Curse Of Love

|¦ Chapter 8 ¦|

Their past...

Their eyes met and all of their past played in front of them resurfacing their pain.

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Annika was a very simple middle class girl but with big dreams. And she was determined to fulfill the all of them no matter what it will cost her.

She grow up in an orphanage knowing nothing about herself and her past except some flashbacks coming and going in her dreams time to time. She was sure that she has her own family and not an illegitimate child but who are they and why did they left her, she never knew.

She always saw a nightmare in which some woman was killing another woman and burning the place to hide her murder with a little girl witnessing every detail. Annika knows no one of them, but something inside her told her that they related to her past, especially that she had an intense fear from darkness and fire.

But it never bother her except sometimes when the world taunt her and insult her for being without surname and known lineage.

She cried and felt low of herself many times because of them but always forget everything soon and got up to face the life again with much more strength and determination running in her veins.

She had never give up and will never, her passion and love are enough for her to keep moving despite everything and everyone especially with her childhood friend, Chanda, beside her.

Annika and Chanda grow up together in the orphanage. They are best friends with different personalities.

While Annika was so active and bold girl having something to do every minute with her non stopping talks, Chanda was a calm, composed and shy girl.

Both of them left the orphanage when they turned 18 years old and rent a small apartment but went for different jobs.

Chanda was an orphan but knows who her parents are. They are died but left a good amount of money that helped her to finish her study and become an accountant but unfortunately for Annika, she dropped out studying after school but continued to attend night classes while working.

She wanted to have her own company in planning events someday and she will do it for sure. She was struggling in life not accepting the reality and fighting the hard conditions, just for that dream.

Life was never easy for Annika, but she never gave up and kept running from place to another searching a new better work matching with her classes until she found a job in some college as a waitress in the canteen. The job that changed her life upside down.

As much as Annika enjoyed her new job by talking to new people and making new relationships every day, she always felt bad watching the students who were younger than her studying while she was serving them but what she can do? She had to keep working reminding herself every time that the future will be better and it's better to feel pain today rather than tomorrow.

So putting a smile on her face, Annika served the students in the day and studied at night sleeping just for few hours which were enough to her to relax.

It had been one month now since Annika started working and she observed that girl who stayed alone in the corner most of the time. She was very shy and always stammered in talking, looked very nervous when someone talked to her or just stared at her.

Annika felt pity for her but never tried to approach her before today when a bad gang of girls dared to taunt and insult her in front of everyone just to get some money. The girl was very rich after all. A billionaire actually.