Her Fear

(Mark, watch out!)

He woke up from his reverie at the sound of Olivia's frightened and terrified voice. He saw a car in front of him that he was about to collide with. As quickly as he could, he turned the car's steering wheel to the right and avoided the collision. He sighed heavily and then said with a smile: "What do you think of my driving?"

Olivia said angrily: "I wonder too?, did You ask us to come with you so you could kill us?"

He said cheerfully: "No, but to show you my prowess in driving cars. Did you see how I avoided the car?"

Olivia said nervously: "How can you joke about such things?"

As for Angel, she was initially afraid of the collision that almost happened. But Mark's cheerful words brought her out of the fear she was feeling, and replaced it with a smile from his comments in response to Olivia's anger.

A few minutes later, he stopped in front of the mall and left his car to take Angel's seat out of the trunk. As for Angel, she suddenly felt a sense of dread invade her heart. It was the first time she had come to a place like this. It was the first time she had seen a crowd of people. She was overcome with anxiety and fear from leaving the car. It is true that she used to go to the club, but she didn't see all this crowd at the time and she would stay alone with Olivia in a corner of it. But now she must integrate into all this crowd.

She turned sharply and fearfully when the door next to her suddenly opened and she heard Olivia's voice saying with a smile: "Come on, Angel, sit in your seat until we leave."

Angel looked at the seat. She felt that it might be something unfamiliar to all those people and she whispered as she turned away from Olivia: "I don't want to get down."

Olivia looked at her in surprise and said: "What are you saying?"

Angel said with determination: "I want to go home, I don't want to stay here."

Mark approached the door next to Angel and said with confusion: "What makes you say something like this after we arrived?"

Angel looked at the people entering or leaving the mall. Mark turned behind him to look at what she was looking at, and then said with a smile as he turned to Angel, understanding what was troubling her and making her refuse to get out of the car: "Don't worry. Everyone here is busy with their own stuff. no one in there cares about their surroundings."

Angel shook her head in refusal and said, clenching her fists: "I don't want to go down. Take me back home."

Instead of answering her, Mark extended his hand to her and said encouragingly: "Don't be afraid at all. We are here with you."

Angel looked at his outstretched hand in confusion and moved her gaze between Mark and Olivia. The latter said with a smile: "What Mark is saying is true. There is no need to be afraid as long as we are with you."

Angel hesitated for a long time as she saw their gazes at her, and then she quickly made up her mind and extended her hand to Mark so that he could pick it up and help her sit on her seat.

The trembling of Angel's palm between his fingertips was the greatest evidence of what she was feeling at that moment. Just the touch of his fingertips was enough for them to explode.

All the feelings she had for Mark. She looked at the latter and saw him smiling at her and saying: "What a stubborn girl."

Angel didn't know why she smiled back at him instead of being upset by what he said. Perhaps because her feelings for Mark at this very moment were enough to make her overlook anything he said. Don't ask her why Mark in particular. She herself doesn't know. Perhaps his interest and his tenderness towards her, perhaps his firm personality when it's needed and perhaps all of this. don't ask her why? it is not her who chooses, but her heart.