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.

with her shaking arms to hold

she

left for real. She was really

Ellie went to L City was

with them. But none of that

wanted to surprise them and didn't call. But

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

her. However, she started to panic after she didn't hear anything about her grandparents for the whole day. She went

at first. She tried to

her grandparents had passed away and

but this sickness caught on them all of a

might fight it through and they didn't want to make her worry. They also told them that if the sickness got

the story, she didn't believe them.

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

she would not agree to let them

days she mourned until she decided

on the bed, holding her knees, her head buried between them and

so hard for her to

first." He places a breakfast

at him, surprised, "Why

and swollen, but she couldn't

I told you last night? No

with a

she

sounded really tempting when he told her she would not be alone.

over

didn't know what

mark on her. She had stayed away

hate the

just realized it, but she was happy when he was

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