Chapter 440
If they met him, they would surely like him just as much as she did!
nowhere to be seen
Half an hour had passed, and Xanthea’s legs were numb from squatting, but Orion was now
“It’s time. Why isn’t on here yet?”
He was late. Once he arrived, she would definitely punish him!
Another half hour ticked by without any sign of him.
Xanthea started to look around anxiously.
Why hadn’t On come yet?
Did he forget about their appointment?
One hour, two hours, three hours.
From morning till dusk, the hopeful glimmer in Xanthea’s eyes gradually dimmed. Her stomach was growling loudly, and the irises in her little bamboo basket wilted.
Or didn’t come. He must’ve forgotten.
She was angry. She wouldn’t speak to him ever again!
The next day, Xanthea bounced back to their meeting spot again to wait for Orion.
Ori must have gotten the date wrong. He must have thought it was the weekend. Today, he would surely come!
But he still didn’t show up.
The third day.
The fourth day
The fifth day.
The sixth day.
Xanthea persistently waited at the meeting place for Orion, each time waiting from moming until dusk, her hope slowly fading to disappointment.
Was Ori really not coming?
They had promised to meet without fail. He had never lied to her. He must have been held up by something else…
But when she asked her uncle to inquire, he said everything at the Lockwood family was normal, except they weren’t receiving any visitors.
So, she waited, day after day, until one morning, half a month later, when the sky turned dark with storm clouds and lightning. unleashing a torrential downpour.
Xanthea wanted to find shelter, but worried Orion might arrive and not find het so she stood resolutely in the rain.
Eventually, a teacher on duty from Crestwood Primary School noticed her, rushing over with an umbrella to ask, “Little girl, I’ve seen you standing here for days. What are you waiting for?”
“I’m waiting for my Ori,”
“On?”
“Orion Lockwood!
“Orion Lockwood? The teacher remembered the name after a moment. “Is he your friend?”
“Don’t wait any longer. His family came a few days ago to withdraw him from school. I heard he’s gone abroad.”
What?
The news struck Xanthea like a bolt from the blue. She refused to believe it and burst into tears right there in the pouring rain.
“You’re lying! That can’t be true!!
“On said he’d comel
Or wouldn’t lie to Xannie, wouldn’t leave Xannel”
“We had a promise,
She cried uncontrollably, her sobe wrecking her small freme, almost fainting remi
on her wrist, the teacher contacted her familly.
Back home, Xanthea fell into a fierce fever that raged for over two days. Her frail body weakened further, and she slipped in and out of
consciousness, unable to complete a sentence. Her family was terrified, taking turns at her bedside day and night.