With Love, xxxx. by Varshitha Kancharla (best adventure books to read .txt) 📗

When she was in her thoughts about meeting the stranger, she got a call. It was from an unknown number.

“Hello!” she spoke. 

“Kathleen! It’s me. Michael.” Michael spoke. 

She let out a sigh and spoke “Tell me.” 

“Congratulations Kathleen. I’m sorry I shouldn’t have spoken to you that way. I’m really so sorry.” He said. 

“Okay. Leave it.” Kathleen said as she doesn’t want to spoil her mood. 

“So you forgave me?” he asked. 

“I won’t forgive you if you keep disturbing me. I’m going to start my career. I request you to stop irritate me.” She said and cut the call. 

Nina smiled looking at her friend. Kathleen took her wallet and started to go out but her walk was interrupted when her father entered in. 

Looking at him, Kathleen became emotional. She ran to her dad and hugged. 

“Dad!” she said and kissed his cheek. 

He hugged her back and asked “Kat! How are you?” 

She stood straight and said “I’m good. What about you?” 

“I’m so proud of you Kat. From the moment you talked to me yesterday, I felt like seeing you. So I started early in the morning.” 

“I’m so happy to see you, dad.” 

He looked at Kathleen and understood she was going somewhere. 

“I think you are going somewhere. I’ll wait. You carry on.” Her dad said. 

“Yeah! Go. I’ve so many things to discuss with my uncle.” Nina said laughing. 

Kathleen hugged him again and said “Bye dad. I will come early.” 

Nina gave her the car keys and Kathleen started to the cafe. Nina too decided to go along with Kathleen but the arrival of Kathleen’s father made her stop going as she decided to stay with Kathleen’s father. 

Kathleen reached the cafe and got down. She strolled in hoping the stranger would be there already. She looked around and saw a lot of people. She couldn’t understand who might be her stranger was. She sat on the chair and waited for the stranger to come to her and talk. 

She could feel her heart pacing fast and cheeks getting red. She was going to meet her stranger in few minutes. The feeling of meeting him, talking to him and touching him was giving her goose bumps. 

A man of height 6ft. Tall entered the cafe. He looked so handsome. She expected him to be her stranger. He walked towards her table and she thought he was the stranger. When he reached the table, she immediately stood from there and smiled looking at him. 

The guy looked at her and gave a small smile saying “Hello girl!” 

He then walked to the table behind her. He sat with a girl and they both started kept talking. She shut her eyes and banged her head with her palm. 

She then sat and kept waiting. Whenever she saw a guy walking towards her table, her heart throbbed with happiness but when they cross her, that feeling was getting collapsed. 

It’s getting nearly ten, no one arrived. All her hope was fading away but still she waited hoping he would come. 

Nearly two hours she waited for him but he didn’t arrive.

Her eyes welled up with tears and stood from there. She felt frustrated and angry at him. She got in the car and started crying. Wiping her tears, she drove off. With disappointed face, she entered in. 

She saw her father and Nina laughing. She gave a small smile looking at her father and without saying anything she entered in the bedroom. 

Nina noticed Kathleen’s disappointment and she strolled to the bedroom leaving Kathleen’s father. She saw Kathleen shedding her tears. 

“Kat?” Nina scared looking at her. Kathleen hugged her crying. 

“What happened?” Nina asked patting Kathleen’s back. 

“He didn’t come.” She said between her sobs. 

Nina felt surprised hearing her. She didn’t understand what to reply to her. 

“Kat! Don’t cry. He might have met with some urgency or might be busy. He told he'll meet you, right? Stick with that.” 

Nina cupped her face and started wiping her tears. She then said “Your dad is here. He’ll get scared if he see you this way.” 

Nodding her head, Kathleen wiped her tears. Though she kept wiping them, they have been falling like there’s no end to stop them. 

“Kat!” Her father shouted from the living room. 

“Coming dad.” She shouted back. She quickly strolled to the bathroom and washed her face. She put on a fake smile and then reached the living room. 

Her father could understand Kathleen was feeling sad for something. She sat beside him not giving eye contact to her father. 

“Is everything okay?” Her father asked looking at both the girls. 

Kathleen didn’t utter anything as she knew if she starts to speak, she would cry for sure. 

“Yeah! Yes uncle. Everything is fine.” Nina said and sat beside Kathleen. 

“Then why is she sad?” He asked looking at his daughter. 

“It’s... it’s nothing. The purpose she went out, didn’t go accordingly. So she is a bit sad. Nothing to worry, uncle.” Nina said in a convincing manner. 

Kathleen’s father held her hand and said “Few things happen for the best, Kat. Let them happen. Don’t worry.” 

Kathleen smiled and hugged her dad. Then they three kept talking. Kathleen was holding back her emotions pretending she was doing fine but deep down she feel blue. 

Her father stayed with them till evening then he left as he was having works. As soon as he left, Kathleen started letting her emotions out. Nina kept convincing her but she was terribly failing. After many minutes, she calmed down and lay on the bed. She then drifted into sleep thinking about him.