EMILY

I watched as the stranger went outside to call someone, probably his parents telling them why he can't be home tonight.

I wondered if he would tell the real reason behind his staying out, that he totally messed up somebody's hours of hard work and was repaying for it, as much as I didn't like him, I had to admit he wasn't really obliged to make it right by helping me.

I watched him say something and then wince at the answer, I guess he was being scolded, he ran his hands through his hair his eyebrows so furrowed that they had no distance left between them.

He sighed again softly after quickly ranting out an answer, even from afar he looked exhausted to death, I felt bad for him, I watched him close his eyes, breathing slowly.

I decided to order a cup of warm coffee for him, I quickly placed mine, well technically his order and came back to the seat, he was still standing like a statue, breathing in gulfs of air and releasing it smoothly into the wintery night.

I quickly looked down as he turned around and tried acting nonchalant.

I lied when he asked me about the order, I panicked and made the silliest reason in the history of excuses, but it wasn't my fault he was so damn annoying.

"Where is your coffee? "
"What? "
"Well you stated that you went to order, but got your order wrong so what? Now you don't need caffeine? "

"Ummm... No? " I smacked myself mentally at my incompetence, what was wrong with me today? After that little chit chat we both got on with our portion of my works.

I could hear him let out frustrated puffs of air, but he didn't complain once, maybe he wasn't all bad.

"Here, all done, now I'm gonna take my leave, hope to never see you again. "He announced as he got up, and then swayed and finally fell down.

I quickly got up as others attention pulled to us, thankfully there weren't many people in the cafe at the moment, I shook his shoulders, slapped his cheeks and pinched his nose but got no response.

" Hey wake up cmon HEYY!! "When I still got no response I started getting worried, I turned around grabbing the cup and threw it straight out at his face. By now everyone in the cafe, even the sleepy worker surrounded us.

" Huh, what? When? Who?... "The stranger's eyes widened slowly as he came back to consciousness, in his hurry to get up he banged his head against mine his eyes wide with horror examining the few people enclosing us.

Without warning he grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the cafe with him, in shock I followed him and when I finally grasped the situation I planted my feet on the ground coming to a halt, we were quite a distance from the cafe.

"What the hell? " I shouted at him.
Instead of apologizing or giving any excuse for his weird behavior he glared at me, I extended the courtesy.

"What did you do? " He sneered at me, his voice vicious and cold.

"When do you mean? " I asked confused by his change in emotions, instead of being grateful he looked he wanted to bury me five foot under the ground.

"Did you remove the mask? " He enunciated each word, again I was taken aback by his question.

"No? " I asked weirded out by his behavior.
"Are you telling me the truth? "
"Of course I am. "

He seemed to be deep in thought, but after a while nodded and turned around.

"Hey, wait a second. " I grabbed his hand which I realized were both soft and calloused at the same time.

"What? " He yanked his hand out of my grasp with enough force that was beyond the limit of being rude but I ignored it in favor of asking my question.

"At least give me your phone number or something, like I don't even know your name and you helped me so much today so I wanted to thank you properly. " I babbled off into quietness.

I realized he wasn't answering me so I took a tentative glance in his direction, and was enthralled to find his glowering eyes on me. What'd I do now?

"You know don't you? You lied, didn't you? " He spit out those words like venom.
"What do you mean? " I was seriously bewildered by his enunciation.

"You removed my mask, didn't you back in the cafe, you know who I am don't you? " He again said those words, with disgust covering each one of them, disgust for me.

"I... No.. I told you I didn't I just splashed a cup of coffee, well I'm sorry for you clothes but I guess now we're even, but other than that I don't know what you are talking about. "

"Don't lie, earlier you said you hated me HATED me, but now you suddenly want my number to what? Thank me properly? Like I'll believe that shit, it's all for popularity isn't it? " He retorted.

"Listen here I don't know what the hell you are accusing me for but I literally just wanted to thank you, because even though you were exhausted to hell you helped me, even though you fainted by doing so. "
I replied truthfully trying to clear the misunderstanding.

"You want me to believe that? I've been stalked earlier I've changed total of 5 residences till now because of crazy people like you, who call themselves fans but really are people chasing after fame with no respect for people's privacy" He seethed out no stopping.

"Do you even know what it's like to stay on guard 24/7 to be watched, scared because you might be kidnapped anytime? To never be able to fully relax? To be stressed all the time to the point of depression and anxiety attack or to always be on pills because of that? Do you? "

I was speechless, not only he was calling me a liar but also accusing me of being someone I never was or will be, I couldn't care less about fame and popularity, I wanted to be normal, always have.

"Listen mister, I don't care if you are rich or famous or have tens to millions of stalker, I couldn't care less, but I won't stand here being blamed for something I haven't even done. I really just wanted to thank you because even though you were exhausted to the point of fainting, you choose to help me. "

I panted breathing heavily, subsumed by emotions, his eyes lost some of their suspiciousness directed at me, but it was too late for reconciliation.

"And as for the later part, I think I have been accused of enough that I now actually HATE you, so congrats you succeeded, I'm going to go on my own way, goodbye, I hope I never see you again. "

I didn't wait for an reply, turned around and started walking back to the cafe, I was a few steps away when I heard a soft think, if it wasn't for the silence that early morning brings with it, I wouldn't be able to hear it.

I slowly peeked behind, and found the unknown stranger lying on the ground,which looked like a heap of clothes from afar, for a short moment I wanted to let him lie out here in the cold.

"Damn you guilty conscience" I cursed and turned around when I tried waking him up like the last time but nothing worked, I gave up trying and decided to take him home with me, no way in hell I was gonna touch his mask after the whole fiasco.

And if he really was famous, then it might be a huge problem for him, also if he really had fans then they'll run me over for hurting their idol, without blinking an eye, decision made I called a cab and with the help of the driver hauled the stranger inside.

"He party's real hard" I passed an uneasy smile at the cab driver gave him my address and we were at my apartment before I knew it, I handed him the money and again hauled the stranger with me all the way to my room.

That was the first time he came into my room, and just as smoothly into my life, he sank like water through sand deep enough that we became inseparable from each other, because that was just the beginning of a whole new chapter of my book called life.

A/N: I HOPE YOU ENJOYED, I'LL POST WHEN I HAVE TIME. PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO VOTE AND COMMENT, ALSO TELL ME IF I SHOULD CHANGE THE NAME TO Y/N OR IS EMILY ALRIGHT?. HAVE A GREAT DAY/NIGHT AHEAD.