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.

arms to hold herself. Her

all the tough facade she

Everyone had left for real. She

reason why Ellie went to L City was to

to spend some time and have a few nice meals with them. But none of that ever happened. What was waiting for her

to surprise them and didn't call. But when it was getting dark, and they were still not home, she figured that

but never really got an answer. All of them just looked at her with sad faces and

about the way they looked at her. However, she started to panic after she didn't

tried to avoid talking about them at

her grandparents had passed away and it had

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

little time they had before 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

the story, she didn't

J City. She didn't believe that any sickness could just take

she would not agree to let them leave.

she mourned until she

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

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

places a breakfast platter on the

up at him, surprised, "Why are you still

swollen, but she

told you last night? No matter what happens, I will be

him with

didn't know if she

tempting when he told her

over Ellie.

didn't know what to do.

a huge traumatic mark on her.

different. She didn't hate the

realized it, but she was happy when he was

see him, she felt lost. She wasn't sure about what she was feeling,