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CXV. More Than A Love Confession
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2022-03-04 17:07:54It is always the rain that has to stop Essi so that she cannot get away from Oneil. Her arms are getting drenched as she stays beneath the gate roof. She already pushed Oneil away. Isn’t it a pain to her esteem if she would return to the stone house because of the rain? Before she could answer that, Oneil already arrived and pulled her to his side. He used his hoodie to cover them and prompted Essi to run with him to the car.
Their silence was a like a pause of an impending storm only to warn others that there would be a tumult to come. But this time, Essi and Oneil does not know what would it be. An argument? A range of questions to answer diligently? Or hesitance that had always reigned against them? Oneil answered the last question by giving the other hoodie to Essi.
Essi muttered thanks. Her eyes averted Oneil. At least this will help her on enduring the intense silence between them. Ending up in Oneil’s car again a kind of prize that the event could af
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