Chapter I

He was there in front of that place where they used to go after school.

That quiet place that had so much memories in his mind, he was wearing a suit which was dirty of blood all over it. His nose was bleeding, his lips were bleeding and he had a wound in his left part of his head. He was checking something in his hand, it was a gun, he was in tears when a girl on his right few metres away from him was staring at him.

A body was laying down in front of him while he was leaning against the door's car. That body stopped breathing long ago, the body was losing so much blood that he could smell his scent. He was in total shock of what was happening. 

"Ian!!" The guy turned his face over the girl, she was in tears on her knees next to him holding his face. 

"Don't cry, I'm here." He comforted her but she kept on crying while she touched his forehead with hers, her hands was covered in blood.

"I loved you from the very first day.." he was holding her face in tears while breathing heavily. "I fell in love with you for your heart.." she was desperately crying on his chest.

The memories were fading in his mind slowly which was a very cold season.

A lady came from a different company to get a higher position as graphic designer. Through her hard working she had the chance to join this group of people where she had to design a video game for teenagers. 

She was wearing a black skirt, her skin looked like a doll's face, she had no rings but a bracelet very important for her that could have been wore in any occasions that could be work, date, wedding and so on. She had straight red hair with brown reflection, her hair was long up to her back and at the bottom was a bit wavy. She was wearing a white shirt and a smart coat like a proper professional.

People could have told only by looking at her that she cared a lot about her appearance.

The manager was approaching her while he was coming out of the office.

"Welcome to the Chicago corporation Ms Velvet Roswell, I'm Alphonse, the manager of the company" the man introduced himself by laying down her hand so that they could have shake hands.

"Nice to meet you Mr Alphonse" she was wearing a brownie/purple lipstick when she smiled. 

"He is Killian, Killian Evans. He's the leader of the team that you'll be working with" while the director was introducing him, he was very focused on her lips and her eyes.

"But you can call me Ian, that's how everyone calls me" he smiled at her.

The manager left him to introduce her with the rest of the team. They were walking in silent side by side while she was looking around very curiously which he noticed immediately by peeking on her without her noticing. 

"That's our office". He said which made her interrupt what she was doing.

He introduced the team which was formed by 9 people : 2 were focusing on the movements of characters, 1 productions, 1 social media advertisements, 1 about colours of the characters, plot of the story and other extra duty. 

Killian had to go somewhere else so he left the team to show her where she needed to start. This was the beginning of her career.

It was Killian's mother's anniversary since she passed away, he would go visit her grave every week but on that day he would clean her grave, offer flowers, pray and stay there until the sunset. 

It was morning already he was walking through the long corridor that was leading him to the office. It was too early so no one was there, he decided to sit down in front of his desk thinking about the project of the game. He wanted to create the best story plot of all the time.

Velvet woke up very early on that day, she had a shower, prepared breakfast and left while his father was still asleep.

Velvet was the only child living with her father instead her mother left them a very long time ago, she was only four years old that could not really remember her. However she treasured all her pictures as memories of her childhood.

Her red hair had a very good scent that everyone in the office was envious of her hair. She went inside the office where Ian was lost in his memories in front of his computer. He could smell her scent that is when he started staring at her. She was smiling at the team, Allie was the girl that was responsible for character's colours they spent loads of time together to have her ideas. 

"Bye Allie, bye Huston, bye guys." She was still working in her computer.

"Are you not going home?" Ian asked looking at her screen.

"Uh..? Uhm I would rather finish this then I'll go home" she politely answered to the question.

"All our colleagues are going to eat something all together, why don't you come?" He wanted to go with her but he didn't know how to say it.

"Thank you for the invitation but I would like to finish it maybe another time." She smiled and kept on working on the design.

He didn't insist so he left the office right after wishing her a lovely evening. He was walking thinking about his mother, about his memories, about how she used to look after him. He felt like no other women could do something like this, that is why he never dated anyone because he thought that just like his dad, she would have left him. He never asked any girls to go out with him but that evening was the first time he ever invited a girl to go out which made him wonder how it was even possible. He was walking to the bus stop where he decided to sit down for a bit before going to his car.

Velvet finished all her designs and happily left her work place to go home. On the way home she was going at the bus stop when all of the sudden a guy was in front of the building waiting for her. As soon as she saw him, she felt in shock on how he knew she was working there. 

She decided to walk past him without saying a word. However the guy grabbed her hand not allowing her to leave, she looked at the guy straight in his eyes and freed herself. She was walking faster and faster until she arrived behind the bus stop. Ian was still there lost in his thought but he was in front of the bus stop so this meant that they didn't notice each other.

The girl turned around the guy that was following her and started shouting.

"Leave me alone!" She screamed making Ian to stand up where he started walking to peek who was shouting and saw her in tears. That beautiful girl that he always saw smiling, with so much energy and passion for her work was crying in front of his eyes. Then he saw the guy in front of her wanting something from her. The guy kept on walking forward her while she was stepping back in tears, the guy all of the sudden was trying to touch her hand when Ian interrupted him by standing in front of him. 

"Do you need anything?" He asked the guy but he decided to leave without answering his question.

He turned back at the girl, while she was wiping her nose, for some reason she kept on crying, but he couldn't understand why.

"Is she scared?" He thought "is she in pain?" He thought "or "did he hurt her?" He kept on thinking without asking her.

"Are you okay?" He finally asked her. The whole time she had her eyes down looking at the floor but finally her eyes met his eyes. She nodded saying that she wasn't okay and kept on crying.

"Did he hurt you?" He asked her when she nodded for a yes. "What? He hurt you? Where!? Why didn't you tell me?!" He aggressively said.

"Where is that bastard!?" He was looking behind him to look for him when she held his arm to block him to go. He turned back to the girl and she was holding her left side of her chest which meant that she was hurt inside. He kept on staring at her with so much pain in his eyes.

He didn't know the girl a part from the fact that she was working with her for almost 2 months already. The only things they used to speak is about work, cartoon and video games but he could never thought that a strong and beautiful lady like her could have had so much pain in her heart.

After few minutes that they sat down at the bus station, she kept on crying for hours while he decided to sit down there listening to her until she could feel better.

"I'm sorry for my behaviour" she said while a bus was coming.

"It's absolutely fine, can I leave you home with my car?" He proposed while the bus was already there.

"It's fine, thank you for today I will see you tomorrow." She waved at him while she was leaving inside the bus.

•Author's Note

This is the end of chapter one, hope you liked it.

If you identify any mistakes on this chapter, feel free to leave your opinion in the comment section so that I could improve myself as English is not my first language. 

Thank you to have read my chapter, see you in the next chapter. :)