~What if you find your soulmate but he's already dead?~
Charlotte is a last year Psychology student, hating the dorm-life she moves into an apartment. She considers it a blessing that she got such a quiet and decent place in such a cheap rent. And...
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"Give me your word," Charlotte said. "That you'll answer my next question, that you'll take your punishment like a good boy."
"Good boy," Alex deadpanned. "You're cruel, Char, and by the way you're so hell set on punishing me—you're sadistic beyond doubt."
"I'm none of those," Charlotte scowled a little. "Now, if you only agree to both answer the extra question because you passed one and do as I ask as your punishment, only then we'll resume the game. Otherwise not only we won't play this game anymore but I may also refuse to talk to you again."
"And you're a drama queen, see how right I was."
She kept on silently scowling at him and he stared at her for a long moment before finally sighing in defeat.
"Alright. Go on," he said. "I'll do both, I would have done both even if you hadn't asked. I don't understand why you're making such a big deal out of this!"
She smiled at first but then glared hearing his last words which he muttered under his breath.
Alex threw up his hands. "I said I'll do it, woman."
"Promise me."
"Here we go again," he muttered under his breath and then said aloud, "Alright, I promise."
Satisfied, at last, Charlotte asked, "What is your most favorite place in Asthel?"
Alex smirked slowly. Obviously, the fool was thinking she was letting him go easily. No no no. He judged too soon.
Before he could open his mouth, she added, "And your punishment is you're not going to tell me about the place, but show me, physically."
The smirk on his lips fell away slowly.
Charlotte tipped her chin up, looking back at him with resolution. "Show me your most favorite place in the city, Alex Shawn Wilder. Take me there. This is both the extra question and your punishment."
Alex's eyes dilated for a couple of moments when she was saying his name, but then his expression went blank.
"I don't know if I can do that," he said after a long while.
"Why so? What is the problem, Alex?"
He was silent in the face of her question.
She was exasperated inwardly, and yet she couldn't help but feel compassionate for he looked genuine in what he said, it only proved that her suspicions were turning out to be so very true. Alex was a loner. And he was a guy with whom something went very wrong, it might have left in him such a trauma that he had isolated himself from the world.
Charlotte promised herself she was going to bring him out of his cocoon.
