Chapter 2

• Falak's POV
• I woke up early in the morning, around 4 AM, to study and to complete my assignment because I knew that I wouldn't get time to study later. After that, I hurried went in the kitchen to prepare the breakfast Crumbled Bacon and Hard-boiled Egg Sandwiches, and fresh orange juice for everyone. Thankfully, I didn't have to prepare lunch because no one stayed at home during lunchtime.
• I was waiting for the local bus at the bus stop and saw Dad taking Lance to the school in his car. They saw me but acted as if I was not there. Well, this was nothing new, so I didn't feel bad about it, right? I have someone to love me now.
• 'Did he send any message in the morning?', I thought and checked my mobile, taking it out from my shoes as I couldn't take the risk to leave it at home or school bag with a fear that I may get caught.
• "Good Morning, Senorita."
• "Will you just smile while reading my message, or will you message me back?", He had sent me that message with a wink expression at the end. I started smiling more.
• 'How does he know that I will be smiling after reading his message?'
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• "Good Morning. Can you please tell me how do you know me?" I sent him that message and again hid my mobile. The moment I entered the school premises, I saw the gang of bad boys who were staring at me with a wicked smile on their face, and guess what Lance was the one who asked them to trouble me. After all, he was also a part of them. I knew that I was in trouble by the look on their face.
• I tried to go, ignoring their presence, but Lance held my schoolbag and pulled me toward him.
• "Seems like you are in a hurry to attend the class. Huh", He mocked.
• "Please let me go, Lance.", I pleaded.
• "Okay, you can go.", He said by didn't leave my schoolbag. I tried to snatch it from his hand, but l was like a doe between those wolves.
• "Enough, Lance.", There came a strong and deep voice of...umm Jacob? He was a friend of Lance's and stayed with him all the time. He was also a part of a bad boy's gang, but he was different from others. Neither he troubled me nor saved me; he just gave me a disappointed look. If I was guessing it right then, he felt pity for me.
• "Are you trying to save him, Jacob?" Lance asked.
• "No.", He said in a cold tone. "I am saving all of us. If anyone sees us troubling her, then we will be in danger.", He said, and immediately Lance let me go, and I didn't waste my time in running toward my classroom.
• During lunchtime, I hid myself in the library because I knew that those boys never come here and I would be safe here. I spent my time reading books. I was feeling hungry, and as usual, I hadn't brought a tiffin box. I always used to drink water to quench my hunger. I left from there to drink some water.
• "Don't worry, Falak. This is not the first time you are hungry. You are strong enough to handle all this." I talked with myself, and when I returned back to my place where I was studying, there was a small parcel from McDonald's and chocolate shakes. In short, it was a complete meal for one person.
• There was a Double McChicken and fries inside it with small note 'Now onwards I won't let you stay hungry.' with a smiling face.
• 'Did he come here to keep this?' I thought, and I smiled thinking that. I ate it silently, but not once did I stop myself from thinking about my mysterious lover. I wonder who he could be? And why was he hiding his identity with me?
• After school hours, I spent the rest of the day by doing my part-time jobs till 8 PM, and then after reaching home, I did household work, the same old life. Everything around me was the same except for one thing. i.e., HIM.
• I was about to knock on the door of my parents when my legs froze after hearing mom's word. "When are you planning to sell that bitch?" I listened to my mom asking with dad.
• "She has just hit puberty. And no one pays well for those girls who look like a kid. So, at least let her be young. By the age of 15 or 16 years, I will sell her.", Dad answered, and I gasped in shock and ran back to my room. I burst into cries. My ears were filled with my dad's words.
• How could my dad even think of selling me? This thought killed the last hope I had for my family. I was always left out. I had no one with me. Today I felt a thousand times lonelier than I had ever been.
• One thing was sure, now that I had to run away from here before they could sell me.
• I tried to sleep; I was not feeling sleepy at all after this new discovery. At the same time, my mobile vibrated.
• "Slept?"
• I checked my mobile and found two incoming messages, which I had received hours before.
• "I know you because you are my classmate.", This was a message which I had received four hours back. "It feels so good to talk with you finally.", There came his second message an hour before.
• "No. I haven't slept.", I messaged him back.
• "Would this sound creepy if I say that your reply is the best thing that I received today?" I smiled after reading his message.
• "I don't know. But that's cheesy." I hit the send button after reading my message thrice.
• "Hahahha...Well, I am glad that I am the reason behind your smile. You look more beautiful whenever you smile.", My smile widened after reading this message. I think He is the first person who said that I am beautiful; otherwise, even my parents don't find me beautiful or cute.
• "When did you see me smiling?" I asked because I rarely smile in school, as I don't have any reason to smile because my school life sucks.
• "When you were thinking about me during the lunchtime while having your lunch.", My jaws dropped after reading it. I was happy to get his attention, but in the meantime, it made me scared. I have read so many creepy things about stalkers. Didn't all of them start with all goody goody nature and then show the true colors? Even that thought freaked me out.
• "Don't be scared of me. I mean no harm. I mean, at least not for you, but someone I will surely going to break the nose of your stupid father who keeps hurting my princess."
• "You know about my family?",
• "I know each and everything about you and your family." Tears started welling in my eyes after reading this.
• "I know that Lance is your brother, and your family doesn't treat you well.", I read his second message. Even after knowing all this, why was he wasting his time on me? He might be knowing how pathetic my life was! A normal person would have hated me; then why was he interested in me?
• "You there?" I received his third message, but I didn't reply to him. Instead, my mind was filled with a lot of questions and confusion.
• "Falak, are you are ignoring me?" I could imagine his serious face while texting this message.
• "Fine. I'm coming over to your house."
• 'Wait, what?'
• 'He can do that?'
• 'Now I was sure of one thing that whoever he was! Either he was from a powerful family, or he had lost his mind.'
• "I'm here.", I replied before he was really here. Though I loved that idea for a while because in that way, I would come to know who he was, but then I might land in serious trouble.
• "Christ, Seno! I was going to ask my driver to take me to your home." I read his message, and the suspicion which I had earlier on him got cleared that he was literally very rich. I meant, not any middle-class people could afford driver along with the car.
• "Why me?" I asked the question which was troubling in my mind for a long.
• "Is it because of bet or dare?" I asked another question that came to my mind after reading so many books where rich kids do these types of things for dare or bet between their friends.
• "It's not what you're thinking."
• "I can't answer your question of 'WHY ME' because if I will, then you will figure out who I am. But as I said earlier, I mean NO HARM. And I promise to take you out of that hell once you're eighteen."
• I smiled at his message. I couldn't decipher whether he was really as good as he seemed as per his messages?
• Immediately I recalled the conversation between mom and dad
• 'When are you planning to sell that bitch?
• 'She has just hit puberty. And no one pays well for those girls who look like a kid. So, at least let her be young. By the age of 15 or 16 years, I will sell her.'
• "Can you do anything before that? I mean, before I turn eighteen?"
• "I can't, but there's someone who can do that for me.",
• "Then please help me.", I wrote desperately.
• "I had to run away from here, but I have no idea about anything. I don't know how to manage it and where I should go if I will run away!" I confessed to my mysterious lover. At the same time, I was not sure whether he was a good person or not. He might take advantage of this situation or worst, but my situation in this house was also not that very great.
• "Keeping my curiosity aside by asking infinite questions, I just want you to know that I will help you."
• "You will?",
• "Yes! But I need some time. Approx a week." I read his reply. He might be taking the time of a week to arrange all the things which he would need in escaping me from here!
• Or he would be giving excuses so that I wouldn't feel bad if he directly said NO as his answer.
• "I will wait.", I typed and really hoped that my second thought about him come out to be wrong.
• #TBC
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