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" How about we help each other?" He says and I look up at him, eyes still wet from the tears streaming down my cheeks, heart freshly broken from the public humiliation and betrayal that was Lucas's breakup. I can faintly make out the first droppings of snow floating magically under the light of the street lamps. It's that time of the year, a time for wool coats, a time for relaxing, none of which I'll be doing. "I'm an orphan with a wicked aunt and a boyfriend who left her because she has nothing to her name, how could I possibly help you?" I say another sob escaping my lips. "Marry me" he replies and my eyes widen in anger. Is he mocking me?. I look into the eyes of this stranger and see he's dead serious. "I need a wife, you need a home, marry me and you'll have all you want". I nod.

A Snowy Marriage (A Christmas agreement)

I find myself fascinated enough by the little boy to simply call him a baby. I'm fascinated enough to find it fitting to refer to him as a baby because he looks like a baby.

Well not really. He doesn't really look like a baby, he has this cute baby's face but yet his body is slowly forming. His body is slowly forming with that slender form and I wonder what it is with everyone and slender forms these days. It is almost like I feel like should slim down myself.

I'm guessing that I wouldn't really like it if I looked like a model would I.

The word model brings a pang of pain back to me. It brings a pang of pain back to me as I remember someone. I remember someone whom I loved so much but yet who had practically dumped me in front of a congregation of people all because I did not have the money to give him, and I did not have the will to sell myself all for his success.

"Why are you looking so sad all of a sudden?" Adrian says looking at me and I shake my head.

His face forms into a frown at this as he stares into the distance, then he smiles such a delighted evil smile that I know something is up.

Well his smile isn't evil as much as it is mischevious and I have to say, Adrian has to stop having this effect on me, he has to stop having this effect of simply making my stomach do a million backflips all at the same time.

"Do you want to know what I did?" He says looking at me with that mischevious smile on his face and it takes each and every bit of willpower i have to say no.

You know the smile is very cute and it is very endearing in some sort of way but yet it is also scary, so so so scary and dangerous when Adrian is wearing that lopsided grin on his face.

He hands me his phone and my eyes are open wide. At first i don't see it. I don't see exactly what he did but then i do and it is almost like I should start crying.

This is totally the wrong time for this, this is totally the wrong time for him to be showing me something like this but still, I am elated.

I do not even know how to feel because the news that I am seeing here, these words that are flashing across the screen, they are related to me, they're related to me in some way but yet I cannot fathom it.

"How?" I say looking at him, voice cracking with emotion and he simply smiles.

I almost want to burst out laughing at this, i almost do so too but still I feel amused because am I a child?.

"Am I a child that you had taken the evidence of my aunts maltreatment over to child services?, you're really unpredictable sometimes".

I say smiling at him and he smiles sincerely.

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