Then, she noticed how messy her hair was as she looked at herself in the mirror.
“Oh my god, what have I done?” She yelled out.
Francis pinched her cheeks lightly and said, “You’re such a lazy girl, aren’t you? Didn’t you go to bed at, like, nine last night? Didn’t you get enough sleep? How come you’re not able to get up this morning?”
“Well, I did go to bed at nine, but I was on my phone till really late….” She murmured, squeezing toothpaste onto her brush slowly.
Last night, on account of another one of his conference calls, Francis had only gotten back home past 2 am. So, he didn't know what Scarlett had been up to in the earlier hours of the night.
Scarlett reached for her pocket to fish her phone out, but when she put her hand inside her pocket, she found that her phone was gone. “Wait… where the hell is my phone anyway?” She was puzzled.“Your new cell phone went missing again? No way!” Bell was shocked.And then Scarlett suddenly remembered that Francis had thrown her phone in the backseat. When she had gotten out of the car, she had forgotten to get it back. Once Bell realized that Scarlett would be no help, she started asking other people.Realizing that she wouldn’t get her phone back until the end of the day, Scarlett felt irritated and upset. She wanted to check her messages. What if something happened to Carlos and the help tried to give her a call? What would happen then?
Since it was November, the heat had been turned up by maintenance, and it was nice and toasty indoors– Scarlett was comfortable roaming around in just a t-shirt. At the same time, Scarlett was reading a novel sprawled on Bell’s bed while everyone else was busy playing Monopoly.“Scarlett, don’t you want to join us? This game of Monopoly is getting superheated!” Sarah said, marveling at the properties she had been able to amass in the first quarter of the game.Scarlett heard that and looked up, but Bell chimed in before Scarlett could say anything, “Sarah, you’ve already stolen every single property from us! Now you want to steal more from Scarlett, too, don’t you?” Bell chuckled.“Fine, I’ll try to stop absolutely crushing you guys at this game. Anyw
“I’m so sorry to have caused you so much trouble!” Scarlett said as she followed behind Eleanor and tightened her coat to protect against the chilly wind.“I’m fine. It’s your uncle who is still waiting downstairs in such cold weather. When you get there, you’d better apologize to him.”“Okay, I got it,” Scarlett said, although she thought it was strange and inappropriate for the RA to try to tell her what’s right and wrong.Scarlett walked out of the dorm building, and Eleanor went back to her own room.There was a car parked on a bare tree-lined path, and a man was leaning against the car with a lit cigarette between his fingers. Standing there, he kept looking at the gate of the dorm building, looking v
Francis just smiled and said, “Babe, think about it, if I don’t help them this time, we will be their first suspects when something goes wrong with their business in the future. Don’t you think so?”“Are you going to help me take revenge on them?” Her eyes lit up with excitement.“Do you really want that? Well, since you are so excited about that, I’ll think about it.” He said as he looked at her.And then Scarlett had her arm around his waist. She looked up and said, “So you are pretending to help them, and you will stab them in the back, right? You are going to help me take revenge on them, right?”Francis touched her hair gently and asked seriously, “Babe, do you really want to take revenge on the
But Scarlett was too far away to hear their chattering. As she walked downstairs and kept yawning, the cold wind woke her right up, putting an end to her sleepiness in one fell swoop. And all of a sudden, she heard a voice saying,“Excuse me! Do you know where Scarlett Morris is?”Scarlett heard her own name mentioned, and she raised her head to see Claire in a red coat and black knee-high boots asking around about her.She slowly walked over to her and asked, “Are you looking for me? What do you want from me?”Claire smiled coyly, “It’s too cold here. Let’s go find a warm place to sit down and chat for a moment. What do you say?”Scarlett nodded her assent, although she was uns
Staring at Scarlett’s back outside the window, Claire bit her lips slightly and thought to herself: if Francis didn’t really love Scarlett, she might still have a chance to win his love. If she didn’t fight for it and missed her chance, she would end up depressed. She would have to watch her beloved spend the rest of his life unhappily. She couldn’t allow that to happen. After all, for her, Francis was no less than a god. Scarlett was just a daughter of a failure, how could she be worthy of her god?Scarlett knew Claire was very ignorant, but she never expected her to be that ignorant. Carrying a little plastic bag with drinks, Scarlett walked back to the classroom down the chilly campus path, cursing the cold weather under her breath.In the afternoon
As Scarlett was walking out of Mr. Smith’s office, he suddenly piped up again,“You are free to have a relationship and get married to whoever you choose. And I hope that you won’t be tarnished further for your personal decisions in life. I wish you a happy marriage.”At the moment, Scarlett was almost about to cry.She turned around, thanked Mr. Smith profusely, and then walked out.As soon as she got into the corridor, the levees broke, and Scarlett began sobbing uncontrollably.“Hey, don’t cry! You are calm inside. Don’t cry now, okay?” Sarah tried to comfort her. In truth, Sarah didn’t know how to comfort her.“I&rsqu
Skyler closed his lips and said, “I know how hard these things have been on you, Scarlett. I want to make sure you’re okay. And do whatever I can to help you.”Scarlett put her arm around his shoulder and said, “I don’t care what others think of me; I only care about what you think and feel. As long as you know the truth, nothing else really matters to me. You know that, right?”Skyler looked up at her and said seriously, “I’ll always respect your choice, and I mean it.” Skyler knew his sister very well, no matter how difficult things got, Scarlett had never done anything that would compromise her dignity. She had the utmost self-control and respect for herself.Scarlett was kind of intimidated by the serious look on his face, “Hey, chill out. You sound so