She opened the XXX app and login to it. a new notification came to her and she opened it. handsome man, her online friend has replied her message and he was online. she quickly message him back
"finally you read my text" she text.
"sorry I've been busy with work" he replied immediately. "okay, so do you have time now, i have something to tell you" she text again.
"am all ears" she first told him about her life since she got to the country and about the friends she has made. She first hesitated but decide to tell him anyways.
“about my new friend that i told you about, she has a brother and he is kinda strange”
"why do you say that?" Sonya recount for him everything that transpired between her and Maxwell.
"and the most surprising thing is that he can read me very well, its like he can see my thoughts" she added.
"i can also read through your thoughts"
“that's because we've been friends for four years and how come he knows that i want to eat chicken" she text back not satisfied with his reply.
"okay fine, he is strange. So about the job offer, he might have just said it to repay you well. am sure he doesn’t mean any harm, like you said he's a very rich guy" Sonya look at his reply and was slightly upset
"why does it looks like you are on his side rather than mine" she text and waited for his reply but there was none she decides to quickly update Simon about herself but didn’t go in to details, she just brief him a little then she put down her phone and slept.
..... Maxwell dropped the phone, he looked at the screen and didn’t know what to type next. he actually wanted to ask her if they should meet up but Sonya has inform him that she doesn't want that before accepting him as a private friend online. After he saw her at the hospital the other day, he has become restless and long to see her but he has been busy. Then he check for any message from her and found that she complained to him about wanting to eat chicken dish. he just decide to fulfil her wish because it looks like she really wanted to eat chicken and he offered her a job because she had told him about her situation and plan to walk off campus to help herself and gain experience.
"maybe i made a mistake " he thought and went back to finish his work.
[FIVE YEARS AGO]
Maxwell woke up in the hospital and saw his mother and sister beside him.
"where is the girl that bought me here?" he asked.
"what girl? no one was here when we arrive" Evelyn answered.
"that’s not what is important right now, he doctor said you were poisoned. How do you come in contact with poison? Do you remember anything at all?” his mother asked impatiently. he tried to sit up and Evelyn helped him.
“how long has it been?” he ask instead.
“you were asleep for two days” Celina told him.
"that long” he thought whoever did this would have escaped already.
"brother the thing is that we need to know if you saw the person who drugged you or anyone you think its might be” Evelyn chipped in.
"i don’t know for sure but i think the girl who helped me should know" after that he was discharged. He was unable to get whoever it was that tried to kill him. Then he tried looking for Sonya but there was no information on her where about. After several month he stopped looking for her. but later remember that she talked to him about some app and she told him her username. he quickly search for the app and joined and looked for her on it. after he found her username he asked to be her private friend but she rejected him and later send a request to him to be his private friend and since then they've chatting with each other and she has told him almost everything about her except for her real name but the only information she has asked about him was his location. she has also told him that she didn’t want an online romance just to be friends at the beginning. When she told him that she will coming to country X, he was so happy and has fate will have it for them, she also became his sister’s housemate. “am definitely not letting her go this time”
*****
....Sonya wave Evelyn and loveth bye and headed towards the direction of her class. she saw Charles at the entrance of the class and he was with a girl, it looks like she is confessing her feelings to him, but Charles just ignored her and walk away from her. he turned his face and saw Sonya.
"Sonya you are here" he said and wave at her. she wave back and walk toward him.
"good morning" he greeted and she replied him. the other girl eyed Sonya and walk away. they ignore her and entered the class together. after they finished all their class they decide to grab lunch at Charles restaurant and on their way they met loveth and Evelyn
"Sonya" loveth called out to her. Sonya turned and move towards them with Charles. Evelyn saw Charles and paused in her steps. Evelyn and Charles also look at each other with an uncleared expression. Sonya felt something strange between them. its feels like she is the only one missing out on something
"is there something am not aware of" she said jokingly.
"what did you mean Evelyn said and smiled
"who is this? a new friend" she asked.
"yes Charles,he is my classmate, loveth also knows him"she answered.
"no i don't know him have only heard of him before" loveth denied. Evelyn ignored her and face Sonya instead.
"are you going to eat lunch" she asked instead
"yes let go together" she answered.
“no we still have one more class to attend, you know we are still undergraduate, we don't have much free time like you guys" she replied and drag loveth away before she could say anything.
"what other class do we have i thought we are going to eat" loveth questioned her after they already walk a little away from them.
"i don't want to eat with them" she said and continue walking. "why but Sonya is our friend and... wait don't tell me you are still hang on Charles" she asked.
"just shut your mouth and lets go eat" she said.