Chapter 2

"Hey juliana!", out of nowhere, a whisper came which was loud enough to wake up juliana. In no time, Juliana woke up. She felt that someone was in her room, in front of her bed, whispering her name. She was breathing heavily. But after looking here and there while wiping drops of cold sweat from her face, she realized that there was nobody in her room. She probably had a dream.

She got ready, looked out of the window to get the view of the garden. She smiled at her silliness as last night she thought that someone was standing at the entrance of the garden. She got in the backseat of the car and asked the driver to drive to her studio. Today was a very important day as she was doing a shoot for her new collection. She wanted to get there quickly. The car was stopped because of the red traffic light. Juliana unintentionally saw in the car standing beside their car, waiting for the green traffic signal. She was shocked because the driver of that car was wearing the same black mask and a black hat. Her eyes widened and her heart started beating faster than usual.

That guy also looked at the juliana for a moment and started his car, as his car moved juliana saw a child and a woman in the backseat of the car. It seemed that they were going to drop the child at school. As her driver also started the car, she again thought someone suspicious wouldn't be a driver of a child. Juliana reached her studio, she asked her manager, "Mary! Is everything ready?"

"Yes ma'am, models had arrived on time. Dresses are also here. Studio is also ready. We are just waiting for the photographer". Mary answered.

"Okay, call him. Ask him to come as soon as possible". Keeping her bossiness, Juliana replied. "Ma'am! I already called him. He said that he was on his way". Mary stopped talking.

"What happened?" Juliana asked. "There he is". Gesturing her hand to the person behind Juliana, Mary said.

Juliana turned around and her feet got frozen to the ground, because it was the same person with black mask and cap. When Juliana focused in his eyes, she realized that she saw those unique eyes in her birthday party. She was certainly sure that it was the same person with whom she danced at her birthday party.

"Hello ma'am! I hope I am not late", he asked in a questioning tone.

"Why are you wearing a mask?" Juliana ignored what he said and asked a counter question as she was the boss there. But in heart she was suspicious of him. She knew that it's him, the guy who left her birthday party too soon. "I am having a viral fever". He replied.

"Oh, okay. Let's start our shoot. Everything is ready". Still looking in his eyes, Juliana replied. It was the first time she was quiet during a shoot and was not paying much attention to her work. All her attention was on one guy. She was constantly seeing that guy at different places. She just wasn't sure that it was the same guy because of different masks.

That masked guy also stole some glances at her and she noticed him because most of the time, he was the center of her attention. Finally, the shoot ended and everyone was on their way home. Juliana wanted to talk to that photographer but she didn't as she wasn't sure who he was.

She tried to call her driver but because of signal issues, she couldn't. She went to the parking area. Her driver was waiting in the car. She knocked on the window of the car. After seeing her, the driver quickly came out of the car and the driver opened the door for her. As she was going to sit in the car, she again felt that she saw a glance of someone hiding behind the pillar, staring at her. She closed the car door slowly and decided to see who was that. She turned around and saw a black cap. As she reached close to the pillar, there was nobody hiding behind it.

She sat in the car. "To house, ma'am!". Driver asked. "No, to the doctor".

"That masked guy is everywhere. It means i am not fully recovered or I am seeing things. Like I am also hearing voices in my sleep. I thought

You assured me that I have recovered from the trauma of that accident". Not giving any chance to her doctor to speak, Juliana said.

"Juliana! Juliana! Did you ask your colleagues if they were seeing that masked photographer?" Juliana's doctor asked.

"That's what the problem is, Dr Linda!. Everybody saw a masked guy dancing with me at my birthday party and everybody saw that masked at the shoot today. He is not my hallucination. Is someone really stalking me?" Juliana asked her doctor.

"Listen juliana! You can't fully recover from the trauma of an accident after two years. Even if you ask your father, I am sure he would also be experiencing such trauma. He was with you in that accident. Everybody has their way of dealing with traumas. I think you can't distinguish the difference between reality and hallucinations. I checked you thoroughly and there is no problem with you. You just need to take rest and I am giving you some meds to deal with hallucinations". After visiting doctor Linda, Juliana went to her house.

She opened the door of her room. And was surprised because Adrian was there sitting on his both knees, holding a bouquet of red roses for Juliana. His blue eyes were looking at Juliana, begging for mercy. As he said, "I am really sorry for yesterday. I should have focused on you completely". He said those words in his Australian accent as his mother was from Australia.

Juliana walked towards him, he was still on his knees, looking up in Juliana's eyes with his sky blue eyes. Juliana put her hand on his black little curly styled hair, and then moved her hand to his right cheek. She also sat down on her knees, and moved her hands to Adrian's hands holding a bouquet. She took the bouquet and said, "It's okay, I also shouldn't have behaved like that".

Juliana took the bouquet and stood up. She extended her hand to Adrian as he was still sitting on his knees. He took her hand and stood up. Both were looking at each other's eyes but suddenly the light went off. Everything went dark. Juliana called house staff and they told her there was a problem with the switch board. They were trying to fix it. Adrian turned his phone's torch on. Juliana was getting scared of the dark. So, Adrian held her hand tightly. The bouquet of flowers dropped from Juliana's hands unintentionally. They didn't even notice it.

The lights got turned on. As soon as lights turned on, Adrian's phone rang. He tried to hide his phone's screen from Juliana but Juliana noticed that it was written "bestie Alice" on his phone's screen. He moved away and took his call. "I am sorry Juliana! I have urgent work. I need to go". Adrian said and quickly departed. Juliana was again burning in anger. She went out for a walk. She wanted to take a rest but because of Alice's call to Adrian. She changed her plan. The guard of the house tried to stop her by saying, "Ma'am! You can't go alone at night. Mr Sanders has instructed us strictly not to let you go alone at night". Ignoring guard words, Juliana said, "I'll talk to him myself". She said and went out of the house.

She was walking alone in the bright light of street lights. She noticed a shadow was following her. She started to walk fast and that shadow was also walking fast to chase her. She also noticed that there was a cap on the head of the shadow. She changed the ally and stopped there at the corner, waiting for her stalker to turn to that ally. She was already sick of this stalker and because of Adrian she was totally frustrated. She put her hand in her bag in which she was carrying her water bottle. As soon as, that guy turned the ally. She sprayed pepper spray in his eyes.

That guy didn't shout but instead he was sighing in pain. Juliana quickly took his cap off. He had curtained style black hair. As soon as Juliana tried to take his mask off. He held her hand tightly, holding Juliana for taking his mask off and tried to look in her eyes with his red swollen eyes. For a moment Juliana's heart skipped a beat. He was still breathing heavily because of the pain but trying hard not to reveal his face. But Juliana didn't care and was ready to spray his eyes again with that pepper spray.