Chapter 12"Come on, Alex. We're not quarreling, are we? I just missed you and I called to check up on you," Zora's calm voice sounds from the other end, and he sighs briefly as he rests his head on the headrest. The feelings he thought he had gotten rid of years ago came hitting at him as he feels his heart beating rapidly against his chest. How the hell her voice still makes him feel this way even after so many years is a puzzle he can't bring himself to sort out. "Thank you," He says to calmly, trying to fight this crazy feeling. They have been apart for years, she should fucking know her boundary and stop talking to him. "Hmm. Bye," She says from the other end, before silence reigns there, and he assumes that she already ended the call.He sighs briefly as he drops his phone on the passenger's seat next to him, before he starts the car. The thought of Zora keep popping up in his head as he drives down the road, and every effort to get it off proves abortive. "Come on, don't be

Chapter 14Taking a deep breath, he pushes the door open and walks in to see her sitting on the floor and crying. "Hey, come on," He hushes her as he squats beside her and pulls her into his warm embrace, stroking her hair. "Why does your family hates me so much? What have I ever done to them?" Her voice breaks sadly as she says amid tears, and he sighs briefly. This is the question he has been asking himself too. The last time he checked, if one's family really love them, they would accept whoever their child or brother chooses to be with, but why's his own different? He has done his investigation on her, and not that she has any bad traits in her family, so he still can't understand why his mom and sister hate her so much. "Shhhhh! Don't cry. It doesn't matter even if they don't like you. As long as I'm in love with you, that's all that matters to me, and that is all that should matter to you, OK?" He tries to make her happy, even if he knows that it's hard to adapt to. "It matt