Chapter 156
Zeno felt his head aching badly, and he could feel that something was wrapped around his head.
He let his eyes remain closed for a while as he recalled his last memory. He wasn't sure if it was a last memory or if his mind was playing tricks on him. However, he believed he had heard Sebastian faintly, but he was sure he had heard his voice the last time he got hit by Bison's men.
Did Sebastian defeat Bison? Were they defeated and Biosn still held him captive? Was Sebastian safe?
But contrary to his thoughts, Zeno felt quite safe; he no longer felt as if he was in Bison's environment, and he could feel the gentle and warm hand holding his hand beside him, he knew it would be Sebastian, he must have been very worried about him, even after their misunderstanding, Sebastian still chose to save him; Zeno thought that Sebastian was really pissed this time and wouldn't give a shit about him anymore.
His heart warmed at the thought and he couldn't wait to apologize for his foolhardiness.
Zeno slowly opened his eyes; luckily, the light above wasn't a blaring one; he comfortably adjusted his eyes; his body was hurting all over, but he could bear it; he slowly turned his head to the side and was instantly disappointed.
It wasn't Sebastian, it was Nicholas.
Nicholas sat on a chair beside Zeno's bed, his head was laid on the bed as he held Zeno's hand.
Zeno was conflicted, why was Sebastian not here? Je grunted as he tried to sit up, alerting Nicholas immediately.
Nicholas sat up and looked at Zeno in shock.
"Zeno, you're awake. I... I was so worried; how are you feeling? Hold on," Nicholas gently adjusted the bed so it lifted Zeno's upper body to a sitting position.
Zeno quietly looked around the room and realized that he was in Ezra's hospital, in one of the rooms.
"Thank you..." Zeno coughed.
Nicholas immediately reached for the table beside them and grabbed the glass of water.
"Here, drink, this," He raised the glass to Zeno's lips.
Zeno tried to raise his hand and take the glass, but he realized that his left arm was wrapped in an Ace wrap.
He sighed and let Nicholas feed him the water. "Thank you," He said.
Nicholas nodded, "It's been two days, Zeno, you were scaring us all, we... I thought I was never going to speak to you again," He confessed.
Zeno shook his head, "Ouch," He winceed.
"Sorry, your head was injured by that jerk; Ezra had it treated and wrapped; you don't have to move around a lot for now," Nicholas explained.
Zeno frowned, "Bison -"
"Dead. He's dead, Zeno; you don't have to worry about him anymore; you just have to get better, and we can figure out what to do from there," Nicholas informed.
Zeno was quiet; he felt something was off; he looked at Nicholas' face and observed how he couldn't hold his gaze, "Nicholas..." He called quietly.
Nicholas looked at him, "Yes, do you need anything? I can go get Ezra; he'd be very happy to see that you're awake," He tried to leave, but Zeno stopped him.
"No, don't go..." Zeno said.
Nicholas sighed and sat back on the chair, "What's bothering you, Zeno?" He asked as if he didn't already know what was bothering Zeno.
"Sebastian..." Zeno mentioned quietly, "Where is he? I... I thought he'd be the one beside me, or has he been here the other days?" He questioned calmly.
Nicholas lowered his face to the floor; he took a deep breath before looking at Zeno, "No, Zeno, he's not been here since the day he brought you over. He's home," He informed.
Zeno felt a sharp, acute pain pierce his heart; his head pinged with a hard throb, his limbs were getting weaker, and his heart was racing wildly; he felt scared, he felt... fear.
"Why? Did he say why?" He asked Nicholas, his voice sounding husky from his held-back years.
His Sebastian never came to see him, why?
Was he really that angry with him?
"Who am I kidding? Sebastian must still be angry at me, I did betray him by speaking to Bison," Zeno chuckled dryly.
Nicholas remained silent; he drummed his fingers on his lap, biting his lips.
"Can you call him for me, I need to apologize, I can't let him -"
"I can't, Zeno," Nicholas interrupted gently.
Zeno frowned, "Huh? W-what do you mean you can't?" He blinked.
Nicholas sighed, it seemed like he couldn't avoid it forever; he had to say it because he also wanted Zeno to have peace of mind.
"Sebastian is getting married to Sakura," Nicholas announced just at the same time the door opened and Ezra walked in.
"Nicholas, way to go. You promised not to tell him," Ezra frowned, angry.
"I had to, he deserves to know," Nicholas replied.
Zeno was quiet for a while; he could no longer feel his heartbeat. He felt like his heart had stopped beating, but suddenly, it started beating so out of control, his chest rising and falling as he tried to get enough air into his lungs.
"Zeno, Zeno, you have to relax, you-"
"I have to go," Zeno suddenly pushed Ezra out of the way and got down from the bed; his feet wobbled, but Nicholas was fast to catch him before he fell to the ground.
"Zeno, relax; I know it's going to hurt, but you have us; we'll be right here to help you recover," Nicholas consoled.
Zeno pushed him away with the strength he could muster, "No! Nicholas, no! I'm not believing it until I see him! Do you hear! Until I see him!" He limped out of the hospital room, heading right for the elevator.
"Way to go, Mr. Lover," Ezra glared at Nicholas before running after Zeno.
"Zeno, wait," He called after Zeno, who was already inside the elevator.
"Fuck!" He cursed when Zeno closed the elevator door in his face.
"The stairs, Doc," Nicholas suggested and immediately went running down the stairs.
Zeno reached the floor and limped out of the elevator, he ignored all the eyes he got from the patients sitting in the reception area and made his way out of the door.
"Damn it," He frowned when he realized that he had no motor phone on him to get a cab.
He looked around and saw the cars parked in front of the hospital building; his eyes landed on Ezra's car, and he immediately had an idea.
He started to walk toward it. Hopefully, Ezra would hurry down, and he would lead him to take him home.
Ezra did.
In the next second, Ezra and Nicholas ran toward him, panting.
"Zeno, please, don't be rash, you shouldn't be moving around right now, you have to get back in and observe your rest, it's dangerous too -"
"No, Nicholas, no way," he said and went over to Ezra and held his hand.
"Please, Ezra. Please, I'm begging you; I know now what I'm doing might seem unreasonable, but I hope you understand me; I just want to speak to Sebastian. Please, drive me to him, please, I'm begging, I... I just need to speak to him, at least, if what Nicholas said was true, I need to hear him say it to me himself, please," Zeno begged.
Ezra sighed. He understood how Zeno was feeling, and he didn't even think that he was overreacting; he was taking it rather better than he had imagined.
"Get in the car," Ezra said and pointed to his car.
"Ezra?" Nicholas called, giving him a questioning look.
"Yoh hears the guy; he just wants closure; you should understand better, " Wzra said and opened the door for Zeno.
"Get in if you want to come too," Ezra said and walked past Nicholas.
Nicholas couldn't believe that the matter had escalated to this extent, he wasted no time in getting inside the car.
"Zeno, no matter what happens, I just want you to love yourself first, for the first time, do you understand?' Nicholas asked, taking Zeno's hand in his as the car drove away from the hospital.
Zeno was staring down at his legs; he didn't reply to Nicholas, nor did he look up. He didn't feel like looking out of the window and appreciating the beauty of the city and nature.
"I've got you, Zeno," Nicholas muttered, not letting go of Zeno's hand.
Soon, Ezra drove the car inside Sebastian's compound. He felt bad for Zeno, but he couldn't refuse to help the poor guy; he knew he was in pain, both physically and emotionally pain.
Zeno saw that they had arrived and immediately pushed the open and limped toward the stairs.
"Let me help you," Nicholas tried holding his arm.
"I'm fine," Zeno removed his hand and continued toward the door.
He reached the door, and it was immediately opened by Jasper, who seemed shocked to see him, but Zeno was surprised to realize that Jasper didn't speak to him; he simply removed his eyes from Zeno and kept on walking ahead.
Zeno felt a foreboding from that treatment, he took a deep breath and limped inside the house.
The moment, he walked in and stood beside the door, his heart immediately shattered when eyes found his target: Sebastian.
However, looking at Sebastian wasn't what shattered his heart, it was the person lying on Sebastian's lap.
Sakura lay there so comfortably, smiling at something Sebastian was showing her on his phone.
"Sebastian..." He didn't even believe he could still produce a sound from how dry his throat felt.
Sebastian paused when he heard Zeno's voice. However, he didn't bother to acknowledge him; it was Sakura who looked at Zeno and Immediately got up from Sebastian's lap and hurried over to Zeno.
"Zeno, oh my God, how are you?" Sje ruched out her hand to touch him but Zeno shifted away, his eyes still locked on Sebastian.
It hurt more that Sebastian didn't even bother to look at him.
"Sebastian... what's going on, Sebastian?" He questioned, his eyes prickling with hot tears.
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