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

as if all the tough facade she had shown him earlier had started crumbling.

Everyone had left for real. She

why Ellie went to L City was to

nice meals with them. But none of that ever happened. What was waiting for her was the

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

an answer. All of them just looked

the beginning, she didn't care about the way they looked at her. However, she started to panic after she didn't hear anything about her grandparents for

tried to avoid talking about them at

grandparents had passed

caught a cold in their lives, but this sickness caught on them all of a sudden. With their age, it took their lives very quickly. No one had expected its coming.

they passed. They told the neighbors not to tell Ellie. They said that they might fight it through and they didn't want to make her worry. They also told them that if the sickness got worse, they would tell Ellie themselves.

the story, she didn't

to J City. She didn't believe that

known, she would not agree to

until she decided to

to Ellie's house and saw her sitting on the bed, holding her knees, her head buried

was so hard for

something first." He places a breakfast

surprised, "Why are you

eyes were red and swollen, but she couldn't keep her

her, Francis sighed, "Did you forget what I told you last night? No matter

looked at him with

know if she should trust him.

he told her

over

what to

huge traumatic mark on her. She

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

but she was happy

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