'Til I Found You (COMPLETED)

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~ Two years later ~

The time past by in a brisking pace. Life runs smoothly for her. She teaches in a small private school where her past is unknown to everybody there. It is all behind her now, a memory she has long forgotten and buried. Teaching is a usual child's dream but to her, that is more than just a childhood aspiration. It was within the realm of perception by her parents for her future though life took a different path. If only she could bring back what was gone - dignity and innocence - but it's impossible. She became the person that her parents never perceived it to happen. Both of them detest her wherever they are, she assumed. A young girl with full of love and affection, who believed in fairytales and dreams that could come true, was all but gone - got buried along with her parents. She would never be that same girl. Truth be told, herself is a stranger who reflects in the mirror everytime she stares at it. Someone that circumstances put her through but she toughed it all out. Looking back the pages in her life, the only moment that stood out is her who defeated all battles she was thrown at. Nobody stayed with her and she taught herself to accept that fact wholeheartedly. It was a tough battle - full of heartaches and loneliness - but she rebuilt her life. Those were all fragments of her shattered past.

"One vodka", she ordered. After a long day of paperworks and one exam to another, she deserves a night of unwinding. The waiter served her order at a bar countertop. It was a usual hangout of her and her co-teachers but tonight she is flying solo. Partygoers coming in and out of the bar while she enjoys her solitude. She is on her last shot - a bit tipsy - then walked out to call it a night. A black car clicks to unlock but a man pulls open its door.

"Excuse me? That's my car", she, head's spinning like a tap, blurted.

"Miss, it's mine. You probably are mistaken", he explains but Lea is intoxicated enough to tune out.

"That's mine. Don't bug me. I had a long day", she took steps forward and tripped but he is quick to catch her.

"You're drunk", he said.

"I'm.Not", she talks haltingly that creased his forehead. He cannot savvy the rest of her statement. Suddenly, she retches and throws up on his shirt. And that lost his shit.

"What the!", he pulls away to face her but then in just split seconds, she fell back on his arms.

"Miss! Miss! Sh-t", he carries her in the car and rummaged through her things to check on any personal details but to no avail. His unfamiliar uniform is of no help. Instead he drives in anger.

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The sunlight peeks through the window. She stretches out with droopy eyes. Another busy day kicksoff, finals are near to date as she blinks to recall her to-dos. Her eyes landed on unfamiliar ceiling down to black and white walls with paintings hang against it. The home fragrance mixed on air that she inhales got her up. It's not her place, she affirmed. Her mind runs back to last night's scene, she recalls a man, taller and masculine, fighting over a car. Just in time when she got a message from the car shop informing about her repaired car and that lost her shit.

"F-ck!", she feels herself - reassuring nothing happened at her with that stranger - but her body is wearing a white man's shirt while her legs are exposed. An abrupt pounding of her heart occured but she calms herself down. Nothing unwanted steamy night happened, she could say.