***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,
***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