114 His Rossa

A few hours had passed and Jeslyn was feeling a little better, still, they were on the road. Jeslyn looked out the window and was surprised to see that they weren’t anywhere close to the house “Maverick, we haven’t gotten anywhere yet.” She said while looking out the window.

“You needed to calm down before going home.”

“Which means, you’ve been driving around the City?!”

He didn’t respond but Jeslyn knew she was right. Jeslyn smiled and whispered, “thank you…it’s already midnight. We should return home.”

yet.

“Hmm,” Maverick turned the car and started heading in the direction of Jeslyn’s glass house, a few kilometers outside the City.

“What plan have you come up with?” Maverick asked out of the blue.

“On…?”

“Your career.”

“Oh, I intend to start afresh. I’ll sign up with a voice coach for a year or two before I return to the music industry. Like you said, there are better companies in Country M. I’ll start from there.” Maverick hmmed. “Do you have anyone in mind?”

“Not really. I’ll just find a good coach online. Meanwhile, I also intend to start writing for fun.” She smiled.

“Nice.”

“Jeslyn, tell me about yourself.”

Jeslyn sighed and rested her head on the headrest. “What’s there to tell you? You must have dug into my background already.”

found nothing

have any memory of any interesting events in my life. When I was five or six, my mum and I went for a vacation on an island. We spent quite a long time there.

Child would draw peace from it. Then the

You disdain him?”

to my mother, the existence of

island no longer

I mean, the ocean was driven

into the

island died. Only the two of them

messed with.

was there too.”

world is really a small

three children were on that island at the time,

“Pardon?”

stared at her but shook his head. “What

felt no maliciousness from his question, so she shook her head too. “I can’t remember anything else. I was too little

we became

I wonder why I wasn’t counted among the children. Was my registration removed? How did you not know

must have beenone of the things

Jeslyn

was six, a good kid. She had a beautiful dream but her mother wouldn’t allow it.”

that sound like

met, she argued with her mother and ran into my space to hide. She was very cute. We became friends. We

her saliva and coughed; “Ahem,

“Ten”

was only seven!”

“Six”

a child!”

were both

Mr. Maverick, you are…” She sighed.

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