Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap by Hannah Baker

The sky was already dark when Boyce arrived.

Jasmine and her classmates were having barbeque beside the stream on the hill. They brought charcoal, various meat and vegetable skewers and some DIY vegan skewers. The guys helped in cooking the skewers, while the girls helped to set up clothes in front of the tent and placed drinks and fruits on them.

Jasmine was a little distracted. She kept looking at her watch and estimating how long was it until Boyce arrived.

“Jasmine, what’s wrong? You looked distracted after picking up that call,” one of Jasmine’s classmates laughed at her, “Did you miss your husband?”

They were close friends of Jasmine’s, so they knew she was married.

“I wasn’t,” Jasmine looked down, “I was thinking about the clothes on the balcony. I wanted to go home and…”

“Don’t be a killjoy. It’s dark, and it’s not going to rain tonight. The clothes are fine on the balcony,” one of the guys who was cooking the skewers overheard their conversation chimed in.

“He’s right. You don’t come out with us often, so don’t be a killjoy this time. Furthermore, it’s getting late. How are you going to get back to the city? It’s dangerous. You better stay.”

Everyone was convincing Jasmine and told her not to leave. It was getting late, and the road going downhill was dangerous.

Jasmine couldn’t say anything. She took out her phone and texted Boyce to ask him whether he was coming.

“I’ve arrived at the foot of the hill,” Boyce replied.

Jasmine looked at her classmates and said, “My husband came to fetch me…”

“Wow, your husband is here?” Jasmine got surrounded by three girls before she could finish her words, “Ask your husband to come here. We want to meet him.”

Jasmine felt awkward, “I…”

you. We just want to meet him,” Jasmine’s classmates wanted to meet the man who Jasmine loved and

busy. He

to us. We

were pretty close friends. It wasn’t good to reject

Jasmine texted Boyce: Can you come up please? My classmates wanted to meet you.” she added, “I’ll reject them if you don’t want

after a while: I’ll

them, it could affect the

Boyce: I’ll come

I’m fine. The road downhill wasn’t exactly easy to

way. But you have to drive

up, “I need to go get him. He didn’t

girl stood up, “We’ll look out for

Jasmine agreed, “Sure.”

hill. They even told the other classmates, “Keep working. Get everything done when we

It’s dark down there,” another classmate

we will,” the

downhill. Furthermore, it was night-time, and they had to depend only on the beam of the

slowly. After around half an hour, they saw a beam. The girl asked, “Is that your husband over

beam and light movement. It should be Boyce, considering nobody would head

sure, “It should

Boyce with

shone in

excitedly, “It’s

stop moving around. He told them that it was slippery and to be wary

girl stayed put. After a while, Boyce