Finding True Love

Episode Seven

"Good day sir.” She had greeted him cordially, a pen and paper in her hand to write down what he would order. There was no answer to her greeting, and Sally had glanced up at him to see if he was aware of her presence. He was looking straight at her with his smoky grey eyes, causing her to fidget uncomfortably under his gaze. In the end, he had asked her to choose something for him from the menu and she had done so, although reluctantly.

She met him again that weekend at the grocery store when she went to get some things and had tried to duck and avoid him, but he had not given her the chance to do. He sought her out in the section in which she was hiding, and began making chitchat. Sally soon found that he was sort of interesting and so she continued talking with him, even giving him her number by the time they were parting ways. They began talking and he didn't waste time in asking her out. She also did not waste time accepting him. She was tired of being all alone, after all. Besides, at the time, she had liked Brian a lot as he was quite charming and good-looking too. He became her boyfriend, the first serious one that she had ever had. Like everyone else, he was shocked to discover that she did not have anybody, no parents, no siblings, no one at all.

"How is that even possible?” He had asked incredulously when he found out, looking at her to see if she was pulling his legs.

“I dunno.” She had replied evasively and had steadfastly refused to talk about any of it. She did not like to talk about herself or the fact that she had been abandoned at birth. It wasn't as though she knew much about it herself anyway. The only thing she knew was that she had been found early one morning at a park and had been taken into the system. Nobody knew who had left her there and it was the people at the orphanage who had named her Sally.

Although she had not been badly scarred by her early life experiences and was a cheerful person, Sally mostly kept to herself and did not make friends. She had learned to be alone and depend on only herself at a tender age. The only people she really related with were her co-workers at the restaurant and then Brian when he came into her life.

However, Sally soon found out that Brian was a very controlling person, and he wanted to make himself the center of her existence. He demanded to know her whereabouts at every time of the day and would call her incessantly until she answered her calls. She was the kind of person who valued her privacy a lot, therefore, she did not care for this sort of behavior in the least. She had borne it at first because it hadn’t been so bad, but in the past few months, his behavior was worsening, and she decided that it was high time she did something about it.