"Hello? Alli?"
"Dude I was the one who called you and you are looking for my girlfriend?" Andrew said a bit annoyed.
My eyes widen. I can't believe that Andrew really calls Lieo! Did they reconcile already? That's great news! I'm happy for both of them.
"I know that it's your phone number. I just assume that it was Alli who called using your number since it's impossible for you to call me especially at this hour." Lieo calmly explained.
"Fine. The reason that I called is that I want to introduce you to someone." Andrew said then he look at Ava.
Ava on the other hand suddenly became qu
"Oh! You guys are fast!" I rolled my eyes at my cousin who was the one who opened the door for us. He asks us to come in, I rolled my eyes again at him as I was entering their hotel room. Andrew and I had no choice but to shorten our vacation because of these people. I didn't get all the details, all I know is they are here because they have a meeting with Catherine to talk about the sponsorship. I didn't know that this sponsorship is in a hurry for them to fly here in the US."We are now complete!" Mike said cheerfully. Indeed because even Iya was here. I can't believe that time will come where I'll say to myself that I am not happy to see them. How can
The party has already started but Noah and Ava are still on the road. My forehead creased. It's been an hour since Noah texted me that they are already on the way here. They are supposed to be here by now because my apartment is just 30 minutes away from Ava's house.I excuse myself from my friends to call Noah. "Where are you? You guys are supposed to be here by now!" I said as soon as Noah answered his phone. I heard him sigh. "We are already outside your apartment." My eyes widen. "What?! Then why are you not coming inside?" I asked."Ava is hesitant to come in," Noah explained.
I was shocked and ashamed at the same time. I realize that in my eagerness for him to move on, I became insensitive to his feelings. I know how hard it is to move on from someone you truly love. I'm so thankful for the love that he is giving me, but I want him to fall in love with someone else who will give me the love that he deserves. "I'm sorry," I said sincerely.Lieo smile at me but it didn't reach his eyes. My heart hurts seeing him like that."It's okay. As I said, I know that your intention is good. But I will appreciate it if you will let me move on, on my own way and phase." He said quietly.I bit my lower lip and nodded at him.
"Excuse me?" Anne was stunned by her sudden reaction. She cleared her throat and avoided my eyes.I'm not sure if this is the first time that she lost her temper. I guess, Liam still affects her. That increases my curiosity about their past relationships. I know that I shouldn't fry on her business with him, but I can't help it. I wanted to know more about Anne's past since she's working and close to my boyfriend, Andrew."A-Andrew, I suddenly feel unwell. Can we just meet tomorrow about the contract?" Anne asked looking so pale.Andrew nodded but looks confused. "Sure, you look pale. Let's meet tomorrow."
"Can you cancel your meeting with Liam?" She pleaded.My forehead creased from her request. What's with Liam? Why Anne is so affected by the fact that I will meet the guy. "Give me a reason why do I need to follow your request." I challenged her.I don't have any plan to follow her request but I may consider it if she will give me a valid reason.Anne looks at me intently. She was trying to read my mind but I just remained poker face."Liam will surely ask you about me." She said.I frowned. "Why will he ask about you? I mean our meeting has nothing to do with you, the meeting is purely business." Anne's expression did not change. It was serious and so sure of her statement. "What's with you and him?" I asked curiously."It's none of your business. Just promise me that you will cancel your meeting with him and you will never meet him again or I'll steal Andrew from you." She warned me.The concern I felt for her vanished. How could I forget that this girl is different from what she
"What do you mean?" Liam shook his head. "As expected. She just let you guys judge her without defending herself." I was stunned by what I am hearing from Liam. I was so sure that Anne is a golddigger and he was her first victim. But Liam is saying otherwise. I don't know anymore what to believe. Lance has strong evidence but Liam has first-hand experience with Anne.If Liam was telling the truth, then I should be ashamed of myself for judging Anne quickly without hearing her side."Anne was a sweet and innocent girl when I first met her. She's good at designing clothes. Her dream was to work as a fashion designer in Paris. But because of me, she throws that dream away." He said while looking at me intently.My eyes widen at his revelation. It was Anne's side that no one knew. Liam stood up and went to one of his office drawers and took a folder. He went back to his seat and gave me the folder. I took the folder and started to check what this folder was all about.It's a fashion po
I am trying to absorb everything that I heard from Liam. I don't know if I should trust him or not. Should I believe everything that he just said?What if all the things he said were all make-up stories to be closer to Anne? What if he wanted me to believe that he genuinely cares for Anne, but the truth is, he wants revenge. But what if it's true? Then, Anne was just a victim. And as a former friend, I kind of feel guilty for not giving her a chance to talk and explained herself. I judge her based on the evidence that my cousin gathered. It didn't occur to me that there's always a reason why people resort to doing evil things. Instead of judging her, I should have known first why she did those things.I was not able to do my work properly because my mind is full of questions. I don't know the right thing to do. It's a good thing that Liam agree to give me time to think before I gave him my decision.I don't know much about Liam. I did some research about him since he was lined up in
A week has passed since my dinner date with Andrew. My mind is not a bit at peace with Anne. Even though I haven't received the result of the investigation about her past with Liam, I am convinced that Anne is not as bad as I thought she was.But I still need the result of my investigation because I want to be sure that Liam is sincere in his intention of helping Anne. I can't ignore the possibility that he wanted to get his revenge on her. I won't let that happen. I left the office a bit early because I will be meeting the investigator at my house. One of the house helpers informed me that my visitor is already waiting in our living room. I nodded at her and told her to bring the visitor to my study area.We all have our own study room in the mansion. But I don't usually use my study room because I prefer to work in my room that's why I asked for a working area inside my room. I usually used my study room whenever I have a meeting with my team in my house or I need to talk to someo
"OMG! Are you sure you want me to join your agency?!" We asked everyone if they can free their schedule today because we have something to discuss with them. When I said we, it composes of Iya, Anne, Lance, Mike, Lieo, Vince, Andrew, and yours truly. And yes, Anne is part again of our group. I told them about my plan of launching Stellar Artist, an agency for promising artists. And I want Iya to be one of our pioneer artists along with Andrew of course, the cousin duo."Of course, you have so much potential Iya. Aside from your beautiful face that your job as a radio DJ is wasting, your way of connecting to people and giving them your advice is on a different level. You deserve more spotlight, my dear." I sincerely said to her. She looks at me teary-eyed and then she hugs me."Wait, are you only getting Iya and Andrew? What about me?" Vince asked. I just rolled my eyes. "As if I can sign you in my agency. Your network will surely help me if that happens." I said as a matter of fac
Anne keeps sending me tweets and messages from fans. I know what she is doing. She is lowkey convincing me of changing my decision to retire. One thing I like about Anne as my manager is that she's also very accommodating to my fans. She made sure to update them on all my events and plans. She always tells me that fans nowadays are like the artist's PR. They are the ones who are more eager to promote my concert and other events. They made sure that I will always in the top trending list. They even bought air-time ads to promote my album and concerts. I am feeling sorry for them because I was not able to bring back the love and support that they are giving me. "Anne I know what you are doing. But it's too late now. I already announced it and you will be leaving for Paris next month, I will have no manager even if I go back." I reasoned with her. "Alli can be your manager. I know that she will be very willing to be Anne." Anne said sounded like it was not a big deal. "Alli is too
Our names are once again on the top list of Twitter and even in the news. Andrew is more eager now to retire because of this. He wants his peaceful life to be back. Showbiz is too chaotic for him. Most Belle fans stop bashing, especially those who have big followers because Anne release a statement from Andrew's side that they will not tolerate any bashing for me. And they will surely take legal action against those who insult or threaten me. But of course, there are still a few who will bash and we can't control it anymore.I told Anne just let those bashers be. "I'm sorry, Alli but Andrew wants to sue those fans who didn't listen. He said that if we let them be, some fans will follow. It's better to give some of the bashers a lesson so that others won't follow." Anne said.Anne and I are now in her office. I visited Andrew but he was still in a meeting so I visit Anne as I wait for him. "Well, you guys have a point. People nowadays are becoming irresponsible. They are just saying
"I hear from Andrew that you are behind all this." Anne was the one who broke the silence. We are in the lounge for almost thirty minutes but no one is talking. Andrew left after Anne and I settle in the lounge area. Andrew hasn't shared with me what happened during his talk with Anne. I was hoping the whole day that he will share it with me, but it didn't come. I guess this is the reason why he did not share anything with me yet."What do you mean?" I asked so she can elaborate. "You found out the truth about my past, and you plan all this to help me." Anne's voice began to break. She looks at me, biting her lips to stop herself from sobbing. "Thank you, Alli," She said then she began to sob.I went near her to hug and comfort her. "I'm sorry for all the things I did to you. I even tried to ruin your relationship with Andrew. I am the worst person in the world." She said while sobbing. I hug her tighter and caress her back. "I understand. You are hurt that is why you got lost.
"I will fire Anne." Iya's eyes widen. "What the heck Andrew?! Don't you have any compassion in your heart? Plus, Anne was closest to you!" I chuckled. I will also be reacted like that if I didn't know the reason behind firing Anne. "Alli, how can you laugh in a situation like this?" Iya said in disbelief. Andrew and I burst out laughing. Iya is just so cute. I look at everyone and they are all confused by our reactions. "Chill guys, there is the reason why Andrew is firing her," I said."Is it because she's the one who exposes your relationship?" Mike asked still confused. "No. I would want to promote her because I always wanted my relationship with Alli to be exposed in public." Andrew said and I just rolled my eyes. "Then what's the real reason?" Iya asked a bit impatient. I took my bag and took out a calling card. Lance took the card to check on it. "What is this for?""Claire Chiuri is a known fashion designer in Paris. She works in one of the luxury brands in Paris. I me
"Here's the journalist that Anne met last night." I look at the picture that Liam showed me. I took it and smirked. I know this guy. He works at Vince's company. He is a known and credible showbiz journalist, he also has his showbiz talk show. I met him at some of the events. "I'll take it from here," I said with full confidence. "I am now convinced that you know how Anne works. All your predictions were accurate, even this." I added. Aside from Anne, he also predicted his family's move. The reason why we have paparazzi when we are in the US. He feeds them of his plan of getting back with Anne. He also made his assistant act like he is on the side of the family, but the truth is, all his assistant's information came from Liam. His assistant was the one who suggested the paparazzi to his family and sent the photos to Anne and the media. Now that Liam's family role is done. We are now focusing on how Anne will act. And true enough, Anne is planning to expose my relationship wit
Andrew and I check our phones at once. And just like what Liam said, our "relationship" is now going on the public from the so-called paparazzi. I check my Twitter and saw that my name and Liam's names are on the trend list not only in the Philippine trend list but also worldwide. I instantly check the newly uploaded video of Stellar and just as I predicted the views went up to fifty million views. This is insane! So many marites(gossipers) all around the world!"They really went all out!" I can't help but react. "We already expected this, my love. And also, this." Andrew said while showing me his phone where Anne's name was on the screen. Just as we predicted, Anne will surely react. Andrew accepts her call and put it on speaker mode."Have you seen the news today?!" Anne said without saying hello. "Hello to you, Anne." Andrew greeted her instead. We heard her fake cough. "Hello." She greeted back. "So, have you seen the news?" Anne asked again. "Yes, Liam called Alli and told
"Interview with Mr. Valencia has been uploaded."I nodded at my assistant. "I got it! Thanks, Isabel." It's been a week since Liam and I went back to Manila. We both agreed to meet every other day for a quick meeting. The agenda of our meeting is not about business but the development of our plan with Anne. Also, we are still being followed by Liam's family. We have to make it looks like we have a special relationship, in that way Anne will be triggered by the relationship that I have with Liam. I open my laptop to check the video and to check some of the comments from netizens. As expected, some trolls are commenting about our chemistry. 'These two look good together. I heard that they are already dating.''My friends in the US saw these two going out. I guess they are already in a relationship."'I saw them having dinner in BGC. They look so sweet. I think they are already dating.''I think this guy is the one for Ms. Allison. Can't wait for them to announce their relationship.'
“I know that you are angry and I know it’s valid, but promise me that you will stay calm tomorrow.” It was Andrew. Since I was having a hard time sleeping, I texted Andrew after I called Alexa. I asked him if he was busy because I want to call him. Good thing his meeting got canceled so I am free to call him. I told him everything that has happened to Noah, even the proposal. He was a bit pissed with Noah and he wanted to call him but I manage to stop and calm him down.“I can’t promise that. I still can’t over the fact that Alexa made Noah her mistress. My best friend doesn’t deserve that! She took advantage of the love that Noah has for her! I’m not even sure if I can forgive her!” I honestly said. “I know, baby. Again, I understand. But I don’t want you to say anything to her when you are at the peak of your emotion. You might say something that you will regret in the future.” Andrew calmly said.I get Andrew’s point. It’s not right to let your emotion control you. You might do