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Chapter -17

Author: ShivangiPrajapati
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The night was young, for the very first time I was amused by the whole situation. Everyone someone tries to approach me I either jump on their foot, make them cry in anticipation or try to control their laughter.

Because these were the men who used to say, women always need a man to be their guard and to help them out. While I like the idea of assisting each other what I do not like is when these men never expect that they can need help from women.

I sighed, took a glass of red wine to my lips and thrust its content until my throat almost started burning.

Maybe I am going with the flow and drinking a glass of red wine just to remove my anxious state and calm my nerves down.

Maybe I should have always been this much braver in my entire life but I think about my past my childhood everything starts to become blurry.

The fifth-grade girl appeared in front of my vision. Her hair was loose, her face was ghosted as she had been cryi
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