Chapter 9: Blank cheque

Do men ever think they are hurting her? Damn, they don’t until someone gives them their medicine.

~ARLET~

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It’s been a week since I last saw Ruben, the same evening I met Raya. He used to leave early and come late. And whenever he felt my existence, I could sense the abhorrence making the atmosphere heavier. I get it. He was shunning my reality by the end of this world. As a surprise, Raya and I used to spend time together, and it turns out we became each other’s world in a short period. She has become my new hope to look up to and win this world against all the impossibilities. And I had become his new friend with whom she loved to share her doll collection and some childish secret.

She was like a normal kid, with regular exciting anticipations of making friends and going to school, relishing extracurricular classes.

But it wasn’t easy to pursue when she was homeschooled for so long. She was given every facility except the childhood every child de