Episode 6

"Miss you dropped something." It was an old man and he handed me over my handkerchief which I have accidently dropped, but I didn't bring any handkerchief along with me, so technically it wasn't my handkerchief. " Caught ya!" Oh no, it was Mike's voice. He caught up faster than I expected him to. " By any chance is this handkerchief yours?" I was sure it wasn't his but I had to make an escape plan out of there , so I had to drive his attention elsewhere.

"Goodness gracious where did you find that Ms Santa? I was looking for it for around 30 minutes. That is basically why I wasn't at our meeting spot. I was looking for this." He took the handkerchief to his hand raised it and showed it upto me. " It was from my grandma.." He went on, " She took care of me when I was a kid. My parents were never home. They aren't even together to begin with anymore. The only person who was actually there for me was my grandma, but she's gone. She's not here anymore and this is the last thing she gave me. It's hand knitted by her.." There was a sense of pain, sadness and sorrow in his eyes when he said that. He gazed at me with the sadness in his eyes and told, "thank you Ms Santa!" There was now gratitude in his voice. I could tell that he was deeply hurt like I was. " You really are Santa Claus." He smiled brightly at me.

"Let's go!" Without even giving a chance for me to deny, he grabbed me by the hand and started walking. Of course I was still wearing the beard. It looked like Santa Claus on a date with a handsome guy. I was having fun with him without even really realizing it. It almost felt like I had made a friend, a real friend and it felt like I was actually on a date with my boyfriend. I felt great but I knew that it would all have to come to an end either way. One, because he was never going to like me under my disguise and second we weren't even suppose to meet.

"I really wonder Ms Santa... Why don't you take off your beard?" He was looking at me a bit too seriously. " Do you really wanna know that strange boy?" I went on, a bit playfully I would say. "Yes I do want to know. So tell me.. Why do you not want to take the beard off?" I know I've only being with him for a few hours but in those few hours he showed me something I was never able to get in my life. He showed me what it was like to have a friend, he showed me what it was like to have someone like you more than a friend. I know it was something stupid and crazy to think but I have a strange feeling that he likes me more than a friend, especially because of the way he looks at me.

I thought that maybe being honest with him would be a fair thing for him, because he didn't even know my name to begin with and it didn't feel fair to do such a thing to him. So I thought I'd be honest with him. I mean all that can happen if he knows the truth is that he'll not want to be around me anymore or he'll pretend this day never happened. I'm sure it was something easy for guys like him to do, besides it wasn't like I was expecting anything to happen as well, so I decided I'll might as well be honest with him.

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