Heart of rainbows || Englot || Completed

Chapter 15: Tolerate it

Engfa's POV

Just when I thought Char would be fine and this happened without me knowing was devastating. But then, after a few hours, I received a text from an unknown number which said, "Thank you for everything, Fa." 

At that moment, I realised that the text was from Char since she's the only one who addressed me as Fa instead of Engfa or Eng like my boyfriend sometimes called me. So I texted her back where she was, but there had been no sound since I reached out to her. 

My life has been good since I met her, and I finally have someone to whom I can relate and understand my situation. Yet, she decided to leave me makes me feel like I'm not worth telling because I am nobody to her. 

I guess it's fine if she wants to leave everything behind her, but I want her to at least recover first, especially when her injuries will take approximately 4-6 weeks to heal. For all that I know, she told me that she has no one beside her, not even her parents. 

But I remembered that the nurse said to me a woman accompanied her from discharging. Who might that be? 

As I recalled everything Char told me about her life, I knew that she mentioned having one friend who lived far away. Maybe it's her who's helping Char to disappear from here. 

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Laying on my bed, I was contemplating whether to find her and convinced myself that she would be okay alone. But then again, there must be a reason why she disappeared in the first place. 

I even attempted to file for a missing person, but there's no news about her at all. I don't even know to whom I should refer when Win is the only person I know in her life. 

Maybe it's part of her plan to escape from Win since Char expects that he will walk away from his crime. And she guessed right when I heard the news from one of my colleagues that he received a lenient sentence of three years and possibly lesser since this was his first offence. 

Hearing that makes me baffled about how the law never failed to help the abuser instead of the victim. What about the victim's scars that remained with them forever? 

They will definitely be reminded of their horrible past that kept taunting them to move forward in their lives.  

Regardless of her decision, I think the most important thing is to let her decide on her own life whether she wants to start a new life—a life where she doesn't have to associate with anyone who is in close contact with Win, including myself.  

I have to endure it even though it's sad to see her gone from my life. Perhaps, it was my destiny not to have a good friend in my life. Luckily, I still have Tor with me, and he plays his role of being a good boyfriend and a best friend to me. 

Hopefully, I could be happy with him forever, and I don't have to fake my happiness. But the more I pretend, the more I don't recognise myself because of how different a person I've become. Am I making the right decision?

Author's note:

Engfa is going through a lot for this chapter and the next one... let's hope she is happy soon😊