Beautiful Stranger

Chapter:5

"Hi Carrie !" Lia said entering her office . Carrie seemed puzzled in between a galore of magazines , as if she is looking for some article . She looked up at Lia and replied "Hi" with an absent mind. You seem busy Carrie , is there anything I can help you with? Lia asked in concern. " No, I was just looking for this article in Sunday times , they and some other magazines have mentioned our success in the event and have mentioned my name too. So was curious , she explained with a grin. If it was the old Lia she would have gotten more upset listening to that . But somehow Carrie's new post, her success and her name mentioned in different magazines really didn't affect her much . She was normal , in fact happy to hear that .
Carrie was Someone who joined later than Lia . But her spontaneity and her confidence got her to this place where she is now , and Lia could not be even in five years .
"Oh is it ? I'm so proud of you Carrie . Also , I just came in to congratulate you. You really do deserve to be here ". Lia said with complete assurance of what she's saying . " Are you sure Lia , you are okay with it ?Yesterday you seemed a bit low . " Carrie apologetically looked into Lia's eyes and inquired. " Of course ! Absolutely! The well deserved one got the post . But enjoy it as much as you can Miss Carrie Cooper, soon Lia Thomson is invading this office with her hard-work" and she and Carrie giggled .

Getting home after a very positive day and positive mindset , Lia actually felt light . She entered the home and unlike her routine , she quickly , turned on the lights and grabbed her phone out and messaged the beautiful stranger she recently found
" Hey ! I just got home so thought to write you . I feel so light today , not tired , not burdened ! Light ! Light on the head and light on the body .... Message me once you are free ! "

She walked to the kitchen to make herself coffee and a sandwich , with phone in her hand . After every other second looking at its screen in case she has received any notification. But no message was received. She said to herself " he must be busy , or maybe he hasn't seen it yet ". She grabbed the remote , turned on the Television, sat in front of it on a couch with her sandwich plate in her lap. Lia took a bite and grabbed her phone to see if she received anything, no luck . Alex did not reply . She went to her room , took out her clothes to change , threw her phone on the bed . While in shower every drop of water that fell on her , felt like is washing her burden off her head , the negative thoughts , the childhood pain , the stress at work, her loneliness . She had no clue why was she feeling this way . How could it be only Alex , a stranger she doesn't even clearly know anything about , but some how there was still something Lia was hoping from him . Lia herself didn't know why she is getting into him too much when she should not be . She changed , grabbed her phone and got in bed ,peeped at her phone to check the notification. No response as yet . Lia went a bit low . As if her expectations are falling down . She turned her phone to silent and turned the lights off to sleep .

Lia was running on the road , with three weird looking men running after her , she was screaming and running looking for a safe place to hide . When her skirt got tangled in a car wheel she ran past through. The weird looking men were near with huge knives to kill her , while Lia was trying really hard to get her skirt out of it and run away . Now as the men were very near , Lia closed her eyes and started to cry . It was an end for her . When Someone came and untangled her skirt . She removed her hands from her eyes and saw there was no weird man in front of her. Only a tall, broad man dressed in black trousers and a black shirt with a black mask standing next to her ,the one who untangled her skirt . Lia stared at him , with fear and curiosity could not see his face she ran away, when she turned her face while running at him , he was not there .

Lia woke up with a gasp , out of breath, her forehead had tiny droplets of sweat that ran down her face . She quickly , got off her bed walked towards her kitchen to get water . She gulped down half of the glass and came back . She grabbed her phone to check the time , it was 2am also she has received a message from Alex . That she had been waiting for so long . She quickly opened her message that said " Hey ! I am so happy for you . See just try to let it go you will feel much lighter. You did the right thing. Just learn to go with the flow Lia, have a good night ".

Lia read the message , and she replied at that instance knowing it is actually too late to text him . " Hey ! You up ? I just saw your message . I can't sleep."

Immediately a message popped in " Yes I am up. All ok? " .... " Yes, why are you up ? What are you doing ? "

Alex replied " was just unable to sleep too. " .
There was something Lia for a long time wanted to ask him but she forgot every time .  She thought this would be the right time . " Umm ! Alex , I never got to ask about you , are you married or seeing anyone ? "

A reply came " haha . No Lia, I am not married and no one wants to see me ".
Lia laughed to the message with a relieve. But she was wondering why did she even asked a personal question or even if she did , why is she relieved? 

Lia , asked one more question " why do you care about me ? Why are you so always concerned ? "

" Because you are a good girl , your heart is clean , you are just not ready to accept the world around you . I just want you to free yourself and free your mind from the things and situations that are chaining you back , I have a feeling you still have a lot that you have to make right, but for now you need to sleep, you have work tomorrow Miss Lia ".

Lia , read his message in an awe and then softly smiled staring at her screen for a while , adoring Alex and agreeing some part of his words . She typed him " Thanks . Good night Alex" and she kept the phone on her side table next to her bed and went to sleep.