Chapter 138 - Powerhouse of Energy... (2/2)

Veronica had roamed all around the city in this last three months with her new friends.. She had come to know about every routes and beautiful places of this wonderful city..

Oh.. About friends.. she had became friends with many of her classmates. Diana was one of them..

Though, she was not her classmate, but both of them met in a college seminar. Diana was studying fashion designing and she was studying in one of the top fashion designing institute of city B...

Like Veronica, Diana was also not a resident of city B. She came here two years ago for her further studies.. She was one year younger than Veronica but both of them had a good sense of humour so they both became good friends in those short time.

Diana didn't know anything about Alex because he was shy about meeting new people. But she couldn't understand that if he was really this much introvert type then why didn't he ever have a problem talking with her.???

Even Alex seems to be more comfortable around her than others...

”Hey.. where are you dozed off?” Diana asked waving a hand in front of her.

Veronica got back to earth from her world of thinking and said smilingly, ”Nothing. Just thinking about anything.”

”Oh..” Diana replied and continued to play with the straw of her mango juice.

Veronica noticed that something was unusual about her as she was not behaving like herself. She seemed to be a little depressed about something. But she couldn't pinpoint it out...

Other times, Diana would be the one to eat Veronica's head with her non-stop talking. But today she was very much submissive and quite unlike her daily demeanour..

”Is everything okay Diana?” Veronica asked keeping her hand over Diana's.

”What? Ah  yeah.. everything is okay.” Diana tried to smile.

Sighing at her, Veronica said, ”Look Diana. If anything is bothering you then you can tell me about it. I will gladly help you.”

Closing her eyes for some while and then opening it again, Diana looked at Veronica's eyes and held her hands in a tight grip as she started to discuss about the problem that was bothering her from two days..

”Actually Veronica.. Do you remember that I told you about my parents earlier?

When Veronica nodded her head, Diana continued, ”As you know that my Dad had died one year ago by a severe heat attack, from then my Mom started to handle our family business. But recently..

Recently she seemed to be dating another man who is one of her business partner. My Mom seemed to be serious into this relationship and both of them are thinking of marrying each other soon. But I don't want them to..”

Veronica raised her eyebrows and asked, ”Why? Is it because you love your father too much? Although it's completely your mother's life to decide about herself but I can understand your insecurity..”

”You are right that my father is one reason I don't want my mother to get married with someone else. But there is one more thing which bothers me the most...

Actually, I don't like the man my mom is currently dating. I feel uncomfortable around him and he seemed to be little you know.. a little irritating. I mean the way he looks at me is not at all fatherly.. It's kind of perverted..” Diana let out her problems in front of Veronica.

Shaking her a little bit, Veronica said, ”You should then talk to your mother about it. I think she will understand your problems. No mother will want to make their child suffer for some other man.”

Diana smiled at her and said, ”Yeah. You are right. I should talk to ty Mom about this when I go for the vacation one month later.”

They both laughed together and talked about more things when Veronica saw that it was already the time to meet Alex today for their discussion about the manuscript. So she bid goodbye to Diana and left for the riverbank where they decided to meet.

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At the riverbank...

Veronica got there ten minutes late than their actual meeting time there. She saw a boy who was sitting on the bench near the bank, wearing a baggy sweatshirt.

Slowly walking towards him, she bent a little and shook him from behind to make Alex scared. But his behavior was not at all like she expected...

Not only he was not scared at all but he was smiling like a fool after seeing her. Seeing him smiling, Veronica also smiled back and sat beside him..

”Hi Alex. When have you arrived?” Veronica asked as she kept her backpack on the bench.

Alex looked at her with clear eyes and said, ”Hello Veronica. I just reached here few minutes ago.”

Veronica scrunched her eyebrows at him calling her in full name, and said, ”Alex. Why are you calling me Veronica? It's Vero for you..”

”Oh.. I forgot.” Alex said and awkwardly scratched the back of his neck which made Veronica a little wary about him.

She felt like something was amiss in Alex today. Like Alex was not Alex today but a different person..

Like he had totally changed into a different man in just one night…