Chapter 21

I slowly faced him, and he was close to me. “Do you hear yourself?”

“I do.” He said sternly. “I don’t want you to go right now. We always leave in adverse emotions.”

“You’re the one who opened up the past.”

“To see where I stand in the present.” He replied. “Do you want us to be more than friends?”

I looked at him in bewilderment as I tried to process why he asked. “What?”

“I mean, you always put the blame on me that you’ve had bad relationships. Perhaps I should be asking the question, can’t I?”

I wanted to slap him.

“Are you kidding me?” Anger built up within me. Here I am, trying to leave the past behind, yet he’s casually asking me to be with him. But why did I feel numb all of a sudden? Is this the effect of being chained to your first love?

In the past, I kept holding on to the rope that had tied me to him, although he continued to walk away from me, and it bruised me still, and then he suddenly stopped to look back at me, and it