DROWNING DESTINY

Chapter 23

"Hi, Yvonne," Ellen greeted her with a wide smile in her face the moment she openned the gate.

Yvonne awkwardly smile when she spotted the expensive sports car beside Ellen.

"H-hi Ellen," she greeted back and her voice was kind of holding back in embarrassment.

"Are you ready?"

Her head was kind off having it's own life when she nodded when the fact that she wasn't ready. She wasn't done taking meal yet and she just had coffee. She didn't even feel the coffee for she was shocked after she received the door bell of the only person she was expecting.

"Yes," she answered lying.

And since she doesn't have anything to bring that was left inside, she didn't bother to go back inside and luckily she had the chance to luck the main door when she came out.

Ellen motioned her hand to give her a gesture of getting inside in the shotgun seat. Yvonne almost choke herself by her own saliva with that thought of her that she finally was riding in an expensive car. All her life, she was just riding a jeep that was anytime would lost it's function.

"So Yvonne, what's your story?" Ellen asked Yvonne in so much coolness.

She was driving and was so focus in the wheels but sh was also asking her to get to know the only person that had a chance to live at Naizen's private place. Private place for it was only her and Hector who knew that house of Naizen.

Their other circle of friends knew that the man has a condo unit and that was the one where sometime they spent together.

"Story?" Yvonne asked Ellen back. She heard Ellen chuckled a little and that made her looked at Ellen. She couldn't understand wether she understood what Ellen means or she was just dump.

"Story. How would I know you if I wouldn't be hearing your story?" Ellen stated it back.

"Oh," she responded and was kind off losing the right and exact word to say. She was indeed right, she knew what Ellen mean she just couldn't pull it's exact meaning and all. She awkwardly chuckled and bowed her head. "There was nothing much of an interesting in my story," she then answered in a serious tone.

"Everyone would say that. I would say that. There was nothing interesting about me. But you have your experience in life that I didn't experienced, that alone was interesting," Ellen answered.

Yvonne looked at Ellen and met the face and eyes of this woman who really looks bold. Well, she probably was born with a golden spoon, that would explain her braveness. Naizen, the moment he took off her army uniform and put on his ordinary clothes, she knew for fact that he had bunch of money in his pocket. That he also was born with a golden spoon.

Not so shocking to have Ellen around. Hector was looking the same as well. The man's aura and feature was really came in a family that would just call the biggest amount she had encounter their coins.

She sighed and immediately turned her eyes too serious and just stayed looking outside the window while filling her mind with the information she would spill out.

"I was living my whole life alone for I was told the story that my mom died upon giving birth to me. About my dad, I don't know where he was," she was so serious on saying her story. She didn't stutter and all.

"How did you even learn to leave and survive the cruel world by yourself?"

Yvonne chuckled while remembering all the struggles she had encountered in life. She fought all her might just to get a life. She had put her life in front of her battle without knowing if she can still have it back and stay alive at the end of each day.

"I didn't learn at overnight, it was a long process that I couldn't remember how. I just understand that I had to crawl my feet, my knees and my palm in the ground so I couldn't miss any single food I could put in my mouth in and survive the hunger," she answered directly.

"That was interesting," Ellen responded in her serious tone. Yvonne glances at her and she would say that Ellen has something very deep in her eyes. "How long you have been working in that small grocery store in that town Herria?"

"You knew that?" she asked with her eyes narrowed without thinking the fact that this woman was Naizen's friend and obviously, she would learn her front of a story. "I mean, yeah, off course you would learn that."

"I was the one who hid you from the group. Of course, I would ask Naizen where the f*ck did get see you, why the hell he kept you and for what reason that we had to keep you in secret and won't easily hand you to the authorities," Ellen spilled with a smirk in her lips.

"I was innocent," Yvonne responded seriously.

"Sure. However, you are found in the premises where the battle was going on. You are supposed to be under the power of the authority, locked until you could give enough evidence that you were a stray person on that location. You know how sensitive of a topic being inside the premises, Yvonne. And I honestly didn't agree about keeping you," Ellen honestly said and that made Yvonne gulped a lot.

She was embarrassed as she glanced at Ellen who are really so vulgar and bold. She didn't even filtered her words and just let her hear the fact that she wasn't happy that she was free and wasn't put in a jail for no reason.

"I would thank you, Hector and Naizen my whole life for giving me the chance to live my life freely for the first time," she said in her low tone and just showed a tiny smile in her face.

"For the first time?" Ellen was narrowing her eyes, asking her back while taking the wheels to perfectly parked her car. "We're here. Save the answer for lunch. Naizen couldn't join us here for he had to give and spend time in his family."

Yvonne stopped moving and was taken back with the term she just heard. She was looking at Ellen with disbelief and Ellen noticed that, she gave Yvonne a questioning look like "what?"

"Family?" she asked curiously. "He's married?" she added.

Ellen burst into laughter like she did said something very funny. She was serious as f*ck for she doesn't want to cause some commotion and if Naizen was married, his wife would surely get mad for having a kept woman in her husband's place.

"You were curious if Naizen was married?" Ellen asked her like it was funny for her face was giving her the aura and all. "Yvonne, you think Naizen was the type of the person who likes trouble? Damn! He maybe trouble but he would never be the reason of trouble. Hold on, why are you curious of him being married or single? Do you like him?"

Yvonne's eyes widened after hearing Ellen's question. What the f*ck? She was just with these people in less that 48 hours and had seen their face fully in less that 24 hours. How can Ellen asked her such kind of ridiculous question?

"What?! Of course not!"

Ellen cracked a smile at Yvonne's very defensive reaction. She was looking at Yvonne with so much of a teasing look.

"Yvonne, I had surrounded with women who looks like Naizen like a God nor a Lord. They would surely strip their own when Naizen would just give them the look of doing so. And when I asked them if they like Naizen, that was the same and exact answer I always got to hear."

"Because I really do----"

"Sure you don't. Now, let's get out of here and do whatever we need to do in here," Ellen butt in to cut her off while talking and immediately went out from the driver's seat. She then followed Ellen for she was left no choice.

Ellen was walking ahead of her when something very funny of a question popped up in her mind. She even almost poke her own when she really did spill it in her mouth.

"How about you? Do you also like Naizen?"

She bit her lower lip when Ellen looked at her like she had a 2 heads. Ellen was holding back her laughter but failed for she really did burst into it. She was wiping her tears because of laughter.

"I couldn't imagine for me liking Naizen," she responded in the middle of her laughter. "That really sounds disgusting."

"You don't? You said that every woman around Naizen do likes him," she stated in her very low tone.

Ellen stopped laughing and looked at her seriously and deeply straight to her eyes.

"I don't and never liked Naizen, because, I am inlove with him and he was inlove with me."