His words were solemn and sounded serious as if he was making a sincere promise to her. The girl was still childish, she looked up at him with her worn out depressed eyes and showed him her pinky finger, "Do you pinky promise?"

Ryan couldn't help but get his straight lips curl up into a smile, he hooked his pinky finger with her before making his promise to her.

This was illogical, as a grown up boy he never believed on this childish rituals and pinky promises but seeing that this filled the girl with rays of hope and happiness he gladly put up with it.the tension between his furrowed...