***ESTHER***I sit in the chair in the garden in front of the university. Honestly, I don’t know what do I want from Caden. I hate him coming nearer to me. It makes me feel like he is going to read everything that I have been hiding from everyone but the uninteresting fact is that I hate him when I told him to stay completely away from me.What does my heart want actually?I unpack my bag and take out a book from my bag. It’s THE GREAT GATSBY. I have read this book several times and every time, I read this book, my heart cries for Jay Gatsby. But I don’t think I can do that anymore.After reading this book for another time, I have promised that I am never going to cry for him. Isn’t this so foolish of him to fall for those stupid tricks of Daisy every time? I can’t believe a man like Jay who knows a lot of things and have a strong knowledge of people would do the same mistake of being betrayed by Daisy again and again.I am in the dilemma either to read or not read the book one more t
***ESTHER***“You love that guy, don’t you?” Chris asks me as he takes the sip of his coffee.Love? Caden? Not even in my dreams. I am not mad to fall for the guy like him. I am not interested in guys in the first place and in the seconds place Caden isn’t the type of guy that I would like to have.“NO! That’s not it,” I open my both palms and shake it.“So, is he your crush?” he asks.“NO! Impossible. I won’t have crush on him. I ain’t a mad man,” I say.“Then why do you care about him? I mean you asked me to check on him. Is there some specific reasons?” he asks.“Specific reasons, you say? Should there be some specific reasons?” I turn my gazes down to the floor and then say afterwards.“Just think that I am indebted to him. I just have something to pay to him,” I say.“That means you are single, right?” he asks.I drink my orange juice and smile looking at him.“Chris! I’m pregnant,” I say and he chokes on his drink suddenly.“What?” he asks.“You’re a doctor and you will know abo
***CADEN*** I thought it would hurt me when I get hit by them but instead I feel quite good after getting hit from them but I feel unconscious after that. When I wake up in the hospital, it’s Natalie whom I see at first. “Nat!” I say. “You’re awake,” she wipes away the tears from her eyes. She seems oddly ugly when she cries. Like I think she looks more beautiful when she is lively. “Caden… What happened to you? I heard you fought with him? Why did you do that?” she sobs. “Nat!” I pronounce her name in very low voice. “Hmm…,” her sobbing is still continued. “Did anyone tell you that you look so much ugly when you cry like that?” I say and she gazes at me for a while and then smiles looking at me. “Oh! Caden! You told that because you wanted me not to cry right?” she says. But I didn’t tell her to make her pause from crying. She genuinely looks so much ugly right now. “No! I am not lying. You really look so much ugly right now,” I say blatantly. She blinks her eyes couple of t
***CADEN***“So, she is your mom?” I hear a male’s voice when I am busy watching her rush from behind. I rotate my head around as I hear that voice. It’s a male doctor.“Excuse me! I don’t get you,” I raise my brows. If I concentrate well on his words, I hear him say that she is my mom. Whom is he referring to?“No! It’s nothing. How’s your fever?” he asks as he places the digital thermometer inside my mouth.He’s weird.He takes my temperature and then goes through my pressure and until that time, she enters inside the ward with a bottle of water and fresh corndogs.She stops mid-way as she sees the doctor beside me and continues her walk after that.“Hey! Chris!” she calls him. She knows him. I hear her saying to him Chris not doctor. Seems like she is close to him.“Hello! Nice meeting you again,” he smiles at her. But the way, he smiles is way much more awkward than anything. Like he was smiling without his inner wish! “You brought food for him? Seems like you care about him a l
***ESTHER***“Friends, you say?” I raise my brows in stress. He wants me to be his friend. But what advantages are there for us to being friends? Friendship has never been a beneficial strategy in my all life but with Caden friendship is different. I cannot be a friend to a guy with whom I have already slept once. It… feels kind of strange to me.He nods his head.“No! We can’t be. We are better as a stranger,” I say as I leave his hand and make my way back to the ward.“Where are you going, Esther? I need help,” he shouts all of a sudden and I have to halt in the same spot. Yeah! I am here to help him. Natalie has asked me a favor for that.But honestly, I don’t know but I feel good being able to help him. Maybe, because he helped me last time to get treated properly, perhaps because he lied to his dad about my absence from home, or maybe because he got a slap for me, or maybe because of these all, I feel indebted to him.So, to say the truth, helping him is giving me such a huge el
***ESTHER***“Here you are!” the girl on the payment counter hands me a receipt.What the hell is this? Why is this so much costly?” I cannot help but enlarge my eyes on the bills. This is going to be crazy. I don’t think I have this much money in my account, I guess.I check my account for assurance before I pay for it. But when I logged in to the account, my eyes almost bulged out from my skull.“What the shit is this?” I cannot stop blinking my eyes. Why the hell the digits of my money increased suddenly in my account with such a huge range? I didn’t even know when this money came into my account. Did I miss any messages from the bank?I check my message box and yes, there it is. The message which says someone has deposited that much huge money in my account. And that someone is not just someone, it’s Cameron Payne.“Did he pay me in advance? What’s going on? He was supposed to pay me after the delivery of the baby but seems like he did half the payment before that.“Aren’t you pay
Chapter 32***ESTHER***“Why are the youngsters nowadays so reckless?” The bus driver scolds me while stopping at the next bus stop.Yeah! We are reckless. Maybe because we are always in a hurry. Hurried to do everything and was busy like hell. Maybe the previous generation could never understand what we are going through.“I’m really sorry,” I say as I get down from the bus and run back towards the spot I have seen her.What the hell is she doing over here? As per, I know her school isn’t located over here. It’s located in another direction.Where did she go? Where could she possibly go?I saw her walking towards that alley. Did she go to that alley? Why would she be over there? She isn’t over there right?But it’s not wrong to check out on her. So, I follow that alley path. I haven’t been here before but I am sure she might be here.The alley is crowded. I never knew there is such an alley where people are so crowded. I don’t see her around. Where is she in the middle of these peopl
***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,