Chapter 42: I DON’T HAVE A BOYFRIEND
Lisa was shocked to hear that. She froze in her place, before blinking her eyes rapidly and said, "Dove! Are you being serious?" She looked at Dove’s face who looked back at her with helplessness in her eyes, and glistening tears in them.
"Oh my God! See, darling! Though, technically I should be happy for you. But I am so sorry, I can’t! We have just completed our high school, and not even joined university! And you are just eighteen!" Lisa exclaimed. She paced to and fro, then looking at Dove, she asked anxiously, "Dove! Did you tell your boy friend?"
Dove, who was quiet and blank, sitting on the bed, she raised her eyes to look at Lisa. A tear fell from her eyes, and she sighed, "L- Lisa. The truth is that, I- I don’t have a boyfriend!"
"What!!" Lisa almost exclaimed at the top of the voice. She rushed to where Dove was sitting and sat in front of her holding her hand and looked at her with her own eyes shaking, "Dove, what do you mean by that? Did you not tell me and everyone that you had spent that night with a man who you like? The one Roan had caught you with?!"
Dove nodded her eyes, as tears fell from her eyes, and she softly sobbed. "I did say that to you and everyone else. B- But Lisa, the truth is that it was a lie! I don’t know who the man is."
Lisa was bewildered, but Dove explained everything to her, how she had lied to everyone because she did not want to be seen as someone who is weak and vulnerable.
Lisa listened to everything she had to say, and she herself broke into tears, "Oh my Dove!" she hugged Dove tightly and rubbed her back. "It’s Alright! It’s alright! I am here with you, okay. I am here. You don’t have to worry about anything I am always here with you."
After a while, when they had cooled down, Lisa coaxed Dove for a while, before she asked, "Dove, do you know who the man is? I mean should we try finding him?"
Dove shook her head and said, "Initially I just wanted to forget about whatever happened. But then, I realised that I should have at least known how was that man. But I had missed seeing his face, because I was scared and not in the right state of mind. After that I even went back to the hotel and checked the CCTV footage to find out who it was. But suspiciously, that footage for the whole night was just lost. It was as if it did not exist in the first place. I don’t know anything else, Lisa."
Lisa sighed, and she nodded, "I can understand." She looked at Dove and after a while, said, "What should we do know?"