Thankfully, I was too engrossed in studying that I kept all of my worries aside . Finally , school got over , I went downstairs with Bess . Today I was supposed to go home with Bess but , I had to say no to her . When we reached the gate , I stopped her

"What , why did we stop here? " she asked

"I am sorry Bess , just today , I can't go home with you " I said

"Why ? " she asked sadly

"I need to go somewhere with Alex" I said not withholding anything

"Why ? "She simply asked

"I need some answers from him that is why."I said

"Answers for what."She asked

"I can't tell now but when I learn the full story I promise , you will be the first one to know."I said she thought for a second and suddenly said

"Okay , I will go home alone , but will you answer my question"

"What is it?" I asked

"The one who you like , who is it? " She asked, I could evade her question if I wanted but I thought better of it

"Alex" I answered as expected her eyes widened a bit

"If its him I will gladly hand you to him , if you would have said someone like Cain , I would absolutely oppose it" she said after some thought

"Thanks for your permission" I said

"Are you going to confess to him today ?" She asked

"No , I am not , I think there's more to Alex than that meets the eye so , I am going to ask more about him."I replied

"Ooooh! , it sounds exciting , I want to come but I should let you two have your time 'alone' together" Bess said in a very suggestive way

"What in the world do you mean by that?"I asked

"Well , when two lovebirds are meeting with each other than why would I interrupt between."Bess said laughing

"What do you mean by love birds Bess, it is totally one sided. " I said

"But only you think that Kate that it is one sided, also including Alex . It is funny how both of you think that you have one-sided love."She said and looked behind , seeing Alex coming she said "Ah! Here's my queue ." And she hurried off

"Hey, Bess what did you mean by that ? " I called back at her

"What are you asking about?" Alex suddenly came up behind and asked

"That what did she mean by saying- " I shut myself up when I saw who I was talking to

"What did Bess say? " Alex asked politely

"Nothing , nothing important , she was just playing around with me ." I said smiling nervously

"Ok. Than shall we go ? " Alex asked

"Yeah, yeah lets go" I replied . We both started walking towards the' all welcomed' cafe , even though the name was crap they did serve very good coffee here and privacy was one thing that was given very welcomingly . And I needed a public area where we can talk privately.

The cafe in itself was not that big but there were twenty chairs set outside it , the cafe was busy at this time of the day , crowd of all ages sat there . We found a good spot and sat there , Alex got us coffee skinny vanilla latte for me and a black coffee for him . Here we had to take our order on our own but sometimes when there is no crowd, they also serve coffee themselves. It took a few minutes for him to come until then I was thinking on how to start the conversation .

He finally came to the table , we drank a few sips of our coffee when he suddenly asked

"So, are you alright now , you are not feeling anemic are you ? " He asked , still keeping the facade

"Stop lying Alex" I said sharply

"Pardon?" he asked

"We both know that you are lying ." I said

"What do you mean by that?" He asked defensively

"We both know that I didn't faint because of anemia" I said

"No, you fainted because of lack of iron in your body." He said still lying through his teeth

"It was not that and you know it , in fact I remember being attacked just before I fainted." I said revealing a little truth , as expected his eyes widened a little bit , his guard dropped for a little bit but soon recovered

"Are you crazy Kate , we were never attacked " He said

"I never said we were attacked , I said I was attacked ."I said now he was caught

"Yeah whatever-"He tried to put it aside but I didn't let him

"I remember more about yesterday , so it will better if you come out clean."I said warningly

"Huh!? Come clean out with what , I don't know what are you talking about? " He asked still feigning ignorance are we , lets unfold a little more shall we

"Then you must not know about the room in which I was hand cuffed." I said looking away

"What? " He finally responded to something

"I thought you didn't knew anything."I asked

"Of course I don't know anything I was just shocked hearing that you were cuffed to bed where exactly that happened? ." he said

"I didn't say that I was cuffed to bed , I just told you that I was hand cuffed , how did you know ? " I asked, Alas he has been finally cornered

"I just thought that if you were cuffed it would be to bed ." He said trying to evade , but I won't let him hide this

"Don't lie anymore Alex please just come clean and tell me the truth , you don't need to hide anymore , whatever it is I will happily listen . And this concerns me too." I said politely . He hesitated for a second but answered

"Kate, first of all this does not concern you and second ask me all you want but I won't tell you a thing." He said a little harshly, tears formed in my eyes, I was not sad mostly but disappointed and angry

"How does me being attacked doesn't concern me and am I nothing to you, why can't you rely on me a little. Am I that unreliable? "I asked

"Yes you being attacked doesn't concern you and you are that unreliable, if I tell you I don't think I would come up with a solution. Instead, I would just be caught up in more problems. And don't you have someone you like why don't you go to him and win him , even if he comes to like you , as if someone will fall in love with you ." Alex's words were like a slap to me, tears fell down my eyes ,Alex looked hurt but I just didn't cared at all . I stood up, slapped him and walked away with a storming expression.

Instead of going to home, I went to Bess's house, which is incredibly near to my home , so her parents were used to me staying over . When night fell, I told her everything that had happened the previous day and on that day . Bess grew furious on my account . We made a plan to beat the crap out of Alex and we agreed on something else that he must have been hiding something so grave that he had to say these hateful that he never meant to say to me.

We both went to sleep .