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I love to hate you Chapter 32
"I'll be back in a minute. I'll need your help, Amy." And the two matched out. Ciara held on Gianna an emphasizing gaze, but the latter suggested that they waited for the others although with or without them she will say not a thing. Hadn't four minutes passed? She pondered as she slanted to the side to grab her phone. Being the sole source of harsh lighting in the room, the gadget displayed 9:43 pm. Now that she thought about it, she didn't even get to time herself from the moment Elodie pulled her away. But if her sixth sense was right, five minutes must have long passed. She twisted her lips from side to side in contemplation after sliding the phone back into her back pocket. She had to leave. Very soon. Before her mother called for the fourth time. It was already a huge relief so far that the red-haired hadn't buzzed her phone since infiltrating the party provided the ten-minute intervals she'd pinned on maintaining instead of five, thanks to her father, as always. "Three minu
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When Elodie saw Adam furiously stomp toward her, her lips immediately constricted from the laughter that previously added to her glow. "Where's Gianna?" Elodie smirked, "having the fun of her life." She sipped the liquid that later splashed on her dress as a result of Adam ungraciously pulling her by the arm and heading upstairs. "Stupid creep, get your hand off me." "Until you tell me where Gianna is." The party, at this moment, froze as hundreds of eyes concentrated on the four individuals. "What part of having fun don't you understand? Leave me alone, you're embarrassing my personality," Elodie cried. "What direction did they take?" He referred to Mimie, at the tail of the line. "That way." So did the line bend into a long corridor of doors. A boy walked out of one of them struggling with his zippers while a girl followed cue with a bird's nest in the name of hair. The two regarded them like aliens from planet non compos mentis "Which room?" Now he referred to Elodie. "A
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Gianna knew not whether to be disturbed that her phone was in Adam's hold or not, given that it was password free since she still hadn't come across that one person who will graze her phone without permission. So yes, she saw no need for that, well, until last night. Not that she had anything to hide. She simply was among the few who cherished privacy to the last grain although it hadn't been on her side for quite a while. Gianna swiped through her gallery. Adam had come earlier that morning, before being picked up by her mum, to deliver her screen-cracked phone which, no doubt, was from Sean's impetuous attitude. His somber profile was electrocuting, so to say, that made Gianna wonder if it had anything to do with her phone. But when he swore to not have peeped, even when her mother called her phone that morning, she succumbed to believing him. But something still didn't sit right. She scrolled. Sometime before he left them, to get ready for his masqueraded date with Mimie, he hi
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The aura around Adam had shifted as she had twice noticed—when he forbade Gianna from going to Elodie's party and the night he'd shown up after Gianna's danger alert. He looked like a whole different person behind his glasses. "Did you ever notice something strange with Gianna?" Mimie's heart cooled a bit, however, hurt. She'd expected more critical but she'd not expected Gianna to be the source of the cause. Like the other times. "What do you m-mean?" "You know, I was able to delve into her bag the other day in search of a pencil and...I saw this unusual stuff in there. Something like a square or was it a rectangular leather case? Well, she sort of looked...protective of it, is it?" His question was rhetoric and more to himself as if he'd not used the proper descriptive word. "Have you seen it before?" Mimie nodded. "She said it wa-was a pencil c-case. Customized." "Ditto," a heartbeat silence reigned. "But I don't think so, not that I ever seen such before. Why would she be so
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Gianna felt a presence. Immediately, she knew who it was. Even though her head was still lowered in the pretense of reading, to avoid the ogles that came with the whispers, Mimie's grip on her hand somehow inoculated bravery in her. However, it wasn't as sufficient as displacement was concerned. She would skip lunch. Mimie didn't say anything but inserted a hanky into Gianna's hand, who hadn't realized her wet cheeks until then. She whispered a wobbly appreciation and dabbed the teardrops off. Gianna sniffed. "Where is Adam?" "He did-didn't show up to-today." "Can't join you for lunch, sorry." "I'm not ev-even hungry. Can I s-sit with you throu-through lunch?" Gianna wanted to say yes but the fear of Sean hurting her again overshadowed. "No. Get something else to do somewhere but don't stay here. It's not safe." "I learned some k-karate moves while I-I was on my sick bed." She demonstrated despite the eyes that watched, causing Gianna to lightly laugh. "Thanks, Mims," She felt
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Her mother was still hell-bent furious as they rounded up with dinner that she'd failed to drink water before eating, as per her meal habit, and had spat fire to every question bombarded her way despite it being part of a harmless table conversation. Siesta was a do-or-die with the lady, another contribution to the sour temper. Especially with her finals at the doorstep. A little she could understand there.Gianna had learned that afternoon that her father was the ongoing building project's designer. It did not stun her much. The man was excellent at what he does. However, it was a perfect chance to know what the construction really was. She'd asked.'A little bit of everything,' her father had replied. 'Love hotel, Casino, Night club, and all that.'Gianna scrunched her face. 'Sounds heinous. What about here? What are you up to?''Workers quarters and a wine brewing factory,' her father had smiled, admiring the progressing construction, extremely proud of himself than anyone was of
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Adam had insisted they rode in his new car, which of course wasn't similar to that which he showed up with at Elodie's messed up party. This was a white Lexus, no doubt the latest model. They hadn't talked much since his confession to instructing Jay to take down every article concerned with him, her—Gianna—and the party. And as time passed, Gianna's head began to assemble some haphazard puzzles. It was an extremely tough task to walk with the new Adam, especially with the troop of shameless girls whirling around him. Who would've dreamed? Imagined? Thought? that someday, Adam—the stick wimp, the nerd no one noticed—will be chased after. A girl even dared to shove Gianna away just to flirt with Adam. The latter gave her a cold shoulder but the girl did not take the hint. If she ended up leaving, it was as a result of Adam's verbal assault ribboned with a layer of acerbity. A phase of Adam she'd witnessed before.It ached her to admit it complimented his new look as it gave promine
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A dark brown-haired girl, who Gianna guessed was in her early twenties, showed up dressed in a crop top and indecently destroyed faded blue jeans with wailing Ethan in one hand and a feeding bottle in the other. The cute baby boy's face was red and wet from crying. Poor thing.The girl froze with an 'oh' when she saw them but that wasn't for more than a second as her duty to rid herself of Ethan was yet to be achieved."Sorry," she flatly apologized as she hiked straight to her mother, handed over Ethan and the feeding bottle, and left. Mrs. McCoy shook her head, her arms pacifying Ethan almost immediately before the bottle's nipple was introduced. "I'm sorry about the interruption. Kids of nowadays. That was my second daughter, Fay. And this is Ethan, my littlest." With a smile, she finger-played with his chubby jaw. The discussion after that was strictly business-related, later on, Mr. McCoy and her father stepped out after a diversion to golf leaving behind the ladies and Ethan w
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It was a tough fight.The basement was unusually overcrowded. No one wanted to miss out on Ring Kong's final fight, especially not with the 'pretty face stranger' involved—as the homeless natives referred to him. The news of Sean confronting Kong had spread like wildfire so much to the entry fee collector's surprise. That night, he'd made more money than he'd ever made in the history of its existence, he was quite a devoted employee: he's been since thirty-five. Now forty-two, single, and searching? Not sure, Strav's excitement was unmatched as he flipped through a stack of bills, outlining the expenditures of his share. He'll finally put his landlord on a door number 38 break, afford a ticket to watch his favorite football team play, get himself a brand-new toaster, and restock his fridge with enough booze to take him through a week or two. Now that sounded like a perfect plan.That very night, Strav had seen faces; ones he'd seen once and never again, ones he'd never seen before, on
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"What are you doing here?"Adam seemed amused by the question. "Talking with you, of course." But there was no linger of humor around Gianna.Adam cleared his throat. "Fine, I'll tell you what, but not here. Unfortunately, I'm yet to get familiar with this place. Plus, it's not appropriate for catch up...care to come over?"What has familiarity got to do with anything? She almost asked. "No.""Come on, Gigi. It's been months since we saw each other, don't you think it'll be the perfect time to catch up? There's a whole lot I need to tell you if it's not your case. So?""Adam I can't. I can't do whatever I want when I want. I owe my uncle and his wife some respect."He held both of her shoulders. "Visiting a long-time-no-see friend for some catching up isn't wrong. Maybe you should let me talk to them, I'll make them understand that I'm absolutely harmless.""Oh my God, no, are you crazy?"Adam shrugged, and with a straight face, he replied, "Guess I am, ever since I met you." "Oh, pl
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"Follow me." Viktor stamped a bill on the bar counter and walked through a cascade of thick wooden-beaded curtains that led to a dimly lit corridor with his friend on his tail. It had doors on either side. He knocked and opened a door that had a man sitting behind a counter. That, with 3 chairs and a TV made up the tiny stale-smelly room. Viktor spoke with him and deposited some bills on the dirty counter. The man hollered something in Russian but Viktor waved it away as he pulled open the floor.It shocked Sean, but what almost knocked the breath out of his chest was what was below. He would never have thought in a thousand years.They were hit first by contesting blows of luminosity and noise from a crowd of not more than a hundred men surrounding a caged boxing-sized ring. Some faces, he'd seen before; they were permanent residents of his different 'homes'. A heated fight was the source of the hollers and tumult. They were so loud that he wondered why he didn't hear them from abov
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She hoped wrong. Very wrong."Rianna, I got you a seat right next to me, come," Elsa invited."It's Gianna," Gianna gently corrected."It's going to take at least two weeks for her to get your name right. Took her a month to get Tay from Fay right." Tay took the seat behind Gianna's destined chair while Teesha occupied that behind Elsa."Roughly three weeks from Treeshay to Teesha. Can you believe she called me 'Cheat' in French?"Elsa rolled her eyes, "Oh come on now girls, y'all make it seem like I'm a ditz or something."Gianna stifled a giggle."Heard Mr. Stevenson is taking AP Biology this year," Teesha announced."Oh gawd, why me?" Elsa flattened her jaw to the desk with a grimace. "Not Mr. Hot with the bad teaching skills. He gonn' make me hate reproduction, I can feel it deep in my bones. Someone call the academic cops on him.""Is he that bad?" Gianna set her notebook on the desk."Nah, she's simply more attentive to his features than his teachings. And the 'hate' part of the
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It's been a little over sixteen weeks since Sean made the chilly streets and dark alleys of Moscow his home, his bed. His duffle bag, which diligently served as a pillow with what he wore excluded, had nothing more than four pairs of jeans, two tees and a hoodie against the night's blistering cold, his passport, a wallet with a few notes to sustain the little his stomach demanded for another four weeks or so, a cap to shield his face from lingering eyes and UV light, and a pocket knife for precautions. Safe to say the latter never saw the darkness of his duffle bag from the day he purchased it from a local store not too far from the alley he slept in that night. Another one of such assets was a packet of cigarettes and a lighter. The nicotine has helped him a ton lately more than ever before especially with his appetite.Before leaving for the airport in the company of his brothers, he'd left some money he'd worked from Spring's dinner and gathered from debtors to his supportive father
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To new beginnings!To a new whiff of fresh air, a new environment, a new and undoubtedly successful academic year, new school, new projects, new friends? If at all, that brings into the picture new characters to study not forgetting new lecturers to adapt to. The best for the last, new self.Physically not. More of psychological maturity, mistrustfulness, cautiousness, and ardentness in all her endeavors.Gianna got her driving license not too long before the end of summer break and ever since then she has been the 'errand girl' of the family: Sometimes she transported fabrics from suppliers' venue—when they seemed too carried away to supply on time—to her aunt's fashion boutique. Once she'd opted to drive her uncle to a business gathering five minutes away from home when his driver was on sick leave and his assistant was rendering his services to his beloved wife coming in from a fashion week in Paris. He'd denied it at first. Uncle Marley was skeptic on legs when it concerned her uni
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She wasn't a relationship ruiner. Definitely not. To her greatest surprise, she'd stifled back most of her tears and turned to word filter paper. The forty or so minutes spent with Luna were, suffocating, murderous, for the most part because even though she resented the Seth talk—that surprisingly didn't sting as much as when it was all fresh from the oven—she found in Luna a great friendship. Rather unfortunate. Luna insisted they exchanged digits which Gianna did out of pure kindness, not fathoming staying in contact.They had a lot in common; shared almost similar hobbies except yoga and shopping. The latter done when necessary. Movie genres—she never appeared to be a horror, thriller, mystery (HTM) fangirl. Gianna would've bet a pound of flesh on romance and fiction, strictly. Similar food, and even shared DIYs with the most interesting being home remedies for getting rid of menstrual acne in two days. Luna developed an engrossment in the book donation club and planned on doing so
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It's been days since Gianna battled with calling Sean. Such a crazy sensation, but she was determined to take that bold step there and then, in South Beach, Miami.Yes, her parents had made them believe they'd be spending the entire summer with Uncle Marley and his family until they headed to JFK International Airport and boarded a direct flight to Miami. Not to be misunderstood, she was delighted because why not? It was Miami for the sake of Christ, yet disappointed and peeved as she had drafted a hundred and ten ways to boomerang Ace's demonic pranks and found out the initial purpose of the journey respectively. That explained why she was alone with a massive straw beach hat on despite her umbrella's generous spread of shade, laying on her stomach browsing, envying, and babysitting the sister who promised to stay by her 'darling sister's' side because she knew no one else and was too lazy to make friends. Words from the mouth of a Magpie who was currently marathon swimming with a sw
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"Everything checked?""Yup, everything checked," Gianna confirmed after she'd swung the last luggage into the trunk and dusted off her hands. "Great, then we're good to go. Almost." Both Louisa and Gianna settled in, waiting for Mason, Petra, and Noah. Not too long into the wait, the family of five were ready for the city. Ready for the cool vacation air.Songs and games commemorated the journey as it was of the family's habits every time Mason was involved. But at some point, one of them got distracted with a text message.'I miss you already. I don't know how to survive knowing that I won't be seeing you in such a long time.'Gianna rolled her eyes at the level of drama.'I was able to dig into Sean's past as requested and was successful.' Now that skyrocketed Gianna's interest. 'According to medical records, Sean was diagnosed with a chronic kidney disease at age 11 and underwent a kidney transplant a year later. That's about how much I got.''Oh well, thanks.''Three times nothin
