Chapter 11

The message on Siana’s phone confused her but she didn’t want to do anything about it. She had gotten too scared the day before by everything that he had done to her so she didn’t want to walk into the darkness voluntarily. 

Time was passing like sand and Siana spent all of it just sitting on the couch, wondering what had happened with Verona last night and how she had just left without a trace. Why did she have to do that?

She felt something rub against her leg and flinched from suddenness. Once she looked down, she saw Kai rubbing against her legs as if he was trying to comfort her. 

“How do you always know how I feel?” She said as she sighed. She bent down and picked up Kai. And after half an hour of zoning out, she finally got up. She carried him to the bedroom and fell onto the bed. 

“I don’t know what to do…” She sighed deeply as she felt conflicted by all the mess that occurred in less than a day. 

Kai sat close to her and licked her hand. She smiled faintly and petted his head lightly. She lay down there just staring at the ceiling as her mind slowly shut down. 

All of a sudden she got up and headed toward her desk. She opened her laptop and started looking something up. Kai was surprised at her actions and followed her, he sat down on her lap but she didn’t even worry about petting him. 

She was going through all the accounts she had made on any social media platform. She was looking for clues, trying to find out who that stalker was and how he knew her. After looking closely, it wasn’t hard to figure out. He had made accounts with different names but they still had similarities in details, profile pictures, and the posts he had made. 

Siana smirked as she connected all the dots and found out his name. 

She knew a lot of people who couldn’t dig for information on people as she was a hacker herself but didn’t even look up information on people before. She messaged them and told them the name of the person she was looking for, and all the information she had on him. 

“Who is this person anyway?” A girl asked, she and Siana were on a call. They both were looking up information on him and talked at the same time. That girl was, Karissa, Siana’s online friend and her partner in all such things. 

“Umm…He’s my stalker.” Siana said as she kept clicking on her keyboard. 

“Girl you’ve got a weird life!” Karissa commented as she stopped typing. “Found him!”

Siana blinked blankly as her body froze. Karissa laughed at her cause Siana always had the same reaction to her being so fast. 

“Don’t worry, you’ll become like me someday.” Karissa consoled her as she laughed. 

“Shut up, bitch! Just tell me who he is.” Siana rolled her eyes. And there it was! Siana’s true side, that no one in real life ever saw. 

“Alright alright!” Karissa said as she started clicking the keys again. She shared her screen so Siana could see everything. “Meet your stalker! Elijah Cameron! He’s a new student at her university and joined about 3 months ago. He’s a transfer student from another city. And as you already know, he follows you on every social media. His phone number is this and his last registered address is this. I can’t really find any information on his family cause there seem to be no traces of his family name except for him.” 

Siana could hear the suspicions very clearly in Karissa’s voice. 

“Better be safe. Don’t get in any trouble.” Karissa warned her as she sent all the information to Siana’s computer. “He sounds really shady so don’t do anything stupid okay.”

“Yeah I won’t.” Siana replied to her immediately but she was zoned out again. “Can you do me another favour?” She asked as she stared blankly at the screen. 

“Yeah sure.” Karissa replied as she got ready to work again. 

“Find out where Verona was all these years.” Karissa paused on hearing that. She knew everything about Verona and how devastated Siana was after she had left. It was Karissa who had been there for her all these years and helped her through the tough times. 

“Siana…we talked about this already…” Karissa said in a low and comforting voice as she tried to persuade her to choose otherwise. 

“S…she came here yesterday…” Siana said all of a sudden as she teared up again. “She was in the library, put that stupid ring on my bag…she came to my home. Made all these promises that she won’t leave and still she left this morning…” Siana broke down and sobbed loudly. The pain that she had numbed came crashing on her after all that time. 

“Oh honey…” Karissa said as she looked at her through the computer screen, being just as sad as Siana. She wanted to help Siana, hug her, and hold her tightly. But she couldn’t do any of that cause she was so far away.

“I told you to forget her…” Karissa said after a minute. “If she loved you, she won’t have left to begin with.” 

“I know…but it’s just hard…” 

“I know honey…but the pain will stop okay…I promise it will…” Karissa looked at her with comforting and loving eyes. Siana nodded and looked back at her. 

“I wish you were here…” She said slowly and Karissa smiled sadly. 

“I wish so too…”

*

It was loud and busy once again. Siana had finally gathered up the courage to get out of her house. She was standing at the gate of her university as she just stared blankly at all the people that walked in. 

She was getting tired of all this but at the same time, she knew that the fun was just about to start. She wanted to know what all these people were up to. She had been observing them closely this whole time and she could sense that they were gonna do something soon so she was getting excited about it. 

She finally stepped inside the campus and headed towards her first class. Then she saw something that froze her body completely. 

At the end of the hallway, there she was…Verona Francis. Siana’s first love. The girl who had left her years back and the girl who had left her last night as well.

She stood there, smiling and laughing, as she talked to Chloe as if nothing had ever happened. Siana was confused about what was happening and why Verona was there. 

Then she heard, some people whispering that she was the new student. Before Siana could react she saw that Verona was walking towards her, along with Chloe and her best friend. 

Siana’s heart gained hope and she wanted to talk to Verona about all that was happening. However…just as she was about to say something to her, Verona just walked past her as if she didn’t even know her. 

Siana’s heart dropped and she turned around immediately and held Verona’s hand. 

“V…verona…” Siana stuttered as she was on verge of tears again. 

But that love just stared at her blankly and pulled her hand away immediately. “Sorry…do i know you?” She asked her as she tilted her head slightly.