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Alex stopped in his tracks when he was in the living room of his Penthouse... he walked to the glass walls and stood there staring at the night sky... his eyes were filled with sadness and worry... the sadness juliet had seen a glint of and which he hid from everyone... his heart felt heavy, and he couldn't shake off the feeling that something bad was going to happen... it didn't help that he kept remembering the time when he was little... The time when he had seen her in that room, laying there in her own pool of blood... he closed his eyes and gave his head a little shake, trying to shake off and push to the back of the mind the imagine that had disturbed him for over twenty years... He slowly started to feel that raw pain in his chest... a pain that made it hard for him to breathe... Alex turned and started to walk towards the couch... he sat by the floor close to the couch and closed his eyes, trying his best to steady his breath like his psychiatrist had told him to do... steady breaths... he just had to take steady breaths... Alex tried this and closed his eyes, but it wasn't working... because as soon as he closed his eyes, the imagine of a lifeless body invaded his mind... The image of his hands covered with blood... his eyes flew open, and his hand travelled to his chest as his face contoured in pain... he had left his meds in his car... Alex tried to stand up but couldn't he felt weak and almost passed out when he tried to get up again.... The more time passed, the harder it became for him to breathe... How could he continue like this? _______________ _______________ Juliet got up from the bed when she felt thirsty... she assumed Alex had left for the night and made her way downstairs... "Where is the kitchen?" She muttered, her eyes scanning around till it stopped at a side of the house... she walked towards there and was able to locate the kitchen... Juliet opened the fridge to see it filled with only water.... bottles and bottles of water and nothing else... she took one of the bottles out and drank for it.. when she was done, juliet walked past the living room but stopped in her tracks when her eyes got a glimpse of something... her heart dropped, and she felt that fear creep into her once again... Was it the person who had followed her? Did someone break in! how could someone break into a place like this so easily! it was well secured compared to her place.... her heart started to race as she approached the couch, and when she walked to the front of the couch, her eyes immediately grew wide in shock when she saw Alex seated on the floor, his face pale... "Alex!" Juliet screamed out his name and knelt in front of him... both of her hands travelled to his face, and she tried to make him look at her... but he eyes weren't focused on anything... His hand travelled to his chest, and he tried to catch his breath, but it was hard... Juliet went into a panic mood and got up, she ran to the kitchen and started to search around for a bag he could use, like the last time he had been this way, but she couldn't find anything in there.... Her eyes were filled with tears as she rushed back into the living room, and she gasped in shock and fear when she saw Alex pass out on the floor... "Alex." She screamed out in pain and panic and rushed over to where he was... Her entire body trembling... "Alex!" She yelled out his name and started to shake him, and his eyes slowly fluttered open to look at her... "I'm fine." He breathed out in a whisper and managed to smile at her... Juliet sighed out in relief as tears escaped. Her eyes without restraint... "You need to go to the hospital," She said and tried to help him sit up... "I'm fine." Alex tried to assure her, but he didn't look fine... He was pale, and his body was trembling and cold.. "I will be fine," Alex assured her again... it was a pain he was well accustomed to, and it was almost that time of the year again the time when he became the worst version of himself... "Please stay with me," He said in a low voice and didn't have to ask twice, juliet sat close to him, and Alex rested his head on her shoulder and closed his eyes... he sighed deeply.... when he could still hear her sobbing silently... "Please don't cry," He pleased with her in a low voice... it hurt him more to hear her cry because of him.... his land slowly searched for her hand, and he took it in his... juliet wiped away the tears from her eyes... "How long have you been like this..." She asked in a low voice, and it took Alex a while before he finally started talking.... "It's been years now... it first started when I was a teenager, but it wasn't serious back then... but after I moved back home, it started again..." Alex responded, not fully going into the details of why he was like that.... "What happened to you, Alex..." Alex couldn't answer her question... not that type of question... maybe one day, he would finally be able to talk about what happened in that house all those years ago. Maybe one day, he would only think about it as a bad memory... maybe one day he could finally overcome it and move on... But it felt like that day was never going to come.... "I'm sorry, juliet... maybe one day I will tell you about it...but now right now....please not right now" He said to her and juliet nodded and intertwined their fingers.... She was ready to wait till he told her about it...