"I am in love with your cousin and I am staying in his house to chase him," I announced not caring about the amount of truth and lies it had.
"You are joking, right?" she asked me alternating her glances from me to her cousin.
"No, I am not. He is yet to accept me but I am willing to stay here until he accepts me," I told her as I hugged his arm tightly.
"He cannot," she told me as she looked at me with a trace of pity in her eyes.
I could not tell her the truth as I could not bring myself to give her double heartbreak as she might not be able to accept the fact that her cousin was the person who was bent on having me in his life.
It would be better for me to shoulder the responsibilities to relieve myself a little of the guilt killing me from the inside.
