Sunni was lucky enough to be her in senses as she slightly pushed him away. "What are you doing?"
"I'm... helping you recover from your cold" He said and for a reason, that reply broke her.
Once again, he had taken advantage of her not even knowing what it means to give a kiss. For a reason, this irritated her. "You...how could you do this again" She snapped
"I was trying to help...."
"I told you before I don't need you help. And.... don't bother me again" Sunni said angrily as she walked off in annoyance.
Hana sighed having noticed the quarrel. As she walked up to Lucas. "You.... don't worry.... she'll come along" She said as she followed Sunni.
"Hey! Wait up! Sunni!"
Hana later caught up with Sunni who was walking by the empty road side.
"wait up wonder girl!" She held Sunni back.
"What?" Sunni seemed annoyed.
"What's wrong with you?" Hana asked walking along side Sunni. "Are you shy from the kiss?"
"Don't tease me. I'm already pissed off"
"But you have to come clean. Tell me" She insisted.
"That jerk... he's so heartless taking advantage of my two kisses! And the worse part of it is that he's ignorant of it .. what kind of monster doesn't know the meaning of a kiss? What kind of person uses kiss randomly to heal people. I don't need any of his healing!" She snapped angrily not thinking of what she was saying but voiced out her anger. Hana who was listening was taken aback by what she saw and before Sunni could realize, it was too late!
"Eh...." Sunni looked at Hana" That's not it ... it's about the story I...."
"This plot you narrated between you two is quite similar to you so called story online.And If I'm not wrong... it's the same and since I strongly doubt you ever read online novels ...I can tell that your story is actually....what happened to you?!" Her eyes widened in shock.
"No no... it's not like that" She tried covering but it was too late. She didn't seem to be able to hide it anymore.
"Sunni...Ever since I left for the trip, you've been odd. Keeping secrets from me your best friend which is unfair. So you have to tell me everything. now" She demanded.
Sunni couldn't hide it anymore. she guessed it was time to come clean.
************
Both girls sat on the street bench that night as Sunni detailedly narrated everything that had happened from the day she met Lucas, through their crazy adventure and till the current time.
Hana was even surprised at the bizarre story her friend told. She even found it hard to believe.
".....so... that's it" Sunni said "You might not believe it. Even I found it hard to believe but I had to after seeing all the evidence. And I didn't tell you this because I wanted to protect his privacy. He didn't seem bad so I saw no reason to give him away"
Hana sighed" Oh girl. You've indeed been through enough. " She said patting Sunni at her back" But it's okey you didn't tell me. I understand. So you anger is him stealing your kisses in the name of healing you?"
Sunni nodded.."I don't know why I'm just annoyed at him for always doing that."
Hana smiled" Oh my dear friend. I leave for some time and something as Crazy as this happens. How is it even possible you meet a monster and then Fall for it?"
"What rubbish are you saying?Don't try teasing me now. How can I fall for him?" Sunni protested.
"You know what? I don't have time to argue with you. But I can only tell you that you're mad at him because he kisses you for another reason and doesn't understand yours. You like him Sunni. You do"
"Aish....No. impossible so stop filing my head with you rubbish. I'm human, and he's not . how is that possible"
Hana shrugged "Whatever- But you can't hide the fact for long. Besides, come to think of it... he's the only monster around and as you said...he once saved you from the bus that night of the comet.... Could it be that he's the night comet visitor?"
"No. How's that even possible. It can't be" Sunni defended. Certain.
"Okey. I won't judge your love. was just saying" Hana teased.
"Whatever. I'm going back" Sunni said getting up and leaving.
"Hey, wait up...How can you be mad at me?" Hana asked in-between laughter's, following Sunni.
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Before Hana could wake up the next day, Sunni was already gone. Probably for work.
She got out of bed and got herself ready. She was in the kitchen cooking up a breakfast for herself when a knock came on the door.
With a reluctant yawn, she opened the door and was surprised to see Lucas. Seeing him again was with another view. The view that he was a non human and she felt odd about it
"You..? What do you want?" She asked.
"I'm here for... Sunni" He said.
"Well she's off for work" Hana explained.
"Oh. okay" Hana was about leaving when Hana called him back.
"Can I have a word with you?" she requested
***********
With Lucas seated on the couch, Hana brought him a cup of milk and then sat on the sofa.
"I wanted to talk to you over a particular issue. You like sunni, right?"
He looked at her confused" Love her? What's that suppose to mean?"
He was aware that he would be as clueless as Sunni had narrated she would. "Well ...That is for another day but I want to let you know that she's angry with you"
"Angry?" He didn't seem to understand also.
"Well. let's say she doesn't want to see you anymore, talk to you anymore or even be with you. Rather, she wants to be with others other than you"
Lucas could understand this in this sense " But ... why?"
"Because you kissed her" Hana said plainly.
"Kissed?" He also didn't get it
"Yeah...you did this thing...." Hana used her hands to explain what she meant. now Lucas understood.
"But I was trying to heal her. Doesn't she like it?" He asked as Hana nodded her head. She had successfully passed on the message.
"So....she doesn't want to see me?" He asked as she happily nodded. " So what am I suppose to do to make her want to see me?"
"You....have to understand the meaning of love"
"Love?" Lucas thought. " Okey then. I'll have to go and look for her at work and then try find it it what love means. Thanks" He got up and left in a hurry.
Hana smiled. That was good. Maybe being a cupid was a good job after all.
Hana stayed home after that and after an hour later, another knock came on her door. She went and opened it rather Annoyed at whom he saw. "You?"
Kelvin didn't answer him but barged in. "Where's Sunni?" He asked headings for the sofa...
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Sunni had been in her office since that morning trying to forget the kiss and what Hana had told her. She had said she liked him and she didn't want to believe it. But why couldn't she stop thinking about the kiss even after trying to be occupied with work.
Sunni got up and left her office. she was heading to Ryan's office to request for works to do.
On entering the office, she saw Ryan getting up in a hurry.
"Ryan I need to ....."
"Wait here.... just got a mail from my grandma. I'll be back in a sec" He said dashing out.
Sunni was left in the office alone as she strolled around . She was still there when the computer gave a beeping sound. She curiosity went to check out what it was, only to see a message sent with a picture from an anonymous account.
~I have what you are looking for, The person behind the night comet killing...~
Then a clear photo of a man Killing a teenage boy by violently griping his neck. And on zooming into the photo, Sunni was shocked to see it was Lucas. He was the.... Comet night visitor? The killer who was being looked for for like 10 years now? She couldn't believe it but also couldn't let others see.
Panicking, she quickly deleted the message and photo just as another message came.
~If you wanna know more. Meet me at this address. By 11:00am today, Here's the address~
An address was dropped as sunni's hands shivered in fear. This couldn't be true. Someone had known about Lucas's identity and wanted to expose him. She deleted the message and address with the intention of protecting him as a part of her told her to go to the venue and find out whom had found out the secret of Lucas and wanted him exposed right now...