Vivienne had a lot of fun with Aurora. She picked her up from work, then went shopping, watched a movie together, had dinner and so much more. It was already close to 11 o'clock when they got back. As Aurora's car closed in towards the door of Vivienne's house, she narrowed her eyes and asked Vivienne, "Were you supposed to meet Noah?""No," answered Vivienne. "Why are you asking?""He is here," Aurora gestured with her chin and Vivienne also looked up.Vivienne's eyes widened when she found Noah's car parked in the driveway. Noah was currently leaning against the car, seemingly waiting for her. Vivienne was so surprised to see him here as she didn't even know that he was coming. Why was he here? And was he waiting for her? Why? How long had been waiting outside? When did he even come?As soon as the car stopped, Vivienne unfasted the seatbelt and alighted down. She trotted to Noah's side looking at him with questioning eyes. "You took long enough to come back," commented Noah as he
"Yes, yes, I will listen to you," Noah was particularly obedient in front of her right now. He could tell that she was feeling distressed over the fact that he had waited outside for her for so long. So, he placed his hand over hers against his cheek and told her honestly, "Actually, I was waiting inside the car for you and while waiting, I also got some work done. I wasn't just foolishly standing here like a statue to wait for you. You don't have to feel so bad."Vivienne didn't feel better listening to him. "No matter what, waiting is waiting. It would have been more comfortable to work inside.""I'll remember that from now on."Aurora didn't come over immediately and just watched the scene from the side for a while. She could faintly hear what they were speaking from her position and got the gist of the situation. Actually when Vivienne told her that she was gonna move back to LA, Aurora was faintly worried. Because it was unavoidable that Vivienne would run into Noah again in this
Aurora followed Vivienne inside the house and they started preparing to sleep now. It was already too late at night, they had too much fun earlier, and Aurora still had to get to work tomorrow morning. So, even if Vivienne could sleep in, she won't disturb Aurora's rest.Vivienne was busy with her nightly skincare routine when she heard a knock at her bedroom door. She went to open the door and found Aurora standing there. "What happened? Do you need something?""No," replied Aurora as she naturally entered Vivienne's bedroom. "I thought we could sleep together tonight."Vivienne raised her brows at Aurora but she didn't refuse either. She might have refused others but not to her best friend. They had often slept together so she was used to Aurora's presence. "Do you mind?" Vivienne closed the door and looked at Aurora who sat at the edge of the bed. "Why would I mind this? It isn't our first time sleeping together."Aurora smiled at her and said, "But I think your boyfriend will min
Aurora and Vivienne lay down on the bed together ready to sleep. Vivienne turned off the lights with only a little lamp left turn on. "You can keep the lights on," said Aurora considerately as she knew that Vivienne didn't like darkness. One could see this from the fact that even now, the whole house was brightly lit and it'd stay this way till this morning. She knew that Vivienne purposely bought this house with such huge windows and glass walls that could bring in the natural light during the day and make the house feel brighter and spacious."No, it's okay. You can't sleep with the lights on," Vivienne also didn't want Aurora to consider her habits so much. "I just told you to be selfish!"Vivienne chuckled and said, "It's okay. With you around, I can really manage with the lights off. I'm not forcing myself to be considerate of you.""You're stubborn," commented Aurora."So are you," retorted Vivienne. They lay in silence for a while before Vivienne called out to Aurora asking
Aurora woke up from a call. It was an unknown number and no one spoke after the call connected. Aurora didn't pay attention to it at all. She extended her hand toward Vivienne's side but felt the empty space. Feeling the cold temperature, she knew that Vivienne had gotten up long ago.Aurora looked at the time which was just hitting a little past 6 in the morning and frowned at her. She sat up and rubbed her eyes before patting her cheeks to wake herself up a little. She was too sleepy right now after all the fun last night. She didn't know where Vivienne was going or for how long she had been up.She tied up her hair and got up. She first checked the balcony as Vivienne seemed to really like sitting here when she had nothing to do. But right now, she wasn't here. Aurora went out of the bedroom and came to stand outside the studio door. She hesitated before knocking and only then did she open the door slightly to peek inside.Vivienne seemed to have not heard her knocking on the door
Just that expression on Vivienne's face was enough to show Aurora what was happening with this girl. She got all the answers from the guilty look on Vivienne's face. She sighed heavily, "You didn't sleep, did you?"Vivienne took a deep breath and faced Aurora, "I couldn't sleep.""When was the last time you slept?""Just yesterday," replied Vivienne. "In fact, the time Noah stayed here, I was able to sleep very well.""Are you blaming me for your insomnia now?""I didn't say that," retorted Vivienne hurriedly. "Rory, what I mean to say is that, since I was able to sleep so peacefully with Noah, I actually assumed that I was getting better. But who knew that last night I wasn't to sleep no matter how much I tried. It isn't your fault. It's my own. Maybe it was because of inspiration that came at a bad time and I couldn't continue trying to sleep any further. So, I decided to work instead of sleeping."Aurora squinted her eyes trying to see through her but she wasn't able to gauge anythi
Vivienne was still considering what to eat for breakfast when Noah sent her a message telling her that he was at work now. He even asked how she was doing and what she was up to. Vivienne answered him truthfully before taking out eggs from the refrigerator.She whipped something for breakfast and ate it alone sitting with her phone by her side. Since Noah got busy, he didn't send any more messages. Especially since Vivienne told him to focus on work rather than on her.She called the cleaning company and someone soon came to clean up the house. Vivienne sat with her phone as she overlooked the staff cleaning up the entire house. Then she went out to even guide them on how to take care of her plants. She went back to the room and started getting dressed. She couldn't stay inside the house even if she would love to do so. Thinking of something, Vivienne pulled out her phone and dialed Xavier's number. Putting the phone on speaker, she placed it on her side and started dabbling some mak
"Sorry, sorry! It's all my fault," Noah readily took the blame without any hesitation at all. Anyway, it was he who distracted her just now. So, there was no problem in reflecting on it. "I won't do it again. You tell me, what is it?""I was going to buy a car today," replied Vivienne. "Aurora doesn't have time to go with me and I don't want to disturb Angie either. Rory said I should ask my boyfriend since he should find some time for me when I need him for something. Although this isn't an important matter where I really have to have you with me, I still wanted to ask for your opinion."Noah was silent for a moment and Vivienne heard some noise from his side like he was tapping on the keyboard. She didn't know what he was doing but she thought he must be busy."Are you busy? Am I disturbing you?"Noah said no in response, "I was just checking if I have any important matters to deal with today. It seems I can spare a couple of hours. When do you want to go?""I was just about to leave