"For a moment in life, we all want an escape, then we keep on running and shutting down the doors leading to that very moment. We don't have the courage to face the reality of that moment."
'In my life there are so many of them'. Hazel was thinking when the door was knocked at. One of those moments was right now. She hasn't the courage to face this moment; sitting on her bed on her first wedding night. She was thinking of the way to escape; not because she was afraid of not of what the usual brides are being afraid of but because this man was not what she desired of. She has always loved her cousin and to her knowledge her cousin too. But her father was not happy about this and forced her to marry this man.
She could feel the presence of the stranger in her room now. He was smiling and she was hating it. "This man was supposed to be her best friend who knew her feelings for her cousin all along yet he agreed to marry her just because she was the only daughter of the richest man in the town" she thought.
"Hazel" he said. She saw him with complaining gaze. He knew what had happened but he looked innocent.
A flash back: in eighth grade she moved to Seoul Korea and joined one of the high schools. She was always afraid of the new encounters and hence same was the case when she stepped in her class on the very first day. She wanted to escape from there and hide in the corner. She has always been like that; always running away from the situations that might be new to her. But this, this she could not avoid this. At that very day, a boy in the class approached her and told her that he knew what she felt and has been through the same when he moved here five years back. Trying her best to avoid this boy. she behaved as coldly as she could but by the end of the day she had a friend at school for whom she could go to attend the school.
"Hazel" a very renowned yet very strange voice echoed in her ears. That boy was sitting in front of her she had met 14 years ago. A boy that has grown up to be a handsome and smart gentleman; a complete marriage material. Yet Hazel hated him for what he has done.
"You must be thinking that I married you because I wanted your money. This is not.." he was saying and Hazel interrupted her "just stop it. I do not want to hear any excuses you have right now. You have betrayed me and the trust I had on you! I always thought that you had my back and you will support me but Jordan you, you destroyed our relation and everything, you are responsible for my destruction". Jordan was listening to her and did not utter even a single word. He knew her very well and knew that it is best for her to let it all out that has been building up inside her, only then she will be able to understand what he has to tell her. "Ah!" the sigh was all he could reply her with.
It is sometimes the hardest job to explain to someone why some event happened and why s/he has to be the one to be at loss. And that is exactly the situation you want escape from. Jordan wanted to tell Hazel why all of this happened and why she ended up as his wife but the difficulty was that he had no proof to explain his innocence. He was feeling guilty and wanted to escape the confrontation. It has been seventy-two hours and still Hazel has not let him explain anything.
Note: This story is to be continued.!!
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