chapter 1- Trust the unknown

The door unlocked, Gianna pushed the door in order to have access to go inside and stepped inside the house.

The house, which she got from her dad as a gift on her 19th birthday because he was not able to spend his time celebrating his precious daughter's birthday. Gianna never thought there will be a day in near future when She'll just move in this house. Being a 20 year old young lady gia never thought of moving out of her parent's house and start living herself.

As soon as she entered in she was quite aware that the house was fully covered in dust and webs. The 1st thing in her list when she decided to move in was to clean the house. She kept her luggage on a spot which she covered with newspaper she got while traveling here. The whole house was fully furnished. But she still had to buy other things like mop, buckets, utensils and most importantly the things needed to feed herself.

Coming home from traveling gia felt very sticky and uncomfortable also having the urge to release she inside searching for the washroom. The house was quite huge. It was her 1st time entering the house. After finding where the washroom is she came back running towards her luggage opened it found her towel , undergarments, clean clothes, her body wash, shampoo and conditioner.

She ran back towards the washroom which she 'discovered' and was way too far from the living room.

20 mins in hot shower and she felt like she heard something. Maybe after effects of traveling, she thought because she was not really used to traveling. She dressed herself in a simple denim jean and a white shirt with little cherries embroidered on it and came out drying her wet hair with towel. Her father already contacted his friend so the electricity was connected. One less work to be done, she thought. She took out the hairdryer from her bag, connected it, turned the switch on and started drying her hairs. After drying her hairs she set off out her house with a bag hanging on her shoulder.

"Oh! What a sunny day!", Gia thought walking down the lane where only few people were seen. She was getting familiar with the surroundings when she saw a cafe. She decided to drop by the cafe while returning from shopping and have something delicious.

Going out for shopping on a sunny day was really tiresome she thought as she dragged all the bags filled of all the items and a mop which was obviously not going to get a bag to be carried. She booked a cab and came back home where again she had to drag all the bags and the mop inside the house. As soon she reached inside the home she plopped on the dust covered couch which glued to her 'oh so expensive' outfit. But she seemed to not care about it because she was tired, Tired from head to toe. Tired till the point she wanted to postpone the work of cleaning the house. Being on the verge of dozing off she closed her eyes mildly when she heard a loud thud. She jumped out of the couch even though being tired, just to find the mop fell out of balance which led her to plop again on the sofa.

After 10 mins of relaxing gia started to get things together. She swept the house at first to remove all the excess dust then filled the bucket with water mopped the floor thrice in order to have stainless and clean floor. It took her nearly 2 hour the clean the entire house. After doing so much of labor 8t was time to eat some delicious food which she was so tired to cook. She searched for nearest restaurant or cafe to order something. She decided to order some pizza and dessert from the 'Paul's cafe' which she came across and wanted to go there before coming back to home.

Gia decided to take a quick shower before the food delivery arrives. After taking a shower she tried connecting wires to the television when the door bell rang. "Food Delivery", said the delivery guy. "Yes coming", gia replied back in the same way. She ran toward the door and opened it. The delivery guy handed her order to her with a pamphlet and explained her if she needed to learn baking and stuff she should visit the cafe or maybe pass the information to the people who need to learn something new and at last by saying "have a nice day mam" the delivery guy left.

"Hmm, learn baking?. Maybe i should give it a try. Anyways it's vacation and I'll be bored if i live here for 24 hours " gia said to herself.

It was a long day for gia. After eating pizza and the dessert she ordered from cafe she was so full and fell asleep as soon as she kept her head on the pillow. After having nearly 10 hours of good sleep gia woke up with a cramp in her neck. "Damn the only problem of sleeping on new pillows" gia said to herself while giving a massage to her neck and walking towards the washroom to brush her teeth. 2 mins in bathroom and she heard loud noise coming from kitchen. As if everything fell off the shelf. She ran towards the kitchen and saw all the utensils on the ground. Her breathe stopped for a second. "What the heck happened here?" She questioned herself. She started arranging everything in the order it was and removing few broken glass wares and putting them in trash bin. "Maybe i did not keep them in right way and it lost it's balance and fell!" She assured herself.

The thing happened in the kitchen was still in her mind. She decided to not bother about it and just go to the cafe and sign up for baking class so that she can keep her mind busy and get some new skills in her list.

After wearing a pretty polka dot frock she left the house and started to walk straight to the cafe. She reached the cafe. Before she entered she held her breathe and said "good luck gia" to herself. She opened the door of cafe and the bell on the door chimed. The worker welcomed their new customer with a warm smile. Gia went straight towards the counter where she saw a man who must be in his mid 30's behind the counter. There was one more guy who seemed like he was there just for chatting. Gia glanced at him and the order guy did the same. They exchanged a smile. When…

"What will you like to have madam?" Asked the man behind the counter.

"One iced americano and a cinnamon roll" said gia.

"Oh what a classic choice. Please take a seat your will get it in few minutes" said the man and gave the order to the people inside the kitchen.

The mild music playing in the background. The soft seats. Magazines near every table. Fancy tissue box which had a unique message was on every table. The waiter's were so polite. They offered a fortune cookie to every customer when the customer is set to go out after paying their bills. Everything about the cafe was so peaceful. Gia liked the environment. She snapped out of her thoughts and felt a pair of eyes starring at her. "Who could be staring at me?" Thought gia.

"Hey stop staring at my customer. Will you?" Said Chris Paul waving his hand in front of Evan's face.

"Yeah yeah stop bragging i know she is 'YOUR CUSTOMER' ". Said Evan in a sarcastic manner.

"Why do you think I'm bragging? And I'm just saving you from trouble. What if she catches you staring at her and beat your *** off?" Said chris

"Oh man, when did you start caring about me?" Evan said chuckling.

"Sorry to hurt your feelings but I'm concerned about my cafe's reputation". said chris with a annoyed tone.

"Whatever, Now just pack a black forest cake and few cookies for me" said evan.

"Do you have a sweet tooth or something?" chris asked teasingly.

"That's not for me, finally i have a neighbor. Like after a year. But I'm not sure who is staying in that house. It's not a family for sure". Said evan.

"Yeah ok I'll pack it a good way. What if your neighbor is a pretty girl just like that one". chris said moving his towards gia.

"Don't be ridiculous mind your damn business Mr. Paul" growled evan.

Gia went near counter to ask about the information regarding the baking class. And had a small conversation with chris. Chris gave her a form to fill up. Which she filled and returned it to chris. After paying chris gave her a fortune cookie. She took it and after coming out from the cafe she opened the cookie and being very excited she opened the paper. "Be brave, trust the unknown" . gia crumbled the paper while putting it into the pocket "huh let's see what happens!"

While walking on the way to the home she felt someone behind her. She glanced through her side just to find a pair of legs coming towards her. Someone was following her. The road was empty. Just gia and the guy behind her were the only people on the road. Gia felt insecure and started running as her house was not too far. As soon as she entered inside the gate she locked it ran towards the door. Opened it and locked it from inside.

She was breathless as she ran with out a break and was too sacred because of someone following her.

"I should have turned back and seen his face so that next time i could have identified him" thought gia while going to get some water from the kitchen.

The kitchen was again a mess utensils were all on the ground. The oil was spread on the kitchen counter. This time she wasn't able to assure herself by saying anything. Fear crept in her mind. She was going to sit down and pick the utensils but the bell rang so suddenly she closed her ears with both the hand and closed the eyes tightly.

A note form author. (it will be included under every chapter)

heyo ...

hope you had fun reading first chapter. make sure to give a honest review so i can improve writing.

the story comes straight from my brain so it's totally fictional. in coning chapters there might be flying cars or crawling humans.

and yes I'll put trigger warning in those case so don't worry..

you can also find this on ******* with the same title. so yeah looking forward for much support❤

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