04

Emily couldn't stay in the same house with her sister, they never got along and she was sure a fight would erupt if she stayed longer.

she went back to Bella's house instead after her mother left. Bella was excited to see her, Bella thought she would come back the next day, so she hugged her at the door and asked that they check out the gifts.

Bella had told her friends in advance to make sure they had given Emily something for her birthday as an entrance fee.

She watched Emily open the first wrap as they sat on the bed.

"From Matthew," Emily said bringing out a little card, she read out the content, "Will you be my girlfriend, love Matthew."

She frowned at Bella who was already laughing, Bella jerked the card from her and read the content again just to be sure Emily wasn't bluffing.

"We haven't even started and you already have an admirer," Bella wasn't surprised by Matthew's card, he had even asked Bella to ask Emily to the prom.

"Oh please," Emily waved it off and took the next gift box, it was bigger than the first.

"So you don't like Matthew?" Bella wanted to know how Emily felt about him before she told her about Matthew's request.

"No, I don't."

"But he is cute, I mean he is attractive."

"Yeah he is," Emily replied opening the ribbon wrapped around the box.

"So I mean he is like your spec," Bella continued.

"Oh my this gown is the bomb," Emily said standing up from the bed and placing the gown over her body. It was a mini silver gown, it was simple but elegant.

"I have something like this," Bella said excited that they could twin in it, she rushed out of bed, opened her wardrobe, and looked for the gown.

"Are you sure?" Emily knew Bella had a lot of clothes but she hadn't seen this gown before.

"Here it is," Bella brought the gown out. "It's from Klar where you work."

Emily had always wanted to buy any product from Klar but the zeros behind each cloth and accessory was something she couldn't afford. She was so excited to have one of their gowns in her hand. She checked the box to see who it was from.

Matthew!

"What exactly is going on with you and Matthew?"

"What are you talking about?"

"This was the same way you were trying to match me with crazy John."

"What? No, it's not that, but you do find Matthew to be attractive right?"

"What are you up to?" Emily asked again sitting on the bed and picking another gift box.

"Well ... He wants or rather he is gonna ask you out soom.. I don't mean to ruin it."

"I understand, so he asked you to ask me?" Emily didn't like men who weren't straightforward with what they wanted. Why couldn't he come to talk to her?

"Not really, he told me he did ask you but well em..." Bella sat on the bed.

"You like him?" Emily interrupted.

"Am I being selfish?"

"You are being a good friend," Emily held her hand in hers. "There is nothing wrong in expressing how you feel about someone, so do you like, like him, like him or you just like him?" Emily asked, she didn't care what her answer would be, all she wanted was for her friend to be happy.

"He doesn't seem to notice me."

"Are you sure he is not gay?"

"What?" Bella burst out laughing.

"Who would be stupid not to notice something has hot has this?" Emily smiled looking at Bella with seductive eyes.

"Stop looking at me like that," Bella pleaded laughing.

"Seriously, I think you should tell him."

"I can't do that, imagine him rejecting me."

"Well let's find out," Emily said bringing out her phone as Bella pounced on her immediately knowing what she was up to, but she missed and only ended up pushing Emily out of the bed as they both fell on each other on the floor.

"My head," Bella groaned as Emily laughed and struggled to stand up, she rushed into the bathroom and locked the door as Bella followed banging on the door.

"You nearly killed me," Emily said already dialing Matthew's number, she rubbed the back of her head that she had banged on the floor. It hurt like hell.

she placed the call on loudspeaker because she knew Bella was listening.

"Don't do it," Bella shouted hearing the phone ringing, she wasn't one to tell someone she liked them. She was known in school to be very hard to approach and now she was just going to tell a guy she liked him and not just any guy but Matthew.

Matthew's parents were politicians and were well-known in school, not only Matthew was very handsome, but he also had a lot of admirers. It still baffled Bella when he told her he liked Emily, she thought he just wanted to enter her pants but when she questioned him. It seemed he was genuine.

"Emily, you called me." Matthew's voice finally was heard. He was surprised Emily called him, he had plans to call her later in the day to ask if she loved the gift.

"Can we meet up, today.. that's if you are not busy."

"Of course, of course, should I come pick you up at Bella's apartment."

"Yes," Emily replied hurriedly as she felt the door opening, it seemed Bella had gone to take the other key to the bathroom and was struggling to open the door."Come alone." She added.

"Okay."

"I will be expecting you in an hour." She disconnected the call and opened the door.

"I hate you," Bella announced collecting her phone from her, she tried to hear their conversation but she couldn't hear much even thou the phone was on loudspeaker.

"He is coming in an hour, better get ready."

"He is coming to see you, not me."

"Get ready or do you want me to call him and tell him you love him."

"You wouldn't dare," Bella said holding tightly to Emily's phone in case she wanted to make use of it again.

"Hurry," Emily smiled raising Bella's phone in the air. Bella had been so busy with the door she forgot her phone was on the bed.

When she jerked Emily's phone, Emily took her phone instead. Which was worse because she could message Matthew this instant.

"There is something I need to tell you."

"No excuses," Emily smiled. "Go get ready."

"No, it's about me. I am moving out." Bella announced sitting on the bed.

"Really? Is this about the guy that visited earlier, what did he say to you?"

"No it's not that," Bella said it wasn't Leonard's fault, she hadn't been on her best behavior of late. She just thought she would get away with it as always. Emily didn't know Leonard was her brother and it was best to keep it that way for now.

"Are you sure? Because I met him at my workplace and he is a very rude asshole."

"You met him at work?"

"I confronted him but I didn't get enough time to talk to him," Emily continued.

Bella stared at her as a thought came to her head, it was a crazy plan but she knew Emily was capable of doing it.

"Well you see he is a distant family member and he told my parents I haven't been behaving well so they are demanding I come home.

Please Emily can you help me, I don't want to go home."

"What did you do that would warrant him to report you?" Bella wasn't sure if he had reported it to their parents that she was selling drugs, she doubted it because if he had by now they would have called her or sent their men to get her.

"Something bad, I can't tell you now but I need you to help me convince him that I have changed and that I wouldn't do it again."

"How bad are we talking here?"

"Like really really extremely bad," Bella said. Emily remembered Bella having some issues with her parents a long time ago, they had seized her phone and kept a close eye on her.

Emily wasn't able to reach her for five months and when she was finally able to, Bella informed her that she was now staying in an apartment not too far from school. She was pleased but now that she thought about it, did Bella maybe run away from home, was that why her parents were mad or this distant relative was keeping a close eye on her?

"Please Emily help me, I don't want to go back there. Please help me out."

"Alright, how do I help you?"

"Help me beg him to change his mind."

"Alright, call him then. I will talk to him on your behalf."

"Actually I wanted you to meet him."

"...." Emily didn't want to meet him, he was really rude to her when they talked. It was better over the phone.

"Please, while I wait for Matthew I could direct you to where he is and I can call you to know how it is going.

"Like now? You want me to meet him now?"

"Yes, if you don't I will be leaving tonight or tomorrow latest."

"...."

"Please, help me out here. I will owe you a favor if you do."