The Masquerade

Chapter 37

Adriana's POV

I dont feel like going either to work or attend any lecture,more importany I am avoiding Daniele by any chance.

I have been hurt,deeply hurt by the lies and miseries but I decide to overlook and begin my day with entire new note.

I convince myself togather my self again and not today atkeast not today give a thought to all the events and episode of last day.

But I couldnt stay firm on it and I break down,my heart years to trust Daniele but my mind warns me against it.

I am one practicle girl,I cant let myself being ruined by anybody,who has never loved anybody and suddenly claim to love me today.I tell my self convincingly

I battle my thoughts but reach no where with it.None considered and suddenly my mind hits with the flashback of the journey to office with Mr.Richard,where he told me in his own way to make distance from the people like him and none of it made sense to me.

Now it all begins to make sense to me,I have thought and contemplated the entire night replaying the same scene over and over but my mind never caught up with the cues.

I doubt Daniele yet not for his words or confession to me last night but for all the incidences where he had the chance to confess,yet he never did.

From the first time,he asked me about my work place to next when he offered to drive me to Clarks office.He had tge chance to tell me but he choose to stay zipped,like I ld never know.

Like I was one of his prey,who he aims to hunt and then forget like he has always done.

Then at Stephene's cafe,when he walked out on me,when I asked him about it all.

I wished he has never been into my life,and I had never let him enter the safe cage crossing the brick wall I had built in years.

But the other self of me,pesters me to consider the only side of him,the vulnerable one that I have seen last night.

I make my mood and mind to get some fresh air and untangle myself out of this thought web process and Nancy takes me out for a brisk walk and keep me company in my hard times.

And the fresh air is actually working,tranquilising my system,before my Kevin catches my attention,when I look out of the window sitting in Starbucks.

"Hey,Is that Derby with kevin,look there" I point my finger for Nancy to see.

"Nothing I havent seen,I have even seen them making out"

"What? And I thought Adiva and Kevin are going around.

"Everybody else thought the same"

"Is Adiva aware of all this?"I ask with deep concern

Now Nancy tells me all about her spotting Kevin with Derby in Miami and then at the welcome party.
Also about her informing Adiva about all of this and how she broke bad on hearing.

Then about Ivan suspecting the same and confessing it on the same dinner proposal night.

She narrated me all the events from the beginning.

Before any of these discussions took furthur turn,Nancy's phone buzzes with Adiva's call and she tells her to meet somewhere outside the campus,since she doesnot want to intimate anyone about her arrival.

Nancy tells me,she wants me to join aswell.
We wrap up lunch,and immediately leave to catch her up.

I see a sight of a distant lean girl standing leaning at the wall and as we approach closer,I could distinctively see the sleep deprived face and charmless face.