Throughout her life, Regina had struggled to survive. After much pain, she had been able to reach the plain and stress-free life that she had always aspired for, but life is never easy. Things began to fall apart again when she lost her job and had...
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REGINA'S P.O.V
"It's him. Asher Braydon Lachlan. The boss."
In a precise moment, so many scenarios had run through my mind...but all of them had ended in me struggling to make things better. My mind formulated multiple hypotheses. If Asher was to remember me as that stranger-become-friend, then that may not only work for me in other ways but in me getting him back too. A possibility to know a long-lost crush was coming back to me but if he was to forget me, then I won't only lose him as a potential friend but also the odds which seem to be working for me. But why would he forget me? I haven't forgotten him. If not all the details but at least he'd have remembered my face. My eyes snapped towards my room where those little stuff toys were lying.
Almost mocking at me and shouting,
"The world is small, you ass."
This situation is weirdly hilarious for me because a part of me is happy for I am finally going to see my stranger again and a part of me is sad because this is not how I expected to see him again. Being in a miserable condition, I'd be asking or more like begging him to hire me so I can have something to feed myself and my sister with.
The time when we met was the best time. The time, when everything was fine. My mom cared for me. My dad wasn't the one he used to be. We had all the luxuries of life. Money was never a problem for us. But then everything changed. I hate to remember anything related to the past three years. They broke my trust and the thing which saddens me the most is that it can't be fixed.
I didn't realize when I had stopped laughing on my own. Hina didn't say a word. She was giving me time to open up myself and I appreciated this gesture. It's hard for me to put my feelings into words. I'd be dying to express but my words would always fail me. Hina never forced me and that's what I want from people. Unfortunately, most of them don't understand even when they think they do.
"Don't think about him." Hina whispered, "It was in your past. You're in a better place now. Look at yourself!"
I grabbed her hand and gave it a tight squeeze,
"He doesn't haunt me anymore. He has nothing on me. I know it's over and he's not coming back." I closed my eyes, pushing all the bad memories of him behind.
"You know what," I continued, " I wasn't thinking about him. I was actually thinking about someone else."
"And who is it?!" She straightened.
"Do you remember I told you about a guy at the fair? Who got me those teddy bears?" I reminded her and she nodded.
"Yes, I do. The ones in your bedroom right?"
I nodded, "Do you remember his name?"
"Uh. Yes. Wait a sec..." she closed her eyes for a moment and suddenly opened it, "Holycow..."
