Chapter 34 - Meet Ray (1/2)

I have known the fact that Stella can easily blend with people. Her free sprit and down to earth nature makes people drawn to her. All the boys standing here were only her friends. As far I have seen the whole conversation it doesn't seem to me that any of them have any romantic thoughts about Stella.

” Where's Ray?” Stella asked Vincent with a worrisome expression.

” He was supposed to be here now but when I called him few minutes ago his phone was switched off.”

” Switched off? Then I should probably go out and look for him. He should be here by now.”

Neil told his sister and started walk out from there.

” Wait Neil I'll go with you.” Simon tagged alone with Neil and both of them went outside looking for the guy named Ray.

” Hey... Umm... it's not like I- I'm asking you to short out things but can you talk with Nora. Please.” Albert was hesitating but he seemed like he was literally begging for help without showing any sign of pleading.

” Oh? Talk to her? Didn't you said that you two were doing fine?” Albert kept his head bowed down with shame and condolences. He was regretting that he didn't asked Stella in the first place.

” Fine. I'm sorry. Can you please talk with Nora?”

” Sure, sure. In return I want a treat.” A smirk appeared in her face when she unlocked her phone and called the number.

” Okay done.”

” Vincent you stay with Theo. Me and Albert will go and clear this situation.”

” Yeah sure.”

Stella left with Albert but they didn't went far. They stayed in a corner where the crowd was bȧrėly unnoticeable. We could see them from where me and Vincent were standing.

Meanwhile Vincent took the first approach for starting off the conversation.

” So, how are you both doing in your married life ?”

” Good. Pretty much stable. I didn't knew Stella before our wedding so, I guess it will take time for us to fully know each other.”

What I said wasn't totally wrong at all. We were in a stable relationship even though the agreement existed.

Now that I am in love with her, I need to nullify the contract as soon as possible. But without the consent of Stella I can't just tear off that paper because she's the other party. She has yet to give me her permission and let me know about her thoughts on this marriage.

” You know I wasn't sure if she was going to be happy after marrying you. All this year she didn't went to any relationship or bothered dating anyone. She always avoided romantic relationships in fact she started telling people about she being lesbian to stop receiving proposals from other guys.”

” Wait a second! What you mean by that?” I was kinda confused hearing the last part of the story. I was little happy to know she didn't had any relationship or boyfriend according to Vincent.

” Well I guess Stella hasn't yet told you about that. Back in the time when we were in high school, everyone liked Stella because she was an easygoing person. But when she started to use makeup and dress up like other teenagers, she kinda gained attention of boys. Which was the reason she used to get proposals. But once a guy asked her on a date and he was the guy Stella's friend liked. So, even though Stella had nothing to do with it her friend started to hate her and gossiped about her, spread shitty rumours.

After that she stopped dressing up and told everyone she was interested in girls. That's how she spent rest of her high school days.”

I was sad after hearing this. I didn't knew that she had to go through with bullies. I may not suffer from it but I know how much it sucks when people starts to gossip about you.

” That's a lot. I had no idea about it.”