Arwen was taken aback. "The accident that I had back when I was at Cralens High?" she asked, as if just to seek confirmation.
Aura nodded.
"But how is that possible?" Arwen’s voice was filled with disbelief. "It was Ryan who took me to the hospital."
She might have forgotten many of her memories, but one thing she remembered vividly was waking up and seeing Ryan sitting beside her. Her mother had introduced him then, telling her that it was he who had saved her life.
The moment was pivotal for her.
It gave Catrin a valid reason to make her feel indebted towards him, and force her to approach Ryan —willingly. If nothing else, then at least as a friend.
He had brought her to the hospital and saved her that day. Thanking him was something she felt she owed him. Later, this very belief served as the reason why she agreed to get engaged to him.
Not entirely out of gratefulness, but because Catrin insisted he deserved her, because he once saved her life. And with him, she would be safe. Like before, he would always come forward to protect her.
She glanced at Aura now, her gaze flickering, searching for an answer —one that could help her make sense of what she had been missing all these years.
Was it Aiden who saved her that day? And not Ryan?
Maybe Aura understood the storm within her. She placed her hand gently over hers on the desk and gave a small nod. Then her gaze deepened, turning inward as she went down the lane of memories to revisit that dreadful day.
"Yes," Aura said softly. "I saw it with my own eyes."
She took a moment before continuing.
"When he came rushing in to find you, I didn’t know who he was. But I saw the desperation in his eyes. He seemed like someone who had been searching for you everywhere, terrified that something might have happened. He asked the teacher about you, but since you hadn’t shown up at school, the teacher didn’t know anything either."
Aura’s voice trembled slightly as the memory came flooding back.
"He left after that —but something about it didn’t sit right with me. I couldn’t focus, I felt this ... unease. So, making an excuse, I followed. I checked around the campus but couldn’t find you. That’s when I stepped out to look further."
She remembered it in detail because that day had even traumatised her.
"After looking around for a while, I finally saw you walking along the roadside, a bit far away. I was about to call your name when a lorry sped past my view. I couldn’t see you, but I heard someone screaming a name on top of his lungs. Moon."
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