A Love Trap

"Ellie! Stop... talking... like that!" he spluttered.

Francis might have been with a lot of women, but he took nobody seriously. Those women knew it and they didn't mind.

But Ellie was different. He never thought of treating her badly.

He could not fathom why she had to hurt herself like that.

He was really upset. Not because of what she thought about him, but because of how she saw herself.

The worst part of it was that she called him "Mr. Francis." The fact that she called him "Mr. Francis"

hurt him the most.

Ellie closed her eyes and pursed her lips. She didn't say anything.

Francis grabbed both her shoulders and forced her to look at him. "Ellie, please tell me you're joking." He looked at her, his eyes firm with pleading and frustration. "Please tell me you didn't mean any of what you just said."

Francis' eyes spoke sincerely to Ellie.

She couldn't take another look at him. She needed strength to say what she was about to say, "No, I meant everything I said."

Francis could see right through her lie. He shouted, "Look me in the eye and tell me again! You didn't mean any of that, right?"

Ellie looked into his eyes, her visage as fierce as the crunching in her chest. "I meant it. I meant every bit of it. You may leave Mr. Francis."

Ellie pointed to the door gesturing for Francis to leave.

"Fine!" Francis clenched his jaw and gnashed his teeth in anger.

He let go of her and turned around to leave.

The thud that came from the shutting door made Ellie flinch. As the door closed, the room fell into silence.

Ellie could only look at the direction where he had gone.

shaking arms to hold herself. Her tears started falling.

all the tough facade she had shown him earlier had started

by herself now. Everyone had left for real. She was really all

reason why Ellie went to L City was to visit her grandparents.

with them. But none of that ever happened. What was waiting for

arrived. She assumed that they went out for some groceries. She wanted to surprise them and didn't call. But when it

All of them just looked at her with sad faces and tried

didn't hear

avoid talking about them at first. She

her that her grandparents had passed away and it had already been a month.

all of a sudden. With their age,

they might fight it through and they didn't want to make her worry. They also told

she didn't believe them.

City. She didn't believe

not agree to let

she mourned until she decided to return home.

sitting on the bed, holding

bad. He wondered why it was so hard for her to accept that they had spent a night

let's eat something first." He places a breakfast

at him, surprised, "Why are you still

red and swollen, but she couldn't keep her tears from

her, Francis sighed, "Did you forget what I told you last night?

with

if she should

really tempting when he told her

took over Ellie.

what

had left a huge traumatic mark on her. She had stayed away

different. She didn't hate the idea of getting close to him.

she was happy when he

about what she was feeling, but she knew that she cared about him.