The Runaway Girl✔️ | A Christian Romance

Chapter 10 - Disgusted

A/N: The character faceclaims are up in the characters' chapter, guys. Check them out and let me what you think. Is that how you imagine them or differently? And, I also did an entire graphics update in this book from cover to banners. And, moreover, I thank God for helping me to get this chapter out in time than I expected. Enjoy!

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I mute the call and dropped my phone; or, I'd rather say, I threw my phone away and -it landed on the other end of the bed- stared at it with my horror filled eyes as if I was just told that my phone has a hidden bomb in it, waiting to explode at any moment.

Actually in fact, there indeed was a hidden bomb. A human bomb.

What just happened?!

Maybe I heard him wrong; but I'm pretty sure I have no problem with my ears.

Maybe he was telling that to someone there; but that doesn't make any sense since, he said it after calling my name.

Or, maybe he's probably drunken. But he swore to me that he didn't.

I slowly bend across my bed and stretched out my hand to reach to my phone. Not until then did I notice that, it was not just my heart rising and falling rapidly, but my whole body shaking along with it. My knees shook, my fingers trembled, my teeth was automatically gritting itself as if I'm shivering from cold. But this was a lot worse than that.

I panicked even more I as saw that he haven't hung up the call yet. I un-muted the call and brought my phone to my ears, preparing to turn on my actress mode.

"Hello, can you hear me? Hello? Helloo?" I kept saying it, pretending that I don't hear him saying, "Yes, I can hear you. Hailey? Uh, yes hello?"

"Hey, did you hear what I said?" he asked when I got him clearly.

"You were saying? Um, no. I didn't." I said innocently. But there was no cure for my fear and shivering. I remembered the coldest of nights when I couldn't even find myself to talk because of the shivering; and that's how I felt now too. I had to clutch the phone to my ear with both hands, having no firm grip.

"Oh, okay. So, I was saying, I like you and do you like me as I do you?" he asked shamelessly again. I cringed in disgust.

My situation got worse, "Um, sorry? I didn't catch it right. Let me get out to my balcony, I think it's the problem of the connection." I said.

"Okay?" he said, and I didn't miss the unassureness in his voice.

Just as he said okay, I muted the call again. I looked over the screen; today, I'm going to end all of this fuss and I needed the courage from God to do it. I let him stay on mute, thinking it's the connection problem that's making it hard for me to hear him. And just as I was going to end the call finally, I saw it being hung up already, even before I moved my fingers.

My heart skipped a beat. He's going to call back!

I quickly went for the flight mode and turned it on. And at the sight of the connection tower gone, I let out a deep breath I didn't realize I was holding. A huge drama just happened in my life, my very life. If it's worth counting for anything, even my life in mafia was not such a drama, but this... this is going to give me a nightmare for sure.

I was seeing Nott as a friend and a brother, like I see every boy I befriend. But he digusted me! Pure hatred towards him began to fume inside me and all of a sudden, I felt nothing but disgust at his thought.

On the contrary, I felt so free of a bondage but how long am I going to feel it? He said, he and Charlie are coming to our home this Sunday again to visit us before they leave. And if they do, what am I going to do?