My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

I laid on the bed, spacing out at the ceiling for a long time, before coming back to my senses.

Maybe I really had fallen sick, or the extremely selfish me, was the real me.

Hendrix wasn't in the hotel. After I washed up, I got ready to leave and bumped into Aaron who was ready to knock on my door.

Seeing my haggard face, he frowned and asked, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"

I pinched the bridge of my nose and shook my head, saying, "I'm fine. Is there any news about Anne?"

He mumbled a reply in acknowledgement and gestured for me to go inside to speak.

I moved away and made way for him, allowing him to enter the room.

I sat on the couch and didn't say anything, waiting for him to speak.

He poured himself a glass of water and looked at me. "Arianna, are you happy being with Hendrix?" he asked.

I furrowed my brows and was somewhat unhappy as I replied, "Aaron, I thought you came to talk

about Anne with me."

his nose and coughed awkwardly before saying, "Yes, I did come to talk to you about Anne, but what matters most right now is you. Anne has Hendrix, the Saunders family, and the Reid family.

a little uncomfortable with him suddenly looking at me with such solemness. I pressed my lips together and said to

"Just answer my question."

was still under his scrutiny, so I had to answer, "Things have always

his lips and asked again, "I'm asking whether you're happy, not whether things are

that agitated me. I scowled and said, "Aaron, can

long journey, and even the minutest details make a story too. Since it was a story, how could there not be

definition of happiness? If it could only merely be defined as

me because you're starting to feel

silent. I started to drift into a daze as I stared at the glass of water in front of me. I asked, "So, what

you leave him for good, or you go to the hospital and accept psychiatric treatment, then start afresh

Ambiguous?

wrong

the time, I had absolutely no control over

cured, and I could only bury them. As time passed by, they were hidden underneath and they didn't seem like a huge problem. However,