《Transmigrated Into A Billionaire》 Chapter 1 The death and The Transmigration. Chapter 1 The death and The Transmigration. ¡°Araceli!¡± ¡°Araceli!¡± ¡°Why isn''t she awake yet?¡± ¡°Doctor, why is my daughter not awake yet!¡± The loud voice of an unfamiliar woman came incoherently to Rachel Johnson. She wasn¡¯t fully conscious before a huge wave of strange memories came rushing into her mind. It was the memory of a beautiful girl, all the emotions that belonged to her, the people she had met, her family, education, friends, and so on. Rachel instantly became troubled, what are all these memories and images that areing into her head? Didn''t she die after getting crashed into by the truck earlier? ¡°Hey, Wake up.¡± Rachel heard a girl''s melodious and pleasant voice speaking in her head. She quickly looked back. That was when she knew that she wasn¡¯t conscious. ¡°Who are you?¡± Rachel asked the voice after ncing around and couldn''t find a single soul. Is she not dead?! All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. ¡°No, you are not dead yet,¡± The voice said again. She could hear her thoughts? What the hell! Is she in hell? Rachel thought frantically. Immediately Rachel heard the girl¡¯s ¡°You are not in hell either. You need to listen to me now. I don''t have much time left.¡± Hearing the urgency and the desperation in the girl¡¯s voice, Rachel decided to listen to her. ¡°I am Araceli, A Billionaire Heiress. I don''t know how it happened but you transmigrated into my body. I''m already dead but you are upying my body right now¡± Araceli exined as she whimpered. ¡°I''m in your body? Rachel asked, shocked. Is there something like that? Transmigration? ¡°Yes, I didn''t believe in it either. But I think it was because of my strong desire for revenge. You already received all my memories. You can see what I went through. I trusted Xander and Alice but they set me up and tried to get me rape by some strangers. Imitted suicide in the process, but I hate them! I really hate them. I want you to avenge me. Make sure that they reaped what they sowed. That''s the only way I can rest in peace. Rachel Johnson quickly searched her memories for any simr incident and saw everything that happened. She instantly frowned her beautiful eyes when she saw how ruthless and ferocious the so- called fiance and best friend were. Hmph! Let them just wait! ¡°Don¡¯t worry Araceli, I will avenge you and I will also make sure that I live a good and responsible life. Thank you for giving me another chance in your body¡± Rachel Johnson replied to the voice in a calm and stern voice. Gradually Rachel felt consciousness slip in, her eyebrows fluttered open and her brown eyes slowly nced around the room. Everywhere was white, she could see examination tables, health packs, cotton wool, and syringes. ¡°Araceli?¡± Rachel heard an unfamiliar woman called to her, it was the same voice that was echoing in her ears when she was unconscious. ¡°Is that the girl¡¯s mother?¡± Rachel quickly searched her memory and confirmed that it was really the girl¡¯s mother. Immediately Mrs. Garcia saw her daughter open her eyes, and she immediately cried out with happiness. ¡°Honey, see! She woke up!. Our daughter woke up¡± Mrs. Garcia couldn''t help but cry out in excitement and happiness as she hugged and kissed her daughter. Her daughter was found in the basement by her fianc¨¦ with her clothes tattered, torn, and bruised all over her body actually woke up after three days. That''s a miracle. It was really a miracle. Rachel, who wasn''t yet in tune with Araceli''s behaviors and attitudes, didn''t know what to do or say to the woman that was hugging and kissing her. She looked back at her gloom with no expression whatsoever. After sensing that her daughter wasn''t responding or anything. Mrs. Garcia suddenly got scared. ¡°Doctor, what¡¯s wrong with her? Why did you look so strange as if she didn''t recognize me?¡± It was that time that Rachel saw that a doctor was around. Since she woke up, she only saw a young boy, whom she assumed was Araceli''s younger brother because of the memories she received and also her parents. The doctor quickly read the chart in his notes and moved closer to Araceli. ¡°She might be suffering from amnesia before she hit her head on a wall which made her unconscious for thest three days.¡± ¡°But you''ve already performed surgery on her and you said she''s okay. What''s happening again¡± Mrs? Garcia asked agitated ¡°Since it was her head that was knocked down. Amnesia is amon problem for patients with her condition. It''s not treatable. She might be able to remember today, tomorrow, or never.¡± The doctor calmly exined to Araceli¡¯s Family. ¡°Do you not remember me too?¡± The young boy Rachel saw earlier peeked out behind the old man. Seeing his lovely and handsome face, Rache couldn¡¯t bring herself to say that she didn¡¯t remember him. ¡°Acey,¡± She softly called out. Shocked by her voice. Rachel had to say it again. ¡°Acey, I remember you,¡± That was her voice? This lovely and melodious voice now belongs to her? If only her voice was this good in her past life maybe she would have pursued music and saved her family from wretchedness. Talon, that bastard! He cheated on her with that rich bitch he told her not to be worried about. If only she was rich in her past life she would have made sure that he regretted his decision to leave her. ¡°Mum, Dad see! Araceli remembers me¡± The young boy squealed out in happiness. Both of his parents looked at him with mixed feelings. Their own daughter didn''t even remember them again but only remember her younger brother, if that''s not partiality they don''t know what it is. ¡°You really don''t remember us? What did you remember? Did you remember what happened to you? Did you remember your fianc¨¦? He was the one that brought you here then called us. Thankfully he brought you here. Unless we might really have lost you¡± Mr. Garcia bombarded his daughter with questions after questions with his voice choked with emotion. Chapter 2 Rachel Feign Amnesia Chapter 2 Rachel Feign Amnesia Rachel slowly shook her head, it was better to feign amnesia. That way Alice and Xander would think she didn¡¯t remember anything and they would rx their guards against her. Then she would be able to hit them where it hurts! She definitely remembered what happened, those two ruthless and heartless demons in human bodies. She will make sure that they paid for what they did. ¡°You didn¡¯t remember them either?¡± Mr. Garcia asked, shocked again. Then after some time, he gently nodded. It was only right that she didn¡¯t remember them too since she didn¡¯t remember him and her mother. If she had remembered her best friend and also her fianc¨¦ without remembering they would have felt insignificant to her. ¡°Okay, still good. Still good. Apart from this. Do you remember anything else? Like education, work, do you remember the project you are working on?¡± Mr. Garcia asked curiously again. She had to remember the billionaire deal she was working on, she was really passionate about it. Mr. Garcia looked at Araceli carefully for any trace of recognition, he watched as Araceli nodded her head slowly after a few minutes. ¡°Yes, I remembered. The international deal with the Chinese government. Business Rival- The Crown investmentpany, CEO Yandel Baldwin.¡± Rachel voiced out the words as it was recorded in her memory. ¡°Good! Good! You remember! Did you also remember Yandel Baldwin?¡± Mr. Garcia asked excitedly when he saw that she remembered the business deal. Hopefully, she will also remember the CEO of thepany because they¡¯ve met several times. ¡°Yandel Baldwin?¡± Rachel asked confusedly? Oh! She said that name just now. But it was only the name that was in her head, no other memories of him. It was empty in her head. But as her father was looking at her, she could see that the person should be more than just some two-letter words in her head. Rachel looked at her father again, Come on! Say something! something and give me something to search on. Mr. Garcia looked at Araceli again and saw that she actually didn¡¯t remember anything apart from the young man¡¯s face. That¡¯s also good. He heard that Araceli and the man weren''t really friends. Perhaps now that she This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. didn''t remember anything she would use this opportunity to make friends with him so they can know his weakness. ¡°No worries if you didn''t remember him, just act ordingly when next you see him.¡± Mr. Garcia replied dismissively. She is running a billionaire deal currently and she also has a business rival. Hmm. No worries! She can deal with that, she has an MBA and she was also at the top of her ss. She had always loved business administration but in her past life her parents weren''t rich and she wasn''t able to secure a job at thepany she really desired to work. She was actually expecting their reply for the 22nd time when she decided to go to her boyfriend¡¯s house. So she can celebrate it together with him because this time she knows that we''re going to ept her because they are giving certain privileges to people that have submitted their applications more than 20 times. Thatpany was the best in ska, they only picked geniuses all over the world. If she ever entered thatpany she didn''t have to worry about what to eat the next day anymore with her younger sister and her parents. People thought she was crazy because she rejected all the offers that were proposed to her by all otherpanies. Even her parents thought she was crazy. It was only her boyfriend that believed in her, that was why she went to see him that day. But on getting there, she received the biggest shock of her life. She saw her boyfriend in a shameful art with the supposed friends of his that he told her not to be worried about because they were just friends. Then met her untimely death on her way back home. Rachel quickly stopped thinking about her miserable past, so she won''t look so out of it in front of her new parents. ¡°How many weeks did you have left to stay in the hospital?¡± Mr.Garcia turned around and asked the doctor who was still with them. ¡°She has to stay a week longer for us to keep up with her health for a while before she can be discharged.¡± the doctor replied. ¡°Just a week? Are you sure she will be better before then?¡± Mrs. Garcia asked the doctor worriedly. ¡°Yes definitely. She survived the surgery so the huge wave is over. It''s smooth sailing now.¡± The doctor replied to her with a smile. ¡°Oh- that''s good then.¡± Mrs. Garcia felt a sudden rush of relief overwhelmed her. Seeing that they were gettingfortable with each other, the doctor decides to leave the patient with her family. Immediately the doctor left, Rachel quickly tensed up. She was now alone with the new family she was entrusted with but she didn''t know how to act. What if they noticed that she wasn''t their daughter? Rachel couldn''t help but be scared of the questions they could ask her and how they would interpret her behaviors and actions. But to her surprise, they didn''t ask her anything. They were just gisting and reminding her of the things they did together as a family. Maybe she would remember her parents. Rachel felt a sudden gush of happiness flowing into her heart. This family is a really happy one, even though they were billionaires they were still happy and united with one another. It must be a reward she worked for in another life, definitely not the one she just died in because she didn''t have a bit of luck. Going from selecting what to wear every day to who to date. Her dressing was always a badbination alongside the men she finds herself in love with. ¡°Before you woke up, Xander was here, he said he would be back and that he had to attend to some things.¡± Mrs. Garcia said to Araceli as she remembered. The poor boy had been with Araceli since three days ago when they rushed her to the hospital. He hadn''t even left to take a shower, he was by her side all day. If someone carefully looked at him, one would see that he was already growing some beards on his jaw. ¡°Xander?¡± Rachel asked, confused again. ¡°Oh, My fianc¨¦,¡± She quickly pretended to remember after feigning surprise. Chapter 3 He planted a tracker on me? Chapter 3 He nted a tracker on me? ¡°Yes, your fianc¨¦. He was the one that brought you here from the basement. He said he didn¡¯t know how you got to a basement 200 km from your office, that he was able to determine your location because of a tracking device that he inserted in your phone case without your knowledge.¡± Mrs. Garcia exined to her daughter. ¡°He nted a tracker on me?!¡± Rachel asked, stunned with her eyes widened open. She quickly checks her tone to see if she isn¡¯t as loud as she thought she was. That dumb shit nted a tracker on her? Rachel quickly checked her memories to see if she had any memories of when she realized that a tracker was nted on her. But she wasn¡¯t able to see any record of it. Poor girl, Araceli didn¡¯t even know that the man she loved and thought they were going to be married nted a tracker on her. But no worries, She is now the New Araceli and she would make sure that he saw hell if he didn''t reside in it. ¡°Yeah Sweetie, he said it was for safety reasons. He will soon be back¡± Mrs. Garcia answered back as she took a slice of apple and offered it to her daughter. Rachel quickly opened her mouth as if it was the most natural act in the world. Mrs. Garcia smiled at her lovingly when she saw that she was epting the food she offered. It means her daughter still remembers somehow, she was really happy she could feel her beatings. She looked at her husband with a smile and her eyes filled with unexinable emotions. Mr. Garcia who knew exactly how she was feeling gently patted her hand and nodded in acknowledgment. ¡°I feel sleepy mum, ¡± Rachel said when she saw that her eyelids were slowly closing. ¡°Yes, yes. We will go home now and bring more clothes for you to change in.¡± We have assigned a five-star hotel nearby to cook your favorite meal. There are several maids'' staff outside your door. You just have to press on this walkie-talkie and someone who immediatelyes in, ¡± Mrs. Garcia brought out a portable ck walkie-talkie and ced it in Araceli¡¯s hand. ¡°Mom, Dad. Can I stay with Big sister?¡± Ace looked up at his parents with a pleading tone. He really wanted to be with his big sister. He was so scared when she didn''t open her eyes for thest three days, he almost thought she was going to go away as Ben did. Ben was Ace¡¯s pet dog that was given by Araceli on his 9th Birthday. His father bought him a PS5, while his mum gave him an iPhone 11 pro max. They were all good toys but what he really wanted was a dog and it was only his big sister Araceli that gave him what he actually wanted. But Ben became sick and went to heaven. Seeing his sad and pouty face, Mr. & Mrs. Garcia decided to leave the little boy with his beloved big sister. Since he was the only one that Araceli remembers then maybe he can stimte her brains so she can remember them too. ¡°Alright Ace man, stay with your big sister and protect her okay,¡± Mr. Garcia said to his son and ruffled his curly hair. ¡°Yes, Dad. I will protect her and I won''t allow any bad monster toe near her.¡± Ace replied and demonstrated power rangers fighting stance. Rachel couldn''t help but chuckle as she looked at the young boy''s determined look and his funny stance. He really meant business. ¡°We will be on her way now.¡± Mr. Garcia said to his kids as he wrapped his hand around his wife¡®s waist and escorted her outside of the hospital room. On their way out, Mrs. Garcia couldn''t help but ask her husband worriedly. ¡°Are you sure Aracelia would be okay?¡± When Mr. Garcia heard her voice, he gently smiled in assurance. ¡°The doctor already assured us that she will be okay, so she should be. But if you are not assured we can invite Dr. Finn toe and inspect her so he can give us better assurance.¡± ¡°Yes, I think you should inform Dr. Finn so he can fly back from Italy immediately she got discharged here. So he can assure us that she''s okay.¡± Mrs. Garcia answered back to her husband as she sniffed. ¡°Hush now, she''s okay. Nothing will happen to our daughter.¡± Mr. Garcia said to his wife as he brought her closer to him and hugged her. Meanwhile, in the hospital room. Ace was busy looking after his big sister as he watched her sleep. That mean guy said he''sing backter, he wasn''t as good looking as his sister but he always took his sister away from him. His parents said the mean guy would soon be his brother but he didn''t want an ugly-looking brother. He will wait here and make sure that the Ugly guy didn''te anywhere near his sister. This material belongs to N?velDrama.Org. Ace was already asleep with his head on the bedside when Xander entered the hospital room in a ck tailored suit. Immediately he entered, Ace''s eyes sprang open. He could perceive his cologne 10 feet away, it was some strong expensive cologne that makes someone with a nice taste in perfume wanna puck. Ace looked at him sternly as he was about to approach his sister. ¡°Don¡¯te closer!¡± Ace blocked his way as he tried to move closer. ¡°Ace, it''s me. What are you doing! Let me go and see her.¡± Xander replied sternly when he saw the little frame blocking his way. Hmph! The little boy puffed,¡°You? Who are you? I don''t know you. Leave here.¡± Seeing his rude manner, Xander frowned in hatred. How did Aracelia who was a gentle and meek girl have this stubborn and unreasonable boy as her brother?. Maybe it was due to their age differences. Aracelia was 15 years older than her brother. ¡°Who are you?¡± Chapter 4 Araceli remembers Alice Chapter 4 Araceli remembers Alice ¡°Who are you? Rachel asked again when she saw that Xander wasn''t replying but only looking at her dumbfounded. It wasn''t as if she didn''t recognize him, she recognized him quite well because she already processed all of Araceli¡¯s memory as she knew he was the Xander that betrayed and set Araceli up. That scum! ¡°Araceli, What did you mean by ¡°who am I?¡± I''m your fiance!¡± Xander replied as he frowned. What¡¯s wrong with her? Is she ying? Why is he acting like she didn''t remember him? Did she remember and y him? He had no choice but to do it so he would be able to break his engagement with her and marry Alice. His parents would never allow him to dissolve his and Araceli¡¯s engagement because their parents are good friends and they''ve been engaged since they were children. So the idea about dissolving has toe from Araceli. That''s why she can not me him, he was doing this because he wanted to be with his true love. His Alice didn''t agree with this at first because she didn''t want to hurt her best friend until he told her that it''s the only way they can be together. Even on that day, she was still begging him that they can find another way. so she can''t me her either. They were both forced to do this to her. Rachel frowned when she heard his reply, fiance indeed. What kind of fiance plot with his fiancee¡¯s best friend and set men up to rape her. That kind of fiancee, she would rather not have! ¡°I don¡¯t know you,¡± Rachel said and held her forehead as if she was having a headache as she tried to remember him. When one of the staff stationed outside heard her reply, he quickly went to call the doctor. Miss didn''t recognize her fiance even when he showed his face. They all thought that perhaps she would recognize him when she saw him, that was why they allowed him to go in. He quickly rushed to the doctor¡¯s office to inform him because Xander has a bad temper and he might start throwing things around. When the doctor saw him enter, he recognised him as one of the guards that The Garcias left in their daughter''s hospital room and was immediately rmed. Did something happen to Miss Garcia? Oh shit! If something happened to her, even tens of him can¡¯t pay for it. ¡°Mr, what is it? What happened?¡± The doctor immediately stood up and approached the guard anxiously. ¡°Miss fiance is around and miss didn''t remember him, we thought she would remember him when she saw his face so we allowed him in, but she didn''t. So I came to call you to exin to him.¡± The guard quickly exined to the doctor. Instantly relieved that nothing major happened, the doctor heaved a sigh of relief. ¡°The young man that brought her here?¡± The doctor asked. ¡°He¡¯s back?¡± ¡°Yes, he is back, and he has a short temper. He can start throwing things.¡± The guard quickly. ¡°Okay let''s go.¡± The doctor replied and took his coat from the peg and ushered the guard out of his office. ¡°What did you mean by not recognizing me, Araceli? I brought you to this hospital!¡± That was the conversation the doctor and the guard heard immediately when they entered, the other guards stationed by the door already entered and were pleading with Xander to leave. ¡°Mr Xander?¡± Xander heard a calm voice calling his name and turned around and saw a doctor at his back. ¡°Yes?¡± He replied with a frown. Why is a doctor here? ¡°Mr Xander, the patient is diagnosed with amnesia and your attitude towards her right now is not beneficial to her health, so I will have to ask you to leave this hospital room.¡± The doctor responded. ¡°Amnesia? Like she didn''t remember anything?¡± Xander asked presumably. Wouldn''t that be better? If she didn''t remember anything, that means she didn''t remember the setup and how she almost died that day. That¡¯s good! ¡°Not everything, she remembers the little man here¡± The doctor gestures to Ace. Ace then looked up at smirk at Xander as if saying you see she didn''t remember you because you are a bad person. ¡°She didn''t remember her parents too, which came as a surprise to them too, so it''s not as if she didn''t remember only you.¡± The doctor concluded with a smile. ¡°Did you remember what happened to you? I brought you here when I saw you in a basement not far from your office. Can you exin what happened to me? We have to bring those mean people to justice.¡± Xander said to Rachel in aforting and caring voice. Rachel was astonished at this act, she almost shouted omg, this man right here should be awarded Oscar for his performance. Why wasn''t he even an actor rather than a businessman? He would have been a fantastic actor. No wonder Araceli wasn¡¯t aware of his hypocritical attitude. She wouldn''t have noticed too if she didn''t receive Araceli¡¯s memories. But no worries, she had received her memories and she will make sure that Xander and Alice got to hell and back. ¡°I don''t remember anything about it.¡± Rachel tried to sound as convincing as she could. Let him believe that she didn''t remember anything, so she can deal with them ordingly. ¡°Do you remember Alice? She''s your best friend from childhood. You should remember her.¡± Xander urged. ¡°Alice?¡± Rachel stated. She can''t pretend she didn''t know Alice at all. She would be suspicious of her. ¡°Yes, Alice. Do you remember her?¡± Xander asked again. Seeing her confused face, Ace butted in. ¡°Sister, You don''t remember Alice? Alice always buys me This material belongs to N?velDrama.Org. toys and ys with me anytime shees to our house.¡± Rachel looked at Ace¡¯s face and saw him looking at her expectantly, she can''t help but groan inwardly. Why he got to look at her with that puppy face? Chapter 5 Alice pretense Chapter 5 Alice pretense Rachel turned her head and looked back at Xander and replied to him. ¡°Of Course I remember Alice, we''ve been friends since I was twelve. Where is she? I''ve not seen her since I woke up.¡± Baffled the doctor asked. ¡°But you didn''t remember her this morning while your parents were here, ¡± ¡°Doctor, I remember my parents now, after sleeping I was able to recover bits of my memory,¡± Rachel told the doctor in a slow voice. ¡°Howe you didn''t remember me then?¡± Xander asked, a bit annoyed. Though it''s good that she didn''t remember the incident, why didn''t she remember him? People will think there wasn''t love between them. Not that there was but at least for a facade. ¡°How about I call her here for you?¡± Xander asked. ¡°Sure, please do. I can''t find my cell phone. I would have called her.¡± Alice answered back slowly but instantly. Making Xander believe that she really can''t wait to see her best friend. Xander raised his eyebrows up and looked at her with a small smile but in his mind he was thinking that she was really a fool. ¡°Sure, I will call her now,¡± Xander said to Rachel and walked out of the hospital room. When the doctor saw that the situation was under control, he left the hospital room and went back to his office. ¡°Alice, she already woke up,¡± Xander said to Alice immediately she picked up the call. Disorientedly, Alice asked. ¡° Who?¡± ¡°Araceli,- Alice scoffed, Is that why he couldn''t even greet her? Like, hey baby? Or hey love? ¡°Oh really, that''s so good, how is she?¡± Alice replied she can''t let Xander think that she was a bad person. It would be better if that bi*tch had died, but she didn''t. She still has to wake up and drag Xander This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. with her. If she doesn''t die now, she will dieter. ¡°She¡¯s fine but she didn''t remember the incident, she also didn''t remember me, ¡± Xander said to Alice. She didn''t remember the incident? She has amnesia? Is that really possible? ¡°Does she have amnesia? Oh, was it because she mmed her head on the wall? Oh my!.¡± ¡°Yeah, I don''t know why she did that crazy thing, she should have just allowed those men to rape her and all this wouldn''t have happened, and our engagement would have been dissolved by now. But because of her stubbornness and protecting her stupid pride, she had tomit suicide.¡± Xander said distastefully to Alice. ¡°Poor girl, I''ming soon. I wille and check on her.¡± Alice said in a pleasant voice to Xander. ¡°You should starting, Araceli remembers you and she has asked for you,¡± Xander said to Alice. ¡°Alright, I will starting. Wait there for me.¡± Alice answers back to Xander. Xander went back to her hospital room and saw that Ace was still frowning as he had been doing since he came. He doesn''t care shit about him anyways. Ace can do whatever he wants to do when he dissolves the engagement between him and his sister. He wouldn''t even have to see him. ¡°I¡¯ve called Alice, she said she was upied with something that was why she couldn''te earlier and she''sing immediately.¡± Xander looked away from Ace and exined to Araceli. ¡° She also said she hopes you will understand her,¡± he added with a look of disgust. She can''t me his Alice for anything. ¡°It¡¯s okay, I didn''t me her.¡± Rachel said in a slow voice to Xander. Not me her? Hphmm! Someone you im to be your best friend was in aa for three days and you didn''t show up till she opened her eyes, and you said she should me you! Nice, nice. She doesn''t deserve to be an enemy not to talk a friend! It wasn''t long after Xander called Alice that she came running inside the hospital as if she heard just that Araceli was brought into the hospital. ¡°Araceli!¡± Alice cried out immediately as she entered the hospital room. The guards at the door immediately turned back because they thought something happened to their miss. Even Rachel was shocked because she wasn''t expecting a woman screaming her name when she looked back and saw the face fitted the Alice in her memory, Rachel calmed down and waited for her to disy thoroughly. ¡°Alice, ¡± Rachel softly let out in a low voice. Alice quickly walked to her side and held her hands with tears in her eyes. ¡°Araceli, I''m sorry I wasn''t here with you when you were going through all that. I heard but I had a show I had to be there, I was just arriving from the show¡± Alice quickly exined to Rachel. A show? Lol, How can someone that set her up three days ago suddenly have an impromptu show? Rachel knew that she was probably waiting for Araceli¡¯s death. Well sorry to disappoint you, Araceli is really dead and this is me, Rachel, in her body and I''m not as gentle and meek as her. ¡°No, Rachel. It''s fine, I understand b.¡± Rachel replied as she choked. Ace quickly brought a ss of water for his sister and fed it to her while Alice patted her back gently. ¡°Hush, hush. Stop talking. You are still not better yet.¡± Alice said to Rachel as she wanted her back. Xander was looking at how caring his Alice was. She was probably regretting what happened and showing sisterly feeling her that b*tch again. It''s still his Alice that''s the best. ¡°I just want you to know that I didn''t me you,¡± Rachel replied as she tried to convince Alice that she actually didn''t remember anything Rachel was studying Alice face with the corners of her trying to see her expression. Alice had to believe that she didn''t remember anything else she wouldn''t be able to make them rx their guards towards her. She had to take them unaware. ¡°Araceli, I heard that it was Xander that brought you here?¡± Chapter 6 Putting up a good show Chapter 6 Putting up a good show Rachel took another ss of water and dropped it down carefully while she essed Alice''s expression. That good-for-nothing backstabbing bitch was having a hard time showing remorse for her supposed-to-be best friend. Rachel couldn''t help but feel sorry for Araceli knowing how sweet and kind she was to her even at her time of early departure. A rush of emotions and anger flooded her from within as she looked at the two horrible people in front of her. The more reason she needed to stay in control and make these bastards pay for what they put Araceli through since she was now in her body. "Yes, Xander brought me here, " Rachel said with a vile taste in her mouth after saying the traitor''s name. "Turns out he had a tracker on me in case something like this, isn''t that thoughtful of my fianc¨¦, ¡± Rachel replied and nced at Alice. She saw her stiffened and smiled gently to herself. She need to keep up a good fake smile. She had to put up a good show and be kind and meek like Araceli was so they won''t suspect her. If she was going to put on a good show she had to really show she didn''t have any memory of what they did to Araceli. "Well,that''s nice," Alice said managing to force out a smile. Did she really had to throw it on her face that Xander had a tracker on her? So gullible. She probably don''t know that she was the one that suggested it so they can monitor her? But Won''t this bitch die already!!!! I''m so tired of her all too nice and angelic character,I need to devise another n ASAP, something that will actually work and end her this time around. "I am really d you are getting better, I hope you get your memories back soon, ¡± Alice said with fake sympathy. She went to Araceli¡¯s bed to hug her but Rachel refused to hug with the excuse that being in bed for three days had weakened her. "I will be back within few hours, I have to return to the show," Alice said While looking at Xander with intent signal for him to walk her out so they could talk. "It''s ok, I understand Alice, I also need some rest my head is starting to ache a little," Rachel said faking a little scrunchy face showing and stretching a little bit. She could see the concern written on Ace''s face as she stretched,damn the boy could really weaken an angry man with those damn puppy eyes. She reached out to ruffle his hair while giving him some of her chocte pudding on of the maid had given her as part of her lunch which she was yet to eat. "Ehm, I will walk Alice out, you get some rest. I will be back in a jiffy, ¡± Xander said while pecking Araceli on the head. Ace frowned a little at the ugly man with the weird strong perfume that smelt like some of his daddy''s friends only stronger. He couldn''t believe he would soon be his brother and take Araceli away from him. Once the door closed Rachel cleaned her forehead from the sloppy kiss Xander gave her. *severe cringe* She couldn''t believe someone as wicked and disheartening as him could act so lovely and caring to someone he hurt. She honestly couldn''t me Araceli though with a performance in pretense that was good, she probably didn''t see the devil''s tail between his legs or the two bloody horns on his head. He was like an evil brad pit but without the looks and definitely without the eyes. But she had to give herself some credits too, I mean that was some good acting she disyed too because she could have tried to rip Alice hair out of her fucking head and send it down Xander''s throat while she had it all on video just for the fun of it but she was doing this for Araceli and she had to do it well so they don''t suspect her. When she got out of her thoughts, she found Ace sleeping on the side of the bed with an empty chocte pudding pack on the side table beside her bed. She patted the boy''s head a little, feeling sorry for him about losing his sister and not knowing. She checked the side of her bed and suddenly felt the effect of not eating for days and spotted some sandwiches and an apple. Shaking her head at the skimpy food as she wolfed it down. I don''t know about Araceli but I have a big appetite and two sandwiches and an apple isn''t what I need right now. Starting to feel the weight of being awake for too long, Rachel decided to head back to sleep beforeing up with a n to get rid of the two good-for-nothing traitors. Wait a sec.. All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. She totally was forgetting the reason why SHE was dead. Well let''s make that three fucking motherfuckers, she totally forgot about her boyfriend turned ex. How she caught him cheating on her with the same woman he told her to not worry about, the same woman he told her "was just a friend". She could feel her eyes get teary for a moment. Look at her. She was so distracted and focused about Araceli she totally forgot she was dead and was in an heiress body helping her n revenge she didn''t know where to start from. She has been so worried about Araceli that she forgot about her sister and parents how broken they will be right now knowing she''s dead. She never imagined she would miss her own funeral Sheughed through her whimper until she suddenly felt a hand touch her, she turned to see a worried look on the little boy''s face and she sobbed more feeling the loss more than ever. Ace climbed the bed to hug his sister andfort her, he hated it when people cried, it made him sad and he didn''t like being sad. Rachel epted the hug while she held on to him as her life depended on it, so much had happened during the past few days it didn''t ur to her how much pain she will be in when the realization of it all filled her. From her thoughts, she and Ace drifted off to sleep hand in hand. She was d she wasn''t alone, at least not for long. She thought about all the things she would miss from her old life, her red now ruined 2009 Toyota, her favorite wooden colored mug, the frame at her bedside that held a picture of her and her ex- boyfriend. Merely the thoughts of him brought sadness to her heart but that it''s her past now, she has to focus on her new life and adjust because she will be getting discharged soon She knew she was in for a full ride. Evening came by faster than she expected. After checking her bedside and realizing Ace wasn''t there anymore, she checked for a message on her table and saw a note which she recognized as Araceli mother''s handwriting thanks to Araceli¡¯s memory at her full disposal saying; Hey love We took Ace home to get a proper rest and get some clothes for him. Stay strong. We love you Mum. She smiled at the note while she dropped it on the table... Chapter 7 Araceli discharge Chapter 7 Araceli discharge Spending myst few hours in the hospital made me more excited, thrilled and scared at the same time. I was going to finally see how Araceli lived and the clothes she wore, the food she ate knowing her lifestyle will be totally different from mine and blending in without invoking suspicion. The door suddenly swung open and Ace came rushing in with his spiderman T-shirt, ck shorts, and white trainers. Rachel watched as he jumped on the bed excitedly swinging my hand left to right, clearly excited and enthusiastic about having his big sistere home after almost two weeks at the hospital. "Ara"! "Ara"! "Ara" Ace said. "Yessssss¡± Rachel replied as he called her name to show that she was excited too because she couldn''t help it with him being so excited. "I heard you the first and the second time, ¡± Rachel said again when she saw Rachel said, smiling a bit from the boy''s excitement that was infectious, spreading a smile across her lips. She dropped down from her bed while holding him in her arms. "Drop me down, Ara, I am not five anymore,¡± Ace said as Rachel started to tickle him around the room. Ace was giggling,ughing sounded so cute she wanted him to keepughing, It''s been so long since she had genuinely smiled orughed since the incident. She really needed this. "Alright alright, I will let you breathe for a second. Rachel said as she let the boy because he was starting to go purple reminding her of the girl from Charlie the chocte factory. Before she could get a hold of Ace again, he had raced out of the room calling dibs on the front sit of dad''s car which evoked some happy memories from Araceli''s past "Ara" "Ara" "Ara" Ace came running towards her excitedly, today dad decided to take Ace to wondend after performing well in ss. "I call dibs on front sit in dad''s car" Ace yelled excited Rachel smiled as the memory filled her head, then decided to get dressed. When she was about to get dressed the door swung open again. "Hey sweetie,are you ready?" Mrs. Gracias said, smiling gently. "Give me a minute,¡±Rachel said. "Alright we will be waiting in the car, ¡± .``We are d to have you back, Ara.¡± Mrs. Gracias said with a warm smile. Rachel swung her room car and clocked out of the hospital. She waited a bit till the machine signed her departure. Pushing the doors open, rays of sunlight attacked her eyes making her squint a little. That was when it dawned on her that she hadn''t felt sunlight in over a week. Slowly taking some time to let her eyes adjust to the sun, she looked into the parking lot seeing different varieties of vehicles from a brown O''brian pick up truck to ck Chevrolet and a 2009 Honda which resembled her car. A wave of emotions hit Rachel as a sh of memory hit her all together. Her cheating bastard of an ex and the truck pummeling her and crushing her and her car. She stumbled back a little holding the rails that lead out of the hospital as she tried to gather herposure again. Before she could worry about finding Mr. and Mrs. Garcia''s car again, Ace came running towards her and grabbed her hands in his small chubby fingers. "Dad said I should get you, he said you might have forgotten what our car looked like,¡±. Ace said, squinting his light brown eyes looking up at Rachel. "But you still remember daddy''s car right," "...And the card games, my little piano and¡­" Ace continued.. "I remember most of it, Acey," Rachel said, giving him a little smile. "I also remember that we called dibs on the front seat," I told him enthusiastically. Aceyughed at remembering and started running towards the car and Rachel followed him closely behind as they walked towards a 2020 Rolls Royce. She stared in awe as the sun highlighted the curves of the silver car. That''s Araceli¡¯s parents'' car?? Awesome! Acey quickly got in the front seat and closed the door quickly while sticking his tongue out through the windowughing at the little victory. "Hey, are you ok sweetheart?¡± Mrs Gracia asked as she came down from the car and led Rachel to the door, slowly opening it for her to get in. On entering, Araceli''s dad gave her a warm hug telling her how d he was that she was alright, she felt just how much love the Garcia''s had for their daughter. It''s just so sad that their daughter is already dead and she was in her body right now. But nevertheless, she will take care of them like her own family. The car ride wasn''t as long as she expected as we soon alighted at an estate gate, After the driver was given a pass and they slowly moved through the giant ck and poise gate which was written in gold letters. The Garcia''s Estate and house holdings Rachel marveled at the glorious beauty and finesse of the estate nning. So they didn''t only live in a ¡°super only rich people estate¡± but they also owned it. The stop of the car brought her out of her thoughts and a gentle hand held onto her to take her out of the car. On seeing the person, she thought he was a rtive or maybe a family friend she was supposed to know. He was dressed in an expensive ck suit and ck dress shoes with his hair slick back. "Honey, do you remember Mr Gonzales...Our butler?¡± Mrs Gracia asked looking at Rachel with concern thinking maybe she might still be battling little amnesia. Not knowing Rachel was only looking in awe because she was surprised a butler could look this expensive then a regr working ss man, but then this was the butler of the fucking billionaire! That''s some old money shit. Some maids help take her bag while bowing a little to her, she felt strange as if she is a totally different person Oh wait¡­ She is a totally different person now, she is Araceli Nicole Gracia the daughter of Mr and Mrs Gracia. Rachel reminded herself as she got into the house and her eyes opened and jaw dropped to the ground, white walls, huge frames of definitely expensive art, exotic sculptures here and there with maids running around the house getting things done. She couldn''t help but open her eyes wide in amazement. So this is what living as a heiress felt like. She was led to her room to rest and change into her "usual clothes" which she guessed would be some expensive ass dress which could pay for her entire college funds and still remain for her to live a little over an average jobless graduate. Rachel got into the toilet to take a hot shower as more memories came to her, seeing how Araceli loved gardening and the times she yed card games with Acey or herpany office. She was d these memories came now because it would have been awkward and embarrassing if she didn''t remember where her own office is. When Rachel finished taking her bath, she went to Araceli''s closet which was bigger than her apartment and triple the size of her living room. She saw all kinds of designer and unreleased merchandise from Gi and Prada. She couldn''t help but run her hand through a size gown and decided to try it on. While gettingfortable with the princess-like queen size bed, she suddenly heard a small knock that startled her as she rose from her bed and a maid walked in with a tray and she could smell how good the food was from over here. The maid set up her food on a little table beside her bed and left after Rachel told her a little "thank you". After looking at the meal which was scrambled eggs, toast, some bacon and a small bowl of very appetizing looking strawberries. She took a bit at the first strawberry and moaned at the rich taste. While taking the third, an elderly maid quickly opened the door of her room looking at her in shock as she took the strawberries. "But but...Miss..." "I never knew you developed an unusual taste for strawberry,¡± She asked looking at Araceli carefully as she was still chewing on one. Rachel instantly realized that Araceli doesn''t eat strawberries or didn''t like them or both. "Uhm i just felt like trying some, it''s been a long time since I have taken them," Rachel mumbled nervously. All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. It is a new life for Rachel to experience as the existence of Araceli. Tomorrow she has to be back at Araceli¡¯s office, which is a new adventure to explore. Chapter 8 First day at the office Chapter 8 First day at the office "Okay Miss, if you say so," The elderly maid replied skeptically. "I am fine Antonia,¡± Rachel found herself saying with a warm smile. Antonia?! So that''s her name¡­ Antonia smiled back and turned to go gently. After she left, Rachel got lost in her thoughts, realizing even though she had transmigrated into Araceli''s body, she still carried her past life with her. She was just in Araceli''s body but she didn''t dislike or react to the things Araceli liked, she was still the same old Rachel. Wednesday 7 30 The sun forced its way through the big window and way too expensive curtain and reached her on her bed, Rachel turned and faced the weirdly decorated ceiling while embracing the warm and homey feeling the bed and sheets offered her. She would have loved to keepying down on the bed all day but that''s what she has been doing for the past five days and as much as doing nothing sounded appealing, she knew this was not her. She was so used to bursting and fighting for everything she truly wanted. So slowly she drag herself away from the ever sinking queen bed that didn''t wanna let her go and dragged herself to the bathroom to do the usual morning routine. On looking at the mirror, she yelped a little, causing a maid to rush into her room. "Miss, is everything okay?¡± The young maid that just rushed in asked curiously. "Yes..yes, I''m fine just got a little bit shocked, ¡± Rachel replied with a nervousugh while wearing a silverfy robe. ''God I need to get myself in control'' I guess I''m still not used to seeing someone else''s body and face as mine. Getting out of the bathroom and looking into the closet she realized today is the the day she has to go see how the office is doing, she hasn''t been to the office since the incident and she needed to perform the duties of not just an heiress but the current CEO of a multimillion-dorpany and let not forget meeting with Araceli''s business toppetitor Yandel fucking Baldwin. He sounds like some stuck up rich boy who inherited apany from his daddy and looks down on women for the fun of it, she''s probably not in the best position to judge but who cares, She is Araceli for fuck sake. On getting to the closet, she saw more designers than she had seen in the store in her street back when she was just Rachel Johnson. ''Damn I need some music¡¯ Rachel thought as she went to the boxy thingy on her drawer, guessing that''s SIRI "SIRI y my favorite track" Rachel asked and waited for some cool music to put her in the mood to select an outfit to make her feel powerful as Araceli should feel.Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. Low and behold LOSE by NIKI came on. ''Damn...no wonder she was always calm and chill¡¯ Rachel thought, but she was now a different Araceli so things are about to get way more interesting. "SIRI y spun by ?ngie," Rachel asked as she started feeling the intro dub beat "Yessssss,now that''s what I''m talking about,¡± Rachel cried excitedly and pumped up into the air. She picked out a ck Chanel handless blouse with a white pencil business suit trouser, a ck heels with ck suit jacket and white Gi bag. She had to admit, she looked good. ''I don''t what Araceli wore mostly but this is some fire outfit. She probably wore more dresses judging from the number of dresses she saw in the closet''. Rachel thought as she headed downstairs to get some breakfast. She must admit, she got weird stares from the maids more like admiration which gave more confidence which she dearly needed. On getting to the kitchen, Rachel saw Mrs. Gracia on a call, shortly after which she ended it and started at Araceli with mixed emotions, mostly admiration and concern. "Honey are you sure you want to see the office now?....I mean it''s totally fine if you want toy back a little and rest," Mrs. Garcia said with concern. "I''m good, mum." Rachel reassured her while grabbing a sandwich and an apple. "I mean the office is still perfectly under control, you can take some more rest,¡± Mrs Garcia tried to convince Rachel. "It''s ok mum, besides I feel a lot better and I''m getting kinda bored just sitting at home all day, ¡± Rachel replied while taking a bottle of water. "Alright, I will have Jeffrey drive you to work then,¡± "Thanks mum...see youter" Rachel replied while kissing Mrs. Garcia''s cheek. She headed outside where a ck Audi car with a tinted window was waiting for her with car tes that read GARCIA 04 Which screamed Expensive!. The drive to the office breezed by as she tried to recollect memories of her workers and secretary. She couldn''t afford to misname anyone or act suspiciously. On getting to the office, It took every will in her bones not to let her jaw hit the ground.The building was huge with over 50 floors, not that she was expecting less from a multimillion-dorpany. The door man greeted her followed by the receptionist which she all replied with warm Hello''s as she got into her private elevator that led right to her office floor. At the bell sound, she walked out and headed for the secretary who greeted her and asked about her journey. "Journe...oh yes, it was good I guess," Rachel quickly replied guessing that''s what have been told to them and not that their boss had better option. "Alright, well you had a meeting with Mr. Yandel Baidwin about 20minutes ago, but I had it rescheduled at thest minute not knowing you will being in today,¡± The secretary said with a rushed breath. "It''s ok,I will meet with¡­" "If it isn''t Miss Araceli Garcia Your majesty" Yandel interrupted with cockiness, mock and sarcasm dripping in his tone. Rachel turned around to see someone she thought might be the Yandel mockingly giving a little bow before Rachel with a glint of cockiness in his eyes. "Mr. Yandel, I thought you were rescheduled as my secretary just told me," Rachel asked pointedly as she raised her eyebrows. "Well I was on my way when I received word that you were in the office, I couldn''t forfeit the opportunity to meet her royal majesty now, could I?¡± Yandel replied with a confident smirk on his face. "As much as I want to p that ignorant smirk on your face, I''m supposed to be nice today. So see you on the rescheduled date Mr Yandel¡­.shuuu shuu you can be on your way now,¡± Rachel replied with matching confidence that clearly took Yandel by surprise. ''The Araceli I knew would have just ignored my snide remarks and left without saying a word'' Yandel thought. "Well look who developed some extra pair of guts, ¡± Yandel answered back shortly after recovering from his shock. "And look who''s breathing through that heavy unnecessary cologne, I guess we both shocked each other, ¡± Rachel replied with a little sassyment which took Yandel by surprise again. "If you don''t mind I have more productive things to do Yandel, see you in two days which I''m so not looking forward to," Rachel added while walking victoriously towards her office with newly found confidence. Time to put that pompous bastard in his ce. Chapter 9 Meeting Yandel Baldwin Chapter 9 Meeting Yandel Baldwin A knock resonated through Rachel''s office interrupting thepany production records. She had to say, Araceli did a pretty good job managing such aplicated and diversepany such as this one. Every unit in the organization was well sorted and performed well with well filed reports on sales,production, and welfare. It made it easy for her to know what she was doing and where she was heading to. Her secretary walked in as she finally discarded her cloud of thoughts while she made a mental appointment to meet all the heads of various departments. The petite woman in front of her wore a navy blue office skirt and a white floral blouse with low ck heels and a tied up ponytail giving her face sharper features "Ma''am, Mr Baidwin secretary has asked for a reschedule of appointment with you from the office. He also said he will be contacting you privately to give a information of your meeting point" The secretary said all in one breath while looking through her folder. "Oh and a meeting will also be held with the board of pioneers today by 2pm¡­." The secretary added but looking up and seeing a hint of distaste and a slight frown on her boss face, she decided she loved her job more than pissing her boss off, especially with her new found style and elegance with a cloud of confidence. She couldn''t deny it...her boss had changed alot since she arrived from the strange unannounced journey that she only knew of a week ago. "Or...I can always reschedule, I .. I. mean it''s the board of pioneers right??...we can always meet with them¡± She stuttered nervously which made her boss finallye out of her thoughts. The look Araceli gave her made her want to dig a hole right where she was and bury herself there or rather fling herself off the 67th floor which will be a nice fall since she wasn''t that afraid of height¡­.no scratch that. She was TERRIFIED of heights. She closed her eyes and waited to hear the words she dreaded to hear so much Get out of my office. Or even worse¡­. You are fired!!! "It¡¯s ok Carly...I will meet with the pioneers today" Rachel replied, clearing her throat. The thought of meeting with Yandel put her in a pretty sour mood. "Alright Miss, I will let you know 10 mins ahead.¡± Carly replied, surprised that she hasn''t yet lost her job. She left Araceli¡¯s office quickly before she could change her mind, at the click of the door closed Rachel brought her index and thumb finger to the bridge of her nose. The thought of meeting up with Yandel was already stressing her out because on God she only inherited Araceli''s memories and met him once and she already hated his presence. She decided to go have early lunch at a sweet homey cafe she saw some days ago while getting to know her environment. She still hadn''t gone to her apartment from her former life, even though she missed her little home she knew she wasn''t ready to see all of it. On the cling of her private elevator, she got in and punched 1st floor, she needed to focus more on the present and not her past life because it had nothing to offer to anymore, not that cheating bastard or the rich bitch who he cheated on her with or the work she finally got before she went to the bastard''s ce celebrate. Rachel held onto the wall of the elevator to calm her thoughts because everything was rapidly hitting again and it didn''t end wellst time. She opted to take a walk instead of calling jeffrey to drive her there even though it was numerous blocks away, she had to remember that she was no ordinary Rachel johnson but Araceli Garcia the heiress and CEO of a multimillion dorpany. She wore a big round peach hat with big D''& G specs with a ck face mask while heading towards the cafe. On entering the cafe she got hit by the strong scent of good coffee she really needed and waffles, which was exactly what she ordered from the barista. She headed towards the window side which was isted,at least she wasn''t recognized by anybody yet. As she looked through her phone, she saw a text from a strange number So I know you got nothing better to do Araceli How about I grace you with my presence,The Aldero...3pm Yandel ''Urghhhhhhh'' Rachel groaned internally. How can only a single human stir this much frustration in a person, it''s almost like he just knows how to ruin every perfectly good moment even without him knowing he is doing just that. She finished up her brunch with haste after checking the time on her cell phone. 1 43pm She better get back to the office to rush up the pioneer meeting because honestly she was more interested in meeting with the individual head of departments instead of some old bunch of folks mostly men who had nothing to offer more than criticize CEO''s about how to run thepany while they sat on their asses doing nothing. She learnt alot about them during her internship in college. She got to the office a few minutes before the agreed time while she spoke to her secretary who handed to her the necessary files she will need for the meeting. She had some experience with dealing with rich old stuck up men who thought they knew better because of the age difference. She headed towards the conference room and met them already seated swapping tabloids and All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. hushed ideas. "Ladies...or Lady rather and Gentlemen good afternoon,¡± Rachel added as she set eyes on the only other female aside herself. "let''s get this wrapped up I have an important meeting with the CEO of our rivalingpany Mr Yandel Baidwin which I think you all are aware of,¡± The meeting didn''tst for more than 30minutes as they only hadints to offer and she presented a device n to tackle theirint while not taking their left handed offers. She went back to her office to stretch a bit, she checked her phone to see another message from Yandel which caused her to groan internally. I assume you have seen my message from your lovely reply The whole message dripped in sarcasm but it brought a little smile to her face that little brady was concerned about her not replying. She decided to discard the office jacket and just go with the armless Chanel blouse. She called Jeffrey because she didn''t have an idea where The Aldero was. Jeffrey was down at the parking lot sooner than she expected and she drove to meet Yandel mentally preparing herself for all kinds of shit Yandel could throw at her to get a reaction which she wasn''t ready to give him. As she guessed the ce was some fancy Italian seafood restaurant, Ok now she got suspicious. She doesn''t know about Araceli but she hated seafood and so this is a normal meeting point for them because there''s no way Yandel could know that Rachel Johnson disliked seafood. She entered the fancy restaurant while she gave the hostess her name "Alright, Table 6 please,¡± the hostess replied with a warm smile She went to the table and took a seat expecting to see yandel present already but it turned out she was the first to arrive. She checked her phone for a message or anything. 3 15pm She held herself back from texting him because her ego was the size of an Elephant and she wasn''t going to y into his hands with his mind games. She ordered some white wine while she waited for him and scrolled through her instagram feed as Araceli and not as Rachel. 4 25pm ''Over an hour and the bastard hadn''t showed up''!!!! Frustrated and tired of sitting she decided to take her leave while mentally thinking of ways to rip fucking Baldwin apart and put a stick up his ass up so far he wouldn''t see iting. Looking up low and behold, she saw Baldwin flirting with the hostess while holding her hands, this made Rachel almost flip her shit. She decided to go give him a piece of her mind. "You self absorbed prick,You think you can just do anything you like keeping me waiting like that for over an hour while you flirt with women, tell you what, next time my location and terms!!.....And For fucksake I don''t eat sea food"!!!! Rachel fumed while storming out. "It''s Baldwin sweetheart,¡± he replied cockily. "I guess we both share the act of not giving a fuck Baldwin, " she yelled back while exiting. ''damn that woman seriously got some anger issues flu from whereever the fuck she travelled to¡¯ Yandel thought. Chapter 10 Noticing the changes in her Chapter 10 Noticing the changes in her Was he dreaming or did Araceli just yell in a public space? He has seen that much fury or anger before, especially not from the ever calm and meek Araceli which he found boring but now...Now she has ALL of his attention. I mean was it possible for someone to develop a strong and outstanding personality over one strange ass journey, because if that is possible, he will like to take all his exes to conversion therapy because of their dry ass humor. Hepletely forgot about the hostess he was flirting with and ran out to meet Araceli and met her waiting for her ride outside. "Araceli"!!! "Urghhhhh" Rachel groaned internally "How can a single human dimwit be so relentless!!... don''t you have a failingpany to run or some dumb ass caked face model chick to bang Baldwin, anything you got to do that involves you leaving me alone seems fine to me" Rachel replied him still royally pissed. "You know if I didn''t know Araceli better, I would say you are a bit jealous...don''t you think"? Yandel retorted with a confident smirk. "Wait wha what¡­" Rachel stuttered a bit as her face got flushed a little. "Awwn is Araceli blushing"!!! "OMG that''s so cute" Yandel cooed with some element of truth in his voice. "Wait, did you just call me cute? And FYI I can''t be jealous of someone who is still half through what mypany has achieved baldwin" "Whatever Aracel, I just came to tell you toe inside alright,it''s gonna rain soon and I''m sorry foringte and this banters as much as Ilove riling you up, I need this business deal to be signed as soon as possible" Yandel responded being a little reasonable which took Rachel by surprise. Rachel brought out her phone and took a little video and picture of Yandel while he stood there slightly surprised by her act. "What was that for Aracel"? Yandel asked.. "First of, only my kid bro gets to call me Aracel, Secondly, I was kind of taken back at your sudden choice to act like a slightly responsible adult so i decide to record a bit of that just to be sure I wasn''t hallucinating or something" Rachel replied with a straight face while putting her phone into her bag. This brought a smile to Yandel''s face. "This is apletely different Araceli than the one I knew a month ago, and I can''t lie, I kinda like the feisty Araceli more than the calm meek Mary Jesus Araceli, ¡± Yandel said with a genuine smile. "Damn he has a beautiful smile"... Wait what!!! No Rachel!! Bad thought!! Bad thoughts!!! "Alright about the nickname issue,how about I call you Celi"? Yandel added. "Celi??....I don''t know if it sounds like Mexican food or something. You know what Baldwin, whatever rocks your little canoe."Rachel replied Walking back into the restaurant while Baidwin opened the doors for her as she entered. She rolled her eyes while heading to their reserved table and taking a seat not before she swatted Yandel''s hand from trying to hold a chair out for her. "Sooo" Yandel dragged out when they were finally seated. "What will her majesty be taking this fine evening?" Yandel mocked a little. "As much as you definitely will be a fine waiter without a reasonable future,I wouldn''t like anything baldwin. I don''t take seafood" Rachel replied without looking up from her menu. "Wait what"?! Yandel asked in disbelief, his shock was very evident on his face. "Celi we took shrimps with dressing and sdst month, Now you don''t eat seafood"? Yandel asked skeptically. "Well it''s a health thingy Baldwin, why do you sound so stressed about it"? Rachel replied, trying to y it off. "You know what, I i will just get some sd with no seafood dressing, that''s fine by me" Rachel said, closing up her menu looking up to a shocked and slightly skeptical Baldwin. She really needed to do a little more research on Araceli''s likes and dislikes. First, the strawberries and now seafood. "What"?!! Rachel asked slightly ufortable with the way he was looking at her. "Nothing nothing, just that you are acting a little strange with this whole personality.I have to say, I really like it, the whole new fire brings a whole new light to your eyes" Yandel replied. This took Rachel by surprise,was yandel flirting with her?What the hell was he doing to her? She could feel her cheeks getting warm. "Well that was totally not awkward now, don''t you think"? Rachel asked with a tone of light sass. Which made Yandelugh heartily which she couldn''t deny¡­.it sounded really nice to hear. "No it doesn''t Rachel, focus"!!!. "This is isn''t what Araceli wanted" Rachel thought.While she was in thought,he had already ordered for both of them. "Hey!, I didn''t tell you what I wanted!¡±Rachel whined. "You did actually, you said you wanted sd with no seafood dressing" Yandel replied skeptical. "Ok then" she replied defeated. "Alright, so let''s start talking about the business proposal, I know you already exined in detail back to my team," Yandel said with he''s business tone. Rachel saw no evidence of a joke in his voice and she got serious too. "Ok so the proposal is simple, our business is at the top of the market right now, believe me our Yandel nods in reply and Rachel takes the cue to continue, she didn''t know what Araceli discussed with Yandel but she went through the print Araceli made and she understood it. It was going to shoot herpany out of the roof. Rachel went ahead and exined it to the best of her ability for yandel to understand but he still had an unsatisfied look on his face and she couldn''t help but feel unaplished. "I must say that''s a brilliant proposal Celi but you did a better exnationst time,it''s almost like you are a whole new person to be honest" Yandel said. This made Rachel''s heart skip a bit, if she wasn''t careful people were going to start suspecting her that she wasn''t Araceli. "Well what can I say Baldwin, after keeping me waiting for almost an hour and half I kinda lost some of my fire. So this is on you,not me" Rachel replied confidently. "Fair enough," Yandel said in surrender. In the next 30 minutes, they had eaten and Rachel got to know about a few thing she didn''t think Araceli knew about Yandel. Such as having younger twin siblings, a boy and a girl, and how he had inherited hispany from his parents at the age of 21 and he graduated from Harvard. He seemed like the perfect mummy and daddy''s boy. She was kinda surprised though when he didn''t ask much about her,as if he knew how confusing and ufortable it will make her feel, how she didn''t know to talk about Araceli Garcia the heiress or Rachel Johnson the ordinary but stubborn MBA degree. They left the restaurant in a happy mood, funny enough how the same person that can rill you up so good can also make youugh. Rachel ordered an Uber back home because she knew Jeffrey would be off work at 6 and this was 7 02. She could help but feel a wussy feeling in her belly...What was this she was feeling¡­ She made ast minute change to go to the office. She needed to clear her head because On God, she didn''t feel right, was this wussy feeling because of Yandel because he better not. Just as she reached the office, she met her secretary still working. "Maria don''t you think you should be heading home now"? Rachel asked her. "Uhm yeah I should, I was just rounding up anyway,¡± Her secretary replied while gathering up her files to take her leave. As Rachel went back to her office, she got a text from Yandel which brought a strange smile to her face which she didn''t know was there. Baldwin Hey so I forgot to add this but my twin siblings are having a party for their birthday. I was wondering if you coulde so we could talk some more on our business deal. PS you can leave the business attire behind ande as casual as you can,you don''t wanna scare the teens. Sheughed a little while reading thest line,the thought of having Yandel trying to spend time with her made her smile more¡­ "What is this green eyed man up to".... This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. Rachel thought. Chapter 11 Signing her first deal Chapter 11 Signing her first deal Today is the day she has been waiting for. She was both excited but nervous, enthusiastic but worried at the same time. The future of thepany depended on this deal she was going to pitch today. Araceli has been working on the deal for over 6months with a whole research base and backup file, she knows that the contract wasn''t only important to thepany but to Araceli too, this was most of her life''s work, hence why she couldn''t afford to mess it up. She got up an hour before her rm due to her restlessness, so she decided to take a run to clear her mind, A run and a good coffee will keep her straight,so she left the house at 6 27 am jogging up to her estate. The sun had partially risen and the air was cool again her face but she could feel the slight chill of winter,she remembered how she would dread the winter,how she would cuddle up with Talon and just never want it to end. She shook her headically trying to shake away the thoughts of her bastard ex. If she was going to win this thing, she needed to stay focused on her goal. Time being its usual self flew by and by the time she alighted at the house it was already half-past seven, she got to her room and discarded her sweaty clothes as she headed for the shower. Not wasting any time, she opted for a red zer and a ck slim fitted jumpsuit with an oval opening on the front, putting on some ck heels and light make-up, she left her room satisfied archiving the power look she was aiming for. She headed down the stairs towards the kitchen where Mrs Garcia was already having coffee and toast. "Hey Darling, good morning," Mrs. Garcia said warming "Morning mom," Rachel replied with a kiss on her head. "The maids told me you went out early in the morning, where did you go"? Selena asked as she looked up at her daughter who had been so different since the ident that almost took her life. "For a run," Rachel replied simply while making herself a toast. "A run?¡± Mrs. Garcia asked shocked, ¡°since when did you start going for runs'' '' she added, skeptical and a bit worried. She has known her daughter all her life and all of a sudden she starts going for a run and suddenly has a weird thing for strawberries, it made her worried, maybe the bash to the head dealt a little more damage than the doctor thought. "I just needed to clear my head mom,you know I am pitching Ar...my idea today and i need to make it good, thepany needs this deal for the next level marketing trend,¡±.Rachel exined.She really needed to get her shit together, it was starting to get obvious that she was a different person,she wish she could talk with Araceli again, I mean it happened before,it could happen again...right??,God who was she kidding,she was alone in this, which meant she needed to be stronger for both of them now, that''s the only choice she had. When Rachel saw Mrs. Garcia nodded her head, she quickly went to her and give a kiss on her cheeks. This was the newly found affection that Araceli¡¯s mum loves. So she was able to evade any other question and immediately went downstairs in search of Jeffery. On reaching the front gate, jeffrey was already waiting for her, she got into the car and checked her phone for text or anything at all, slightly disappointed that she didn''t receive any text from a certain someone. she was a bit restless now and she knows what that means, A morning with double coffee, she knows she sure as hell needed it. "Uhm jeffrey, can we make a stop at starbucks so Ican get some coffee, ¡± Rachel asked taking a break from the file she was ready. "Yes of course," he replied. ¡°Thank you, ¡± Rachel added and continued to read the file. In a few minutes, they made a stop at starbuck and she ordered coffee with cream and little sugar. A good caffeine will keep her focused for the presentation. She reached the office half past eight and went through her private elevator to her office straight away, Her secretary had already arranged the necessary files she needed for the presentation,the presentation wasn''t holding till 11am so she had time to do other work, and she also promise Ace that if she got the deal she would take him for a movie night at the cinema to watch the movie he has been so excited about the new Lego movie. There were alot of reasons she needed the deal,she has been so busy with work that she hardly had time to spend with Ace and that really made her feel bad. She distracted herself with things to do till it was 20minutes to 11 am, it was almost showtime. On cue, her secretary also entered her office to remind her and wish her well, which she replied with a warm smile as she went ahead to help her carry the files to the ss-tainted conference room. On entering,the cold st of the Air condition hit her,making her shiver a little from the drop in temperature. She took herptop and connected it to the projector and set up everything else she needed. It felt like her project defense all over again from college. Before her secretary left she said something that took her aback. "Hey, I know you have been working hard for this presentation,and i can''t help but feel you became a bit more confident than you were before,more outspoken, that is exactly what you need to make these men know,they need to know you are in control because if they sense any sign of weakness,they will cut off the deal and give it to a man,don''t let them sniff weakness" Her secretary rushed in one breathe. "Uhm thanks Sidney, I will definitely keep that in mind,¡± Rachel replied. "Did she just call me Sidney?." The secretary thought, shaking her head. Araceli must be really stressed about the meeting because the Araceli she knows never forgets a name. The board leaders started entering the conference room one after the other. Rachel thought the All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. ce was cold before but now that the board leaders had arrived the temperature dropped even more which had Rachel wishing she had asked for an extra coffee which would have made it the 4th coffee she would be having today. "Alright, Good day Gentlemen, let''s get this over with," Rachel said with newly found confidence as she saw a look of slight shock on their faces. "I guess she was right,talking with confidence and not letting them sense weakness and intimidation gave me the upper hand" Rachel thought. "Ourpany is at the peak in market right now,ourpetitors are far behind us which doesn''t mean we should rx, but right now our closepetitor Baidwin tech Just currently signed a deal with us.This is meant to boost out market and theirs too but i know the question on your mind...why are we signing a deal with our rival?....well the contract iI devised is rather tricky, while they produce our necessary tech, the percentage they get from us won''t faze us in any way and what we benefit in return is a 72% boost in the market which will keep us at the top for thwrest of the year, knowing we don''t purchase tech anymore and the fact our tech is now produced by the most prestige techpany, this will increase our sales greatly by 21% by December and this is just a year evaluation. So Gentlemen knowing we are all legally greedy, this is a deal we can''t afford to pass, all I need is your approval" Rachel finished confidently "You have our full support and signature" Mr. Aiden, head of the board said. "Huh?!!!" Rachel eximed, shocked. "I said¡­" Mr Aiden said standing up from his chair, "You have our full support and signature,Anything to keep thispany at the top even if it means signing a deal with the bloody devil,¡± Mr Aiden said in a final tone. "Yes, of course, thank you Gentlemen for your time" Rachel replied while gathering her files while the board members left the room.She had to admit that it was rather easier than she thought,she thought she would have to do some convincing but turns out the n she and Araceli worked for turned out perfectly. She headed to her secretary''s office smiling and whispered a little ''thank you to her for her words of advice. She headed home feeling happy and fulfilled. On opening the doors the first person who came running to her was Ace, she picked him up and turned him around while he giggled. "Guess who''s going to watch the lego movie tomorrow!!!!" Rachel cried happily. Chapter 12 Rachel met Yandel and Maya at the cinema Chapter 12 Rachel met Yandel and Maya at the cinema Waking up to the smell of frying bacon and toast is something Rachel can never be used to, she turned in her bed while looking at the time figuring she probably slept through her rm. She had been catching up on a series she had watched in her past life and sleptte, you know, totally "normal" stuff. She went into the bathroom to wash up and wore some casual band tee andfy sweatpants. On heading downstairs,she could hear Ace telling the cook what he wanted which was quite obvious from the time she has known him, it has always been pancake with chocte syrup with a ss of cold almond milk, this was Ace every morning breakfast and on rare days he chose to make scrambled eggs with toast and orange juice. She headed to the coffee machine to make her morning dose of caffeine to start the day, she took a few fried bacons and scrambled eggs, she didn''t have a big appetite this morning unlike Ace who was super happy and excited and she sure knew the reason why he was so happy because he was finally going to see his new favorite movie which he has been talking about all week. She took her breakfast quickly and headed back to her room to do a little clean up andundry, she knew she had a maid who could do all of that but she just couldn''t let them, she was so used to do her things herself she couldn''t let a random stranger do it for her. While she was busy arranging her closet, her phone started ringing which was strange since no one has called her in over 2weeks since her release from the hospital. She checked the contact and it was a strange number, she picked the call thinking who could have gotten her number, maybe some random stalker. "Hello," Rachel said cautiously. "Hey love,sorry i couldn''te see you or call you,i just felt you needed some space to heal from such a tragic event, I really feel bad for going all Ghost on you hope you can forgive me," the strangely familiar voice said. "Uhm...Yh¡­" Rachel replied, still trying to be able to put a face to the voice that kept itching at her head yet she couldn''t just put a face to the voice. "Wait Ara¡­.you still don''t remember me?" The voice said. She couldn''t tell if he was hurt, surprised or just dumb because clearly she didn''t remember a face to the oddly familiar voice. That was when it suddenly hit her. "Ofcourse it was fucking Xander!!!!....she was wandering why she started feeling abit agree at the voice"... "Of Course I remember you Xander...it just that you hurt me, and it''s hard to believe you care about me right now,you totally abandoned me like i wasn''t your fianc¨¦e," Rachel replied, faking hurt. "Thank God for her good acting skills¡­" "I am so sorry baby, I have been so busy with work and your best friend said it was what was best for you because of the trauma you have been through," Xander rambled. "Ohh...I didn''t know that my best friend who I haven''t seen in weeks now calls the shots and says what goes on in our rtionship Xander" Rachel replied with an eye roll, at this point she just found him pathetic asf. "Nooo no baby that''s not what I meant...I just...arghh...are you free this evening?" Xander asked, sounding desperate,she couldn''t tell if it was faked or not but either way she didn''t care to be honest. "No Xander, I am taking my kid bro to the cinema," Rachel replied dryly. "To do what??" Xander asked. She got even more irritated and took the phone from her ear and stared at it with disgust...this man had to be really dumb or just in stupid to be honest. "To y dragon Xander, what the fuck do you think we''re going to do, see fucking Trump?!!" Rachel asked exasperated. "You know what¡­.let''s end this convo here,talkter" Rachel said ending the call. Godddd this dude must really take Araceli for a fucking fool to throw such flimsy excuse and think she will just forgive him and they will be back in cherrynd living merrily. She could just end the whole thing there and then but she has a n she needs to follow through, she needs to make both of them pay for what they did, she definitely was also gonna find a way to make Talon pay for what he did but that was forter. For now, she just wants good vibes and celebrates the deal she just won. She owes it to herself because it has been a stressful week trying to n how she would pitch it perfectly. She concluded her chores and took a little nap,well it was little for a reason because as soon as she closed her eyes, Ace came into her room and jumped on her bed excitedly asking her about when they were going to go,He was already wearing his favorite spider shirt with ck jeans and ck shoe. For a 9 year old, he definitely knew how to dress. she shushed him away so she could get more sleep but he wasn''t having any of it. "Damn he must be that excited or definitely doesn''t respect the fact that Araceli is sleeping"... "Alright Acey i will be down in 15minutes,just let me freshen up and pleaseee don''t put your shoes on my bed its sooo not cool" Rachel drawled out still feeling sleepy. "Sorrrrryyyyyyy" Ace repliedughing as he ran out of her room. She keeps wondering where kids get their energy from because on God she gets exhausted from just living. She got into the bathroom and took a quick shower before getting out to wear a nice casual cloth. She wore high waist jeans with a white crop hoodie and vans, A very Rachel look, she was sure Araceli would never wear something like that. She headed downstairs to see Ace being all hyper with the maids and mom. "You guys be safe, love you," Mrs Garcia said. "We will," Rachel replied. They head towards the car and headed for the local cinema in the middle of town so Ace could have a real cinema experience.On getting there,she saw a lot of adult about to watch the lego movie,she felt less worried now that she saw this.They join the queue to get soda pop with some popcorn and chocte sticks,while they were at it, they heard a nasal high-pitched voice nagging¡­ Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. "But yanny we can literally watch any movie just not this one,pleaseeeee" a slight petite girl with blond hair said. "I want to watch this movie Maya, I saw a friend of mine here and now I want to watch this movie" Yandel replied in a final tone. But Maya furrowed her brows as she thought, Yanny always let her have her way anything she wanted, which always made her think he was into her too, not knowing the poor man can''t just stand the high pitch whining. Now all because of some "friend" he wants to watch lego movie¡­.seriously!!!!!. "You gotta be kidding me" Rachel thought out loud. He wore a fitted Ash tee and ck jeans which hugged his thighs and made his butt look good. Speaking of the devil¡­ "Celi!!!!....omg nice running into you," Yandel said, running to her giving her a surprise hug, just for him to whisper. "Please save me from her, she is so clingy and annoying" Yandel hushed towards Rachel. Clearing the assignment, "Ok you owe me,¡± Rachel hushed back. "Heyyy Baldwin, how have you been? I missed you," Rachel said in a faux sweet which turned my face red to be little. Ace came running back with our chocte sticks. "And by the way, This is Ace, my kid brother,"... Chapter 13 Searching for Ace Chapter 13 Searching for Ace "Nice to meet you, Ace, I''m Yandel," Yandel replied, bending his waist to the kid level as he gave Ace a knuckle bump. "Yannyyyyy!!!. the queue is too long can you help me get the popcorn" Maya whined as there were just four people in front of her. Yandel groaned and rolled his eyes while he went to the popcorn stall to get threerge popcorn packs for Celi, himself, and Ace. "Mayae over here please," Yandel called to her. "Yes," She answered sweetly. "This is Araceli, CEO of Garcia''s Enterprise and Ace, her kid brother," Yandel introduced. "Hi" Maya said indifferently, not really caring about the kid or the so-called hot CEO, she just Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. wanted to spend time with Yanny and anybody that came between that will definitely see her nasty side. "Alright now can we see another movie please," Maya asked with pouty lips and a supposed-to-be puppy look, Rachel who was watching the whole break down cringed a little at the sight, not to be judgy but she could tell she was fake in every way possible from high super bleached blond hair to the blue contacts and who wears such a revealing dress to a local cinema. "Actually...Maya, I was thinking if we could join Celi and Ace, that way we could watch a fun movie and I can discuss business with Araceli," Yandel carefully pointed out to her so she could get his point and not start a headless argument leading to some silly grudge she likes to keep since childhood. "You want us to watch a lego movie!!....seriouslyYandel !!...that is fun for 5-YEAR-OLDS, not Adults" Maya cried out starting to fume, she didn''t miss the nickname he used for Araceli "celi", who the help gives their business partners nicknames for Godsake did he think she was that stupid enough to believe that they were just "business partner", she could feel anger welling up in her but she needed to put herself in control with hopes that she could be wrong. "So you''re not gonna watch the movie with us?" Yandel asked, faking hurt but actually happy for her to just leave so he could be alone with Araceli, but looks like he wasn''t going to be that lucky because she was relentless and not taking heed. "Nooo of course I want to watch a movie with you¡­..and them I guess," Maya replied with hesitation and a tint of desperation after eyeing Araceli and Ace.. "You guess?...." Yandel asked, getting a little annoyed. "Noo I mean I want to" Maya rushed faking a cherry smile. "Alright then let''s go into the viewing room, it''s starting soon, ¡± Araceli said as she gestured for them to go in. Ace ran excitedly ran to the room while Araceli took it as a cue to leave the awkward conversation Maya and Yandel were having, she could already feel the dislike from Maya and she wasn''t ready to add another person she needed to watch out for, that would be too much of a hassle for her. "I hate when you act like this," Yandel said, looking at her disapprovingly. "Ho??"Maya said acting innocent. "How?!!!.....Maya! you literally treated them like shit and you didn''t even know them!!! that was not necessary, that''s all I am training to say, Maya." Yandel said, exhausted, putting his index and thumb finger on the bridge of his nose. "Look all I am saying is, that is my business partner alright, and character is very important in a business deal and what you did right there could cause me a lot, even a termination of my contract. For once, can you be considerate of other people,¡± Yandel said in a final tone. "So is that it...Why are you even so worried about her,....Do you like her?" Maya asked, trying not to sound hurt as she really was but she could feel that she was failing. The question took him by surprise "Did he like Araceli¡­" Thinking about it now, he thinks so...maybe he didn''t really consider it. "What are you talking about...wh.why did you even ask?" He stuttered. "It doesn''t matter, let''s just go, the movie is starting," Maya replied in defeat. "Who was she kidding, he liked her...yet she has been here for him ever since they were kids," Maya thought as anger suddenly filled her but she kept her cool, every girl that came, she always found a way to get them to go, this Araceli of a girl was no different. They headed into the cinema and Yandel did an eye search to look for Ace and Celi, knowing how excited her kid brother was for the movie they will probably be sitting at the center close to the front facing the screen. He guessed right as he spotted Celi¡¯s pony tail hair, he couldn''t even deny it anymore she was pretty, her side features were beautiful and something about her now felt different he couldn''t exin it. First, it was her new choice of clothes, secondly her outspokenness and fire, it made him see her in a different light, now seeing her in casual clothing really made her look different and less stuck up as usually. The Araceli he knew before would have not been caught dead in a crop top, she was dressed so freely and casually. "Heyyy" Yandel greeted with a smile when he got to the front roll. "Took you forever, the movie is already 5minutes in and the narrator has already made me 4 times,¡± she said while taking the pop corn from his hands. "Ohh yeah" Yandel replied with a smirk while looking at Ace. "He doesn''t seem to want to take his eyes off the screen, that''s for sure," Yandel said as Rachel nodded in confirmation, "He has been anticipating it sincest week," Rachel replied. "Now sheshhh¡­.let''s watch the movie," Yandel told her making her smile a bit and concentrate on the screen more. All this while, Maya was watching their interaction and was fuming with unattended anger. What was so special about her that he gave her all his attention, this isn''t how business partners act around each other. She has always been there for him since she was a kid. She has always been the one there during his asthma attacks, fear of clowns and when his parents were never around she was always there to keep himpany, now it only makes sense to her that she should be the one he should fall for. The movie pretty much ended after an hour and half, which she thanked God for because she couldn''t imagine staying awake to watch legos move around. After the credit roll,The b*tch was still all over HER Yanny which didn''t sit right with her at all, while they were still talking and she was watching from a distance, she saw the bitch kid brother stood up to leave. She wanted to call out to him but she forgot his name as soon as she was told and to be honest she can''t be caught dead giving two fucks about the kid brother of the girl taking her man away from her, so she let him go. Couple of minutes after the movie ended, Maya decided she had enough and she wanted to go home, so she told yanny she was going, while he offered to drop her off, she declined nicely saying she had somewhere else to be. Usually, he would have insisted and babied her which she loved so much but today, after she said she was good he turned back to his conversation with Araceli. Which made her crazily annoyed. He doesn''t even want to take her home because of that bitch! Is it because she''s an heiress? A few minutes after Maya left, Yandel received a call and asked Araceli to excuse him. That was when Araceli realized it was also gettingte and Ace might probably be hungry too, speaking of which, she looked at her side and Ace wasn''t there. Instantly panic rose in her as she frantically searched around for her brother who was nowhere to be found. "Ace!!!" Rachel cried, starting to panic. "Aceee!!!" Rachel cried again walking fast to the exit. Upon hearing distress in her voice, Yandel ended the call he was on. "Hey what''s up, what''s wrong with Ace??" Handle moved closer to Araceli and asked worriedly.. "I can''t find Ace, he was right beside me some minutes ago but now I can''t find him" Rachel rambled off trying to calm herself. "Hey we got this, Okay. let''s check outside, he couldn''t have gone that far, ¡± Yandel said, assuring her. Thirty minutester, Yandel found Ace on the side of the road crying just two streets away from the cinema, still wondering what got him there in the first ce. He bent down to talk to Ace and calm him down only for Ace to jump and hug him, it startled him at first before he returned the hug while carrying him up and walking him all the way to the cinema. "OMG!! Ace are you okay??...Are you hurt??....Why were you crying????...OMG did someone hurt you???" Araceli cried in full panic thinking of the worst things. "Ara I''m *hups* fine, I just got *hups* lost looking for the lego cart shop they kept saying it was at the corner but they were closed and I couldn''t find my way back" He said through sniffs and hups. ¡°It¡¯s okay baby, I''m so sorry I left you all by yourself, I''m really sorry Acey, ¡± Rachel cried, as she drew her kid brother in for a bear hug. Thankfully, nothing happened to him because she would have never forgiven herself. After a few minutes, Ace calmed down and Yandel offered to take them home. "Alright, thanks Baldwin," Rachel said with a small smile exhausted from crying and searching for Ace. She didn''t even bother to put up a fight or sarcastic remark. While cing Ace in the back seat, and Araceli in the passenger seat. Ace murmured audibly "I like yanny better than jerky xander¡­." Instantly creating a dramatic pause in the car. Chapter 14 I wish you were my brother-in-law Chapter 14 I wish you were my brother-inw While Yandel was driving them home rachel got lost in thoughts as she stared outside the window thinking of everything that had happened within the past two hours, she looked sideways to yandel and he was just focused on the road, he turned to look at her too and gave her a reassuring smile as if reading her mind for her need for affirmation he gently squeezed her hands on herps that were fidgeting a little and she let him as she turned to the window. While Ace went missing, she and Yandel had splitted ways, and she had called the police station straight away, reporting a missing child and described Ace as a brte boy above 3''9 with green eyes. She was hysterical that time. She felt like the whole world.is closing down on her. "Ma''am you need to calm down if you want us to really hear you" the police replied, Trying to calm her down. "I said, he is above 3''9 with light brown hair and green eyes, he was wearing his favorite spider ck shirt and he had a bob the builder cap on too" Rachel repeated loud and profusely as she tried to gather her breathe. "And where did he get missing?" The policeman asked. "At Pivot street open cinema" Rachel said hastily losing her patience, she knew every second and minute wasted was going to be put Ace in more and more danger and that made her heart drop. "What time did¡­." "Look officer!!!.... just get your asses to the God damn cinema, every second wasted right now is putting my brother in more danger so no more questioning. Because if anything happened to my brother while you are here, ying an interviewer. You will have to answer to the Gracia¡¯s¡± Rachel cuts them off furiously as she couldn''t take the ticking of the clock of the opposite tile walled library which was now just L brar . She stood outside the cinema hoping to see the police anytime soon, she had spent thest 30 minutes searching every viewing room and interviewing every worker and passer by all to no avail. What was she gonna tell his mom and Dad? that she wasn''t adult enough to watch over their precious son and the male heir? she started shedding tears at the steps of the cinema, people kept giving her worried looks but no one cared enough to ask her why she was crying.She took her phone out to y some positive songs that won''t lead her into over thinking so she decided to y her favorite band¡­ High highs-Open season She kept the whole album on repeat because it calmed her down and gave her sanity.15minutes but she was asked to stay back the cinema incase he came back, seeing the logic in what they said she decided to stay back in hopes that they will find him and bring him back to her before it gets too An hour and some minutester, the police didn''t came back with Ace and her heart broke, she couldn''t bear to stand,nshe fell onto her knees while crying¡­ Anything could have happened, he could be taken for adoption or kidnapped, she couldn''t stop herself from thinking the worst. The police assured her that they would still keep searching and Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. collected her house resident address for further update, they reassured her that they were going to submit Ace description to the rest of the interpols staying close to that vicinity. While driving back to the Garcia estate, Yandel thought about everything that had aspired¡­ "Hey Celi calm down alright, panicking and saying gibberish won''t look for him," Yande said, taking control of the matter. "Look, you stay at the cinema, ask every staff member and passerby about Ace .Give them the description of Ace and also check their toilets, he could be using the toilet, ¡± Yandel.said authoritatively while Rachel just nodded, as she couldn''t even bring herself to thinks about anything except finishing her brother. "Alright,I will take my car and go search for him, Okay"... He has been going around the streets back to back in search of Ace to no avail, but he didn''t give up, he couldn''t give up, this was Celi¡¯s kid bro we were talking about he wasn''t going to be able to survive it if anything bad that happens, he''s just a kid. On thest block, he decided to move slowing before going back to Araceli and joining the police search team to look for Ace, when he heard tiny sniffs just close to amp post, seeing the ¡°bob the builder¡± cap gave him so much joy because he knew he had found Ace. Yandel couldn''t stop himself from rushing to him looking for any injury or wounds or bleeding,he found none. "Hey Littlle man, are you okay??...Did anybody hurt you??.... Where did you go?" Yandel asked gently while putting his hands around him, he stiffened a little at the contact before he looked up to Yandel and let him hold him. "I went to the security and asked him if there were any lego cart shop behind and he said there was one on the next street, I went there to check if they were around but then I go lost and I was so scared I thought you wouldn''t find me and nobody wanted to help me And it was getting dark and I¡­." Ace exined as he broke down and started crying again, holding onto yandel tightly, he smelt like his dad and that helped him calm down. "pro..*sniffs*...promise you wouldn''t leave me alone?" Ace asked, looking up at Yandel. Yandel hesitated for a minute, looking at the poor kid who looked so broken and lost, his eyes were already a little swollen and beet red from crying, so he promised him... "I promise Acey,I won''t leave you alone, Okay little man," Yandel swore, holding him tighter as he consoles the little boy. The air was too sad for him, so he decided to stare up a conversation that would distract him, so he remembered when Araceli said he had been looking forward to watching the lego movie. "So...how was the movie" *hups* "it was goood, Batman is sooo cool, but he is also lonely, he needs to find a wife or husband.¡± Ace answered as his eyes twinkled, totally forgetting that he was lost some minutes ago. "Not like Xander though, he''s not a nice man,I don''t like him," he added with a little frown. Yandel Ignored that part because he didn''t know who Xander was. "So spiderman is your favorite superhero right?" Yandel asked, he asked the little boy who was now grinning from ear to ear. "Yesss" Ace said excitedly. "He is so cool and he is handsome and his girlfriend is sooo pretty, just like you and my big sister," he said with his eyes lighting up after making the statement. "But me and your big sister are not dating though," Yandel said, feeling a little disappointed now that he thought of it. "I know, it''s because she is getting married to thatme dude called Xander," Ace replied clearly showing his dislike for the Xander dude. Yandel frowned as he listened to Ace¡¯s statement. So Araceli was getting married after all. He thought he had a chance with her to create a wonderful friendship but guessed that ship had sailed away while they were long rivals. He caused the petty rivalry to hinder him from knowing Araceli earlier, maybe he would have had a chance. ¡°Well it''s gettingte, let''s head back home. I''m such Araceli is worried sick about you leaving like that, and she is also with the police too¡± Yandel said to Ace. As they headed back to the ck Audi car while Yandel opened the front door for Ace, he felt bad for the way he made Araceli worry so much. he didn''t intend to do that. They headed back to the cinema where Araceli was waiting outside looking drained. Immediately Rachel saw Yandeling outside his car with a little boy. She rushed to the little bundle of joy that had made her so worried. "OMG!! Ace are you ok??...Are you hurt??....why were you crying????...OMG did someone hurt you???" Rachel cried in full panic thinking of the worse things. "Ara I''m *hups* fine, I just got *hups* lost looking for the lego cart shop they kept saying it was at the corner but they were closed and i couldn''t find my way back" Ace exined again through sniffs and hups. "I will drive you guys home," Yandel offered. "Alright, thanks Baldwin,¡± Araceli said with a small smile exhausted from crying and searching for Ace, she didn''t even bother to put up a fight or sarcastic remark. While cing Ace in the back seat and Araceli in the passenger sit, Ace murmured audibly. "I like Yanny better than jerky Xander¡­." Creating a dramatic pause in the car. Chapter 15 Yandel brought Ace back Chapter 15 Yandel brought Ace back "I like Yandel better than Xander¡­." Rachel finally got the courage to look at him after Ace had said that. "He doesn''t like my...fianc¨¦,"Rachel said with a little pause before referring to the evil bastard as her fianc¨¦. "Well he didn''t fail to mention it to me too," Yandel added,ughing a bit at the mean face the kid made when he referred to Xander. "He also said he wished I was his brother-inw too,"Yandel added with a confident smirk knowing it was going to evoke a reaction from Celi. "He said that¡­!!" Rachel asked surprised and curious of what else he could have said to Baldwin. "Yeah¡­ We are kinda best friends now," Yandel said yfully, making her smile fondly at him, a sight he wished he could hold in a proid and look at it everyday. "Have the police reached back to you?.because it will make a lot of sense to call them and get the search party ended" Yandel reminded Rachel as they drove back to the estate. "Oh...that''s true, when I get home I will do just that,hopefully before I take a shower and sleep,¡± Rachel said, starting to really feel the tiredness sipping in. "How do you manage to look good and tired?" Yandel asked, looking so serious, Rachel didn''t detect the flirt right away till he smiled. She couldn''t help but blushed a little while looking away trying to get herself under control. "I can''t deal with you right now Baldwin, maybe some other time," Rachel said partly happy her face was no longer that warm. "By the way,Howe you never told much about yourself, I literally told you all you need to know about me" Rachel said stirring the convo towards another direction. "Everything??..." Yandel asked with an eyebrow raise. "Maybe not everything but you know what I mean,you know mostly everything about me, at least the basics,¡± Rachel said, rolling her eyes at his hesitation to open up. "Alright, where do I start from...I am the first son of my family as you know, I have two other siblings, they are twins and they will be 20 soon, I hope you get to meet them. They are pretty wild, and i schooled in the UK hence my exotic ent and I love sushi and pasta, I hate pineapple, pizza and I actually don''t like sports¡­.oh and yeah I''m allergic to beans¡­.I think that''s pretty much it about myself, sorry I''m not really a fun to know person". He finished off looking at her expectantly as if expecting her to say something, anything. "Well I''m not that fun to know, so I will say that''s a fair trade to me".Rachel said with a little humor. "So¡­.what do you like and dislike?" Yandel asked whileing to a stop at the traffic stop. "Generally or food wise?" Rachel asked. "Generally," he said smiling a little, something about getting to know Celi kind of excited him and he had to say, she was different than the Aracelie he knew, the Araceli he knew couldn''t hold a conversation to save her life and she will rather listen for hours on hours than talk the way she was doing now. "Ok¡­" Rachel said, adjusting in her seat. "I like generally a fun person with a strong personality, people who can stand for themselves, I dislike liars and cheats, food wise I like everything but seafood" Rachel finished looking at him. An awkward silence reigned for a few seconds before they both burst intoughter simultaneously, after a few seconds they settled down forgetting Ace was at the back seat sleeping from the exhaustion of walking street by street looking for a lego cart shop that kept indicating the next street. "You mean that''s it?!!!" Yandel eximed. "Yeah!!!....I told you I wasn''t much to talk about personality wise" Rachel replied. "Ohh you really meant it then I guess,'''' Yandel said, a little disappointed, hoping to hear a little more about her than he did. "Look who''s sulking...I thought you couldn''t stand me". Rachel said smirking at Yandel letting his guard down and letting his expression show. "I''m not sulking...I jus¡­" Yandel said before he got interrupted by a sleepy and rather hungry looking ace. "Araceli¡­." Ace whined stretching ufortably at the back seat while trying to get the seat belt off him only to get more twisted in the shambles of polyester straps, his looks soon turned frustrated when he realized that he couldn''t get himself out of it, which made Araceli and Yandel giggle at him at the mess he had created and the way he had his hair all over the ce. "Help¡­.I''m hungry". Ace said in resignation,he stopped struggling and let Araceli handle the seat belt for me. While Araceli had turned to the back to help Ace with his rather huge mess of seat belt, Yandel couldn''t keep his eyes on the road as he was properly graced with a sight he had rarely saw, the crop top and high waisted jeans she wore was a choice he was so darn thankful of now because her butts were so round and properly shaped. He couldn''t help but keep looking and fantasizing about touching it with his bare hand, how he skipped her beautiful body was beyond him, till he remembered the Araceli he knew has never worn such clothes and to be honest, he had never really seen her on casual days because his distaste for her meekness and subtle behavior didn''t entice him enough to be curious about her personal life or how she liked to dress on weekends for fugsake this was his rival we are talking about, he''s sudden spark of interest in the woman wass beyond is simple reasoning. "Eyes on the road Baldwin!!". Araceli barked, bringing Yandel out of his thoughts only to realize he had been caught staring at her butts while lost in thoughts. His cheeks became warm from the embarrassing call out, so he chose to just keep driving. Recalling hearing Acein about being hungry, he decided to ask if they wanted a drive through take out or a sit out at MacDonald''s. "Hey so will you guys want a drive through take out or a dinner at MacDonald''s?". Yandel asked. "MacDonald''s!!!!!!!" Ace suddenly found the strength for an ear troubling scream. Simply the thought of going to MacDonald''s gave him enough strength,he could imagine all the salty fries, double cheese hamburger, drumsticks and chilled coke, just the thought of it made his stomach grumble audibly enough for Rachel and Yandel to hear, causing them tough out loud. "MacDonald''s it is," Yandel said with a smile. "I can get used to this," Yandel thought. He drove into the next street where the MacDonald sign was ring in the night. They pack beside a brown pick up truck and they all got down, Ace ran energetically towards the door while Araceli and Yandel just strolled behind him, for someone who was just whining and sobbing about how ufortable seat belts are, he seemed to have a lot of energy and obviously food is a very good motivation. They sat by the end of the first aisle, Rachel and Ace facing yandel. A waitress probably in herte 40''s came towards their table to take their order. "What will you guys be having today," she asked with a nice smile, the proof of years she had on her became more eminent as the corners of her eyes wrinkled a bit. "Ok I will have just cheeseburgers with salted fries and chilled coke," Rachel said. "I will have the same," Yandel said smiling. "I will have a double cheeseburger,with fries and drumsticks and coke," Ace said while using his little fingers to list them off, this evoked a shocked expression from both Araceli and the waitress making herugh incredibly. "I guess the little man has a rather big appetite today, that will be all from us,¡± Yandel said "Alright then, nice family you have got by the way" the waitress said taking her leave, the statement really took Yandel by surprise making him choke a little while Araceli just smiled warmly at her. "That was some conclusion she made there," Yandel said nervously while tapping his foot. "I would have made the same assumption too if I were to look at us," Rachel replied calmly. She didn''t seem to be phased by the waitress'' misconception. After a good 30 minutes of eating which involved small talks between Celi and Ace and Yandel in deep thought, They finished off and package the rest of Ace¡¯s food in a takeaway pack. The drive home was pretty quiet mainly because everyone was resting from their meal and Yandel was thinking of how much of his life had gone by spent on working and focusing on the family business. It dawned on him that he really needed to start thinking of making a family of his own. "Hey...are you okay?....you seem lost in your thoughts again like you were back at the restaurant,". Rachel asked,passion exuding off her persona. "So she noticed huh¡­" Yandel thought. "It''s nothing really just work and stuff," he replied clearly not wanting to talk about the need of having a family with the girl he may or may not like. Rachel let go of the matter when she saw that he wasn''t in the mood to confide in her, he probably didn''t want to talk about it. She told herself. She became distracted by the strange car in their driveway which she didn''t register, she ignored it thinking it was a random guest of her mom or dad. With Yandel carrying Ace in his arms behind her while she held the takeaway packs, she unlocked the house with her keys. "So this is who you have been with all night," A voice she has grown to detest weed her with a sneering tone. This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. "Xander¡­" Chapter 16 playing nice and dumb Chapter 16 ying nice and dumb "Xander¡­". "Woah...it''s the so much excitement to see your fianc¨¦ for me," Xander said bitterly and sarcastically. The Gracia¡¯s driver came towards Yandel and took Ace from him and took him upstairs after just watching what was transpiring in front of him. "For someone who nned her rape and tried to break off the marriage he seemed pretty pissed when I should be the one pissed¡­" Rachel thought. "Excuse me, what are you talking about, you badged into my privacy and you expect me to be awning with joy and smiles because my lord and saviourXander decided to grace me with his presence after weeks of acting like i didn''t exist,¡± Rachel replied exploding in a smug tone. It must take a lot of balls for him to be angry at her after what he did. "Oh not this again please,I told you I was busy with work!!!" Xander half yelled. "Work, yourpany is almost bankrupt and at the verge of breakdown,i still don''t get what you mean by work Xander, ¡± Rachel spat out provocatively at him. "Oh and if you ask me, I think you have been busy sticking your honey stick in jars that are not mine but hey, what else can I do when I''m supposed to be "hopelessly in love" with you my lord," Rachel added dripping in sarcasm. "Talking back to me!!" "Coming homete at night with rather strange and suspicious men!!!" "Not picking your calls!!!!" "Common Araceli ,this isn''t the you I know, the you I''m familiar with was so caring, meek, gentle, obedient¡­" Xander listed all the characters and attributes of the former Araceli after judging her.. "Weak, easily believing, manipted human puppet,¡± Rachel interrupted before Xander could finish his statement.. "I know you missed the Araceli you could control and ask forrge sum of money to help your so called business and get away with not paying back because of how gullible and docile I was with you, well guess what xXander...that Araceli is fucking gone you, dumbass dimwitted maniptive bastard, ¡± Rachel spat heavily. "But you are the supposed love of my life," Rachel smiled at xander so convincingly, the attitude switched like someone had flipped A switch in her head took both Xander r and Yandel by surprise. "I will not let you talk like that to me Araceli!!" He said. "I''m your fianc¨¦ and I demand respect¡­" "Oh please shut your pathetic hole xander love, I''m tired already of your ever standing demand of respect when you don''t show the same," Rachel interrupted. Xander held the bridge of his nose, the whole reform in her attitude was definitely taking a huge effect on him and she was starting to be a problem. "I demand you apologize," Xander tried to say calmly. "Yes I demand you apologize to Araceli,¡± a high pitched voice saiding from the kitchen. "You gotta be kidding me¡­not that double bitch face telling me what to do in my own goddamn house,"Rachel thought as she groaned out loud. "Alice, what the hell are you doing here, ¡± Rachel tried to say calmly. "Oh I was worried about you ofcourse Ara dear, Xander called me at 10 that you haven''t picked your call and you weren''t home, the best I could do wase over," Alice said sweetly mischievously, staring at her. "Or am I not wee at your house anymore??" Alice asked, trying to fake hurt. "I mean¡­.I could always leave if that''s what you want, I get it, we are slowing growing apart and if you want nothing to do with me, I totally understand Aracel, ¡±Alice said even though she was sitting on the couch now with her legs crossed looking Araceli in the eye. "Rachel why don''t you let this go tomorrow is another day" Yandel said intervening for the first time. "No Baldwin, stay out of it" Rachel said with finality in her voice. Why do I have to face these devil spawns today of all days. All she wanted was to take a nice hot shower to wash off the tears and stress of today she had burdened herself with while trying to find Ace. Was a nice shower too much to ask for now? Xander she could handle, but both of them at the same time!.that was a back breaking hassle she wasn''t up for this night. "Alice I suggest you go home for your own good, it''s gettingte...I will hate for something bad to happen to your dear" Rachel said looking at her directly, she could see the girl got the message. "Oh love don''t worry, Xander will be giving me a ride home" Alice replied pointedly trying to gain a reaction from her. "Oh then I wouldn''t want to keep you guys waiting then, Xander please take her home, I will hate that she gets a bad headache hopefully from waking upter,¡± she said with heavy sass. Yandel wasn''t much of a conversation person but he could feel the dislike and distaste they had for each other. Even though Rachel said they were best friends,he can tell that they are not anymore because Rachel seemed so keen on kicking her out nicely that it became so obvious. "I need to make sure you are alright before I leave though" Alice said, touching her chest in pity. "Alice I''m fine, trust me I should worry more about myself if i were you,¡± Rachel said getting closer to Araceli. Xander didn''t know what so say, he had device the n of being very annoyed and frustrated with Araceli for no reason till she presented him with the perfect excuse to be angry with her. Now that Alice got herself in the word exchange,he couldn''t help but not want to get involved because the exchange was getting a little more intense than he and Alice had agreed to make it. "I mean you sleeping with your business rival is low even for you baby girl," Alice uttered suddenly with a voice dripping with mischief. "Well while you were being an idle gold digger, I got past that little rivalry and actually made something out of it" Rachel said matching the bad energy. "But you wouldn''t have known that now, would you¡­.you always had an eye for things that aren''t yours, ¡± Rachel finished looking her in the eye. If Alice hadn''t taken the hint before while they were exchanging words, she definitely got it now because Araceli didn''t hide it anymore which left her wondering. "Did Araceli really know about her and Xander?..." No, Araceli wasn''t smart like that, there''s no way she would know about them. She and Xander have been together for 2 years, there''s no way she would know now. "Look I''m sorry alright ,I''m just really tired and Ace went missing today, and with the police and me being extremely worried I kinda lost my shit. I''m sorry guys foringte and not picking my calls and worrying the shit out of you." Rachel said, trying to cover the almost blown up operation she had going on. I knew she knew nothing, same old gullible Araceli¡­ "It''s ok alright." Alice said, getting up to give her a fake hug. "It''s fine." Xander said. All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. "I suggest we leave her to rest, today was rather unpleasant for us,¡± '''' Yandel added, causing Xander to stare at him with disdain before exiting with Alice while Rachel''s expression remained stoic. "You were on fucking fire," Yandel said to Rachel after the two uninvited people left, thement making herugh ralittle. "As much as I would love to talk my ass off with you, I''m really tired, Baldwin," Rachel said tiredly. "I can''t believe he thought we were sleeping together, is he usually thismanding?" He asked. ¡°What? Am I not hot enough, ¡± Rachel asked, throwing a re at him, ¡°Of course not, but is he usually asmanding as this?¡± Yandel asked again, after chuckling a bit. "Yeah sometimes" Rachel replied, starting to feel the weight of her eyelids triple, she definitely needed to get to bed rest before she passed out. She walked him to the door while yawning repeatedly. "So...today was nice.." Yandel stated slowly and Rachel quickly refuted. "Nice is not exactly the word but it was cool I guess" Rachel said. "Have a goodnight rest Celi,¡± "You too baldwin" she said smiling As she closed the doors and ascended the stairs, she got a text from Baldwin Baldwin You are so hot when you were mad Chapter 17 playing Chapter 17 ying Rachel woke up feeling refreshed and surprisingly in a good mood and she couldn''tprehend why. Looking at the clock she realized she slept through her rm which meant she couldn''t go for her usual morning run. It was a few minutes past ten with nowhere to go seeing it was a weekend, she decided to just sleep some more. She checked her phone for messages and saw the message yandel sent to her yesterday, just seeing it and thinking about it made her smile unconsciously. Yesterday was one of the most stressful and hectic days of her life and she couldn''t imagine telling Ace''s mom and dad about him going missing for a few hours, it wouldn''t have spoken well about her. She went to the toilet to do the regr morning routine before she heard a notification bell,she headed to her phone eagerly subconsciously wishing it was yandel and lo and behold,it was him and he sent a Good morning text asking about her night and if she had enough rest referencing that she might look like the male character from the romantic zombie movie "warm bodies". She was about to reply when another message popped in saying Xander Can we have breakfast together and talk please...it''s important. Me Ok fine,what time and where?... Xander I was thinking maybe now,or in 30 minutes,your ce.whatever works for you. Me Yh that''s cool,see you in 30. "Why does he have to always ruin super perfect and beautiful mornings" Rachel thought out loud. ying nice and dumb was starting to get her frustrated but she wants her full revenge, so she kinda like didn''t have a choice. She headed back to the living Room to Keep herself busy with boring sis. Shended on the least cringy one which was "Friends" which wasn''t bad,it was a ssic and will remain a ssic. She made a whole breakfast just for herself which included toast with apricot jam spread with eggs and beacons, a perfect morning meal. She thought of having breakfast alone,in her peaceful bubble just before xander came,but she decidedter that it will be more pleasing to have such an appetizing and mouth watering breakfast in front of xander without making him any.If she couldn''t be an ass to him directly then at least she could be an "unintentional" asshole to him just for the kicks,and damn those she need friends,she realized how much time she spent alone,the only time she has had to spend with someone of her age was with yandel and other times with ace,most times,she was alone and just the thought of that was starting to depress her mental health. 5 MINUTES LATER The doorbell smashed her train of mouth quivering thoughts into shatters and she came face to face with reality of how she still had to have a silly ass talk with xander of all people.She dragged her legs to the door trying to waste as much time as she could while she hoped it will dampen his patience so she can have something to fight and bitter on about. On opening the door she was hit by the same old strong masc cologne she hase to very much hate after making a mental note of smashing every goddamn bottle he had on the fragrance,she decided to return his greeting with a fake smile and opened the door a little open so he could pass. "I thought you were busy with something," Xander asked, looking around the kitchen only to see covered dishes, seeing how she dyed before answering the door. "Why do you say that?" Rachel asked while pouring herself some coffee which she will dearly need to keep her sanity in check. "You took your time to answer the door," he replied curtly. "Well I can''t be at your beck and call any time now,can i?" Looking straight at him Rachel asked. "It''s whatever" he sighed. She went to the center table in the kitchen and took her covered breakfast and headed to the dining section, Xander followed her closely behind then tried to pull out a chair for her but she just gave him a weird look and sat on the opposite chair which was as far away she could get from him as possible in a dining area. Taking a sip of her coffee she asked "So xander...what do you want to talk about" starring him directly in the eye. "Uhm about yesterday..." "I kinda fucked up with the usation thingy¡­" He started.Rachel was already disgusted by the trying to be earnest act so she stuffed her face with toast and egg,literally anything was better than sitting in front of this sick clown...ANYTHING. "Uhm hold up a sec¡­" "You only made breakfast for yourself?" Xander asked. "Do you see any extra tes of food hanging around?" Rachel replied sarcastically. "But you said we would be having breakfast together" "Well Xanderst I checked, you aren''t crippled orme neither do you have any physical disabilities of any kind so if you don''t mind so get your macho ass into the kitchen and cook up something for yourself, ¡± Rachel said smiling sweetly. "Really?!!!" "Yes really Xander!!" "Or do you not know how to make yourself some breakfast?" Rachel asked. "You know what...it''s fine it''s cool'' "I will just have coffee then," he said, sitting back and going through his phone. Rachel kept starring daggers at him for such insolent and deprived mentality he had, He must be really dreaming if thinks she''s gonna leave her sto it to make him any fucking coffee. "Godddd he must have be so used to Araceli being so stuck up to him and kissing his ass anytime he feels like it...well not anymore" "Thought you wanted to get some coffee" rachel asked acting dumb. "Yh with cream and little sugar, just how i like it" he replied waving his hand at her and pointing to the kitchen. Rachel stared at him in disbelief. This man was unbelievable, for him to think he actually thought she was gonna make him any sort of coffee then he must bepletely delusional. "Xander you got hands...and maybe brains to help you move around that kitchen," "Go fix yourself a cup of co¡­" The doorbell went up 3 times at a go interrupting her p back session with Xander the clueless clown. "Who the hell was at the door,a fucking five year old?!!" Rachel thought. "I will go get the door, fix you some coffee or stay hungry, could be really careless," she said walking to the door infy sweat pants and a big white band shirt printed "My Chemical Romance" one of her favorite bands after fostering the people. She couldn''t think of anyone who told her they wereing over so she had the least of ideas who was at the door. On opening the door, she was forced to choke on her own spit. All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. "Baldwin¡­" She murmured. Now she didn''t choke just because she breathed wrongly or just because she was surprised to see him, Nooooo¡­..she almost choked her way six feet under because of how good Yandel¡¯s look was. They were greek god worthy reminding her of a dark haired thor with green and not blue eyes,I mean, Yandel always looked fucking hot in suits and ties with gelled back jet ck hair but seeing him in a fitting Tee and grey sweatpants was a steamy kinda hot with her lungs wasn''t helping her in anyway. "You ok love?" Yandel asked, smiling while talking in a thick British ent. "That''s so hot¡­" She murmured inaudibly. Ok¡­.maybe or maybe not but she thinks she might have had one or two orgasms at the spot because what the actual hell!!! When did his British be so good, I mean the ent has always been sexy as hell from day one so yh. "What did you say?" Rachel quickly cleared her throat while trying and failing to get a hold of herself and not look down on his dick print. "I said that is odd¡­" She replied. "What is?" "Just your British ent, I mean I have heard traces but this time it was really¡­.more pronounced I guess,¡± she replied. "Schooled in london...remember??" Yandel said while tapping her skull lightly as if to make her remember. "Well, I will be damned¡­" They both turned around to see a pissed off xander. Chapter 18 It’s a date Chapter 18 It¡¯s a date "Just your British ent,I mean I have heard traces but this time it was really¡­.more pronounced I guess,¡± she replied. "Schooled in london...remember??" Yandel said while tapping her skull lightly as if to make her remember. "Well, I will be damned¡­" They both turned around to see a pissed off xander. Rachel rolled her eyes a double three sixty at how fast he was able to ruin her time of admiring a beautiful male specimen which was Yandel ofcourse...not that she was gonna tell him or anything. "Xander¡­." Rachel called out warningly trying to silently tell him not to start a fight because the look in Yandel¡¯s eyes said he was ready today for any shit that was thrown at him. "What is he doing here Araceli?" Xander asked pointedly,pletely ignoring the warning in her voice not to start any drama. "He is my guest and also my business partner,I don''t see why you have a problem with him being here," Rachel replied, crossing her arms. "Hey man I don''t mean to break up your what seems to be a "jolly" breakfast but I just came to check on Celi and Ace, that''s it...I mean if you weren''t busy doing God knows what, you would have called or tried to find your fianc¨¦e but it seemed like you had better things to do". All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. Handle took over sparking up the drama way more than just a notch. Hepletely went all out defensive and attack at the same time making Xander get madder about him being here, not only did he call Xander an ipetent partner but also criticized his ego and self-centeredness. "Excuse me!!" Xander yells starting to get all raged up. "oh oh...shits about to get real messy if I don''t calm this two boys, I mean I don''t get it, and Yandel hasn''t said anything about liking her, just pointless flirts here and there and Xander set her up to be raped and left her for her supposed to beat friend, why the hell was both of them getting all worked up over her," Rachel thought. "Why don''t you let Celi decide if I get to stay" Yandel teases Xander further. "Ok hold your shit Mister fancy shit...first of all, Did you fucking give my fiance¨¦ a nickname!!!" "Yh i did...cute right?" Yandel Teased further. "Cute!!!???....Man are you fucking kidding me,I''m getting married to this woman show some respect to me for pete sake" Xander exckaimed. "She doesn''t seem to have a problem with it or Celi, Do you ?" Yandel asked "Nope," she replied, popping the P. "And has anyone ever told you that you got some messed up control issues man.. I mean for pete''s sake she''s an adult dude ``Yandel pointed out to Rachel while she just drank coffee and looked anywhere but the dramatic encounter Xander and Yandel were having. If she didn''t stop this banter anytime soon she knew things would get more messier and it won''t just be xander veins popping but also it joint and tooth and ck eye and THAT she would really love to avoid. "Heyyy Baldwin, would you like to join us for breakfast or I guess just me" Rachel interrupted them. "Baldwin???" Xander asked, wondering who that was. "Yh of course I will love to have breakfast with you araceli" Yandel replied looking directly at Xander with a cold expression. "Alright then let''s head back to the kitchen so i can cook something up for you" Rachel replied walking into the kitchen with her empty mug of coffee, if she wanted to live through this banter she needed her coffee and a very strong one at that,maybe she was addicted like her sister used to tell her but now wasn''t the time for nostalgic thoughts. "Araceli are you being serious right now!!" Xander eximed while walking with her into the kitchen not after giving yandel a stink eye. "Yeah I''m serious xander and you know what, Xander??" "Delusional,pletely out of it," Xander replied rudely. "That''s you describing yourself and it''s pretty urate if i may add and NO I''m hungry and I bet Baldwin is too" Rachel replied smiling sweetly at Xander. Honestly Yandel thought he had seen the most fire from Araceli, but it seemed like she had more than enough furnace in her to burn Xander all day, he had to admit though, he thought Celi was just the soft easily will bendable kinda person who can stand up for herself and epts push overs but now he knows he''spletely in the wrong. "So you are gonna make breakfast for your so called business partner but not for me your finance" Xander asked. "Exactly Xander...Exactly, ¡± Rachel answered, rolling her eyes at him."Now Baldwin, what would you like to eat? We got toast,bacon,eggs,waffles and soke pancakes...which would you like? '''' Rachel asserted in a sweet voice withplete intentions to aggravate Xander more than Yandel has done. "Toast is fine and i guess some coffee with cream and a little sugar won''t be that bad" Yandel replied getting himself on the 4sitter dining table. "Alright I will be back with it in a sec" rachel replied. "What the hell are you up to with my fianc¨¦e mr shitty fancy pants" xander sneered at yandel "I ain''t doing nothing nothing bruh you just got trust issues so don''t put that on me alright,I''m just checking up on a friend" yandel replied innocently. "Yh¡­Right" "I got my eyes on you fancy pants,one wrong move and you are gonna be the reason we don''t marry" Xander retorted angrily like it was a threat. "I don''t get it...is that supposed to be a threat to me? because if it is, I don''t know if I''m interested in her currently. But you will be making my job easier, ¡± Yandel replied with a half smirk. "Yh whatever man, just don''t get all sus I''m warning you" Xander replied. "Yh whatever¡­" "Sooo...I made toast and eggs with bacon"Rachel said, holding a cup and te in her arms. She dropped it in front of Yandel.and went back to sit back to her sit.Yandel started taking his meal while Xander was watching in shock. "What?!!!" Yandel asked, feeling ufortable about the way he was looking at him. "Call me delusional or controlling but I know you are sleeping with my fianc¨¦e and youing here to rub it on my face is just low as hell," Xander said hitting the table while standing up "Woah woah¡­..chill man,nobody is sleeping with anybody ok" yandel said trying to clear the air,the sudden outburst took not just him by surprise but also araceli from the look on her face. "Hey Xander I told you yesterday and I repeat it again,I and Baldwin are not sleeping with each other for christ sake. How long will it take you to let it sink in that th ass head of yours? ``Rachel countered angrily. "I mean if i wanted to sleep with him, I would have prolly done that but seems like you just held bent on try not to understand,¡± "And to think to think that you would go as low as saying I''m using as an excuse to do shit with him is just so fucking wrong and will not let you talk to my guest and business partner that way, if you got trust issues why don''t you go speak to Alice who you have been so close with nowadays but you don''t see meining and whining about it now do you?" Rachel vented. "If you need some reassurance, that is all I can give, believe all you want to believe" "I I¡­" Xander stuttered "No Xander no¡­.I have had enough for one morning, why don''t you just use the door and help yourself out" Rachel finalized. "And just so you know¡­.if i want to sleep with someone you will never know about it," Rachel added and walked upstairspletely vexed about the situation. Xander feeling angry, he walked out and mmed the door leaving Yandel looking more confused and dumb founded with half eaten toast hanging out of his mouth. He decided to go after Araceli considering she seemed to have had some more pent up anger in her. He walked up to a door that was opened slightly guessing it was Celi¡¯s room, he knocked lightly. "Come in" he heard in a muffled voice. "Hey Celi ...are you okay?" He asked not really knowing what else to say "Yh I''m fine,sorry you had to witness that...that was so embarrassing" Rachel said still talking in the pillow "Hey, it''s okay...I grew up with all of that¡± "Hey I got an idea" he said while he sat at the edge of the bed. "Alright I''m listening," "How about we go out this evening, just the two of us...to wash out the bad energy from this morning...what do you say?" "Is it a date," Rachel turned over to smirk at a jaw-dropping Yandel Chapter 19 Going to wonderland Chapter 19 Going to wondend "Come in," he heard in a muffled voice. "Hey Celi ...are you okay?" He asked not really knowing what else to say "Yeah I''m fine,sorry you had to witness that...that was so embarrassing," Rachel said still talking in the pillow "Hey its okay ...i grew up with all of that" "Hey I got an idea" he said while he sat at the edge of the bed. "Alright, I''m listening,¡± "How about we go out this evening,just the two of us...to wash out the bad energy from this morning...what do you say?" "Is it a date?" Rachel turned over to smirk at a jaw dropping yandel. "Omg!!!!" Rachel burst into a fit ofughter at the super perplexed look on his face, I mean he is really hot and sessful and nice any girl will be lucky to have him but he is just not the man for her, sadly Talon was still upying the back of her mind and she still thought about the image of seeing him and that rich old hag of a woman in that position, she could swear to die was worth it because the pain wasn''t very prominent like before. "Haha very funny Celi," yandel recovered ying it off like he wasn''t affected by the girl he liked just thought they were going on a date.His heart still hadn''t stop beating like a drum in a mad circus,he can''t deny that he was slight disappointed that she didn''t mean it,it would have really nice to go on a date with her. But who was he kidding,he knew he was losing himself little by little,he''s love for independent beautiful women had caught up with him but he knew no matter the rules he could break for araceli,he wouldn''t break his number one rule ''Never mix business with pleasure''. That is a rule that has put a lot of young businessmen out of business because someone had the ability to ruin your whole work and effort of so many years by just dropping or leaking words to the press about things that you do. "So are you sure you''re gonna be okay?" He asked Araceli. "Yeah i will be fine,thanks foring though...it was an unexpected but pleasant surprise to be honest" Rachel replied smiling. "Yeah it''s no problem," "So you heading out now?" Rachel asked, feeling a tinge of disappointment lingering in the depths of her chest. "Well I said i was gonna check on my best man," "Ace??" "Yh Ace and speaking of which I haven''t seen him since I arrived, does he usually sleep in this "Well it''s the weekends i guess, mom always lets him sleep in, and considering what happened yesterday I suggested to the maids that he shouldn''t be woken up I know that as a fact" Rachel rified. "Yh you are right...he does need rest" he agreed.After talking with ace yesterday,he realized how neglected and lonely the boy felt because Araceli is always busy with work and his parents are always at some meeting or business trip. "So what time should Ipick you up?" "6 30 ok?" Rachel asked "Yh 6 00 okay" Yandel repliedughing a little. "Heyyy i said 6 30" rachel saidughing. "La¡­" Yandel said while closing his ears and leaving her room, she gave chasing him down the stairs and around their estate a thought but on a second note, she needed some rest and to digest her breakfast which she didn''t feel till now that she was off the adrenaline of dealing with Xander. She went into the bathroom to shower off the stress and everything that morning hoping she will be able to get some sleep after the drum worth of coffee she had consumed all in one morning. She woke up around 5 33,giving her atleast 30minutes to prepare for her outing with Yandel which felt she was kinda a little bit too excited for, which led her to what has been giving her an inch of worry "What the hell am i going to fucking wear!!!!" She didn''t wanna wear any dinner gown or cocktail dress because she was dumb enought to forget to ask him where they would be going but now there wasn''t time. She needed an outfit that said good enough for roadside dinner and not too bad for a 5-star restaurant¡­.who was she kidding, she was either going to be underdressed or overdressed either way and since she had already rified that it wasn''t a date, she finally decides to just go for an elegant casual look from her sense of dressing. She opted for a white oversized sweatshirt and a fade slim fit jeans with ck vans. She has always been known for not wearing clothes that hugged her torso because of her "chest insecurity" and she doesn''t have to worry about that because she was in Araceli''s body, not hers. She checked the time to see it was a few minutes past 6 "Ofcourse he is going to show up¡­" The door bell pierced through the whole house. "Late¡­" Rachel paused. She heard his voice downstairs taking to an excited ace who she guessed must have been watching his favorite evening show which was a quiz show for kids. "Guess I was wrong then,¡± Rachel thought as she headed downstairs, from far, she saw he was also wearing an all-white sweatshirt and the light faded jeans with some white airforce. She couldn''t help but feel warm in her stomach, not only did they jinx in their outfit simrity but the whole walking down the stairs made her feel like she was going to prom or homing. As she reached thest four steps and she noticed yandel had stopped talking and had his eyes on her. "Woah¡­" Yandel said inplete awe. "Yh...you can close your mouth now Baldwin," Rachel said chuckling nervously. "You really look like shit" yandel said with a straight face. "What the¡­" Rachel said in confusion. "I''m kidding you look great" yandel said chuckling at her expression. "Yh funny you andnguage by the way ace is here" rachel pointed out. "Oh sorry" "I didn''t hear shit" ace said with a smile. "Well if mom hears that I''m totally gonna throw you under the bus" rachel said heading into the kitchen to get some apple. "Well aren''t you the nicest Celi, ¡± Yandel said following her into the kitchen. "Yes I''m dear, and trust me you don''t wanna see me when I''m being super nice, I puke rainbows and poop candies," Rachel said dripping in sarcasm. "Well atleast your smile is pretty," Yandel added silently while taking a ss of water with no hint of y in his voice. Rachel yed off thepliment even though she was blushing really hard "Well can we go now??!" Rachel asked trying to escape the embarrassing site of her blush. "Is the strict and snappy Araceli blushing?!!" Yandel teased touching her cheeks which she pped off with no haste giving him a look that said i will ruin you if you do that again. "Alright enough of this mushy stuff... let''s go," Rachel said, walking towards ace and kissing him on the head while ruffling his hair. "Have fun and get married before youe," Ace said while Araceli just shut the door to avoid another embarrassingment. "We will look good together" Yandel said smirking at her "You know what else will look good together??" rachel asked nicely. Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. "What??" "You in a wheelchair because i ran you over with your own car" Rachel replied smiling sweetly. "Okay woman you freaky, I like that, ¡± Yandel saidughing even though she really scared him. "Is that a faux ck ent?!" Rachel asked. "What!!...uhm no" Yandel stuttered when the truth was yes, he did try a ck ent but failed terribly, watching a lot of All American had taken a huge toll on him now he can''t help but want to try a ck ent every time. "Yh whatever I don''t even care," They got into the car and started heading towards the gate leading out of the estate. The leaves were starting to fall and Rachel knew her favorite time of the year wasing...winter. She looked at Yandel and he smiled back at her. "You like the winter right?" he asked. "Yh...How can you tell?" Rachel asked "You have the look my younger siblings used to have when the winter ising" "You mean the twins right?" Rachel asked. "Yh them,you should meet them sometime,their 20th birthday ising up soon" yandel said. "yh that will be cool,which reminds me where are we heading to exactly?" Rachel asked. "Its a surprise" yandel replied looking side ways at her "Hate surprises" she replied. "Well not my problem" he said driving further. It was more than 15minutes that they have been on the road and she was starting to get impatient with the whole surprise thingy till she realized she recognized this area, it was the route to the amazing wondend amusement park. "Are we going to wondend??" "Yeap" Yandel smiled at her growing excitement. Chapter 20 Executing her plan. Chapter 20 Executing her n. It was more than 15minutes that they have been on the road and she was starting to get impatient with the whole surprise thingy till she realized she recongnized this area,it was the route to the amazing wo dend amusement park. "Are we going to wondend??" "Yeap" yandel smiled at her growing excitement. "Woahhh...that will be soo cool,i have always wanted toe here but Ta...Xander always thought it was childish and noisy" rachel said almost slipping up.It brought back serious memories to her,how she will always beg talon but he never wanted too,but she always went to watch baseball games with him at powerwatch pub,it was always frustrating how she could break her rules for him like going to watch games with him even though she hated sports but he could go will her to the theatre or musical or how he never wanted to go the wondend with her. "Well that''s on him...he will be missing out on all the fun,corn dogs and cotton candy ,i told you he All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. is a sadist" yandel said. "Sadist??..." rachel asked confused. "Yhhh...like someone who is always sad and don''t like to see happy people" he replied while parking. "Baldwin¡­" "Yh¡­" "A sadist is not a sad person,its someone who enjoys inflicting pain on people" rachel exined tentatively. "Ohh¡­" "Yhhh" "ok not important smartie pants lets go have fun...who ever reaches the gate first pays for the tickets" yandel yelled starting to run towards the gate. Time flew by pretty fast.In four hours,they had done alot of games and ate alot if fair junks and decided to take their leave since she needed to put ace to bed.They ran to the car and got in breathing heavily after baldwin had requested for a rematch and she had beaten him on both asion. "How can you run so f...ast and...not out of breathe" yandel asked breathing heavily. "What can i say...some of us do exercise" rachel replied,even tho she knew it was her early morning run that paid off. "You keep surprising everytime to me everytime" yandel said shaking his head. "And you too...i mean one time i thought you were an asshole and now you are just took me to where i always wanted to go" rachel replied. In the next hour,she was at home on her bed.Tomorrow was the day she was going to carry out her first scheme against xander miller and alice.And she didn''t have room to mess shit up,she was excited and nervous at the same time,she was finally gonna plot her revenge for araceli and she needed this to go well. She was going to try to break up her engagement to xander since speaking up and being rude as hell didn''t work,she decided to try and set him up with a random chick,knowing xander he always visited the blue bar on Saturdays to drink with his friends.It was forty minutes past 9 which meant show time. She put on a ck hood and blue sweatpants and headed to blue bar after she had put ace to bed.She got into her car and drove to the club before he left by 11.This was where she knew she was gonna have a problem,she needed to find the right hooker which would help her n work and get a video of them together to so she can show it to her parents and the engagement will be off in no time. All she needed was a blond bimbo,with big boobs enough to blind his senses,just while she was in thought she found her self in front of blue club with the ''e'' missing.She walked into the club after slipping the bouncers a hundred dor each to let her enter.She entered the club and headed to the bar straight while she had her hood on,she didn''t need xander recognizing her or anybody recognizing the CEO of Garcia enterprise at a club such as blue. She went to the bar and ordered two tequs while starring at the crowd before her looking for the right bimbo she could use to carry out her n. "Bingo¡­" She found the perfect bimbo walking towards the bar on the other side,she wore a gold glittering short dress that was barely below her almost none existent ass while wearing ck heels and red lips with Overly bleached hair.She took the two tequs she ordered went to meet her. "Hey" rachel said sliding the tequ to her. She turned to look at rachel giving her a weird look. "Thanks for the drink but no thanks,i don''t swinge that way, sorry" she said,taking the drink form rachel. "Ohh no no you must have read me wrong" Rachel tried to rify. "I''m not tryna hit on you or anything,i just need you to help me do something and i will pay you five hundred box" rachel said trying to act as subtle as possible. "Ok i don''t fuck with drugs or pills or shit like that alright,i don''t wanna get caught up in police shit again,i have had enough of that for a week" the blond headed woman went off talking about how she had had two bad experience with the police. "Ok chill alright,I''m ste and I''m here spying on my fianc¨¦,I know he''s cheating on me but i don''t have solid evidence,my family or friends won''t believe me because he acts so nice in front of them,please i need you to do me a favor" rachel exined point to xander is ck dress shirt opened at the top and and blue dress pants with ck shoes. "I''m Amanda by the way but my friends call me Amy,I''m so sorry that you have to deal with such a crap for a guy,i mean generally,guys are just not worth shit" Amy said touching rachel by the shoulder in an attempt to console her. "look i will give you five hundred buck if you can try to get with him so i can have it on video and show it to my family,maybe they will finally let me call of the engagement. "Don''t worry about trying to give me money alright,take this as a woman helping another woman in need" amy replied. "Thank you so much" "Its no problem" amy said. "I just need to get my game on" she said smiling at rachel. She pushed perky boobs up through her cloths and downed the ss of tequ rachel offered her before walkibg towards where xander and four of his other friends were sitting,she turned around and gave rachel a wink before striding towards xander and sat on his legs,she wasn''t even surprised when he put his hands around her immediately as his friends cheered him on like the fools they were. Rachel brought out her phone and started taking a video of what was ying out before her.They started gettingfortable and amy definitely did a good job at seduction because it seemed like anytime he wanted to make use of his non existentmon sense,her boobs seemed to renew the hypnotic power she had over him,Things were starting to get juicy and they were about to start making out exactly where she wanted things to go but it looked like xander''s phone rang and something important came through because he ended up taking her off hisps and with haste and headed towards the exit.Before she could pull through the crowd of sweaty bodies she realized he was no where to be found anymore. Amy started walking up to rachel with a slight long face. "Hey sorry it didn''t work out" amy said. "Its fine,you did your best,thank you so much" Rachel said,already thinking of another n. "I mean we were almost about to make out when all of a sudden a call came and he said it was important and he needed to take it" amy went on to exin. "Its fine" "Hey by the way,did you see the name of the contact by any chance?" rachel asked "Well...if i can remember correctly i think it was Alica or alissa" amy said still thinking of the exact name. "You mean Alice!!!" rachel eximed "Yh that was it...Alice!" "That two faced bitch Chapter 21 Plan B always works-1 Chapter 21 n B always works-1 "I mean we were almost about to make out when all of a sudden a call came and he said it was important and he needed to take it" amy went on to exin. "Its fine" "Hey by the way,did you see the name of the contact by any chance?" rachel asked "Well...if i can remember correctly i think it was Alica or alissa" amy said still thinking of the exact name. "You mean Alice!!!" rachel eximed "Yh that was it...Alice!" "That two faced bitch¡­" Of course it had to be Alice.Honestly,that snake has been stingy Araceli for way to long and it''s about time that shit stopped.Since her n A didn''t work,n B was immediately gonna start because she wanted to give them a piece of their own cake which was uncalled for drama,asides that,she needed an partner and a friend,fighting what was suppose to be the two closet people in Araceli''s life was starting to pull her down,having someone indulge in her course was relieving. "Hey amy,i still wanna thank you for today really and i know you said you don''t want the money i offered,so i want to offer you something else" Rachel said to amy.Opening up and telling secrets isn''t something Rachel is familiar with,even when she was just Rachel johnson the jobless MBA holder with a failed rtionship,she still couldn''t tell people who she really was,but with all that was happening,she couldn''t deny she needed a friend. "What is that?" Amy asked looking a little confused. "Friendship" Rachel said shyly. "Really??!!" Amy squealed while jumping hugging Rachel like she had just won a lottery or a ticket to dubai. "Yh,I mean since i moved here I haven''t really made any friend except the guy who is suppose to be my business rival" rachel said. "Ofcourse i will love to be your friend,to be honest,I was also tired of those back stabbing hoes at the club,they be all smiles and shit with you then they go behind you and make shit rumors about you give two blow jobs to old men" Amy said with disgust. "What the¡­" Rachel said still wondering how people are so shitty yet half of everyone mes the devil for it. "By the way,you said something about a business rival which makes me think now,you do look kinda familiar you know¡­" Amy said touch the side of her head while crunching her eyes to look at Araceli from different angles,from Rachel''s point of view she looked like a photographer who trying to get a good angle of a model. "Really...I''m sure you got me missed up with someone else" Rachel said nervously. "No no,I''m serious though,I feel like i have seen you somewhere you know" Amy said not letting go. "OMFG!!!" Amy eximed holding onto both arms of Rachel. "What does that even mean?" Rachel asked startled. "Oh my fucking god,when were you born... the 60''s?!!!" Amy said rolling her eyes. "I remember where i have seen you" Amy said excitedly,making Rachel confirm her suspicion,Amy was definitely drunk. "Where then??" Rachel asked crossing her arms. "On the Manhattans Business magazine,I mean now it makes sense,you are the CEO and heiress of Garcia''s enterprise right??...No wonder your skin is clean omg" Amy squealed. Rachel didn''t know if this was a good thing or bad,and ofcourse people have seen her on magazine,since she took over from Araceli she had turned down up to 4 offers to be front cover,Her publicist did querry her decision but she shut her off,she didn''t need any more public pressure because This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. she didn''t want to make her business public. Chapter 22 Plan B always works-2 Chapter 22 n B always works-2 "Hey..uhm can you not say that out loud like that,I''m tryna stay as discrete as possible" Rachel whispered screamed hushing her. "Oh sorry,so sorry,so so so sorry" Amy apologized over and over. "It''s ok Amy,why don''t we go havete MacDonalds and some coke" Rachel said tugging her hands Towards the road so they could get a cab. "Wait you got coke?!!!" Amy said overly excited. "Coke?!!...oh shit COKE!!!!" "Shit no amy...I meant coke like the soda coke" Rachel rified at the girl''s excitement to do drugs "ohh...uhm yh that will be nice,would have just eaten the usual so a change will be nice" Amy said walking beside Rachel. "What''s the usual?" Rachel asked. "Lol Ramen" Amy said getting into the cab they had stopped "MacDonald''s" Rachel told the driver. "College student then" Rachel replied. "Drop out actually" Amy said. "Ohh" Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. "Yh" "That''s cool" Rachel said trying to end the ufortable topic. "No it''s not rachel,don''t say it like *ohh its cool and totally normal to drop out of college* because i didn''t just drop out because i don''t like school" Amy said looking outside the window. "Hey I''m sorry,that''s not how i meant it" Rachel said feeling bad. "No it''s ok" "I''m a foster kid and my foster home could only take me as far as high school,I tried to send myself to college and also work but i couldn''t strike the bnce,I was failing sses and had to drop a few which was going to add to my school which i already had problem affording so I decided to drop out and focus on surviving first" Amy opened up but still avoiding eye contact with Rachel. "Heye here" Rachel said not knowing what else to say and gave her a hug.Unlike Amy,she could say she kinda had it easy to be honest,she went to college and didn''t have to worry about her tuition and also feed and only worked on summers. "You will be fine girl" Rachel whispered in her ears,she opened her eyes and realized they were already at MacDonald''s. "Lets go" Rachel said paying the driver his money and told him to keep the change. They chose the table close to the window which looked like it has just been cleaned few minutes ago,Amy went to the restroom to clean up her make up because her face was messed by her mascara when cried in the cab on her shoulders.Thinking everything now,she''s so d she was able to find a friend like Amy,meeting her felt so right she couldn''t deny it. Even tho she had brought the idea of them eating out she honestly didn''t know if she had an appetite to eat after her n A,so she waited for Amy to decide so she can other the same thing. Amy came back wearing a hoodie over the gold glittery short dress she was wearing initial. "Amy where did you get that hoodie?" Rachel asked looking confused because she was only holding a small miniature of a wrecking ball which was impossible to hold a hoodie that big. "Oh i saw it in the lost but found thingy so decide to take it,besides its getting cold" Amy said like it waspletely normal. "Amy it could fleas or tick or even STI''s for godsake" Rachel eximed. "Its not like I''m nning on stuffing it up my y ground,its just for the night" Amy saidughing at Rachel''s over exaggerated concern. "y ground...really" Rachel said giggling. "Yhhh because that''s where it fun" Amy replied raising her brows at Rachel which only made her "Hey by the way,you know my name isn''t ste right?" Rachel said. "Yh had a feeling,A ste is always a fattie" Amy said chuckling. "Cruel...I''m Araceli and i have a little brother Ace" Rachel said smiling. "So what''s your n with you fianc¨¦ and where do Ie in?" Amy said excitedly "Well first of all I want to get friendly with him before trapping him then drug and seducing him and that''s where youe in" Rachel said looking at her directly. "Feel like Tom cruise right now" Amy said grinning. "First of all lets get nice with him,I need him to believe i still want him so I can bait him" She dialed xanders number¡­ "Hello" "Hey Aracel what''s up" "I just want to say I''m so sorry for the way i treated you and now I know it wasn''t right,I hope you can find away to forgive me" "Its ok Aracel,I''m sorry for the mean things i said" "Alright its ok,wanna meet tomorrow?" "Yh sure" "ok..goodnight xanny..I love you" "Love you too" "Night" "Girllll that was so smooth" Amy squealed at Rachel''s acting skills "Now all we need to do is join adam and the serpent some hours apart" Rachel said smiling evilly. "By serpent you mean¡­" "Alice Amy" "Ohh yh of course" "Sounds like a bitch" "Ohh trust me,A bitch barks...this one stings¡­" ¡­" Chapter 23 Executing the plan. Chapter 23 Executing the n. "This is too easy, did they know i will need their phone, Nooo...it''s not possible, they can''t know" Rachel said trying to convince her doubts. She took both phones and put in their passwords which happened to be the same, Alice''s birthday. They couldn''t even be subtitle about it, almost like they believe Araceli is dumb or something. She sent both the drafted text and copied and pasted it on each of them''s message wall which resulted in a notification bell vibrating through the old house. She heard foot stepsing¡­ "Is that my phone in your hands?," Xander popped into the kitchen out of no where. "Uhm...what?," Rachel stuttered. "I said what are doing with my phone?," Alice said put her right hands on her hips. "Didn''t you hear the notification bell go off?" Rachel asked. "Ohh, I heard it,that''s why I came out Araceli, I realized I left my phone in here," Alice said calmly. Not only was Alice acting suspicious but she was being too interrogative and calm at the same time and it was starting to get on Rachel nerves. From the distance Alice was standing, she couldn''t see what rachel was doing behind the grey stone adored bar, looking down at the message she had sent in their respectful phones and deleted them so they both had a copy of each of messages. She stood up to and walked around the bar and gave Alice both phones after she had swiped the message off the lock screen and headed up the stairs. "Aren''t you gonna join us at the game room and y glow hockey like we used to," Alice said looking up to Rachel on the stairs. "So you can cheat like you used to?," "No thank you Alice, But I will be in my study room incase you ever need me" Rachel said with her back turn to Alice even tho she wished she could turn back to look at Alice facial expression. She headed into her room and locked the door, She kinda felt bad for leaving her Ace only with them but she had important things to do. She locked her door and headed into the closet and dialed Amy''s number after which she picked up after two ring. "Hey Amy" Rachel said. "Has it been done?" Amy said in an overly serious voice. "Yes it has," Rachel followed suite. "Good, I''m in position for delivering the package, Aphrodite has been retrieved, requesting for permission to act," Amy said, Rachel so badly wanted tough at Amy being in character but she knew better than to disrupt Amy''s character moment. "No sergent, stand down, wait for further signal, I repeat, stand down sergent," Rachel yed. Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. "Roger that captain," Amy replied making the outage noise the walking talking made when ending a transition message. "Ehm Araceli please can i see the message you sent to both of them?," Amy said dropping character. "Alright I will send it to you," Rachel replied. She ended the call and took the message she had drafted on her phone for both of them and sent them to Amy. Xander Mee m a Guarante hote i a hou Suit 1093 Alic ? Mee m a Guarante hote i fe Suit 1093???? Am Now this some spy shit Araceli, You are like professor X only you are not in some fancy wheels and you actually have hair ????...OmG this hotel uniforms look sooo cool. The text made herugh hard before she remembered she was on mission and she needed to be serious but now everything was in Amy''s hands, she slightly prayed she performed to expectations. She heard a knock on her door which brought her out of her thoughts, she rushed to unlock the door before the person realized the door was locked. She opened the door to realize it was Alice. "Hey Araceli, Xander just left, he said he had business to do so he had to rush," Alice said resting on the door frame. "So he couldn''t tell me...his fiance¨¦ but he could tell you," Rachel said nodding her head slowly trying to still make sense of the message. "Common Araceli, Don''t say it like that, he had to rush and do something important quickly,don''t me himmon, You know stressful business can be at this time of the year," Alice said touching Araceli shoulder looking like she cared. "I know how it works Alice," Rachel said talk Alice hands off her shoulder and held them in her hands. "I''m a sessful CEO and heiress to billions, I know what being sessful feels like," Rachel said smiling sweetly at Alice letting each word sink into her daft skull. "But alittle text won''t hurt now, would it?," Rachel asked letting go of her hands and going into her room, she needed a way to call Amy to tell her Xander was on his way. "do you want to talk, I feel like you need to get something off your chest," Alice said. "I mean how are you in then the coping the I haven''t seen you guys being so stuck up with each other since you guys are about to get married I mean if you need someone to talk to, you know I''m always here for you right," Alice said sitting beside Rachel on the bed. For someone who is sleeping with my fianc¨¦ and nned Araceli''s rape and left her to die in end of a the basement of a house she couldn''t even remember, she really had a lot of nervous telling her that. " Alicemon, I''m fine, its not like I''m going to get raped again by some bunch of random thugs out of nowhere," Rachel said pointedly at her but she gave out no reaction at all. "She must really dislike Araceli if she didn''t even flinch at the words she threw at her," Rachel thought. "Alright then¡­, I guess i will be heading out then out," Alice said tapping Rachel''s thigh and left her room not after she looked back at Rachel onest time before closing her door gentle. "Bitch¡­" Rachel thought. She rushed to her closet where she left her phone and called Amy, the phone kept ringing till she finally picked up sounding distorted. "Hey Amy, are you okay?," Rachel asked worried. "Yeah, I''m fine, I left my phone in between my boobs and getting it out seemed to be more of a hassle than i thought," Amy said giggling. "Is that even safe?!!!" Rachel half screamed. "You know what, what you do with your boobs is not my problem right now, Xander should be ar the hotel right now, I need you to confirm if suite 1093 has been taken and tell them you are on duty to take care of that hall, can you do that?," Rachel said. "Roger that captain Ara," Amy said. Amy headed out to the receptionist,only to see xander collect his key card and heading towards the elevator. She took out her phone to call Araceli immediately. "He has collected his key card and he is in the elevator, what''s next?," Amy asked Rachel. "Wait for some minutes, He''s going to order some whine and light meal, that''s gonna be your que to go after him," Rachel explianed. Like Rachel said, in a few minutes time he called to order some fancy wine and two te of chocte cake and two wine sses. This was game time for her, she couldn''t let araceli down. She headed to the elevator with her cart holding the tray and the order, she touched the little bag of Aphrodite to confirm if it was still there. The elevator opened and she rolled the cart down the cream honey caramel walls with white celling and golding lights every where, the ce was certainly beautiful and definitely not a regr suite. She checked each gold te by the door till she arrived at 1093 and stopped, she took a deep breathe and revealed more of her breasts and rose her skirt higher to reveal some skin. She knocked twice on the door and stepped back and looked down at her reflection on the silver polished cover of the food she brought. "Who''s there?," a man''s voice from inside said. "Room service" Amy replied. "Come in".... She opened the door wide up and pushed the cart into the room slowly, the room was certainly luxurious. It had a queen size bed and a lush sitter on the side and a properly sculptured ss center piece which looked like the mermaid from little mermaid holding a tray over her head. "Where do you want your order served sir or do you prefer it in a tray?," Amy said in a breathe sexy voice but he wasn''t having any of it which got her a little mad, she needed him to look at her. She rolled the cart gently in front of him slowly while stopping it in front of him. He was wearing a blue dressing shirt like the one he was wearing at the blue club with three bottons down and a ck jeans. She put the dropped the fancy wine and the two ss and te of chocte cake on the table. She intentionally dropped the the napkin in between his legs which made him drop his phone and look at her. The look of lust draped over his eyes as he scanned her perky breasts and thighs, she rejoiced inwardly for getting his attention. "Oops...my bad" Amy said starting in between his legs. "I guess i should get that," Amy said breathily. "I guess you should," Xander replied smirking... Chapter 24 Giving her a taste of betrayal. Chapter 24 Giving her a taste of betrayal. "Where do you want your order served sir or do you prefer it in a tray?," Amy said in a breathe sexy voice but he wasn''t having any of it which got her a little mad, she needed him to look at her. She rolled the cart gently in front of him slowly while stopping it in front of him. He was wearing a blue dressing shirt like the one he was wearing at the blue club with three bottons down and a ck jeans. She put the dropped the fancy wine and the two ss and te of chocte cake on the table. She intentionally dropped the the napkin in between his legs which made him drop his phone and look at her. The look of lust draped over his eyes as he scanned her perky breasts and thighs, she rejoiced inwardly for getting his attention. "Oops...my bad" Amy said starting in between his legs. "I guess i should get that," Amy said breathily. "I guess you should," Xander replied smirking, she looked oddly familiar but he couldn''t put his hand on where he had seen her but now that was the list of his worries, she was so fucking hot and that''s all that mattered to him. Amy bent down between his legs and put her bleached blond hair to the side and sat on her knees making it look like she was about to give him a blow job and arched her back and slowly reached for the napkin and stood back on her knees slowly put her hands lightly on his crotch for supoort which seemed to go from semi erect to a full hard boner, On feeling that, she knew she had seeded. She then moved back to her feets and kept the napkin on the table, and took the cart and started pushing it out of the room, this is the part where she had to trust her power of seduction that he will call her back, while she had her back to him she set her phone on the cart and pressed the video icon Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. waiting for him to call her back. "Hey, I haven''t seen you around here before," Xander called out to her. "Maybe you just haven''t seen me before," Amy replied innocently. "They should employ more people like you," Xander said smirking at her. "And people like you should room here more," Amy said winking at him making him smile more, for someone who was so controlling like Araceli said, he was also easy to manipte. "Will you like to stay and have a little drink with me miss¡­.?? Xander said looking for her tag but she had none on. "Da, Da martins," Amy said shaking his hands that were a little rough giving him the fake name she had picked out. "You can leave your cart outside by the way," Xander said winking at her. "I''m sorry but my supervisor might get mad if i leave the cart in the hall way," Amy said quickly thinking of a lie. "Then lets find away to make it stay out of our way," he said giving her a knowing smile. "Of course,"... She adjusted the cart to an angle that was going to show more of him than her, she used the napkins to conceal her phone to make it less obvious. She walked slow towards him while he grinned like he has just won a lottery, once she was within his arm reach he grabbed her by the waste and ran his hands down her waist all the way to her backside and squeezed lightly which she couldn''t deny felt good. She ran her hands in between hair and started unbottoning his remaining part of his bottoned up shirt and he did same to her in seconds, she was in her bra and skirt while he was chest bare, his chest were defined with faint abs showing signs thst he did work out her and there. They started making out with His hands all over her, no matter how much she enjoyed the kissing and making out and rubbing on his hard erection she made sure he didn''t let him take of her bra, she still needed to drug him. While kissing she stopped all of a sudden and asked him "Now that i have had a taste of you, I will like to have a taste of that fancy whine," Amy whispered between the kiss. "Of course," Xander said starring at her with lust filled eyes. She uncrossed her legs from both of his sides and went to the table and opened the whine bottle pouring it into the two wine sses and poured little of the Aphrodite into the ss she kissed that had a red lip stick on it so she could differentiate between both of them sses, she handed him the one that had her lipstck on it which he collected it and downed it at a go. She tried avoid kissing him because she didn''t want to get a trace of the sleeping drug. Sheter slept with him and had everything videoed and did what rachel told her and slept in with him. She didn''t know how long they had slept in but the amount of aphrodite was suppose to knock him out for just few hours like two to three hours, and Alice suppose toe see them in thispromising position so she couldn''t leave yet. Few minutester, a knock came on the door, the person knocked three more times before opening the door and low and behold, Alice walked in wearing a ck fitting dress with her hair tied back, the noise of the door being banged finally brought out Xander back to consciousness. "Xander what the fuck!!!!!," A piercing scream resonated throughout the whole and she was sure it went through the whole building too. Xander finally starred up and opened his eyes and looked at Alice, "Alice can you please keep your voice down my head is banging," Xander said shading his hand from the light in the room, now Amy thinks maybe she overdosed his ss because she doesn''t remember headache being part of the side effect. She was kinda d though that they really didn''t look at her or involve her in the conversation. "What the fuck do you mean I should keep my fucking voice down, when you just fucking slept with the fucking hotel hostess and you fucking told me toe here!!!," Alice did nothing but scream at Xander. Both of them turned to look at Amy as Amy had just put her shirt back on, Xander looked at her in confusion before the memory pped him and the look of regret awarded him face while Alice just starred at her in disgust. "Shit¡­.so much for not being involved" Amy thought as she took the cart and wheeled it out of the room. "Seriously Xander...Her!!!," Alice said looking slightly hurt. "I''m so so so fucking sorry babe," "I swear I don''t knkw how the fuck it happened, I just woke up and saw her here, you know I will never treat you like this," Xander begged getting the bed. "You woke up with her on you, so she fell out of the fucking ceiling or what?!!," "Dude do you even hear your fucking self, you sound so fucking stupid," "Just because i was few hours, you decided to sleep with someone else, how low can you fucking be!!!" Alice said getting more pissed. "You told me would be here in a few and i should meet you here, that''s why i winked at you and came here straight" Xander desperately explianed. "You told me to meet you here in an hour!!" Alice replied. "What...No i didn''t" Xander said still shocked by the text she had just showed him. "Who the fuck will do this sought of prank?" Xander asked. "Could it be Araceli?" Xander asked. "No, it can''t be her, Araceli is too dumb for n this good and almost wless," Alice said. "I''m still fucking mad at you," Alice said stumping out of the room not ready to hear any shit Xander wanted to say. Even though she knew Xander was still tripping for her and she still had him wrapped in her fingers, she knew this act was not just a juvenile act, someone smart pulled this on both of them and she was not gonna stop till she found out who. While in the kitchen, Amy had gone to return the cart and took of cloths and returned to her normal clothes, she called Araceli. "How did it go?" Rachel asked her. "Perfect!!!, Alice expression was to die for," Amy said proud of herself. "Lets meet at the blue club 8pm," Rachel said. "Okay," Amy replied ending the call. "Hey where the hell do you think you are going Da?," a random chef asked her. "I quit fucker," Amy said giving him the middle finger... Chapter 25 First jubilation. Chapter 25 First jubtion. "I''m still fucking mad at you," Alice said stumping out of the room not ready to hear any shit Xander wanted to say. Even though she knew Xander was still tripping for her and she still had him wrapped in her fingers, she knew this act was not just a juvenile act, someone smart pulled this on both of them and she was not gonna stop till she found out who. While in the kitchen, Amy had gone to return the cart and took of cloths and returned to her normal clothes, she called Araceli. "How did it go?" Rachel asked her. "Perfect!!!, Alice expression was to die for," Amy said proud of herself. "Lets meet at the blue club 8pm," Rachel said. "Okay," Amy replied ending the call. "Hey where the hell do you think you are going Da?," a random chef asked her. "I quit fucker," Amy said giving him the middle finger, she put the digital camera containing the evidence and left the hotel. Normally, she would go home to some stale ramen and half arsed soap opera which was the only channel herndlord had installed for the whole building. Unlike every other adult her age, she didn''t own aputer or heater, she was feeding moutj to mouth living on earnings she got from her club hassle, and getting a day job was as stressful or even more stressful than actually acquiring one, not that she hasn''t given it much thought but it was not gonna fit her schedule, eight dors a day won''t cut it for the kind of survival she needed. Amy pulled out a pack of cigarettes from her purse which just contained lips stick,pepper spray and perfume she got off the shelf of the hotel, the cigarette pack had just two remainIng in it, after a whole minute of repeated sighing and clicking her tongue, she decided to fuck it and lighted the cigarette, Air that was slowly killing her she inhaled with need. Smoking wasn''t one of her favorite thing to do but it helped her get certain things in check like her spiraling mind and ever so present mboyant smile and style people liked a bout her. Reaching Blue club seemed to take forever but affect finally covering the distance, she got into the club using back door because apparently now Big joe in front wasn''t into some sloppy hand job, so she followed thd back door and when into the ever increase lost but found truck and picked out a random blue navy. "What''s with people and leaving their hoodies during make outs," Amy thought while discarding the hotel uniforms. This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. She headed to the bar and saw Ricky, the bartender and mixer who she has known and was kinda friends with for the past 8months that she has beening here. "Hey Rickiest of all Ricks," Amy said giving him a handshake they made up two months ago. "Hey Amy beerhouse," Rick said chuckling. Amy remembered when he gave her the monica, she was wasted and doing a karaoke and she sang a very terrible Amy whinehouse song while drinking beer,hence the name Amy beerhouse, Rick most think he was so clever. "So...getting wasted before nine strucks, bad day?," Rick asked already mixing up Amy''s usual. "Actual, I''m not really drinking this night, I''m meeting up with someone," Amy said. "So coke zero then?," Rick asked. "Yeah," Amy said swaying her hip the song that was booming in the club. Sometimes she was thankful Justin Beiber broke Selena Gomez''s heart because Look at her now by Selena Gomez goes really hard. "I spy with my half stoned eye a Selena fan," Rick said smiling at Amy as she swayed in her sit and swung her hair back and forth. "Oh no, just a really good song. You know, maybe I should get my heart broken, may be I would be she was a popstar. "Kill that fantasy now and save millions of ears from eternal bleeding honey," Rick said snapping his fingers in front of her. "You are mean," Amy whined. "No, I just helped the seven billion people on this earth by saving then from severe ear bleed and Global warming," Rick saidughing. This was why she always loved Rick''spany, even though he was the same age with her, he was a college student studying microbiology and pathology, yet he still seemed to be able to bnce out his life, even though his student debt right now could drown him, he still manages to lighten stranger''s mood every night whoe with their individual problems with just light convos or "So honey, who are you meeting up with today, A significant other?," Rick said raising his eyebrows at her while smirking. "Nooo, I''m just meeting a friend and SHE is girl," Amy overly emphasized on the SHE so he would understand. "Ok ok, I mean having a girlfriend won''t be that bad girl, that''s all I''m saying," Rick said raising his hands up in surrender whileughing. "I don''t swing that way, you know this," Amy said starring at him with a bored look, he has always been trying to make her like girls so she could go with him to pride events which she still went for by the way, Rick could be very convincing when he was concerned. "What time are you suppose to meet up with this friend of yours by the way?," Rick asked. "Tired of me already?," Amy asked jokingly faking a hurt pout. "Pouting don''t go with that barbie face," Rick saidughing at how the pouting made her look like a plushy. "Whatever bro, she said she would be here by¡­" Amy said checking her watch to see it was exactly eight and a hand touched her should. "eight?," Rachelpleted her sentence, Amy who was startled for a bit then recovered And gave Araceli a hug. "Hey, how are you doing?," Amy asked. "I''m good, d all went well," Rachel said. Rick fake coughs and stares at Amy pointedly while directing his eyes to Rachel as if saying "introduce me bitch" "Oh, my bad," Amy said. "Araceli, this is my friend and I guess closest male friend, Rick walter," Amy said. "Rick, Araceli," Amy said pointing at Araceli, they shook hands while Rick kept starring at her weirdly. "Why is he starring at me like that?," Rachel asked looking weirdly at the brown hair and brown eyed guy in front of her. "Something about you seems familiar, like I have seen you on a magazine, Are you a model?," Rick asked. " No," Rachel deadpanned. Amy was about to intervene and say why Araceli looks familiar but she was stopped by the looks that could kill and bury her twelve feet under, she took the cue and shut her mouth. "Well maybe you beared resemnce to the model, you should model by the way, you have a pretty face," Rickplimented. "Thanks, that''s nice of you," Rachel said. "Do you have it in you phone?" Rachel asked Amy. "Yeah, I transfered it," Amy said. Amy transfered the video to Araceli, after which she found out it was 5hours long, she forget she kept recording even while they were at sleep. The expression on Araceli''s face gave her all the satisfaction and job well done she needed. She keptughing and rewinding the video back to the point of Alice reaction. "That was so epic, I can finally show evidence and have something to use as bait over Alice, thanks so much Amy," Rachel said hugging her again. "this calls for a celebration, drinks and meals all on me," Rachel said. "Ricky, right?," Rachel said. "Yes ma''am" Ricky said saluting Rachel yfully. "Well give us your best mix," Rachel said with a smile. The night went from just drink to full on twerking show off between a drunk Rachel and very drunk Amy and a stoned Rick. They danced to hard to a point Araceli thought she was actually going to pass out, it had been a really long time she had had fun like this with people her own age and it felt good, she loved the feeling and couldn''t help it. Just when as the song roll ended, they decided to take a break with dance and drink and ordered water for all three of them since Rick was off duty early today. "I think i need an extra pair of lungs," Amy said barely audible to Rachel and Rick because of the shallow never enough breathe she kept taking. "I think I need to take a leak¡­" Rick was saying when work came on by Rihanna and Drake and they all shared eye contacts, as if telephaticallymunicating they headed to the dance floor again to twerk their lives off. While they were dancing, Amy approached Araceli looking rmed. " Guess who''s here?," Amy said slowing. "Who?," Rachel asked. "Alice¡­" Chapter 26 Clubbing? Chapter 26 Clubbing? Just when as the song roll ended, they decided to take a break with dance and drink and ordered Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. water for all three of them since Rick was off duty early today. "I think i need an extra pair of lungs," Amy said barely audible to Rachel and Rick because of the shallow never enough breathe she kept taking. "I think I need to take a leak¡­" Rick was saying when work came on by Rihanna and Drake and they all shared eye contacts, as if telephaticallymunicating they headed to the dance floor again to twerk their lives off. While they were dancing, Amy approached Araceli looking rmed. " Guess who''s here?," Amy said slowing. "Who?," Rachel asked. "Alice¡­" "What the¡­" "No!!," "Don''t turn back, we are directly opposite her, just move into the crowd and we can exit from the back door," Amy said shouting over the music. This was bad for her and Amy, if by any chance Alice finds out she and Amy knew each other, she will be very much confirm her suspecion that she was behind the set up she had stumbled into, and under estimating Alice would be a very huge mistake on her part. "Where is she right now?," Rachel shouted at Amy who was still looking around for Ricky. Amy didn''t reply Rachel at once, instead she took her phone out and started typing, she was no longer close to her as some people kinda pushed a wedge between them, so few secondster, she received a text telling her that Ricky was waiting outside for them and she should tell her. When Rachel looked up, she realised Amy had already started heading to the back of the club, and Rachel not wanting to get discovered followed her on her heels as quick as she could, it was at this moment she realized they were so many people in the club and navigating while being drunk without losing sight of Amy was going to be a big problem for her. The spinning blue lights were starting to make her feel dizzy asf as she hadpletely lost track of Amy''s super bleached blond hair, she ended up managing to reach the end of the club after a whole lot of stumbling, falling and failing. She wouldn''t want to see herself in a mirror right now because she was sure that she looked like she was having a squel of Elizabeth Banks walk of shame only this time it was a brte. She scanned the back of the club which had three doors, One definitely lead to outside the club, One had VIP written on it and the other had nothing on it. She stood there for only God knows how long,pletely skipping the fact she was on the run from Alice. She was finally snapped out of her drunked trance when fingers snapped right in front of her face. " Araceli, what exactly are you starring, Amy told me you had to escape here as fast as you could, that you both had to avoid someone," Ricky said with his eyes barely opened. "Uhm...yeah i guess, where...where''s¡­" Araceli said loosing grip of her tongue in between conversation, she knew she will have it even worse when she wakes up tomorrow morning but for now she liked that she wasn''t even too worried about running into Alice, she felt good and liked how she cared less about everything else that bothered her. "OMG!!!," "ARACELI!!!" Both Ricky and Araceli''s head snapped faster than anything else at the urgency in the voice that called out Araceli''s name, After which they found out was Amy. "Woah woah woah...Amy chilllll," Ricky drawled out rest on the exist door before falling off onto the concrete cold floor outside suddenly bursting out into a fits ofughter which Rachel to followed suite doubling over. "You both can hold your weed and alcohol just for one night!!" Amy said clearly pissed that she will have to be the responsible one this night. She bent over and took Ricky off the ground who was already making himself at home on the dirty concrete, She went back to Araceli who was still standing and staring into space clingy onto her purse. "I''m hungry," Rachel said starting to feel exhausted. "You got change for makkie''s?" Ricky said. "I have no money on me, nned to eat ramen anyways," Amy said raising her hands in surrender, right now she was more concerned with taking this two to their various houses, but the more they spent time talking about how they were broke, she knew she couldn''t take them both back home at this time of the night, the best she could do was take them to MacDonald''s and have them as take away before squeezing their asses into her tiny little apartment. "Alright, enough cheat chat about who''s more broke, wr need to get the fuck out of here and get take outs before it gets toote," Amy said folding her hand and looking serious at them, but from the look of their faces they didn''t take her any serious for one bit. "Alright...Mom," Ricky said bursting into a fit ofughter like he just told the best joke humanity has ever heard, Rachel joined along bending over from the effect ofughing hard. All of a sudden, she stoppedughing and her face slowing started forming into one of difort, she what that look meant, she was about to throw up. She quickly took her to the back of the alley close to the club and let her throw up, she was about to ask Ricky to help get bottle of water for her but since he was stoned as hell, she let him keep tracing the cracks of the wall, she went inside and order two bottle of water not before she put the hoodie over head to make sure she didn''t run into her again. When she came back, she saw Ricky hugging Araceli by the side while she had her hair rolled up and her jeans too, she also had her purse tucked safely under her arms, they both looked like penniless refugee but only model worthy, she couldn''t deny it, if not that Ricky and Araceli came from different backgrounds and standards, they would have been a really hot couple. She called a taxi to go the MACDONALD''S while she single handedly dragged both of them into the taxi, or though it was just fourty minutes past 10, she Knew the Night wasn''t getting any younger. They ordered take out in which Araceliter paid for but insisted she she wanted to eat in there even though they were closing up, They got back into the cab after Amy thought she would finally find some peace, not until Araceli and Ricky started ying sword with the fries and spilling ketch up on their self to look real, Amy didn''t have anymore strength to control grown ups like them, she let them have their fun alll the way to her apartment after she unlocked it and pushed them in, but that seemed to be a bad idea because they decided to over react and stumbled into the room and almostnded on her center piece stole front an auction of an olddy which used to night sweaters for everyone in their hall way before she died. Amy left both of them in her living room while she went inside to go take a quick shower and take her make up off, midnight was still some good twenty minutes away when she was done, knowing they were very tired and would likely be sleepy already, she brought some extra nkets, winter was getting closer and you could feel the chills in the air. She changed to her pj''s which was some cute panda prints with an overall ck and white background, she left her room into the living room which wasn''t any much difference, she was sure she could fit her whole apartment into Araceli''s closet. On reaching her living room, she found both of them passed out on her two sitters with half eaten fries pack on her center piece. She took some whips and cleaned off Araceli''s now messy make up and took off Ricky''s brown boots, she went to the kitchen and got them some Advil pain killers from her shelf and two ss of water covered. "These two are in for some nasty ass hangover," Amy thought¡­. Chapter 27 Remembering the past. Chapter 27 Remembering the past. There was an itchy and very ufortable feeling that was draped over Rachel, she couldn''t help but hate it but she also didn''t have a choice, Her head was like a little ball stucked in the middle of a very grand band parade, she didn''t want to risk opening her eyes because she knew it was going to switch up and get way worse for her. She could easily tell she wasn''t at her house, the difort wasn''t even nning on being the slightest bit of subtle. Now she hasn''t killed anyone before, but right now, right now she was getting massive ideas for the person that was so insensitive enough to be clingy pans over her head like some fucking circus, but seemed like the washed up luka sabbat decided to speak up first before she could start dissecting someone''s kid. "Amyyyyyy," Ricky drawled out putting the nket over his head. "The sitter and the old hag nket are already bad enough, creating a fucking circus at eight in the morning is totally unnecessary," Ricky said with his voice muffled by the nket. "Yeah Amy, my back and head hurt are more than enough shit for me to deal for one morning," Rachel said. "First of all, Good afternoon to you all, Secondly, I hope you realize it''s two noon, there are advill pills on the table, when you are done beingzy as hell hangovers, you will get you asses up and help yourself with it, but if you have gotten used to the pain then you can enjoy and keep lying in my old hag nket," Amy said, but at the mention of pill, the two sprang up but in return, facing the consequences of light change, the bad headache and body pain they must have gotten from passing out on the couch. "JESUS!!!!" "FUCK!!!!" Ricky and Araceli said simultaneously making Amy burst into mad fits ofughter, they both were hold their heads for their dear life like if they let it go, it will roll off the ground. "God!!...remind me never to drink again," Rachel said holding her head, she felt like the definition of shitty with stale mouth and a throat as dry as sand paper, she covered her ears because everything that made a single sound felt ten times louder than usual. "You both could stay here and whine your ass all day about the pain and the suffering or you could reach for the fucking advil and save yourself the headache andining," Amy said putting her hand on a ck formal knee length dress she was wearing. Both Rachel and Rick decided to reach the advil same time and took out two pills and downed it with some water and asked for more, after taking approximately three sses of water and ten minutes of fortunate silence, Rachel realized how hungry she was. "I''m hungry," Rachel said. "Me too," Ricky followed. "Now you are hungry!!, but yesterday you decided to turn my hallway to a fucking fry battle instead of eating up, well there''s the MacDonald from yesterday i warmed up and there are eggs and bacon and some waffles cover with milk in the fridge," Amy said walking back to her room. Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. "Wait a sec Amy...," "What?!" Amy said get impatient because of the dress she was wearing, she didn''t want to sweat in it or over use it much, it was one of the only good ones she had on her. "Why are you wearing a dress like that in the morning," Rachel asked looking confused, the question also brought Ricky to the same realization which he hadn''t even noticed before. "Yeah, that''s true...who even wear that kinda dress on sunday mornings?," Ricky asked. "Apparently, people who go to church in the morning and then go to the supermarket to buy some breakfast supplies for bunch of adults who can''t hold their smoke or liquor or both," Amy said venting. "Sorry, I didn''t mean to raise my voice, just stressed," Amy apologized. "Since when did you go to church Amy?!," Ricky askedpletely ignoring her apologies shocked. "Since forever, I don''t know¡­" Amy said starting to feel ufortable, it was like conversing with anothee set of judgmental people again which filled up the church, she was tired of conversations like this like "Are you really a Christian?" "You really do go to church" "Are you reallying to church for the right reasons?" People be judging her because of her lifestyle even though the bible spoke about God condemning people that judge others, they all seem to skip that part some how. "Woah¡­" Ricky said with an expressionless face. "What are you trying to say?!!!" "spit it out bro!!!" "That my lifestyle doesn''t depict someone who goes to church huh?!!!" Amy said already feeling worked up and tired of people being all judgy and nosey in her business, this was a rtionship between her and God, no one else. " Hey Amy, chill for a bit, no one is judging you" Rachel said trying to calm her down "Yeah Amy...No one is judging you for pete sake and the sake of our recovering hang over, please chill," Ricky said holding his head as the ever so slight pounding headache was starting to flourish again into a fully fledged headache. "I mean, I''m a bisexual man and an exconvit, what do i gain judging a pretty soul like you," Ricky said smiling at her. "No, you are not an exconvit but an ex detainee for loitering while you were drunk," Amy said "And eww rick, did you just flirt with me?!" Amy eximed contorting her face into that of mild disgust. "I have a boyfriend now girl so chill, I won''t be trying to get into your pants no more," Rick said blushing alittle as he said the word "boyfriend". "Wait you have a boyfriend?" Rachel asked him with a weird look. "Wait wtf Ricky, since fucking when?!!!" Amy eximed "Yeah i do, you got a problem with that miss?" Ricky asked already getting defensive, he had had to deal with homophobes all his fucking life, sometimes he gets callec out for being gay even when he wad bisexual, all because he had some element of feminity in his facial looks, but he''s voice was different and so was his attitude, but now he has learnt to ept himself for the part of him that was attracted to men, if he needed to put on a fucking wig beat up some stuck up clearly rich girl who didn''t understand how being a homosexual was, he wouldn''t mind getting his hand alittle blood stained. "No no, of course not rick, it''s just I''m wondering, you were flirting with some cute girls back at the club yesterday, and now you saying you have a boyfriend...isn''t that cheating?!!" Rachel asked, starting to have a recap of seeing Talon fucking that bitch of a so-called "she''s just a friend" . "Cheating??" Ricky asked looking confused. "I only flirted, because they flirted with me, and it''s not like I got any intentions of getting into their pants, I''m not that kinda bisexual, one gender at a time" Ricky rified. "Damn Araceli, you sound kinda old back there, did uour ex cheat on you or something?" Amy said single bit, the look Ricky gave her was enough to make her regain her senses. "Shit...so sorry, I didn''t know," Amy said with a low voice feeling guilty and so bad as hell for "Nahhh, it''s ok now, I''m over it," Rachel said with a low voice even though she knew she was speaking straight up lies, the memories, the pictures, theck of guilt in his eyes and the whole ident experience lived totally rent free in her head, and getting it out soon wasn''t something she thinks could be done anytime soon. She didn''t like the mood she had put them in, everyone looking and acting all sad, she decided to change the topic to food besides she was hungry. "Alright, I''m going to eat, y''all can sit and weep about my tragedy in the past," Rachel said standing up heading to the small kitchen which still managed to hold a table ind which held bunch of covered tes and they all smell and look so good. No matter how Rachel wanted to y off the not being hurt, Ricky saw right through her, the pain were still as fresh as today''s wound. He had experienced a simr situation where his past girlfriend had been sleeping with his brother and had no idea about how long it has been going on, but one day, he left his side bag holding all his drawing and sketch Equipments, he returned home and found his girlfriend and his brother making out on the couch, he froze in time as the scene he had just witnessed yed in his head over and over again, Their voices of plea were muffled into just mere background noise and he could fell his pain dripping down his cheek, he took his side bag and headed out not after he kicked his brother out of his apartment and broke up with his girlfriend all in one day. They ate their meal in afortable silence because no one was willing to talk, Rick had his head in his phone while Rachel just kept going at the waffle. Some few hours after they both freshened up, Rick left saying something about going to lie in his boyfriend arms till he felt better and Amy was headed to the gym, so she decided it was time to finally go home. When she reached out side, It was already a mature evening and the sun had almostpletely set, she decided to take alittle work before find a cab, the atmosphere was a little chilled from the approaching winter but she was dressed prepared still having the hoodie that Amy had given toherst night, she opened her phone for the first time in almost a whole day and saw a bunch of business emails as usual but one text caught her attention, it was Baldwin''s, Asking her if she wanted to hang, the text came in since 1pm at noon and now it was almost 7pm and she needed to head home. Sorry some other time, still recovering from a hangover¡­ Chapter 28 Inviting Amy home Chapter 28 Inviting Amy home They ate their meal in afortable silence because no one was willing to talk, Rick had his head in his phone while Rachel just kept going at the waffle. Some few hours after they both freshened up, Rick left saying something about going to lie in his boyfriend arms till he felt better and Amy was headed to the gym, so she decided it was time to finally go home. When she reached outside, It was already a mature evening and the sun had almostpletely set, she decided to take alittle work before find a cab, the atmosphere was a little chilled from the approaching winter but she was dressed prepared still having the hoodie that Amy had given toherst night, she opened her phone for the first time in almost a whole day and saw a bunch of business emails as usual but one text caught her attention, it was Baldwin''s, Asking her if she wanted to hang, the text came in since 1pm at noon and now it was almost 7pm and she needed to head home. Sorry some other time, still recovering from a hangover¡­ She connected her phone to her airpods and yed Selena Gomez new album which was like her free therapy, well no per say free because it was a prepaid album. She thought about taking a cab but the whole environment and the song she was ying felt like a whole mood and it felt right, while enjoy the whole scenario, a ping came through her airpods signaling someone just sent a message to her, nkw she wished she put her phone on do not disturb but after seeing who it was, maybe she was a little d she didn''t. Baldwin Is that a No i hear from you?? You know i have never been turned down by a woman before, but this, this will only make me chase more. I AM A VERY STUBBORN MAN ARACELI. Me Is that a treat or a promise, Mr baldwin?? Baldwin Why don''t we just see it as a proposal and a part promise, how about that. Me Part promises aren''t real baldwin, you all in or out?...pick a stance. Baldwin Does being inside you count as a stance?????? Me Smooth one bastard, but isn''t that a move you make after a few dates? Baldwin How about a date then, tomorrow evening, just two of us. Me Its still no bro. Now I know what you are thinking, he is everything, the perfect rebound, tall, handsome, sessful, funny, almost everything a ready to settle down girl is looking for, but guess what, this sicko (Me of course) haven''t still gotten over that cheating ass of a bastard, plus getting pleasure mixed with business was the number one rule not to be broken by any sessful CEO, she learnt that in her internship where marketting sales manager got involved with his secretary and after Heter got married to someone else, she exposed his videos and got him fired. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. That''s enough lesson for her to follow, besides she was sure Araceli''s parents also told her the same thing. After over thirty minutes of talking with Yandel and two ice coffeester, she decided she had had enough of the scenery and wanted her bed and a warm hug from her nkets. She boarded a cab to the estate gate and worked all the way home. On opening the door, she realized no one was home except the maids in charge of night duty, she head up the stairs after taking an apple and headed straight to take a hot bath and shampoo her hair, after the long night in the club and the back aching one at Amy''s ce, she felt her carried alot of lice and dirt, she decided to spend a little longer in the bath tub to refresh herself more but Also partly because she waszy and didn''t want to get involved with any stress just yet. Wait the fact that she installed a wine cab close to the tub didn''t make her a troubling alcoholic right?, well either way it felt right and she felt tipsy. She washed off the soap of her and went to change into her night wear, She had to go to the office tomorrow which meant waking up by 9 for her and having to deal with meeting and wait, did she mention she was having lunch with xander and that was something she wasn''t looking forward to in anyway. " Wait a second¡­," Rachel said out loud. "Wait a fucking second, I have the video!!!," "I have the motherfucking video!!!" Rachel shouted out loud dancing around, she totally forgot about the video for a second, she got lost while thinking of how to use the video and not just spring it out of no where, that will be totally suspicious and people may start to think she set it all up, but after the 3 days wait, It wouldn''t look nned. She needed to call him now, to act all friendly and shit just so it doesn''t look like she hasn''t seen him and days and the first thing she does is dish him the most sour and bitter of all dishes she could serve via attitude, she dialed his number and took a deep breathe. "Alright Rachel, get your act to¡­," Rachel was saying to herself before the call clicked showing Xander had picked up "Hey babeee," Rachel said in a higher pitch than normal with excess sweetness and little nerve "Hey love," Xander voice came in neutral and slightly nd, it really didn''t sound forced neither sound like he wanted this conversation either. "Busy day?," Rachel asked. "Oh yeah, working on Sunday''s is no fun," Xander said chuckling a bit, but she bet Alice was there beside him eavesdropping on their conversation so she decided to serve them the fool they thought she was. "Alright babe, rest well, just missed you so much and can''t wait to see you tomorrow," Rachel said in a sickening sweet voice after which she took the phone away from her ears to gag. "...Tomorrow babe," She heard through the speaker. "Yeah tomorrow, goodnight babe," Rachel said. "Ni¡­," Rachel cut the call mid sentence as she had reached her limit of tolerating Xander''s shit for a day. "Now all she needed was the perfect¡­" Rachel groaned after seeing her phone lit up from her side desk ringing Her phone started ringing, she checked the name of the caller ID and realized that it was Amy and the frown that initially creased her slowly slipped away, she picked the phone and dropped her wine ss from where she picked up from phone. "Hey Amy, what''s up?," No reply came through, instead she heard some sniffing in the background which put her more on alert quick. "OMG, Amy are you ok?" Rachel said with a worry filled voice. "Oh no, everything is fine Ara, I just called you by 9¡­.58 pm to sniff and cry a little into your ears," Amy saidughing bitterly with sarcasm dripping through her receiver speaker, Rachel felt stupid, ofcourse she was not fine, she mentally face palmes herself. "What''s wrong baby?" Rachel asked her. "Myndlord just evicted me with no warning and I only have half of the rent, I have been outside since seven, I tried to call Ricky but he''s two hours away from town and everyone else is somewhat busy doing something more important and you are thest person I said I will call, I don''t want you to think I''m friends with you just for the money¡­" Amy said breaking down in tears "Hey Amy, it''s okay, don''t cry please, I will have my drivere pick you up soon," Rachel said feeling her heart go heavy for Amy. "Thank you," she said in between her sobs. "It''s okay, it''s totally fine Amy," Rachel replied. In the next next 40minutes, Amy walked through their door, and Araceli and went in to give her a hug and let her cry on her shoulders. "You will be fine girl," Rachel whispered into her ears. "I swear I''ll pay you back Ara," Amy said in between tears shivering alittle from sitting in the cold night for several hours. "I will transfer you the rent money alright" Rachel said. "No no, you don''t have to do that, I just need to get up on my feet, I will be able to pay him in no time" Amy said not wanting Araceli to think she was friends with her foe her money. "Look I insist, and besides you did me a solid, I''m just paying back the favour" Rachel said. "What i did for you, I did it for you, and not because I wanted anything from you," Amy assured Rachel. "Well then I''m doing this because I want to do it and not because I''m paying back the favour you did for me" Rachel said using her words against her, making herugh alittle. "How about I ask them to make you some hot chocte and get you to the guest bed room," Rachel asked. "Yes please" After she was done drinking it and she was showed to the guest bedroom, Rachel went back to check up on her but she had already passed out, lying down at the end of the bed without any pillow or nkets, Rachel covered with some nkets and put a pillow below her head. She doesn''t know what kind of past Amy had but it was definitely a rough one that had alot of abuse in it... Chapter 29 Mrs Garcia first impression of Amy. Chapter 29 Mrs Garcia first impression of Amy. She doesn''t know what kind of past Amy had but it was definitely a rough one that had alot of abuse in it. She went back to her room deep in thought, she needed to bring up this topic about Amy''s past and what happened, she already knew about her being an orphan and moving from foster to foster homes but she didn''t really know what caused it and what happened in between, she also thought about involving Ricky in it but it didn''t sit well with her, she needed her to really feelfortable enough with her to open up. The next thing she heard was her rm, apparently she had been in so much thought she dozed off right in between reading a book and drink chocte coffee. Rachel looked outside her windows and saw the Butler''s car in the drive way which surprised her, that could only mean one thing, Her parents Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. were finally back from the business trip. This could take a different turn if her parents discovered she had brought aplete stranger into their house without their knowledge, and No, not that they were those kind of strict Elites, they were just very protective of their two children. To avoid them seeing Amy before she got to introduced her, she quickly did her morning routine and put on some sweats. She went to Amy''s room to find the room empty, the bed was properlyid and pillow''s were put in ce like nobody actually spent the night here, she was about to put Amy on call when she opened the closet and still saw Amy''s bags there, blowing out a sigh of relieve which was breathe of anxiety she never knew she was holding, she checked the time and it was a few minutes past eight, she wanted to have a talk with Amy so she canceled all her morning meetings and left her meeting with Xander, he was about to receive what she knows as the high end of a crazy woman. She headed downstairs which she still thinks personally no matter how beautiful and elegant it was, Rachel johnson still found it unnecessary and having too much steps but she''s supposed to be Araceli who is used to it so who is she toin. She passed Ace room which was left ajar alittle bit, she opened the doorpletely and the room was empty, but the lego batman themed bed frame and everything else in the room had a lego theme, honestly Ace was going through different phase of childhood, when she got to know him, it was every thing spider man, now it''s lego, only God knows what next, maybe a jungle themed bed room from tarzan or jungle book. Her nose seemed to find the kitchen before she got there, I mean she has eaten the maids food and they were good, but this was definitely Amy''s handwork she recognized the aroma of her waffles and pancakes. Who she didn''t expect to walk into was her mom listening to whatever Ace was telling her serving full expression and little exaggeration. "Morning mom," Rachel said hugging her from behind while she sat on the stool they all sat on for breakfast. "I didn''t tell me you would be back yesterday," Rachel said touching her chest faking hurt. "Ohmon, we just wanted to surprise you kids," Mrs Garcia said with little of her Italian ent "Wow Araceli, I guess the invincible potion I made finally worked, I mean even your friend greeted me, maybe it''s just you who''s not seeing me," Ace said, it was the sarcasm that surprised her, since when did Ace know sarcasm, she got busy for two days and boom!!, the kid is using sarcasm like his secondnguage. "Hey Ace," Rachel said chuckling a little bit as she roughed his hair just like she always did. "Yeah, about your friend Araceli, can we talk?," Mrs Garcia asked. "Uhm yeah, definitely," Rachel replied. "Alright" Mrs Garcia said walking out of the kitchen area into the hall way leading to one of her studies, they got in and Mrs Garcia''s face was lit up by the orange light giving out an edgy vibe to her, she kept looked at Rachel as if she expected her to say something. "What''s the problem Mom, or are my suppose to like telepathically know what you are thinking about?," Rachel asked. "Ohmon Araceli, you brought a stranger to the house, she prepared breakfast for Ace and I, after insisting," Mrs Garcia said. "Well that''s just Amy for you," Rachel said chuckling a bit. "So is that just who she is, someone who insist on making breakfast and that''s it," Mrs Garcia said with alot more italian ent, she could swear Ace got his personality from her and not just looks. "Of course not mom, she''s my friend, we met a few days ago and we clicked, I even slept over at her cest night," Rachel tried to assure her. "Ann, you guys already had a sleepover," Mrs Garcia cooed touching her cheeks. "Mom don''t make it weird please," Rachel said. "I''m not!, I guess I''m just excited for you, I''m since you were twelve, Alice had been your only friend and now 12yearster you have a new friend and I have to say, I like this Amy girl, she seems nice," Mrs Garcia said. "She''s also funny too, and make''s the best breakfast ever too," Mrs Garcia added. "But seriously mi amore, if she makes you happy then I''m fine with her," Mrs Garcia said with seriousness in her tone as her voice dropped an octave. "Thanks mom," Rachel said hugging her. "By the way, was anything wrong, I heard she came over atte night," Mrs Garcia asked. Rachel thought about tell her the trust about why Amy was here but shest minute decided not to disclose her reason of being here. So she told her mother that it was just an unnned sleep over. "By the way Ara, I''m also thinking of putting Ace in school instead of home schooling him, I think it''s getting really lonely for him and I want him to have real friends and not those rich kids with annoying british ent," Mrs Garcia said. "Mom!!!," Rachel eximed. "Whattt, the ent annoys me," Mrs Garcia said. "They school in the united kingdom in prestige school mom, what did you expect, Russian ents??," Rachel asked folding her arms looking at her mom in disapproval. "Whatever, aren''t you going to the office to day?," Mrs Garcia asked. "Yeah I''m, I have lunch with Xander," Rachel said in a bored tone. "Oh my, that reminds me, Xander, it''s been a while since he came around, hope his doing ok?" Mrs Garcia asked. Her mom always had a soft spot for Xander, he literally could do no wrong in her eyes, to her, he was the perfect handsome son of the Millers who graduated with a first ss honor in business and is head theirpany now as a young CEO, but little did she know that the Xander she held so perfect in her eyes, was a bloody monster and a sick maniptor. "He''s fine Mom, everything is fine," Rachel said in a bored monotonous tone. "Araceli Alivira Cami Garcia don''t you dare use that tone with me when talking about your fianc¨¦!," Mrs Garcia warned. Exactly the point she was making, she took Xander to serious that if her tone wasn''t cherry while talking about Xander, she could stand a chance of getting a good whip if she wasn''t careful. "I''m sorry Mom, but can I go and eat now?, I have already missed my usual morning run," Rachel asked. "Yes, you may go," Mrs Garcia said breathing out, she could help but feel her daughter was having a fight with her fianc¨¦ and she wouldn''t open up about it, and that''s just Araceli being Araceli. Rachel returned to the kitchen and found Amy washing the dishes, it got her annoyed, she was her guest not here to rece the maids on duty. "Amy stop that, you are my guest not a maid, I won''t have you do that," Rachel said in a strong voice. "It''s ok Araceli, I don''t want to get toofortable, I''ll be on my way soon, Ricku ising to pick me up," Amy said smiling while drying the dishes. "Ok, that''s it, what''s with you and not wanting to get toofortable, I checked on you in the night and you were sleeping on the edge of the bed without pillow or nkets and it was cold," Rachel asked with worry in her eyes. Amy bit her lips while looking at the ground, her hands fidgeted a little, making her drop the te in her hands and look back to face Araceli. Rachel thought she was about to cry or something and didn''t know how else to address the situation and was even tempted to change the topic to diffuse the air that had suddenly gotten thick with tension. "You really wanna know huh?,".... Chapter 30 Showing Xander the sex tape. Chapter 30 Showing Xander the sex tape. You really wanna know huh?," Amy asked licking her dry lips looking at worry and a very familiar frenemy she detested in people''s eye PITY. "Can you please stop looking at me like that?," Amy asked try to avoid any kind of pity or sympathy from anyone, it didn''t change anything and she definitely didn''t want to be anybody''s pity case that''s for sure. "Ok¡­" Rachel said not sure how to respond to that, so she tried her best to keep a straight face. Amy took a deep breathe, preparing herself to open up the wounds that she had dried out and tried to forget, a part of her life that she wished she could erasepletely from her mind and not have to remember. "I don''t even know where to start from," Amy chuckled bitterly as the memories seemed to start floiding back to her and she could tell she was going to burst to tears if she didn''t get a hold of herself, she had shedded more tears than average person worth a life time and more. "Well I guess I will start by saying I wasn''t always an orphan, I had my parents and my twin brothers, Drake and Draco, we all lived in ohio. We were an average family money wise, Dad was working in an Advertpany and my mom was a stay at home mom who looked after us as kids, I was the youngest of the bunch while my brothers were thirteen, then my Dad got a promotion and we got to move to New York city, the big city which half stinked like piss, we got transfered to a new school and I joined these clique of rich little girls because they were cool and looked shy, they ruled the school, I on the other hand didn''t want to re-live the life I had in my old school which had a lot of bullying in it." Amy said taking a deep breathe, this was were things started looking down. "I finally became part of the group and everything was going fine, till the peer pressure started affecting me, I wanted to be the first to get any new thing that reigned in school or on the inte, I wanted to be the most shiest so no one could look down on me and I had my ways of getting it, I knew I was my dad''s favorite and he didn''t hide it some times, he was open about it," "So Miley Cyrus concert came up for party in the USA and I wanted to go, It was my favorite and almost everyone''s too, but most of my click wished to go but couldn''t, but i knew if I could get to go, It would have made a whole difference, I will be the coolest and most popr, so I asked my Dad that I wanted to go for the concert, he refused of course, said it was far from the city and he couldn''t just take me, he had to take the whole family too, which meant he had to get us all tickets and doesn''t know if he had the money to afford it, but I kept pressuring him and telling him, he should make it my birthday gift Amy said as her voice started bing shaky, she had told this story twice, once to her childhood friend in the foster home, snd this was the second time, she didn''t think it was still going to be that bad. Rachel came closer and hugged her from the side. "You don''t have to continue if you don''t want to Amy," Rachel said already dreading to hear the end of the story but she knows she needed to let it all out and not keep bottling it up. "No, it''s fine, I''ll continue," Amy said clearing her throat. "The concert was on a Saturday and was scheduled to hold by 2pm, but we never got to go to the concert, because I wanted a chocte ice cream, so my...So my Dad gave me some money to go down and get three ice cream for me and my brothers since they slept off, I...I I got the ice cream and started heading back to the car but right there in front of me a huge lorry squashed them to pieces¡­" Amy burst into a fit of tears on Rachel shoulders and Rachel also had tears in her eyes, this was more than just a sad event and she finally understood why she couldn''t getfortable anywhere she wants, because now she feels if she asks for to much she could push people to their death and that how her child brain interpreted the whole event. "If only...if only I had been satisfied¡­.I I wouldn''t have lost my entire family right In front of me," Amy cried more, and Rachel her tighter. "I hate this," Amy whispered. "What?," Rachel asked. *hups* "Crying,I feel better after but I just don''t like crying," Amy said getting of Araceli shoulders, It felt a little nice sharing Her traumatic past, It reduced the burden of the yoke in her chest. "Don''t you have work to go to, I mean its almost noon," Amy said. "Yeah I''m, I n on confronting Xander with the video today at the lunch we eould be having, but I intend toete, like I just found out about the video now," Rachel said. "How do you think he''s gonna take it?," Amy asked curious. "Honestly, I don''t even know too, but one thing I know for sure is that Xander being Xander will try to go all extents to deny it," Rachel said. "Well goodluck with that Ara and tell me how it goes, Ricky is here to pick me up," Amy said, while Rachel asked some of the maids to bring her bags downstairs "Alright," "And Amy, I need you to know, it wasn''t your fault alright, you were just a kid." "Thank you so much for this, thank you." "You are wee girl," Rachel said. She waved back at Rick who waved her from inside the car. She went back inside and it was 20 minutes to one noon , so went to get ready and intentionally dy, it was all part of her n, she needed to aggravate him in every possible way before dropping the bomb unfiltered on him. She got dressed in a white jump suit with an open back with ck purse, ck shades and ck heels. She checked her phone and saw to missed call from Xander and a message asking her where she was, she didn''t reply. Sheter walked into the restaurant they were supposed to meet up and the hostess told her the table number in which Xander was at. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. "Since when did keeping to time be a problem for you!!" Xander whisper yelled at her while looking pissed, Rachel on the other hand kept a straight face. "Or so that''s it, you are not going toe up with a silly excuse to defend yourself?" Xander asked growing angry the more, Rachel still maintained a straight face but still kept maintaining eye contact with him. "Speak the fuck up Araceli," Xander groaned. "Why don''t you shut your cheating double faced bitch ass up Xander," Rachel said coldly. "What did you just say to me?" Xander said, his face started getting redder. "You are not deaf now, are you?," Rachel asked. "I see, you take every single opportunity you get to be rude to me, you lucky I don''t have your rude ass on record, I would have sent it to your sweet Mom because it seems like you need some good spanking," Xander said smirking at her with a look that sent chills down her body. "Unfortunately for you, and very fortune of me, I''m not the old Araceli you know, and threatening me is going to take a whole lot more than telling my mama that I was rude to your cheating ass," Rachel said smiling back. "You think you are the only one who got something to say, going behind my back to sleep with other people," "What the hell are you even saying, I have never cheated on you, where does your crazy ass get your information from without confirming or concrete evidence," Xander replied trying to gain control and talk her down in the situation, he knew if she was going to win this by him fidgeting alittle that was it. "Well unluckily for you Xander, I got proof," Rachel said pulling out her phone out of her purse, contorting her face into someone who has been hurt. "Who exactly is that Xander?" Rachel said showing him the video with no volume because of where they were. He''s face whitened as he saw himself having sex with the hotel hostess... Chapter 31 Xanders reaction to the sex tape. Chapter 31 Xander''s reaction to the sex tape. "What the hell is her name?!!" "Xander, I don''t give two shits whatever the fuck her name is!!" "My question is, Is that you in the video or not" Rachel asked starring directly in his eyes searching for any emotion, but they were not stable, it was obvious he was starting to calcte how much shit he was in and possibly how he could get himself out of it. "Answer me Xander!!!" Rachel pressured. "Look I don''t know what you are talking about or where you got that videp but I don''t know how that happened," Xander said calmly all of a sudden and took a sip at his drink, for someone who has just been caught cheating, he seemingly was confident. "Where did I get the video from??" "Bro I own the fucking hotel," Rachel eximed. "So you trying to tell me that some random chick, just came onto you and hopped on your dick till you came??" Rachel asked getting pissed at his arrogance instead of him to own up to his shit. "You know what, I can''t even stand your arrogant ass, this wedding will be called off as soon I show my parents this video, then we will see what your arrogant ass gonna do, thepany will be handed to your kid bro because you weren''t man enough to keep you joysticks in your pants," Rachel said standing up and head out of the restaurant, she came today to troll him and be in charge of the situation but right now, she can''t even stand to be anywhere near the arrogant prick of a twenty four year old. Xander kept yelling her name as she walked out on him, where he finally got hid cup full is when he dragged her hands and almost fell her to the ground, she turned around and pped him straight on the face, It seemed like the whole world took a pause around her as Xander had a stered look of shock on his face. A woman who was walking her two daughters paused with shock for some seconds before hurrying to leave with her daughters. "You pped me?..." Xander said still shocked holding his reddened cheeks. "You deserve more than that you arrogant prick," Rachel spat back. "Why don''t we go back into the restaurant and have a civilized conversation like the adults we are," Xander said straighten his distorted shirt, he could take a p in the face in public, he just needed to get inside to teach her a lesson never to treat a man like that. "No Xander, I''m not having any conversation with you anywhere, you seem to still confuse me for the old misguided Araceli, honey...You can go back and whine to Alice for all I care, I really don''t give two shits, as for your temporary CEO position, you could kiss it good bye, you fucked up once but no one would take a side with a woman with Amnesia, and you can drop the fucking act Xander, you might be my fianc¨¦ by family ties, but you sure as hell know we ain''t even acquaintance, my brother don''t even like you!," Rachel yelled thest part, clearly frustrated at how much shit Araceli had to take from this man. "How did I even deal with you all this while," Rachel said starring at him in disgust. "Ok first, what do you mean by whine to Alice?!" Xander asked. "Xander!!!" "I own that fucking hotel you stayed at!!" "Of course I knew Alice was there, I don''t even wanna know why she was there," "All i know is, even after I showed you a video of you sleeping with someone else, you still didn''t feel moved to apologize, you rather just stand there and argue illogically and boyyyy am I done with that," "Have a good day Xander," Rachel said walking away in the opposite direction Xander was facing before it dawned on her she don''t give two shit. "Or don''t!!!," "I really don''t give two shits," Rachel yelled after she was some feets away. She needed to have a good time and get rid of all the bad energy thanks to Xander. She doesn''t know why Baldwin''s name came to her mind but she didn''t have the energy to put up against the voice inside her head, or maybe her heart, where ever the voice came from, it clearly meant well for her or so she told herself. She headed for Love''s day inn where she could get an afternoon once so she could call Baldwin. The inn had a pretty indie aesthetic touch to it, from the calm brown, to the off white and grey touch, with wooden chairs and tables giving it a woody cabin feel. She ordered hertte with Donuts and strawberry covering, Yes...she was one of those people who believe everything with a touch of strawberry made the world lighter. After having the short brunch, she decided to finally decided to call Baldwin, she knew she was knew it was going to take a toll on her pride shelf but she jist had a feeling that it was going to be worth it. She dailed his number and pretended not to acknowledge her ever beating heart that refused to stop and when the click sound came through, her voice went up a whole octave feuled by nerves. "Heyyyy Xander, fuckshit, I mean Baldwin," Rachel stuttered and hit her head on the table repeatedly in realization of the mistake she just made calling Baldwin, Xander. She knew she attracted people''s attention in the inn as she rose her head up to meet stranger''s stares, some looking at her with worry while others just gave her weird look and somepletely ignored her and kept eating their meals since most left the stress of work to have a simple breakfast, her short breakdown from misnaming who she was nning to use as a distraction was going to detart them. "Hello, Yandel¡­" Rachel said realizing no voice of Yandel came through. "Wow...I see you love your fianc¨¦ so much you decided to call everybody else by his name huh¡­" Yandel said with a little smirk in his voice. "Look that''s not it, I''m actually royally pissed at the dude and we just had a huge argument at the restaurant and in the side work which ended with a p," Rachel said giving a brief recap of her brilliant day. "He pped you?!!!!" Yandel voice rose on call, he would kill this man if she affirms this. "Noooo, ofcourse not," "I pped him actually, and you really must still underestimate me to think I will let that man p me and get away with it, I would have been on your TV for murder if the roles were reversed," Rachel said chuckling. "Ahh yes, you are the violent kindatina, why do I keep forgetting that," Yandel said smirking. "I''m technically American Yandel," Rachel said rolling her eyes. This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. "Denying your fore fathers now, are we?" "sticking your nose in my business now, are we?" Rachel replied. "You called me," "You picked up," "So I was suppose to let it ring out then," "You wouldn''t dare," "You really need to stop with the bossydy wears prada vibe, its hot and scary," "If I got a penny for every time you have flirted with me, Bill Gate would have nothing on me, On God" Rachel saidughing. "What are you up to by the way," Rachel asked. "Oh just on my way to pick up some beers for the twins, apparently they chose a monday to throw a birthday party, something about it being part of their bucket list," Yandel exined. "Want some help?," Rachel asked closing her eyes waiting for his reply. "From who exactly?," Yandel asked. "SWAT," Rachel replied sarcastically. "Haha real fun, I almost pissed my pants woman," Yandel replied rolling his eyes. "Where are you at?," Yandel asked. "Love''s day inn," Rachel said already feeling better than she was feeling thirty minutes ago. "Isn''t it a little toote for that?," Yandel asked again. "I mean isn''t it that cute breakfast inn?," "strawberry donuts have no timing, its perfect anytime of the day," Rachel defended. "Ok ok," Yandel said in surrender. "I''m just around the corner, pulling up soon ,Alright," "Ok, I''ll be waiting," Rachel said. Ten secondster, a ck Chevrolet pulled up beside her, which shocked her. "Were you stalking me??...because that sure as hell was way to fast it eorries me," Rachel said starring at him questionably. "Let''s just say, I was already tracking your location," he replied smiling. "Get in," "look who''s bossy," "Yes boss" Rachel said smiling. "So this is why you walked away from me huh?," ¡­. Chapter 32 Meeting the Baldwin twins Chapter 32 Meeting the Baldwin twins "So this is why you walked away from me huh?," Xander said out of nowhere. "Jesus¡­" Rachel said exasperated, dhe has dealt with more than enough of Xander, she actually felt more weighed down merely by his presence and voice, she need him to just stay away from her once and for all. "What.." "Can''t talk??," "Cat got your tongue?," "Common speak up Araceli," Xander said, he knew he was just being silly petty but he couldn''t help it, he needed something against her too. "Xander shut the fuck up for heaven and earth sake!!!!," Rachel screamed, sure that she also caught the attention of passer by for the second time today. "How petty, arrogant and stupid can you be!!!" "You literally cheated on me and I have it on video," "You prolly having something with my supposed to be best friend," "Just stop it alright, stop the trying to dig dirt on me, or trying to turn tables, I''m not a filthy pig like you are alright, unlike you, I keep my pants zipped and actually use my head to think. I wasn''t even nning on telling you parents but you know what, hlw about I start with them first, that will be sure nice." "Please don''t do that Araceli, we can always work through it like we always did in the past," Xander begged nearing the car more trying to make her drop her voice. "Oh, so now you know how to beg huh," "Look we have had enough of each other for each other, and this bad vibe stinks so shuuu," Rachel said closing her door. Xander was still talking from outside or at least she could see his mouth was moving rapidly through the tinted ss but she couldn''t careless, because she was sure as hell that if she got to hear one more nagging word from him, he would have a knife in the middle of his skull and that''s just her Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. being super nice. "So shall we?," Rachel asked smiling at Yandel who was frozen looking at her in awe and shock, he shook his head as if to clear his thoughts "Uhm wow..," Yandel said "Ehmm," "That was hot asf," "Drive," Rachelmanded. "Please say it again," Yandel said dreamily. "You are weird, drive we got things to do, don''t we??" Rachel asked. "Oh shit, Yeah we definitely do, wait what do we have have to do??" Yandel asked a little lost. Rachel starred at him with a straight face and her eyebrows arched higher than usual. "Yeah, beers...how could I forget," Yandel said ticking the side of his head with his finger as if realigning his thoughts. "You just did," Rachel said. "Thanks for pointing the obvious," Yandel replied rolling his eyes. "Anytime Baldwin, Anytime" Rachel said. "Anytime??" Yandel said arching his brows while smirking at her. "God, you are hopeless." Rachel gave up on saying anything again, she just went through her phone as yandel started up the car and started driving, she didn''t know exactly where they were heading to, neither did she know any bear shop because she herself wasn''t a bear person, she just drank wine or cheap alcohol. "So¡­" Yandel said. "Is this you about to start a conversation??" Rachel asked looking at him. "Yeah¡­" "It''s terrible man, I thought you were on your a game," Rachel said smirking. "I see you got nicer," Yandel said rolling his eyes, can''t tell how much he had done it for the past thirty minutes but he thinks if he does it any more again, his eyes were definitely gonna fall off. Her sarcasm and wittiness was top notch and couldn''t bepared to any other girl he had dated. "Did I just say dated," Yandel thought. "Yeah you just did," Rachel replied him "I said that out loud, didn''t I?," Yandel asked embarrassed that he was thinking out loud about the person beside him. "So¡­" "Just let it rest Yanny, let''s get the beer, I''m also eager to meet the twins, I have a feeling they will be more fun than your old ass," Rachelughing at the fact Yandel fucking Baldwin was loosing his cool over her. "Old ass!!!, we literally are of the same age," Yandel eximed at Rachel''s exaggerating call out. "Oh yeah, those kids are wild as hell," Yandel saidughing. "And please don''t call me Yanny, that''s what maya calls me," "And I hate it by the way, wayyy to cringy," "I thought girlfriends are suppose to give cringy cute names like that," Rachel said even though she knew maya wasn''t his girlfriend. "Maya is not my girlfriend, she more like...like a sister or a best friend or childhood friend I guess," Yandel rified. "Ok...whatever you say, I mean you guys look good together," Rachel said teasing. "No we don''t, that will beplete awkward," Yandel said visibly cringing in his driver seat. He must have been apletely oblivious to the fact that Maya liked his and didn''t bother to hide it that she liked him, yet he was so blinded to it. "Ok you are either getting do to go get that beer or I''m taking out your vocal cords temporarily," Rachel said realizing that they had been talking for almost twenty minuets parked outside the liquor store. "Woman!!!" Yandel eximed at such violence that came with a pretty face. "Go,* Rachel saidughing at his reaction. He exited the car not before looking at her one more time, he knew at that very moment that he really liked this woman but the possibility of being with her were as thing as a new razor de, she saw him as nothing more than a friend and a business partner even though he wanted more. He got into the liquor store and got got ten packs of beer and also brought two bottles of fancy whine, he didn''t know if Araceli was a whine person but she gave off that vibe so he was going to go with his guts. He rolled the shopping cart outside and Araceli to his surprise came out to help, any other girl would have just sat down in the car and wait for him to do all the work because he''s the man. "What exactly are you doing Celi?," Yandel asked her trying to rify his doubt. "Helping you of course, why else do you think I came with you?," "To see how many times you can make me cum after some good wine?," Rachel said with a straight face while pointing at the fancy wine in the cart, Yandel''s face pale with confusion written all over his face, some how the cart left his grip and rolled slowly into the half way filled up parking lot. "Earth to fucking Yandel, those carts aren''t going to stop themselves," Rachel said smirking at his perplexed face with was finally regaining some color. He finally let out a forced cough and his eyes grew in alert at the cart that was now half way through the parking lot somehow managing not to hit any cars. "The cart!!!" Yandel shouted. "Exactly, now go fetch boy," Rachel said folding her arms and resting on the car booth. "You¡­ Arghhhh!!" Yandel said frustratedly point her in the face. "Go on now, the cart ain''t gonna fetch itself now," Rachel said pping her hands lightly as if encouraging a puppy to gp fetch a ball. He ran into the parking lot after the cart and Rachel sat down and watched his butts work their way through the parking lot. "For a guy, he really had a nice round butt showing he worked out well," Rachel thought to herself smiling. She watched him roll the cart back towards the cart which seemed to look effortlessly considering the amount of beers and the two wine bottles. "Nice ass by the way," Rachel said giving the wolf whistle. But yandel only starred at her weirdly put one hands on his hips. "What??!!!" Rachel eximed innocently. "You talk like a predator," Yandel said opening the car booth with his car key even though she was still sitting on it. "Guys do it all the time," Rachel said. "Yeah, but it''s weird when girls to it, it''s alittle awkward," "whatever you say bro," Rachel said getting down and help him to get the pacls of beer into the car. "Bro??," Yandel said raising a brow. "Yeah, bro," Rachel closed the door of the boot and went back to the passenger sit. He got back into the car after her and started the car and started heading towards his house. While on the way, Rachel found something weirdly familiar about the route they were taking, the Onfroy yground, the fruit store, all of this brought back unwanted memories and she finally realized why the ce was so familiar, it was her former family house, they still had the beaten down mail box and thewnmower her mom never fixed at the front yard. "Hey are you ok?," Yandel asked watching her watch outside the window and looking back at the house. "You''ve been here before?," Yandel asked. "Ehm no, I mean, yeah...I used toe here as a child," Rachel lied. "Oh that''s cool," "So i guess the memories then," "Yeah...that," Rachel said turning to smile at him and looked outside again. "Well we are almost at my house," Yandel said. A few minutester, they arrived at a huge house, It was so big it looked like they hipped three houses together. "You ready?," Yandel asked. "It''s not like you are introducing me to your parents," Rachel saidughing, she was more shaken up from just seeing her old Home. "Alright, let''s go," She could hear noise of two people arguing inside the house, before she they reached the door, the door was dashed open and a brown haired handsome male stormed out shouting. "I can''t stand your attention seeking ass Emily," "Neither can I Ethan, but I till put up with your ass," Emily screamed back. "Guys!!!" Yandel yelled. "Oh my God, Ethan get your ass here, Araceli is here!!!" Chapter 33 The twins birthday. Chapter 33 The twins'' birthday. "I can''t stand your attention seeking ass Emily," "Neither can I Ethan, but I still put up with your ass," Emily screamed back. "Guys!!!" Yandel yelled. "Oh my God, Ethan get your ass here, Araceli is here!!!" "You''re kidding right?" Ethan screamed from what seemed like the back of the house. "Come see for yourself," Emily said smiling, walking towards Rachel. She was wearing some crop hoodie even though it was sunny outside with bum shorts and some white crocs. Nathan ran from the back and appeared through the semi halo of garden flowers, he still had brown shorts on, only this time he was shirtless with his hair sticking to his forehead. He caught up to his sister who was walking slowly towards Rachel like a predator eyeing her meal. Now she understood why Yandel asked her if she was ready, she already felt a little threatened by their curious looks and observant stares. She looked at Yandel but he just chuckled and raised his hands up like he had no hands in it, he was literally offering her as a helplessmb for ughter in an unknown territory. "You don''t have to look so scared and worried about love," Ethan said with a more evident British ent than Yandel. "Yeah, we don''t bite, except totally necessary of course," Emily said, whispering thest part. "Ok you both are cute and everything but I will love it more if we can take the beers and the creepy convo into the house so I don''t have to go blind from your pearl white teeth and have some sunburn tag along," Rachel said putting her hands over her eye as the sun kept hunting it. "I like her already, Yandel, but she''s too smart for you, Harry," Emily said. "Yeah bro, she''s too smart for you," Ethan agreed. "Ethan shut the fuck up, you don''t even know smart when you see one, talkless of rte to it," Emily said dragging along Rachel with her. "Whatever," Ethan replied as he turned towards the car to get the beers. Yandel just followed closely behind, The whole situation didn''t bother him to be honest, he knew Emily and Araceli would get along pretty well. "Aren''t we gonna help Ethan with bears or something?" Rachel asked worried they were leaving Ethan to do all the work, even Yandel was leaving him outside to get the beers. "Ah, don''t worry about him, besides, we are females and I''m so d you decided to tag along, I was getting sick of this whole male testosterone around me," Emily said waving her hands through the air as if to clear the scent. "Your house is so beautiful by the way," Rachel said admiring the interior. She had to say, it was top notch. It was a mixture of themes and it all made the inside of the house an exciting journey, the beginning of the entrance towards the living room was a Japanese theme with wallpaper doors and small tables with sampled breakables, it was beautiful. "Thanks, they were actually Harry''s idea to be honest," Emily said winking at her brother who just had his mouth opened like a fish plunge out of water, apparently he was trying to tell her not to mention his name, but she caught the wrong signal or intentionally went to called to mention him. "What''s with the harry that you guys call Yandel?," Rachel asked getting confused. "Wait! , he didn''t tell you, I mean I know he hates the name just that then, it was pretty urate as fuck," Emily said. "Yeah, it was hrious and pretty spot on," Ethan said holding some cans of beer. "why did you give him the name though?," Rachel asked really getting interested. "Well our parents had a thing for a prestige boarding school all the other elite kids went to, you feel me, all the stucked up rich kids with no manners and experience of what life is all about, hence why they call us baldwin twins WILD ONES," Ethan said with pride. "Well Yandel being four years older, he was sent there first, and after the first year, he came back with a round ss which was given to him by the school and he sudden developed this british ent out of no where which seemed to please our parents so much they sent us there too," Ethan added. "Hence why me and Nathan called him Harry, as in Harry Potter, the caused child, the second part of who shall not be named, the sessor of the elder wand, the¡­," Emily was saying before she got interrupted by Yandel who seemed to have had enough of story time. "We get it, you both Harry Potter nerds," Yandel said. "When is the party starting?" Rachel asked. "It''s four pm, but of course, it''s officially taking off by six or at least that''s when teenager''s see it fit toe to parties," Emily said shaking her head. "What are the rules?" Yandel asked in a warning tone. "No entry into the study or game room," "the fridge is out of bound," "No pots or joints under our roof," "Any broken item will be taken out of our pocket money," the twins said in union in a bored voice. "And¡­." Yandel said looking at them warningly, but they just stared back at him innocently like they didn''t know what he was talking about. "Ok the party is canceled," Yandel said turning around heading out of the door. "No partying beyond eleven," the twins shouted in union. "I swear guys, I don''t wantst time happening again," Yandel warned. "Last time was all Ethan," Emily said point at him. "You smoked pot to and tried to recreate Mikey Cyrus wrecking ball," Ethan used her back. "Well I''m not the one who tried to make out with a dude and ended up getting punched in the face," Emily said. "Wait what?!!!" Yandel said in shock. "Nothing!!" The twins said in union. "This is not over, I''m going to show Celi around, behave please," Yandel said taking Araceli''s hand and pulling her further into the mansion. All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. "Celi huh??" Ethan said teasingly. "Use protection bro, take your own advise," Ethan yelled as they existed the hall way that connected them. "Jesus!!...He''s just as corny as you are," Rachel saidughing and Yandelughed along. "Was "They both slept in jail at the end of the night," Yandel deadpanned. "Our mom and Dad were so royally pissed, they were more pissed off at me because I couldn''t keep them in control," Yandel said. "Damn that must have been messed up," "So tell me, weren''t you gonna show me around?" Rachel asked. "Oh yeah," "How about we start with that game room," Rachel suggested. "Why do I smell a dying need for a not so friendlypetition," Yandel said smirk¨ªng. "Your words not mine but ok," Rachel agreed raising her hands up. She followed him to a room which had a brown door and had a password bar. "A pass code," "Seriously," Rachel said raising her brows. "I take gaming very serious, and besides I live with destructive humans who couldn''t maintain a toy for three days when they were four, now they are all grown up, they will reck this ce before I turn twenty five," Yandel said inputing the pass word. The game room was fire, it was lit with a LED purple light that surrounded the top angle of the walls, there was an xbox 360, a 5D game, glow hockey board, a make shift basket ball half court, it now made alot of sense why the house was so huge. They yed xbox and glow hockey for what seemed to be ages, forgetting to check up on the twins party. Yandel was winning her in everything but herpetitive spirit didn''t falter, she kept on ying till she finally won and they ended it there. "We should check up on this kids," Yandel said. "You know you are just four years older right?," Rachel asked. "Yeah whatever," Yandel said dragging her along to the scene. As they neared they neared the main lounge in the house, they saw every one on mask dancing wildly to a modern dark pop song, it almost looked like a Halloween party, it was weird and looked almost a cultic, They headed to the kitchen. "Well it looks like they are doing fine, Want a drink?," Yandel asked. "I don''t take beers," "I came prepared," Yandel said taking the wine he bought earlier out of the fridge. "So you do n to wine me and dine on me?," Rachel said looking innocent. "For fuck sake¡­" Chapter 34 Truth or dare Chapter 34 Truth or dare "So you do n to wine me and dine on me?," Rachel said looking innocent. "For fuck sake¡­" "Whattttt," Rachel saidughing grabbing the wine sses that he was giving her, but she was distracted by the veins popping on his hands,it turned her own. She could imagine him grabbing her and caging her on the wall while rubbing all over her, through her dazed thought someone waved and snapped their fingers in front of her breaking her away from the trance. "Did you necessarily have to do that," Rachel said faking annoyance. "So I was suppose to leave you here thinking about what exactly," Yandel said folding his arms. "None of your business," Rachel replied walking out of the kitchen holding the sses. "Does it involve my sexy ass?," Yandel asked popping up beside her. "Yes it does," Rachel said ndly. "Really?!!!," Yandel eximed shocked. "No!!" "Of a billion things I could be thinking of in the whole, what on earth made you think you were part of it?," Rachel asked. "You''re still very mean," Yandel whine. "You are wee kiddo," Rachel replied climbing the steps. "Are we going to your room?," Rachel asked as Yandel over took her to lead the way, seeing this was her first time here it made sense. "Nope," Yandel replied popping the ''P''. "Then where the fuck are we heading to?," Rachel asked. "Some secret BDSM dungeon where you gonna strap me to and whip my body with cane straps whileughing arrogantly to my moans of pain," Rachel asked innocently. "No!!," "Jesus Araceli, why would I even do that, those it look like something I can even do," Yandel eximed with his eyes wide open, he knew her sexual jokes were just mere jokes but now he was starting to feel like they weren''t. "Yeah, you are right," "You look too weak for someone like that," Rachel said. "What?!!," "Ok I could totally do it if I wanted to, but that''s just not how I choose to pleasure my partners in bed," Yandel said. "A boy could only dream," Rachel saidughing. "Fuck you," Yandel said throwing her the middle finger without actually looking back. "No thanks, honey." "how far is the study room again?," Rachel asked, I mean the house was huge but it wasn''t a fucking castle, how far could the study be. "It''s actually a secret study, I included it in the house n when I was eighteen, so the room is there on the top floor but only Emily knows about it." "Wow...that''s smart," Rachelmented as he pulled down a stair that looked like it lead to an This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. attic, only this time, the attic had a beautiful white and grey alternating wall paint with brown rug, now she really sees Yandel interior decorating skill, he had an ability to recreate a feeling he wants you to feel when you step inside a room. She knew this because her mom''s sister was an interior decorator and she used to try and teach her and her sister but her mom would always say she wanted them learning business, which she was good at. "You really should try dipping your hands into interior decorating, you really have a gift," Rachel said, touching the nude color shelfs that held books and tapes, it stood out and at the same time blended in with the other colors. "Well actually, it''s something I had already thought of." "I n to run thepany till I''m thirty, so Ethan or Emily is old enough to take over, then I will make a name for myself in interior decorating." "Wow¡­" Rachel said. "Smart right?," "Way to tut your own horn," Rachel said going to check the records shelf, It had alot of oldies, from Lionel Ritchie, to Madonna, to Mariah carie and Whitney Houston, she kept going through the records while he sat back on the duffle back and tried to open the wine and kept failing. "Puss," Rachel murmured under her breathe. "Heard that," "Not necessarily my problem, my lord." "Oh my, you got Billie Eilish WWFAS WDWG full album!!," Rachel said excitedly. "Yeah." "I like her music, I think she''s one of the most talented of her time," Yandel said smiling. "You got a yer?," Rachel asked. "How am I gonna have a bunch of dope recorda just lying there and not have a yer?," Yandel said looking at her as if she just asked the most stupid question. "Don''t be a smart ass, and just tell me where it is, you are already ruining my mood again," Rachel said heading towards the direction which hejust point to. "And yeah, talking about mood, what happened earlier today, you and Xander seemed to be going at each others throats hotter than usually," Yandel asked. Rachel paused, she rethinking everything that happened and debated whether she should tell him or not, but he had already heard parts of their argument in his car so it will be useless to hide anything again "Well¡­" Rachel said taking a sit on a biege couch opposite him. "You don''t have to say it if you don''t want to, my bad for prying, i shouldn''t have asked about something so private, if only¡­" "Yandel it''s fine," Rachel said interrupting his bbering session. "Just gathering my thoughts," "Well, I asked for Xander to meet me for lunch just today at our usual spot and we hadn''t seen each other in days. So I was ready to go meet him when someone sent me a video five hours long, it was a video Of xander making out and having sex with the hotel hostess at a hotel I owned, to be sure, I check our emergency cam and I saw the goddamn thing, and he had the audacity to tell me that it wasn''t him, and that while doing that, he tried to turn a tables on me saying I was stalking and watching his every move," "This is someone who told my parents that he installed a life tracking device," Rachel said getting annoyed again. "I''m so sorry, I always knew he was dick," Yandel said. "What are you going to do about him?," Yandel asked, he remembered him begging and apologizing. "Our family have always been family friends, so they got us engaged at twenty, saying if we got married, ourpany will be great together," *but who ever is the cause of the break of engagement will loose their CEO position, so if i showed them the video, he would loose his CEO position to his equally shitty brother." "Damn, he really fucked up," Yandel said. "Well that sure as hell dampened the mood, how about we y a game," Rachel suggested. "Like truth and dare??" "Nooo, what are we...sixteen??" "What about never have I ever," "ok that will be cool," Rachel said. "Start," "Ok...Never have I ever gone home drunk," Yandel said, after which he took a sip from his ss cup but Rachel didn''t. "Wow, now I feel like the bad guy," Yandel said. "Ok your turn," "Never have I ever made up with the same sex," Rachel asked, again yandel took a sip out of his cup. "Brooo," Rachel saidughing, she reay used to think Yandel was a goody two shoes, she never knew he was far from it. "Whattt" "That was the sole purpose of college for me, trying out different things," Yandel saidughing. "Ok your turn," "Never have I ever smoked pot," Yandel asked, and Rachel drank to that. "Wow¡­" "Never have I ever had a thing with my sibling''s friends," Rachel asked. "Come onnnn," Yandel eximed. "That''s so unfair," Yandel said drinking to it. "Ok Never have I ever done a karaoke," and both of them drank to it. "Never have I ever gone skinny deeping," Rachel said and both of them drank to it again. "Never have i ever been broken up with a text," Yandel asked and he drank to it. "Oh my God," Rachel cooed. "Poor soul, how did it happen?," Rachel asked. "Well i was dumb in college," "Obviously," Rachel said earning her a look from Yandel. "Sorry,go on" "So i was dating this total karen sh gold digger, such double standard bitch," "So she wanted to throw herself a birthday party and asked for one hundred thousand dors, and i told her i could, that I did have that kind of money." "The next morning, I woke up to a break up text telling me that I couldn''t keep up with her and I didn''t love her, and that was that about that," Yandel said dusting his cupboard of good and bad. "Okst one," "Never have I ever kissed a business partner," Rachel asked looking at him, waiting for him to drink up but he didn''t, that''s when it dawned on her that he too hadn''t. She was about to conclude the end of the game when Yandel stood up slowly and moved towards her on the couch, she couldn''t move even though she told her body to move. He came closer till she could feel his breathe on her face, and before she knew as if she was drawn into him she leaned in for a kiss, his lips were plump and soft and he tasted like wine, it was a short kiss that ended in seconds but left an air of tension so thick a knife wouldn''t cut through. "I guess we both have to drink up¡­" Chapter 35 The kiss Chapter 35 The kiss "I guess we both have to drink up¡­" Rachel said. As if that wasn''t awkward enough, the background song started ying I love you by billie eilish, her cheeks reddened at how the cliche the timing was, she avoided looking at Yandel who just sat beside on the couch starring straight ahead. "You..," "I," they both said at the same time as their face went from worry to a wide smile. "I guess this is where we me the wine and the song for the moment," Yandel said licking his lip chuckling, he rose his head to finally stare her in her beautiful brown eyes that until recently started holding alot of fire in them, he felt like a moth in its youth strongly attracted the the ever burning me that only seemed to ze more. "Wow¡­" Rachel said, it was definitely one of those cliche moment, she could feel her heart starting a gentle race as the cause of the race was sipping in her soul and he kept starring at her give her the most floaty feeling she has ever felt in her life. "Keep an open mind, be difficult, remember they hurt you," Rachel said to herself. "What''s the time?," Rachel asked looking away as the end of the song came about the corner and she could the feel the pressure of the stare wearing off, all it took was a harmless question to lift her out of the trance she was still new to. Yandel on the other hand was far from processing the question, he just watched her fade off as he started imagining a thousand beautiful lifes they coulf have together but she was gradually sipping on some drink of reality as the fire in her eyes died out and was reced by another ced in a different direction, quenching the me he had started between them. "Wow, it''s thirty minutes past nine," Yandel said quickly standing up and rubbing his hands through his hair. "Yeah, I guess it''s time for me to go," Rachel said as she let Yandel lead him out of his private study. When they reached downstairs, they realized the party was almost dead, just few passed out people here and there with Ethan and Emily with some of their friends cleaning up. "Are you heading out already?," Emily asked her, feeling bad that she couldn''t spend some time with her and try to bond. "I''m sorry we didn''t get enough bonding time," Emily said. "It''s fine, there''s always another time," Rachel said smiling as she gave her a light hug. "And sorry I didn''t get you guys anything," Rachel said as she let her go. "Well¡­.You could always make it up to us anytime," Emily said smiling. "Yeah, Anytime" Ethan said after her. "Alright, see you guyster, make sure you actually finish cleaning up," Yandel said leading Rachel out of the house. "Hey wait, where are you going?," Emily asked looking confused, it was already gettingte. "To give her a ride of course, where else would I be going," Yandel said as if it was clearly obvious. "You don''t have to worry Yandel, I can order an uber, you can stay and watch after the kids and make sure they reach home safe," Rachel said holding his shoulder. "The twins can take care of that, besides they have enough guest rooms to amodate their friends, it''s no big of a deal," Yandel said. Seeing that she didn''t have any arguing point again, she let it go, there was nothing she could do, she needed to just hold on and stay focused through the super awkward ride. They reached the car and she thought about going to the back sit but that would be childish, so she got into the passenger seat and just looked out the window. She could feel sleep making her lid heavy but the cold of the night still managed to sip into her body, winter was really getting close. "Please could you turn up the car heater?," Rachel asked as she couldn''t battle the cold anymore. "You feeling cold?," Yandel asked. "No, I just wanted to know how five minutes in hell will feel," Rachel sarcastically. "A simple yes would have sufficed," Yandel said rolling his eyes. "Whatever," "Have you nned on showing your parents the video?," Yandel asked out of no where surprising her. To be honest, she had thought about it, there was only one way to go about it, and that was just to in out tell them about it, or though dhe knew her Mom will take the hit because she has always liked Xander. "I don''t know," "I guess I''ll just rip thr band aid off and just give it to them straight," Rachel said. "That''s good," Yandel said nodding his head slowly and faced the road back, he gwas debating bringing up the kiss, he knows he wasn''t the only one who felt what he felt, but she looked like she had a lot on her te,bringing up the kiss now might make him seem like he was just self centered. "If you wanna talk about it, you know we can talk about it, we are adults." Racheal deadpanned, she was tired of seeing him fidgeting and tapping the steering wheel rapidly. "What are you talking about?," Yandel faked confusion like he hadn''t been over thinking hisst brain cells to death. "You are acting restless and fidgeting because something is disturbing you, I don''t want to get into another car ident," Rachel said straight up. "Wait a sec, you have been in a car ident before??!!" Yandel eximed. "Not the point Baldwin, get what is disturbing off your chest or forever hold it in," Rachel said with finality. There wasn''t any element of joke in her tone as she stared at him dead in the eye. He stared at her for a little bit before fixing his eyes on the road. "You want me to talk about the kiss?" Yandel said. "If that''s what''s disturbing you bro, just say it." He doesn''t know if he was just exaggerating it but when she called him bro, some part of his heart died or failed, he doesn''t know how to put it exactly. "I''m not your bro," Yandel murmured under his breathe. "What did you say?" Rachel asked. "Nothing!!," "Look if the kiss meant nothing to you, it meant nothing to me," "There is no need to stress about it, Okay?" Yandel said looking at her before looking back at the gate of her estate. "Did it mean something to you Yandel?" Rachel asked. "I don''t know, did It?" "Look I don''t know ok, it is what it is," Yandel said stopping in front of the gate. "Yandel look at me," Rachel said. He just starred straight ahead as his headlights highlighted the bars in front of them, it clearly meant something to him but he didn''t want to say it. "Yandel, I said look at me," Rachel said again starring at him. This time, he looked at her, but with no light in his eyes, just dead lights giving her chills, they were so opposite from what she saw when they were in his study, now they were just eyes of a man in a mask, every emotion hidden behind. "What do you see?" Yandel asked her. "Nothing," Rachel said. "You are not giving off any emotion and that seems too look like a personal choice," Rachel replied. "What do you want me to show you?!!" "Pain," "Disappointment," "Agony," "Helpless," "Loneliness," "Because you won''t see shit Araceli," Yandel said turning away. "You won''t see me crying on a monday," Yandel said with his voice breaking at the end, she has already heard weakness in his voice, she had won. "Yandel¡­" "NO!!!" Yandel yelled moving away from her touch of sympathy. "No¡­" He said more calmly with resign written all over his features. "You have won alright, you have seen me broken, you have seen my tears,that''s enough." Yandel said. "This was never a game," Rachel said trying to hold him, butter decided not to. "Yes it was, it always was." "God, I used to always tease you and insult you to your face because of how humble and meek Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. you were, I was angry, you would let people walk all over you and you will still act nice to everyone," "Now you changed, and I fell you, but now I see it''s a huge mistake on my path," "We have a good friendship going on, I don''t want to ruin it," Yandel said looking At her smiling. She thought he was crying but he wasn''t, even though she could swear she heard his voice break ehich meant worse, she was crying inside like men do. "I guess this is goodbye and goodluck," Yandel said starting up the car again. "Yeah, goodbye." Rachel said She came down from the car and waved him ast good bye before heading through the gate into the estate. She would think about Yandelter but for now, she was upied with telling her parents about Xander cheating on her. On reach her house, as God will have it, their personal cars were home showing they were both around, she opened the door and greeted some maids before heading straight for their room, only to hear their voiceing from the living room, with Ace. "Wow Rachel, way to ruin a family night," Rachel thought to herself. "Hey baby, how are you," Mrs Garcia asked her as she entered the living room. "Yeah, How are you, I heard you left the office early," Mr Garcia pitch in. "Yeah...Uhm something came up, do i have something to tell you guys," Rachel said watching both their face turn a slight shade of worry "Ace can you wait for me in the game room,I feel like battling you today," Rachel said smiling at him. "Yesssss,you are so losing," Ace yelled excitedly while running to the Game room forgetting that he was watching a movie with his parents. "Mom...Dad, I think Xander has been cheating on me and I have the video to proove it,"..... Chapter 36 No one messes with a Garcia!!! Chapter 36 No one messes with a Garcia!!! "Mom...Dad, I think Xander has been cheating on me and I have the video to prove it," Rachel deadpanned, staring both of them in the eye. She couldn''t even understand or interpret their emotion, her Dad looked confused while Mom looked paused, slowly and steadily she saw rage well up in her father while her mom was still paused, opening her mouth and closing back, it seemed she was having a harder time processing the whole information, what she didn''t expect was to seeing was the devastating rage Mr Garcia was going to disy. "Who the fuck those the Bastardo think he is!!!!!!" Mr Garcia stood up in full rage. "Il mio amore, calmati" Mrs Garcia stood up to putting a hand on his chest. "No!!!" "I must call the Millers now, this is an insult not just to my daughter, but a full insult to me and you Amore," Mr Garcia raged. "Can you just calm down, we haven''t even seen the video yet," Mrs Garcia said taking Rachel aback, she Mrs Garcia like Xander but she didn''t know, it was to the extent that she would choose not to believe her own daughter. "Are you suggesting that my daughter is lying?!!" Mr Garcia said, looking at her. "Nooo," "Let''s just see the evidence Antonio, we can''t go fully prepared for the Millers and not have watched the evidence¡­" Mrs Garcia tried to reason with him. "Watch a video that continuously breaks my daughter''s heart," "You can go ahead, I will not watch that damned video," Mr Garcia said, going back to the couch and switching off the TV. "Let me see the video honey," Mrs Garcia said. Rachel pulled out her phone and the first thing she saw was a ton of messages from Xander, apologizing and begging her not to show her parents and let them work it out between themselves. "I guess it''s toote for that," Rachel thought to herself. She swiped the messages to the left, canceling them, she checked her phone for the video and gave her mom a broken look, she had to make them believe she was badly hurt by Xander, she handed the phone shakenly to her mother, and her father went by her side to hug her. "Why do you even want to watch that damned video," "Can''t you see how badly shaken up our daughter is!" Mr Garcia eximed. Mrs Garcia who was already broken by the video, all she saw was a blond bimbo on Xander''sp, she couldn''t begin toprehend the whole story, like has Xander been smiling to her face and going behind her to hurt her daughter, because if that was the case, he was in for some big trouble. "How did you even get the video honey?," Mrs Garcia asked. "Em!!!!" Mr Garcia eximed. "I just want to know alright!!," "Jesus, I''m shaken up as our daughter, I''m not about to stomp the Miller''s estate without a proper back story, now that will make us look more stupid than we intend to look," Mrs Garcia said. "Well if you so badly want to know mkther, we were supposed to have a lunch date and just before the lunch date, I got a video sent to me from a strange number, when I tried to trace the number back thinking it was a hacking scheme, the number was blocked, so I yed the video and first thing I heard was Xander''s voice¡­" Rachel said deliberately not telling the whole tale, she started faking a breakdown and her father continued to hold her tight. "Em!!!" "I told you this will be too much for her, she needs a rest baby, tomorrow morning we go to the Millers, no one screws over a Garcia and gets away with it," Mr Garcia. "Mi amore," Mrs Garcia said looking scared as hell at her husband "Yes?," "You sound like a top drug lord, it''s scary." "Sorry honey," "What do you want dear," Mrs Garcia said looking at Rachel with pity "Soup?" "Hot cocoa?" "Some junk food?" "Or Ice cream??" Mr Garcia suggested. "Yeah!!, ice cream always cheered you up when you were a little girl and you wille back from schoolining that your friends didn''t want to y with you and you would cry so much, we had to start getting cookie dough ice cream everyday," Mrs Garcia saidughing back at the old memories. "Thanks mom, but no thanks," "I will be fine, I just need some rest ok. I have had a really long day, I can''t believe we are still in a twenty hours scope," Rachel said smiling at them "I will head upstairs now, goodnight Mom and Dad," Rachel said, giving both of them a kiss on the cheek. "Good night mi amore," "Good night love," they both said respectively. "Wait Araceli," "Yes Mom?" "You left your brother in the game room," Mrs Garcia said to her. "Fuck shit," "Language," Mrs Garcia warned sternly. "Sorry Mom," Rachel headed to the game room to look for Ace and saw him passed out on the sofa in the dim light game room, it was already five minutes till eleven, but it was fine since he didn''t have any school tomorrow, but now she knew why they didn''t let him go to school, Araceli went through shit in school, so they tried to avoid it with Ace, Now she felt bad, she kept him waiting till he slept off, making a mental note to take him out, she carried him to his room and tucked him in, leaving the door slightly ajar like he always wanted it, she left his room. She looked at her phone only to be assaulted with more messages from Xander begging her not to show her parents. "Ohh¡­.so now he wants to beg," Rachel thought to herself. She decided to save him from his mysery bypletely destroying him. You Oops, already showed them the video???? Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. Xander Please tell me you are kidding¡­ Xander You are kidding right!??? I mean that''s the whole purpose of this emoji right?!!!! Xander Please answer me babe You are getting worried. You Lol, see you tomorrow babe???? Xander Tomorrow?!!! Xander What''s happening tomorrow?? XandePlease babe talk to me I''m here for you Xander Pleeeaassssseeeeeeee¡­ Rachel muted him feeling more satisfied than ever, finally Xander was getting just the treatment he deserved after all the years he had spent manipting Araceli, he would finally get a piece of his own poison and tomorrow was going to be one of the best days of her life. Her phone started going off with notifications, she thought she had muted the motherfucker till she realized it wasn''t him, it was Alice. "Just perfect," Rachel thought to herself as picked up her phone again but the brightness was not friendly anymore because she had turned off the lights in her room, she took her phone to see texts from Alice telling not to take any hasty decision that they needed to talk it through, thest text that came in was a ''pick up the call pls'' text, as just as the text came in, few secondster, a call followed. "Hey Araceli," Alice voice through the line sounding remorseful. "first of all, I''m so sorry, I never one time imagined Xander would do something that stupid," Alice said. "Alice¡­" "Yeah?" "Look babe I''m here for you any¡­" "Hold it," Rachel deadpanned. "I didn''t tell you Xander cheated on me, so how exactly did youe about this information, or were you at the hotel room where it happened?" Rachel asked in a t out tone, she was definitely not leaving Alice out of this fire, the she-snake deserved to burn too. As expected, there was a huge pause as Rachel dropped a tongue tying question on her, Alice was confused, terrified and scared. First of all, she knew Xander was desperate now and will do anything to keep his CEO position, and that anything included dragging her to hell with him, that''s how she got into all this mess in the first ce. "What Alice," "Cat got your tongue?," Rachel asked as she was literally tired of hearing Alice breathe erratically. "Lol I don''t even have a cat," Alice said trying to joke away the question, she knew at this moment, Araceli held all of the right cards and one slip up from her can cause her a shit ton of problems and ruin her effort over the past years. "Look Xander told me alright," "Trust me, I scolded him and told him if losing you was what he wanted, then he was a fool and he said he didn''t want to lose you and he loves you¡­" "Alice what are you doing?" "Huh???" Alice said acting dumb. "Shit...shit...shit Araceli wasn''t having any of it," Alice thought to herself. "Are you seriously taking his side right now?," "I mean tell me, Is the dick that good?"... Chapter 37 No longer besties Chapter 37 No longer besties "Are you seriously taking his side right now?," "I mean tell me, Is the dick that good?" Rachel deadpanned as anger and hate started to creep over her entire being like tendrils from a pumpkin fruit, she could get that Alice was heartless and an excuse for humanity but right now, she couldn''t deal anymore, she had reached the peak for her tolerance to bull crap for a day. "What the hell Araceli!!!" Alice yelled over the phone, while inside her heart was going out of it''s regr beat, she definitely was sure now if she wasn''t surebefore that Araceli was unto both of them, I mean anyone who has much gut to spew such acims has definitely taken their time to dig up dirty on her. "You know what, I can''t talk to you when you are like this," Alice said. "When I''m like what??" "Saying the truth?" Rachel replied. "Goodnight Araceli," Alice said, ending the call, she definitely needed a new n, something that will eliminate Araceli quick, before all of this blew up in her face. "Yeah, I¡­" Rachel started but got cut off. "Bitch," Rachel said under her breathe. She brushed her teeth and took off her pj pants, she had to re strategize, from her conversation with Alice now, she could see that she had the upper hand even though things were just starting to get interesting, she didn''t want it to end so soon, she wanted to fuck with her mind and make them feel so much at her mercy they will be begging her to end it all, with this a little smile graced her face as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep she has been anticipating all day. Meanwhile at Alice''s house¡­ Xander navigated through the dark streets without headlights as he approached her house, She refused to tell him the reason for thepulsory meeting she just pulled out on him, but he was sure as hell that it wasn''t sex but her voice cold as hell, so he guessed it was about the deal he told her earlier in the evening. He stopped right in front of her home which was a fancy small ss bungalow Apartment with huge see through windows her had gifted her for her twenty three birthday, after which he took her to Maldives for a vacation treat, His walk down memoryne was interrupted by the very annoying notification he always said he was going to change into something less annoying, his mood brightened a bit before falling to shits again seeing it was a text from Alice. Alice I see your car in front, get your ass in here now. He got down from the car, and the cold of the night egulfed him totally even though he wore his fav grey hoodie, shivering a little, he started walking down the path leading to her door, the grass were kept short and leveled, before reaching the door, the lights came on blinding him for a for some seconds, gaining his sight back the first thing he saw was a very angry looking Alice with ck bath robe that hugged her figure, but her stance took away every single dirty thoughts he was having seeing as she kept a stoic expression as he got closer and crossed her hands over her chest push out her boobs. "Babe?," Xander said starring at the woman in front of him. She had no make up on revealing ck eye bags which made his heart writhe with guilt as he thought what he said to her earlier was affecting her badly. "Babe?," Xander said again but she didn''t reply, her expression was unreadable as she kept starring into somewhere between his head and his surrounding. "Babe??!," Xander said, shaking her out of her deep thoughts, she just looked at him with a neutral expression before turning her back into the house. "Shut the door," Alice said with a low voice, she sounded exhausted and it was really starting to worry him, the spacing out, and the eye bags. He gently closed the door as he followed her into her living room. "Are you okay babe?" Xander asked starring at her twirling the wine in her hands continuously. "Do I look okay Xander?" Alice replied with a question of her own, looking at him like he just asked the most stupid question ever. "Sorry," "Look, if it''s about what I said this evening, I''m sorry, I didn''t mean it like that, I was just desperate and¡­" Xander kept rambling off before he got interrupted by Alice. "I don''t give a fuck about what you said in the evening Xander, That''s not why I asked you toe over," Alice said waving him off. Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. "So why did you ask me toe over then?," Xander asked moving close and put a hand on her upper thighs which she pped away with haste as if his hands were mes. "What on earth do you think you are doing?," Alice spat looking at him in utter disgust. "Sorry...I..I...thought, you know.." Xander stuttered feeling ashamed, of course it''s not sex, he felt stupid that even in her moment of distress, that was the move he made. "I guess I read the wrong signals," Xander said moving back to the other side of tge couch looking down at his hands which were a little scaly from cold. "You guess??" "Jesus Xander," Alice said utterly dissapointed in the move he tried to make. "Look I think Araceli is catching up on us, she isn''t exactly saying she knows about us, but she has been really persistent on dropping hints," Alice said worried. "What exactly did she say?," Xander asked. She opened her phone and yed the recording of the call they just had an hour ago. Just as she was caught off guard, it also caught Xander off guard leaving his eyes wide open like that of a night owl. "That was incredibly specific," Xander said slowly Recovering from the shock of the conversation he just heard, the sneer in her voice and the sarcasm were all present in her voice, everyday he felt ever since her suicidal attempt she came back meaner, stronger and less readable. "So what do you think we should do?," Alice asked starting to get desperate. "Well you started all of this, I have just been ying my part really well," Xander replied her raising his hands up. "Are fucking kidding me!!!" "I thought we were in this together?!!!" Alice yelled standing up seething. How dare he throw her under the bus like that, they both had hands in this and they were both the reason Araceli tried to kill herself and now he is pulling out like a fucking pussy. "Jeez!!" "Chill babe, that''s not what i meant," Xander said standing up to face the very angry Alice. "Then what the fuck did you mean Xander because it just looked like you threw me under the fucking bus!!" Alice eximed. "You gonna make your veins pop, better chill the fuck out girl," Xander said walking pass her. "We are not done here," Alice said dragging his hands back. "Can you just let me get some beer and space from your screaming session," Xander said pulling his hands out of her grasp. He headed into the kitchen for beer but ended up finding just fruit juice and soda in the fridge, cursing internally, he took the grape soda and sat on the kitchen ind starring at Alice who was spacing around and asionally throwing him dirty looks. He came down from the ind table and head to the frame leading out of the kitchen. "Look, I think we should just keep low key appearance, and you should try to be more bestie bestie with her," Xander suggested. "We are no longer best friends, it will be weird if all of the sudden I just start bing friendly with her," Alice said. "Well that''s all i can think of alright, I''m really sleepy can I go?," Xander asked. "Isn''t it toote or something," "You can stay here for the night," Alice said smiling. "As nice as that sounds Babe, I need to be home, I don''t know Araceli ns on using that video against me, and I got work and my brother ising into the states, just alot on my te right now sorry," Xander said walking up to her and giving her a forehead kiss. "Goodnight love," Xander said, walking to the door before stopping and turning around to face Alice. "What?!!!" Alice asked. "No I love you??," Xander said doing a very repulsing version of a puppy dog eye. "First off, don''t ever do that eye thing again," "I LOVE YOU!" "Goodnight, now go home and text me when you arrive safely alright?," "Okay," Xander said smiling as he closed the door behind him, taking a deep breathe, he headed back home. "Tomorrow is gonna be one long ass day,".... Chapter 38 Dreaming about the real Araceli Chapter 38 Dreaming about the real Araceli "Hey," famr feminine light voice called upon her, something about the airy texture and the melody in which she spoke, brought her chills¡­.the good kind of chills. Her surroundings were abination of everything and nothing, she couldn''t make out anything except themp post and side street chair she was sitting on. "Who''s out there?," Rachel called out into the nothingness around her, her voice bounced backed to her like she was in a room of infinite possibilities. "Rachel," the angelic voice called out to her only this time she appeared, that''s when it all clicked, the airy voice, the melody, the breathiness of the voice, it was Araceli. "OMG," Rachel cried out in awe but still remained where she was no matter how hard she tried to stand up. "For some fucked up reason I can''t stand up to hug you," Rachel said as tears streamed down her face, she wiped them away quickly still looking at Araceli like she was a burning bush and she was not worthy of her presence. "It''s ok," "I''m sorry I syphoned you like this, I just wanted to check up on you," "How have you been doing?," Araceli asked, as she sat down gracefully beside her. "I don''t know honestly," "I''m close to revealing what Alice and Xander have been up to but I don''t want to do it," "I don''t want them to just take it at once, I want to emotionally torture them like they did to you," Rachel exined to Araceli but all Araceli had was a gentle smiling, she was still wearing the cloths that she had on the day she died, the first time they met. "I trust you to make the right decision, honestly, I just wanteed to thank you," Araceli said taking Rachel''s hands in hers. "How have you been?" Rachel asked starring at their hands intertwined with each other, it felt so real she could trace the lines of her palm, she found it hard to believe the person behind her is no more. "Well as you can see, I''m in a better ce," Araceli replied, pointing at their surrounding but all Rachel could see was just everything and nothing, she knew the darkness she was looking at held memories but she couldn''t stand up to explore because she knew she didn''t belong, she didn''t belong here. "I''m guessing this used to be your favorite spot when you were alive," Rachel asked starring at the road in front of them that lead to nothing. "Yes, how did you know?," Araceli asked her. "My grandma used to tell us that when we die, we create a ce just like earth, and it would hold our favorite ce and memories," Rachel said wiping off another tears, she could hear a faint song ying in the background. "Wait, is this song from my world or yours?," Rachel asked as she keened her ears to here more but the music kept drifting in the night air and few of the melody only got to reach her ears but not enough to bring any form of recognition. "Oh," "That was my favorite song...or should i say is my favorite song," Araceli said with a smile shaking her head, afterlife makes everything so passive she got so used to it. "What''s the name?," Rachel asked her. "Heaven by iro," Araceli said. "The song used to put me at peace when I started facing all those troubles alone." "I have to go now, your mom is in your room," Araceli said standing up. "She''s your mom you know," Rachel said but Araceli was no longer them and she finally came to full consciousness. "OMG, darling were you crying?," Mrs Garcia said as she started think she underrated how hurt her daughter was, she hugged her tight whilebing her hands through her hair. "Mom I''m not crying, what are you talking about," Rachel said confused. "take a look," Mrs Garcia said showing her a hand mirror, she was right, she had stain of tears and her eyes were a bit red, but she don''t remember crying before she slept except¡­.except when she cried in the dream and it felt so real, maybe she actually did cry too in real life but her mom won''t understand. "Mom," "I swear I''m fine, It must have really been a sad dream," Rachel tried to assure her, knowing Mrs Garcia, she probably going to exaggerate the whole thing to Mr Garcia. "Look honey, I swear on our name I will fight this with the Millers alright, I promise" Mrs Garcia assured her. "Mom it''s okay alright," "It''s actually what I wanted to talk about," "I don''t want you and dad to make any hasty decision about the Millers, let me handle this alright." Rachel said smiling, but Mrs Garcia only looked at her weirdly in return "Stop looking like that honey, you look like that possessed little doll, the one that sits on a rocking chair," Mrs Garcia said standing up from her, which made Rachelugh. "Annabelle??" Rachel askedughing. "Yeap, that''s the one," Mrs Garcia said drawing the sign of the cross and offered little inaudible prayers. "Mommm," Rachel saidughing. "Just clean up ande downstairs honey, get some breakfast, you are getting skinny, you need flesh to put on a good fight," Mrs Garcia said exiting her room. Rachel rushed up her usual morning routine, one thing Mrs Garcia was right about was definitely her messed up eating routine, throughout yesterday, all she had was donuts and expensive wine, and the other day was just vegetables and wine, seemed like she drank more wine than she ate food. She headed downstairs but the she didn''t really go to the kitchen unconsciously, no no no, the food called upon her and directed the path before her, she couldn''t even understand what her nostrils was picking up and she wanted all of it in her mouth, but having a dirty mind like hers, she throught about a certain long rigid meat and shaked her head, she really needed to getid. Ace was the first to greet her morning, and by greeting her good morning, she meant throwing a fried bacon her way before he was reprimanded by his mother who didn''t take wastage of food likely. "So what will you like to eat today?," Mrs Garcia asked her, as she swayed around the whole kitchen like she was built for it. "Honestly, I want everything," Rachel replied. "Now that''s the spirit, I want to see those hollow so called model cheeks filled up before the end of this week," Mrs Garcia warned. "Mommm," Rachel whined. "I''m serious honey, eat up, you know if your nona saw how you were, she would Throw multiple fits about how skinny you are," Mrs Garcia pointed out. "Mom I''m like sixty three kilogram already," Rachelughed. "You want me to be over weight then?," Rachel asked "Not necessarily," Mrs Garcia said shaking her. "Just eat enough alright, we don''t have all this money for nothing," Mrs Garcia said pointing everywhere. "So do you wanna tell us what your ns?," Mrs Garcia asked while hinting at Ace. "Ace¡­" he didn''t even let her finish as he replied "I know, I know, adults wanna talk, and kids shouldn''t listen." He stood up from his stool and left the kitchen leaving just Rachel and Mr and Mrs Garcia. "So honey, what n did you say you had that you wanted to tell us," Mrs Garcia asked. "Well I was thinking, we shouldn''t go to the Millers today to start up any drama," Rachel said slowly. "No!!!" "He has to out right own up to what he did in front of his parents to show the waywardness they brought up in excuse for a child," Mr Garcia raged. "Dad I know, look I''m more pissed than anyone right now, but I don''t think that is the way we should Go about it alright, let me handle it, just follow whatever step I take," Rachel said smiling mischievously. "mi amore, she has that look again on her face, that weird doll look," Mrs Garcia said throwing a napkin at Rachel making them allugh. "Alright, we trust you to do what ever it is that you need to do," Mr Garcia said patting her Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. shoulders before giving his wife a kiss on the cheek. "Out to y golf with the club men," "Ace wannae y golf with your old man?!!!" Mr Garcia yelled. "No thanks Dad," Ace shouted back prolly from the living room. "Tch, kids now adays don''t appreciate quality time, just games and TVs," Mr Gracia said while shaking his head. "Golf is a game for old men with bad eye sight while smoking tobo," Mrs Garcia saidughing. "You will bore the kid out," "Whatever, bye." Mr Garcia left and Rachel stood up immediately and started rushing up the stairs. "Hey where are you going?," Mrs Garcia yelled after her. "The Millers home," She yelled back. She put on a light blue sun dress and tied her hair old fashioned pony tail, giving her the 1980''s rich wife vibe. The Millers were old money and old school, and dressing like this gave her the impression they always want to see. She headed out of the house and drove straight away to the Millers, she knew Xander would be there, and because it was close to thanksgiving. She lighted at the door step of the huge mansion and rang the bell. To the surprise of Xander''s life, he wasn''t expecting who he was about to see. "Mom..." Xander said in surprise. "Araceli?!!!".... Chapter 39 Visiting the Millers Chapter 39 Visiting the Millers "Mom..." Xander said in surprise. "Araceli?!!!" "In the flesh," Rachel replied, smiling at him mischievously. "You won''t believe it Christopher, I was justing from my book club when I saw her ringing the bell," Mrs Miller said excitedly. "I''m so excited to be here Ma''am, It''s been months but it feels like ages," Rachel squealed giving her a tight hug, she also dampened her ent a little southern to match his mother''s, just so she could win her heart all over. "Well??!," Mrs Miller hinted to him pointing at Araceli in the least subtle way possible but Rachel nned up ying dumb, winning Mrs Miller''s heart and torturing Xander. "Whatttt mom?!!!," Xander said, exasperated. He doesn''t know why his mother always tried to embarrass him in front of others. "HMMM HMM," Mrs Miller hummed dramatically, even less subtle than before while pointing to Araceli''s yellow sun dress and pale cream shoes, a very old money southern look, Xander finally got the message his mum was trying to pass. "Oh, nice dress honey, it really brings out your eyes," Xander said, with a tone as dry as sandpaper, he wasn''t trying to pretend no more, now he just looked super stressed and worried and Rachel knew she brought about this uneasiness. "Well let''s head inside, there''s a lot I wil like to say to your mom," Rachel said with a cherry sweet smile making her eyes drop to almost a slit line, she held onto Mrs Miller''s hand who was just beaming looking at the two love birds clueless to the core of what was transpiring beneath her nose at looks of dagger were thrown around by coated by cherry smile and sweetughs. "There''s really A LOT I wanna talk to you about," Rachel said directly looking at Xander while Emphasizing on alot. He swallowed slowly and closed the red check tie around his neck. "Alright Hun, goodbye and drive safe," Rachel said, stepping in front of Xander to give him a hug, she wrapped her hands around his neck after which he froze for a bit before putting his own hands around her waist. "Drive safe or not, don''t give two fucks, but what I give a fuck about..." Rachel whispered airily in his ear just like Araceli did in her dream, removing her hands from his neck and bringing it to his tie and buttoning up the halfway loosed up shirt and adjusted his cor, smoothening the tie down and making sure his mother got front sit of this disy, she continued "Is your Mom, and the conversations we are going to have about everything and nothing, maybe you should expect a call or text or not, I don''t know buddy, you try keeping your little dicky in his pants more frequently and we could have avoided this," Rachel finished and gave him a chaste kiss on his ever white cheeks as bloodpletely drained from his face. "Ohhhhhh," Mrs Miller cooed, making Rachel blush a little and Xander was still white faced, so she patted him on the cheeks to bring some color back "breathe baby," Rachel said in a sick and disturbing voice only audible to Xander. "You two love birds really remind me of back in my time," Mrs Miller started looking at the two of them nostalgically. "I''m will really love to hear about it Mrs Miller," Rachel said sweetly, finally leaving Xander side where he was still rooted looking perplexed little he has been frozen, He slow started moving his hands to check his watch but he was already twenty minuteste for the meeting he wanted to go for. He slipped back into the house to get his case and ponder over. more disturbing matters like why thd fuck was Araceli doing in his house on a Thursday with a Sunday dress, why was she acting like she was possessed by a freaking demon over night, shepletely uped her game and found favor in the sight of his mother all because she stucked up to her. How did she even know that was a way to her heart, the old Araceli was barely close to his mother because she wasn''t the chit chat type and his mother loved long conversations with youngies and strolls through very kept up garden, sometimes he wondered if his mother had a mental issue that made her stuck in the Seventeenth century, but what he was more worried about was Araceli. Arceli kept changing everyday after the night of the incident and the Short termed amnesia, she wasn''t the same no more. Now she was spontaneous, incredibly outspoken, crazy to the core, too cunning for his liking, and now there was no trace of the character that made him agree to this marriage of a deal, the ease in manipting her because she was too na?ve, weak and too trusting. Now he didn''t know what to expect, was she going to really tell his mother about the video, or was she going to¡­ That''s when he realized, he didn''t have a single fucking clue about Araceli any longer, she was no longer predictable or readable, instead she hide all that he felt over a giant wall of a bunch of new characters she developed froma, now mentally, she''s unessible. "Hey there buddy," "Not to break your already over used train of thoughts , don''t you think over thinking it right now wont help you in anyway," Rachel suggested smiling, she decided to take a break from Mrs Miller who took no mercy at talking her ears off, she finally found a way out of the torture through tea and biscuit she promised to go make and bring for both of them so they could continue their "ageless conversation" which only seemed to please the woman. Now she understood where Xander got his sick persona from, they both had that personality inmon, the unending need to have people around them kissing their ass like that validates the whole of their existence. "Do you want to offer a penny for my thoughts then?," Xander asked, picking up his files and facing Araceli. "Oh please, even if they were free I wouldn''t want to get an ear full of incessant rants filled with self centeredness and egotistical endeavors from another Miller in one day, I can only take so much," Rachel said entering into the huge untouched kitchen. "Such a waste," Rachel thought to herself. "What are you still doing here, I''m kinda scared when it''s just me and you in a room, there are knives everywhere, you could easily stab me on the back or actually do it literally," Rachel indirectly used him of trying to kill her as he strolled into the kitchen. "Isn''t that a little self centered?," Xander asked, standing at the opposite end of the counter to where she was standing. "Self centered?," "When you are in the equation, It''s called precaution, it''s what failed me thest time you know," Rachel said looking at him directly. "Thank God for the totally normal tracker you had on me," "It was a real lifesaver," Rachel smiled Thinking of good times. "Are you psychotic or something because that memory did not just put a smile on your face," Xander said low key, freaking out that maybe He. and Alice had created a monster from a massive traumatic time. In order for her to be more sane, she traded some parts of her humanity and now she was a cold monster of their own indirect craft. "Look Xander, just go to work alright," "Stalling or anything else you n to do isn''t really gonna work make I no lie you," Rachel said sprinkling in some Nigerian hood ng she has been picking up from watching king of boys offflix. "what the fuck did you just say?," Xander said, greatly lost at the end of her statement. "It''s A Nigerian ng, not that your stucked up white ass will understand," Rachel said exiting the kitchen with the tea and biscuit and headed towards the back door. He took his cue to finally leave the house and headed to his car where he needed to make an urgent call, but the secretary had already called him, so he called her back and asked her to reschedule their meeting toter in the day and after that asked Alice toe see him by his office that it was something important. Her reply came in quick. Alice Is it an Araceli situation or ?????????????! You It is an Araceli situation of course. Alice Alright, on my way. You And if it was otherwise ? Alice left the message on read which was a straightforward answer saying ''don''t even think about it''. He got to the office to meet the whole office in a partial frenzy because he rescheduled the meeting after keeping them for forty minutes. An hourter, Alice arrived at his office wearing jeans withbat boots and an oversized tee, giving her a very cute tomboy vibe. "So what did you want to discuss?," Alice. said, not even bothering about pleasantries and "Well good morning to you too babe," Xander said sarcastically. "Go straight to the point bro, I don''t have that kinda time to waste," "What is it about Araceli?," Alice said, not ready to even entertain his wittiness as usual. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. "Bro???" "Seriously," Xander asked, feeling slightly hurt that he was reduced to bro and not even his name. "Ok ok, whatever," "Look Araceli is getting more fiest, she came to my house earlier this morning and met with my mom, now all of a sudden they sound like they both go way back in time, it was creepy, then she went ahead to tell me that she was going to tell her everything and that I should expect¡­" He was still saying when he got interrupted by a call from no other person than his mother "...a call," he finished. He picked up the call with his hand.''s trembling and Alice eyes went wide. "hello Mom," "How could you Xander,"... Chapter 40 Almost lost his birthright for a coochie Chapter 40 Almost lost his birthright for a coochie "hello Mom," "How could you Xander," Mrs Miller''s voice came in half broken, he could imagine tears streaming down her face, wailing to his father about how he had brought shame upon the family. His whole face went white, he could feel the phone slipping out of his grasps as the next possible few years of his life became almost as clear as a rainy day, this was the ending for him, it was like the Jacob and Esau story they always learnt in sunday school where Esau sold his birthright for just some stew, but in his case, he indirectly sold his birthright for a cheap hotel coochie. "Mom, I can exin I swear to God," Xander pleaded, even though he had nothing to say other than he was sorry and ashamed about the insult and disgraced he had brought upon such a prestige family name "I''m listening," Mrs Miller said impatiently. "Because you seemed to have alot to say when Araceli told you, even though she was just trying to make things work and make everyone happy," Mrs Miller said feeling appalled by her own son''s behavior, even his Dad was more romantic even though he was a very old fashioned and very southern with the full on grease ent. "Look Mom, I swear I didn''t do it intentionally," that''s all Xander could say, he''s back was against the wall here and there was nothing he could say. "All you had to do was to tell me beforehand so I could order a better dress and prepare for the whole family dinner," Mrs Miller said. "I know, I¡­. Wait what??!" Xander said, suddenly processing what she said, he realized they were both talking about two universally different topics. "I said Araceli told you we would be having dinner with the Garcia''s and you didn''t even bother to tell me," Mrs Miller said. "Oh...uhm, I''m sorry mom, I didn''t...Well It just kind of skipped my mind," Xander said, unsure of what to say now. A dinner with the Garcia''s was something he definitely didn''t know about, I mean why the hell would he want to be around those excessively loud Italians or Mexicans or what ever the fuck they were , but this was another move by Araceli and he didn''t know what else to expect from her, she was always a good ten steps ahead of him and Alice. "We will talk about itter, see youter Chris," Mrs Miller said, ending the call. "Damn!!, I hate it so much when she calls me Chris or Christopher," Xander said, in frustration of no longer being and control and not just because he couldn''t stand the name, he couldn''t stand the fact Araceli was now in charge of the wheels and he had no choice but to let her drive him to unknown destinations. "Well?!," Alice asked impatiently, his face went from turning white, to regaining color, to looking lost, now heave frustration she didn''t even understand where It wasing from. "Turns out Araceli nned a dinner with my family and I was supposed to know about it," Xander replied, shaking his head, this is way more headache than he signed up for. "Well you are definitely not going, right?," "I mean, you and I both know that this is a in ambush, she''s gonna expose you in front of both of you guys parents," Alice reasoned with him. "I mean it is not rocket science Xander," Alice said touching his shoulder but his expression was distant, he was so far back in his head that when she smiled at him to reassure him, he just turned away and let himself get swayed by his thoughts. "Xander, please talk to me," Alice pleaded, she hasn''t seen him this lost ever since his uncle''s death which threw him off bnce. "Alice, I don''t know alright," "I don''t know, It''s hard to even know what she is goddamn nning, she told me I would receive a call from my mom, and I did, my mom sounded like she knew about it, just for her to bring up a dinner shit I don''t even know about," Xander said racking his hands through his hair and looked up at Alice who just looked at him in pity, then a notification bell went off in his office startling both of them. Alice face had a little trace of fear as she looked at Xander''s phone and it didn''te on, It was definitely her phone then, taking a sigh of relief because she didn''t think Xander could take anymore of this, she brought the phone out but she soon felt her heart sank a little as see saw the heading of the message, it was no other than Araceli. "What is that, are you ok babe?," Xander asked, standing up to check on the message and he understood why she stood transfixed staring at her phone. It was a message of Araceli telling her that "of course you are also invited, you didn''t think I will leave you out of the fun now did you," Xander read out loud, this was enough reason for them to stop underrating her because she kept throwing in new moves, from the way she sent the text, she using ''of course you are invited too'' showed she knows Xander was with Alice and she knows that Alice knows about the dinner on Saturday. "From being the hunter to being the hunted," Alice muttered to herself, swiping the message off her screen and taking her purse to take her leave. "Wait where are you going?," Xander asked, moving after her as she was almost at the door. "I''m heading home for an early tequ or something drier, just to clear my head," Alice said opening the door and exited the office which Xander followed her closely behind, he couldn''t ask her the question that he wanted to ask because of the weird look his secretary and other top worker were giving him as he ran after a fast paced Alice. He led her to the private elevator that led directly to the underground parking lot where supplies andpany cars were parked or came through. "What should we do about Araceli babe?," Xander asked tapping thest floor button on the silver elevator wall which didn''t reflect back as their image, just blur excuses. "I don''t know honestly," "She has already showed us that she is way ahead of us so let''s just y along nicely," "This new Araceli¡­" Alice said as she pulled out a cigar and lit it up. "Doesn''t take friendly threats well," "She will go explosive mode and blow both of us out of proportion and I don''t even like the sound of that," Alice said in between puffs. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. "We don''t smoke on the building Alice," Xander said staring at her with disapproval. "Technically, I''m not in the building," "Then where are you then," Xander asked rhetorically, not expecting the answer she gave him. "In a weird metallic poor silver coated box hooked up on wires we are supposed to trust Xander," Alice said walking out of the elevator. "Wait, you didn''t bring your car?," Xander asked, checking the parking lot and couldn''t spot her red Porsche anywhere in the parking lot. "Yeah, I will be taking a cab home," Alice said, dropping the cigar on the ground and grinding it with herbat boot. "I could give you a ride home you know," Xander offered but Alice was already walking towards the exit, she waved her hand in dismissal as reply and Xander sighed. He knew being control was a character they both had inmon but right now none of them were in control and it was taking a toll on both of them, and in addition, Araceli wasn''t making it easy for any of them in any way and right now sitting on a desk and handling a million files was thest thing on his mind. He headed to take a lunch break at ten am because why not, he was the CEO or at least till Araceli was ready to tell everyone on earth what he did, he would be the one guy that broke the golden couple who was ruling the business world, he exited the building skipping the cafe at his workce because they sold the shittiest coffee that has ever touched his tongue. The bell of Venus cafe drew him stares like fire to moth and as usual a bunch of whispers filled the cafe. He didn''t know why people thought he was a big deal just because he was selected as Top 10 hottest businessmen in Newyork city in a cringe article. "Hi, I''m Ricky, what would you like to have today sir," The barista said in a bored voice looking at the man who just caused the little frenzy in the cafe, hell he wasn''t even that hot for christ sake. "Somette with extra cream with bagels," Xander said, not sparing the barista a second look. "That''s fifteen fifty sir," Ricky said. Xander gave him a hundred dor note and told him to keep the change. Ricky couldn''t if he was just a sillyvish spender or he couldn''t just bother to wait for the change. Alice Do we still have the rape video??... Chapter 41 Do you still have the rape video? Chapter 41 Do you still have the rape video? Ricky saw the message as he popped up on the man''s phone, he was shocked to the very core, the normal looking guy who he thought was just a stuck up rich guy was clearly not who he thought he was, he was at first worried what a man would be going through, to let him forget his phone and just take his keys and leave, i mean if he was hungry, he wouldn''t even be in venus cafe in the first ce, he would have gone to the MacDonalds or Starbucks. Ricky took of his blue apron uniform off and took the phone to run after the rich business dude., if he was able to tip him as much as eighty four bucks, the least he could do is hand the guy back his phone and go on about his day to day life. When he got out of the cafe, he saw him going into an underground parking lot that belonged to the Sounthern Millers enterprise. He crossed the road with hate and zero precautions earning him a bunch of loud horny and spray of curses from the regr bitter and impatient New yorkers, nothing he wasn''t used too, when he used to be a bike delivery guy, he used to receive so much stray curses, after months on the job, he realized that taking it personal was a waste of time, half of New Yorkers had anger issues, or running to a meeting they were alreadyte for due to traffick or a mixture of both and some were just bitter like his former boss. On entering the parking lot, aside from thepany vans, every car was shy and looked like they could single handedly foot his student loan. "Hey sir!!" "Mister," "Man in ck," Ricky yelled, then bent down and tried to catch his breathe, since highschool, he hadn''t had a chance of running anymore from bullies because this time, life was the bully, whether you ran or hide or not gave a fuck, life was gonna fuck you up. Guessing he finally caught the man in ck attention either from the random call outs or from his over dramatic trying to catch his breath like kung fu panda always did after every short run. "Oh hey," "You are the barista guy," Xander said, staring at him weirdly as he was dramatically taking in oxygen through his mouth. "Sorry, are you asthmatic or something?" Xander said, getting worried at the way he was trying to take in air, he had a friend in middle school who would get an attack just from running down the hall. "Oh no, I''m not," "My lungs are justzy as hell, they can''t even perform a simple task of keeping me conscious pass twenty meters," Ricky said looking up and the ck suit guy finally catching his breath. "Is that sarcasm?," Xander asked. "No it''s the truth actually," "And I''m Ricky actually, said it back at the store," Ricky said as if trying to help him catch up. "Ok, so what do you want exactly or what exactly is the problem?," Xander asked. "Well you left your phone back in the cafe, so I had to walk back to run after you to give it back," Ricky said, using his hands to show where he wasing from. "Ok, thanks man, got to run," Xander said, collecting his phone and leaving the barista behind in the parking lot as he yelled ''you are wee'' back. He headed to the elevator and tapped the top floor, before checking his phone and saw that he had a text from Alice, but the text content took him by shock. He had totally forgotten about the video he asked the hooligans to take, but he never asked for it before the oue of the event took apletely different turn. You I don''t think I do, it should still be with Mikey''s gang, I forgot to collect it from them. Alice Get them tomorrow, I have an idea. Back at the cafe. Ricky returned back to the cafe only to get an ear full ofint from his manager telling him that he was really on hisst nerve and stuff and he wouldn''t even listen to him or grant him a little grace of letting him speak so he let him rant on and got off with a warning, he knew Carson wouldn''t fire him, the pay is shitty, they were down on workers, and workers that came here to work didn''tst more than two to three months because it was a typical summer job or job for the holiday, the only person who worked here permanently was the manager and Joan, your typical emo girl with tattoos and ck or nude lipstick with nose septums and ck outfits, she was very quite and the only time he had heard her speak is when she was clocking out of her shift and it was always some low and inaudible Japanese. He was ten minutes to the end of his shift when Araceli and Amy walked into the cafeughing. Araceli was wearing her hair as a fringe which looked nicely weird on her with ck specs and oversized panda print tee with above the knee shorts, while Amy wore a glittering notice-me silver dress with ck heels. "What shall I get mydies?," Ricky asked bowing to both of them yfully. "A cup of double espresso for the panda girl andtte cream sugar for the queen, and do not look at us in the eye youmon subordinate," Amy said, lifting her jew upwards graciously. "Don''t push it Amy, I can make really shit Latte''s too you know," Ricky said smiling cunningly. "Don''t you dare mess up mytte," Amy warned. "Isn''t your shift over already, Ace keeps dialing my phone that he can''t wait to go to the Arcade and it''s a long drive outside the city," Rachel said. "Well it''s in the next five minutes girl, calm your tits," Ricky said, handing them their orders while attending to the other customer behind them. They went ahead to get a chair to sit as they waited for eleven thirty. Rachel stopped by Amy''s house to fill her in on everything that happened and the whole n going on, which made Amy very excited, to be finally involved in someone''s life. "Jesus!!!," Ricky sat on the chair beside Araceli with a dramatding earning him stares but he didn''t give enough fucks to return the looks they gave him, it wasn''t a library for christ sake. "I had a very fucked up day in the weirdest way possible even though it came with an eighty four dor tip," Ricky said smiling at the thought of him being eighty four dors richer. "Eighty four dors!!!," "What the fuck Ricky, Did Jeff Bezos stop by and you couldn''t even call your closet friend," Amy whined, and Rachel justughed at the over exaggeratingparism, she knew it was someone who didn''t have enough patience to wait for the count of change by the barrister. "Look girl, it was just some random dude from business magazine that got the whole cafe staring and whispering and sacrificing and risking their necks just to turn to awkward degrees and have a look at some in white boy in an impressive suit," Ricky said waving her in dismissal drinking his in coffee. "Look that wasn''t even the weirdest shit alright, the thing is that when he took his order yeah, he forgot his iphone 12 on my desk and before i could return it, some Alice girl sent a message asking if he still had a rape video!!" Ricky half yelled, getting both of his hands pped. "Keep your fucking voice down," Amy whispered at him as people gave them weird stares. "A fucking rape video!!" Ricky said again only this time he was whispering. That''s when it suddenly hit her in the end, the girl name was Alice, wait, Alice as in Alice... "Ricky, you said her name was Alice right?," Rachel asked just to be sure and that caught the attention of Amy too. "Wait, her name is Alice?," Amy asked, suddenly rmed. "Yesss, Jesus can you guys stop asking for her name, I have already said it like three times now," Ricky said exasperated. "Wait by chance, was the guy in a fancy suit named Xander?," Rachel asked. "Yeah, I think so, even though he coul¡­" Ricky was saying till he saw their once yful expressions go serious, they shared a nce and kept quite looking like they just heard about a friend''s death. "What''s the problem, you guys know him?," Ricky asked confused, Araceli just stayed paused staring down at her expresso while Amy kept looking at her with worry coating her features. The whole action happening in front of him made him even more anxious to know about what was going on. "What the fuck guy, what''s going on, is he some kind of serial killer or something, I still remember All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. his face you know," "He''s Araceli''s fianc¨¦," Amy said. "Shit¡­" Chapter 42 How to treat a mental breakdown Chapter 42 How to treat a mental breakdown "He''s Araceli''s fianc¨¦," Amy said. "Shit¡­" "Araceli, I''m so sorry, I didn''t mean to snope on your husband¡­" Ricky was apologizing when he got cut off by Amy. "Fianc¨¦ Ricky," "Fianc¨¦!," Amy corrected, giving him a stern look. "Sorry fianc¨¦, I didn''t mean to peep in on your fianc¨¦ phone, it was a honest mistake," Ricky apologized, but the look he was seeing on her face was awfully familiar, that''s the look of PTSD he saw in his cousin''s eyes when they met her at the hospital, they had to find a female doctor to treat her because she won''t let a male doctor touch her. "Araceli, I know we aren''t really that close but, do you know this person they are talking about?," Ricky asked, cautiously. Amy starred at him pointedly as if telling him not to pry further. "Yes, I do Rick," Araceli said in a low voice, causing Amy and Ricky''s head to snap towards her direction in shock. Amy pulled her chair towards her as she saw a tear gentle slide down her wless cheek. Memories, memories came running all over her mind, she might have transmigrated into Araceli''s body but some of her consciousness still floated somewhere in her head, now the rape triggered the surge of memories to flood her with emotions she wasn''t ready for, she could see all of the memories, from the kidnap from her office to what felt like a thousand hands tearing her apart with out mercy, the force used to pushed through her as Araceli screamed for help, the once light and angelic voice, filled with light and melody turned raw from crying for help as she was tore apart, her tears were no longer running, just a lifeless look in her eyes as they took turns, the room was a faint grey as she couldn''t make out anything of the ce, she looked around again trying to find an object to end the unbearable misery but she was held down again and the torture resumed as she started screaming for help but her voice was gone, she had exhausted everything, from her tears to her voice, her throats felt like sand paper as all she could here was huff of male voices and smell of cigarettes, she managed to knee the masked man on top of her but she wasn''t able to get him offpletely as he punched her repeatedly till she gave up andid back on the ground, her head hit a cold metal as she turned and saw an old knife on the ground but couldn''t reach it because of her tied up hands. She had two choices, either die from the torture or end it before it ended her, she chose thetter as she twisted her wrist to free her self from the rope. The scream was made up of thest strength she could muster, it took them by surprise, she crawled away from them to the corner of the room holding the old piece of knife, she didn''t have a clear vision because her eyes were a mess from being punched, thest thing she remembered was seeing theming towards her as she slid the metal through her neck and felt a sharp pain before the darkness swallowed her whole. When Rachel opened her eye''s she was no longer in the cafe anymore, the ce was more of a store as she was surrounded by boxes, some secondster, Amy and Rick enter with Amy holding a ss of water and a very worried look. "What are my doing here?," Rachel asked looking confused as hell, she touched her face as she felt dried up tears stuck to her face. "Was I crying?," Rachel asked again. "Araceli¡­" Ricky started staring at her with pity in his eyes. "Ricky don''t you dare say anything we are not sure of yet," Amy warned as she gave him a sterned look. "Are fucking kidding me Amy?!!!," "She just fucking had a mental break down plus an A grade panic attack, we don''t need a soothe sayer to tell use she isn''t fine," "She needs fucking help, she has definitely looked through some pretty dark shit and she pushed it to the back of her mind and now we triggered it and it came all bubbling back and she couldn''t put a lead over it," Ricky yelled at Amy. "Look¡­" Ricky said bringing down his voice "She doesn''t need a pat on the back and a ss of water, what she needs is fucking therapy because she obviously haven''t worked out what ever ured in her past," Rick reasoned looking at Araceli who just had her head down murmuring in the chair she sat. "Araceli, are you alright?," Amy asked, starting to get scared as Araceli didn''t answer right away, she just looked at both of them with a blood shot eye as she took a go at the water Amy brought in for her. "Araceli??," Amy called out again. "I had a panic attack?," Rachel asked out loud, talking more to herself than to the other two people in the room. "You see what I''m saying, it''s probably something she hasn''t dealt with," Rick said. "Hey Araceli, has something like this happened before?," Amy asked. "Never," "I have never had a panic attack before," Rachel said in a low voice looking down at her hands that were till shaking. She should have known that they were downsides to migrating into someone else''s body even with their permission, she never knew that Araceli''s emotions could overall affect her in a way like tha, she always thought since they were two different people she wouldn''t have to worry about it but seens she was dead wrong, Araceli''s emotions were very much present and they had a drastic effect on her, they even drove her into a panic attack, she felt the whole experience raw like it just happened to her all over again. She touched her neck and felt the scar of the knife Araceli used to slit her own throat, it was all real, they weren''t conjured up memories. "It''s all real," Rachel muttered to herself. "What is real Araceli?," Ricky asked worried looking at her as her trembling hands were fixed in between her thighs, even though she had just had the worst panic attack he has ever seen she still managed to fight through it alone and tried to be ok. "I was raped a few months ago, and I died, or I thought I did, but I woke up in the hospital," "The doctors said my fianc¨¦ brought me in but now I think he and my suppose to be behind it, I''m not sure but It was real, my mom and dad were told otherwise and the Temporary amnesia helped their lie look more believable but it''s all real," Rachel rambled on, at this point, it seemed like she couldn''t differentiate between she and Araceli anymore. "You will be fine, you just need rest alright," Amy told her. "No!!," Rachel said suddenly eximed standing up startling both of them. "We are going to have fun alright, we are going to go to that arcade and have a ton of fun and we will not remember that any of this happen," Rachel to them as they looked her in pity. Ricky knew exactly what she was doing, she was desperately trying to be ok, something he has seen so many times in Amy when she was carelessly drinking or partying, she desperately trying to abandon reality and sweep it under the carpet but it alwayses back to affect her every single time. "Alright let''s go, besides you promise Ace that we will being back soon and e are already Now he knew why both of them were friends, they were so strong as women and tried their best to All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. be okay and make others to feel better. They headed out of the back of the shop and he lead them to the back door because he didn''t want Araceli getting weird stares because of what happened earlier. She got into her car while Amy got into the passenger sit and he sat down at the back. The drive home was supposed to be really awkward but Araceli ended up sting bad guy in the car and singing to it at the top of her lungs as Amy joined her too as they sand to bad guy and strange addiction on repeat. As they reach the Garcia estate, he knew exactly why Araceli''s face always looked wless, they were not just rice, they looked old money rich like wealth have been in their possession for long time, parking by the fountain in front of their house, she hunked her horn once and a boy ran out of the house in spider man shirts and white crocs with excitement written all of his face, Araceli didn''t really show she was of italian decent but the boy had a more traces of it with his shiny ck coil and olive pasty skin that looked a shade lighter than caramel. "Araceli, you cameteee," the boy whined as soon as her opened the door... Chapter 43 Overly smart Ace Chapter 43 Overly smart Ace Ace hopped into the car and sat alongside a man who looked like he was about the same age with his sister, Amy was on the driver''s sit while Araceli was in the passenger sit, he could sense something was wrong, first this wasn''t Araceli''s car, secondly she had that smile she had on her face when she just came back from the hospital, it didn''t reach her eyes but she tried her best to still keep smiling. "Hey Ace, are you ready to have fun?," Amy asked trying to break the awkward stares Ace was giving Araceli who was just staring everywhere but at Ace, the kid may have been young but he was smart and he could sense the tension in the car even though he just arrived. Ricky taking the hint Amy dropped about trying to break the awkward air around them, he decided to introduce himself since he hasn''t met Ace yet. "Hey Ace, I''m Ricky but you can call me Rick, or my friends call me Gay Rick," Ricky said winking at him, he knew a talk about his sexuality would be enough to take his attention from Araceli. "Nobody calls you ''gay Rick'' Ricky," Amy said, starting up the car. What Ricky said managed to bring a smile to Araceli''s face as she turned back to see a confused look on Ace''s face, knowing how curious of a kid he was, Ricky was in for a long talk. "So you have like a¡­.boyfriend right?," Ace asked, gently carefully thinking of his words. "Yes hon, I have a boyfriend," Rick said, smiling at him. "What''s his name?," Ace asked, looking at Ricky inquisitively again as if expecting to see something pop off his head. "His name?," Ricky repeated, quite surprised that he would want to know his boyfriend''s name. "Well his name is n," Ricky said, smiling a little just by saying his name. "You really like him don''t you," Ace said, smiling at him. "Oh, and what gave that away?," Ricky asked, almost rhetorically even though he knew Ace wouldn''t get it, but his reply shocked him. "Well I read somewhere that when you say the name of someone you like, a little smile tugs at your lips, but Araceli doesn''t smile like that when it''s about Xander," Ace said, simply. The whole car went quiet for what seemed like hours even though it wasn''t up to a minute, what Ace said seemed to take everyone by surprise as Ricky looked at Amy driving through the front mirror and Amy shared looks with Araceli who''s eyes were just widened. The ice was finally cracked by Amy. "Five minutes to Trench Arcade, who''s ready to have loads of fun?!!," Amy eximed, with a nervousugh, desperate to break the Ice. "Yaaaaaayyyy," Ace squealed, pumping his hands through the airpletely oblivious to the awkward environment he had created. They reached the Arcade which seemed to take forever even though it was just a Five minutes journey from the time Amy announced it, the ce was definitely eye catchy and was very busy with a lot of cars in the parking lot since it was a friday, it was filled with alot of highschool student looking for some fun after five days of school workload. The inside was a strict blue neon light and different other neon lights for every other game gave out, the most catchy game that stood out was the glow hockey board that stood right in the middle of the right side of the room filled of games, the left had an eatery section, the tables were pentagonal in shapes with chairs at every end of the chair. They got a bunch of coins for Ace to go y a spider man themed car race. Amy, Araceli and Ricky headed towards the eatery section not because of the food but it was the only part that wasn''t crowded by adrenaline filled teenagers looking to have some fun, they sat on the chair at the side and othered some salted fries in a big sieve and some coke. "Are we going to talk about the fact that your brother is way too smart for his age?," Ricky said, with an over dramatic expression. "He is quite observant I must say," Rachel said looking at Ricky overreacting again. "We should talk about you Araceli," Amy said, staring at her as if she had just lost her husband in the army battle. "Amy can stop looking at me like that, I didn''t loose my fianc¨¦ in a fucking titanic," Rachel said, looking away from her as she still had the look of pity in her eyes, the look she was avoiding. "I''m fine, I will be fine, all I need to do is getid," Rachel added, trying to bring some life to the conversation. "Is that really the best Idea?," Ricky asked, as he reached for another batch of fries. "I mean¡­" Ricky started, chewing down the fries and washing it down with coke, "When I was Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. feeling sad about my GPA dropping, my boyfriend tried to make me feel better with sex, but I ended up crying half way through the pration," Ricky said. "Too much info Ricky," Amy said, pping his arms for what seemed like the one billionth time today. "Besides y''all probably didn''t use enough lobe," Rachel added, causing both of them to stare at her in surprise. "Whattt, I have seen gay porn before," Rachel said,unching fries at both of them. "Well spoilers, gay sex ispletely different from what you see in porn," Ricky said, shaking his head in disapproval. "I mean do you think they just stick it up there or just have sex anytime without douching??," Ricky said, tapping the side of his head with his index finger as if that will make them understand better. "Ricky, no one want to know how gay sex works, besides all she wanted was to getid," Amy turned her attention to Araceli who was staring at her coke weirdly. "Araceli," Amy waved her hands in front of Araceli''s face who looked like she was no longer with them. "Sorry, my brain just went overdrive with the info Ricky just shared," Rachel lied,ughing. She was thinking of the possibility of Xander having her rape video, if it was possible that it coulde into their possession, she only had two choices, go before them and buy the video from whoever had it and make them sign an NDA or make their effort wasted by announcing why she really went off radar for two months and survive on the mass pity so as when the video is released she won''t be stared at different, all she had to do was survive the looks of pity. Amy pped Ricky''s hand again for making Araceli ufortable. "Ouch!!!," Ricky whined, looking at Amy sternly as she pped his hand. "That one is on you Araceli," Ricky said, pointing at her as he narrowed his eyes, in return, Araceli raised her hands up as if in surrender. "So, you got any guy you want to getid with?," Amy asked, staring at Araceli as the question took her aback a little. "I mean, you can do it with me, I think I''m bisexual so yeah, it could work," Ricky said, winking badly at Araceli. This earned him another p on the hand and a stern look from Amy and a cringed out look from Rachel. "No thank you," Rachel said. "Too personal??," Amy felt bad prying. "Actually no," "There''s someone I actually have in mind but¡­" "But what??," Amy eximed, getting more interested. "Well he kind of has feelings for me and I can''t reciprocate it," Rachel said, sighing. "Why can''t you reciprocate it?," Ricky looked confused at her. "Because we are business partners, my Dad told me I could do anything in business but never mix business and pleasure, he told her." "Well feelings will only make it messy, if y''all were just having sex then it would be different," Amy reasoned. "Right??" Amy said, staring expectantly at Ricky to back her up. "Right!!," "Besides If you are going to getid, you have to do it with someone who somewhat has interest in you," Ricky said. "Talking from experience?," Rachel asked him, smirking. "Kind off," "I mean that''s how I ended up with my awesome boyfriend, who happens to be one of the best I have had," Ricky said, smiling. He could still remember the day they went out on their first legit date and ended up running because they both forgot their wallets. "I''m not looking forward to catching feelings," Rachel said, even though she knew there was a possibility that she could, she didn''t want to entertain it,plicating her life with a rtionship right now isn''t exactly hef best option. "But is this mystery guy hot?," Amy asked. Just as she asked, Rachel''s eye met with Yandel''s as he and the twins approached the eatery side. "Speaking of the devil¡­" Chapter 44 Just a simple rejection? Chapter 44 Just a simple rejection? "It''s been a fucking week already, get yourself together bro!!" Emily banged on the door as Yandel refused toe out of his room, he had been sulking for the past week staying up in his room and about Yandel, whenever he was sad or felt down he would leave his apartment in the city and stay at the family house just to sulk, she wasn''t about to let him sulk alone. It was hard to see Yandel all worked up over a girl, he was that type of guy, he was always focused on work and didn''t let things like rtionships and Heartbreaks to let him down, but now she sees that he really likes Araceli. "Come on bro, for real, this ain''t cool," Ethan agreed with Emily who gave him a look telling him Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. that he should shut the fuck up or she was gonna make him regret waking up this morning, but as usual, her dumb twin brother will forever remain the same Dumb Ethan. "Whatttt??!" Ethan eximed, putting his hands on his waist staring at Emily who seemed to have something to say to him just like every other time. "You seriously gonna go up and down telling him it ain''t cool," Emily said,pletely ignoring the door they were both facing that led to Yandel''s room. "When Sasha broke up with you, you were a fucking mess, you would always cry the locker room and stalk her around school so don''t go around telling people to be cool because you ain''t cool," Emily "At least he isn''t stalking her in a creepish weird way," Emily said, turning back to see that the door was already slightly open and Yandel was peeping at them, specifically at Ethan who wouldn''t meet his eyes. He had his light brown almost blond hair tousled over his head falling into his eyes, he still had his ck vest on fromst night. "Heyyy," "Look who decided toe out of hibernation, I''m sure you must be very hungry, no worries I got you, I did awful lot of pancakes and made some cold cream frosting," Emily said, smiling sweetly at Yandel''s rather grumpy looking face that had sleep mark on it. "Emily, you don''t cook," Yandel deadpanned. "Trueeee," "But I had the cook make you your fav, at least be appreciative and notunch attacks on me like that," Emily said walking away from the door down the hallway towards the stairs. "Hey please can you tell the maids to bring it up here?," Yandel asked, trying his luck with Emily''s wrath which she seemed to inherit from her mother. "No!!!" "Get your ass down here, It''s already noon, we are going to the Trench Arcade and you are "You are way too bossy for the shortest person in this house," Ethan said, going back to get more pancakes from the kitchen. "Hey I''m not short, 5''9 isn''t short," Emily whined. "Lol you wish chipmunk," Ethan said, tugging at her cheeks even though they were hollow just like his, he had his hands swapped away with a painful p. "Don''t fucking touch my face you twimp," Emily growled. "Hey, No tearing each other apart at my watch," Yandel came down the stairs spotting a ck jeans and grey nnel shirt with ck and white crocs, a total opposite from what he wears everyday, which is some boring ass tie on some random dull color undershirt and ck or grey zers. "Well someone looks a little refreshed, I mean I could spot the eye bags from miles away but that''s not important," Emily stood up and went towards him adjusting his hair. "What is important is that you are going to leave this house and have fun, alot of it," Emily said, smiling evilly at him. "I don''t get why you guys are heading to an Arcade when you guys have a game room size of three living rooms and still want to be out there ying, possibly lower grades," Yandel said, confused. "Well here''s first, You don''t exactly allow us into the game room at home because you think we will ruin it or out friends will," "Secondly, it''s just fun knowing there are other people there trying to have fun and forget school and HEARTBREAK," Emily pointed out the emphasis on heartbreak. "Very subtle," Ethanmented while stuffing his face with pancakes and frost cream. "Thank you, I tried my best," Emily replied with sass which earned her an eye roll from Ethan. "I don''t get it, how would you even get heartbroken if you guys didn''t even date," Ethan asked, confused , finishing off the pancake crust. "Just a simple rejection," Yandel said in a low voice. "Details!!".... "Well what can I say, on the day you guys threw that stupid party of yours¡­" "Hey my party is not stupid, it''s one of the coolest ever thrown in our college stamped and verified," Ethan said, smiling proudly. "Yeah right," Yandel said, standing up to take some more pancakes. "Ethan just shut the fuck up and let''s listen to Yandel''s sad story so we can understand who to fucking hit on The head with the hammer i just bought the other day," Emily said, with an exasperated voice. The two males stopped what they were doing with a half eaten pancake hanging from his mouth as stared at Emily weirdly. Emily soon got sick of the stares, acting like she said she dealt with nuclear weapons. "Y''all chill the fuck out," Emily said, dragging the chair backwards again the glue polished wood in the dinning area causing an ear cracking sound. "Emily!!!," Both Yandel and Ethan shouted at the same time staring at her in disapproval, in return she just rolled her eyes and went to the kitchen to drop her te after which she hopped on the kitchen counter already wearing her outing outfit, A ck leather Botega boot, with a red checked school girl shorts. "You gonna continue telling us the story or what??," Emily said, clearly tired of the conversation even before it started. "Well it was the night of your party and we decided to go to the game room to y some games which I won every round till I finally let her win thest one," Yandel clearly remembered the night like it just happened the previous day, he hadn''tughed so hard that he needed to take a sit. "You got to let ady win!!!" "You let her into the game room!!!" Emily and Ethan said simultaneously in a respective manner which earned them a ''shut the fuck up and listen'' stare. "Then we went to my study, listened to Billie Eilish, had a good wine or two and kissed," Yandel concluded, but the shock on his face made him rethink hisst words again. "You what?!!!!" They both yelled at him as their expression slowly started to show betrayal. "kissed¡­.her¡­" He repeated this timing slowly as he also started to think about why they were looking betrayed or was he not suppose to kiss her. "You let her into your study!!" "That''s fucking unfair," they both said at the same time flexing the twin jinx which happened once in a while but creeped Yandel the hell out. "Oh for fucksake, not this again," Yandel rubbed his two hands over his face knowing the twins were about to go into their ''freedom to look into your stuff and rights'' frenzy like they had every right to be in your personal space. "So you guys aren''t gonna talk about the fact I kissed her?," Yandel changed the topic before he got another private space lecture. "Kissed her??" "That''s not a big deal bro, It''s not like you exchanged rings or something," Emily said, looking at Yandel weirdly. "A kiss is not a big deal!!!" "What is wrong with your generation, you belittle everything," Yandel eximed. "We built a stronger emotional wall, that''s what we did, Times have changed, you have to adapt," Emily said. "And this story ends with her rejecting you??" Ethan said, looking at his brother in pity. "Well that being said and done...To the Trench Arcade!!!!" Emily yelled all hyped up as she came off the counter and moved to the living room to get her little bag where she had her wallet. The drive to the Arcade was full of Emily and Ethan ranking back and forth while Yandel kept they reached Trench parking lot, they both hopped down and ran towards the Arcades like kids but didn''t enter as they realized Yandel hadn''te out of his car, dragging him out and into the cafe. They decided to go get some little snack to munch on before they gamed to their satisfaction, that was when Emily saw Araceli and her friends on one of the tables. "Don''t look at your 12 o''clock," Emily whispered to Yandel but Yandel''s eyes had already met Araceli''s before he could heed the warning¡­ Chapter 45 Are you pregnant? Chapter 45 Are you pregnant? "Are we seriously heading towards her now with her friends staring at us like that?" Ethan asked looking over at them, there was a girl with seriously bleached hair that was blond and another guy with paler skin and full brows. They all looked like models from a magazine just chilling around. "Are you seriously going to meet her right now?," Emily said, dragging Yandel''s hand back who seemed to be in a trance as he just kept working towards her, she had to admit, she had never seen her brother so out of his element like she was seeing him today, heckedposure and those million dors worth built confidence. Now he was just like a nerd being drawn towards his crush just to spill shit like "what toothpaste do you use?," she didn''t want her brother to be the uncool one in this scenerio. "I''m just going to say hi, nothing more, It will be weird and pretty childish seeing her and then ignoring the fact that she''s right there looking at her." "Well no one said it is exactly a bad thing Yandel, I''m just saying, you have already taken a shot to the heart before with her, another will not be very nice just because you felt the need to throw yourself under the bus and work right to her and tell her what??," "How have you been doing?," Emily answered for him, and from his facial expression, you could tell she was right because he certainly wasn''t denying it too. "Okay then, what do you want me to say, I need to stuff my feelings down your throat¡­" Yandel was saying before he got caught off by an all too familiar voice that brought the reddest shades of embarrassment to his face as he knew Araceli was behind them and Ethan was no longer with them. "Uhm...who''s throat are we talking about exactly?," Rachel decided to add in since they were so engrossed in their hushed conversation that she knew was definitely about her, and the funnier part was they weren''t even trying to act subtle, Emily looked like a coach in boxing hyping up her fighter during breaks in matches. "Hey Araceliiii," they both said at the same time with an upper octave voice which was proudly sponsored by guilt of being caught talking about somebody, and then that same person happens to catch you in the act. "Woah, that waspletely not creepy¡­" Rachel said, smiling nervously at both of them. "Were you both talking about me?," Rachel teased as she saw just her mere presence made them all tensed up. "Whattttt" Emily started with a voice that went higher as she said the word, she wasn''t surprised, she was sure Araceli was smart and their not so subtle behavior was something you can generally see through. "Nooooo," "Whattt" Yandel followed in suit trying to act cool. "I just said it to tease you guys, it seems you guys are actually up to something," Rachel stared at both of them pointedly. Yandel had a nervous smile on his face while Emily was trying hard to keep a straight face, she knew they were definitely talking about her. "So what were you guys talking about then?," Rachel asked, staring at them in their eyes as panic started to surface. "Money!" "Fries!" They both said simultaneously causing Rachel to go into a fit ofughter, Emily used her palm to cover her face as she just decided she has help her brother and taken a fair share of embarrassment so she took her leave, she could hear her brother shouting over a game from a distance like the hooligan he is, but between enduring her stupid brother and taking part of Yandel''s embarrassment, she went for the slightly lesser evil. "I think Ethan needs my help," Emily pointed back towards Ethan. He seemed perfectly fine with the 5D game stimtor arguing with the inside character, excusing herself she left Yandel with a mess he had to deal with. "So¡­" Rachel said, expectantly. She knew how things ended between them but she didn''t expect it to take Yandel''s self confidence along with it. He was avoiding eye contact with her by staring at every other thing around her. "Hi¡­" Yandel said, not still looking her in the eyes becausest time she saw him, his eyes were filled with tears while she rejected him in the nicest way possible. "Hi??" "Wow incredible convo start up," Rachel said, sarcastically apuding Yandel as he rolled his eyes and looked back at the twins silently praying that one was gonnae to aid and take him home, he didn''t sign up for this much embarrassment. "Where''s the Yandel I know, the confident CEO who tortured me for years with teasing and words?," Rachel asked, staring directly at him as he just looked away somewhere above her head looking a little worried. "I think your friends are staring at us and they are not even trying to make it subtle," "Like they are staring directly at us¡­" Yandel said, using his head to point in their direction. "I know what you''re doing, trying to change the topic, we are gonna have this conversation, I bet you" Rachel said, dragging along towards the table that she was seated on before she went to meet Yandel. Rick and Amy realizing they were caught staring suddenly started acting like they were caught doing something illegal and faced their fries like it was the most shocking thing in the whole world like it hadn''t been on the table in so long. "Wow!!!" "These fries are so good," Rick started, staring at Araceli who was giving the ''are you guys done'' look. "Yeah Rick, they are so great, I think we should order a whole lot more," Amy said, in a weird loud voice filled with bad acting skills, which left Yandel looking dumb founded at both of them. "Ok babe, I don''t think they are having any of it," Ricky said, using a napkin to wipe at his mouth as he stretched his chair back a little and looked at both Araceli and the very handsome guy in sweatshirt and nice crocs to introduce himself. "Ok honey, I know I''m super cute and shit but you have to speak at some point," Ricky said, staring at Yandel directly making him choke a little before clearing his throat. "Awwn, where did you find this one Araceli?," "The yground?," "Because he sure knows how to act cute," Ricky said, going back to his half way down coke. "Ricky don''t be rude, first impression matters," Amy said, nudging him in the hands, at least It wasn''t a p like usual, Rachel just kept giggling beside a perplexed looking Yandel who kept staring All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. between Ricky and Amy, she knew they were going to go all out on him, that was the whole reason she wanted to stall for a bit and give him some heads up but he chose this path. "Oh I can definitely see his first running away from him," Ricky said, dramatically crossing his legs and tucking some hair behind his ear. "Ricky!!!" Rachel and Amy yelled at the same time looking at him in shock. "That''s it, you are in time out," "Go get us more fries," Rachel said, murmuring apologies to Yandel as Ricky stood up. "Hi, I''m Ricky martins...lol just kidding, I''m just Ricky, my friends call me gay Rick," Ricky said, shaking Yandel''s hands before leaving to get more fries. "No one calls you that," Rachel and Amy said at once, and Ricky replied by waving the middle finger at them since they were kids around, at least he had the decency not to curse when kids are around. "Wow¡­" Yandel dragged out as he took another chair from a table to join them. "I know right, he can be dramatic sometimes, today is just one of those days, plus I think he has had way too much coffee for a day," Amy said. "I''m Amy by the way," Amy said, stretching her hands across the table to Yandel who was sitting besides Araceli. "Yandel Baldwin" Yandel replied, shaking her slim fragile hands. "So you are the famous Yandel that got girls in New York wanting to read the Business Magazine," Amy said, smiling at him. "Urgh yeah, I guess," Yandel replied shyly, he wasn''t used to people calling him out like that. "I''m backdy and gentlemen," Ricky announced, dropping three different bowls of fries and coke on a tray. "Lady?" Amy repeated after him, staring at him darkly. "Yeah, since you have decided to keep taking punches at me like some freaking blond Anthony joshua, I have decided to tag you as a gentleman even though there is really nothing gentle about you," Ricky said, sitting beside Amy who kept staring daggers at him and he kept the same energy by equally not giving two shits. "Well since we are all gathered here, I have a short term news to make," "Are you pregnant?," Ricky asked. "What¡­" "No noooo, jesus..." Rachel replied, dragging her hands down her face. "Careful honey, you gonna give your pretty face wrinkles," Ricky sassed, sipping his coke. "Just shut up Rick and let her talk," Amy snapped. "Well y''all know about Xander and how he is a cheating bastard of a fianc¨¦ right?," Rachel asked. "Yeah" "uh huh" "Yes¡­" They all randomly answered looking at her expectantly to drop the bomb on them. "Well¡­" "Just get to the point already Araceli, this caffeine in my system isn''t exactly anxiety friendly," Ricky snapped a little. "Ok ok, well I''m nning a dinner meeting with my Mom and Dad with the Millers and I thought just to spice it up, to invite you guys, since Alice will be there too," Rachel pitched, looking at them excitedly... Chapter 46 Araceli change in attitude Chapter 46 Araceli change in attitude "Ok ok, well I''m nning a dinner meeting with my Mom and Dad with the Millers and I thought just to spice it up, to invite you guys, since Alice will be there too," Rachel pitched, looking at them excitedly. They all had looks filled with uncertainty and doubt written all over their face, Ricky kept staring back at Amy and then back at her while Yandel''s expression was nothing close to readable instead his face was more stuck in a confused look like he couldn''t help but not see reason to what she was doing. "Ok let me get this straight, even though I''m not." Ricky started facing her squarely since he was sitting direct opposite her. "You want us toe to a dinner party where you are going out with your soon to be ex-fianc¨¦ in front of his parents and his brother??!!" Ricky stated, staring at her wildly like she had started growing a second head. "Ok Araceli, not that I''m not up for some premium violence and everything, I mean you know I love drama and I literally live and work in if but babe think about this," "This is your family problems and this might be one of those private rich people''s dinner parties where they sort their weird life in the dust and keep it there just toe out looking like the happy magazine couple," Ricky said. "Ok Ricky is being over dramatic, even though, yes, he does have a point. Coming from a rich family, we all know that when we have a problem between families we sort it out between families, but now you are deciding to bring along you model friends and your suppose to be business rival, I don''t know Celi but it would throw me off as a parent though if I was in that position," Yandel said, staring at her in the eye for the first time since he arrived here, there was a weird glowy light in his eyes as he stared deeply at her, she could feel her inside turning as they kept staring at each other for what seemed like forever and she oddly didn''t mind the forever part. "I''m not over dramatic Mr low budget Keanu Reeves but the fact you consider us model worthy, I forgive you." Ricky went back to his fries. "But you are over dramatic," Amy added. "And you guess should kiss or fuck or something, we can''t have Ricky cutting the ice every single time you guys decide to fill this arcade up with your sexual tension," Amy said without staring up to look at both of them which left both lf them iplete shock, Yandel choked a bit while Rachel face just grew warmer give her checks a little tint of red, it was at moments like this she was Thankful that Araceli was italian, I guess being in her body did have it''s perks. "I thought we weren''t supposed to bring that up," Ricky said, hitting Amy on her hand for the first time. "Ouch" "Wait, so you guys aren''t gonna say anything about it?!," Ricky asked, looking at both of them as if they lost their minds. "You mean you were just gonna keep having sexual tensions every two seconds till you are all grey and fragile like y,mon guys, you only get this good a deal once a lifetime, I mean, my hot ass of a boyfriend dated a french millionaire son and now all he wants is me, that was too good a deal to pass," Ricky said, crossing his arms and resting back on the chair looking between the two of them who were within a feet of each other yet didn''t want to say a thing. "Ok another time then," Ricky gave up. "Look, even though you guys have your doubts on Araceli''s n, I think I understand why she wants us to be there, I mean, his family will be there, his brother and Alice, and there will be no one to support her, all she has is her parents who just knows about the cheating video, but we know alot more and we can pose more of a threat to Xander to not release the rape video," Amy reasoned. "Wait a sec, what rape video?," Yandel asked, staring apprehensively between all of them. "Ehm I will fill you inter," Rachel replied, even though she personally had no intentions of showing him the video, at least not anytime soon. "Ace ising over," Ricky said, causing Araceli to look back and Ace was running towards them. "Heyyy, Yandel, you came!!" "Hey buddy, are you having fun?," Yandel asked, rubbing his slightly greasy hair from ying around. "Yeah!!" Ace eximed. "You guys aren''t gonna join us?," "The twins and I are having so much fun and I''m beating their asses clean," Ace said, with so much adrenaline pumping through him. "Language," Rachel warned. "Sorry, I''m ridiculing their gaming skills and making them feel agony of losing to a nine year old," Ace corrected. "Wow¡­" Ricky Muttered under his breath, for a nine years old kid, he definitely had a big mouth. "Aren''t you guys gonna y?," Ace asked them. "We will, as a matter of fact Araceli is going to y now with you," Amy said, with a sweet smile staring at Araceli who''s eyes widened at the false acim, Amy wanted to interrogate yandel alone without Araceli being there and she couldn''t do that if she was here so she decided to sell her out so they could be alone with Yandel. "Alright then, let''s go let''s go!!!" Ace yelled, excitedly drawing at Rachel''s arms pulling her up from the chair, she gave Amy a death look before leaving the table to the other side of the arcade "Yandel you going toe to right?," Ace stopped in his tracks to ask. "Definitely kiddo, I''m right behind you," Yandel said, with a big smile. You could see that he really cared for the kid and he wasn''t faking it. "Okay!!!" "We will be shooting loops in the basketball ring thingy," Ace yelled back over the noise pulling Rachel deeper into the Arcade. "For y''all to sell out your friend like that, you must really want to talk to me alone, so what''s up?," Yandel said, staring at both of them. "Oh so now he chooses to be confident...tch" Ricky said, removing his hair from his eyes. "Look, we have heard Araceli''s side of the story but we haven''t heard yours, we don''t know why exactly she doesn''t want to tell us everything so we want to hear your side of the story, now spill" Amy said, cutting to the chase. "Ok so the thing is I really, really like Araceli and we have kind of been business rivals since she was 21 and she took over the firm, she was meek, calm and very quiet, quite passive aggressive, you wouldn''t even have the split idea fhat she could hurt a fly¡­" Yandel was saying before he got to finish his sub story, he got interrupted by a shocked looking Amy. "Wait, what the actually fuck are you saying?" Amy asked, in total shock. "That Araceli was nice, calm, meek, quiet??" Amy asked, lt didn''t add up. "Araceli is a straight up hoodlum, her clear skin and fire looks is what gave away the fact that she might be from a rich home," Ricky said. "Exactly!!!" "I have known Araceli since I was 14, when our parents started taking us to cocktail parties thrown by big business men and women to celebrate silly things like new acquisition orunching brands or just casual fundraisers, I have know Araceli since we started dress ups and cocktail parties, we were introduced to the business world the same time, we both went to the same business schools, she was always quiet and timid and let people run over her, I started teasing her then with words trying to get a reaction from her every time but she always kept to herself, fast forward to few months ago, Araceli''s she was more fierce, determined, smarter, more outgoing, it was like she suddenly developed a whole new energy, an aura that attracted so many people to her now, since then, I have falling for her." This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. Yandel finished. "Wow¡­" Ricky said to no one exactly. "I still can''t stomach the thought that Araceli was once meek and quiet, she seems so outgoing and confident in herself that I thought she was born with it," "I also found it hard to believe but what can I say, I love the new her." Yandel took ast go at his coke before pushing it to the center of the table. "We should join them soon, before Ace decides toe here himself¡­" Chapter 47 The bet Chapter 47 The bet "We should join them soon, before Ace decides toe here himself¡­" All three of them stood up and joined them to y different games which went down with Rachel and Yandel being allpetitive with each, and it wasn''t the cute type ofpetition, it was the bowling alley section when they formed three groups, Amy and Ricky, Yandel, Rachel and Ace and the twins, they debated having an official lunch before or after the game but then after the game won the vote and the team with the lowest points got to pay for lunch. Yandel and Rachel went to get the bowling shoes for them while the rest waited by the benches close to the pit. "Hey afternoon ma''am" Yandel greeted the mid fifty looking woman behind the counter, he didn''t expect such an elderly woman to work in a ce like this, at l¨¦ast not the counter. "I know what you are thinking, I''m just covering for my son who had an ident, he doesn''t know I''m doing this, he needs this money for the bike he so badly wants to buy," The woman smiled so genuinely melted his heart and brought some tears to Rachel''s eyes. "That''s so sweet of you ma''am, I hope he gets better soon," Yandel said. "Yeah, we wish him a very quick recovery," Rachel added. "Thank you so much," The woman replied. "My name is Ang by the way, how can I help you today?," the woman asked. "I''m Yandel, and this is Araceli," Yandel introduced. "We will like three size forty three and three size forty," Yandel ordered. "Alright then, I will get it for you right away," Ang went to the back of the counter. She came out with a rack holding six pairs of shoes. "Thanks so much," Yandel said, collecting it from her. "You are wee dear," Ang smiled sweetly at them as they took the shoes back to the group, Emily and ethan were talking to Ace who seemed to be exin something and from his over exaggerated hand description, it was probably one of his favorite movies, probably spider man or some marvel movie or the movie with dinosaur. "I see y''all getting along fine," Rachel said, staring at Ace who still had all of Ethan''s attention wrapped around his little hands and Emily was justughing. "Hey Araceli, you brother is so OP," Ethan said, patting Ace''s back. "So you guys saw the lego movie together?," "When were you gonna tell us?," Emily asked, folding her hands, staring at Yandel who had a nervous smile on his face. "Ok seems like some quality family drama so I''ll just go meet Amy and Rick, I have had my fair share of family drama," Rachel said, with the intent of slipping away trying to avoid the ongoing drama. "Oh no, stay right here Araceli," Emily said, looking at her mischievously. "It''s best you don''t cross her or make her more pissed," Yandel whispered in Rachel''s ear. Rick and Amy came closer as they saw that Yandel and Araceli were being apprehended. "TELL ME ALL THE JUICY NOW," Emily emphasized on every word, she never knew that her brother had gone on a date already and he didn''t even think of telling her. "It wasn''t really a date," Rachel said, trying to clear the air, she had a very scary aura for someone who smiled so sweetly at her just a few minutes before. " Yeah, It wasn''t a date," Yandel agreed. "Oh so you guys just happened to meet up at the same cinema and watched the same movie huh?," Emily said, getting her nerves stepped on pissed her off. "Well the thing is that Ace and I were going to watch The Lego Movie while we met Yandel and Maya there who were also going to see a different movie and somehow we ended up watching the same movie with a very pissed off Maya," Rachel exined. "I swear it wasn''t a date even though it sounded like it," Rachel added. "Exactly what she¡­.Wait what?!!!" Yandel pursed as he processed everything she said, especially the maya part, "What the hell do you mean by a very pissed off Maya?," Yandel asked. "Ohh so he still hasn''t figured it out, has he?," Emily said, pping her hands on her forehead as she shakes her head side to side. "I don''t think he has figured it out," Rachel said, chuckling sadly. "Figured what out, what the hell are you guys talking about?," Yandel asked, looking between Emily and Araceli. "Maya likes you dumbo, she has always liked you if not been in love with you since we were kids," Emily said, rolling her eyes to how dumb her brother could be at times. All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. "What do you mean Maya likes me, she''s like a sister to me, she has been my best friend since we were six," Yandelughed incredulously at the silly ims. "Wow Yandel¡­" "How could you not see it, she literally moved half of the world to school in the same boarding school with you in london, she always made you guys wear a couples costume every halloween, she turned down every guy in homing and prom to stay with you just because you didn''t want to go, she abandoned cooking school which was her dream to apply business school and after that she always wanted to be around you and fanned off every girl that came for you," Emily got tired of listing the ever going list of signs that Maya was into her brother. "The way she looks at you whenever you are dressed and you are going to work!!" Emily eximed. "Wow...you are right, he really is dense" Amy said to Rick who just collect a Hundred bucks from Amy and pocketed it, turned out Amy and Rick had a bet that Yandel was dense and was the kinda guy who wouldn''t even know when a girl was trying to get with him, he was just bound to remain oblivious while Amy being sweet Amy thought he was just a little shy and needed a little push. "Wait, you guys bet on my brother?," Emily asked, curiously. "Yeah, we bet on everything, everybody" "That''s how we got some of our dinners and transport home," Ricky said, chuckling at the good old times when they were both jobless and lived off ramen and Amy''s handjob services in public restrooms. "Damn, I like you guys already," "What did you guys bet on?," Emily asked. "Well we had a conversation with Yandel¡­" "I''m right here guy, Right fucking here" Yandel Deadpanned. "Language Baldwin" Rachel warned, looking at Ace who was still engrossed in a conversation with Ethan. "Anddddd I made a bet that Yanny here was just dense and oblivious to signs and Amy here had otherwise to say that he was just shy and needed a little push," Ricky said,ughing at a hundred dor less Amy who wasn''t having any of Ricky''s victory p in the face, she headed to the bench to put on her bowling shoes. "Damn¡­" Rachel muttered. "Alright, that said and done, we should start bowling, we only rented these shoes for an hour so we should make most of it, instead of talking of Yandel''s blindness," Amy said, as she stood up, she felt the grip of her shoes and she got into her game mode, she has already lost a hundred buck to Ricky, she couldn''t afford to also pay the meals of seven people. "Yeah, as much as I would like to scold her for being rude, I have to agree with her we need to start this so we can eat because I''m already feeling like I can eat a whole zebra," Ricky said. "Seriously??" "You had three bowls of fries and two cans of coke," Rachel said, shocked that he could still feel hunger again. "What can I say, my metabolism works faster and helps me bet more urately," Ricky said, staring purposely at Amy who rolled her eyes and headed to take the first bowling ball. "You are lucky we are in the same group, I would have loved to watch you pay for the meals," Amy said, rolling the first one knocking all the pins down at one go. "Well go thing you can y bowling because my skills are shit," Ricky said, blowing her a kiss just to vex her. The game went on with Amy and Ricky winning, leading with so many points that thest two groups points added together still didn''t reach their score. They went on for an extra hour and it was already obvious that Yandel and Rachel were going to pay for their lunch because their skills were no good, the only way they weren''t going to pay for lunch was if they hit aplete knock down twice. Yandel finally had hisplete knock down which they both celebrated with a ssic handshake they made up when they started the game, Now it came down to Rachel making the shot, she felt him His breath down her neck made her skin tingle as she felt his heat radiating all over her, she couldn''t deny that she didn''t like the feeling of having him hold her like that... Chapter 48 Rachel past Memories Chapter 48 Rachel past Memories "You got this," Yandel whispered in her ear, as he gentle brushed her hair behind her ears, she could hear a faint woo from someone probably Ricky but right now all she felt was Yandel''s hand around her and his steady heart beat, it all felt to real slowing down time taking a deep breath, she took the shot, she watched it roll slowly down towards the gutter before rolling back to the center knocking down all the pins. A huge surge of happiness consumed her as she squealed shouting yes, she turned around and jumped on Yandel who was also wearing a wide grin on his face, he lifted her up as swung her around and she she kissed him on the check not really registering what she just did, but in that very moment, it all felt right, Yandel''s deep voice deep in her ears and his strong arms around her as he spinned her around before dropping her back on the floor, after the whole victory celebration dance they both turned back to the group to see all of them staring at them with a smile on their face while Emily was taking a video of them with a mischievous smile on her face. "Honestly I would have said get a room but I really will love to see you guys fuck each other like sex starved rabbits that you are," Ricky said, whistling and pping at them. "As perverted as that sounded, I agree with Ricky, that was hot and cute at the same time," Emily said, smiling at both of them, Araceli was really pretty and she knew she will make her brother happy but she didn''t know why she couldn''t get with her brother, he was responsible enough, charming, bared a striking resemnce to Keanu Reeves and everyone knows this, she still just couldn''tprehend why they wouldn''t get together. They all finally got their bowling shoes off and Yandel and Araceli went back to Ang to hand them over since they were due for the one hour rent they paid for. "Hey, you are back, did you have fun?," Ang asked as the smile on her face wrinkled the side of her eyes. "Yeah, we are done, thanks" Yandel said, collecting the remaining shoes from Araceli and handing it back the her, Rachel took the time to survey the whole bowling hall, they were about nine bowling alley all wooden brown in color, it reminded her of when he mom and her boyfriend then will take them to the bowling alley outside town every friday after school to y bowling and eat ice cream, she would always order a cookie dough ice cream or chocte chips ice cream while her sister was more on the iner side taking vani and strawberries. They stoppeding to the bowling alley when their mom''s boyfriend lost his job and became an Alcoholic, She started working extra shifts at the hospital in order to cover up and pay up for her and her boyfriend but he got toofortable and stopped looking for drugs before the big fight happened thatnded her in the hospital. It was her sophomore year in highschool and she wasgging behind in alot of sses because she needed to support her mom, she didn''t have a problem withgging though because she knew she was smart and she would catch upter, she went to the local club two streets away to watch some street band perform their entire album and eventually darkness caught her at the spot, leaving there at 7 30 she knew she was screwed but nheless it was worth it because the band was lit. On reaching home, she could hear voices from afar, she heard her mother screaming and that put her on alert, she quickly ran towards the door only to find her sister crying, she had a little cut just above her eyes. "Hey what''s going on?, where''s mom? And who did this to you ?," Rachel questioned, she was already running on adrenaline, she always protected her sister even in school from bullying, she couldn''t let the person get away with it. "It''s...it''s Jason," Cara said, sniffing. The blood was already dried to her face and she had eye bags under her eye of her pale white face, she looked like she hadn''t slept or eaten in three days. "Jason?!!!" Rachel raged. Since he lost his job he has been acting like a dick, bossing them around their own house and now he has the audacity to hurt his sister, she wasn''t going to let him get away with it. "Where''s Mom?," Rachel asked again, this time louder. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. "She''s inside fighting with him, she told me to wait outside and should not let you enter inside when youe till she opens the door for us toe in," Cara said, in a very weak and frail voice, the cold was definitely getting to her and if she didn''t get her inside now, she might end up with a very bad cold. "Bullshit¡­" Rachel muttered under her breath. She searched the pots in front of the house holding dead unattended nts, she found the spare she hid there whenever she needed to sneak back home from a party. She used the back door to get in and the noise of a crying woman pierced through the air the moment she stepped in making her freeze in a spot for some seconds, she knew that was her mother''s voice because she had heard that same cry of pain from her mother screaming in pain when the police announced that her father died in a car crash. Her brain went into an overdrive as she took a roller used to tten dough by her mom, and followed the voice from the argument. There was a blood ssh on the wall which showed someone was definitely injured badly and she wikifeet silently that it was Jason and not her mother''s. It didn''t take her long to find them in the sitting room, my mom had a bloody face and a knife in her hands with broken sses all over the floor, the bastard didn''t have any injury on him and this made Rachel super pissed, she ran straight for Jason and jumped over him even though they were broken sses all over the ground and he could throw her on it, she didn''t care, no one hurts her family member and gets away with it. He swung her around trying to get rid of her off his back, she could hear her mom screaming at her to get out of the house but it was tote, he used enough force to flung her towards the wall where she crashed against frame of their family vacation when she was 10, blood filled her ears making her not to hear well but she didn''t care, she stumbled to her feet and went for him again before she was able to dropped the nice and ran towards her holding her asking if she was ok. Before she could reply she started seeing ck dots soiling her vision and a sharp pain at her abdomen, she tried moving but the pain increased by a hundred fold. She didn''t need a soothsayer to tell her that the ss had pierced her. Her mother''s gasp and shrill screams proved the thoughts in her head as she slowly started to feel consciousness slip between her fingers, her mom kept going in and out of focus as she tried gasping for air but her vision instead got pitch ck. "Heyyy" she felt hand shake her as she turned around to look at Yandel. "Are you ok?," Yandel asked, a look of worry creasing his face. "Yeah I''m fine, just got lost in thoughts," Rachel replied. "You guys make a really cute couple," Ang said, smiling at both of them... Chapter 49 Makes a cute couple Chapter 49 Makes a cute couple "You guys make a really cute couple," Ang said, smiling at both of them. A huge pause reigned over them as they both stared awkwardly at each other then at Ang who didn''t catch the awkward cue, instead continued smiling sweetly at both of them as if it was a totally normal thing to do. Yandel looked back at Rachel who had a small smile on her face, she really looked prettier in casual clothes than she did in her business attire. From the little show they put on back at the bowling site, his hands still felt warm, he knew he was nowhere near getting over this woman, and at the same time, he couldn''t afford to lose what they had as friends, thinking back to all the times he had treated her badly or mocked her reserved and timid character. First time he legit saw her was at a fundraiser back in Berlin where she went with her parents, they were both fresh grads from the top notch business school all their parents went to. He was with Maya as his date and she was able to attend because her Father owned one of the top business firms in the All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. world and ranked Number 9 at the top most powerful businessmen in the world. Araceli made a grand entrance at the biggest fundraiser with her parents. The Gracias were amongst the top 3rd most feared and respected businesses in the world and his family was ranked the 5th. But for a family that was amongst the PILLARS OF WEALTH, the Gracias were pretty much a simple family, they had the best entrances and didn''t do too much media, and only people who went to school Araceli knew about her as their daughter. But yet for such a powerful family, Araceli turned out to be meek, shy and very withdrawn. Even in sses, she never spoke much and had little to no friends. This and something that lingered in Yandels heart irritated and angered him to his core, So he personally decided to bring her out of herfort zone by making fun of her and trying to make her as ufortable as possible. After the meet and greet with hypocritic rich people in the business world alongside his parents, they were finally going to talk to the pirs of wealth known as POW(but pronounced as ''power''). This was like a tradition with families in the business world, before denoting crazy amount of money to invincible causes and drawing them back from poor masses, they went around to greet the top notch business families for greetings, fake kisses on the cheek and pretending not to detest each other for being ahead or for have more power and influence than they did. They finally were going to meet the top 3, they first met up with the Millers, An overly southern old money family who probably got most of their old money from ve trade back in the seventeenth century or even way back, they had just two sons; Alexander and Philips and from rumours, they were both stuck up assholes as expected, they didn''t go to the same business school as he, Araceli or the Azariah did but they went to other prestige business schools in Europe. Their mother had a very dense southern ent and always smiled way too much. It felt creepy and unnecessary, the greetings didn''tst long because his mom couldn''t stand them, they were also rumoured to be racist and his mother was French. They went ahead to meet the Gracia''s, they were all Italians with thick ent except for Araceli who had schooled in Europe and northern America most parts of her life so she skipped on the heavy ent, to be honest he didn''t have any problem with the Garcia''s because out of the top 3, they were the mostid back, they have a bunch of business around the world which tackled the major issues faced in many countries around the world, like Transportation in India, electricity in eastern africa and water and security in northern African, Food in mid Europe and alot more, they were a very tactical family that conquered by division, and they weren''t just a little family of four, they operated with extended families and this is what made them one of the most powerful family. "Mr and Mrs Gracia" Mr Baldwin said, giving him both of them kisses on the cheek and his mother followed suit as they fell into a conversation naturally leaving just him and Araceli. "Well??" Yandel said, looking at Araceli who just avoided eye contact with him and focused more on her champagne in her left hand. She was dating a ck jumpsuit with a V opening with a bunch of probably real gold chains hanging from side to side of the V opening on her chest showing cleavage. Somehow, she managed to rock the outfit confidently and yet still looked ufortable like she had been dragged here. I mean it''s not like any of them looked forward to asions like this, because it was an almost pointless asion, it was just an excuse for rich people to disy their wealth and clothes and fake their interest in fews hours till they went back to their normal day to day life. "I don''t want to talk to you Yandel, find something worth nothing doing and just do that already, I''m already stressed as it is," Araceli said, in a quiet voice. Her voice was always soft and melodic, it''s like it slips out of her mouth in key, it was his guilty pleasure, winding her up just so he could hear her speak. "That''s the exact reason I''m trying to talk to you, but it seems even you are clueless to this fact," Yandel mocked, her eyes shed with hurt as he said this words and for a moment he felt bad but pushed the feeling away, soon her expression went back to being calm. "Alright, I''m not tolerating yourpany today, I need to go get another ss," Araceli walked away from her parents, even though she knew it meant throwing herself into the lion den of people messed up by riches and power, she didn''t mind as long as it got her far away from Yandel who had made a habit of rilling her up anytime they met or tried to make her seem or look stupid, she knew she would be fine as long as she smiled and acted nicely to people who tried to talk or make little conversations with her. "You didn''t think I would let you just slip away now, did you," Yandel appeared by her side, linking their arms. She groaned internally while keeping a totally calm exterior, something she learnt off years of practice, her Mom always told her to keep a calm expression no matter the situation, that it made people annoyed, "Never give in to the reaction people want to draw from you, it annoys them when you keep calm and show them they have little to no power over you," Her mother told her, every time they needed to make public appearance since she was a kid. So in respect to all she had learnt as a kid, she didn''t give Yandel the reaction he wanted, instead, she let him keep his hands linked to hers while striding towards a waiter waiting with champagne. "You know you are a billionaire and a heiress right, they are supposed toe to you," Yandel said looking at her weirdly, he was a few good inches taller than her so she knew she would have to look up to him if she had to look at him, so she said nothing and kept looking at her target. "You are going to be the next heiress to your family, you need to act with power," Yandel Stated irritated, he unlinked their arms and looked at her. "I did this to get away from you, just kindly leave," Araceli said, quietly trying not to attract too much attention. "You don''t run away from your problems, you solve them," Those were Yandel''sst words before he left her alone. "Mom can you please leave them alone, you are making them feel weird," A boy in crutches said, "I''m just saying what I think, isn''t that not freedom of speech?," Ang said. "No Mom, that''s an invasion of privacy and you are making them feel weird," Her son said, rolling his eyes at his mother''s regr matchmaking attitude with strangers she knew nothing about. "I''m sorry, this is what she always does with strangers, trying to match make them, I don''t know if she thinks she''s cupid." The boy in crutches apologized to both Yandel and Rachel. "No it''s fine, your mother is so sweet by the way, helping you with your work," Rachel replied smiling. "Yeah, she''s a sweet woman," the boy said, hugging his mother with one hand that was no longer holding the crutches. "I''m Mika by the way," the boy said smiling. "I''m Ra...Araceli, and this is Yandel," Rachel said, as she looked at Yandel to see if she noticed her slip up. "Nice to meet you too," Mika said. They went back to meet the bunch. As they went back, she didn''t see Ace which had her panicked a bit as before she was told that the twins took him for Ice cream. Her iphone started ringing before she checked it to see her mom calling her. "Hello Mom," "Sweetheart, Have you heard?" Her Mom said. "Heard what?," Rachel asked, a little rmed. "The Millers are throwing a fundraiser tomorrow at Greend hall, so we might have to postpone the dinner till Sunday," Her Mom said. "A fundraiser?!!" "Out of nowhere?" "Mom isn''t that weird?" Rachel asked. "They said it was ast minute n and we need to attend it honey," Mrs Garcia said. "Alright Mom," "Bye." "What is it?" Yandel asked. "The Millers are throwing a fundraiser tomorrow. We were supposed to have dinner, out of the blue," Rachel said. And she knew who was behind this... Chapter 50 Alices new plan Chapter 50 Alice''s new n Xander sat deepin thoughts in his office, tomorrow was the dinner between his family and the Garcia''s, and he couldn''t lie, anytime he thought about the mere thought, he felt sick in his stomach and a dark cloud of dread over his head, He could clear hear his Dad''s voice in his head and he could remember the day he was told he would be engaged. "Dad...you called me?" Xander said, as he stood at the entrance of his Father''s study, the doors were made of huge dark mahogany wood with some ancient carvings on it, the whole house itself was two century years old owned by his great great great great grandpa Miller, he built the house of smart taxes and IFF rates then ording to his grandfather, the house was passed down the line from son to son, even though they still had several mansions in several cities and countries, this was the most visited one. He didn''t bond well with his father while growing up due to his father always running the business and sometimes his mother would tag along leaving him and his brother to the whole mansion and fifteen maids to take care of them. "Alexander came sit, would'' ya," His father said in a heavy ent he was pretty happy he didn''t take after because it sounded ridiculous to him and would have probably been in a fits ofughter if it wasn''t his father that was talking. "Yes sir," Xander answered, walking up to the huge mahogany table filled with documents and an old desktop his father never changed, he knew his father was stone hearted and old schooled, ifhe messed up, he would probably throw him out at 21. "Did you like the fundraiser asion I took you and your brother to?," Mr Miller asked, dropping his read sses to face Xander, he was spotting a properlyid back her that had many streak of white with a trimmed beard, his father still looked fit for someone in histe fifties. "Yes sir, I learnt alot from meeting with other young business heirs of my age and we share ideas and opinions about the present market and how to champion it," Xander said, exactly what his father wanted to hear, but there was still a look of unease in his demeanor. "But of course, I didn''t share my A n father, I''m not stupid, just contributed the basics," Xander added. A look of relief slowly reced the unease in his father''s face as he rested his back a little which made Xander sigh internally. Even though he was lying, he didn''t exactly meet with heirs or heiresses, or at least he was talking to young business person Alice Harvey, Mr White Harvey''s daughter and close friends of Araceli, Garcia''s daughter. And by sharing business ideas he meant sticking his tongue far down her throat after having about five sses of champagne. "Any girl caught your eye at the asion?," Mr Miller asked with a straight face staring directly into his soul which made his start sweating in ce he didn''t think were possible including the crack of his butt cheek making his rub his ass side to side on the leather seat causing disturbing squeaking sounds making his father get slightly irritated. "Will ya stop that boy and answer the goddamn question!!" Mr Miller said, staring at him looking partially irritated because of the sound he was making. "Ehm...Yes...No!!" "No, I mean No sir" Xander stumbled over his words and from the look on his father''s face, he was starting to get real pissed off at him for not being bold and precise, he was slowly losing his patience with him. "Okay¡­" Mr Miller took a deep breath before asking another question. "Did you notice the daughter of the Garcia''s?," The question only started making dread creep into him slowly, he had always known since he was little that he would have the luxury of choosing who he Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. wanted to be his partner. In his family, it has and will always be business and power first. "Yes sir, she looked very stunning in her dinner dress," Xander lied. "Dinner dress??," Mr Miller asked, squinting his eyes at him, making Xander very nervous, and he started rethinking everything he had said earlier "or was he caught Alice and now his father is trying to test him," Xander thought. "I don''t know what exactly she wore but I sure as hell know that it wasn''t a dinner dress," Mr Miller said. "Oh yeah, I think so," Xander said, quickly. "So I''m guessing you didn''t talk to her," Mr Miller said, putting his fingers on his bridge trying to relieve the stress. "No sir," Xander replied. "Just exchanged pleasantries and what a view, nothing major Father," Xander stated carefully trying to stumble on his words again. But he could see disappointment written clear as day on his father''s face which meant this was one of those situations where he was supposed to automatically know what his father wanted and act ordingly. Ever since he was five, he got to understand the egocentric, self centered man who was his father, he never really yed with them when they were little, and the moment Xander knew who to read, write and reason, business was introduced to him not love, maybe that''s why he settled for Alice, even with his messed up mind, she still agreed to have sex and make out with him. "Ya know, girls like Araceli are girls you should go after, sad the Azariah''s are fine raising a lesbian and a gay child, they would have been the perfect target," Mr Miller said, itching his stubbles before reaching for his drawer and taking a half smoked cigar and lit it up, taking a deep inhale and them a relieving exhale. "Target??" Xander questioned, confused, what did his father mean by target¡­ "Ya target ya slow mu¡­" Mr Miller said coughly slightly before continuing. "Mump is what you meant to say right," Xander muttered bitterly more to himself than to his father but forgets his father had sharp ears. "Ya dummy, shit I''m gettin too old for all this crap pile of shit," Mr Miller said, heading to the window to take a deep breath. "You are going to get engaged to Araceli Garcia, we are going to make a joint wealth scheme, and be the most powerful family in the business world, the Azariahs wouldn''t evene close." Mr Miller said, while staring into the vast field of flowers smiling to himself. "But I¡­" Xander stood up, trying to object, he didn''t want his life dictated for him. "No buts son, you either marry her or lose your position as heir and next CEO to your brother," "Now leave" Mr Miller said, with an authoritative tone. "Babe??" "Babe!!!!" Alice shouted, shaking him vigorously dragging him out of the deep thought he was in, his eyes still didn''te to focus just yet, he rubbed his eyes on his face taking a deep breath before facing her. "How did you get in?," Xander asked, looking at her with a confused expression. "Seriously??" "Are you for real, Ie to your office to find you deep in thoughts that are bringing you pain and the first thing you ask me is "how did i get in"...." "Well shit Xander, I flew off a fucking space jet andnded right through your fucking windows," Alice replied, more bitterness than sarcasm. "I''m sorry, just a little shaken up," Xander said, standing up to give her a kiss but she wasn''t having any of it. "I''m sorry babe but I''m really stressed, the dinner is tomorrow, I could lose my life, my father could finally call the waste he had always wanted to call me and I swear my younger brother will fucking love that," Xander said,ughing bitterly as he went back to his desk to drink his already cold coffee but not that he cared any fucking bit. Alice walked towards Xander and wrapped her hands around his waist and kissed his neck gently while snaking her hands towards his crotch, feeling him getting hard as she continued to stroke him through his clothes. Turning around their lips met with fierceness and need, Xander didn''t hesitate to insert his tongue in her mouth tasting a bit of her lipstick, he groping her butts through her dress, he grabbed her and put her on his desk raising her gown up exposing her tanned thighs, he slowed inched towards her coochie but she stopped him. "Now calm down tiger, we all need this but we need to find a n that will help us get away from this dinner," Alice said. "Can''t you say it after we are done??" Xander whined, kissing her neck. "Nooo listen, you are releasing a new product right?" Alice asked. "Yeah¡­" "Why don''t we throw emergency fundraiser event, that way, your mother will definitely cancel the dinner n, you know she has a thing for nning this events," "You are a genius babe¡­" Chapter 51 Becoming a tiger Chapter 51 Bing a tiger "You are a genius babe¡­" Xander whispered on her lips smiling. That was the perfect n, typically there is the unsaidw everyone knows. Once there is a fundraiser, every other n has to be canceled and business Moguls have to be in attendance even though it is on very short notice. Readjusting his shirt and tucking in the lose part he left the front of the desk where he had ced Alice while making out, he went to sit on his sit to make a quick call to his mother to spread the word and start the nning, even though it was on short notice, he knew that was not going to be her focus, the mere thoughts of her nning the fundraiser will take her mind of it. All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. "No babe, we were in the middle of something," Alice whined, turning around to look at him on his seat with pouty lips hoping to make hime back and finish what he started, she was just getting in the mood and he just left her high and dry. "Babe I will be with you soon, I need to start making calls and nning, the fundraiser will be in the evening by six, so basically, we have barely over a day to y what we need to do." Xander took up his personal phone and dialed his mother''s private number. Alice huffed and came down from the table, she was tall for a woman but it was a surprise that with her 5''9 height, her legs weren''t even in contact with the ground while she was on the table. She adjusted her dress and smoothed the wrinkles on the side which were caused by Xander scoping up her gown to have more ess to her, headed to the restroom in his office to re apply her make and darker her fading red lipstick which matched her chili red above knee dress that had huge her features, which was one of the reasons she thanked God she was half Cuban, what other women did surgeries for, she had it all in the right amount, just enough to sway a man and make him turn around to have another look, yet she still chose Xander. Deep down, she knew the reason why she chose Xander and why she slowly developed hate for Araceli while they were growing up. She always believed Araceli had it easy, ever since they were in middle school in Yellowfield, Araceli was always picked on for being quiet, yet she remained the perfect angel she was. She could do no wrong in the teacher''s eyes, where ever she went, the name "Garcia" paved ways and skipped lines for her, like the time they were going for a private Avrilvinge concert back in freshman year, the tickets were not even on the shadiest of all shady website she knew, they couldn''t find tickets anywhere, and the no one wanted to sell their tickets at any amount. But the next day after the show, Araceli came back with pictures and videos from the show which made her one of the most popr girls in the school because the show was a limited edition, and only people who were fucking rich or powerful or both were in attendance, that was when she got to know who Araceli really was even though they had been friends since the first day of middle school. "OMG Ara, you really have to tell us how you got these tickets," Their group of five rallied around a shy looking Araceli who had never received that much attention before, not even from her parents. "I swear, I didn''t get the tickets, I was able to get them, I would have tried to get it for all five of us or not go at all," Araceli said meekly. "True," Daphan¨¦ said, who was one of the newest members of their group that just joined them "Yes, she''s right," they all murmured in response agreeing to Araceli, and as much as she hated to admit but it was true, Araceli was just a nice person like that, she could have thest te ofsagne in the cafeteria and give it out to a friend who really wanted it even though it was the most sought after dish in the cafeteria. "So how did you get the entrance permit then," another girl, Suzan asked. "Well a cousin of mine was really interested in attending the concert, so I told my Dad that I also wanted to go but couldn''t go because of the tickets were no longer in sale, then he made a few calls and then told me to attend it and just show them my ID before entering, that''s how I got in," Araceli narrated, the shock and disbelief on the girls faces didn''t end there, she was also very surprised, all it took to attend a concert that tight was to make a few calls...she then made a mental note of checking Araceli''sst name because that must be where the magic happened. After which she found out, Araceli''s parents were billionaires and she was the heiress. This was the difference between Araceli and She and Xander, Araceli grew up with her parent''s love and care, like a somewhat normal family, but she and Xander grew up to be ignored and businesses and works were prioritize over them and to make it worst, their parents made it look so normal like every other parents were doing same, and just a movie night with them was asking too much. A knock on the restroom door snapped her out of a train of unhealthy thoughts(yes, any and every thought about Araceli was unhealthy for her). "Babe," "I need you to cough twice if you are still breathing, because "A man''s lover and fianc¨¦e bestfriend dies in his restroom" doesn''t sound like the best headline I want to associated with my name," Xander said, from the other side of the door making her smile a bit before unlocking it. "Hey," Alice said, resting on the right post of the door, arching her hips out and giving him the best view of her. "Hey mami," Xander said, in a deeper voice than usual as lust started to cloud his eyes again and his erection was starting to be evident, somehow, the effect she had on Xander turned her on in return, call her narcissistic but she knew she was beautiful enough to be that narcissist. "Now easy boy, business first before pleasure," Alice said, putting a hand on his chest, just about his nipples before slowing sliding it down, making sure to touch it and excite him through his shirt, she could feel his heart pick up it''s heartbeat a little as he got closer to her, snaking his arms around her curvy waist, he brought her closer to him into the bubble of his very masc cologne she hade to like, it smelt like deep sandalwood in oud oil making his scent very edible right now, he can bring her closer to him till her breast were moulded against his chest and just the contact with his hardened chest hardened her nipples. "You are getting naughty tiger," Alice whispered in his ears as she snaked her hands down to his throbbing cock through his business trouser, she slowly started massaging it through his trousers while maintaining eye contact with him, his breath slowly started picking up before he pulled her ponytail back a bit to tilt her head giving his ess to her plump lips, the kiss was a hot and messy one that screamed the next thing going off are your clothes, the kisssted close to a few minutes, who was she kidding she could even tell if it was day or night, the pleasure was blinding her sense organs. Pushing her into the restroom, he closed the door with his feet while taking off his shoes without breaking the kiss. Turning her around so that she could face the mirror, he took the extension of her ponytail and kept it in between her boobs while unzipping the back of her gown with his teeth, his breath sent tingles down her spin as he reached the top of her butt crack, he ced a kiss there and went ahead to continue kissing the trail of his breath back up before taking her bra of exposing her brown and hardened nipples turning her around again, he put the nipples between his mouth while rubbing his tongue around it in circr motion while slowing stroking the other, her short breath gave him the right feedback he needed before he turned her back around and took off every piece of her clothes and his, he spanked her ass making her moan deeply before arching the ass out giving him a better view, he bent down and sat on his knees facing her pussy, tracing light kissing on the curls of hair leading to her warm pussy, he could hear here her breath getting shaking before he gave hisst order. "Don''t fall," "Yes pa..." she moaned deeply as his tongue came in contact with her outer flesh, sucking on it and moving to lick and flick her clits gentle making her knees buckle, she ced her legs on both side of his shoulder and held the counter, helping him to feast better, he kissed the outer skin, before using his tongue to reach the deep warmth of her V making her arch more and tremble, delivery strokes with his tongue that made her toes curl and her eyes roll to the back of her head, her stance became shaky and he knew it wasn''t long before she buckled and fell down on her knees, he stood up from under her which got him whines in return but instead of reassuring her with words, he slid two fingers into her wet pussy slowly and arched it upwards while using his thumb on her clit, she became a moaning mess as she arched her back giving him ess to more of her, she could feel his cock throbbing against her ass and she followed the rhythm, she couldn''t take it anymore, if she didn''t have that cock now, she could implode. "Fuck me," she moaned in between but he didn''t stop. "Fuck me now, pleaseee" she squirmed against his cock in between her but crack but he went faster rubbing against her clits with more speed, she was starting to lose her vision as ck spot started to appear in her sight and the lights started to spin in and out. "Please Xanny, fuck me disrespectful, I promise not to yell," Alice squirmed as he stopped fingering her and traced his hands up groping her breast before sticking his fingers into her mouth as she sucked on it desperately as she felt her entrance opening as he slowly slide his dick into her, she took a deep breath as he wasted no time in impaling her, her breathpletely left her as he continued pounding her by the neck, her vision at this point was non existent as she felt the pressure building with her, arching her back, she started thrust backwards to meet his trust, she couldn''t tell which did it whether it was his groans in her ear, or the fact that his cock started throbbing more in her and his hand stimting her nipples, in a starlight that struck her vision, they both came standing as her legs trembled along side his. Even Xander couldn''t keep his stance, they both melted to the floor like wax without him pulling out, their breath were like that of a racing horse as he couldn''t deal with breathing his nose, so he used his mouth, hold her in his arms as they sat down on the restroom floor tile which was cold against his butt. Slowly standing up, Alice legs trembled from the after effect of one of the best sex she has ever had, she turned around to meet his eyes and they bothughed as she walked like a baby using it''s two feets for the first time. "The best so far?," Xander asked, as he stood up to wash his hands and dried it with a towel. "One of the best definitely," Alice said, still a little out of breath. "You are turning into one hell of a beast you know," Alice said, smiling at him as she slid her pants up her thighs. "Are youining dear?," Xander smirked. "Oh no, I''m up any day you feel like destroying me or making me feel worthless," Alice said, cing a kiss on his lips before turning around to find her bra but Xander took the opportunity to p her ass earning him a moan. "Damn girl, now that''s the jingle I want for Christmas," Xander said, winking at her. "Let''s pull through tomorrow first, what did you mom say by the way?," Alice asked, as he signaled him toe zip her up, cing a kiss on her neck as he came close to her "Well she was excited or though she wanted to know why on a short note but I maneuvered her around it, and let her get on it quick which she was d to by the way," Xander replied, zipping her up. "Well it only gets better from here, I hope" Alice said, sighing. "It does," He said, giving her a peck on the forehead. Chapter 52 Rickys unfiltered mouth Chapter 52 Ricky''s unfiltered mouth Rachel, Amy, Ricky and Yandel exited the bowling alley which led to the parking lot, it was thirty five minutes past five and the twins were not yet back from the ice cream shop. "Are you sure your siblings didn''t kidnap my brother?," Rachel said, getting worried as she looked at the time again and looked into the parking lot, Yandel''s car was still absent from the space it initially upied and people had already started to leave the arcade as the drive back into the city was another fifteen minutes journey. "Why are you so worried? By the way, the twins look wild but I''m sure they are responsible enough to take care of a kid with them." Amy said, checking her feeds on Instagram. "Yeah, I mean, worsees to worse we involve the police, where else can he go," Ricky patted her on the shoulder as he reassured her that Ace will be fine. "Hey guys, just got off the phone with Emily, they went shopping for tonight''s dinner and Ace said he wants to spend the night with us," Yandel said. "Can he??" Yandel asked, pouting his lips and putting his palm under his chin in an attempt to look cute and let Ace stay at their ce, this brought a smile to her face as she chuckled at Yandel''s attempt at a sad puppy look. "That''s not cute please, don''t try it again," Rachel said,ughing. "Come on guys, I know she''s never gonna admit, That was cute right?," Yandel asked Amy and Ricky. "I mean, I will fuck you if that is what you meant," Ricky smirked looking at him in the eyes making him choke a little on his own saliva. "Ricky!!!" Amy eximed, pping his arms earning her whining from Ricky. "Whatttt, why do you always p me, your hands are like made of steel," Ricky whined, rubbing the part of his arm he was pped through his shirt. "Because he asked a simple question and you just had to be perverted in your own miserable way," "Well he asked for my honest opinion, didn''t he Araceli?," Ricky asked Araceli. "Oh please leave me out of this, I''m already stressed as it is," Rachel said, looking at the entrance that led into the parking lot. "Common Araceli, you should try to chill a bit, they already told us where they went and what time to expect them," Ricky said. "I think I understand why she''s still stressed out," Yandel said, looking away into the soon to be empty packing and three of them turned to him before hey turned back around to meet her eyes. "Remember when we lost him at the cinema and we had to involve the police because we got so scared, thinking about it now, Maya left the cinema right before Ace left, she should have seen him This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. right?," Yandel''s face hit with a dawn of realization. He didn''t really didn''t think about it but now it made some sense, Maya was pissed at him even though he was oblivious to it even though everyone else saw it as clear as day, she left the cinema right after the movie ended and that was about the same time Ace stood up to leave. "Yeah, but then again, maybe she might have followed a different route, I mean she is your childhood friend, she can be petty sometimes when she doesn''t get what she wants," Yandel said. "Well that sounds like a first degree psychopath with a significant amount of home training to hide it," Rickymented. "Hey, she''s a great girl, I have known her since we were kids," Yandel defended her. Even though he knew how petty and defensive Maya could be, she definitely had her nicer parts, like how caring she was, and how she took care of the twins when he was still in boarding school. "Can we talk about more pressing matters like Xander is throwing a fucking fundraiser to avoid the dinner, so now we have to attend the fundraiser," Rachel said, still pissed off. "Do we necessarily have toe though, I mean, I have got a date night with my boyfriend, he''s gonna be pissed if I postpone it again," Ricky exined, he didn''t want to be the one wasn''t making an effort, he already turned down the reserved meal in a cute restaurantst friday to hang out with Araceli and Amy, he can''t even skip this one, he might throw a fit. "Well you cane with him, I mean you guys can suit up and Amy I would give you a nice dress, y''all cane, and Yandel¡­" Rachel took a purse, still debating what the consequences of her action will be asking Yandel to be her date for the night, he could spark up some heat that the golden couple were no longer that golden anymore but honestly she didn''t care. "Will you be my date for the event?," Rachel asked. This question took them all by surprise as Amy''s mouth hung open while Yandel just kept blinking repeatedly. She had a fianc¨¦ so he didn''t get why of all people she chose him to be her date for the night. "But your fianc¨¦¡­" Yandel started, he couldn''t afford to be dragged in between the drama Xander and Araceli had going on, he already had his own shit going on with the whole Maya issue he just thought about now and his parents finally pulling outpletely from the business leaving everything to him to handle. "Don''t worry about him, I will handle him," Rachel assured him, she honestly didn''t want to be alone because she feared she didn''t know what else they had nned and she wanted to avoid walking into their trap by all cost. "You know this is a billionaire event and we are totally going to feel out of ce right?," Amy asked, resting bezide where Rachel was resting. "I know, I know, I''m just scared alright, they changed the game now and I don''t feel safe there, that''s why I need you guys there, because for all I know, I could be walking right into the Lion''s den!" Rachel eximed, as she was starting to get short breaths and worked up. "Hey hey, breathe alright, just breathe," Yandel hugged her as he saw that she was warming up to a panic attack. Emily used to have this kind of attacks when she was younger even though it didn''t make much sense, she was always the strongest twin amongst the two, she always looked after her brother and herself and tried her best to keep up with their parents whereabouts, she was strong like that. But one day in 10th grade after homing, she came home lost in thoughts and shaken up, no one knew why and even ethan was pretty much oblivious to why it was so, he also kept asking her what was wrong but she gave the same reply saying that she was fine either way. After a while of pushing her dinner around, she decided to go bed but ended up having a panic attack right on the table, she started hyperventting and panting before he realized that she was having a panic attack, so they gave her some space and let her calm down, after which she retired to bed without saying a word and the next day, she pretended like the previous day never happened. "I haven''t had these things before, they just startedst week," Rachel said into Yandel''s shirt as he continued to rub her back in circr motion. "You will be a fine girl, we are here for you and we will go nowhere till you are good," Ricky assured her. "Yeah, we are here for you Aracel," Amy added. "Don''t worry, you can cry into his shirt and ruin it, y''all got money so it''s not really that big of a deal, I mean, if it was me, honey I would have bitch pped those tears back where they came from," Ricky humored. "Ricky!!!" Yandel and Amy shouted at the same time causing Araceli tough into Yandel''s shirt. "You are so exhausting I swear," Amy said, before trying to p him on the arm only this time, he was prepared and dodged it before it could make contact with. "How you like me now huh," Ricky said, skipping around her like a bunny. "God you are so hyper for someone who is almost 25years of age," Amy said, rolling her eyes. "What do you expect me to be,te Agnes with cats for ages,e on sweetheart, the balls don''t catch themselves now do they," Ricky said before looking straight ahead of the parking lot as a ck car drove in, Yandel and Araceli were still locked in an embrace and they looked tofortable to break them apart so he just let them be as he signaled Amy to get into into a bolt so they can drive off since they came with Araceli''s car. "You guys are leaving already??" Araceli asked, leaving the warm embrace Yandel had provided for her. "Yeah, got to meet up with my boyfriend and she got the night shift," Ricky said, throwing a salute sign their way and waving at the twins from inside the car. "I could give you a ride home," Yandel offered. "No honey, get your dick wet instead," Ricky said, winking at him before getting into the car with Amy. "Does he really have no filter?," Yandel thought out loud. "Nope, not even a thinnestyer of it," Rachel replied,ughing. That was one of the reasons why they became fast friends in a short period of time. He was so real and didn''t give two shits. If they were both billionaires, he would bitch p both of them if he needed to. Chapter 53 licking ice cream off her lips Chapter 53 licking ice cream off her lips Ace came down from the car still actively talking to Ethan as they came down from the car, Emily just keptughing and giggling as they inched towards them, they held white polythene bags in their hands as they met up with them. "Ricky and Amy aren''ting over?," Ethan asked as he saw their ride zoom off. "Oh no, one has to see his needful boyfriend and the other has to work night shifts," Rachel rified to both of them. "Yandel, did you ask her please?," Ace asked, pulling at Yandel''s shirt. "Yeah, but she hasn''t actually said yes or no," Yandel replied, before turning to meet Araceli who''s lost look gave away herck of knowledge on the subject at hand. "Ask me what?," Rachel asked, confused as Yandel made the expression "unbelievable" before pping his hands to his forehead. "So the rumors are true huh, You really do have fish brains ," Yandel said, chuckling. "No I don''t, what are you even saying?," Rachel asked, even more confused. "I asked you if Ace can stay over at our ce and you cane pick him up tomorrow," Yandel repeated. "Orrr We can bothe over and spend the night at yours so that I don''t have to exin to my parents why I left a 9year old in a house full of Adults," Rachel said, folding her hands. "What do you mean by that?," "You calling us predators now, that what, we are going to take your not so sweet, whole vibe of a brother of yours and sell him to one of the less popr children kidnapping chains till your powerful parents try to hunt every one down and give up, then we use him for mad ransom only to kill him at the end and burn him up a stick leaving his spider man tag on it to show he is the one??..." Ethan said, looking directly at Araceli who slowly dragged Ace behind her. Everyone was dead silent staring at Ethan who had a normal expression on his face as if he hadn''t just plotted one of the sickest kidnaps and talked about burning her 9 year old brother on a stake. "Jesus¡­" Emily muttered, pping him on the head before heading back to Yandel''s car. "What???!!" Ethan eximed, raising his two hands up. "You are sick, that''s what" Yandel said, pushing him towards the car leaving just Araceli and him in the almost empty parking lot that prolly held cars of the works or people who were addicted to arcades. "Sorry about that, the kid is probably sugar high and tends to ramble and say a lot of shit that he doesn''t mean," Yandel apologized. "Aracel please can I go with them, I''m sure he was probably joking," Ace said,ughing. "Mom and Dad will probably kill him if I had a scratch on my head like they did to that¡­" Ace was rambling before Rachel covered his mouth to muffle his words which earned the both of them a weird and slightly scared look from Yandel. "Sorry, he tends to ramble alot and say a lot of shit he doesn''t mean when he''s sugar high," Rachel yed Yandel''s card back at him. "Are you kidding me?," Yandel eximed. "What?!!!" Rachel replied innocently. "I got my eyes on both of you," Yandel said, using his fingers to point at both of them, which Ace found very funny. "Ok I''m going with them," Ace said running towards Yandel''s which the twins just sat in. Ace ran back to them holding a bag in his hand before handing it over to both of them. "There was supposed to be two tes in there but we couldn''t resist the blueberry ice cream, so we left you guys with the chocte chips ice cream," Ace said,ughing before running back to the car shouting "mission aplished, evacuate the area before attack," as he got into the back sit and closed the door and Emily pulled out of the parking lot. "Drive safe!!" Yandel yelled after them but at this point, he could bet they didn''t hear shit about anything he said. "Should we be worried?," Rachel as their car bit the dust. "I would be worried if it was just Ethan and your kid bro in the car, but they got Emily and she''s driving so yeah, it''s kind of a 70-30 situation at this point," Yandel said, chuckling. He looked into the bag and took out the te, the nice scent of chocte chips ice cream hit him. "Common let''s get going, the ice cream is about to melt and it sure as hell ain''t gonna eat itself out with all that cream," Yandel smirked, winking at Rachel who just fake gagged. "Perv" Rachel said getting into the driver''s seat and Yandel got into the passenger seat. "Wow, your car still smells the same asst time I was here," Yandelmented, putting the ice cream te in a deep crater in between both Seats. "What did you expect it to smell like Yandel, sex??" Rachel asked, staring at him weirdly. "Is that a bad idea?," Yandel asked innocently, looking directly at her as silence reigned between them for some seconds before the burst into a huge fits ofughter, their voice echoed throughout the whole parking lot and they realized they were all alone at this point, so Rachel whined up the ss to at least get a shield of protection if anyone showed up with a gun, at some point, that was the advantage of hanging out with Amy and Ricky. They made her feel normal and took away the worries she had about work, about Alice and Xander, about her former life, and about the office. When she was with them, all she worried about was not throwing up from drinking alcohol. "I think this is what happens when you hang around normal people," Yandel said, taking his first scope as Rachel pulled out of the parking lot into the road. "Yeah, I feel you, That''s why I love hanging out with them, nobody is judging you, you don''t have to be cautious or follow any scripted convos, it''s nice," Rachel agreed. "I really had fun today, I''m d I met you guys and not stayed at home sulking to you not picking my calls," Yandel muttered, giving her a side nce to check her reaction. "You were sulking because I didn''t pick your calls?," Rachel asked, with a straight face, looking sideways at him to meet his eyes after which he looked away. "Why didn''t you pick up any of my calls?," Yandel asked, still looking down to his phone which he kept flipping around on hisp. "Why??" Rachel asked. "Yeah why, I called like 27 times, I mean I would have gone on calling you but Ems said it would be creepy and that the limit was supposed to be two but I have well exceeded that point so I couldn''t say anything again, I drafted a text but declined sending it, It was dripping in whines andint," Yandel gave a dry chuckle at the end. "Because¡­" Rachel sighed. "Because???" "Because I didn''t know what to say to be honest and that''s it," "I didn''t know what to say to you, that night, you couldn''t look me in the eyes, and you were in tears for God Sake, I didn''t know how else to return your calls or pick them without being weird about it," Rachel exined. "But that''s all behind us now right?," Yandel asked, looking at her hopefully. "Yeah, we are over that now, we cool, we cool like ice cream on a Friday night drive out," Rachel said, chuckling. "I would make a good rapper," Rachelplimented herself. "No, you will make a terrible rapper, you will make them sadder for streaming yiur music for starters," Yandel gave it a try. "Ohhh puleaseeee, that was sooo basic," Rachelughed and Yandel joined. "I mean nine years old Ace could do that," Rachel added. "At least it''s better than¡­" "We cool, like ice cream on a friday night drive out," Yandel mocked her tone with an exaggerated high pitched voice. "Heyyy," "I don''t talk like that," Rachelughed hitting him on the shoulders. "Oh yea you do honey, you don''t record yourself talking?," Yandel asked, putting his hands on his chest with fake shock. "Damn fiona," Yandel chuckled, shaking his head side to side. "I''m not as narcissistic as you anyway, you should be that surprised," Rachel replied. "Is that your excuse for having a terrible voice?," Yandel mocked. "Lol but you still like to wip me up anyway so you could hear me speak huh," Rachel replied, smiling at him sweetly, she knew she got him at this point because he couldn''t say anymore, he just kept quiet and looked ahead. "At least I don''t say Lol," Yandel murmured. "Who even says Lol, like seriously" Yandel asked. Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. "It just happens, sorry grandpa, I wish you could rte, but I guess your generation were still tryna fax out SOS," Rachel pped back. "Damn girl, that''s enough burn for one night," Yandel gave up, fanning her with his hands. "Where has all this fire been all this years?," Yandel asked the question he had wanted to ask for a few months now. "Let''s just say aa changes you a lot, you should try it some time," Rachel replied. "Coma?," "Long story," "A Lot can change you you know, and you never know how or when it happens." Rachel said. "Ice cream?," Yandel asked, offering her a scope. "Yes please," Rachel said, trying to reach for the scope and almost lost bnce on the road. "Hey!!!" "Eyes on the road please!!," Yandel yelled. "Sorry, jesus...this is nothing new," Rachel said, subbing herself. "Why don''t you just let me feed you, we are almost at my ce," Yandel suggested which earned him an incredulous look from Rachel but when he didn''tugh it away, she realized he was serious and who was she to object, she needed the ice cream, she has been saying a lot of bitter shit for the past few minutes now. "Ok then, but first..." "Left or right turn?," Rachel asked. "Left dum dum," Yandel replied, flicking the side of her head. "Ouuu" "What was that for?!!!" Rachel whined. "To jolt your brain of course since you forget a lot easily nowadays, now open your mouth silly girl," Yandel demonstrated opening his mouth too, rolling her eyes, she opened her mouth too. "Hmmmm" Rachel savored the taste of the ice cream. "Damn it''s so good," Rachel moaned out loud earning her a weird stare from Yandel. "You have a little something on the side of your lips," Yandel pointed out, pointing to the side of his lips. "Help me take it off then," Rachel said, in a low voice as she stopped the car in front of his mansion. They stared into each other''s eyes as Yandel slowly inched towards her to drop a kiss on the side of her lips where the ice cream was, before edging towards her lips which brought out a low moan from the deep parts of his throats. Moving closer to her they continued to make out as her lips tasted of milk and a hint of bubble gum lip gloss, the kiss went on for a few seconds before Araceli broke it off. "Shit¡­" Rachel muttered looking straight ahead. "What?" Yandel asked worriedly. "Maya¡­" She pointed straight ahead... Chapter 54 Rachel roasted Maya Chapter 54 Rachel roasted Maya "Maya¡­" She pointed straight ahead. "Arghhh!!" Yandel screamed The headlights of the car casted it''s highlights on her, highlighting her cheek bones and red lipstick giving her a look like maleficent. "Why does she look like maleficent like we just crossed her territory," Rachel whispered to Yandel. "She looks fucking scary," Yandel said, locking his side of the door. "No shit, get down you fucking pussy, she''s your childhood friend," Rachel said, unlocking the door back. Yandel slowly came down from the car, looking at a scary looking Maya, she was wearing ck jeans with high boots and a red nnel crop shirt, to think that she is mostly sweet and nice most of the time didn''te to mind. Ever since Emily and Araceli told him about the possibilities of Maya being in love with him which he still found ridiculous of course, he didn''t think things will be that weird between them, but now facing her, he takes what he said back, shit is weirder than he thought it would be. She looked so royally pissed yet he couldn''t think of anything he could have done to piss her off, they haven''t even seen for some weeks now,st they chatted she was busy with work but asked if he wanted to hang but he turned it down saying he needed some time to himself, he didn''t exactly tell her about the whole drama between he and Araceli but he had a feeling she was about to find out any ways. "Can you turn off your fucking headlights for fucks sake," Maya yelled at Araceli who was still in the car, Araceli switched off the engine immediately. "Maya!!!" Yandel yelled at her. "What the hell, why did you yell at her like that?," Yandel asked, beginning to get pissed. "Oh, so you rather she blinds me with her fucking headlights right?," Maya asked, enraged. "Maya why are you acting up and shit, what the hell is wrong with you?," Yandel yelled at her, from his peripheral vision, he saw Aracelie out of her car and close the door. "Yandel bring your voice down please, it''s night," Rachel said, still standing beside her car, she so badly didn''t want to get involved in this drama but seems like she wasn''t that lucky as the venom from Maya didn''t waste any time to reach her. "Keep your tongue out of this you whore, can''t you see we are talking here," Maya spat at her. "Excuse you?!!" "Who the fuck do you think you are talking to ?," Rachel growled edging towards her. "Maya get the hell out of here and go chill the fuck out, what the fuck hase over you!!!?," "Youe to my house and start yelling and insulting my guest, do you even know who the fuck you are yelling at??," Yandel voice crack at the end as veins had started popping of his head, Rachel has never seen Yandel this pissed and she couldn''t lie, it was kinda hot watch him yell and fume, she wouldn''t mind him yelling orders at her, I mean she wouldn''t do them but it will be kinda hot. "I demand you apologize to her right fucking now," Yandel brought his voice a tone down as Rachel touched his should, she did it to only wound Maya up and she seeded because a vile look of disgust and hatred shed on Maya''s face as the she the level of control Rachel had on Yandel. "You want me to apologize to a bitch just because she got a fucking piece of junk she calls car and fake assser skin you prolly paid for??!!!" "Hell no, Yanny¡­" "Shut tf up Maya and Apologize Right fucking now!!!!" Yandel yelled, hitting the bo of the car which echoed loudly into the night which brought Emily out of the house. "Boy if youy a fucking dent on my car, you are paying for it plus a free meal," Rachel said jokingly before going nearer to Maya to speak to her. "Now listen to me you spoilt brat in denial, First of all, I''m Araceli fucking Garcia," Rachel started in a powerful tone, she knew just merely mentioning that she was a Garcia was the first step to make her terrible at her front, the Garcia was a feared name in the whole of the business world because while people like Harvey, the Baldwins, the Peru''s, and other 20th century millionaires, the Garcias, the Miller''s and the Azariahs are old money billionaires, talking about the 17th century old money, they money even before sry became a big business with cotton ntation. "Secondly, I could ruin you in seconds and not just you, but your whole family line woulde crashing down with one fucking phone call so watch your fucking tone when talking to me," "Lastly, I''m not recing you in his life so calm your fucking tits, it''s not my fault that you don''t stand a fucking chance with the man of your dreams, learn to up your game or back the fuck out, I will only spare you because I know the miserable feeling of not getting who you want, so why don''t we go inside and have some dinner like the adults we are," Rachel said, finishing with a smile and walking past her brushing her shoulders off before walking towards the door living Yandel''s mouth hanging open and leaving Maya standing perplexed with a white face, Emily who was standing by the door was beaming from ear to ear before jumping to hug Rachel. "OMFG, you are so bloody cool, I totally want to be like you for real," Emily said, into Rachel''s ear. "It''s simple, know your worth and don''t let anyone talk you down or reduce you to lesser than you are," Rachel said, smiling back at her. "Aye aye, captain" Emily said, giving her a salute making her chuckle. She headed into the mansion and headed to the kitchen to see what she was cooking. The smell of heavily seasoned pasta hit her, reminding her that all she had for the whole day were just burgers, fries and diet coke. Yandel joined her in the kitchen a few minutester as he went to the sink to wash his hands. "You just finished masturbating or what?," Rachel asked, smirking at him. "Haha, real funny" "The ice cream kind of poured on my hands when I tripped on the stairs and it is kinda sticky so¡­" "You came to wash the cum of your hands," Rachel finished his sentence for him, earning her a weird look from Yandel. "You are not funny," Yandel said. "You are no fun, yet you don''t see meining or pointing it out, do you?," Rachel pointed out. "Well you just did," Yandel replied. "Just did what?," Rachel asked, confused. "That I''m no fun," Yandel said, rolling his eyes, while he dried his hands under the drier. "Besides, I''m fun, I''m loads of fun" Yandel said, as he came to stand opposite her sitting on the counter made of granite marble in the center of the kitchen. "Oh please, you have the humor level of my grandpa and trust me, that''s me being generous because my grandpa is kinda funny," Rachel said, chuckling. "Well at least he doesn''t breathe awesomeness like I do," Yandel said, feeling good at his "You are right, he''s dead, he joined the dust four years ago, on the day you made a huge deal of picking on. me when I was just trying to mourn my grandpa," Rachel said, casually. The look of shock appeared on his face before he was slowly eaten by guilt at what he had done. "I''m so sorry, I didn''t know, I didn''t¡­" Yandel stumbled over his words trying to get out an apology. "It''s ok Baldwin, you were just being you, you had no idea," Rachel said, waving his apology because it was of no use to her anymore, she wished Araceli was here to hear the apology because that''s who he owed it to. "Still, I''m so fucking sorry, I was young and dumb, I couldn''t justprehend why you acted so meek and calm, now it feels like I''m apologizing to a different Araceli, and apologize to her for giving her shit for not understanding her reasons for acting the way she acted," Yandel apologized. "It''s ok, I know she forgives you," Rachel smiled, looking at him as he came closer and closer to kiss her but they got interrupted by Emily announcing that dinner was served. "We should go eat, It has been a long day" Rachel said, biting her lips as she could still feel the tingles his breath on her lips left. "Yeah, we should, it was a long fun day," Yandel agreed, not before bending down to kiss her on her forehead. "What you did outside there was amazing," Yandel said, before walking out into the dining area. "This man was going to be the end of her¡­" Rachel thought as she followed closely behind him. Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. Her phone notification went off on the counter where she kept it, it was a message from Xander. Xander So we had to cancel the dinner, see you tomorrow at the fundraiser???? "Bastard¡­" Chapter 55 Invincible Girl Chapter 55 Invincible Girl "Bastard¡­" Rachel muttered under her breath before sticking her phone back into her pocket, she looked up to see Yandel standing at the post of the passage into the dining area. "Jesus!!" Rachel yelped, holding to her chest a bit as her heart raced erratically. "We don''t even look alike Celi," Yandel chuckled, making her roll her eyes. "How long have you been standing there?," Rachel asked him, feeling a little ufortable, she could have been thinking out loud and he had heard her. "Not long enough to be considered weird or freaky but long enough to here the most pissed off bastard I have ever heard," Yandel said, smiling sweetly at her while maintaining insane eye contact which made her stomach turn a little, no not really nausea but the kind of butterflies she has been avoiding. "Well you can thank Xander for that, he definitely made that move intentionally, only God knows what else that evil bastard has nned," Rachel muttered under her breath. "Have I mentioned you have the cutest nose I have ever seen?," Yandel said out of nowhere taking Rachelplete surprise. She looked at him scrutinizing every emotion that crossed his face and she couldn''t find joke or unseriousness, he was staring at her like he was just seeing her for the first time. "You look ufortable," Yandel said with a trace of worry creasing his face. "If only you will stop staring at me like your fuckingst supper," Rachel said, "Well, all I need you to be in is proper dressing, and some Atisoree and petisoree," Yandel said, winking at her. "Are you bipr??," Rachel asked, confused. It was like one minute he is shy and can''t hold a intense eye contact like he was R¨¦g¨¦-Jean from Bridgertn. But she has never really heard him talking about a depressive phase nor did he''s siblings mention it. "What??," "Why did you ask??" Yandel looked confused, which answered her question. He wasn''t bipr but This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. definitely had a weird personality disorder trait because it''s almost like he''s a different person when they were alone. "You always seem different, lighter and more intense when we are alone or is it just all in my head?," Rachel asked, muttering thest part to herself. "Well maybe it''s all in your head, maybe it''s you that brings out that side of me, or maybe I was so used to being confident around you in the past with the hopes of making you talk more I guess, all I know is you make it happen," Yandel smiled, pinching both sides of her cheek as they hinted to slightest shade of red. "OMG, Is the fierce Araceli blushing?," Yandel teased as he started to tickle her wrapping his arms around her as she squirmed andughed underneath him, she managed to escape his hold and tried to catch her breath but that goal was short lived as he started to chase her around the counter making her squeal more. They were so immersed in their little fun that they didn''t notice Emily standing at the post looking at both of them with a weird smile on her face. Whether does two admitted it or not, they really looked good together, they both had weird sense of humour and they both apparently had badmunication skills because they weren''t dating yet that was just fucked up on different levels because they looked so good together. "Oh Emily!!" Rachel said, finally noticing her standing at the post leading into the kitchen, she was totally focused on not letting Yandel get a hold of her that she lost her environment survey skills, only God knows how long she was standing there looking at them making a fool out of themselves. "Emily??" "Oh Emily¡­" Yandel repeated as the name finally clicked, his sister just caught them making a fool out of themselves when he was supposed to get her to the dining area. "Oh wait a second," "You both can see me??" Emily asked in faux shock, widening her eyes as if she also thought she was invincible. "Heaw, for a second there, I thought I had actually be Miss invincible," Emily said, smirking at both of them who were so dearly trying to catch their breath in a totally obscure way but were failing badly. They had a lost look on their face which meant they didn''t get her reference. "Miss invincible??" "Invincible girl?" "My hero academia??" "Urghhh, you guys are hopeless, the food is getting cold and Ethan''s ck hole wants all the pasta to himself and Maya is sulking so Yandel go fix it, it''s your fault any way, you are oblivious to everything." Emily walked away leaving just both of them in the kitchen again to finally pull themselves together. "I wasn''t blushing by the way, I''m Italian" Rachel said, smacking him on the hand. "Really now, so you think your skin is tanned enough to hide blushes huh?," Yandel raised an eyebrow at her. "Yeah¡­" "So you are drop dead georgous and pretty as fuck but you don''t use a mirror enough to know that you blush??" Yandel pointed out looking at her as if she wasn''t using her brain right. "Woah, you are weird¡­" Yandel said, walking out of the kitchen, not before turning back to see a cute pouty Araceli not having it at all. "Okkkk, it is the good kinda weird," Yandel said, rolling his eyes. He loved this side of her, the side that dropped all worries, the side that totally ignored the facts that she was a billionaire heiress and CEO of one of thergest chain industry in the world, now she was just the beautiful, cheeky and Weird Araceli Garcia, it''s crazy how it''s like the he gets to know, the more distinct heryers her and the more inquisitive he is to know her. "We need to go eat you know, Ethan takes four times his normal ration everyday, it''s hard to control what goes into that boy''s mouth honestly," Yandelughed. He remembered after Emily and Nathan''s eighteenth birthday, he decided he wanted to eat four rounds of double cheese burgers and ended up getting sick due to overfeeding and he had to stay off a huge ration of food for a while or his stomach would get irritated. "Finally, look who decided to show up, I thought you guys were just going to go straight to your honeymoon phase with the way you didn''t want to leave each other," Ethan smirked at the wiggling of his eyebrows. "God when, will I have something this beautiful," Ethan dramatically cried out, almost going on his knees. "When you are going to stop acting like a fucking kid, grow some pair of balls and a ask her out, it''s really not that hard Ethan, you are just a pussy" Emily said. "Emily Don''t be mean to your brother!" Yandel frowned at her for spitting such things. "It''s not as easy as you envision it really, girls are difficult too, that''s why," Ethan defended himself. "Or you just got a weak ass scope game," Emily added, chewing on her remaining pasta. "Excuse me, but can you keep your food in your mouth and be done before opening up and spilling shit," Maya said bitterly before going back to her food, she had everyone paused because no one knew where all the venom came from. "Excuse you," "Who the hell are you talking to with that tone," Emily said, dropping her fork and facing her "Maya, don''t talk to her life that," "Oh oh¡­" Ethan muttered. "Look Maya, it''s no ones fault here that you are unpresentable and undesirable, and your Scope game is levels with zero, you can''t me us and be active aggressive with us, we are not your problem, you are in my house, eating MY food, so do me a favor girl, ride the stick that is up your ass and don''t make it anybody''s business" Emily spat, going back to her food to finish hers. This left Maya speechless, her eyes were left blinking like fish that was just drawn out of water, she stood up from the chair, making the dramatic sound and took her purse and left. "Hey Maya can I give you a ride home?," Yandel yelled after her. but in reply, she closed the door with force that shook the sses on the door. "Woah¡­" "Where is Ace please?" Yandel asked. "In the game room, He prolly must have slept off," Ethan said. "I will go get him," Rachel said. "No no no, you eat and I will go get him and take him to bed. You don''t have to worry, you look pretty and tired anyways," Yandel countered smiling, making her smile in return and she muttered a silent thank you to him. "Woah, you guys keep getting more cringy everyday¡­" Chapter 56 No place like home Chapter 56 No ce like home You know the saying that goes "no ce like home", well whoever came up with thst must have gone spent an awful lot of time away from their beds to realize this truth, she couldn''t even deny it, her bed and pillow is everything to her not that the bed here wasn''tfortable, it was. Infact, it was a full queen sized bed and it had six pillows and a beautiful bed frame but it was not her bed so she only slept for like three hours and spent the rest tossing around trying to find afortable spot to ce her head without stressing, feeling ufortable or hot. She even did some cardio during the night and tried some yoga to clear her state of mind and bring her peace but sleeping in Yandel''s home was already enough trouble for her. She was put in the room next to Ace so she could check on him whenever she needed to during the night and she did check on him but somehow unlike her, he managed to make most of his night sleeping and snoring Content provided by N?velDrama.Org. after such a long day of well deserved fun. Deep down, she knew why she could barely get a wink of sleep but she refused to let herself believe it, she hyped herself back out of the gutter of self diminishing thoughts when ever she remembered the fundraiser, She woke up to a text from Xander telling her to put on a ck dress of any kind. What the fuck was she going to attend...A bloody funeral. She knew she was over thinking it but she couldn''t even begin to put a leash on her mind, somewhere deep down in her and somewhere up there in her head, she could definitely spot a dark cloud looming over her head carrying the storm she has been trying to avoid for months. Maybe she had rxed, maybe she got toofortable and thought Xander and Alice still didn''t want to get rid of her, while she spent her time partying and not nning, they spent their time nning and polishing their moves and now she''s the one with the sleepless night and anxiety. She decided to leave the guest room she was in, the white walls were bing more and more overbearing as the sun began to rise, she could have closed the blinds and hurdled into the nket for warmth and temporaryfort but who was she kidding, that won''t change anything, over thinking won''t solve shit and she learnt this from her past life when she was still the Average job seeking MBA holder with Heart of ss and mind of a beast. Maybe that was her weakness, she had a determined heart, a heart that was stic and a thick skin and sharp mouth that could retaliate and save her from mental breakdowns, this were walls she learnt how to build right from when she was a kid, everything and everyone and every experience she had had built her in a way to survive this world, from her crazy high school experience, to her mother''s escapades with her various short lived rtionships with broken or damaged just like her that drew back her healing process ten miles away from the haven of healing and somehow her mother got into the roller coaster of few weeks of happiness and months of treating emotional scars and wounds, And you could see it, you could see it that she was trying to get better and trying to pull herself together but life was definitely not having mercy on her. She told herself she wasn''t going to make the same mistake her mother made, talking about wrapping your entire entity on a person, she did that with her father, she found meaning in herself because of her husband, and everything she was was because of him, when he died, she lost herself, she lost her will, she was barely a mere mirage of his dust, it didn''t make her whole, some parts were blown into the wind never to be found, some parts made one with the bloody soil of the earth to register dust to dust, some part she inhaled and held into, tried to use it to fill up the bottomless and ageless put his death left in her, but she didn''t seed of course, so all that was left was mere distractions, aweful distractions thst destroyed her and took half the life and light in her eyes, but she had no one to me. Ever since she was a kid, her mother didn''te off as strong, or as head or as independent. No, she was sweet, supportive, and second. Everything that went or happened was approved by her husband and she was fine with it, with him, she found meaning and without him, she lost meaning. She promised herself not to make this same mistake, to be strong, to be first, to be head, maybe that was why she tried her best to get the job she wanted even though she got offers which were good she was dependent on Talon, maybe that was why he got so suffocated of her, they were only together for two years but they had moved in at seven months in their rtionship, and you guessed right, it was her idea to move in, he was a retailer in a mall where she met him and she was a jobless MBA holder with a sole target to get a job at her boyfriend''s dream job. She was no different from her mother at the end, she trusted their father to live long and support her on her life journey but he died by a tragic car ident and she trusted Talon to not cheat on her and be with her till the end but he went ahead to cheat on her with the same rich ass woman who he told her was just a friend and she was overthinking it. Rachelughed bitterly as it urred to her that her whole life was just a sad sub story of over dependent women who wereter screwed up in life by men and death, sheughed more at the irony of it all till tears started pouring out like broken stream flooding clear paths that she made to look so effortless to other people, she hadn''t even brought herself to think of how messed it was, that she hadn''t even been able to bring herself to visit her own bloody grave, instead she rather wrapped her mind and body in the clothes and body of a billionaire, even though it gave her a purpose, she knew she couldn''t hide in this skin forever, she couldn''t use Araceli as an excuse to hide from herself, she hadn''t even been able to stand tall against her demons and she took on someone elses just because she was in desperate need of redemption even when she was not in any form ready. That was why she never could bring herself to be attached to Yandel, she could see her father in him. Smart, funny and empowering, the same trap her mother fell for, the same trap she fell for and now it is back for her again toplete it''s usual ritual of fucking up a johnson. "Hey Araceli??," Yandel knocked on the toilet door but she forgot to lock it so it just swing open exposing a broken dread filled Rachel with tears and red puffy eyes. He stood at the door for some seconds staring at her in total pity, she could see his heartbreaking from his eyes, she hated it, the vile taste of pitiful aura aweful exuding from a person who thinks they are are trying to nket someone going through shit but don''t know they are only exposing how worthless and helpless the person is. She looked herself in the mirror and smiled, her reflection was sick and his reaction was just pure shock, she definitely just confirmed the universal truth that girls were crazy. "Heyyy morning Baldwin," Rachel said, smiling before looking back into the mirror again, she looked like a mid twenties woman who hit mid life crisis pretty early. "Jesus¡­" "How do I look, I just wanted to try on a new look," Rachel said, giving him different angles of her puffy red eyes and reddened cheeks, humor was all she could offer at this point, but he was definitely not buying it, instead it was actually worsening his mood and he was looking broken and pissed at the same time. "You know your facial expressions are so readable sometimes," "No scratch that, all the fucking time and it''s kinda an expo to dealing with you lol¡­" *hups* "My bad, I think I should go get some water," Rachel said, trying to walk past him as fast as he could but he caught her by the arm and brought her back to his front. "Hey, it''s okay to cry and be broken but don''t use humor to cover it up,it breaks me," Yandel said with a low tone. "I wasn''t crying, I told you I was just trying a new look," Rachel insisted not meeting his eyes. "Really??" "Uh huh, can you please take a pict¡­" "Just stop it Araceli!!!" Yandel yelled, interrupting her mad saga, making Araceli tremble and shed more tears as she listened to him and stopped trying to humor her pain. "I''m sorry for yelling but please just stop alright, you are not fine, and if you don''t want to talk about it now, it''s fine but please stop trying to humor the pain, it breaks me" Yandel broke saying. "I need some breakfast, We will talkter, I''m fine now" Rachel said, going to the sink to wash her eyes and face, it was still horrible and swollen, her face that is, but she was hoping the cold water would do some magic. She left this time, Yandel didn''t hold her back... Chapter 57 I dont wanna lose you Chapter 57 I don''t wanna lose you "Good morning Araceli," Emily said, smiling brightly at Araceli who just gave a tight smile and ruffled Ethan''s hair who was mindlessly wolfing down pankcakes. "How was your night?," Araceli asked going to kiss Ace on the head. "It was good, I can''t say the same about yours though," Emily said, looking at Araceli carefully. She could see read marks around her eyes and her face was a little bit swollen. "Rough night?," Emily asked. "Don''t we all," Rachel said, sighing for what seemed like the quadrillion time over the past six hours, she started to feeling the stress and weight of a bad night on her eyelids. She really needed a vacation after all of this dramatic saga is over. "Blueberries or chocte chips pancakes??," Emily asked. "Can have both??" Araceli asked, pleading with her eyes, She knew Emily was a smart girl and she understood things are not right with her. So she served her both and gave her a peck on the head. "I heard Yandel yelling, what was the problem?," Emily asked while drawing a sit close to her. "I think he was on a phone call or something," Rachel lied not looking into her eyes, Emily was smart, she could sport when something was off. "Really¡­" "But Yandel barely raises his voice except he is frustrated," Emily digged deeper. "Emilyy it to rest, she needs to eat," Yandel said behind them startling both of them, He has probably been standing there for a while now listening in on their conversation. "Alright alright, just looking out for my fellow woman here," Emily said, raising her hands up in surrender. "Ace you might like to get quicker with your food, jeff ising in a few minute" Rachel said, stuffing her mouth with much food so she won''t be a subject of any conversation again. "Ok, who''s your date this night?," Yandel asked her. "Who else do you think?," Rachel asked. "Damn," "What?" Rachel asked him again. "Nothing, just wanted to ask, I will probably take Maya with me and we would use it as bonding time to get over whatever attitude she had just put on disyst night," Yandel said, taking some pancakes into his te and added some mapel syrup to it. ""Woah, you are really old school," Rachelmented, looking at him drape syrup all over his pancakes. "Because I use mapel syrup or because¡­" "Never, you will just extend this into an argument anyways," Rachel said standing up from her chair pushing it in. "Thank you guys for hosting me and my brother and thank you for the meal, Emily and nathan, it was really nice hanging out with you guys, I''m veey sure Ace and I will be presented with this opportunity again," Rachel said, hugging Emily and Nathan, only topletely ignore Yandel and leave, he was expecting it though, so he didn''t pick offense even though it stunges him a bit. "Want me to walk you guys to the¡­" "No, we are good, enjoy your meal, Ace say your Goodbyes let''s go." Rachel said, interrupting Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. Yandel amd totally cutting him short before he got to let out anything. She got outside and closed the door after Ace had ran to the car, the first thing dhe did was breath, breath from all the tight are and choked up space which was odd considering she just left a very spacious mansion. Now the question you want to ask. Doesn''t she feel bad for treating Yandel like shit for someone she was just kissing few minutes ago, well yes she does, she legit feels like shit but is there anything she can do about how she feels...No. Yandel was just the wall sheshed out on and she made a mental note to ask of his forgivenesster on but for now she needed to get home, rest in the theforting arms of her own sheets, before she had to wake up and pick out a dress for Amy and face the drama this evening was going to entail because right nowx she was not in the right state of anything to face it. "Araceli¡­" Ace called to her, as they both sat down in the back sit, he was spotting the same white shirt and ck shorts bit they looked too clean for the same clothes he wore yesterday so they must have probably gotten his clothes dry cleaned. "Yes Ace, what is it?" Rachel asked, not really in the mode for any chit chat especially with Ace, she didn''t want to say shit to him to hurt his feelings just because she was in a bad mood. "Did you and Yandel get into a fight??" Ace asked. "No we didn''t Ace," Rachel replied curtly. "Then why were you so cold with him and why did he tell me to keep an eye on you that you were sad," Ace said, toching Araceli''sp. "That fucker¡­" Rachel thought. "Did Xander make you cry again?," Ace said, as his face crunched up just at the mention of Xander. "Well technically, yes he was the reason she was crying," Rachel thought "No he didn''t and I''m not sad Ace," Rachel replied curtly again. "please don''t ask any other questions agains, can we just enjoy the ride home in total peace and quiet?," Rachel asked, not really a question but she didn''t care to follow it with it was a rhetorical question, Ace is smarter than that. "Okay...sorry" Ace apologized, facing the window. Now she felt really bad, he was only trying to look out for her and ask if she was alright, he didn''t deserve that kind of reply from her. But she was not in any mood, she didn''t intend for Yandel to actually find her in her breakdown crisis, she loved to face shit life threw at her, she hated the pity, the sad looks and sympathy. They only went as far to show how helpless she really was and she couldn''t afford thst kind of treatment now. "Look I''m sorry alright¡­" Rachel started, sighing as she was finding it hard topose an apology to a nine years old or ten rather in a week''s time,without sounding self absorbed or rude. "Yes, Yandel and I had an argument, it was really nothing serious, I don''t hate him. I''m just going to need a little time to settle some shit...so I mean things, I will be fine," Rachel ruffled his hair and kissed him on the forehead and he turned to hug her. "You know I already know these curse words right, I just don''t use them," Ace said, looking at her. "Oh¡­" "Yeah¡­" Ace whispered back. Rachel took her time to look at the boy in front of her, he was definitely too smart for her. "Araceli¡­" Ace started. "Yeah¡­" "I just want you to know that I love you and I care for you, You might think I''m just a kid but I don''t want you to distance yourself from us like you did thest time, It didn''t end up well, you ended up in the¡­.in the hospital and...and you didn''t wake up for days," A tear dropped down from his eye but he didn''t let it reach hisps as he wiped it away quickly. "I don''t want you to end up in the hospital again, please¡­" Araceli just looked at the boy who just broke down on herp crying. She could see months of pented up pain and questions liquefying into tears. He must have been in the dark for so long even though he had a little idea of what was going on, he still knew something was wrong. Running her hands through his hair, she thought back to how she would seekfort in her Dad running his hands through her hair andforting her after a bad day at school, he would braid her hair and sing to her and dress her up in pretty dresses or take her to buy some ice cream or a walk in the pack. Maybe that was why she never had a memory where she was sad as a kid or had to struggle for love and attention, she would always know where to run to forfort, but just as she couldn''t remember sadness, the news of her father finally brought out the beginning of the childhood she remembers. Her mother forgetting to cook for them instead she spent her days crying in the room and searching for a reason for what happened. She understood Ace fears and tears, He had already faced the scar of seeing his sister lying battered and alm most lifeless in a hospital bed. "I lost Araceli the first time...I don''t want to lose you too¡­" Ace whispered into her chest... Chapter 58 The dream Chapter 58 The dream Rachel froze immediately he spoke, the air was dead silent in the car, there was a barrier between them so Jeff didn''t eavesdrop on their conversation, but what the hell did he mean by that, Did he know that she wasn''t really Araceli...How would he even know, it''s not possible, she has never slipped up or anything so what could make him say such. "What¡­" "I don''t under..understand Ace, what do you mean by you have lost Araceli, you don''t want to lose me too?," Rachel asked, as her heart started to beat a little faster, if she had fucked this up that means she was done for. All this while, she thought she was keeping Araceli''s secret safe. "I mean exactly what I said," Ace said, looking at her confused, or was he really dreaming when Araceli appeared to him the night she had the ident that her friend would take over her body to take care of him. "I don''t think I understand you Ace¡­" Rachel replied, her tone was now a little higher than normal as she started to sweat a little. "Araceli told me that she had gone to rest and a good friend of hers was going to take over her body and memories to take care of me," Ace repeated it as he remembered from the night. It was the night of the ident, they had just had lunch and he was watching TV when he heard his mom yell from the kitchen. She started crying as she rushed around trying to find her shawl, he had never seen his mother so disoriented before not to talk off crying. When he asked her what happened, she just said Araceli was in an ident and was in the hospital, that he should pray for her quick recovery. He debated on going together with her but she refused adamantly, saying that she wasn''t going to let him see Araceli. That night, he couldn''t sleep well and only ate a little food because that was when the whole situation dawned on him, neither his father or mother nor Araceli was back for the dinner and the maids kept assuring him that they were fine and all they went for was a meeting but he knew where they were, at the hospital looking Araceli. Somehow, he was able to finally speak, Araceli appeared in a white dress she wore when she left that morning, told him to be a good boy that he was in safe hands with a very good friend of hers and her name is Rachel johnson but that he couldn''t tell anyone. Not his parents and not his friend or bestfriend and he must not tell Rachel that he knew that she wasn''t Araceli. "When did she tell you this?" Rachel whispered. They were so engulfed in their conversation, they didn''t know when they arrived at their mansion and were outside waiting in the car. "On the night of the incident I guess, because she was wearing the same white dress our mom got for her for her graduation from business school," Ace answered. "So you knew all this while?," Rachel asked again really feeling stupid with times she thought she was really staying in character with him but instead, all this while, she has been making a fool out of her itself. "Yeah, I mean sometimes I won''t even have to talk or pretend, you are just like her in so many ways, except you are more outspoken¡­" Ace whispered, using his hand to clean his running nose. "Well can you atleast keep this between me and you, I don''t think I''m ready to let anyone know yet, they might not understand it like you do," He looked at her ridiculously like what she spoke was not in english. "Araceli, I have known this for over two months and I didn''t even tell you your own secret, what makes you think I would tell anyone else and why will I even want to tell someone else, they wouldn''t understand," Aceughed at her ridiculous plea. He was a kid but he definitely wasn''t stupid. "Uhm..yeah that¡­" Rachel was saying not until a loud bang on the door scared the shit out of both of them, they both screamed and held each other only to look outside the window to find a crazy looking Amy waving at them through the tinted ss but she couldn''t even see them, how did she know they were inside. Rachel opened the door on the other side letting Ace out and then came out herself. "Woah...really Amy??" Rachel looked at her across the hood of the car, she had no makeup on and her once blonde yellowish hair had now been transformed to a very white tinum blond and was cut short, she couldn''t deny the look fit her more than the usual blonde mess she had initially, she was also spotting a sport hoodie. "What!!" "Just wanted to give you guys a little scare, Hi Ace!!" Amy waved at Ace who just waved back and walked inside the house to leave both of them outside. Walking around the car, she finally got a full view of Amy, she was wearing a jogger with a matching hoodie with some beat up white trainer, all in all she looked like someone who went jogging and that was not the Amy she knew, Amy didn''t work out, she ims God had given her the perfect body therefore she didn''t need to work. "Like what you see," Amy said, turning around showing Araceli full view of her body smiling wide, she did a little butt exercise and jogged some fewnes a few times, just twice actually before heading over to Araceli''s ce, she had a little makeover too. "Amy, A day of work out doesn''t magically make you J-lo or Rihanna," Rachel said, walking towards the door. Even though yes, she didn''tpare to those goddesses in the music and entertainment industry, Amy had a great body, she had the sweet sixteen hourss shape girls wished for in highschool to gain highschool boys attention. "I see you had a makeover too, your hair looks fire by the way," Rachelplimented her, as they finally got into the house. This was the part about living in a mansion she hade to hate, everything was so spaced and far away from each other it was actually frustrating a bit. The stair was far from the kitchen area, the rooms on ground floor she had never even seen nor was she worried about seeing them. "What are thinking about?," Amy asked her, as she watched Araceli stare into space or though nothing was in front of her, just white granite marble tiles in front of them and white walls with a painting of what she till can''t bring herself to exin, all she could was ck and yellow had never gone so well together. "Why does the staircase have to be so far and the kitchen is like two hallways away?," Rachel asked as she felt even morezier just thinking about attempting it. "How long have you lived here again?," Amy asked, folding her arms looking at Araceli. "Almost all my life I guess, as long as I can remember," Rachel answered, even though that was a lie, she has only be here for like two months and some weeks which isn''t still enough time to get ustomed to the whole mansion, she was sure there are ces she still hadn''t seen in the mansion but she was in no rush, the pressure then didn''t let her get anyfortable. "Wow...you should work out more you know, just because you got great body goals doesn''t mean you are actually fit you know," Amy said with a serious face walking ahead. "Oh really now¡­" "You decide to do a little work out today and a walk here and there and all of a sudden you are now a fitness coach huh.." Rachel rolled her eyes and followed her. "Where does your room sit again?," Amy asked confused, looking left and right that lead to two different hallways. "The right, third door¡­" "Alright, first to reach your room is cooking lunch," Amy yelledughing knowing she had already won because Araceli was still half way up the stairs. She reach the right hallway and counted the doors before reaching the third door but a picture caught her eye, it was a picture of Young Araceli because she recognized that cute button nose of her but this time her hair was shiny ck and beautiful, but Araceli''s hair was brown with some streaks of caramel strand, even though it was beautiful and looked very natural, she never imagined that Araceli''s All content is property ? N?velDrama.Org. hair was originally ck which gave her the perfect makeover idea for Araceli. As if on cue, Araceli finally reached the top of the stairs and rushed towards her, the frame was just two steps away from the third door, so she rushed to the door quickly and opened it. "Amy what the hell are you doing in my room?," Ace screamed as he was wearing only a towel on his waist. "That fucker¡­" Chapter 59 Styling a billionaire Chapter 59 Styling a billionaire "That fucker¡­" Amy hissed but not before apologizing for being an asshole and barging into Ace''s room unannounced. She closed the door gently before working down the hall to check on the two other doors but they were locked. Which meant, Araceli''s room could only be amongst the first two, she opened the second door to find Araceli smiling at her cunningly while lying on her bed swinging her leg back and forth like an excited kid waiting for a Christmas present. "Oh you are worse than the devil himself," Amy exaggerated, narrowing her eyes at her which only made Rachelugh more. Honestly, she couldn''t remember why she changed the number of her room door when Amy asked, partly because she knew Amy was pretty predictable in the sense that she would always want to pull a stunt that didn''t favor her or try to do something silly like how she used to call dibs on front sit wherever they were going out with Ricky and partly because she thought she had been to her room before so she replied kind of sarcastically thinking she already knew the right room. "You really wanna me me for your fishy brain??," Rachelughed as Amy huffed about how it wasn''t fair. "Oh now you know it''s not fair, you literally called dibs on me when you were at the top of the stairs and I was barely half way through, if that didn''t scream and bleed unfair, I don''t know what will," Rachel turned over on her back and faced her white carved ceiling. "Whatever," "You got any idea of what to wear??," Amy asked her, heading towards her closet which was a totally different room on it''s own, she was sure that if they tried to fit her apartment all together in here, it will fit and even leave some extra hallway space. "Xander wants me to wear something ck, guess is we are supposed to be in matching clothes because we are supposed to be a couple, fucked up shit" Rachel sighed. "He definitely doesn''t get to tell me what to wear, that''s not how this shit works," Rachel said, switching from a lying down position to a sitting position, she was definitely not gonna let him decide what she would wear, she wasn''t Araceli. Besides, he probably would be matching with Alice Harvey too which would be a sure bet. It''s funny how her mom stopped asking about Alice. Unlike her undying love and support for Xander, she pretty much zeroed in on Alice and didn''t bother to ask for her either. "So now we got you all hyped up, let''s see what you n on picking out," Amy said looking through her designer cocktail dresses for evenings. Trust me, she didn''t evene up with that sentence, she didn''t pay enough school fees toe up with something like that. The name was actually written over the heading of the rack and it was just some rack, it was a full Rack of designer wear from dresses to jump suits to business suits and tops all from designer top brands. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. "Seriously, Cocktail dresses for evening events??," Amy asked,ing out of the closet(pun intended). "Could you be any more white and rich??," Amy asked, chuckling. "Heyyy," "That was my former stylist way of guiding me on what to wear when he wasn''t around or in the country," "And I''m Italian, and you are the white person here," Rachel replied, defending herself. "You had a stylist??" "Of course you did, you are the 5th on forbes most powerful under thirty ofst year and this year, of course you will have a fucking stylist," Amy said to herself hitting the side of her head as if to jingle her memory. "I''m actually Russian by the way, at least by birth and my dad was Russian ording to my foster home," Amy said casually, going through the rack of clothes. "Yeah I also fished in Greend during the winters and after that we offered them to the hill spirits for a good year," Rachel joked along. "Really??," "Why the hell will anybody do that anyway??," Amy asked,pletely shocked at the tradition they did yearly, but it was no surprise though, Rich people did crazy shit and they keep doing crazy shit, like a friend once told her from the trench, she said "you gotta be crazy, if you want to be crazy rich, you trade a little form of your humanity for wealth," and right now, it was beginning to make a lot of sense. "No one does that Amy!!" Rachel eximed as she rubbed her hands down her face, she knew she would totally miss the joke. "Then why did you say that?," Amy paused at the frame of the closet looking at Araceli as if she was losing her mind. "Because we were both just saying random crazy shit you know, like how you said you are Russian¡­" Rachel replied, she kind of faded out on thest part when Amy''s expression told her that she wasn''t joking because she looked so goddamn serious and was staring into her soul as if questioning why she would do that. "Oh shit¡­" "You weren''t ying around when you said so¡­" Rachel realized. "Why will I joke around with shit like that, I mean not to be stereotypic myself but can''t you see my hair??," Amy said, pointing to her now shortened tinum hair. "Wait a fucking second¡­" "That''s the natural color of your hair?!" Rachel eximed, as she stood up and went to touch the hair, it was pretty soft. "Yeah, I decided to go for something less wild plus this is a formal asion, I can''te looking like I just got kicked out of the club after my 31st ss of shot," Amy chuckled. "Why does that actually sound like a real life scenario?" Rachelughed. "It is hun, I have escaped alcohol poison more than Chris Angels has actually escaped death," Amyughed. "Good ''Ol memories¡­" Amy muttered to herself. "So what do you want to wear??" Rachel asked her as she watched her spin racks and go through the clothes she had hanged and some were still tucked away, sealed in her closet drawer. Most of them were gifts from designers she served as muse for and promotionbels while others were honorary gifts for patronizing them. "Something that matches with my eyes, something greenish blue or something fire Red that will contrast against my skin, like right now, all I can ask myself is WWTSW??," Amy said, touching her chin and stroking the invincible beards there. "What the hell is WWTSW?" Rachel asked. "What will Tilda Swinton wear?," Amy said as a matter of fact, as if it was something every random person knew which was definitelymon, I mean did she know who Tilda Swinton was, nope, I mean she wasn''t J-lo or Rihanna. "Who the hell is Tilda Swinton anyways?" Rachel asked. "You don''t know Tilda Swinton??!" "You don''t have a TV or what??" "Just tell who she is for God Sake?," Rachel said exasperated. "She''s a goddess, A movie Icon and beautiful Fashion Icon," Amy exined with a dreamy look in her eyes, it was obvious that shepletely adored her. "What movie has she starred in?" Rachel asked, she took her phone and searched for her. Amy was right though, she was an A list actress in hollywood, she was sure Araceli had met some of this A list actors and actresses in Hollywood. "The ind, Doctor Strange, she got other ssics," Amy said. "Yeah, you are right. She''s pretty much a big shot in the Hollywood industry and true she has style," Rachel admitted. She actually bore some simrities to Amy too, like her fashion sense and body stature, they both also had tinum blonde hair too. "You guys kinda look alike though, only you got aqua eye iris and a more bubbly persona, she looks depressed as fuck," Rachel said, scrolling through her pictures. "She is not depressed bro, she just got a resting bitch face like Julian Moore and Nicole Kidman, but yeah thanks for thepliment, I see what you did there secretly loving me up and acting like you don''t care huh¡­" Amy wiggled her eyebrows at her. "Oh rest your tits honey¡­" Rachel replied, dropping her iphone on the bed. "Since you got style and you know these brands, So what look do you got for me?," Rachel asked. "OMFG...Are you asking me to style you up?!!!" Amy eximed excitedly, running to Araceli and pulling her off the bed. "Uhm yeah¡­" Rachel muttered, confused why she was excited. "Okay..I want you to say...I, Araceli Garcia want Amy to style her for a billionaire fundraiser event," Amy said slowly, looking her in the eye with all seriousness. "That''s ridiculous, Why?" Rachel asked, looking at her confused. "I just want to hear it please¡­" Amy said. If she didn''t sound so serious she would haveughed right in her face thinking it was one of her over dramatic turn outs. But she knew Amy, she was someone who really valued validation, and if she needed to hear her say it to make her feel better than she would. She knew how it felt, to need someone''s validation to feel like a person again. "Ok then¡­" "I, Araceli Antonia Garcia, asks Amy whatever-yourst-name-is to style me for a fundraiser event," Rachel said, smiling at her while holding her face in her hands. "Billionaire¡­" Amy muttered as she started to get teary. "What?!," Rachel asked, confused. "Billionaire fundraiser event," Amy pointed out. "Really Amy¡­" Rachel gave her the bored look. "Just say it Aracel, I need to hear it" Amy said, bending her head so she doesn''t see her getting all emotional. "Billionaire fundraiser event¡­" Rachel rolled her eyes. "Okay, I will" Amy said, wiping her tears away, it was game time now. "Wait...are you seriously tearing up?," Rachel asked. "It''s a really emotional moment for me, now go sit yo ass down first," Amy ordered with a totally different tone in her voice that screamed control. "Yes ma''am," Rachel saluted her and did as she said. "So the first thing we are doing is changing your hair back to ck bitch¡­" Chapter 60 changing hair color Chapter 60 changing hair color "So the first thing we are doing is changing your hair back to ck bitch¡­" Amy said with her hands on her chin looking at Araceli''s brown hair. Rachel looked at her through the mirror and couldn''t help but giggle at how serious she looked right now but she wouldn''t dare interrupt her, she couldn''t begin to pay for taking Amy off her work mode, she had already purchased some dye remover plus some ck dye to darken her hair. "But why did you change your hair color, I mean don''t mind me, it looks really beautiful and natural. I just don''t understand why you would change it," Amy asked her. How could she tell her that she was asking the wrong person, that she woke up on the hospital bed with that on her head, but she never even bothered to change it because she herself was a brte so she didn''t think Araceli had ck hair and the ck roots blended well into the brown, you would think it was intention, just products of really good hair dye and a professional hair stylist. "Honestly...I don''t know too, I kind of just let the brown stay, I became so used to it i guess," Rachel thought of something to say, I mean it waspletely random but it was better than saying nothing. "By the way, did you know you made an Amy winehouse reference?," Rachel asked looking at her in the mirror as she looked confused a bit. "Ok, I will take that as you have no idea who Amy Winehouse is," Rachel said. "Who is she?," Amy asked. Rachel took out her phone to y back to ck and then went to search for Amy Winehouse and show Amy her pictures. "Oh...She was really a bigger artist then I see," Amy said as she scrolled through more pictures. "And the name of the song ying is called back to ck," Rachel said. "She''s cool, she got Lana Del Rey vibes so yeah, I will give her a try." They moved on to apply the ck hair dye more because her hair was really voluminous. "I really thought you wore lots of extensions, I never knew they were actually your hair, your hair is really pretty," Amy said smiling at her. "Thanks," A few minutester, a call came in on Amy''s phone. from Ricky telling her that they had arrived at Araceli''s house and they were downstairs. "Ricky and his boyfriend are here," Amy squealed excitedly, covering the mic of her phone. She had only met him once when she briefly stayed at Ricky''s ce. He was a handsome nerdy looking college student, he was always really busy because he was in his final year, she always used to tell them how she couldn''t wait to go on double dates with them or even triple dates hopefully with Araceli and Yandel, that''s if they ever settle. "Wow really...I have never really got the chance to meet him actually," Rachel said, standing up heading towards the door but Amy stopped her with an incredulous look on her face like she was trying to escape prison through the front doors. "What the hell do you think you are doing girl??" "You tryna ruin my hardwork??" Amy asked her with her eyes wide. "You better get a towel and wrap it around it and I will be waiting for you," Amy said pointing towards the bathroom. "Common girl, go on, go fetch the towel" Amy patted her knees as she ordered Araceli to go take the gray towel sitting in the bathroom. "Amy I swear I''m gonna make you bathe in salt and get super wrinkled skin for life," Rachel looked at her dead in the eyes while folding her arms. "Whatttt," Amy acted innocently sitting on the bed and crossed her legs looking at her. "I''m not a dog," Rachel said monotonously. "But you let me call you a bitch a while ago," Amy said, smirking. "That''s not the same thing!!!" Rachel eximed. But it looked like Amy was having the fun of her life teasing Rachel, she seemed to be holding back giggles and was trying really hard to keep her "But isn''t that like...the same thing specifically," Amy bursted out in a full blownughter, she had one of those continuousughters that annoyed the victim to death and it was really starting to get on her nerves right now. "Oh you think you are so clever¡­" Rachel checked her phone for the time and saw that it was past the time set for the dye to do it''s work. "Ok I need you to stopughing like a fucking hyena ande wash this out for me before it goes wrong and I never patronize your ass again," Rachel gave her a bored look, as she still couldn''t keep a straight face every time they made I contact and now the giggles have just be unnecessary. "Wait a fucking second, are you high?," Rachel questioned, she didn''t know why she didn''t see it earlier but now she sees it, her closed eyes, her flushed faced, the acting up,ughing uncontrobly and change in characters. These were signs that Amy was high, she usually developed characters on the spot and then followed them through with all seriousness. "Noooo," Amy said, holding back anotherughter as Rachel gave her a serious look which made her fall into another fits ofughter. "God...you are sooo gone right now, what the hell" Rachel rolled her eyes and decided to go wash the dye off herself, if it went wrong, she was definitely going to kill Amy for using her as a fucking experiment of her weed high. "Hey, I thought that was my job!!" Amy yelled from the room but Araceli just ignored her and proceeded to take off her clothes and got into the non transparent ss show to take her bath and wash off the dye and condition her hair too. After a good ten minutes of scrubbing her hair and body with warm water and soap, she decided she had had enough of the bath andforting warm water. She was kind of nervous to look at the overall oue in the mirror as she really thought it was going toe out bad. She walked to the mirror with her eyes closed before slowly opening them, to her surprise, it turned out way better than she expected, her hair was not just dark but dark, shiny and wavy. They looked rich and natural, that was when it ured to her that she had actually never had had or dyed her hair ck ever since she was a kid, even when she went through the teenage phase, it never really crossed her mind to dye her hair different colors, exceot for the one time she dyed her a streak of her hair blue for absolutely no reason but was too nervous to bring it to school because she thought it was wasn''t properly done, so what did a stupid girl like her younger self do...she cut of her fucking hair that had the blue dye. She entered her room to find it empty. So much for "I will be waiting for you," Rachel muttered to herself as she gotfortable in a random band tee and some grey short she found in a box at the end of the closet, it had simr clothes like the one she had on, usually band T''s, cargo shorts, blouses and jeans. The only thing all these clothes had inmon was that they weren''t from any top designer breathing a lot better in these simple clothes than in any of those over priced clothes. Putting on her crocs, she headed downstairs to join them, she could already hear their voices from the top of the stairs which meant they were close to the living room or in the living room. As she reached the lower parts of the stairs, the first thing she heard was a huge gasp from one of them. From how dramatic it sounded, she could already guess who made the sound. "OMFLG¡­" Ricky muttered standing up and rushing to the stairs to take her hands like a princess and brought her down the remaining stairs before dramatically bowing down to her. "What is OMFLG??" Amy asked "Oh my fucking Lady Gaga" "Is there a day you are not overly dramatic?," Rachel asked, hugging himughing. "When I''m sick I guess," Ricky said. "Oh no dear, you don''t say¡­" A deep voice backing Rachel said before he stood up from the chair. Something about the voice felt really familiar to her, the deep baritone and the chuckle. "Ben??" She found herself saying before rethinking the fact that she just called the name of someone she has never met. "Oh my, I''m honored Miss Garcia knowing my name before gracing you with my presence," Ben said, taking her hand and cing a ghost french kiss at the top without actuallying in contact with her hands. "But how do you know my name??" "Have little Ricky here been talking about me while I was away bursting my Arse in architecture school," Ben said, smiling at Rachel. That half tooth, it was definitely Ben, Ben Butterfield. School bullied who always bullied isaac, the only gay kid who was outed in tenth grade by some low budget wanna be assholes in her highschool. He was rumoured that they were both found ice skating in the park during winter breaks and the next year session started and Ben kind of made it his life mission to make Isaac''s life a living hell after that till he got beat up so badly that he had to transfer school. "Busting your ass huh¡­" Ricky repeatedly folded his arms. "Oh you know I don''t mean that literally," Ben said, drawing him closer to him. "Hey Aracel...Are you alright?," Ricky said as the smile on her face dropped and instead she had a sour expression. "What??" Rachel broke from her thoughts to see Ricky giving her a weird look. "You look like sour honey, are you ok?" Ricky asked,ing closer to her. This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. "Do you need some time alone?," He asked in a lower voice so only she could hear. "Yesss oh my God," Rachel said, giving him a fakeugh which he caught on to but ignored because it was not the right ce to question her deeper. "The thing is I was just nervous about my hair, that''s it" Rachel lied. "Your hair!!!" "Girl your hair is so much fire, I mean whoever told you to dye your hair ck really did you a great favor, You really look mean and powerful now, almost like maleficent," Ricky said, nogging her arms. "I did it by the way," Amy said in a sluggish voice. "She has been asking us to cook for her since she came downstairs, is she zed?," Ricky turned around to see her following power rangers intro into their morphing stage. "She is supposed to cook...we had a bet on that," Rachel, Ricky and Ben looked at Amy. "Uhm no¡­" "Definitely not¡­" "Bitch isn''t gonna even know where the pots at??" Ricky said, looking at her dozing off. "When did she even get baked?," Ricky asked. She never really thought about it not up till now, they had been together and she was fine till she was not, and she doesn''t even remember her smoking. "I got some weed brownies and ate some and chewed some," Amy said, suddenly standing up. "Do you have some milk?," Amy asked, heading to the fridge. "Yes, take as much as you want," Araceli said. "Shall we all get dressed, it''s almost four and we have to be there for the red carpet¡­" Chapter 61 Not a faggot? Chapter 61 Not a faggot? "Shall we all get dressed, it''s almost four and we have to be there for the red carpet¡­" Rachel said. She turned around to face Ricky and Ben but already found Ben staring at her weirdly, it made heart skip a beat, and no not in that way, but in a way of being freaked out. He was staring at her boldly now, he really wasn''t even hiding it this time around. "You can stop staring when ever you have had your full," Rachel said, smiling a bit not toe off aspletely attacking or like she had a problem with him. "Sorry if I made you ufortable," "You did make me ufortable," Rachel deadpanned. The air was getting tense from both of them staring at each other for a few seconds that felt like a very long minutes. "I''m sorry if I made you ufortable but you really talked like someone I knew in highschool but that is impossible since you know...You are a billionaire and stuff¡­" Ben trailed off. He badly wanted to make a good first impression to Ricky''s friends but it looked like he had already fucked it up from the start and it was all in the gutter. "Is everything ok??" Ricky came back from making sure Amy actually drank the milk and not something else. Both of them looked tense as hell which made him curious. "Do you guys have a history or something?," Ricky asked folding his arms. "No we don''t, he just reminded me of someone I knew and I think he had the same reaction," Rachel said. Her heart was beating a bit because he looked like he was slowing recalling her even though she was not Rachel anymore, but she wasn''t surprised that he would recognize her energy. When they were in highschool, she was friends with Isaac, they had the same history ss and they bonded over they intense dislike for history and their love for English, they remained friends even after he was outed, or though he lost some of his friends especially his closest male friends, so she made it her goal to try and stick by him even though she was not as close to him as his other friends were. She still didn''t know what happened between Ben and Isaac, he never told her, all she had was just rumors which couldn''t hold water. She defended him a few times from Ben''s intense bullying and when she dropped some courses to take courses she failed due to issues at home, she and Isaac only got to see during lunch and each time they saw, there was always a fresh wound or a fresh ck eye. "So¡­.You don''t know each other then?," Ricky said. "Nope, but he''s hot...You got good taste" Rachelplimented Ricky before leaving them to check up on Amy who was still sipping milk on the stool in the kitchen area. "Hey, is there any problem for real, you guys looked tense like there was some bad blood between you guys," Ricky asked, touching Ben''s arm. His forehead head had creases which meant he was in thoughts or something was disturbing him. "Yeah, I''m fine...She''s just really intense and I was worried about making a good first impression since they are the people you spend most of your time with. But I guess today is not a good day," Ben spilled out notpletely telling him everything how Araceli was so much like his ex ssmate from highschool back when he was a first grade asshole and lost his rockers when he was found with his crush then when he took him for Ice skating. He had always known he was gay, but due to the home he grew up in, he couldn''t let them find out except he was dead so that they could spit on his grave. His father was incredibly homophobic and his mother was a religious figure in church, so she was equally homophobic. He was sure his father and mother bonded over their sheer hate of homosexuals, they went ahead to have three sons bug God decided he had other ns for them and therefore blessed them with a gay kid. He was raised to be homophobic, it was all he ever knew. His brothers didn''t fail to follow their parents hate for it, they dispised a gay man their neighbor and when they were old enough, they beat him up to pulps till he moved away, he never even pressed charges. But all this changed when he was fourteen and the new kid transferred to their school. What caught his attention first was he was intentionally named after a famous scientist, Isaac Newton, which was his full name. They took geography and history together and got to be partners on a project. They became close friends and started hanging out after school. They went to watch movies together and skated, and he would go watch Isaac skate in the park on Saturdays, he thought they were just bing close friends till it was a friday and they got together to watch a movie at Isaac''s house. It was a sleepover and Isaac ended up kissing him and he couldn''t believe it, he couldn''t speak after that because he realized that he liked it and panicked, but Isaac told him he wasn''t gay, just curious. They ended up exploring each other till some of their ssmates caught both of them Ice skating together and told the whole ss that they were dating. He knew they lived in the closed up part of town where information moved around before words got to his parents, it was only about time that his brothers confronted him about it and he denied it and denied being friends with Isaac. Meanwhile, Isaac agreed to it which made him get the tag "faggot", he tried to talk him out of it but Isaac was always outspoken so he stopped hanging out with him even though it hurt him like hell. But that wasn''t enough for his brothers, they wanted to be sure because they knew Benedict had been spending alot of time with a friend and had never really talked about being with any girl or talked about a girl he had a crush on. Ben couldn''t do what Isaac did, be confident and own up to his truth, he couldn''t take the hate Isaac took every day for just being himself. So his brothers finally thought about a way to be sure if he was gay, they made him pick on Isaac, He clearly remembered the day his brothers made him do it. He first told them that he couldn''t do it and that was when tbey used the word faggot on him and it felt like he was spat on. "Are you really a fairy??...A pansy huh¡­" "Or are you a faggot just like that Isaac kid¡­" Jeremih, his eldest brother who was eighteen then. He remember how he flinched at those words, but he couldn''t imagine hurting Isaac. So they did it for him. He found Isaac beaten up the next day in school and when he asks him what happened, he just ignored and walked past him like he didn''t exist. Ben felt thug at his heart. When he got home, his two brothers told him proudly that they had beaten him up for him and he didn''t have tk worry about the faggot disturbing him anymore and next time, he was going to be the one to beat up Isaac. He remembered crying that night bitterly because he couldn''t help Isaac because he was a goddamn coward. One day, On thest day of the semester into the summer, his brothers took him after school, they never told him where they were going but he still followed them regardless, but he recognized this route they were taking, it was the one he and Isaac took when they skipped sses and wanted to get chips for movies, he prayed to God that it was a coincidence, that Isaac wasn''t the person they were after, he cried to God all through his journey, even though he wasn''t a serious Christian, he still believed in God and prayed for this to not be an attack on Isaac. "Where are we going, I''m hungry¡­" Ben told his immediate older brother, Robert. "Oh stop it with your whining, we are almost there," Robert said, walking ahead. His worst fear became reality as Isaac came out of the local grocery store just a block away from his house, and he looked at his brothers in dread and they had an evil smirk on his face that scared him shitless. He knew what was about to happen, they were going to beat the crap out of Isaac again, but this time, he feared it was going to be worse because it wasn''t in school, they were outside and the street wasn''t busy so all odds were in their favor. They creeped up behind him and kicked him from behind making him trip and fall, hitting his head badly against the concrete and his head started bleeding immediately. "Guys I think that''s enough, he''s already bleeding," Benedict begged them. "Do you actually pity the faggot??" Jeremiah came to him pointing a pocket knife at him, horror came over him as he saw his brother had a pocket knife, he looked like a crazed monster holding his own brother at knife point. "No, I''m just saying...he...he''s already bleeding¡­" Ben stuttered. "So??" "Look Ben, we are doing him a favor, he''s going to rot in hell anyways, we might as well make it quick for him," Jeremih smiled looking back at Isaac who was barely moving on the ground. "What about the pocket knife¡­" Ben mentioned shaking. "Ohh...you will see¡­" Jeremih said. Robert had stopped stomping Isaac on his and Jeremih tore open his buttoned up nnel shirt exposing his pale white skin in the sun, he could hear him groan from the force which Jeremih used. The next thing that happened broke Ben and scarred him for life, it was Isaac muffled screams as Jeremih carved *FAGGOT* over his chest, when he opened his eyes, blood was all over the ground, after they were done, they ran and left Benjamin looking at a bleeding Isaac with tears flowing from his eyes. "You are a coward¡­" Was thest words that came out of Isaac''s lips before he went unconscious. He panicked and immediately called 911. After spend over two months in the hospital for 4 broken ribs, a fractured arm and infected cut open wounds, Isaac moved away and Benjamin left his home to college and never looked back, necwr spoke to his brothers or parents and started his life in a different city before he came back to pursue his dream course after a degree in psychology. "Benjamin, baby are you ok??" Ricky hugged him from behind and asked, after seeing him stand in front of a paintint for over ten minutes. He seemed lost in thoughts and knowing Benjamin, he would tell himter in the night, so he didn''t pressure him, just waited for him to give his excuse. "Yeah yeah, I''m fine" Ben turned around and gave him a peck on his lips. "Just taking some inspiration," Ben said. "Well the food is almost done, hope you got some appetite on you?" Ricky asked, touching his stomach. "Yeah, I mean, we are probably just gonna be taking champagne and some silly little chops or what every crazy ass person eats at fundraisers," Benughed and Ricky followed suit. "Well, I will be back" "By the way, after lunch we get dressed in their guest room down stairs, wanna do a little prep to put us in the mood for tonight?," Ricky winked at him, touching his nipples through his clothes. "Oh you naught naught boy, I mean we would be checking off the bucket list of making out in both our friend''s This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. house, we already did it at Michael''s, so this could be the second," Ben said, bending down to kiss him on the neck. "No sex in my guest room guys!!!" Chapter 62 Who is your date? Chapter 62 Who is your date? "No sex in my guest room guys!!!" Rachel screamed as she overheard them from the living room. But they had already started making out and were deaf to the world. So she decided to respect their privacy and left for the kitchen to find Amy drinking the wine she was supposed to use to cook. "When they said reduce the wine Amy, I don''t think that''s what they meant," Rachelughed as Amy poured an extra ss and passed it to her. Damn...she couldn''t say no to wine, especially a D''amello wine, she really needed the wine to take off the edge for the evening. She checked her time and they still had roughly two hours to the event. "So, who''s gonna be your date to the event?," Amy asked, taking another sip at her wine as she hops off the counter to sit beside Araceli who was on the stool. "I don''t know...probably Xander as it is supposed to be I guess, but I still don''t know, I might feel freaky and ask Yandel," Rachel thought about Maya''s reaction, it would be hrious though. She felt sorry for her because she knew one thing for such, Yandel didn''t like her the way she wanted him to like her and it could be frustrating. She probably hated her now because of how much effect she had over Yandel. "Oh yeah, since you are not going with him, Can I take him out instead as my date?," Amy asked expectantly, she didn''t want him for herself because she was sure Araceli had a thing for him no matter how much she denied it and it was obvious how Yandel liked her too. Rachel had a different reaction internally though, she really didn''t expect Amy to ask her about such a thing even though she knew the situationship between them. Of all the mixed reactions she was having, she didn''t expect jealousy to be part of it. She couldn''t bear to see someone else with him. I mean with Maya, she understood because she didn''t stand a chance with Yandel and Yandel would never love her like the way she wants him to, but with Amy, it was different. She didn''t know her reaction would be this. "OMG!!!" Amy eximed, bringing her out of her rapid train of thought. "Girl, are you jealous?!!!" Amy shouteding off her stool. Honestly Amy could be very loud sometimes. "Can you bring down your voice for Pete sake!!" Rachel whispered to her. "Are you jealous??!!" Amy whispered fiercely with her eyes full with curiosity. "I mean the idea kinda made me a little jealous a bit," Rachel confessed, there was no need hiding Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. it. "I knew it!!!" "Like him!!!" Amy shouted again jumping about like a leemar that just got a mango fruit. Rachel choked a bit on her wine as she tried to catch her breath a little after rapid coughs. "Can you pleaseeeeee keep your fucking voice down, My mom is around, she doesn''t need to know I''m practicing infidelity even though she knows about Xander''s " Rachel whispered in a low voice. "Omg¡­ Sorry" Amy said, sitting beside her. "Besides he''s probably going with his childhood best friend, Maya '''' Rachel added. "Maya??" "The girl who likes him and he was oblivious to it?" Amy asked. "Yeap...she''s the one," Rachel nodded. "Wait, they are a thing now?!!" Amy raised her a little which earned her a stern look from Araceli before she brought her voice down, honestly she had to say, it was the weed that was making her very hyper because she couldn''t put a fucking lid on her voice box. "No, they are not" "Turns out, the girl likes him and has been in love with him since they were kids and expected him to love her back but unfortunately, she got sister-zoned by the love of her life and she thinks it''s my fault because Yandel has a thing for me not her," Rachel giggled, Yeap...she was definitely tipsy, she was reaching her limits. "Ouch¡­" "That would hurt a lot," Amy said. "Where the hell is Ricky and Ben??" Amy asked, looking around, she went to turn off the pasta as it was done. "They are making out in my hallway and are also nning to have sex in my guest bedroom...It really be their audacity for me," Rachel chuckled as she remembered them not giving two shits that she was Even with them. "Wow¡­Being single is so boring and Shitty as fuck," Amy muttered to herself. "Don''t worry babe, you''re gonna find your prince charming," Rachel said, pulling her cheeks. "I don''t want to find somebody, I want somebody to find me!!" Amy groaned, hitting her head on the counter repeatedly. "Oh then Looks like you do like being single, girl go out there and find your self a man, you are too beautiful and you ain''t fucking sleeping beauty or a disney princess, no prince is going to stride across the dance floor and ask you for a dance," Rachelughed. "Noooo," Amy whined, continuing to hit her head on the counter. "Girl I aint even gonna stop you, that''s marble granite, so keep at it, don''t just get blood everywhere, this is the kitchen" Rachel said, going to get tes for the pasta. "I think I have lost my appetite," Amy said, dramatically lying down on the counter. It''s not like she has never been in rtionships or guys hadn''t really asked her out, she just didn''t have luck when it came to guys. They were either just really shitty or wanted sex or just were in for the thrill, let''s not even talk about hsr Tindr dates, most of them never even went past the second stage of dinner. She had only been in three short rtionships. The first one was highschool, she was in the cheerleading squad and Her boyfriend was on the baseball Team, they were one of the star couples but she knew her boyfriend was a jerk and a dimwitted jock with no brains or humor. Boyce was one of those clich¨¦ jock boys with nice ass and mid bed game but ego of a fucking juggernaut truck and rich as fuck parents who didn''t give two shits and only wanted a son who yed baseball and as far as he did that, they parented by giving him money he asked for, she broke up with him after a semester of dating after she found him making out with a cheerleadee from another school after their game. The second guy was Damien. He was actually a great guy till he wasn''t. He was in med school and was bartending just like Rick was doing to support himself with school and she was working in a bakery close by. They became friends immediately andnected over tequ after his shifts and talked about their life problems and they had alot inmon like how they were both foster kids and how they both had shitty highschools and how they both thought Justin beiber and selena gomez were never going to end of together (turns out they were right). They dated for three months till he left for med school and broke up with her over text saying he hoped they remained friends and wished her the best. Infact, it sounded more like a farewell text than an actual break up text. The third guy was from a Tindr date, he was the weirdest of all the guys she had been with, he was a french curator and had a cute ent, he had alot of red gs but at that point, she didn''t care. They went for two dates before he invited her over to his ce which was a very nice apartment, he looked like he even did better than he said he did. They had a cute dinner and then a movie night but they watched Fifty shades of grey, then darker and then freed. She didn''t need a soothsayer to tell her the choice of movie he chose was not a coincidence, but she was in a wild experimental phase so she really was worried about being spanked or wrapped or trapped, if anything, she was excited, excited by the fact that she was going to experiment something different for the first time¡­.Boy was she right. They started making out and she noticed whenever she gripped him, he trembled and shivered in her touch. But what she was expecting was somethingpletely different, they went to a small room in his apartment which was his dungeon, after which had his equipment which excited her a little, he then gave her some vodka which she took eagerly, she knew what she was getting into needed some strong alcohol in her system. He gave her some leather clothes to put on, it was a leather suit with a tail and her cat ears and a strap on at the front which confused her, but she put it on anyways after putting on the clothes, they were very tight and slightly ufortable but she didn''tin, it was all experience. He went into some room and took some minutes beforeing out with simr leather clothes that only showed his dick nipples, lips and eyes...shit, and his butthole too, he had a nice round ass. She still didn''t get what was going on, this was a little different from what they had seen in fifty shades. He approached her with timid steps. He ced her hands on his neck and whispered to her. "Take control, punish me and fuck me...I have been a really bad boy," he whispered in french ent. What transpired her waspletely the alcohol''s doing not hers, she fuckes him with the strap on and in return it stimted her clits she had he stroked her and went ahead to ride him, it was the strangest most satjsfying sex she had ever had in her life. "Amy please go check who''s at the door and stop daydreaming about a prince charminging to your doorstep," Rachel asked with her mouth full of spaghetti. "Whatever¡­" Amy Approahed the door and opened it. To her surprise. "Yandel¡­" Chapter 63 Just a childhood friend Chapter 63 Just a childhood friend "Yandel¡­" Amy said in surprise. "Hey Amy, is Araceli home??," Yandel asked politely. There was a prettydy behind him wearing a beautiful red dinner dress. That''s when it urred to her that she hadn''t really dressed up, she was still in her army shorts and crop top. "Yeah, she''s home, she''s eating¡­" Amy replied. "So¡­.Are you going to let us in or what??" Yandel a nervousughter. "Omg...sorrye in please." Amy moved to the side and let them in. He was wearing a zing fire top piece with an undershirt with no tie and a ck trousers with dressing shoes. Maya on the other hand was wearing a hot pepper red dress that looked like it was dripping wet, you could tell she went all out for the look. She also wore red high heels, she had this confident vibe around her that just made everything around her seem significantly lower. "Hi...I''m Amy," Amy introduced herself since she didn''t bother to introduce her. "Hi Amy¡­" She said not really paying attention to her, instead she kept lookibg around the house with envy in her eyes. "Ok nice to meet you¡­" Amy said, leaving both of them to meet Araceli, she decided to go change into her dress for the night. She couldn''t be single and then be oppressed, she wouldn''t let that affect her. "Araceli..." Yandel called out from the living room. "Yandel??" Rachel came into the living room and stood by the hallways holding her empty te of pasta. "Maya¡­" "How are you doing¡­?" Rachel asked looking at her directly.There was a mocking undertone in her voice with Maya caught on to. "Well better now that you decide to acknowledge," Maya replied sarcastically. She could see through all the nice act and she really was only being nice to her because they were in front of Yandel, bitch just doesn''t know how to stay away from things that are not hers. "Would you like anything to eat honey, it''s not protein or silicon but it sure will feel up those extra clothes sagging," Araceli said sweetly, Maya started turning red at this point, she needed to keep her cool, she sees the game Araceli is ying, two can y also. Yandel groaned a little trying to suppress augh which earned him a stern look from Maya, the best he could do was keep himself out of thedies'' bants, he could see missiles flying around, bing a casualty would suck. "So who are you mourning?," "Your engagement?...because those ck curls are really working it" Maya said, with an overly sweet tone. She so badly wanted a reaction from Araceli but all she got was a heartyugh which was beginning to frustrate her, no matter what she said, she couldn''t get a reaction out of her. "Oh it was forced yeah, I''m sure you know all about forced rtionships, like when a guy doesn''t really like you like that but you still decide to drag your pretty self in the mud to get what you want, that''s a very ''YOU'', you know¡­" Rachel got off her chair and pushed it back into its ce, she winked at Yandel who was trying to hold back hisughter and it made him choke and start coughing severely. "Oh hun, let''s go to the kitchen, let me get you some mineral water and a nice chest massage," Rachel said, dragging along Yandel, who just stumbled after her and allowed her to take him wherever she wanted till she pursued on the way and turned back. "Oh where are my manners, Maya¡­" "Please make yourself at home, even though you are only a guest and nothing more," Rachel directed at Maya, the intense look of disbelief and anger hovered all over her face. Rachel knew she was threading deadly paths because Maya looked crazy and acted crazy but she didn''t care, if a bitch acted out of ce, bitch will need to be put back in her ce. When Rachel and Yandel got into the kitchen and were beyond the hearing range of Maya, Yandel burst out into a big fit ofughter, he had his hands on the fridge just over the top of her head. "Girl I swear, I would choose to be loved by psychopaths just so you could defend me every single time with such fire and confidence, I really love when you stand up for yourself, it turns me the fuck on," Yandel trailed as he bent down to kiss her. "Hey lover boy...maleficent is here," Rachel said, before kissing him back just to give her something to think about and make mad mostly. "So you left me there all alone just to make out with somebody else''s wife and you think that''s the gentleman act everyone praises you for, I wish everybody could see this side of you," Maya spat before stomping out of the eye burning sin. She thought Yandel would be gentle manly enough to not do it where she was and not tonights of all nights, tonight she wanted him for herself, tonight was the night she was suppose to feel how what being a couple will feel with Yandel, but that Araceli of a girl never listens, she ws tired of her working around feeling like she owned the ce making people feel inferior. Before she exited the door tears had started staining her cheeks, she could barely make an audible sound when she met two guys who were on the couch asiing her if she was okay. "Hey, should we check up on her?," Ben asked Ricky, who was resting against him watching spongebob. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. "What kind of question is that...Yesss!!!" "Go check up on her and I will go ask Yandel and Araceli why she''s crying," Ricky said, standing up and headed towards the direction of the hallway in which she came out from, he knew that was Maya and he didn''t want to be the one to talk to her, he felt it was better someone she had no idea of. Just as he was about to reach the end of the hall leading to the kitchen and dining area, he saw Yandel "Both of you, hold the fuck up" Ricky said, holding his hands up at them. "Ricky, I promise I will be back, I just need to check up on my friend, did you see her?," Yandel asked in panic. "Yeah, you mean the hot girl in red who was choking on her own tears?," Ricky said pointing behind him in the direction of the door. "Yeah!!...her, I need to check if she''s okay," Yandel said trying to pass by Ricky, or though he was taller than Ricky, Ricky also had a build on him, so he wasn''t just an average american twink people stereotyped him to be, He did go to gym and do other "masc" people termed. "Hey hey hey,e back here" Ricky pulled him back to his front. Rachel on the other hand just paused behind Yandel with a bored look on her face. "Ben has already gone to check up on her," Ricky said. "Now What did you guys do to the poor girl that got her crying like that, ruining all her fire makeup?," Ricky asked, narrowing his eyes at both of them. He knew they wouldn''t hurt anyone but he needed to hear why. "Well she''s my date tonight and she caught me trying to kiss Araceli," Yandel said with a straight face. "Whattt!!!" "We aren''t you two together or something now?? Ricky asked in confusion. "Nooo, we are just childhood friends and I like her like a sister and nothing more," Yandel defended himself. He didn''t want to look like an asshole. "Ouch...poor girl, she must have been so seeing two of you in that position." Ricky felt bad for her because he kn¨¦w what being with someone who would bevee love you like you did felt like. Back when he was in highschool, he had a crazy crush on Adam, he was in their friend group and was the mother figure in their friend group and was always protective over him when bullying became more rampant in their school. During Valentine''s Day, he decides to give him a card confessing his feelings to him but turns out he already had a girlfriend in another school who he was dating for the past six months. He remembered feeling depressed because or though he took it well, he turned him down telling him, he saw him like a little brother and that he didn''t want anything to affect their friendship but things never remained the same between them anymore. "I don''t really feel sorry for her honestly, she knows Yandel doesn''t really fancy her yet she still keeps thinking some sort of miracle is gonna ur and they will get together and live happily ever after," Rachel said, rolling her eyes walking back to the living room. "I mean it''s not like we were kissing or having sex or anything like that," Rachelughed thinking about what the oute would have been, maybe she would have bought some nice ropes and hanged herself so peace could reign. "Girl if I didn''t know better, I would say you sound kind of happy," Ricky followed her. "Happy...I don''t know, maybe" Rachel bounced on the sofa, bouncing on it as she dropped. "I see now...so you guys now randomly kiss huh," Ricky raised his brows at both of them. "No," Rachel said. "Yes," Yandel said. "Alright, I''m off your case, you both do whatever the fuck you like," Ricky said standing up, at the same time Ben walked inside looking pissed as fuck while rubbing his lip roughly. "Babe, what happened??...Is she okay??" Ricky asked with worry, he rarely gets to see a pissed off Ben. He was the kind of person that hardly got pissed. "I don''t want kind of friend you got bro," Ben spat. "What is it, what happened?," Ricky asked more at alert. "We were talking, saying how she got cheated on by her best friend and he had the gots to do it in her face, and I was trying to console the woman and the sicko kissed me, and I pushed her away and she screamed how I was just like every man out there who wanted to exploit and dump her," Ben said, still rubbing his lips in disgust, even though he wasn''t out in high school, he didn''t even try to be with a girl, he couldn''t stand it. "She what!!!!!!" Ricky eximed. "That bitch is gonna lose those extensions along with a few teeth¡­" Chapter 64 Flirtationship Chapter 64 Flirtationship That bitch is gonna lose those extensions along with a few teeth¡­" Ricky fumed. Now he takes away every ounce of pity he felt for that bitch, she didn''t deserve it in any way, he was out here seeing reason with her insane attitude and now she decides to kiss his boyfriend, no bitch crossed the line right there. "Damn...Yandel I told you that bitch is crazy, you need to really check on her or something for real," Rachel said shaking her head. "Where''s Amy??" Ricky asked. "She went upstairs to change for the evening, she said she felt oppressed by Maya''s outfit, so she decided to go change," Rachel said. Just in cue, Amy came down from the staircase into the living area, and all the eyes in the living room were on her. She was wearing a leafy green knee length dress with leafy edges just like Tinkerbell with curled shoulder length blonde hair and white heels. "Woah¡­" Ben and Ricky said at the same time, making Amy blush a bit. "Hey what was happening, I heard an angry Maya screaming through your window?," Amy asked, sitting down. "You look really great by the way," Rachel beamed at her. "Thank you, I know, now tell me what happened while I was gone," Amy said, waving off her "Well¡­" Yandel started. "The bitch got the audacity to kiss my boyfriend," Ricky eximed. "At least let him get to your turn for God Sake," Rachel said. "Well me and Maya came in¡­." Yandel started. "I saw, I literally let you guys in¡­" Amy interrupted. "So I walked into the living room and Araceli came to join us and you and¡­" Yandel continued before he got interrupted again. "And I tried introducing myself and she gave me a nasty attitude¡­" Amy interrupted getting impatient. "Will you just let me finish?," Yandel groaned. "Will you just go straight to the point, we basically don''t have time anymore and I need to dress Araceli," Amy said impatiently. "Ok then, Maya and Araceli exchanged words and Araceli won leaving Maya pissed off as she dragged me to the kitchen to get water, we really didn''t get water though, we spoke instead and I was about kissing her when Maya worked in on us about to kiss, she made a huge deal out of it, called both of us names and then worked out of the house¡­" Yandel narrated before he got interrupted by a Pissed off Ricky. "Then she fucking kissed my boyfriend while he was trying to check up on the sicko bitch!!" Ricky This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org. eximed. "Ricky, we get it, you are pissed as hell." Rachel said. "Wait wait wait¡­.Are we skipping the part where you just said you guys were about to kiss?," Amy asked in confusion. "Are you guys on kissing terms now?," Amy asked. "No," Rachel said. "Yes," Yandel said. "O¡­...k" Amy said, majorly confused, were they a thing or not. "So you guys are not thinking yet right?," Amy asked. Both Rachel and Yandel looked at each other, unsure of what to say. "Ok I see, it is a flirtationship," Amy concluded. A flirtationship is a Gen Z term for people who are more than friends but not up to a rtionship yet. "Ok Araceli lets go, we need to get you dressed," Amy said, dragging Araceli up as she whined and curled into the sofa. "You need to get up now, I have already picked out what you would wear,e onnnn" Amy dragged her up. "Boys, get dressed before we are done, we have to stay on alert tonight," Amy said. Rachel whispered a thank you to Amy as they climbed the stairs. She has been trying to take her mind off the whole evening, she knows that she couldn''t miss it and Greend hall was just a few minutes from here because it was built amongst rich elite''s homes so as to avoid them going into town and reduce risking the chances of robbery or kidnapping. When they got into the room, Amy unzipped two clothes. They were dinner gowns but something about them seemed very familiar. One of them was ck and the other was white. She paused by her bed looking at Amy holding up both outfits asking her to choose but she was more concerned with why she couldn''t remember why the dress seemed so familiar. That was when it made sense, it was the same gown that Araceli had on her when she appeared to her, they must have packed it and kept it hidden from her to not trigger memories, not knowing Araceli was already dead, Amy most have found them at the back of the closet where they hid them. "Come on, we don''t have all day Aracel, pick the one you fancy," Amy asked her again. "The ck I guess, It willpliment my hair," Rachel said. But Amy didn''t seem very into the idea. "Didn''t Xander tell you where the ck," Amy asked, dropping them back on the bed. "Yeah¡­" Rachel trailed off. "And you just gonna do as he says??!!" Amy eximed. "Come on babe, you are better than that, he doesn''t get to tell you what to where when he literally came up with a fundraiser to postpone your dinner meeting," Amy reasoned with her. "The white then??" Rachel said, taking the white, and as she feared, memories flooded her as she touched the fabric. They felt so familiar but it was a beautiful dress, it wasn''t made by a designer she knew, it was made by Araceli''s former marketing manager, a woman who Araceli was friends with. "Personally, I feel the white is really pretty but if you think the ck is okay, then we can go with the ck," Amy said, giving her the ck to hold but dropping it back on the bed. She was going to wear the white and some ck fur over her hands. The dress was a silk like material with stones running down from the breast cup down to the base in a stream line pattern, it also had no arm, the dress had a real 80''s movie star vibe to it. "And make up?," "What do you think?," Amy asked her, sitting in front of a mirror. "I want a real 80''s movie star look, like the 80''s Meryl Streep," Rachel said, smiling into the mirror. "Alright then." Amy started up on her face with little foundation, she had a natural clear skin with great tone and it is one of the things that Amy envied about her. She had great skin tone whereas hers was just pale white and no matter she tried to get a tan, she ended up getting a rash from it, she then went to her eyelids and gave it some dark graphite color and then used the eyeliner. She applied some dark red lipstick and curled her hair. She wore the outfit with ck heels to match with the fur that Amy picked out, the whole look gave her some feeling of dread like she was going to get abused or something. All the angst felt gave her a need for wine so as to clear her head against the evening as she felt she was probably overthinking things again. "I need a strong wine," Rachel said out of the bloom, it was followed by a long pause before both of them busted out in a fits ofughter. "Are you nervous or are you just addicted to drinking a shit ton amount of wine?," Amy asked her, looking at her through the mirror. "Honestly...I think both, I mean sometimes when I''m bored I drink wine, then I decide to take a long bubble bath then I need some wine, then Ie home after a long day, I also drink some wine, I feel stress, I drink some wine, I''m happy and want to celebrate...Yeap, it''s also wine, so Yeah I think it''s pretty much an addiction at this point, nothing more." Amyughed at her brutal honesty. "Well you would be fine trust me," Amy said, kissing the top of her head and hugging by her shoulders. A gentle knock came on the door. From the way it was soft, Rachel thought it was Ace so she signaled Amy to open the door for her. "Is this why I''m your friend, to open all your doors for you?," Amy dramatically sighed. "Oh please, don''t be dramatic, I guess hanging out with Ricky has it''s perks," Rachel shaked head, looking back at the mirror, she looked perfect, she looked like Megan Fox with a ssh of 80''s strawberries and cigarettes. "Mrs Garcia, how are you doing?," Rachel turned to see Amy hugging her mother, kissing her cheek to cheek. If Rachel was feeling a little nervous before, now it was a fully blown nerve racking fit she was in. Her mom definitely didn''t need to see her in this outfit. "Hey baby, you look beautiful" Mrs Garcia kissed her on the forehead, but her facial expression slowly changed into an unreadable one, she slowly looked up to her face level and looked her in the eyes. Rachel couldn''tprehend her expression, she looked like she was about to say something but then held it back but her eyes broke a tear and it slipped down her cheeks slowly before she cleaned them and kissed her head again. "You are a strong woman Araceli Antonia Garcia and I love you," Mrs Garcia said, holding her for a few moments before adjusting back. "Mom are you okay?,* Rachel asked with concern. "Oh Yes baby, I''m fine, don''t you worry," Mrs Garcia said. "Amy, you look very beautiful too by the way, thank you foring into Araceli''s life, I have always wanted her to have her youth and not be too serious with life, Thank you," Mrs Garcia said, hugging her. While hugging her, Amy made a crazy expression before getting released from the hug. Immediately she exited the room, Amy screamed. "OMGGGGGG, YOUR MOM IS A GODDESS" Amy screamed. "She smells like heaven...Jesus" Amyid on the bed. "Alright Tinkerbell, get your ass up, we got a red carpet to set a ze¡­" Chapter 65 Breathtaking Chapter 65 Breathtaking For finishing touches, she took a pack of cigarette purse which were made for her by Louis Vuitton when Araceli was back in France the previous year, and she gave Amy a ss see-through purse to hold on to. Then they headed downstairs to go meet the boys. "Hey, do you want to know why I changed my look today of all days?," Amy asked Araceli as they walked down the stairs gently because of their heels. The tires were made of the same marble tiles which could cause a huge catastrophe if they weren''t careful. "Uhm okay¡­" Rachel replied. Personally she just thought she decided to do a makeover for the night but now that she''s learning there more that inspired the look, she was kind of curious. "You know I have met Xander before right, even though he waa a little intoxicated, he would be able to remember me if he cracked his head a little," Amy said. "Fuck¡­" Rachel never thought of that, all this while she had been bothered about trying not to fuck things up and being at alert and worrying what stunt Alice and Xander were going to pull this night, she hadn''t even had time to think about other people she dragged into her mess. "I''m so sorry, I have been a little selfish and self centered, I didn''t even think about people I have dragged into my mess," Rachel apologized feeling bad. "It''s okay Araceli, if I was in your shoes, I will be selfish and self centered of course, and besides, remember I willing agreed to do it with you and for you, even we both pretended like I didn''t know you sent me fifty thousand dors," Amy smiled, squeezing her hand. "You weren''t supposed to say that out loud," Rachel nogged her. "I never got to say thank you, thank you Araceli," Amy said with a serious tone. "You are wee babe." "You are going to fry Yandel''s poor brain by the way," Amy said, nogging her shoulders as they Belongs to ? n0velDrama.Org. reached thest part of the stairs. "Oh thank God youdies are¡­.Oh my God girl¡­.," Ricky trailed off looking speechless. "Breathe Ricky¡­" Amy chuckled. "Boys, Marilyn Monroe got bad and went ck serve 101 dalmatians crue looks with kills," Ricky announced, snapping his fingers dramatically. Ben and Yandel turned around with a look of astonishment on their faces but Yandel looked blown away, he stood up and met Araceli at the bottom of the stair and took her hands princess style and kissed it. "Oh Ben, was that too much to ask?," Ricky wailed dramatically, holding the stair rail, putting the back his hands on his forehead. "You didn''t wear a dress, hun, that one is on you," Ben said,ughing. "You look really pretty and hot at the same time," Yandel said, looking at her up to down, and she knew what wasing next, some corny ass perv line he had up his sleeves. "Oh no don''t you¡­" Rachel tried to stop the inevitable. "You look like a whole meal and you don''t need fire to get you ready," Yandel said cheekily, earning him a p on the hand. "Hey!!, your hands hurt like hell," Yandel whined. "So does are your corny perverted lines bro but you don''t see myining now, do you?," Rachel said, turning to wink at him. "Alright then, To the batmobile!!!!" Ben said, heading out of the house. "Hate to break it to you babe but not everyone is aic craze like yourself," Ricky said shaking his head. "Well I''m, just that I''m leaning towards Marvel a little, their movies get me," Yandel replied Rick''s assumption. "Well not everyone is relevant," Ricky corrected himself before turning around to smile sweetly at Yandel. "I''m literally a Multimillionaire," Yandel said. "All I hear is pride pride pride honey, keep shoveling it into our face, we aren''tining," Ricky came back. "Nice one babe," Ben said, sharing a high five. "You can''t beat a gay couple with that much connection," Rachel saidughing at his speechless ass. "Well we could have our own connection and beat them with a niceeback," Yandel suggested winking at her. "Nice try baby boy, nice try" Rachel said, patting him on the back. "Okay, this isn''t fair, you guys are totally having a couple''s time right now and leaving me here to bite the dust," Amy whined. "Well maybe you are going to get yourself someone soon, oh wait I forget, you are waiting for a prince charming toe meet you by the wishing well singing your ass out as he finally drags you to his castle where you will born kids, with a permanent smile on your face living happily ever after," Rachelughed. "Oh fuck you," Amy spat. "I love you too boo," Rachel replied. "So how are we doing this, because we definitely aren''t going with Ben''s shitty car, No offense babe," Ricky said. "None taken, it is a shitty ass car," Ben replied. Ben held Ricky by the waist before pecking his head. "Wait wait wait, you guys don''t know the rules??," Amy asked. "What rules?," Rachel asked in confusion. "The IG rule???" Amy said as a matter of fact like it was a general rule everyone knew about, and by everyone she meant Ricky and Ben. "Oh shit yeah, you guys don''t know the IG rule??," Ricky said like it was a normal phenomenon. "No we don''t know the IG rule, tell us!!!" Yandel said. "How do you guys not know the IG rule??," "You guys are practically billionaires," Amy said. "Well we make money through businesses and deals and investments not social media, we have someone who takes care of our socials," Yandel said. "Modesty is really your thing, isn''t it" Ricky gave him a tight lipped smile. "Well the IG rule is a rule that states before you serve the red carpets your formal looks, you have to take the informal looks at your home and post them for anticipation of your red carpet looks," Ricky told them. "Everyone knows this," Ben added, still in disbelief that they didn''t know. "Well some of us were pretty much busy in business school to know stuff like this," Yandel said, giving the dropping mic sign and stretching his hands for a high five. "No honey, that wasn''t cool" Rachel said walking past him. "Amy??" Yandel said, stretching his hands for a high five¡­ "No bro, you are flexing on us, high five yourself," Amy said, working ahead with Araceli. "Come onnnn, you guys are being mean to me I swear," Yandel whined. They ended up taking a bunch of hot and funny pictures before heading towards their cars. Rachel went with Yandel in his ck Porsche while Jeffrey drove Amy, Ben and Ricky to the ce. "Have I told you you look really beautiful this evening?," Yandel said, looking at her again as she settled into the passenger sit. "Actually no, just really pretty and hot at the same time," Rachel recalled. "Awwn, you keep all mypliments at heart," Yandel cooed. "No honey, they are pretty basic as fuck, a five old will remember them after ten years," Rachel lied. The truth is that it actually took a huge hit at her recovering heart, Yandel''spliments really made her feel things she didn''t want to feel yet but she was never gonna let him know, at least not now that they had other issues at hand, after all this, they were definitely gonna have alot of memorable sex by God''s grace. "God''s grace" she thought to herself internallyughing as she just dragged God into the mud in the name of fornication. "Basic!!!" Yandel eximed. "Oh then, from now on, I will be giving you bomb ass names andpliments since my mature to regret this but she still let him go on anyway. "My scrunch butterballs, would you like some coffee for your tittering legs, they need to rest and it''s not even that cold yet?," Yandel asked with a normal expression. "Whatttt!!!" "What the fuck are scrunchy butterballs??," Rachelughed as she tried to imagine a scrunchy Butterballs and cringed. "My cheeky beetroot baby, they are rawpliments from my uncensored brain, I want you to chew, suck and choke on it, I''m sure those are things a five years old won''t do now, are they?," Yandel asked smirking. "Well somewhere in the world right now, there are kids who are victims of pedophiles," Rachel brought up even if she knew it was inappropriate. "Eww, why would you bring that up?," Yandel cringed at the mere thought of it. "Because, you are a fucking pervert," Rachel chuckled looking away. "You asked for it, I don''t remember always being like this till mypliments were never enough for you," Yandel said, touching his chest. "Maya just sent me a text saying she would be wait for me outside the event center for us to go into the red carpet together," Yandel read his phone as his face creased into a frown, he was starting to get a little pissed, he has had his fair share of Maya drama today. "Has she always been like this?," Rachel asked out of curiosity, she knew she was his childhood friend but it all in all still made her more curious, if he had known her for that long then how did he not know about this side of her that was giving him worry. "Honestly no, she hasn''t always been like this, she has always been there to listen and advice me when I needed someone to talk to, especially when I was five years older than my siblings so I couldn''t confide in them first because they wouldn''t understand, so I always told her everything, but ever since I found out that she had a crush on me, I don''t know, she just became extra sensitive, and I found her clinginess a turn off to be honest,I just couldn''t like her in that manner and now she''s forcing it," Yandel rambled sounding stressed. "Did you know the other day she literally out of no where told me that She had a chance with me that as long as I wasn''t gay, she still had a chance and that even though I was, she could turn me straight," Yandel at this point just looked disgusted. "She''s no longer who she used to be and I honestly don''t want to lose her," Yandel said. "You won''t lose her, just try and talk some sense into her, I''m sure she will listen," Rachel adviced. "Trust me, I have, she just doesn''t listen, it''s like the more I tell her no, what she hears is ''keep trying harder''," Yandel said. Reaching the hall, they arrived at 5 45pm and she could see her car ahead with Amy, Ricky and Ben came down and Lights started shing in their direction, she was nervous, Araceli must have been on tons of red carpets and but Rachel hasn''t and she didn''t want to to be honest. "Hey...you will be fine, I know you are not a big fan of red carpets, I mean we could go togeth¡­" Yandel was saying before he got interrupted by a knock on his window, and of course it was Maya the desperate bitch, and Yandel brought down the ss. "I will catch you inside," Rachel said, opening the car door to exit the scene. "Oh no, please stay," Maya said in a nice genuine tone looking down a bit, making Rachel stare at her weirdly before looking at Yandel who stared at her before nodding before she closed the door back. "I just wanted to Apologize for my behavior, it was uncalled for so...Yeah I''m sorry, " Maya apologized, she sounded too broken and genuine for Rachel to think she was daydreaming leaving both of them in shock... Chapter 66 Awkward introduction Chapter 66 Awkward introduction "I just wanted to Apologize for my behavior, it was uncalled for so...Yeah I''m sorry, " Maya apologized, she sounded too broken and genuine for Rachel to think she was daydreaming leaving both of them in shock. "I know this is strange and you expected me to be at home fuming and sulking and throwing a fuss begged. Rachel looked at Yandel again and see could see convincion in his eyes, of course he was going to be convinced, this was his childhood friend who he spent all his life with being friends. But she had to admit, it all felt weird, some hours ago, she was spitting venom and nders on tbeir faces and kissing someone elses boyfriend and not she''s suddenly sorry for being a ss A asshole and wants to enjoy her night with her best friend. But then she never really got to know her as a person and she was intertwined with the person she has been obsessed with since they were kids, giving her a benefit of doubt, she decided to give them some space to talk to each other. She opened the door and was about to go out when Yandel held onto her hands. "Hey, Where are you going?...I thought we were going in together??," Yandel said, pouting his lips at her. "Stop it, I told you it''s not cute," Rachel pped his hands off her. "Come on, wait for me" Yandel begged. "I''m not going in now, just going to meet up with Amy and the others and besides, you guys need some time to talk to each other, it''s clear that there are some uncleared grounds between you both," Rachel said, she leaned in to give him a kiss on the cheek while she kept eye contact with Maya, She just smiled sweetly at her with a cunning look lingering in her eyes. She knew at that very moment she had to be weary of Maya, the bitch was up to no good. "Alright," "Wait for me...please" Yandel kissed her hands before letting her go. He watched her exit the door and wave at both of them before blowing a kiss his way, he felt his heart pick up in beat, looking into his rear mirror, he saw a sheepish smile on his face. "What is this girl doing to me¡­" Yandel muttered to himself beforeing down from his car and locking it with the key remote in his hands. "Uhm...Hi" Maya said, smiling nervously. She really needed him to believe her. "Hey¡­" Yandel replied, pulling her close and hugging her, he just wanted his strong and beautiful childhood friend back, the one who defended him all the time and the one who took care of his kid brother and sister when he was away. "So wanna go inside, You know the paparazzi are going to be all over you this evening," Yandel teased her as they held hands. Maya couldn''t believe he just forgave her on the spot after all she had done but then that was what was expected of him, he was always forgiving with people he loved and cherished. "Oh you are such a tease," Maya said leaning into him briefly before going back to her standing position, she couldn''t deny it felt really good, she was so pissed she couldn''t have that forever. "So why don''t we go meet my friends," Yandel suggested, walking away from his car towards where Araceli stood gorgeously beside Amy and Ricky, they seemed to be in a deep conversation that they didn''t even notice himing their way, he turned back half way through realizing that Maya wasn''t following him, he walked back to her and saw that she was nervous staring at them from afar. "Hey, It''s okay, If youe to apologize, they would forgive you trust me," Yandel said, tugging her hands towards their direction but she didn''t borge, she remained where she was standing looking reluctant. "Come on Maya, I would be there with you, it would be better to clear any element of bad blood so you don''t have to worry about that, we are all friends here," Yandel convinced her but she didn''t seem convinced, staying adamantly where she was, making peace with Yandel and pretending to be at peace with Araceli was her goal. There was something the muslims used to say like "If Muhammad (SAW) doesn''t go to the mountain, the mountain was gonnae to him". Well her mountain wasing towards her in the Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. form of four people, even though it was evening, it was still bright a bit and she could totally make out the hate on one of the two guys face which she guessed was the boyfriend of the guy she kissed out of one of her manics. "Great¡­" Maya muttered to herself as she emotionally prepared herself for their drama, she might sound ridiculous saying she hated unnecessary drama but she was kidding, she hated the drama, the unnecessary drama, the having to apologize to people she didn''t give two shits about, so she got in character, the sooner she became more visibly sorry, the faster she gets to get rid of them. "Hey Araceli¡­" Maya greeted, she knows she had already seen through her act so there was no use being nice with her. She really would love to break Araceli and make her regret eating from exclusive tes. "Hey Maya...Don''t you think you owe some people an apology," Rachel gave a bored look without hinting who it was, no one needed to point out Ricky fuming on the side with Ben putting his hands on his shoulder. "She thinks she''s such a smart," Maya thought to herself as she was getting there. She knew people like Araceli, they thought they were the hero of the day, always loved to prove they were smart or could make people feel better interceding for people they knew nothing about other than what they have been told. Her mom was a very good example of an Araceli, where the hell is she now...In fucking jail!!!. She went to jail for a man who didn''t give two shits about her, yet she was rotting there for the next twenty five years, she did visit her once after which she sent her away to never see her again. She gave her one advice. "Fuck up anyone who attempts to fuck you up," it was a statement that lived with her for all her life till this very moment and it influenced her every action. "I''m so sorry for kissing you and I''m so sorry for kissing your man, I don''t know what I was thinking and I promise nothing is going to bring us to sure a situation ever again," Maya begged. "Alright, We forgive¡­" Ben atarted before he got interrupted by a very impatient and angry Ricky. "Bitch, do you really think I don''t see through your pitiful act you fucking serpent low ass cun¡­" Ricky exploded, throwing every single profanity in the books that he could grab, he always imagined what it would be like when he finds out that Ben cheated on him, call him dramatic or over thinking but he did his emotional preparation in any rtionship of any kind he was in. "Babe!!!...We are forgiving for peace to reign," Ben cut his ranting off because he said any more profanity that people could handle. "Alright...whatever whatever, can we just go for the event, it''s gettingte," Ricky said. "Has Xander called you yet since you are his date?," Maya asked, holding onto Yandel''s forearm as they started walking towards the entrance. She just wanted to make Araceli lose her cool too and make a mess up so Yandel could see she was not the perfect being that didn''t make mistakes, that like any other average human out there, she could make mistakes and go out of character or run outt of "Oh yeah, he has dear, he is supposed to be up in front," Rachel said in a sweet voice that scarred the permanent smile that she was sure was now hurting her cheeks. "Oh there he is¡­" Rachel said forcing herself to look at him with a smile and kissed his cheek. "Hey honey¡­" Rachel said, with faux excitement. "Hey love, you¡­.Uhm¡­. you ready?," Xander stammered, the fake love she was showing to him took him by surprise, he was ready for her bitter conversation but seems like was over that faster than he thought it would take her. "Babe, I want to introduce you to my friends," Rachel said in a cherry tone. "Babe...I don''t really have that kind of time right now, I got guests and Red carpet pictures," Xander gave excuses so he could escape the awkward show down Araceli was trying to disy. "Ohe on babe, it''s just a meet and greet, just my friends, they have heard alot about you." Rachel said kissing his cheeks as a form of reassurance. "Ok fine, let''s be quick" Xander said, throwing head away and sighed, only God knows what she wanted from him now. "Ok ok, this is Maya Harvey, harvy yeah??...ok Maya Harvey, she is Yandel''s date tonight for the asion," Rachel focused on the fact she was only his for the night which made her boil within but couldn''t really say it out. "Next we have Amy, you can call her like a sister, but she''s an asshole and she really good with styling, she picked out my outfit too," Rachel said, hugging Araceli. "Next we have Ricky, he''s the quite one with dramatic tendencies," Rachel summerized it for him. "Then this is Ben, Ben is Ricky''s boyfriend, they have been together for months and young strong every day," Rachel said, searching his face for a hint of disgust in his face. "Omg...babe are you homophobic?!!" "You looked a bit ufortable after I mentioned they eat each other''s ass, I hope you are okay with them because if not, we might have to just go," Rachel said, faking being hurt on their behalf. None of them got what was going on right now, not even Amy, who was stalling. "And finally, my baby, Yandel Anderson Baldwin, he''s my business partner and close friend, we hang out in cinemas just two of us alone in the evenings, really chilled while you are always very busy with work to make a five minute journey," Rachelughed, but she knew the havoc she had just caused, she was well aware that Xander didn''t like Yandel and it wasn''t even because of her, sheter got to find out it was between their families. Yandel was choking on saliva in his own lungs, Maya looked dumbfounded because she was still processing the fact that I told that Yandel was my baby. Amy, Ricky and Ben were all looking for where their jaws dropped. "What the hell do you mean by that?," Xander said, ucing her arms away from his amd she felt a heavy sigh of relief hit her chest first. Being close to him was starting to irritate her badly. "Ohe on, Don''t make it sound like a big deal, we just hanged out and talked about business a few times and just had fun and got to know alot about each other by actually spending time with him," Rachel said it like she was just figuring it out. "What were you guys doing¡­" "Or should we have met in one of my hotels, maybe that would have been better for you, don''t you think?," Rachel interrupted him as she readjusted the fur on her shoulders. "What¡­" "We should head to the carpet now, let''s make an appearance and make most lf the night honey," "Just make sure you are not to busy with work and incase you get too busy, please get some candom to avoid silly mistakes like having a kid of your gene?," Rachel dropped on him making everyone go silent. Satisfaction, that''s what she felt right now, now that she has triggered the bastard, it''s time to watch him act in anger and be very predictable. "Araceli what the fuck are you¡­." Xander was growling in a devastatingly low voice before the Ride of Mr and Mrs Garcia stopped right in front of them, they were on the steps of the building that led to the red carpet, so if he needed to say anything shitty to Araceli, he needed to bite his tongue and hold it in because she knew riling him up in front of people was her strategy, she herself was bing quite predictable, he knew he had her mother''s soft spot so that was going to and will always be his exploitation point, but what happened next surprised him¡­. Chapter 67 The Miller X The Garcia Chapter 67 The Miller X The Garcia Leaving Araceli and the others, he decided to n his escape from Araceli''s bashing, and her parents were the perfect escape route, he could be their personal host this evening there by avoiding Araceli. "It is such an honor to have you here Mr and Mrs¡­" Xander started as he rushed down the stairs to open their door but got cut of by their guard that pushed him back roughly as he barely got a hold of himself beforeing in contact with the staircase. "Oh did he hurt you dear boy?," Mrs Araceli came down from the G-7 onyx Mercedes Benz Jeep they got for all of their family to celebrate the new year, she was in all white just like Araceli with a follow up white peacock feather crown in her curled ck hair and low ck ss heels from Louis Vuitton, she gracefully came down from the jeep with the help of her body guard. "Hehe...no ma''am I''m¡­" Xander started but got cut off. "Yes Mrs Emelia, I''m fine, he weighs nothing much," Her body guard replied, leaving him behind guiding her the stairs, she met with all of Araceli''s friends, after the who meet and greet acquaintance, Mrs Garcia turned around to face Xander who was still at the pavement looking at them inplete confusion. "I only honored this invitation because it is an invitation from a miller, nothing more, do you understand me?," Mrs Garcia said, walking back up the stairs as her three hefty bodyguards followed closely behind wearing white zers with ck dress trousers. It suddenly clicked in Xander''s head, she knows...She had to know because he doesn''t ever remember being rude to her or doing anything remotely bad to her so it only had to be that she knew and Araceli had told her. But he needed to confirm, Araceli who was former calm and meek, now she''s a fucking serpent and he can''t seem to breathe well around her, plus he couldn''t loose his CEO position because of her to his asshole of a kid brother Philips. Every since they were kids, his father had always praised Philips like he was some fucking god just because he was better at hurting people and hunting. When they were growing up, the One year difference between them made them seem more like fraternal twins because they were about the same height, when ever they visited the country house where their grandfather was being taken care of, his uncles will take them hunting in one of the near by woods, they would hunt down kid deers and Xander couldn''t bring himself to do it, and in his ce Philips would do it without hesitating, His father will pat him on the back and praise him for not hesitating, he said it was part of the training they all needed to be very sessful In the business world and that his father and his grandfather all went through the same training. "If you want to be rich, you need to be able to take from both the innocent and weak, from the brave and strong, from the na?ve and ignorant," His father told both of them, patting Philips on the back for a job Weldone for killing two baby deers. "Alexander, you didn''t make any kills today, you would not have dinner this evening, make be when you are hungry, you would remember what being unfortunate and poor feels like," His father said. They headed towards the carriage that was waiting for them at the edge of the woods. Yes his father was down to his roots in old school. They used carriages to move around except when they were going into town. As he was about to hop into the carriage after the bodyguard, the door was closed in his face, and the window was slided down. "There is no ride back for the weak, take a walk home and think about how you need to toughen up," his fathet said to him, and just before the window blinds were shot, Philips made a funny face at him mocking him for being too weak to be a baby deer. The only reason he was chosen to be the CEO of his Father''spany was because he came first, not because he was qualified or ready even though he was, if his father was to go by favorites, he would have chosen his kid brother for the job as CEO, and even better, his mother didn''t give two fucks, all she wanted was throwing useless events and blowing the money on useless things, likest bookclub read of the year, jew festival preparations...what the hell was even a Jew festival preparation party, and she couldn''t even defend her own kids in front of their father, always cowarding behind him. He decided to call on Alice who hadn''t still showed up yet, she was suppose to get a package ready which they could use as n be, instead, she wasn''t picking her calls and he was running out of patience and his mental health, the moment he decided to try her number onest time, a hand tapped him on his shoulders, he ignored the touch hoping the person will understand and leave him the fuck alone, a cloud of a strong cloud of perfume surrounded him and a slender finger ended the call he was trying to make, he didn''t need any more clue to who the person was, Rachel bent down behind him and whispered in his ear. "She''s not gonna pick nor is she going toe anytime soon, it''s almost time for the main event and that''s us," Rachel stood up and waited for him to stand up and turn around. Xander couldn''t tell if she was bluffing or actually serious, at this point, she was back to being unpredictable again, could she have been the reason behind why Alice isn''t here yet or was dhe just capitalizing on his worry knowing he would fall for it, after thinking through it, he finalized she couldn''t have had anything to do with Alice, she wouldn''t even know what Alice had to do with tonight so he lwt his mind rest. So he stood up and linked his hands with her as they climbed up to meet the rest who were on the other side of the ss door. "I know Alice didn''t spend thest night at home, so now it''s between you and me, where did she go?," Rachel asked tightening her arm around his as they kept walking slowly because of her heels. "If I knew, I definitely wouldn''t be here trying her number desperately now would I?," Xander hissed under his breathe, all tbis games were beginning to mess with his mental health and he didn''t like it, somehow Alice convinced him her n was gonna work either she got the package or they were going to make another and Just like the gods or rather demons were on his side, she was in the same outfit or he was just having a really bad deja vu. "I don''t know what you guys are ying at but I wouldn''t be caught dead in your trap, and trust me, I don''te the same twice," Rachel told him confidently, turning to look at him as she was scanned for any object on her body that could be implicating. "Can we stop this mind game and let''s just marry and divorce in peace, I keep my life and you go on with yours, as simple as going intoa for months and waking up different," Xander shot back at her which took her different amount of time to reply, she had to admit that got her. "What can I say, severe times calls for severe changes," Rachel smiled sweetly at the building security personel giving her a pass sign. "What did you tell your Mom?," Xander adked, he had to find out somehow, he knew Araceli would beat around the bush about it but he hoped that he was going to get more than sarcasm and a heavy attitude. "What else are you gaining from this marriage asides Your job you need to keep, because your job is your birthright and also not my problem," Rachel shot back, he doesn''t know she saw the file with the attorney under Alice father''s firm, the document gave him ess to all her wealth and properties in legal terms, plus other private properties Araceli purchased under her name, it was a veryplex case but it was a strict case which meant they already knew who the case was in favour in, but she never got her hands on the document or Araceli didn''t think to copy it because she had searched her memory and everywhere in her room, she couldn''t find it. "I told you, I just want my position as CEO, I don''t need anything else," Xander told Araceli. He sounded trustful and sincere but she knew she couldn''t believe a word that came out of his mouth, they were all lies, lies was something he was good at. "So tell me, what did you tell your mom about me, because she has never treated me this badly before," Xander asked. "I don''t know what you are talking about bruh, but you want some piece of advice...You should get used to people treating you like shit from now on because from here, it only gets worse," Rachel smirked at him as they walked towards the people queuing for the red carpet, she could spot Maya''s cherry red dress three couples away from her. "I can say the same thing about you too, because it''s going to be a really funny joke if you think i would be going down without a fight," Xander shot back as their turn slowly reached. "Whatever you say bro, just know a little something," Rachel took a pause, she debated on whether she should break the ice or leave him in suspense, if she left him in suspense, he would keep would just think that she was trying to break Him and Alice up which wasn''t the goal, the goal was to remove some amount of trust between them and rece it with doubt, she hoped the n would work just like he said. "Alice was a great friend of mine or so I thought, we did highschool together and out of all I went through, I used to count her among all the good things that happened to me in highschool." Rachel started. "If she was able to turn her back on me, who she had known since middle school, what makes you think she wouldn''t turn on you at a certain point, I mean think about it, your gain in this is known already, and you already know what you are getting out of all this but what is she gaining?," Rachel said. Their turn was almost up and her shlight was getting stronger and stronger, getting into her eyes making her them a little. Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org. "What do you think?," Xanderughed. "That you could drive a wedge between the two of us, make us doubt what we have between two of us, it''s not gonna work Araceli, you have a long way to go if you think that''s your strategy for winning this, I mean you must really think I''m stupid huh?," Xander looked at her as if she just cracked the most foreign joke he had ever heard. "Yes, I do think you are stupid because deep down you know you are right, but if pleasing daddy is all you can do after all this years of him still thinking you are shit, you just go ahead and prove him right," Rachel winked at him. "Alright now, take my hands and you better make sure I don''t look bad," Rachel warned him as the climbed the red suede rug that extended through the work through to the other side of the hall where the fundraiser was taking ce, from the name of the sponsors on the poster behind them and Miller Company logo to every other thing set up properly, it was either two things, they had this whole thing all nned up for a long time and it wasn''t a coincidence and they merely forgot that they were throwing a very huge fundraising party like this or they really used enough money to buy days like rich people did and had the best organizers do the work on a very short notice and yes it was an intentional coincidence to avoid the dinner meeting she had nned with Him. They walked forward as Rachel watched as Amy took control and attention of the whole red carpet and all the cameras left thest couple who were probably some random rich progeny who took over daddy''spany just lik.e her. She was sparkling in the showers of camera shes she was receiving and in that moment Rachel could really see her fronting a magazine cover and she had the perfect cameraposure, the next was Ben and Ricky who stayed by both sides of Amy before standing as a couple, there were two more more couples in front them before she realized she must have probably missed Yandel and Maya while trying to fuck with Xander''s head. The other couples got on the carpet and got their lens time and before she knew it, the usual jitters she got when ever she was center of attention came to stomach, she became a bit nervous but she didn''t let it show as she remembered her mother''s words about keeping a neutral face when the time presented itself. Soon it was their turn, Rachel and Xander climbed onto the tform. "Miss Araceli look at the camera please," "Here," "Mr Alexander here please," "Over here please," random voice''s came at them to look at the camera. It was an overwhelming process for Rachel because she hadn''t done something like this before but she was sure Araceli had, so she had to act natural and cooler. "You are a billionaire heiress," "You are a billionaire heiress," "You are a billionaire heiress," Rachel muttered to herself trying to fuel her confidence. "Get closer," Someone behind one of the hundred cameras shing at her said. She expected Xander to move closer to her but instead he had an ufortable look on his face and after that he got his hands away from hers making everyone go silent with lights shing. Rachel watched him work away from her as he went to meet Alice who came in all ck dinner gown with a V Opening down her chest and down the side of her thighs and wearing a ck lipstick with ss steep heels as Xander took her hands and led her up the stage before putting a hand on her back and led her into the red carpet. Rachelpletely forgot that she was still right in the middle of the red carpet... Chapter 68 The red carpet Chapter 68 The red carpet Rachel watched him work away from her as he went to meet Alice who came in all ck dinner gown with a V Opening down her chest and down the side of her thighs and wearing a ck lipstick with ss steep heels as Xander took her hands and led her up the stage before putting a hand on her back and led her into the red carpet. Rachelpletely forgot that she was still right in the middle of the red carpet... Yandel who was watching the whole drama take ce quickly rushed out and ced a hand on Rachel''s back and kissed her on the forehead snapping her from the shock Xander and Alice left her in. Loud gasps erupted from the crowd, even guests who were hanging around stood watching in The shes seemed to increase in it''s number and it didn''t stop until Yandel and Araceli both walked off the tform into the side of the auditorium where there were less people and no light shing at them. She knew the amount of drama that just ured was going to be the topic of her sunday, the business times were going to turn it into a bigger feud than it appeared but who wouldn''t. "Wow¡­" Yandel said first, breaking the few seconds old silence which just entailed both of the breathing at first nothing more. "Fuck...My Dad is going to fucking kill me me, so much for don''t stain mypany with unnecessary drama when it''s yours to run," Yandel continued. "I''m so sorry," Rachel let out her first set of words since the whole drama on the red carpet which was literally minutes ago. "For what, what the fuck are you apologizing for because it sure as hell ain''t that red carpet moment right there that we just had because just for the few momemts I got to im you as mine in front of those cameras were the best I have felt with anyone," Yandel said with a dreamy daze in his eyes. He really looked happy for someone who just fucked up his ownpany for her at the middle of a mental breakdown. For the first time as Araceli, she was out yed and embarrassed in front of live videos and cameras, and if she wasn''t saved from that shame by Yandel, she would have been "Thank you," Rachel hugged him tightly and he wrapped his hands around her securely. "We still got this, our n would work, trust me," Yandel assured her. "I hope so, because right now, anything we do we are going to be ying into their hands," Rachel said, releasing Yandel. "That''s why we are not gonna do anything," Yandel told her, taking out a pack of cigarettes out of the pocket of his zer. "We are not," he continued. "I mean, aren''t we the victima here, aren''t we traumatized and shocked about everything that just happened, besides I''m a very good friend of yours who couldn''t watch you suffer in embarrassment in front of the crowd watching from home," Yandel smirked at her. "Damn was he smart," Rachel thought, she could already see where this was heading too, she needed to really y the victim role before he released any statement to the public and Yandel was ying the role of a good friend and a kind business partner who cared. "It will work...trust me," Yandel said, putting a cigar in between his lips before he got it pped away from him and matched on. "Hey, what the hell," Yandel eximed. "No smoking, remember you said you are quitting," Rachel reminded him. "Merde¡­" Yandel cursed in French meaning *shit*, it was kind of a habit for him ever since he was a teenager and he couldn''t curse in front of his siblings because they were kids, so he developed his french vocabry so that he could curse in french. "I know you just said shit," Rachel looked at him unimpressed. "You speak french?," Yandel asked surprised. "No, I went to school so I know a few words here and there," Rachel replied. "Bloggers are going to print the first shitty story first thing at midnight," Yandelughed. "Oh tell me about it," "Something like...Billionaire''s fianc¨¦ abandons her in the middle of a red carpet for a strange woman...that would have been the end of it, but no, Yandel had to be in the story too, CEO of the Baldwin Ink tech enterprise (BIEE) abandons date and goes to save secret love interest in the middle of the red carpet¡­"Lovers in Feud!"...The perfect heading for tonight''s drama" Rachel spoke with a newscaster''s voice putting her hands together making Yandel burst into a fit ofughter. "Wow, was the fake British ent necessary though?," Yandel chuckled, even though it was funny, it was also spot on. He stood there watching her giggle at her own voice and all he saw was a very pretty, strong and heavily witted beautiful woman in front of him thst he wanted so badly, maybe there was a reason for his trying to make her better ever since he got to know her as a person, he always thought he was irritated by her but he guess it was actually more intrigued about her than anything else. "But seriously Yandel, would the n work?," Rachel asked him in a serious tone, she couldn''t afford another show down like this again. "I don''t know honestly, but let''s see how it goes, remember we are ying the victim and you are the woman in this case so the public is going to buy your story better because you are the one he left live on TV, plus remember, you need to get more social media followers, what we need is for you to slowly start building your side of the story of anything in case they decide to bring anything that could pull you through in the mud. "Wait what do you mean by I''m the woman?," Rachel asked offended, was he trying to say women are less overdramatic than guys and therefore will deliver a better story than you is a lie. "Well like it or not Araceli but Things and situation like this do go in favor of the woman not the man but specifically in this case, the whole thing will be in your favor because he left you, now stop worrying and lets get inside please, I''m sure your friends are waiting for us after that kind of drama we pulled out there," Yandel said with a smile, adjusting her fur on her shoulder. "Now put a smile on that face and let''s go," He took her hands and lead her to the hall entrance. There were still a few people outside, some were making a call, others were with a cigarre in between their lips and others were in discussion with someone. Just as he predicted Ricky, Amy and Ben quickly approached them and Amy went to give Araceli a tight hug, Ricky next gave her a hug and Ben just gave her an awkward pat om the back before looking weirdly at Yandel decided to make a conversation with the other were going to be busy talking between themselves. "So¡­.How are you I guess?," Ben went off a bad start, he didn''t know how to start conversations properly, he doesn''t even know how he ended up with a really social and talkative person like Ricky Wesley, he always made fun of him whenever he''s boyfriend was named after a book character amd his origins, no he was actually from thd united kungdom and non¡­Wow, he got One of the most shittiest British ent when they went to eat at a five star restaurant. He could remember the day they started talking. He went into his private inbox to send him a message about how he could do first away with all those feelings, what he said back to help me thinking of the very feminine aspect. They started dating some months Back after their first meet up at the cafe where he walked. The truth was he was looking for an out going guy who was proud and out and didn''t care what people thinks about him, he needed to tap from that kind of energy because he was still notpletely out and he still felt the fear of been watched by his brothers over his shoulder but that was one thing Ricky cared less about, he was a foster kid who left his shitty foster home at seventeen for college and was finally going to graduate college together,he made his life look so easy when he was going through actual fucking hell but he rather distributed his time to people to make them happy because thAt was all that mattered to him, he believed the more people were happy, the more people could be happy because happiness is more contagious than any other feeling. Benjamin spaced off looking at Ricky who was holding Araceli by the side as Amy readjusted her makeup. "You really love him, don''t you?," Yandel asked, snapping him out of the staring trance. "Dangerously, I don''t think he''s aware how I do, but I think its better this way," Ben said, sighing. "What do you mean?," Yandel asked, not understanding how it was okay for someone not to know how much you loved them. "I mean when we first started seeing each other, I was looking for closure and he was looking to heal, the moment I healed him and assure him I was here to stay, he loved me wholly, just like you, Right now, you are doing everything for Araceli because she needs someone ti be there for her and you are being that person, but at the end, she might end of loving you more than you love her even though deep down, you know you love her more," Ben rambled, he still saw a look of unsureness on his face so he gave up exining. "I think I know what you mean, the person you fight for ends up loving you more than you do, even though you know you love them more," Yandel muttered. "Exactly...but that''s just my theory, it could be really different in different people," Ben said. "What are you boys talking about?," Ricky said, appearing at Ben''s side giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for waiting," Ricky whispered to him. "It''s okay, a friend of yours is mine," "How''s she holding up?," Ben asked. "You know shw didn''t lose a family or anything right, we just wanted the tea and help her reapply her makeup. "Tea¡­?," Yandel asked in confusion. "It''s gay for gossip or details," Ricky replied him. "Alright guys, let''s go in, she''s fine, the shot missed her heart by far, so she''s okay," Amy announced to them in a dramatic voice. "Jesus¡­" Rachel muttered under her breath as Yandelughed at her embarrassed faced. In three''s Amy, Ricky and Ben and two''s Rachel and Xander walked into the asion room, there were round tables with six chairs, each one had a family name on it and as usually, it was in terms of hierarchy and the top three were lined in front, the Azariahs, the Garcias and the Millers followed by the Jacobsons and Alhassans. There were beautiful golden lights everywhere and the whole asion wasContent provided by N?velDrama.Org. definitely an over night nning because of how simple yet elegant it was, there was nothing special, just the same kind any other business personel will throw. They headed to the sit where Rachel''s mom was sitting since it was the assigned number on the spot. Kissing her mother on both cheeks, Rachel sat closest to her followed by Yandel before Amy, Rick and Ben. The whole space was presented in the middle so this wasn''t just going to be an ordinary ball, this was going to be some ballroom kind of thing. "Hey, I heard what happened outside, tell me in detail," Mrs Garcia asked. "We Were taking pictures on the red carpet, it didn''tst long till his mood suddenly changed and he left me and went to Alice immediately when she arrived," Rachel told her. "I can''t believe I once believed this idiot over my own daughter, I guess I was just obsessed witj trying to find a nice and perfect man for you and Ipletely missed the mark by agreeing to set you up with a bloody feel bad, he''s lucky I can''t you gun him down like a restless chicken," Mrs Garcia spat, she felt more her fault, because she even knows didn''t know him well or study him. "Well as you go to his house, it''s kinda poisoning so that he would feel most ufortable." Mrs Garcia said. "Alright Ladies and gentlemen...shall we begin¡­" The Novel will be updated first on this website. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!