The Cursed Girl

Chapter 2

Gwen

I looked outside the window and saw my house. I don't really have the heart to go inside and face my guardians, who are my paternal uncle and aunt. I don’t want to face them right now. Uncle would feel down if he saw my condition right now and I don’t want him to be worried about me.

"Ms. Bellingham, is the place where you wish to get down?" I came out of my thoughts and looked at Tsetan and nodded. "Then why aren't you going home?"

"I...." I don't know what I should say to him. But one thing which kept on roaming around my mind was that I had to reply to him. "I am going." For a while I felt dumb about answering what I didn’t want to. I held onto the door and was about to open it when his voice echoed once again.

"Before you go down, can you tell me this address? I have rented a house here and I guess they are an old couple and they live with two other people as Leandro had said." He handed me the card and I went through it and immediately recognized where he had to go. I looked at him once again and he was eagerly waiting for me to answer his question. I got out of the car and looked at him through the car window.

"Come out." For a while he stared at me with visible confusion, but he nodded and went outside.

"So where do I have to go?"

"Literally nowhere." He was more confused.

"What do you mean? Is the place nearby only?" I chuckled when I found his behavior a bit cute, but soon enough, I realized what I was doing and stopped chuckling because it was making me feel weird for some reason.

"You know what, this house where I have to go right now is the place where you have rented out your room." I said and pointed at my house.

"So I am going to stay at your house." I nodded. But one thing that was again and again pinching me was that I heard that my uncle and aunt were planning about giving a room to someone but they never told me that they were really going to have a tenant. I guess I am no more important to them.

"Hello?" I felt a hand that was waving in front of me and had brought me back from my thoughts. "Where were you lost?"

"Nowhere. Just had something on my mind." He nodded and didn't ask further and I was glad about that. He pulled out his luggage.

"For how long will you be staying over here?" I asked him and he looked at me and smiled.

"As long as I don't find out who killed my friend. If I don't solve this, then I won't have peace of mind." I had almost forgotten about this, that someone had killed my best friend and had put all the blame on me in the name of a curse. I also want to find that person who has done this nasty work. He/she won't even get a place in hell.

"I also want to know who had killed Leandro and because of that I want to help you in every way I can." A small smile tugged his face.

"That is great. I might also be needing a person who could have helped me in some way and now you have asked me directly, I don't want to refuse you." For some reason I wasn’t satisfied with that answer he had given me.

"Are you saying that just because you don't want me to feel disheartened?" He chuckled at my question and left his luggage before making his way towards me and his steps which were coming towards me were giving me a strange vibe. He was coming close while my heart was pounding fast and my feet were moving back, but there was not so much space and I ended up leaning over the car only, and he brought his face close to me and his brown eyes were boring in my green eyes and he smiled.

"Ms. Bellingham, you don't know me. I am a straightforward person and I don't really care what others feel when I speak." And him being saying that, he created the distance between us and I took a deep breath which seemed to have been lost when he covered the distance between us. I looked at him and he was on his way to get his luggage once again.

"Can't you talk at a distance?" I asked and he chuckled.

"Didn’t Ms. Bellingham likes it?"

"I don't like it and please don't call me Ms. Bellingham."

"Then what should I call you?"

"Gwen."

"Why?"

"Because that is my name." He chuckled at my statement and a smile appeared on my face which I covered quickly by looking away.

I don't often smile because of my surroundings, which keep torturing me with their words. They try every way possible to keep everything fresh in my mind so that I suffocate to death in those memories.

"So, Gwen, should we go inside?" I looked at him as reality hit me.

"Yeah," I said, and then we both stood in front of the door and I rang the bell and after that I heard footsteps and soon the door was opened by my aunt. Her eyes first went over to Tsetan and, after that, over me, and she was looking at me with questioning eyes and, before I could speak anything, Tsetan was quick to respond.

"Good afternoon Mrs. Bellingham. I am the person who is taking one of your rooms on rent." And she suddenly realized and her eyes widened and she quickly nodded.

"Yeah, you must be Tsetan Cheshire."

"Yes, I am Tsetan Cheshire."

"Please both of you come inside." We both went inside and aunt looked at me. "Gwen, go and freshen up and eat something."

"I don't have the appetite," I said in a dull voice, and went to my room. I am pretty much sure that she doesn't even want me to be in front of Tsetan and I don't really want to face him right now. I didn't really get freshened up but jumped on the bed and saw the pictures on the wall and tears made their way down my eyes. I know that they are also missing seeing Leandro, but unfortunately from now onwards they won’t be able to see him again. I won't be able to see him and talk with him because now he has become a memory and this is what hurts me so much when people become memories.

When I was born, my mother left me and when I was at the age of understanding things, my father left me and now my best friend has left me. Their departure is only hurting me.

I have an older sister who treats me well and wants me to be happy, but this is impossible for me when all I feel is pain. From the time my father left me, everyone told me that I was an omen and would bring destruction only, but Leandro never really focused on those words and became my friend and my sister was the one who had introduced him to me and I was glad that I finally had a friend, but now he had also gone away. I was crying over all the things when I remembered what Tsetan had said to me.

"People might be thinking that your curse has killed him, but let me tell you, before we came over here, I had some man who had inspected his room and found something. There was something that was mixed inside the food which he had eaten this morning and that concludes that he was killed. So Ms., this isn't your curse but someone's cold-blooded murder plan."

The food that he ate today contained something and now something was also coming to my mind. For the last two months he had been telling me that he had been feeling pain in his heart. We didn't really go for a forensic check-up because all of us thought that it was a natural death, but after listening to Tsetan's words I also feel that there is something which is missing over here. The things which I used to like and the person whom I loved are not with me today. This is all making my mind full of nonsense things, but one thing that is clear to me, and that is, if someone had killed Leandro, then I had to find him/her by hook or crook.