Chapter 16

He wouldn’t have thought much of it normally, he would have probably guessed him to be her father, but he was too familiar as if he had seen him somewhere, he couldn’t place it though; he had no resemblance to her and he was shorter than she was and pulpier so he was a bit puzzled; what through him off was the look in her eyes, it was different, something he had not seen before, he knew something was up, something he did not want to hear, definitely not now and not from her. He was happy and he sensed that was not going to last long.

There was a strange silence for a couple of minutes between them, she proposed that they go someplace private and talk, he nodded and neither of them talked until they reached a place where they could talk. She was still carrying the flowers he had given her, but how gracefully she walked or how pretty the flowers looked, was something others noticed when the passed by; it didn’t matter to either of them. They took a seat in the far off corner of the restaurant and he got a cup of coffee for himself and a latté for her. He was waiting for her to talk. She was not sure how she was going to tell him.

Finally he broke the silence after finishing his coffee; he could wait no more, ‘So what is going on? Seems like you have some explaining to do?’ She slowly started talking,’ you know how much I wanted to become a number one model, that has been my childhood dream, I have tried long and hard and tried everything I could do to get there, but sometimes talent is not enough, looks is not enough, it take more, one has to sacrifice certain things in life to get there. I love you, I really do, but this has to end. You probably know him, he is Emmanuel, you might have seen in magazines and on television, he saw me in some photo shoot and gave me the opportunity I have been waiting for. Initially I thought he liked my work, it turns out, I was wrong, he wants more, and he wants me to be his.