“Happy holidays!”
“Happy holidays, fellas!”
It wasn’t a Happy holiday for Cassandra. She walks out of the campus as Peter watches her from a distance. He wanted to go wish her the same, but couldn’t find the courage to do that. He would rather be chained to the tree, watching her walk in desolation than talk to her and invite people to bully him again.
College life was tough.
Especially for the weak folk who couldn’t stop being kind with no courage.
Cassandra reaches her car and drives off to her house.
Louis was troubled with yet another scandalous photo of Cassandra.
Cassandra couldn’t give a shit to anyone. If that made someone horny or happy, she left it at that. She couldn’t bring herself to bother about low lives who had fun watching and making other people suffer.
She was chilling on the couch again when her siblings arrived back home one after the other.
She was answering them patiently, the same concerned question repeating five times.
Zayn was the most concerned of all.
He wasn’t afraid of her being emotionally unequipped to handle such a scandal.
He was afraid that she was losing her character by turning ice cold into such a scandal.
However, Louis handles the problem again by only deleting them all over the internet.
He comes home to Jessica, the girl waiting on his porch.
“Babe, I’m tired-”
“There’s a problem,” Jessica says.
Louis watches the girl stand up as she walks towards her lover.
Suddenly, he sees her remove the ring of promise from her finger, and his heart begins to panic.
“Jessica, what are you-”
“My parents found out about our affair, Louis. Thank you for everything.”
December didn’t look so jolly to him anymore after today.
The first half of the day, he was troubled by the scandal. In the second half of the day, he was troubled by Jessica’s sudden change of mind.
“B-but why? We are doing so good, Jessica. Don’t do this to me. You know what I’ve gone through, right?” Jessica had grown a wall against her heart. She was keeping bay from his trench of emotions for her, his love for her.
“I’m sorry, Louis. I just think you Johnsons have an ill fate with love.” Says Jessica as the words hit him hard.
Louis couldn’t guess in his wildest of dreams that the woman he shared so much with was leaving him on her own. Without an explanation. But with the only sentence that is like an eye-opener for him.
Louis wanted to respect her decisions and accept his ill-fated love with her.
Should he let her go?
Should he respect her decision to leave him?
“That easy, Jessica?” The girl halts in her place. She couldn’t bring herself to face the man who gave her everything, more than everything indeed. She didn’t want to leave him that easily as well, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
But things aren’t well fitting for everyone.
There are nexuses, gravitational centres, that balance a relationship. Jessica hated to tilt the balance until one of them fell.
Fell out of love.
“Tell me, Jessica.” She heard footsteps behind her, and she couldn’t bring herself to turn around and face the man.
“Tell me, goddammit.” He speaks through his teeth. Jessica was terrified of his upset mood right now. She didn’t want to face him, so she more or less ran away from the place and never returned.
“I-” the words get stuck in her throat as he waits for her answer impatiently.
“My parents-” Before Jessica couldn’t complete her sentence, Louis grabbed her by her arm and walked back to his car. Much against her will and using force on her, he takes her back to her house, driving recklessly as he halts in front of her house.
“Who is that?”
“Hello, ma’am, I am Louis Johnson,” Louis says even before the door opens. When it does, it does open slowly. The shocked face of her mother greets them both as Louis says.
“Ma’am, I love your daughter and she loves me too. I do not know what is stopping you from allowing her to love me.”
Louis looks at the male behind the mother, “Because son,”
The man comes to the front, defending Jessica’s mother as she was in shock at the moment.
“A businessman and a doctor shouldn’t love each other.” Louis gazes up and down at this ignorant, orthodox man.
“Besides, she isn’t supposed to love anyone until she becomes a doctor.” The father says, disappointment written on his face for his daughter.
“And what about her after she becomes a doctor, sir?” Louis asks with his voice cracking at the end.
“It’s her wish after that, son. Until she becomes a doctor, she is under my supervision and my care. Now please, leave my household.”
“Very well.” Giving the old man a bitter smile, Louis stares at Jessica from head to toe for the last time as he leaves the house of her parents.
As he gets into the car, he begins punching the steering wheel as it honks a couple of times when hit on the space.
“Fuck…” his heart was aching for the first time in his life.
He drives back to an empty home. A lot of things in mind.
Wasted by a few bottles of alcohol, the male grabs his phone to text the girl for the last time.
He lets the venom out of his heart.
[You brought this to yourself, Jessica]
[You’re weaker than I thought]
[If you want to live your life, come back to me Jessica. I miss you already]
He texts the girl with a bunch of typo errors, and after a while, he receives a response.
In her room, Jessica sobbed on her hand as she texted the male for the last time as well.
[I’m sorry, Louis. Thank you for everything.]
[Goodbye]
As he reads, he also reads the ribbon of the message below,
[You are not allowed to text this username any more]