Days After You's

Chapter 41 - Panic

"Where do you know, Luiz?" Stella put her hands on her chest while glaring.

"Your father told me. He was so furious that I let you meet that guy but I managed to keep him from hitting you earlier."

"Oh..."

"Why are you lying to me, Stella?" I asked, "If you don't want to tell me who he really is, you just have to say 'Oh I can't tell you Luiz, it's none of your business and blah blah' easy right?"

Stella looked away, "I'm sorry.I don't think my personal and past matters matter to you Luiz."

Jamb.

Something sharp seemed to pierce my heart. After everything I did for her, she still thinks that I don't care about her...?

I ruffled my waist and ruffled my hair, "I care about Stella! I care about you, why do you think I've always wanted to help you this long if I didn't care? Didn't you say you wanted to be my friend or..partner first? How could that have happened if you were still looking at me with such thoughts? You always say I'm a reliable guy but it turns out deep down I'm just a cold guy who doesn't really care about you, right?"

Stella's eyes moved up, her gaze met mine, there was a bit of fire there, "You—you yourself who from the beginning closed yourself and rejected me. That night, right, when you were late, I just wanted to make you friends but you didn't even want to. Of course I'll assume you don't care. Don't turn the facts around, Luiz."

Without letting me prevent it, Stella ran towards her room and locked the door. Instantly I was at a loss for words. There's nothing more I want now than to have the ability to go back in time and hit myself for rejecting Stella. Now, my talk that night turned around and troubled myself.

My teeth were grinding while my hands rubbed against my huffed face and opened my own room door. That night neither me nor Stella went out of the room. I ignored my hunger and dissolved myself in the pile of my work.

What can I do? If you'd like to apologize, Stella wouldn't have opened the door again that night. It was my fault that it exploded just because he said I never cared about him. I should have known not to let feelings rule me. I was always calm, but that night I lost my control and acted like I wasn't.

Tomorrow I have to apologize. Whatever happens, if Stella's still craving or something, I have to apologize right away.

That's my plan. But of course, the next day, Stella still refused to face me or talk to me directly even though she still prepared breakfast for me. I don't know what time he woke up, but when I came down there was already breakfast he prepared on the table, but unfortunately the food had also begun to cool down.

I let out a breath. Instead of sitting down and eating, I went back up and knocked on Stella's door.

Geck. Geck.

"Stella´s...Stella!"

My voice wasn't so loud but I'm sure Stella heard it from inside her room. There was no response or response from him.

"Still angry?" I said, "I'm sorry Stella, please come out..."

Silent. I let out a breath.

"Okay, I'll leave you alone for now. But come home later, we have to talk."

After saying that, I then went downstairs, eating fried rice and potato wedges that had been cold before leaving for work with a tangled heart. It will be a long day at the company.

I shifted at the same time the two mothers who were busy chatting while carrying so many shopping bags were also about to enter the elevator. They smiled at me before continuing their conversation.

"Eh he's a resident here too huh?"

"Lack of knowing, ma'am. But it could be yes, right fit in front of the gate of the armpit, maybe again waiting for a taxi, kasian ya. Girls are young again."

"If you want to wait for a mah taxi in the building can also be yes, why bother to the front gate. That's so bad. The one with the car said he was drunk, so don't focus so."

"Yes yeah, now it has to be more worrying anyway."

Both my eyebrows raised up. Earlier, when passing through the entrance gate, I did see red marks on the sidewalk and road, but I did not think so much, it turns out there were people who just got hit. Is that guy okay? If I remember it again, the blood is quite a lot too.

I shook my head, today we who are careful and not wrong still can be harmed by the negligence of others. I hope that drunk driver can have equal consequences.

The elevator arrived at the top floor. I walked towards my unit and pressed the door code to enter. It was very dark without any sound or activity. Is Stella still not out of her room? It doesn't feel possible.

After clicking the switch, I immediately went up the stairs and the road to Stella's room which also sounded lonely.

Geck. Geck.

"Stella´s...Stella?" Call me, "Come out, you've had enough in there. I'm sorry about yesterday. Please come out and talk to me."

Just like this morning, only silence greeted me. There was no sound behind Stella's door. My feelings are starting to get bad. I grabbed my phone and called Stella's number, but I didn't hear any ringtones from inside, even if the call was connected. Between him setting it on silent mode or he is indeed out and has not returned. But where is he?

Instead of the second ring, my phone was lifted, but it was not Stella's soft voice that I heard but her father's heavy voice that answered me.

"Oh Luiz, exactly when you call. I just wanted to call you" Stella's father said worriedly.

My eyebrows frowned, "Pa...? What's up?"

"Yes, it's me. Hurry here. I'm in the hospital waiting for Stella. He's again treated—"

My whole muscles feel like they're squeezing. The conversation of the two mothers that I accidentally heard when I passed by me when entering the elevator about the woman who was hit in front of the gate was immediately struck by the voice of Stella's father at the end of the call. Don't tell me that the woman they were referring to was Stella.

It's a joke, right?

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Hiii, new author update againii😅. Actually already want up from a few days ago (it's finished writing this chapter) just because busy looking for a booster vaccine + fever fitting out the vaccine, so forget 🤧.

Make the faithful wait, I love you guys🥰