Besotted

Chapter 25

"Can you help?" Eden asked as he gave me some photos and I looked at it nodding. There it was. I couldn't believe my eyes as I saw them after so many years. Never would I had ever thought that I would be seeing their faces in photographs.

"This is my mother," I said as my voice croaked at the end. My finger trailed over the picture in which my mother stood at the end of a dock smiling at the camera. The other picture consists of a group of young people and there she was holding a kid on her hand.

"This is me," I smiled as a lone tear fell down my cheek and I sniffed wiping the tear off my face.

"This is hilarious," I laughed bitterly.

"Never would I had ever imagined that I would ever get to see her again and like this. There was another picture and there I saw my father and my mother together before a house. There was another couple and as the lady told me, I understood they were her son and her daughter-in-law.

Finally, I was able to understand what happened to me and how I remembered the lady. She was our neighbor when I was a kid and used to go to her place. One day we all went out together on a boat and the boat sank. Her daughter-in-law and my parents died in that accident and they thought I was dead. But as I look the total reflection of my mother, she understood that it was me and she contacted Eden wanting to meet me.

As long as I could remember, I was swept to the shore where a man found me and after admitting me to a hospital, I was sent to an orphanage where the head nun of the orphan took care of me and at some particular period of time, I thought I should convert to a nun but ended up giving up on the choice as I found my path.

"Can you help me?" she asked and I nodded as I kept my hand on the picture of my parents.

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"You know if you don't want to then you shouldn't," Eden gave me a sympathetic look as I shook my head.

We were at the front of the cafe where we just had the meeting. I could still see her sitting on the table with a sad expression looking at her son's picture.

"I want to help," I said and he nodded.

"Come here," he said and before I knew it I was pulled to a hug. I was gobsmacked by his sudden move and I stood their stiff in his arms but after some time I understood he was trying to soothe me after knowing my story and being a friend he was just doing his duty. I sighed as I gave in and kept my head on his shoulder letting him soothe him.

I had no idea when the tears started rolling off my eyes and I was already crying my heart out remembering my parents. All these years, I really thought that maybe they were alive but now that simple hope of mine was shattered as I got to know the truth that they actually died.

"Hey, it's alright," he said and I cried even more.

"Look at me," he said as he held my face and made me look up at him. My vision was blurry and I could hardly see his face but before I know it, I felt something on my lips and I blinked continuously to get a clear vision when I saw his face inch away from me. He was kissing me.

"No! Eden," I said as I pushed him away and looked at him in shock.

"What's wrong? I thoug-"

"You have got the wrong idea," I said as I wiped my lips and was already running away.

"Listen to me, Sang!"

"Sang!" he was already after me but I hailed a taxi and got inside before he could even reach.

How the hell did this happen?

Shit! I let my guard down.

How am I going to tell this to Caleb?