"Anna! your coffee!"
Noora spoke making Anna look at her, Anna nodded her head as she took the cup of coffee and took a sip from it
"So, How are you here brother-in-law?"
Turning her sights to Zain Noora spoke with her cheerful voice being a talkative person she just can't keep her mouth shut, whereas Zain replied to her as he also took a sip from his hot coffee
"I came here to drop Miss Anna!"
"Why? doesn't she has her own bike"
Resting her head on the palm of her hand, her eyebrows raising as she looks at Zain with a questionable look on her face, taking a bit from her strawberry ice cream, Noora asked as she was confused looking at Zain, why would Zain drop Anna when she has her own bike and Anna isn't a person who accepts anyone's lift, so what was going on
"Actually... her bike got some issues in that so I had to drop her here!"
Zain spoke being a little awkward as he didn't interact that much with Noora before, even tho she's going to be his brother's wife, he was never a person who would go and talk to girls, his interactions with girls were only bounded between his business.
"What was the meeting about?!"
Is that a question to ask? does Zain need to answer that? isn't it something that should be confidential!
Zain gaze at her weirdly, why she was asking this, well, he doesn't like anyone getting in his business and was doing the same exact thing, he didn't know why he was getting annoyed by her illogical question or maybe he knew well but what he could do? nothing
"Um... we signed a contract today with Miss Anna!..aaa... that was the meeting about!"
Finally, now she won't ask anything.
"REALLY! Anna congratulations!"
Noora yell excitedly, nothing new she always gets excited even with the little things. turning her gaze to Anna as she congratulates her, whereas Anna, she just stares at her with a poker face before speaking coldly
"I'm not sure!"
Anna spoke as she took a sip from her coffee, While Noora frowned her eyebrows and shook her head as no, Noora didn't understand what Anna actually meat, what does she mean by she was not sure when her boss was saying clearly that they signed the contract
"Why? What happened? I can't understand, why are you saying this?"
"Um, can I answer? ok so, To do the project she has to go out of town! and-"
Noora spoke showing her concern, while Zain stepped in the middle and utters as he glanced at Anna asking for her permission to answer at her place while Anna turned her sharp eyes up just to meet his eyes and nodded uninterested, Zain spoke but before he could end his sentence Noora cut off and started speaking
"And you're worried about Maria! am I right?!"
Hearing Noora speak they broke their intense eye contact, Noora surely knows her friend very well and she had the solution for everything
"Don't worry I'm here! I'll take care of Maria, Right Maria!"
"Yes"
Maria spoke showing her excitement, as she knows Noora being the cheerful person who would never let her bore they will definitely going to have fun just like always roaming around here and there going out for have ice cream treats, going to parks
And the problem was solved, Noora would take care of Maria and Anna would go with her boss out of town to make the project happen
Anna turned her eyes to her boss just to meet him already gazing at her with a smile on his face but not for too long that pure grin turned into an impure smirk, seeing him smirking for the first time Anna rolled her eyes and turned her gaze back at the little girl sitting beside her
What else can she do? now, she is just stuck in this, even if she doesn't want to go, she will have to
And the girl, (his sister-in-law) Zain was getting annoyed of, he didn't know that she will make everything that easy for him
Zain just wanted to spend some time with Anna maybe he wanted his answers from her, he wanted Anna to get comfortable with him, while the reality was going on a totally different track, Anna was getting more and more irritated and mad at him, but she knew he was her boss and she didn't have the authority to go against him
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Later that night, Anna made Maria sleep before she gets inside her room just to meet the same old darkness of her life, but she was comfortable with it, she felt safe alone, laying down on her bed as she covered herself with a duvet, facing the ceiling she just closed her eyes, but not for too long, a loud sound of thunderstorms echoed in her room, turning her face she looked outside the window, just the see the heavy rain, sitting up straight she got down from her bed and walked towards that huge glass door of the balcony which she never opens, no one saw her ever standing there, was there a problem? a secret?
Standing near that glass door, raindrops plastered over the other side She puts one hand touching the glass but the loud thunder made her flinch again, making her step back
Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive
The screaming of a girl Echoed in her ears, making her breath hitched, her chest going up and down the scene from 4 years ago was in front of her sight, putting her hand on her mouth she took some steps backward before turning back as she rushed out of that room
Why was she behaving like that? no one knows except her sister Lia~
(and author) ;)
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Chapter
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