Chapter 142 - You are really beautiful.. from both inside and outside… (1/2)

Time passed by smoothly without taking care of anyone's wishes or demands...

Like that, another fifteen days had been spent by Veronica giving final touch to her compulsory project.

Two or three more weeks and she would say goodbye to city B soon..

Truthfully, she would miss this city, her new friends and also the beautiful atmosphere here. Each and everyday was passing without her knowledge and every morning would be the time when she would feel the tug of war in her heart…

At one side was the sorrow of leaving her friends here; whereas on the other hand, was the anticipation and joy of hers to go back home where her loving family, friends everyone would be waiting for her…

Veronica sighed sinking in the thought of her ever-changing emotions and dialed the one number she was talking continuously on the phone without missing anyday.

After few rings the call got received by the other person and a meek voice of a girl could be heard.

”Hey Vero..” Diana greeted.

Veronica felt something was weird with her voice as if like she was crying few minutes ago, so she asked hesitantly, ”Diana.. What happened to your voice? Were you crying?”

Not choking on her voice, Diana smiled a little and said, ”I'm not crying Vero. It's just that I ate too many ice-creams yesterday that my throat is aching in pain. So I can't talk properly.”

Sighing in relief that nothing bad had happened to her friend, Veronica spoke, ”That's good then. By the way, when are you coming back? You know na, that I'll be leaving in few more weeks?”

Diana nodded her head slowly though she knew that Veronica couldn't see her and replied almost in a whisper, ”I remember Vero. I'll be there in time. Don't worry.”

”Okay. My last class is in few minutes. I'll be calling you later. Bye.” Veronica said.

”Yeah. Bye.” Diana said before cutting the call.

Although, Veronica thought that something was wrong in Diana's behavior but she removed the idea of it from her head thinking if there was really any matter that was bothering Diana, she would definitely tell her herself.

So shaking her head to erase all those crazy ideas, Veronica went to attend her last class for today...

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When Veronica headed back to her home, it was still early in the evening. As she had no one to meet today so, she came back to her apartment before the clock could ticked at 5 pm..

Getting freshed and having some snacks, Veronica was watching TV when she saw that her mobile was ringing and it was from Alex. She huffed seeing his number because for the past whole week, Alex was not answering her call at all...

Veronica tried to call him for countless of times for the previous week but he never received his call. Moreover Veronica had met Alex last time when he came to visit her at the riverbank with his grandmother.

From then, she had never seen him again which made her really very angry...

How could he not meet her? Is he that much busy to atleast call her for a minute to inform her about his short time disappearance? Humphh..!!!

Today getting a call from him, Veronica got excited but she decided to stay angry on him. So she answered his call in a angry tone, ”So finally you have the time to call me.”

Alex from the other side said in a hurried voice, ”Vero.. can you please meet me today?”

”Today? But I'm already in my home and it's also late at night.” Veronica tried to dismiss the idea of meeting him tonight as she was too lazy to change into another perfect dress.

”Oh. You don't have to come out to meet me. I'll be at your apartment in ten minutes.” Before Veronica could agree or deny, Alex cut the call.

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About thirty minutes later, she got a message from Alex telling her to come down as he had something important to say.

Reaching near the gate of her apartment building, Veronica searched fall Alex and saw him sitting on a stool there.

”Hey Alex.” Veronica greeted joyfully forgetting all her anger on him.

Alex looked up at her from staring at his lap and gave her a forced smile, ”Hi Vero.”

Veronica noticed the slight difference on Alex. He became chubby again but his face lost the glow he had previously. His eyes were a little gloomy like before and now his smile was totally artificial, not at all like Alex's carefree and gentle smile...

Sitting beside him, Veronica questioned, ”Alex.. You seemed to have gone back to your previous self. Why this sudden change again?”

”I.. I left the grooming class two weeks ago so  I must be looking a little chubby like before.” Alex tried to make excuses to let Veronica drop the topic.

But being a stubborn girl as always, Veronica was not at all satisfied with his response. She tried to find more clues from Alex's strange behaviour as she asked, ”Why did you leave the grooming class suddenly?”

Alex looked at her weirdly and then replied while stuttering, ”Actu.. actually.. I couldn't spent time with my grandmother property and as her health is not well that much, I decided to.. to join the grooming session later when everything got settled again.”

”Ok that's good. Now tell me what important thing you have to tell me?” Veronica asked.