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13-The only hope faltered...

Letitia flees once more, unable to face Samuel's passionate confession on her love.

The contradiction between the stirrings of her first love as a young girl and her deep-seated resistance to his feelings leaves her breathless.

She felt a wave of panic inside her, even fearing that she might lose her territory if she was not careful.

It had taken her so long to hold herself back from shedding tears when she looked at him; it had taken her so long to resist caring about he playing with the other girls closely.

Her crush was bitter and unspeakable, sour like rubbing the tip of her heart with a peeled lemon.

She fled home, telling her mother that she wanted to go home for a few days to avoid her worry, and faced her family's other enquiries in a perfunctory manner, in fact because she didn't even know how to explain.

Because her thoughts were in such a tangled mess.

Samuel came to her door almost every day, but without fail, he was turned away.

The heat of the bathroom misted the mirror
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