𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝐮𝐧 | 𝑾𝑴𝑴𝑨𝑷 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑨𝑼

26- 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆?

Jennette frowned trying to understand what she meant 'escape fate to live fate?'

"I was confused too until i got to know i was getting into an arrange marriage. Before, i had no problem marrying anyone my parents choose for me but that lady's words.... keep on buzzing in my head. So i ran away"

Jennette looked at her with her hand on her mouth muttering "woah.."

"I mean.. i said no to the marriage but my mom got angry so i ran away. It was heavily raining that day. i sat there on the bus stop with wet clothes for more than 2 hours until a guy came and sat beside me..."

With a smile Irene closed her eyes remembering what happened after that,

𝐴 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐼𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 '𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤? 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑚 𝑖 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑤?'

𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑡.

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑤 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟.

𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 " 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡?" 𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 "𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝐸𝑟𝑖𝑐'𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟?"

"𝑌𝑜𝑢... 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 *𝑎𝑐𝑐ℎ𝑜* 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐸𝑟𝑖𝑐?" 𝐼𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑑.

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑤 ℎ𝑖𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑟.

𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 "𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟?"

"𝐻𝑒..."

"𝐻𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡?"

"𝐴ℎℎ.. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢."

"𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡-"

"𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑤. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠. 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎. 𝑆𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑖 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔-" ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒.