23. Resentment

Ella suddenly woke up from her sleep and sits upright. It was just a nightmare. "Did you sleep well?", Liam asked smiling.

"I'm sorry, I was feeling very sleepy since I went to bed late last night", she explained.

"It's fine you should take some rest. And we should go home now", Paige said.

Ava was certain that Junho will not accept her offer, she almost gave up. "Fine", Junho said looking outside the window.

Meanwhile in a foreign country Eric was living with his girlfriend Gracie. He was sitting outside in the balcony, feeling satisfied from his life as if he was free from all the worries in the world.

Suddenly his girlfriend came running in the balcony, "Eric take a look at this", she exclaimed. "Not again Gracie I'm done with those articles about my family", he groaned.

"Just for once take a look at this", she insisted and shows him her phone. Eric was left aghast, he takes the phone from her hand and looked closely.

"She became more pretty I can't deny that", Gracie said but Eric was silent. He hands the phone back back to her.

"Impossible why does she have this face? How is this even possible?", he mumbled still shocked.

"Why? What is so wrong about it?", she asked but Eric didn't reply.

Junho was lying on his bed, "Oh right I should talk to Ella, if there is anything new regarding Eric", he takes his phone.

Ella came back late and after dinner she was checking her phone when she recieved a call from an unknown number.

"Hello? Who is it?", she picked up the call. "It's Junho, wait I even texted you once", he said. "Yeah I forgot hehe", she recalled.

"Well just wanted to tell you I didn't find anything about Eric what about you?", he asked.

"I was a little busy today. Just returned home a little while ago", she replied. "Anyways did you meet her? I don't know her name", she added.

"Ava, yeah we did, she wants me to go on a few dates hoping I will change my mind", he sighed. "That's great", she said nodding.

"Great for you to see me suffer", he said annoyed. "Ofcourse", she teased. "I'm not interested but how was you day?", he asked.

"My parents gifted me a new car", she said merrily. "You got lucky after meeting me I guess", he said casually.

Ella stares out of the window annoyed. "No words left to say I guess, ok fine congrats for your new car", he said. "Thank you", Ella said calmly.

"How about a drive tomorrow?", Junho suggested. "Sure", Ella said cheerfully. "So see you tomorrow then", Junho ends the phone call.

The next day

Liam was at Jane's house. She was preparing for a livestream. They decided to play a multi-player online game.

"I'll tell Ella to come here too", Liam said. "I don't think she is good at this", Jane said plainly.

"Doesn't matter we are just playing for fun", he picks up his phone. "Alright do what you wish to do", she gave a nonchalant shrug.

After some time Ella came. She created her account with a fake name. Soon Jane started live streaming.

They start playing the game. In the first game with only a few players left Jane gets knocked out and at the same time Ella too.

Liam revives Ella as she was not far from him in the game, and Jane was killed during that time. She hides her resentment. But Liam and Ella managed to win the game.

In the second game Ella and Jane were left with a few other players. Ella was knocked out. "Oh no Jane please revive me", Ella said.

Jane didn't reply. Ella was just behind her but she doesn't revive her. "Jane", Liam calls her and Jane looks at him. "Revive Ella", he reminded her.

Instead Jane went inside a building a tried to kill a person but died and the game ended.