.

"Oh, thank you." I friendly smiled at the waiter then scanned the menu list. It's been so long since I've been here and their menu hasn't change so I will just order whatever is in HERE. "Can I have the Fettuccine Alfredo please?"

The waiter nodded and then turned to Lucas for the order.

"Just any vegetable salad you have." Lucas replied, looking at the list. "Oh, this Quinoa and Roasted Vegetable." he ordered then turned to me. "Drinks?"

Oh, I just realized that I've been staring at him the whole time. Girl, you need to blink once in a while. Jeez, it is just so hard to take that he is really in front of me and this successful. This is making it hard for me to believe that he is here in front of me.

"Um...Macchiato." I answered, blood rushing to my ears and I really need to compose myself. I must relax and be calm. This is just Lucas, an ex lover, meaning there are nothing between you anymore so chill yourself, Talia. You don't want to embarrass yourself in front of him.

"You heard her, and then just a black coffee for me." He told the waiter before handing him the menu then went back to me, as he leans his elbows on the table. "I'm not really good at conversations but...I will try to act casual to you. So, how have you been these past seven years?"

That is an awkward question but I must answer it with poise and calmness. "Well, I've studied Fine Arts in Paris then, became a painter once I graduated. It's what is keeping me a live these years. Not that amazing but I can manage."

A wide sincere smile appears to his thin lips and stated at me for a moment. "Living the dream now, huh? This has always been your dream since before we met."

I bit my lower lip and nodded. "Y-yeah...and this is your dream too. To be an architect." shit, can this stuttering just stop? It is making me even more nervous.

"Architect...I still don't know how I was to manage to reach this." He murmured.

I want to ask more but it seems that I'm too scared to know the answer to that question inside my mind.

"Not just an architect, you are famous now." I tried to laugh, cheerfully.  "I was surprised when I saw your face in front of a magazine though. I didn't think these kinds of things interested you now."

Lucas shakes his head in disbelief. "Talia, I can see in your eyes that you have many questions to ask me. Do ask, and I will answer them all. Don't be afraid to question me anything." he stated, causing me to bite down my tongue.

Just like before, he can always see right through my eyes and can tell what I'm thinking. Why is he good at that?

"I-I just became really curious about you and your profession. Even until now, I am still floating and couldn't accept the fact that you are here in front of me." My voice were low and too soft to hear.

Lucas eyed me with gentleness. "Me too. It's like a dream that you are here right in front of me. A heavy and dark past behind us but here we are, trying our best to move forward."

I gulped as we came down to that topic. "Do...do you want to talk about it?" I asked.

He shakes his head and for a moment, the smile disappears then he just faked a new one. "No, it is better to keep that past behind and let us just focus what we are now today."

After telling us that, our meal came and so are the coffees. But as soon as the waiter was done placing them down, we presume the paused conversation. My hands were actually shaking under the table and all of a sudden, I was brushing back the moment that he in fact, cheated on me first and now, I am the one acting so happy to see him. It is unfair that I'm behaving like this, all the anger inside me was gone in a snap but the pain is still in there though.

"Yes, we do agree to have a new start and besides, it is seven years ago." I broke the silence and played the pasta with my fork. "We are both good now and...successful in our own ways. Maybe, it is better like this."

"Better like what?"

"Like this...we being mutual." I replied, finding my voice again to go natural. "Honestly speaking, we really had an awful past and it is better not to talk about it. So, all I ask is...can we finally just be civil each other?"

Lucas gives a deep breath before opening his mouth to reply. "You want us to be civil?"

"Yes, just two old champs mutual and trying to forget our past, you okay with that?" I took a careful bite on my past.

Lucas nodded and a fixed smile was formed. "Just as how I wanted it." he replied. "And before I could forget, since you are asking this and we are forgetting the past...would it be better if we should sign for divorce?"

Thunder strikes at me at the question.

Wait, isn't it what I told myself that I will ask for him? But why did it hurts so bad? I thought I finally brace for this topic before but it looks like I only said it without meaning it.

But it will be for the best.

I gulped hard and hesitantly nodded. "I think that would be great." my voice cracked once again, it feels like something deepens my chest and it is so hard to breath? What's wrong with me? "Let us file for a divorce and be civil with each other."

Lucas agrees with me before finally throwing the bmob that truly wrecked me. "That would be great because I don't want to get to the next level knowing that there is still a wall between us."

"Pardon?" I didn't understand it right. Did he just said something about next level?

"Because I'm getting married."

Then boom.

Right into my chest.

I was unable to speak after hearing that news. My mind went blank and my heart dropped into the ground. I know my eyes are shaking and I look dumb with my mouth open because I wasn't able to say anything after that and I was really shock.

He's getting married to somebody else...

Why does it pained me too much???

"Wow, that's...um...congratulations." I utter the words weakly. I couldn't feel the excitement in my voice too but it is tightening in my chest what's bothering me.

"I just want to let you know." He told me. "Just tell me whenever you are ready."

The words clogged in my throat and I'm fighting so hard to keep my composure after that. "Let's fix it as soon as possible then."

"As soon as possible?"

I nodded without managing to lock eyes with him because if did, I will cry right now. Jesus, don't show any kind of weaknesses now, Talia. Remember, you should be the always one to cry and you are strong.

You and Lucas are just not meant to be. We have been tested but we didn't succeed. It's a wrong chemistry and we must learn to finally free each other. This is not a game that someone should win but, this is the real life.

Happy endings are not true.

Always keep that in your mind.

"Let me guess...Silvia?"

Lucas couldn't nod or speak but instead, he just inhaled and gave me an apologetic look. The way his eyes find mine is so frustrating. If he continues to look at me like that, I might think that he still loves me and he is just testing my reaction but no.

"So, you two really, huh?" I muttered. "Congrats to the both of you."

He titled his head slightly as if he didn't expect that kind of reaction from me.

I cleared my throat and fixed my seat. I cannot digest the food properly this time and I'm not in the mood to eat, placing my fork down then checked out my phone so I can hide my eyes from him.

"So, shall we continue our meal?" I asked, acting calm then drinks my coffee, letting the bitterness fades in me.

Lucas didn't say anything else as he picks up his fork and lands his eyes on me again. "Anyway...that tattoo on your back, who is Ezekiel?"

I nearly spit the pasta in my mouth at his question. "W-what?" he undeetands Runic alphabet?

"I happen to have a friend whose name was Rune so I know how that alphabet works." He replied. "Is that...your man?"

My man? "Yes." I don't know what brought into me but I just want to say yes and show him that I moved on just like him.

"You love him?" the huskiness in his voice rings into my ears to give me shivers and I love it.

"I do." I murmured, speaking the truth. There is no lie in there because I do love Ezekiel because he is my son. Our son to be in fact.

Now, it was his turn to was unable to reply but instead he just nods.

The rest of the lunch was a simple exchange of conversations. No more deep and other topics but it is just like two friends talking together.

At the back of mind, I want to ask myself if I did the right choice? That I must remain friends with him after all the pain I suffered?

Yes, he is an asshole but I chose not to live to that anymore.

If he loves Silvia so be it. I cannot stop the destiny of two people who loves each other. I was just their middle who became a mole in their relationship. Our marriage is the one who is keeping them like this and in a few months, this divorce will happen and now, I'm broken whole they are happpy.

Great, I know why I am in so much pain?

Simple, I still love him.

After everything we have been through...the pain, the aches, the tears and laughs, my love for him will never disappear.

He is my one and only love.

And it is hard to finally free him from. Someone is making him happy now and I must find a way to make sure that he has that happiness.

When the lunch was done, Lucas offered to drive me home once again but I refused. Instead, I thanked him for the time and understanding before marching out of the cafe with my head down and immediately call for a cab.

Inside the cab, I was still holding my tears but when I resched the building of my aparment, I was again shock to see Lucas appearing to the building.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I live here." Lucas seems to be surprise as well to see me here.

My mouth agape and I was literally dumbfounded. What a coincidence this is to even have my soon to be ex husband living in the same building as me. Great, this is a great process to move on and now, we have a chance to see each other again. We entered the elevator together and in my surprise, we pressed the same floor together causing our fingertips to touch and it just made me flinch with the electrifying feeling.

"You are also on the 14th floor?" I asked.

He nodded.

But there are only two units on that floor, mine and my nei–

OH crap. "You live next door?"

"Yes, I do." Lucas replied.

I slapped my forehead and inhaled deeply.

Great, just great.

Just went I'm literally want to get of your way but it seems like it will be hard for me. Because we fucking live right in front of each other!

Lucas smiles mischievously as the door opens and the elevator dings, saying that we are finally at our floor. We stepped out and I quickly resched mine while he reached his but he turns his head to me which I quickly turn my head back and open my front door using my code. When I finally manage to open it, his eyes were still on me as if he is waiting for me to say something but instead, he smiled then said something before entering his one unit.

"Guess we are neighbors now, Talia. It seems like you still have no escape from me." he uttered before finally disappearing to his place.

Oh boy, this is crazy.

Crazyness that I cannot handle.

And what's wrong with me? I'm even excited that we are sharing the same floor! Damn this.

I'm screwed now.

To be continued...