Chapter 77

Adira's POV I am not mad. I am just tired. There's no way I got mad because he's defending Isa. I stopped walking and sighed. For many times, I kept on telling myself that I am not affected at all. However, all evidence so far tells me that I am in denial. First, I called him dumb, idiot and foolish. I failed to control my expression and my tongue. Second, it was suffocating staying with him alone in one space, so I escaped away. 'I am not being my usual self. This isn't me.' To gain my sanity and snapped myself out, I walked alone onto the shore. My eyes looked at the ocean. There was a brief minutes of blindness as my eyes adjusted force of orientation based on the sound of the wave. At night it feels completely different from the beach during the same daytime. It is the same place, yet the atmosphere has changed. There are no daytime crowds, couples, groups playing volleyball and seagulls raiding unattended food. The darkness envelopes me with a sense of peace;