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

as if all the tough facade she

left for real. She

Ellie went to L City was to

meals with them. But none of that ever

she arrived. She assumed that they went out for some groceries. She wanted to surprise them and didn't

of them just

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 the whole day. She went to the neighbors and asked them

about them at first. She

her that her grandparents had passed away and it had already been

had hardly caught a cold in their lives, but this sickness caught on them all of a sudden. With their age, it took their lives very

They told the neighbors not to tell Ellie. They said that they might fight

hearing the story, she didn't believe them.

She didn't believe that any sickness

she had known, she would not agree to let

she decided to

Francis had returned to Ellie's house and saw her sitting on the bed, holding her knees,

He wondered why it was so hard for her to

He places a breakfast platter on the table in front of

at him, surprised, "Why are

Her eyes were red and swollen, but she couldn't keep her tears from falling down.

"Did you forget what I told you last night? No

at him with a blank expression.

she

when he told her she would not be

over

didn't know what to

on her. She

different. She didn't hate the idea of getting

just realized it, but she was happy when

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