Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
Elspeth lowered her head as a hint of sadness flashed across her eyes.
“She had gone missing.”
However, the abbot was unruffled.
“There’s a reason for everyone and everything. The Holy Father saith, ‘say nothing’. You will have to find the answer yourself, child of God.”
“Is there no other way?”
The abbot paused for a second before answering,
“The answer you seek is right under your nose.”
Right under my nose… Elspeth took a deep breath and was struck with a realization.
“Thank you, Abbot. I get it now. Can you show me the way out now?”
The abbot sighed in response.
“Very well. I’ll see you out.”
With that, Elspeth traversed the complicated route under the abbot’s lead and finally returned to that tree.
After seeing the elder away, she began searching for Callum and found him in a gazebo not far away.
On the other hand, Callum dialed Elspeth’s number multiple times only to receive the cold, monotonous voice of the answering machine every time. Hence, he strode toward her when he found her approaching his direction and clasped her shoulders, asking,
“Where have you been?! Do you know how worried I was?!”
Elspeth’s heart skipped a beat when she noticed the hint of anxiety lacing his usually staid face.
“I’m sorry, but my phone was dead. When I was walking, someone suddenly shut the door from behind me. I didn’t know where I was, and it was an abbot who guided me out of there.”
“Someone shut you in?”
Callum narrowed his eyes.
“Yeah! I thought it was weird too. I have a feeling that someone’s ambushing us.”
“I see.”
Callum nodded.
“Let’s head down the mountain now. We still have scenes to shoot at night.”
Since they had to shoot the kissing scene at Capolis at night, Elspeth decided to make a trip to Waeldestone Abbey during the day, but who’d have thought something like this would happen?!
“Well, we’ve already made our wishes anyway. Let’s go.”
On the other hand, Eric heaved a sigh of relief after exiting the washroom, seeing that Elspeth had returned in one piece.
“I thought you had gotten lost. Callum and I have been looking for you everywhere. We came back and waited here, in an obvious place, worried that you wouldn’t see us after you returned.”
A chuckle escaped Elspeth as she said,
“Me? Lost? No way!”
“Yeah, Callum said there’s no way you’d get lost, and you can find your way back. I thought he was just joking, but who knew that he actually knows you pretty well? What a relief.”
With that, Eric reflexively went to ruffle her hair, but Callum pulled her to his side promptly and said,
“Alright, we better head back now. We have scenes to shoot tonight.”
To that, Eric grunted in response, his face sullen.
I swear, this man can’t get any pettier! What? Is no one else allowed to touch her?!
As they walked, a thought struck Elspeth.
“Callum, did you write on the tag used to ask for love?”
she inquired.
“Yes.”
“What have you written?”
“It’s a secret,”
Callum smirked, stirring the young woman’s curiosity.
“Tell me, or I’ll go back to the abbey and read it myself.”
While speaking, she pretended as though she would head back up the mountain.
“Go on, then. We’ve just descended halfway down the mountain. You might even get to stay in the abbey overnight if you go back up there now.”
Instead of dissuading Elspeth, the man taunted her.
At that, Elspeth snorted indignantly.
“You’re unbelievable. I can’t believe you won’t even tell me this.”
“I’ll jinx it if I say it. What about you? What did you write?”
Callum’s counter stumped the young woman for a moment.
“J-Just something simple and general like peace and happiness.”
Callum would never know that she had written two tags and hung each one at a different place.
As for the other one… Hmph, there’s no way I’ll tell you!
“Mine’s simple too, very much like yours.”
Just like that, the young woman’s curiosity was laid to rest.
“Okay, I’m not curious anymore. Let’s hurry back.”
Since the rain at the foothills had just stopped, the weather was still cooling, so the road down the mountain wasn’t too tiring.
The two had to return to filming, and Eric insisted on following.
“We’re going to shoot a kissing scene next. Can you take it?”
Elspeth joshed, leading Eric to huff in response as he said,
“That, you don’t have to worry about.”
In the end, the three headed to the production site, and when they arrived, the director was directing Yelena, who immediately went up to Elspeth upon seeing her.
“You’re back, Miss Lynwood. You should go and get ready. We’ll be filming in just a bit.”
To that, Elspeth nodded and headed to the dressing room with the clothes the director had handed her.
Just as she took her clothes off and picked up the school uniform, she immediately sensed something amiss.
It was very light-so light that it wasn’t right.
As such, she checked the outfit thoroughly to find that most of the fabric had been snipped away; even the plaid shirt to be worn on the inside became low-cut.
