Chapter 56
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ALIYA TORRES
'Ethan!" We both shouted getting him off the floor.
'What happened?" Mila asked but Ethan could barely comprehend anything as he stood pulling back from us as if he didn't need any help.
He staggered forward almost falling before Mila went to help me.
'I don't…need you",he muttered,"to help!"
He sauntered into the house with much difficulty really leaning against the wall and using it for support.
Mila was a bit sad but how hard Ethan had lashed out on her but nonetheless we followed him being right behind him incase he fell and hurt himself.
I had never seen him that way. I had never seen him this drunk and upset at the same time. What happened? Where was Jai? Had Ethan drove himself here?
But that was impossible since we didn't hear his car pull up in the driveway.
He walked into the kitchen opening the counters and throwing the cutlery to the floor in a fist of rage. Mila jumped out of shock and I all but glanced at Ethan wondering what was going on and what it was he was looking for.
He opened the other top shelves where the plates were and without a care in the world he threw them to the floor each one of them making a smashing sound against the floor.
'What are you looking for? I-I can get it for you",Mila cried but it was as if Ethan had shut out everyone from his mind.
Her went on with his business as if he hadn't heard Mila and as if what Mila and said didn't matter. His eyes riveted up the shelves and my eyes followed. There were bottles of wine, vodka and scotch and I watched as he easily took one bottle open the cork and gulp a sip before he walked to the back door.
What really happened at that party?
'What do you think happened?" I asked a badly shaken Mila.
'I don't know but I bet Jai does",she said taking her phone out and going to the dining room to call someone I would assume to be Jai.
I walked to the back door being careful not to step on any broken pieces of melamine and glass but it was impossible to do so. I knew it was dangerous to even approach him given that he didn't want to talk to anybody but I felt the need to ask him what was going on.
I was worried. What if he hurt himself and he ended up drowning in the pool? Surely a drunk man couldn't swim.
I slowly pushed the door open seeing Ethan up ahead seated by the edge of the pool with his feet in the water. On one hand he had a bottle of scotch downing the liquid down his throat as if it were iced tea or water.
I approached him carefully, barely saying anything. With cautious steps, I removed my shoes going to sit beside him while I dunked my feet in the water too. It was dangerous to be too close to the pool considering the fact that I couldn't swim and that a drunk Ethan couldn't swim either to save me.
It was while I looked at the blue liquid and the flooring of the pool did I remember that the pool wasn't that deep and that if I did fall in, I would easily stand and walk out of the pool.
'Leave…I don't want you here",he muttered dunking the liquid again in his mouth.
I cocked my head to look at him. He looked sad, his eyes didn't seem as bright as they always were and the muscles on his jaw ticked, a clear indication that he was mad and I wanted nothing but to take the sadness away from him.
'It's a free pool", I commented sloshing my legs in the water.
'Then sit somewhere else",he thundered and the whole time he spoke he never even once stared at me.
It was like talking to a brick wall.
'I want to sit here…with you", I stated once again staring at him.
He scoffed and went again to pretend as if I didn't exist. The bottle was already three quarters full and when he took another sip, it was nearly half. I never liked alcohol, partly because my father had shown me pictures of worst case liver cirrhosis when I was eighteen and partly because I never was a fan of alcohol.
The images of badly decayed livers was forever engraved in my mind yet to find out what was going on, I was ready to take my first sip of alcohol.
'Mind if I take a sip?" I asked.
He peered at me as if I were crazy before he begrudgingly gave me the bottle. It had a rather pungent smell, with one gulp of air, I pressed the bottle to my lips sipping the drink.
It only took one sip for me to cough out like crazy when the drink burnt my throat. Ethan yanked the drink from my hands, his anger flaring.
'I told you to fucking leave me alone but like a leech you won't stop clinging to me. What do you want from me? I thought you were done with me then why the hell are you pretending to be concerned about me?
You are all a bunch of liars! A bunch of betrayers!" He boomed and I could swear I saw tears just at the brink of his eyes but being a man he decided to withhold himself from crying.
It should have hurt when he lashed at me like that but it didn't. I knew he was hurting, question was…was I the one who hurt him or someone else?
'Leave! I do not want to see you so just leave Aliya! Leave!" He shouted this time smashing the bottle of vodka against the marble floor.
I felt him wince and when I looked at the smashed bottle I saw blood. His hand was bleeding.
'Why are you doing this to yourself? I'm here, Ethan. I'm not leaving so please tell me what's going on"