***ESTHER*** “Caden! This is your seventh coffee in these last four hours. Will you please stop drinking coffee?” I suggest. His finger curls around the handle of the cup as he keeps on looking on it. “Do you really think my brother doesn’t want to see me?” he asks. “We cannot jump into conclusions unless we meet him in person. We can’t trust middle-man and leave our mission in the middle,” I place my hand over his. He smiles as he feels my support and puts his hand over mine. “You’re right but I don’t know what should I do? Until when should I wait for him?” He is still playing with the same cup. “You have waited all these years. Just few more hours. He is your brother. I hope it’s nothing serious like we have imagined,” I say and he smiles. “Should I order another cup of coffee?” he asks. “No! Not! Absolutely not,” I restrict him from doing that. I pull away the cup from his hands and order something healthy and which would satisfy our stomach. I watch him while he is hav
***CADEN*** “We’re here,” I stop the car in the middle of the road. I am worried after seeing her condition. She keeps on saying to drive but that’s not what I intend to do actually.How can I drive when she is in such a bad condition? She is clutching her head with both of her hands avoiding the sight in front of her. What happened? Why is she behaving like that? I keep on holding her shoulder with one of my hand while my another keeps on rounding the steering. She is terrified. Is there something traumatic related to the cars? I guess that might not be the case as she has been travelling in the car for a long time and I have not realized even once that she had trouble with it. Then, what is wrong with her? What made her turn into someone like this? So, I have no other options than lying to her. So, I lie to her. We haven’t caught Cohen but I don’t want to continue by hurting her. She stays still for some minutes and slowly looks up in my direction. “You okay?” I ask one more
*** ESTHER***“It all happened because of me. Caden, you might have been able to meet your brother if it wasn’t for me,” I grumble in a low voice.“Esther! Look at me! See here,” he palms my face and makes me turn to his side.“Nothing! Nothing that happened today happened because of you. Do you get that? Nothing means nothing. So, stop blaming to yourself. Trust me, am going to feel really sad if you keep on doing that, alright?” he says.I think for a while. I know he doesn’t want to hurt me. So, he telling all of those things just to make me feel good but deep within I know that it all happened because of me.But, since he is trying so much not to hurt me, I think it’s better for me to pretend like nothing has happened. So, I nod my head and smile at him.“Alright,” I say. He gives me such an innocent and loyal smile.“We need to get inside now. Caisey is going to have lots of questions for us. Can you please handle her?” he asks me. I nod my head telling okay.We both get out of t
***ESTHER*** He grabs one of my hand and place it on his wet shoulder. I don’t know why did he even do that but that was the thing that I want to do the most right. I gulp the lump of saliva formed on my throat as his head starts to lean closer to me. Is he going to kiss me? I guess he is. My heart thumps out louder as I hear it in my ears. God damn! This silly heart. Will you please stop beating like that? You’re so fast and erratic right now. Will you please control yourself? I try to breathe in and act as normal as possible. His face comes closer and leans towards my ear. “Why are you here Esther? What do you need?” he whispers in my ear. Trust me, that slow and damn sexy voice of his is doing nothing helpful except adding fuel to the desire I am having right now. He knows! He surely knows what I am thinking right now and he is just teasing me right now. “I… I… was here to deliver something to you,” I stutter as I say that. His face is still beside my ear and he hasn’t moved
***ESTHER***“Good morning,” he pecks my forehead as he greets me. He smiles as he stares at my face. I can see the red beams of morning sunlight falling on his face and displaying the beautiful portion of his face. He looks amazingly beautiful with the first rays of sunlight as his best cosmetics.“Good morning,” I reply back to him with a sweet smile as I stretch out my arms and wake up from the bed.Wait! Where am I?Am I in Caden’s room? How can I be over here? Just how? I… I fell asleep in his room last night. God damn! How can I be so much clueless about these things? It’s been so long since I have been the one.“Caden’s it’s your room?” I say loudly.“Yeah! It is my room. Don’t you remember, you slept in my room last night?” he looks at me curiously.“No! I don’t. I didn’t know anything about it. You should have just woken me up or you should have just taken me to my room,” I say as I clutch my hair in distress.“I wanted to but Caisey had been here for a long and you were sle
***ESTHER***Gathering up the little courage, I have when I see her, I try to call her but the voice wouldn’t come out of my lips at all. Would she think me I am cheater when she knows about my relationship with Caden? Will she be able to handle it?I never meant to cheat on her, I never meant. And that wasn’t cheating at all. I met Caden before meeting her. And I knew her just because of Caden. She was never meant to be my friend. She was close to me just because she wanted me to be the messenger between me and Caden. And that’s how maybe our relationships are ruined.She thought only about her, not about Caden, not about me. She never asked me whether I wanted to help her or not. She just enforced her decisions on me always. If she was friend, she would have tried to read my emotions but she never did. I guess, it’s useless to think about her.She glares her eyes to me and walks away from me. Well! As expected, we don’t talk and instead we just avoid each other. I am grateful that w
***ESTHER***I couldn’t believe my ears when I hear Caden’s name. These people! How could they say Caden’s name when they don’t know anything about him and me?Or is it true that they know, about it? But that’s not possible. That thing couldn’t happen.“Why are you talking about Caden over here? I ask them.All of them laugh like they know something.“Isn’t she silly? She is pretending as if nothing happened. Isn’t that quite a show? You want us to believe that you don’t know anything when the pictures of you and Caden are posted everywhere on the walls of the school bulletin? Aren’t you corny? We have been trying to hit on him for a long time. How can you just go and throw yourself on him?” one of the girls who is pale and slim with perfect based makeup shouts at me the same questions treating me just like a criminal.Yes, it’s true that I have been together with Caden but I am not pretending anything right now. I am as shocked as they are right now. How the hell did they know about
***ESTHER***None of the students could look into my eyes now. They are all trying to do whatever they want to do except the one who is lean and thin.She stands in front of me and keeps on displaying her well-painted nails in front of me."So, you seem good in academics. Maybe too good. But that doesn't make you deserving of Caden. I have been eyeing him since the day I have seen him at the Fresher's party. So, you cannot just take him away from me. I won't give up in any case. Do you understand?" she spins around dramatically and moves away from it.Well! I have to meet another version of Natalie now. There might be even more. I guess they should meet each other instead of meeting me. They would have some unworthy fights with each other.I just care less about her and move out of the class hurriedly. I need to find him. I need to find Caden right now.I call his phone but the same again. He isn't picking up. I don't know what's wrong with him.Why the hell isn't he picking up the ph