The Girl Behind The Mask | Chaelisa

Prologue & Casts

You rerouted the course of my self-determined path.
Over the past year, I have often found myself contemplating the moment which it happened.

And I think...

Perhaps...

That maybe it was that day we had our first date.

Do you remember, my love?
When you showed up with flowers and rather nervous.

Or maybe...
It was that night, when we shared our first kiss.

But it could have also been the day I truly fell in love with you.
Or the day I at least realized I was in love with you...
for my heart has always known it, it was my brain that needed to come to terms with it.

Yet when I truly trace back the moments we have shared,
I am more and more convinced that my life was forever altered
that day you and I locked eyes while we each stood on opposite ends of your staircase.

I, as usual, was reluctant and uncertain... afraid you could say.
And maybe you were able to interpret all of that.

But I remember what message was transmitted in your gaze.

Determination.

Disbelief.

Possibilities.

You saw the future of 'us' in that moment.

All before you even knew my name...

I didn't know it then... wouldn't have believed it then if anyone had tried to tell me otherwise,
but that was the last moment I would ever spend in my ordinary life.

You half-stumbled, half-slithered your way into my guarded heart in ways that no one else ever could.
What you saw that night... I will never truly know.
But one thing is certain.
You rerouted my path permanently.

You pulled me out of a sure-to-be boring, uneventful, cautious route
into one that was rocky, thorny, and uncertain...

Yet beautiful.

Because you were there.

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Casts / Main Characters :

Lalisa Manoban (Lisa)