***ESTHER***“Won’t you ask me anything?” I hear Caisey’s voice below my shoulder. Her voice is soft and filled with pain. This is the first time I heard her voice in this tone. I never knew this part also exists in her until now.“Do you want to talk about it?” I ask.“I had no one with whom I can share these things,” she sobs in a low voice. And in a few moments, she starts to sob loudly.With her both palms covering her face, she leans down her head on my lap and breaks out. Her long hair covers her face and her body shakes as she cries. I caress her back gently as she cries.I let her empty every bit of pain that she has within her. While seeing her cry like this, I remember the exact stage of myself last year when I see her in this phase.I remember how broke I was and how hard I cried last year each and every day and night.I thought I was the only person who had to go through so much in my life. Till last year, I had thought that my existence had no value at all. Without them,
***ESTHER***“Freckles Lodge?” Caisey stands in front of that bright two storied building with bright lights.“Isn’t it beautiful?” I say.“Yes, it is but isn’t the name so weird? Why would someone keep their lodge’s name after Freckles?” she asks.“I wonder why did he do that?” I talk to myself in a very low voice. Honestly, I had always been curious about it too. Dad never had freckles in his face and my mom never had the ones in her too. And he never talked about freckles all his life. I just don’t get why he name it.“Let’s get inside. I think the owner had his reasons,” I say. We climb up the brown-colored stairs before reaching a medium patio. There is a long wooden chair on the patio with a beautiful collection of plants. They were all dried up during winter but these little beautiful creatures are now, getting their life back accompanied by a huge monstera plant at the corner of the patio.“How did you know about this place? How do you even know this place?” she asks me.“I ju
***CADEN***Hung up on me! Did Caisey just hang up on me? Gosh! I can’t believe my one and only sister who loves me a lot just cut off the phone.Esther and Caisey together! That means something weird might be going on. I know Caisey hates Esther a lot and she can’t stand her presence in front of her eyes at all. If that’s the thing then why the hell are they together? And on top of that somewhere where Caisey prefers only family members to visit.Since I hear that they are together, I couldn’t rest better. How can I sleep after knowing that these girls who are die-hard enemies live under the same roof and alone?I try to locate Caisey’s number but I couldn’t get a hold of her. Did she switch off her phone? Like really? Gosh! I can’t get you sometimes Caisey.I lie back down on my bed and scroll Instagram for a bit. I see if Caisey has used her account but she isn’t online. She isn’t even using her favourite Instagram right now means something really might be off.God! Caisey! What ar
***CADEN***“So, we are friends now?” I say with such a huge joy. I can’t stop hugging her. Her body feels so much warm and soothing. Just hugging her body makes me relive a lot of moments and fix all the broken parts of my heart and pains.“Yeah!” she answers as she breaks the hug and walks away with an awkward smile from me. I cannot help but smile like a child who has had his first crush in his life. This feels amazing, just so much amazing.Walking back to the room, I jump twice in joy. Finally, we are friends.“You look so much happy,?” I hear Caisey’s voice behind me. I get shocked after hearing her voice.“What are you doing over here?” I ask in astonishment.“I came to call you for breakfast. Should I bring it to your room? I don’t think you will be able to walk downstairs,” she twists her lips.“I can. I surely can get down and have my breakfast,” I say. I don’t want to leave any chances to meet her even if it means meeting her at the dining table. I don’t care even if I have
***ESTHER*** “Hey! Esther,” I hear Natalie calling me as soon as enter the entrance gate of the university.“Hey!” I reply her. She runs to me breathlessly like she is going to miss something important right at this moment. What’s so important that she is rushing to me like that?“How’s Caden?” she asks me.Oh! Yeah! Caden. How can I forget that the most important factor of her life is none other Caden and that quick and swift rush to me explains every thing.“He’s fine, I guess. He must be watching movies at home right now,” I smile.“Oh! I have never seen you smile,” she says.“Is that beautiful?” I ask.“Awooow… That’s cringe. I never imagined that you would ask me that question?” she giggles for a moment and answers.“Yes, it is. If I was a boy, I would surely go after that sweet and gorgeous smile.”I giggle back at her. If she was a boy, I would have loved her more I guess. We both walk towards our respective classes after few chit-chats. She goes to her own fifth year classes
***ESTHER***Almost after two hours of cleaning, I complete the cleaning session. It’s been long that I haven’t cleaned like this. Its kind of making me tired while at the same time making me refreshed.I walk towards my study desk and sit on the chair for rest. I pull out the drawer from my study desk and see colorful diaries of mine which I started to write since my high school, every year with every new colors.They are of brown, lavender, purple, pink, sky blue and black color. Altogether, there are six diaries which I had written in last six years. I had filled them with all the emotions at that time. My fear, my anxiety, my excitement, motivation, my frustration, my madness, my anger and the love I always had been yearning for. All of them were mentioned over there.All of the five diaries were complete but I had never been able to complete the last diary. It’s because I had never been able to write and explain the things that had happened to me after that day.It was hard, too
***ESTHER***My eyes open as the bright sun rays penetrate my skin. For a few moments, I feel motionless and then, I check the place around me. I’m still in my apartment. I breathe in giddily as I feel fresh but my neck feels pained.Wait! I dozed on the couch for the whole night. God damn! That’s why my shoulders and neck are paining like hell. I turn around to check my phone and I see the phone is still going on.“God damn! Caden!” I shout all of a sudden. What the hell is wrong with me? Why didn’t he cut off the phone?“Yes!” I hear his voice from another side of the phone.“Holy! Caden! You didn’t sleep?” I put my phone against my ear.“Did …you wake up?” I hear his unclear voice from another side.“Just go to sleep,” I say as I cut off the phone. Is this guy crazy or what? Who does this kind of funny stuff? I couldn’t help but be in disbelief. But that disbelief slowly turns to a faint smile on my face.Wait!What am I even doing? Am I smiling right now? At the craziness of that
***CADEN***Did I just hear it right? Or did I just hear it wrong? I heard her telling me it is her boyfriend and her son. That doesn’t make sense at all.She is… She is just in the first year of college and the man in the picture seems like he is a cop. And that child… It seems he is almost 7-8 months baby and if that’s her baby then he would be with her, right?“You’re joking, right? I know you regard me as foolish in front of you but I am not. You should try to fool someone else,” I smile as pick up the picture from the table and shake it in front of her eyes.She… isn’t smiling. She looks absolutely serious. Her hands are motionless with the blue cup in her hands. It seems as if she is shouting out inside her hard and trying to tell a lot of things as I visualize the way she is looking at me. But she isn’t being able to tell anything.“Something’s wrong?” I bellow. My voice turns low as I comprehend their situation of hers and without even her answer I realize that everything… ev