MURDER IN THE ORATORY - DECEPTION IN PARADISE
Nine
I smile as I run towards Maya who is wondering about what happened and how I am here with Joel. She gets up, and I hug her generously and without thinking, I shed a tear and another follows, then torrents of tears flow. Look, I don’t like being in such a situation, vulnerable and helpless. It makes me feel less of a person. I am not a weakling and you know it, I am just feeling warm in her hands, I feel like something that has been missing in me, is here with her.
‘’Hey, you are crying?’’ She states the obvious in a calm whisper, and that gets me even more emotional.
‘’Oh, am I?’’ I quickly rub my eyes as I pretend I wasn’t, then I sniffle so loudly, and I shy when I pull away from her hug because almost all the eyes are on me.
‘’What
