Chapter 50: I won't run away anymore

*** ESTHER***

“God damn! It’s you. It’s you Esther since the day, I have seen you in my life,” he turns around and jerks his hands on the air.

My eyes enlarge as he says that staring at his face. Somewhere in my heart, I knew that he likes me. I have always felt that vibe around him but I was never sure of it.

“Bu…ut, you said you like someone whom Natalie doesn’t know and she knows me,” I say.

“God! That thing. Esther that I know is different from the Esther she knows. So, I said that. She can never look at you the way, I look at you and she can never understand you like the way I do,” he says.

He understands me? But he doesn’t know over eighty percent of my life. How can he brazenly claim that he understands me when he isn’t familiar with major parts of my life? Will he be able to understand me even after knowing the dark truths of my life?

I don’t think he could.

“How much do you know me? Do you know me?” I ask him.

“What?” he looks confusedly at me. He doesn’t know me. I