20 Am I supposed to know you

"You don't remember me, do you?" Lester finally spoke up. Annabelle looked at him like he was a foreign object. To Lester, this was their third meeting but to her, it was her second. His included the time she was unconscious.

Annabelle looked at the man standing in front of her and laughed. "Sir, am I supposed to know you?" Any ray of hope in Lester's eyes dimmed. "Perhaps, my face is commonly looking but I have a pretty good memory and I remember all those I've met" Annabelle added when she noticed the man was not planning on explaining their meeting.

"Walk down the hall and take a right turn there....." Lester explained with a straight face. The first woman to ever leave a deep impression on him forgot him just like that. Like he was not important in her life, well maybe he wasn't. He swallowed hard, he did not want to continue this talk with her.

"What!" Annabelle was not sure if she heard the man well but it sounded like he was giving her directions. 'Directions, oh no Directions'. By the time she registered what he was doing the man had already walked away. "Excuse me, sir, sir" she called out but Lester did not stop in his tracks.

Annabelle felt dejected, should she have told him she knew him when she didn't or not. She was still thinking about this dilemma when she heard her name. Looking up she felt like laughing at herself, she should have just called Samantha earlier. Anyway, she was here to look for her now.

"Anna, what are you doing here? Do you have any idea how worried we were? Our reporting officer is back but you were still nowhere to be seen" Samantha was really worried and continued her ramblings, she only stopped when Annabelle started laughing.

"What is so funny? I was worried about you and there you are laughing. Do you have any idea how scared I was that something bad had happened to you? Do....." Samantha said angrily but was cut off by Annabelle. "I am sorry, I actually lost my way and I did not want to call you for fear of...."

Samantha started laughing uncontrollably at Annabelle's statement. Annabelle continued with a frown "Well for fear of that" she said helplessly. She had known Samantha would make fun of her and that was why she asked that weird man earlier. She felt chills run up her spine at the thought of the man.

Samantha was still laughing at her, she held her stomach as it was too much for her. When she saw Annabelle frown continuously she stopped. "I am sorry but you have to admit it is quite funny, you losing your way" Samantha pointed at Annabelle at started another fit of laughter.

Looking at her, Annabelle scoffed, she turned on her heels and started walking away. Samantha noticed she was still going in the wrong direction and exclaimed amidst her laughter. "That is still the wrong way, you are supposed to turn right there" she pointed her index finger to a right turn.

Annabelle got the direction and started walking towards it with her head held high. Seeing Annabelle was actually leaving her. Samantha finally stopped her laughter."Hey! Anna wait for me, let's go together" Samantha said, although Annabelle heard her she didn't stop in her tracks and actually walked faster. She was felt quite embarrassed.

After Annabelle and Samantha had left the hallway, Lester finally came out from his hiding place. He looked longingly in her direction but he also knew it was not the best time to introduce himself.

How was he going to do that anyway? 'Hi, I am the guy who you had insulted when I tried giving you money for that accident I almost caused or Hi, I saved your life or perhaps I am your boss'

Everything he thought of sounded weird to him. He was really at a loss. Standing there he was only brought back to reality when his assistant, Ryan came to inform him of a meeting he had.

3 months later, Rose, Elisa, and Emma were each getting frustrated they had been asking around for Annabelle but nobody seemed to know where she is they even resorted to finding a private investigator each. They kept this a secret from each other though. How they were going to complete their final project which was due in less than two months was worrying for them. They were walking up after the tutorial classes that day when they caught sight of Annabelle and Charlie.

Annabelle and Charlie had come to see a professor in their school due to their project/internship. Samantha and Samuel had gone home to pay their parents a visit when they heard their grandmother was down with an illness. Annabelle and Charlie were still discussing their job when they heard someone call Annabelle's name.

After they had looked around they finally saw Rose, Elisa, and Emma approaching them. Charlie was on a defensive mode, looking at the approaching girls like he was ready to beat them up, as long as Annabelle actually approved.

The girls finally stopped before the duo. Rose looked at Annabelle for a minute before she finally spoke out. "A, where have you been all this while, we looked for you everywhere but it was as if you didn't want to be found" Rose sighed as if she was really concerned.

"You do know we were against what Elisa said to you on that day, she was wrong and we all know it. She tried apologizing to you countless times but your line was not going through even your address is no longer the same. We are still friends, right? You could have at least told us if you were moving"

Rose continued with a look of a mother worried about her child. Elisa glared at Rose when she brought up the old issue between them but reverted into a look of worry afterward.

Annabelle continued watching their display of concert. for her without even batting an eyelid. She knew she was going to run into them, sooner or later. She just did not expect them to continue with their acts.

Elisa noticed that Annabelle had no intentions of giving them a befitting reply and decided to take her acting skills up a notch. Sighing dramatically, she looked apologetic as she said "I know I was out of line the other day, but you should understand. I was just angry and I decided to transfer my aggression to you but you have been avoiding me since then. How am I supposed to apologize to you then"

Charlie scoffed hearing this, he had never thought there could be people as despicable as the three girls before him were. They did not ask if the friend they so much cared about was living so much as breathing but they wanted to know where she moved like she had anything against the self-obsessed Elisa.

Even after all Rose and Elisa had said Annabelle continued staring at them without uttering a word like she was mute. Why did she need to avoid them when she didn't do anything wrong by them? Why exactly had she not seen they were snakes in human clothing from the start? Everything was carefully planned out for her and like their puppet, she followed them by the nose as if she had no life of her own.