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Ava did not like the attention she was getting from other people. She kept avoiding other people’s gazes all the time she was at the university.
Although her friends said she was looking good, she was a shy girl and could not just change her attitude over the night.
When she returned to her new home, she found the house empty. She realized her parents had not come back yet.
She spent her day watching dramas and eating alone. Stephen did not come back home with her since he said he would be with his friends till late at night.
While scrolling through the timeline of her social media profile, she noticed a message request popping up from an unknown profile.
“Are you coming to the party tomorrow night?”
As she read the message, she realized the person was talking about Stephen’s party, which he had informed her about earlier this morning.
However, the person who sent her message was anonymous to her. Since it was a message request, either she would have to accept it or ignore it.
Ava stared at the message for a while. She checked the profile to see if she knew the person. But the profile was locked. She looked at the profile picture. It was a picture of scenery. An orange–flaming moon above the gloomy woodland.
She felt that the picture was very attractive.
No one had ever sent her a message like that before. People used to ignore her because they thought she was ugly or always spent her time on books.
Another message popped up, which made her gasp.
“Why are you staring at the phone? Reply to me. I’m waiting.‘
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Ava’s eyes widened as she looked around to see if someone was watching her. But she was all alone in her room. In fact, in the whole house, she was alone.
Some maids could be in the living room. Perhaps they were playing some prank on her.
She went downstairs to check. She noticed all the maids were working. At that time, she received another message, which made her believe that no one from her house was doing this.
She went to her bedroom and closed the door, then sat on her bed.
She looked at the new message.
“Why so late?”
Ava accepted the message request and began to type.
“Who are you?”
She waited for a reply, as she could see the person had seen it.
“A boy.”
She frowned and asked, “Who?”
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“Someone you don’t know ”
Ava scratched her head as she felt confused. Who could get her profile and send her a message?
She started to think about who it could be. A few boys‘ faces came to mind who approached her today to speak with her, but she declined.
“Are you David?”
“Who is David?“.
“Or Celine?”
“Now who is he?”
“Then who are you?”
“I didn’t know you knew so many boys.”
Ava felt offended by the reply. She got mad and replied,
“Of course, I can get to know others. If you don’t want to tell me who you are, then I am going to block you.”
The sender was quiet for a while, as he did not send any messages.
Just when Ava thought it was the end of the conversation, she got a reply from the unknown boy.
“A boy who wants to talk to you.”
Ava chuckled as she typed,
“A secret admirer?”
“That sounds good to me. How about calling me a stalker? With the message, there was an emoji of a wink attached.
Ava’s eyes widened. She did not know who the crazy boy was. Why was he calling himself a stalker?
But she took a deep breath and wrote,
“You don’t know my brother. He is the gamma of the pack. He will kill you.”
“Oh, I got scared.”
Ava laughed as she thought the boy was afraid of Stephen. But her smile faded when she saw his reply.
“I know how to defend, so don’t worry about me.”
“Who said I was worrying for you?”
“You were not?”
“Why would I?”
“Because I am your new friend.”
“Excuse me? When did I accept your friendship?”
Just a few moments ago.”
Ava started to think about his words. Then she scoffed when she understood his meaning.
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“Did you mean accepting the message request? Is it called accepting friendship?”
“I took that as a yes. Now tell me, will you come?”
“What?”
“You have such a terrible memory. What was my first question?”
She scrolled up the messages until she saw his first message.
“I won’t tell you even if I come,” Ava replied.
“Yes or no.”
“Why would I tell you?”
“Because I don’t want to come if you
won’t attend.”
Now Ava started to feel strange. She could not discuss her outing with a stranger.
“Don’t text me again.”
“Why?”
“I don’t talk to strangers.”
“But you have been texting me for a while.”
Ava immediately blocked the number, as she was afraid of the stranger.
“I should not have replied to this boy in the first place,” she said to herself.
Her parents and Stephen returned home late at night. She did not tell them anything. It was not that important that she should discuss it with her family.
The next day, when she went to her university, she talked about it with Abigail and Debra.
“What are you saying? Why did you block him?” Debra asked, shaking her head with disappointment.
“She did the right thing. What if it’s someone bad? It could be the accounting department’s Rocky or maybe Jasper from the management department,” Abigail said, making ugly faces.
Ava let out a sigh as she looked at both of her friends.
“Guys, can you both just relax? I have already blocked him. So there is nothing to argue,” she said to them and headed to her class.
“Okay, okay.”
“We were just thinking about the facts,”
Abigail and Debra said, looking at Ava’s back.
Ava turned her head toward them and chuckled while walking ahead. Her friends were really melodramatic.
As she was about to turn her head forward, she bumped into a hard chest.
A cold voice made her raise her head to look at the person.
“You changed your appearance, not your eyes. So watch your steps while walking.
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