"One. Two. Three. Go!" Olivia said enthusiastically as she watched us jump into the pool. I resurfaced quickly before taking a long breath and going under water. Ethan was already there and searching for his key. I looked around on the pool floor but couldn't find anything. The tiles were blue and the pool was big. It could be anywhere.
I couldn't hold my breath any longer so I resurfaced out of the water. Olivia and Tristan were standing on the edge of the pool. Olivia was cheering for me and Tristan was supporting Ethan.
"Go, Juliet! You can do this." Olivia yelled as she bit down on her nails. Taking a huge breath, I dove inside the water until I reached the floor and started searching for the key again. My hands tapped around to feel for a key but I couldn't find it anywhere.
I couldn't hold my breath underwater for too long. I had last swam about four years ago for a competition which I lost in the end. So I was out of practice and couldn't hold my breath f
I ran after him, hoping I would catch up with him. I almost lost him but I forced my legs to run faster until they were aching.He must have sensed me behind him because he turned his head for a split second and grinned at me. He chuckled and that drove me mad. I knew what he was thinking. He was probably thinking that I wouldn't be able to catch him and he could win this easily. I would love to see his face when I would prove him wrong.He was fast and I was struggling to keep up. He stopped for a mere second and took a sharp turn to the left even though his room was on the right. He probably expected me to follow him but I didn't feel like that was what I should do.I walked down the hallway and stopped in front of Ethan's room. He arrived after a few minutes with an annoyed look on his face."I thought you were going to follow me."I smirked. "Not everyone is stupid like you. What did you have in mind?"He shrugged. "Just thought I could
Olivia and I had celebrated my win with two buckets of delicious ice cream each and a movie marathon of our favorites till the early hours of the morning. After that we had retired to our respective rooms to get some sleep.At the breakfast table, things were awkward. It was just the four of us. Apparently, all of us had woken up a little too late and were having lunch instead of breakfast.I had my reasons for waking up late. I was celebrating with movies and unhealthy food and hence, had gone to bed late. However, I was curious as to why the two businessmen had woken up late. They had nothing to celebrate and yet they had woken up late for probably the first time since my stay here.From what I knew of them, they were very strict about their schedules and wouldn't 'waste' time sleeping.Ethan looked handsome and for once he was not in his business attire at the table. The dark circles he had a few days ago had disappeared and he almost looked happy. How
The next morning, I had holed myself up in my room after shower and breakfast. I was waiting for Olivia. She had gone tocasuallyextract information about Charlotte's plans formybirthday.She had been gone for too long and I was almost close to starting to chew off my skin when my nails were done so I moved on to play some video game on the laptop.But after four rounds, I got bored of it too. So I searched up all of these rich people and learned a lot about them. I even googled Ethan because I was merely curious about him. Most of the articles were of his successful career and how he was a perfect dream man for every woman. Then there were many articles about his serious relationship with Heather with headlines as ridiculous as "Billionaire hunk changed the bad girl," referring to Heather's past controversial activities."Juliet," Olivia said, opening the door and I jumped and quickly closed the tabs. I didn't w
"Hmm," Heather leaned back in her chair and crossed her legs. We were in her magnificent room, telling her all that had happened yesterday."So, Mrs. Jenson is planning an extravagant party for your birthday?""Yes," I breathed out. "Can you tell her not to do that?"Heather rolled her eyes. "As if she'll listen to me. That woman is more stubborn than me. Unless you yourself tell her that this is not what you want, I doubt she'll change her plans.""We did try to give her subtle hints about that." I admitted.Olivia snorted. "If you call randomly shouting at the breakfast bar that you don't like lavish parties subtle, then sure.""I didn't know how else to tell her!" I defended."You could've said something like lavish birthday parties are getting too boring and that's not your style anymore," Olivia said and I kept quiet because I didn't know what to say to her."Listen you two, I know what to do to make her stop this. When yo
I ran into Ethan that afternoon. He seemed frustrated and in a hurry. For a second he looked annoyed with me for bumping into him but then he managed to calm himself down and grabbed my hand in his."You come with me," he ordered, dragging me with him while I stumbled confusedly behind him."What? Where are you taking me?"He didn't answer and I didn't resist although I should've. We were already out of the mansion and he was ushering me inside his car. He got in right after me and asked the driver to take him to his office."Where are we going?" I asked once the car had started and we were out of the mansion gates."My secretary, Jeremy Walls had a family emergency and I have a very important presentation today, plus other important events to attend. It's an important day. A Chinese company is interested in investing in us and I'm sure our joint ventures will be very successful. So I need a secretary today and you'll have to be just that."
It had been five days since my dinner with Ethan. In those five days there was a phenomenal change in Ethan's behavior towards me. Although he still got irritated with me sometimes but it was nothing major. We would greet each other and let silence settle between us before one of us made attempts at small talk. We weren't harsh or rude towards each other anymore. I knew he still thought of me as some type of a rich, stuck up brat but I could see that he was getting to see a whole new side of me. A side which had a large part of the real me and very little to nothing of Juliet.Just two days before my real and my fake birthday which would strangely coincide coincidentally, there was a huge uproar in the Jenson household. I had gathered from Olivia that Mrs. Jenson had cancelled all her previous plans and now there would only be a private dinner celebration with close friends and family.Charlotte was summoning Olivia every day for even the tiniest detail for my birthday
My mind skipped to the upcoming birthday bash. No doubt, there'd be a lot for people. The Jenson family was well known all over the world as I learnt from my stay here. They had a lot of connections, a lot of friends, family friends, cousins, sisters, uncles, aunts, granddaughters, grandsons, grandmothers, grandfathers. It was a huge family. Plus, the people they had professional connections with.Roughly saying, I'd expect a little over five hundred people present at my birthday, I meant Juliet's birthday. Whatever, it was the same day anyway!I gasped. Five hundred people?! Holy cow. Would they even find a hall big enough to fit all those people in.But still even if they lessen two hundred or something people, it was still a huge party of people. Even with Heather by my side to prevent anything from going wrong, there was still a slim to no chance of everything going fine.There were five hundred people. What was the possibility that one of them wouldn
It took me some time before I snapped back to the present and looked around the dark van. The windows were tinted black and it felt like I was being kidnapped all over again.I felt a presence next to me and turned my head to see a heavily built man. I hadn't seen the man before and didn't know who he was. He was probably the one who pulled me into the van.Right in front of me was another person. I noticed it was a female. She was typing away something on her phone, barely acknowledging my presence.Just as I was about to speak, or yell for help, she put her phone down and grinned down at me."Hi, you must be Julie James, am I right?" She asked. I was dumbfounded. She knew who I really was? But I didn't know her at all.I hesitated before responding. "No."She waved a hand in the air. "Don't bother lying to me, please. I very well know you are Julie James.""Who are you?""I'm Amelia! Didn't Heather say anything about me?" She