My mind flashed back to what had been bothering me since last night after I had parted from Hayden for a moment to go the ladies room. I bumped into a lady who seemed to be in a hurry and while at that time I didn’t think that anything was out of the ordinary, I began feeling a little bothering pain like there was something scraping against the skin of my chest as I walked.
I stopped walking and dipped my hand into the top of my dress and felt around the area in between my breasts. To my absolute surprise, I found the cause of the scraping pain. It was a small piece of paper that seemed to have been folded into a small square. When did this get in here? I don’t remember carrying a paper like this around...
It couldn’t be...the lady that bumped into me just now?
There was only one explanation and that was that I had somehow gotten it when I bumped into that woman from earlier. Did she place it here on purpose? I had no idea who she was, and I didn’t remember what she looked like. Seemed like there was nothing I could do since I wouldn’t be able to find her.
Quickly, I began unfolding the paper in my hand.
’Do you remember?’
The note was short and simple. However, it wasn’t the message that caught my attention. What caught my attention was the capitalized letter E that signed the end of the short message. My eyes zoomed in on that single letter and I felt like I was going to black out.
A capitalized E in his very own signature font...
E for Ethan.
However, no matter how I looked at it, the man standing in front of me right now is Ethan. The boss of Silva is Ethan...my ex-boyfriend.
...
I first met Ethan in my freshmen year of university. It rained heavily on that day although the weather forecast forecasted clear skies and because of that, I didn’t have an umbrella with me. Ironically, that was also my first day of university. My friend would joke about it later that the rain must have been some type of blessing from heaven to mark the start of our journey at university.
The truth was that I got caught in the rain and I was almost late to the convocation. I was walking to the university when large drops of rain fell from the sky and then suddenly it just became an outright downpour with strong winds as well. Since I didn’t have an umbrella with me, I dodged into the side of a building nearby that happened to have an extended roof.
My hair was wet and so were the bangs that hung over my eyes. It clearly wasn’t my day. As I moved my wet bangs away from my eyes, that was when I saw him for the first time. Standing next to me with a slightly puzzled and fascinated smirk on his face was Ethan.
I remember how his piercing green eyes captivated me. His eyes seemed bright and very perceptive. It made me feel like he could see through me and anything and anyone in this world. Those were the eyes of someone who had already figured out what they wanted in life. At least, that was what I thought. I must have been staring at him in my shock as the rain continued to beat down all around us.
"You look like a lost kitten," Ethan said before smiling sweetly at me.
Those were the first words that he said to me. That smile transformed his whole face and the air around him. It was like he had changed into another person in a blink of an eye. I have never seen anything like it before. Still stunned at his presence, I couldn’t come up with a reply.
--To be continued...