A glass been shifted to her made her look up to see that Sean had poured her a glass, she glanced at him and he winked at her before picking up his cutlery to continue eating like he hadn’t done something. Athena smiled, happy that he wasn’t angry at her and picked up the glass to sip her juice. She was about to down the entire drink when she remembered how elegantly Esperanza had taken her sip so she decided to copy her, how hard can it be anyway?She slightly raised her pinky finger and took a very light sip, she glanced at Esperanza as she was returning the glass to the table to know if she saw what she did and to tell her that she can do it too, but she didn’t know that the glass wasn’t balanced on the table yet and she let go of the stem. The glass fell on the floor, shattering to pieces and scaring her with the noise. She stood up immediately with a little scream just as Esperanza and Sean stood up as well. She looked up at Sean to see t

Two days later, Athena woke up in the middle of the night after having a bad dream, she lay on her bed, staring at the ceiling in the dark room, she was panting, trying to catch her breath after the dream. She grew thirsty and removed the covers and got down from the bed, she turned on the light to notice that her water-jug was empty so she picked it up and left the room to fill it up. On the staircase, she heard faint melody, she followed the sound to the living room and the closer to get, the louder the music.She pushed open the door and was surprised how loud and clear the melody was, that was when she knew it was the piano, she walked a little further into the living room to see Sean, he was sitting with his back to her and he was still dressed in his office clothes. Athena was surprised, she had stayed up waiting for him but he didn’t come back so she went to bed and now he was playing the crystal piano and making a very sad melody.She stood near the curtain,

Sean was at lost when he saw her tears; did he hurt her badly yesterday that she was deeply affected by it? Or is his apology too simple to be compared by how traumatized she was? For once in his life, he doesn’t know what to say to calm a woman. Not knowing what else to do, he pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly, “I’m really sorry, Athena, I promise that whenever I will be in such mood again, I won’t be at home so that you won’t walk in on me, it’s a promise.”Athena shook her head when she heard that, “you don’t have to run away, what better place to cry out your sorrow than in your own home?” She choked out.“But if I was away, you wouldn’t have seen me and I wouldn’t have hurt you and you wouldn’t be traumatized by it.”“I’m not traumatized,” she answered, releasing herself from his hug to look into his beautiful hazel eyes.“Then why

Back at the restaurant, Frank couldn’t even identify what he was eating with the taste and had to look down at his plate continuously to remember. All his attention was on the two people eating opposite him. Sean is dating Athena? That was the most repeated question in his mind, but how, when and why? How is that possible? When did it start? Why is he dating her? For goodness sake, Sean can have any woman he wants on his bed, so many pretty ladies are his models and all without being told has a crush on him, so why, why would in all those women he would pick Athena? The classless, poor and dirty girl who has lived all her life in the slums, why her? Could there be that there is something about her that he doesn’t know off and Sean does? Could she magically be the daughter of a rich man and her father he knows of wasn’t really her father? Is she an heiress to a humongous wealth?Suddenly, he remembered the story Sean told him the day he went to his office, what

Athena walked out of the cinema, the movie hasn’t ended yet but she couldn’t stay anymore and also, Sean was calling her and she needed to take his call. She was still talking with him on the phone when she heard someone calling her name and she groaned. Few minutes into the movie, someone had sat beside her and she was surprised when she found out it was Frank. He had tried getting her to talk to him and she had ignored him as much as she could and just couldn’t take it anymore, which was one of the reasons she came out. She pretended not to hear him calling and continued talking to Sean who told her that he was waiting for her at the parking lot. The thought alone was enough to make her forget the annoying man running after her.“Athena, wait,” Frank ran after her, “please, hold on.”Athena turned, putting down her phone, she looked at him with a raised eyebrow, “yes, Frank?”Frank heaved a sigh, licking his bott