It broke my heart

Momentarily, she forgot about today's occurrence, when she saw her dad giggling. She went beside him and laying her head on his shoulder.

"Dad-," she got cut off.

"How's your school going on?" her dad asked because he knew about what Lisa was going to ask him.

"It's good." Lisa lied. They both told an untruth to each other.

After few minutes of gossiping. An idea popped up in Lisa's mind of playing truth and dare with her dad.

"Let's play truth and dare," Lisa asked waiting for her dad to decide.

"Okay."

"Dad, tell me about everything going in between you and stepmother," Lisa asked.

Her dad looked at her with a disappointed face but Lisa didn't care.

Her dad was out of justification at that time because he didn't want Lisa to know about the truth and if he told anything to her then, he would lose his daughter.

"Dad?" Lisa whispered making him come out of his thoughts.

"I think, it is not the right time to tell you about everything," her dad said.

"About what? I'm your daughter so, I should know the truth right? Tell me," Lisa stated.

"I just don't want you to hate me, not this soon." her dad whispered. But Lisa couldn't give attention to him.

"What?"

"Nothing, you just study well," after the sentence, her dad left the room.

Lisa thought that her dad was idling for the right time for everything to come out.

Lisa sighed.

The next morning, Lisa was getting ready for her school. And she was about to call Louis, to wait for her but she glimmered when she saw her phone screen showed a notification from Louis. She opened the message.

"Lisa, I am taking off today from school." Louis texted.

"What happened?" Lisa replied, waiting for his reply but he didn't text her back.

With a long face, she reached school.

During her first lecture, she was trying to focus on her studies but somewhere she was missing Louis's presence around but she couldn't do anything and looked at her phone in case she got a message from Louis.

"Why is he not texting me back?" Lisa whispered.

She was concentrating on her studies to draw away her mind.

The next lecture was of Mr Robert, soon he came into the class and all students greeted him. But his eyes saw Lisa's sad face and asked her if something was wrong with her?

"Is something wrong with you Lisa?" Mr Robert asked.

"No, I'm okay," Lisa answered.

Mr Robert started teaching and Tessa was so angry over Lisa. Mr Robert left the class after taking his lecture. And then, it was free time for students. So, Lisa went to the library for reading any book to pass the time.

She came back to her class. She could see Tessa's wicked smile. She wasn't aware of the reason behind Tessa's evil smile. But soon, she sat on her seat and went to her locker for taking out the books for the next lecture. And she found her books of next lecture torn and every single page of the book was torn. Then, she understood the reason behind Tessa's smiling face. She turned her gape to Tessa's seat where she found her connive at her.

"So, it is you," Lisa said loud enough to gather everyone's attention towards her and Tessa.

"What do you think?" Tessa said teasingly.

With that, Lisa went out of the class with her and shouted at her for her doing over nothing.

"I notified you at first but it seemed that you needed a lesson," Tessa said straight to her.

"Oh! I got you. So, it was all because of Mr Robert. Do you secretly like him huh? I guess you two are secretly dating because that day in the park, I even saw you with a man. And if I'm not wrong, it was Mr Robert." Lisa said sarcastically.

After what Lisa said to Tessa, she was witnessing her reaction to what she just said. And she saw an utterance of fear but being a bad girl. Tessa tried to hide and soon changed her expressions.

"I am done with you. So now piss off," Tessa said with an angry face.

Lisa laughed at her face and said "Same goes to you and a piece of advice for free. It would be better if you take it, find a secret place for your meetings oppositely what if our class president found doing this and transferred to another school haha."

Tessa soon disappeared from there. Lisa smiled as she thought that she was right about that man and decided to tease Tessa for it.

On her way back home. She checked her phone to see if there was any text from Louis but he didn't text her back.

But soon she saw Louis waving at her, she smiled and went to him to ask him about his absence from school that day.

"How was your day?" Louis asked.

"So good that I even forgot about you." Lisa teased him a little.

Louis saw her face and noticed that she cried and asked "hey, what happened? Did you cry?"

"No, I didn't," Lisa said trying to avoid eye contact.

"Oh please, tell me," Louis said.

Lisa said "I just missed you," and not telling the exact reason behind her sad face.

"Oh, Today, I had to attend a family festivity. So, sorry," Louis said and he was spending some time with Lisa when he heard his cousin calling his name from far.

"Who is she?" Lisa asked.

Louis was about to answer but his cousin came and fondled him and Louis also hugged her back.

Louis started talking to his cousin rejecting Lisa's presence which made her even sadder. She went to her house, changed her uniform into pyjamas. His cousin bid bye to Louis and turned towards Lisa.

"She is my cousin," Louis said while turning around to face Lisa's absence.

"Where is she?" he thought to himself and texted about her whereabouts.

"Why you left me here Miss Lisa?" his text to Lisa.

"Spend time with that girl I don't need your time," Lisa replied.

He was about to type on his keyboard that she was his cousin but a thought popped up in his mind to tease Lisa.

"Sorry, actually she is kinda talkative, come outside I'm waiting for you," after seeing his text Lisa threw her phone on the bed.

Louis knew that she wouldn't text him back. So, he went straight to her house to spend some time with Lisa.

He knocked on her door, expecting Lisa to open the door but soon his expectations came to an end when he saw Lisa's stepmother on the door.

"Hey auntie," Louis greeted her stepmother predicting a reply from her but there she said loud enough to get Lisa's attention. Louis knew about her relationship with Lisa, he also knew that they didn't like each other as a mother and daughter should.

"Someone's childhood best friend came to the house, so courageous of him that he didn't even felt nervous to meet his lover," she got cut off by Lisa.

" Stop it, he is not here to listen to your bullshit," that Lisa held Louis's hand and went to her room. "Why you came here? even after knowing that she doesn't like you as my friend," Lisa asked Louis.

" You didn't reply to my text. So, I thought of coming here to spend some moment with you," Louis said.

"So, why didn't you text me back?" Louis asked.

"You replied to me when I texted you in the morning huh?" Lisa questioned him back.

"I was involved with my family that's why," Louis said.

"Busy with that girl," Lisa whispered

sadly, but enough for Louis to hear. Keeping his hand around Lisa's shoulder, he said, "She is my cousin, my green-eyed best friend," Louis made clear to her about that girl whom Lisa thought was his girl.

Lisa sighed and said, " I thought-,"

"I know what you assumed," Louis said teasingly to Lisa. With that, they both laughed together. But they didn't know that someone was eavesdropping on their conversation and it was her stepmother.

And she came into her room making both of them alarmed.

"I knew that something is going on between you two," her stepmother said.

"Before coming into my room, I believe you should knock first but I guess you don't have manners," Lisa said with an annoying face to her stepmother.

" Leave that, and tell about your love story-," her stepmother asked and got cut off by Lisa, " Please stop it, I already told you that Louis is my best friend just, not that what you are trying to convince," Lisa stated to her stepmother. On the other hand, Louis felt sad because he always had emotions for her more than just a best friend. But Lisa wasn't attentive to his feelings because he never admitted his feelings. He was hurt and soon left her house by saying " I think I should go now."

And Louis left her house. Lisa felt bad for Louis because of her stepmother.

"What is your problem?" Lisa asked her stepmother raising her voice a little. Her stepmother left the room without saying anything to Lisa. She tried to call Louis but his phone was inaccessible to pick her call. She thought of texting him.

"I'm sorry for today Louis. You know my stepmother, She is so tiresome. And also if you felt uneasy about my stepmother talking about our connection as something more," She texted him.

Louis read her message through notification. He didn't want to react to her. And thought of retaining his distance from Lisa. She was waiting for his reply but he didn't text her back. She knew that he felt bad over something. So, she couldn't sit in harmony and rest after making her best friend feel awful.

Lisa called him again expecting him to pick up and he did. Lisa just rehearsed the same that she texted him through text.

"It's okay Lisa and I'm not sad. I just left because I didn't want to make the circumstance worse," he said.

"Can we meet now?" Lisa asked.

"I'm out for some work. So, can't make it today," Louis said to which Lisa approved. Louis said that because he didn't want to face her.

"Okay, then let me know when you complete work," Lisa said heartily because she thought of surprising him with his favourite food which would be made by Lisa.

"Okay," Louis said and hung up the phone. He went to his house and thought of taking a doze because that would make him feel less sad. After one hour, Lisa was lasting for his text if he was back or not.

Without any hint, Lisa made his favourite food and went straight to his house with tiffin in her hand. She was welcomed by his mother. They both hugged each other because his mother liked Lisa a lot. After all, she was so kind and also Louis's childhood best friend. Lisa asked his mother about Louis and she told Lisa about him. Lisa thought of going to his room alone. She didn't knock on his door and went near to him and said something in his ear which made Louis flinch. As he got up and protected himself with a blanket. There was Lisa who was feeling exhausted from laughing. Louis saw that it was Lisa's chuckle and removed the blanket from his face.

"I will destroy you Lisa if again you mumbled ghost in my ear," Louis said annoyingly but with a glimmering face.

"Why you came here?" Louis asked.

"I have made your favourite food. Do you want it or I should eat it alone?" Lisa teased him. Louis jumped in excitement from his bed in Lisa's direction which made Lisa laugh a little.

"I'm so hungry for your food," Louis said while trying to uncover the tiffin but Lisa stopped him from doing that. Louis looked at her with a pout on his face and with a baby attitude.

"I'm sorry about my stepmother behaviour," Lisa apologised on the behalf of her stepmother. And Louis felt sad not because of her stepmother behaviour but about what Lisa said earlier to her stepmother.

Ignoring her words, he said, "Okay, now give me food first."