CHAPTER 10

DAMIAN

Since Melissa left me when she told me she was going to take care of her sick grandmother, I thought she would never leave but she did. She told me over the phone after her Grandma gets well she will be back to be with me but it was never so.

After a week she left, and her line was not connecting, I tried as much as I could to be in talks with her but all yielded fruitless results. Aff! After a while, I was at work but the thought of her couldn't let me be myself, luckily for me, I received a call from her, my cherished one Melissa and I could hear her sweet voice again at last, telling me she lost her Grandma.

I said I would come over for the funeral to be by her side but she told me she was right at the funeral as she called me. For goodness sake, I can't just wake up and start going for a long trip to Texas abruptly so I just let it be. I tried to inquire why her phone number wasn't reachable, all she told me was pain in my heart and I could feel her pain. It's not easy t