Lena stared blankly at the instructor in front of the class. She almost groaned out of frustration. She never expected modelling to be this difficult.
She had only envisioned that it was all about wearing wonderfully designed clothes, applying makeup, getting into the mood of the theme, cat-walking to and fro in front of the audience and that’s all.
Who knew she would have to learn theories and go through difficult practicals before she gets to the main part of modelling? Lena stared at the woman in front of the class blabbering on and on.
Is the instructor just being difficult on purpose? There was finally a break when a man Lena has never seen before walked in. He’s likely one of the instructors.
He walked to their instructor and leaned in to whisper something into the latter’s ears. Lena watched curiously though the woman didn’t display any expression, the news must be something big.
Then the man left the class and the female instructor turned to the class. She cleared her throat and told them, “If you all must know, there will be a transfer student to your class soon. No… The student isn’t a student of this school but I suppose she has enough connections to have made Mark admit her even though admissions have closed.”
The instructor looked displeased as she spoke. She hates students that get into the school using connections and not potential. Whoever the student will have already given her a bad impression.
Lena looked around the class, watching the students whisper. She doesn’t understand how this is such a piece of big news. She rolled her eyes and sat back to endure the rest of the lesson.
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“Sir… This is it,” Emily’s tone sounded detached as she handed over a bundle of paperwork to Ryan. She then waited patiently for him to give her more jobs as usual.
She hates to admit but she really is getting a hang of this. At least, it keeps the pesky jerk away from her and she gets to learn new skills by practising the paperwork tasks.
Ryan collected the paperwork and dropped it on his table carelessly. Then he faced Emily and asked her lowly, “Girlfriend, why do I feel like you are upset with me?”
He needs to know. He just feels like she has been avoiding him since the day he subtly announced her as his girlfriend to Eva.
Emily tried to hide her irritation at the word he just used to address her. There’s no one here now so why is he still acting? Her fists clenched when she remembered what had happened in the IT section that day.
And it’s all because of this jerk. If he hadn’t been so prudent, she wouldn’t have gotten into so much trouble in the company. She already apologized to him so what else does he want?
She didn’t even really insult him that time at the elevator. So why is he doing all this? “Emily,” His low voice and the warm sensation on her hand brought her back to reality. She’d been lost in her thoughts without knowing.
She looked up into his dark eyes and realized that he was already standing in front of him. Why didn’t she notice when he stood up?
“Emily,” He called her again, softly this time. She hates to say this but damn! She’s trying so hard to stay mad at him but him calling her name this way did something to her. Her name had never sounded so pleasing to the ear.
“What?,” She tried not to snap but she just couldn’t hide her irritation. Now he seemed to have noticed that something is wrong cause he sat down on the table and pulled her to him, not too close but not too far.
“What happened?,” This was his first question. “I know you’ve been trying to avoid talking to me but the fact that we share the same office is making that hard for you why?”
“That’s the point,” Emily stated. “That’s the point,” She repeated again. “Why? Why am I sharing the same office with you? According to what I have heard, you don’t get too close to women. You reject their advances in fact they repulse you so why? Why do you keep being all touchy with me? You… You even declared that I am a girlfriend.”
Ryan fell silent. Why? He doesn’t know why. He realized at that moment that he doesn’t know why he did all that. It just… It just felt so natural. But now that she has asked, why is he doing all this?
‘Dummy,’ Ray’s voice was pretty loud in his head. ‘You are not helping,’ Ryan’s response was quicker than expected.
Ryan looked up and saw that Emily is still waiting for answers. “Is this why?” He threw a question at her instead. Noting her confused look, he asked again, “Is this why you have been trying to avoid me? Is this why you are so mad at me?”
It was Emily’s turn to be silent. Is that why? No, it isn’t… But she couldn’t just tell him what Eva did to her that day.
“Emily, I’m waiting. What’s wrong?,” He asked her again, now drawing invisible circles on her hand in an attempt to ease her worry. He could feel how restless she is and what really hurts is that he doesn’t know why.
He doesn’t even know why it hurts. “You didn’t answer my own questions. I asked you first so you should be the one to answer first,” she tried to evade the questions too.
Ryan was speechless. She is clearly using his own tricks on him. But before he even got a chance to say anything, her eyes squinted at him suspiciously and she asked, “Wait… Are you in love with me?”
Ryan’s eyes almost fell out of their sockets. Love!!??
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“Bitch! What did you say to father to make him agree to this? I knew it. I knew you had an ill intention when you requested to follow me,” Leilani spat out spitefully.
Coco just continued humming her happy song and went on packing her clothes. Leilani almost spat out blood in anger.
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