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Twenty minutes later, we’re a little way out of the epicenter of the city when the car turns into a dark alleyway and down a narrow street.
"Are you going to murder me and dump my body here? Is that your big surprise?"
"You don't recognize it?" I ask.
She frowns and turns back to the window. She stares for a few minutes before turning back to me. "No. It's not."
"It's not what?" Grinning. She knows.
"It's..."
"The club. Were we met.”
"We didn't meet there,” she argues, looking out the window again.
"But it's the place I really saw you for the first time."
The driver stops in front of the club and we climb out.
"What are we doing here?"
“You’ll see.”
thirty-eight
Kiara
Kylian takes my hand and leads me to the entrance of the club. I didn’t recognize it right away because it was completely dark, nobody coming in and out. The surrounding areas are dark and quiet too.
There’s a short siren, and two firetrucks join us, four firemen jumping out of them and coming over to shake Kylian’s hand.
“Ready?”
They nod and give him a thumbs up.
“What is happening? What are you doing?”
He chuckles and just takes my face between his hands. "Doing what I should've done here, five years ago.”
“Tell me again, what does this place represent to you?”
I hesitate. And then I decide that now, right now, is when I’ll stop second guessing my feelings. “I hate it. This place is the start of a phase I’d rather not remember. It wasn’t just you. It was everything, I had come here trying to hide from my life, and put that on a fantasy about you that wasn’t fair. You hurt me. But I hurt me too. That’s what this place represents to me. A reminder I wish I can scald off the surface of the earth.”
Purging my soul takes it out of me, and I feel myself feeling light headed.
But he catches me, wrapping his arms around me, not letting me fall.
And then, he kisses me. Kisses me unlike any other time we've kissed. Kisses me like everything depends on this kiss, kisses me to erase all the lost time, and all the unnecessary hurt and resentment between us.
Kisses me to say all the things we can't say right now, because it’s not the right time. But it’s a promise of what’s to come.
"This is what I should've done that night."
The heat from this kiss consumes any and every part of me that exists from that betrayal. And I’m drawn back to him, desperately pressing my lips up against his again.
"One more thing."
Curiosity spirals around my body as I watch him pull out his lighter and hands it to me.
