Alysssa smiled.
“Good choice, gurl. Where can she try it on?”she turned to the attendant.
“Follow me, please.”she said to Beatrice.
Beatrice nodded before tailing behind her.
The attendant took her to a room and left.
Katherine stripped out of her former dress and puts on the wedding gown.
She stepped out afterwards.
“Ooooh”Alyssa winked at her.
Doreen moved forward and took pictures of her from different angles.
“You know you cannot upload that pics now, right?”Winifred told her.
Doreen scoffed.
“Do I look like a dummy to you?. Why would I do that.”she rolled her eyes.
“You’ve got to be the most stunning woman on this earth ever.”Alyssa cupped her cheeks.
“Well, I’m flattered, but thank you anyways.”Beatrice grinned.
Jennifer scoffs.
“If you’re done, I guess we should start heading out then.”Olivia snorts.
“Babyyyyy.. gosh.. I’m so speechless right now.. you are soooo.. cute.”Winifred blushed, and Beatrice cringed a little.
“Oh, yeah, Wini, thank you.”she smiled at her.
“Well can I grab your hands?”Wini asked.
Olivia frowned while Alyssa sighed and puts a hand before Winifred.
“Don’t go overboard, miss. You said just friends.”
“Yes, I said that. I can’t hold my friend’s hands again?”
“Yes, you can’t.”Alyssa smacked her lips.
Winifred rolled her eyes.
“Duhhhh..”
Beatrice went back to change back into her dress.
Alyssa settled the bills from the money Gregory sent her for Beatrice’s dresses and other stuffs.
The wedding gown was packed up for them in a customized nylon.
The girls decided to shop few dresses for themselves too.
Alyssa asked if Beatrice would like to do so too but she shook her head.
Alyssa still got some clothes for her while picking her dresses up nevertheless.
She even got them both a matching outfits.
They headed out of the house and went back to the hotel to drop their things before heading out to a restaurant.
Doreen kept taking pictures and that isn’t going down well with Jennifer especially.
“How many followers have you got?. You keep taking endless pictures. Even I with the many followers haven’t taken a single shot since we got here. You would have taken five hundred pictures by now.”Jennifer let’s out.
Doreen rolled her eyes while still taking pictures.
“Hello, ma’ams. Welcome to..”a waiter came to their table.
“Scratch that.”Olivia cuts in as she rolled her fingers in disgust.
“I don’t wanna hear your introductory message. Just give us the menu card.”
The waiter bowed before stretching out the card to her.
Olivia studied it and huffs.
“A glass of pineapple juice would do.”she passed the card to Jennifer.
“I would have shake shack.”Jennifer breathed out.
The waiter noted it down on his jotter.
Alyssa snatched the card from her.
“Chipotle for two.”Alyssa said and gave Doreen the card.
“I’m checking my weight. A glass of chilled yoghurt would do. Let’s go to the beach next, guys.”she returned the card with the waiter.
“I would be back soon, ma’ams.”he said and left.
Doreen sets her phone in a landscape way.
“Everybody say cheese..”
“Sh! t”Jennifer took her face away quickly.
“Cheese..”Alyssa and Winifred said while Beatrice just stared away.
Olivia stared at the camera with one eye and as she hissed, the camera captured her like that.
Doreen smiled and checked out how the picture came out.
She bursted into laughter when she saw how weird and witchy Olivia looked in the picture.
She showed others and they all bursted into hysterical laughter.
Olivia collected the phone and seeing her funny face, she felt embarrassed and quickly deleted the picture.
She slides the phone back to Doreen on the table.
The waiter came back with their orders and set it before them.
They retired back to their hotel but had plans of hitting the city’s club in the night.
Beatrice said she was out and Alyssa said she would stay with her.
~
#At night.
Both Beatrice and Alyssa slept on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
“Do you want me to tell you bedtime stories? “Alyssa poked Beatrice’s arm.
Beatrice chuckled.
“Now about you tell me something else?”she placed her hand over another on her stomach.
Alyssa raised her head then placed her right hand on the bed to support it.
“Okay. What’s that?”
Beatrice took her lips in then breathed out.
“Tell me more about Gregory. How is he like.. to you?”
Alyssa laid her head back on the bed and rolled her eyes.
“Now we have to talk about your man to lure ourselves to sleep!”sje scoffs.
“Point of correction, not my man. Maybe boss would do.”Beatrice sighed.
Alyssa scoffed.
“Well, to answer your question, he is not who he seems to be in your eyes.”she exhaled.
Beatrice’s face went pale.
Alyssa glanced at her and chuckled.
“Not like that. He always act cold and all but he’s actually nice, a lot nice and caring.”
Beatrice nodded and Alyssa yawned.
“Geez, Beatrice, why don’t you even want to crash at the club with the others?. I should be there too but I had to stay since Gregory said I should take care of..”she covered her mouth.
Beatrice’s stomach churned in an unfathomable excitement.
“I shouldn’t have said that. Ugh.. good night, girl. Sweat dreams.”she pecked her forehead.
Beatrice nodded and soon, they both slept off.
**
Next morning.
..
Beatrice was the first to wake up and she felt grateful for that as she could get dressed before Alyssa wakes up.
She brushed her teeth, took her bath then started operating her phone.
Alysssa woke up after a while and asked her why she didn’t order for food.
“I don’t know.”Beatrice sighed.
Alyssa scoffed before going to call the customer service.
“You’re just so shy, Beatrice.”she said to her as she waited for the other line to pick up.
She ordered for breakfast and went to the restroom
Breakfast came and Beatrice ate her’s.
When Alyssa was done dressing up, she ate her’s too.
“Girls… it’s time for beach!!!”Winifred squeaked, coming inside their room.
“Now, that sounds fun. We going now?”Alyssa asked.
“Yeah.”Wini nodded and went to peck Beatrice on her cheek.
“I let my guards down.”Alyssa frowned.
“Oh, you sure did.”Winifred winked at her.
“So, Beatrice, you coming, right?”Wini asked.
Beatrice shook her head.
“No.”
“Come on.. you didn’t go to the club and now, the beach too?”Wini whined, pouting her lips.
“I.. just don’t like going out too much.”Beatrice sighed.
“I’ll stay with you.”
“No. Don’t worry. I am used to being in – door so I would definitely find what to do somehow.”
“You sure?”
Beatrice nodded.
She cannot deprive her of her own fun.
She has done enough by staying with her the other night.
They all went to the beach without Beatrice.
Alyssa asked her few more times if she really didn’t want her to stay even as they were leaving.
When Alyssa was gone, she slept back on the bed and started pouring her heart out in a story.
She can never get bored doing this.
**
~At the beach.
..
The girls were scattered everywhere, taking pictures.
Doreen did a short live stream video before proceeding to take pictures too.
Gregory called Alyssa on facetime.
“Is it my eyes or did you just get cuter?”She smiled.
He scoffed.
“You guys went to the beach?”
“Obviously. That shouldn’t be a question.”she rolled her eyes.
“Where is Beatrice?”he inquired.
“She is home. She didn’t want to come.”
Gregory nodded slowly.
“I think she is just like you. You both don’t really like going out. She declined going to the club last night too.”
Gregory nodded and rubbed his chin.
“Okay, bye then.”
“Wait, what an asshole you are! So, you didn’t really called me because you want to see me but just because you want to see Beatrice?. You met me before you met her, boy!”
“Who is this old woman?”Gregory laughed before ending the call.
Alyssa fumed in anger.
She would surely get back at him.
After spending hours on the beach, they went back to the hotel.
They decided to assemble at Olivia’s room to watch movies together.
They requested for juice from the kitchen.
When it arrived, Jennifer went to collect it from the waiter.
She dropped each glass before each person.
They were seated on the ground.
“Which movie should we watch?”Alyssa sighed.
“My movie! I mean the one I casted in, the new one.”Doreen grinned.
“I’ve watched it.”Alyssa snorts.
“And others?”Doreen asked, gazing at them one after the other.
They all nodded, except Beatrice.
Since majority carries the vote, they had to opt for another one.
Winifred downed her drink and reached out to Beatrice’s own.
“Can you not be so greedy?”Jennifer scoffed at her.
“It’s okay. Just carry it.”Beatrice told Winifred.
Jennifer frowned.
“Well, th..”
Winifred didn’t wait for her to complete her statement before carrying the drink and gulping it down.
Jennifer’s eyes twitched.
Her heart skipped a beat and she batted her lashes rapidly.
When they’ve started watching a movie, Winifred suddenly hiccuped and started coughing repeatedly.
Then, suddenly, blood gushes out of her nose and mouth at the same time.