The pain

Chapter 39

"Are you sure about this, Alicia?" Lilian sounds worried, or rather dull over the phone, and Alicia just sighs briefly. She has just told her best friend about Ren's confession, and she doesn't seem to like the idea.

"I don't know, Alicia. I'm scared of what happened before. What if Ren is not different from him? What if he ends up hurting me?" She runs her fingers through her hair crazily like she's losing her mind, or she has lost it, rather. After the confession, she has been thinking about it since then and has literally done nothing else. Ren had gone out to get some things ready for their traveling, and since she insisted to stay back at home, she has been here.

"I understand, but you just have to calm down, and think about it, okay?" Lilian says over the phone, and she sighs briefly.

"I don't know what to think, Lilian. I love him, and I want to be with him, but I'm scared. I... I... I'm just scared," She runs her fingers through her hair for the seco