Chapter 8

Triffany Joey visited Nick and Allison in their apartment, she was dancing to the new song beat her favourite musician just released.

Allison came out from the kitchen with the chips she just made and looked at the happy Triffany. "Gosh! Triffany, how will you be so carefree with all the news airing these days." Allison told her.

Triffany was still dancing to the hot beat of the music. "Which news?" She asked.

"Unbelievable, Triffany be serious for once," Allison told her.

"Allison...life will be boring if I'm serious," Triffany told her with a smile and a wink.

Allison sat down looking at her cousin, she doesn't believe this, everything that has been going on now, Triffany felt so relaxed. "Have you thought about what could be of you? Huh!" She asked her.

"I'm fine, let the rich deal with their issue," Triffany said lazily.

"Which you're included in.." Allison added.

"Not just that." Nick came into the sitting room. "You both got to see this!" He exclaimed.

He turned on the TV, where Carlos Zack was making a live interview.

Carlos in the press interview. "I've heard about the news, the rumours going around for the past two days now and many questions about, who the lady is? and if we know each other? and what made her cry in front of me?"

Triffany looked at the TV and sighed. "Cry in front of you! Gosh!"

Carlos in the interview. "I'm here also to clear everything about the rumours and questions. Her name is Triffany Joey." He said.

Tiffany's face looked at the man on TV. "How did that brat know my name?" She asked sceptically.

Nick shook his head at Tiffany's question. "They are rich and can research someone." He told her, what exactly does she know.

"We've known each other for a while now," Carlos said in the live interview.

Allison looked at Triffany. "Triffany is that true?" She asked.

Triffany glared at the man on the TV. "I know he was a good liar, I know it would come to this to cover his ass!" She yells.

Carlos continues in the interview. "We are lovers, we planned to get married but she drifted from her place." He said.

Tiffany's eyes shone stunned and Nick looked at her. She stood up. "How dare he lie!" She was so furious now.

Carlos on TV. "We lost contact and I travelled to further my education in California, she cried when she saw me for the first time in a long while. Especially when I made an embarrassing appearance cause my driver mistakenly splashed mud water on her."

Triffany held her hair looking at that liar on TV. "I'm sick of listening to this news!" She shouted.

Nick calmed her down. "Hey, let listen to everything." He told her.

Carlos continues in the interview. "I have to give her money cause she refused to come into my car since she was still mad at me and I couldn't bear to see her leave in such a mess, but she turned it down by throwing the money back at me." He said.

Triffany was so pissed. "Aish! I have to kill that jerk." She was fuming with anger.

Carlos in the interview. "That was everything about that footage." He finished.

"What are you going to do now?" A reporter asked him.

"I'm going to get married to her, she was my lover and I still love her, even now." He told them.

"What!" Triffany stood stunned by his words.

Nick smiled. "Wow! I guess you're going to be a princess soon, I'm glad I'm your cousin." Nick said with smiles.

Triffany hits his head with her hand. "How dare you joke right now!" She said in furry.

Carlos on TV. "Now please, let these rumours stop, I've found my lover and she won't be pleased to hear all these rumours. I have to get my girl back and we would announce our wedding soon. Thank you all." Say this he stepped out of the hall.

He went into his office and threw everything down from his table in anger, as tears fell from his eyes.

Garrett came in and looked at Carlos. "Carlos." He called out to his dejected friend.

Carlos looked at Garrett with tears in his eyes. "How do I face her? What would she say to me? I betrayed her Garrett. I betrayed Kelsey. How do I face her after this mess? How do you think she would feel watching this." Carlos said sobbing.

"Carlos." Garrett looked at his friend with sad eyes.

"I want to be alone please," Carlos told him and turned facing the French window. Garrett respectfully left the office and told Felicity not to go in and to cancel all of Carlos schedule.

Laura Joey called Triffany as soon she saw the news. Triffany picked the call. "Hello, Mom." She knew she must have seen the news.

"Triffany did you see the news?" Laura asked her without hesitating.

"Yes Mom, it's not a big deal," Triffany told her, caring less about the news.

"Where are you?" Laura asked.

"I'm at Nick's apartment."

"Can you come home now?" Laura asked her with her voice downcast.

Triffany sense her mother's anxiety. "Is something wrong?" She asked. Damn everything was wrong now.

"We have some unfamiliar guest here," Laura told her.

"Unfamiliar guest?" Triffany asked with confusion, who could these people be?

"I'm on my way mom." She told her mother who ended the call.

Allison looked at Triffany with curious eyes seeing her reaction, she asked. "What is wrong?"

"Some unfamiliar guest are at our house, I have to go now," Triffany told them and picked up her back.

Nick giggle at her and said with so much joy. "That must be your in-laws."

Triffany frowned, she knew he was making fun of this situation. "Nick, just play some games."

Nick smiled. "Now you want me to play, problem, gist me later, bye-bye He waved her.

Triffany shook her head at her silly cousin and waved Allison goodby before leaving the house with her bag.

Triffany arrived home and saw flashy cars parked outside their house. She decided not to go in through the front door, she went through the back door and saw her mom.

"Mom, what's going on? Who are they?" She asked with curiosity and mixed fear.

She has not seen any car like that looking at it, it must be that of a very wealthy man.

"It's Glammaly estate chairman and his wife," Laura told her.

"Huh!" Triffany looked at her mother shocked. She had recently found out that Glammaly estate is a very big and among the top ten richest company.

"What are they doing here?" She asked her mother.

"They want to meet you because of the news," Laura told her.

Triffany trembled to hear this, was this a scene where they throw water on her face and threaten her. Were they here to put her in jail because of the scene.

She looked at her mother with little tears in her eyes. "Mom, everything their son said was a lie, I've never in my life know him, neither are we lovers," Triffany explained.

"I know baby." Laura seeing her terrified daughter held her hands and pat them gently.

"Where is daddy?" She asked. She won't be terrified if her father was around, she had back up and her parents will always defend her, no way is she going to be sent away by these rich people because of their son's lie.