Hazel's Redemption

DOES IT MATTER?

It's been three years and no matter what Ethan did, he would always be affected by Hazel's slight little pain. Each time he hurt her, he felt hurt as well, but he knew he shouldn't.

It seemed crazy for someone whom he should hate, he should have hated her the day she snucked out of the car and abandoned them to die. If Ivy hadn't woken up earlier that day to pull them out of the car, they might have died.

She even risked her life doing it, which caused her a broken heart syndrome.

It was obviously her that did the most good to him and he shouldn't care about Hazel, but he just couldn't stop caring about her.

"Ethan...", Ethan snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Ivy's gentle voice. She was standing in front of him with a bowl of soup.

He didnt realize when she had arrived, neither at what moment, because he was so overwhelmed by his thoughts.

"Ivy, why are you here?"

"You left the table without eating and I thought you might be hungry, so I brought something for you."

"You didn't need to."

"Why, don't you want to eat, is it because sister hasn't eaten as well.", Ivy's pitiful face evolved again, but she was enraged by Ethan's concern for Hazel. She had done so much to make him hate her, but still...

"What?"

"I know you're worried about sister, that's why you also can't eat, right?"

"No...that's....that's not it.", Ethan denied, but deep inside he knew that it was one of the reasons why he couldn't eat. When he watched Hazel on the table today, he noticed that she looked quite pale and skinny.

After the misunderstanding, she left the table without eating. He couldn't tell why, but he couldn't eat after that. But was it because of her, he couldn't tell.

"I'll drink the soup.", Ethan took the soup from Ivy's hand and gulped it down in one go, trying to make himself believe that he wasn't worried about Hazel. He wasn't worried about a woman that abandoned them to die.

"Ethan....", Ivy said, sitting on Ethan's laps and wrapping her hands around his neck.

"I know that you're worried about Hazel, I'm also worried about her you know."

"No that's..."

Ethan was cut of by Ivy who placed her index finger in front of his lips.

"I know Ethan, you're a kind hearted man, perharps my sister had her reasons for doing what she did that day, we can't really blame it on her right, the accident traumatized all of us, she was probably scared about her life."

Ivy sounded as if she was defending Hazel, but she was pulling her deeper into the abyss, increasing Ethan's hate for her.

"Sister loves you so much, she probably regrets her mistakes."

"What does it change, it's in the past now."

"You've been married to her for so long Ethan, do you love her."

"What!", Ethan exclaimed, the question rang like a bell in his mind, but he was reluctant to give a reply. The one he obviously loved was Ivy, but why then was he hesitating over a woman who gave him nothing. Ivy saved his life, gave him her virginity, but then why was he hesitating?

"Ethan, I want you to make love to me."

"What...!"

"I want you to touch me, the way you did the first time I lost my innocence to you."

"Ivy, you...", Without letting him continue, Ivy sealed Ethan's lips with hers and kissed him, then she trailed her hand on his chest, but he didn't make a move or push her away.

He let her climb above him on the couch, kiss him over his body. However, no matter what she did, he couldn't react to her touch. The firs time he was aroused by her body fragrance and her smooth warm body against his.

But this time it was different, it wasn't like the first time when he went crazy over her body, he was even reluctant to let her continue, so when Ivy wanted to trail her hand towards his belt, he caught her hand.

"Ivy, the perfume on you, why is it different from that night?", Ivy's eyes widened the moment Ethan spoke about the perfume she wore that night. It was such a little detail, but how could he notice and, did it really matter.

"I... I changed it, but does it really matter to you ?"

"I....". Ethan hesitated a while, he also asked himself it mattered that much.

"Forget it, I'm tired now, you should go back to your room and rest."

Ethan pulled away from Ivy, leaving her on the couch, embarrassed.

"Sorry Ethan, I didn't know it mattered to you."

"No that's not it... I just"

"No, I'll get back the perfume for you."

Ivy said, with watery eyes, but in reality, she was pissed off, but she dared not show it. She had been with Ethan for so long but he had never touched her, she throught of taking the initiative today, but she didn't expect him to know the difference of perfume, but how would she know.

She wasn't the one who actually gave him her virginity, she had long lost hers when she was sixteen. But obviously, she couldn't let Ethan know about it, neither could he know about the other things she had done. But she wouldn't stop using Hazel as a stepping stone.

'Does it matter?'

Ethan thought, but he couldn't help wishing that he could have Ivy's body like that night. But why did it feel different today, as if the person at that moment was different from the girl he deflowered that night.

The next morning, Hazel dressed up into a lovely white flouncy gown, with a red belt tied around her waste. Last night passed without any casualty, because she took her medecines in time after the incident, but her chest still hurt a little, she needed to go the hospital as soon as possible.

"Are you going out so early, sis?"

Hazel met at her door, the least person she had ever wanted to meet. She had crossed her arms and stood by the door as if she had been waiting for her.

"Why are you here, do you want to plan more schemes, wasn't last night's scheme enough?"

"Sister, what are you saying, everyone knows that I did no wrong apart from caring for you. Ethan also confirmed it."

Ethan confirmed it because Ivy made sure that it would be confirmed that way, she was so cunning, but it was a pity she didn't use her intelligence in studies.

It has always been Hazel to help her enroll in a nursing school, helping her with her scores as well, but the sister that she helped and loved so much was the one who was killing her slowly.

"I really don't have time for you.", Hazel walked passed her, which made Ivy sniff the fresh scent of jasmine fragrance on her. As she had known, she had never seem Hazel use any perfume, but her body had that fresh jasmine fragrance. It was probably the fragrance that stayed in Ethan's mind that night and the reason why he couldn't touch her any further.

"Heye sister, you got a nice smell there, what do you use as perfume ?"

"Why do you ask, do you want to use it for another scheme?"

"What are you saying, I just think it smells rather nice."

"Save it for yourself and don't search further, you won't find it.", Hazel said and walked away from Ivy's side, but she didn't realize how enraged she had made Ivy, if she could, she would even push Hazel down stairs so she could die at once.

With a weak heart as hers, Hazel surely won't survive, but the house had cameras, before she does such an act, she needed to prepare beforehand and make her own rules.

"Just wait and see, sister..."