Up To Hourglass To Decide

Chapter 23

As agreed by Martha that Vincenzo may also write to her, three of them exchanging letters, both letter from Vincenzo and Cody will arrived at the same time to Martha's house, and the same goes to Vincenzo and Cody, and the two of them will compete to see whose letter is the thickest.

As for Martha, she's very happy to hear from both of them, she would write for both of them equally, Martha is not stupid and low witted too, she can smell, she can sense the instinct that both of them might interested in her, and they're trying to win her heart.

Until one day, Cody and Vincenzo stopped receiving the letter that Martha used to replied to, but both of them keep sending her, they even asked the postman if he didn't deliver right, both of them asked the postman to confirm once again whether it has been sent to her or not, but still, they keep sending her those letters, and that last for 2 months.

"lately my mouth doesn't corporate well with the food, even If the food swims up past my throat, my stomach keep knocking and made me want to vomit everything, I can't eat properly as my eyes stopped receiving a word from you, my soul is longing for your perfumed paper, I'm missing you like crazy here, where are you exactly?, does my words upset you?, or something bad happened?, replied me right after you received this please, I'm dying to know how are you doing, I will confess to you if you replied one word to me," Cody's writing made Martha went crazy as well.

Because Martha is showing up in front of his door, with her hands were gripping on the last letter that Cody write for her.

"wha- what brings you here?" Cody's too startled, he continued, "what happened to you? are you hurt?" he went to grip his shoulder softly, he realized something then, because Martha's pale face was very visible and obvious.

"I'm running away," Martha answered him with her hand still holding Cody's letter, with then she hugged Cody's warm body that standing Infront of her.

She's crying without making sounds, she struggled to hold back her tears, so she let it out without making noises, but does he know that she's shaking as she's crying, her tears soaked Cody's neat shirt. Seeing her crying without knowing why, makes him flustered too, Cody feels his heart was squeezed by just pat her back softly.

After crying so much, Cody bring her inside his house and let her drink chamomile tea to let help her calm down. Cody wait for her to finish a glass of tea, she finished it in one gulp, that makes her cough because she choked herself while drinking too fast.

"are you okay? do you need more?" Vincenzo asking her while obviously showing his worried face.

She shook her head and pulled out one hourglass from her pocket and put it on the table. The hourglass which is only as big as the size of Martha's palm is now on Cody's table.

Of course, out of sudden the girl he loves shows up in front of his house and without muttering any words by putting a hourglass on his table, he's confused by her act.

With her puffy eyes, she said, "this hourglass accompanied me when I was waiting for your letters, they keep listen to me when I'm ranting about how long is it for a letter to fly by?, and I let it out on this hourglass,"

"then why you're placing it on this table?" Cody asked her out of curiosity.

"I don't need this anymore," she looks down while answered him.

"why? I thought you said-," Cody asked her again, but before he could finish his sentence, Martha cut him off.

"after I graduated, I'm getting married," she looked away from his gaze.

Cody who's more startled continuing on asking her question. "with who?" Cody's breaking voice pained her heart.

"I don't know, he's the son of my father's friend. I heard he's rich too, he can buy me if he wants," as she answered his question, she cried on the last words she said.