Midsummer07

No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by choice.

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“ Let go of me, you monster!” yelled Delilah with tears streaming down her flushed face profusely.

Her soul froze the next moment she looked into his eyes, it blazed like an abyss of iciness, ruthless and cold, his grip on her tightened.

" No way" he hissed, his voice low, dripping with venom.
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After her childhood sweetheart, Su Zhe Jin (Harrison Su) moved away, Chen Qing Qing (Delilah Chen) was devastated.

She, with her family also planned to move few years later but who thought they'll be caught in a terrorist attack.

Delilah, a shy, jovial, innocent girl with a very fragile personality.

She moved to D city to further her high school education.

There in Fulfilled Dreams High School… Was a story on its own.

One night, while scheming through the attic in her home, she found a box… more like, the box found her.
 
The box revealed numerous secrets that made her believe her life was filled with mystery.

After high school, Harrison travelled out of the country while Delilah began to face crisis after another when a woman and her daughter claimed to be the real wife and daughter of Chen Xiao (Delilah's father) 

She was forced to get engaged to the crippled son of a wealthy family.

Harrison returned home to find out that she had got engaged to another man from a wealthy family.  

Resentment, jealousy, anger, the feeling of betrayal overwhelmed him to do the unthinkable.

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Love Is But A Chance.

" Can I go to bed now?" Delilah snivelled, Her eyelids were drooping, and her head kept nodding off.

Meanwhile, Annabelle was solving the two questions she gave to Delilah like her life depended on it.

"Delilah, how do you know how to do these?" Annabelle asked, flabbergasted. It took her almost twenty minutes to solve the questions following the instructions from the textbook.

"I don't know," Delilah mumbled, her eyes half-closed. "I just… see the answers in my head."

Annabelle was torn between being impressed and amused. She couldn't believe that Delilah was solving complex equations while half asleep.

"Okay, well, can you at least explain how you got the answers?" Annabelle asked, hopefully.

"Nope," Delilah said, yawning. " I really do not know how I did it, I just… wrote it"

"This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen," Annabelle muttered to herself, shaking her head. "I'm studying with a sleepwalking genius."

" Can we go to bed now", said Delilah again.

Annabelle stared pitifully at Delilah, "Tsk! What a lazy girl", she shook her head. Anna eventually was left with no other choice but to pack up, and the girls went to bed.

In the midst of the chaos and terror, Delilah found herself being led away by someone she could barely see. As she was whisked away, a haunting image seared itself into her mind.

She turned her head, her heart pounding in her chest, and her eyes met those of a beautiful woman. The woman was covered in blood, her white dress now crimson. A gunshot wound gaped in her chest, staining the fabric a deep red.

The woman's eyes locked with Delilah's, filled with a mixture of pain and love. She raised her trembling hand, her fingers dripping with blood reached out towards Delilah. It was as if she were trying to touch her, to hold her close one last time.

With a voice barely above a whisper, the woman uttered her final words, "Be safe, my daughter." and her eyes shut, never to be opened again.

"Mom!", Delilah screamed, tears ran down her cheeks like a waterfall. The little girl's grip on the box in her arm tighten, and endless tears flowed from her eyes.

"Br- Brother, mummy…", she choked on her tears.

Then, as if in slow motion, a deafening explosion tore through the air. A blinding light engulfed Delilah's vision, and she was thrown backward. When her senses returned, she found herself separated from the person by a thick cloud of smoke and debris.

Delilah screamed, her voice lost in the cacophony of the attack. She desperately tried to reach something or someone, but it was helpless.

"Delilah…. Delilah…. Delilah…. Wake up", Anna shook Delilah softly, she was half asleep when she heard Delilah's breathing quickening, she kept turning her head like she was being tormented, beads of sweat formed on her head and deep lined caressed her temple.

Delilah shot up like an arrow, her body trembling, she was panting, her head was aching and spinning consecutively. She grabbed her head and screamed in pain.

Annabelle panicked and ran out of the room to look for someone, anyone. She was about to arrive in the living room when Mr. Chen, Mrs. Feng Tian Tian and Mr. Tang Yu appeared, seemed they heard Delilah scream.

" Annabelle, what's going on?" Mr. Chen was as worried.

Chapter 42- Scream