Unhappy past

★★★

Ethen's eyes widened in shock as they locked with Monica's. He instantly excused himself from the people he was having a conversation with and made his way over to Monica.

“Where have you been, Ella?

Ethen questioned with inexplicable emotions. Ella and he had been friends since Ella moved in with Diana's family. During their adolescence, they spent a lot of time together until one day he heard Ella permanently depart the house. He searched for her as far as he could, but his parents stopped him, telling him that Ella could not be alive because no one had been able to locate her.

“I was fostering my own development,”

Monica replied sharply, her gaze fixed on a man who had been a close friend of hers in the past. He came into their house to play, but her aunt forbade her from going because she had to do housework in her spare time, whereas Diana led a privileged existence despite the fact that they were the same age.

However, when Diana turned her head back to face Monica, sh