She was so lost in her own world of salty stream and good champagne that she didn't notice when someone walked in. All of a sudden, her music stopped playing and she got confused. She could swear her earpods were charged up. She literally prepared for something like this to keep her company since she was the only one who didn't have a date. She let out a little groan before she opened her eyes and saw Azariah standing over her with a worried look on his face holding her phone in his hands. Knowing him for the shortest time that she has, he was definitely going to question what she was doing with a half-way emptied bottle of rich people's alcohol, dried up tears on her face with a sad nostalgic album playing."Before you get any ideas, I was rehearsing for a role," Amy blurted out. She took out one of the earpods and sat up facing the standing Azariah. Amy offered him a smile trying to show that she was alright but he definitely wasn't buying it. He gave her a sad look before draggi
"What do I get if I win?" Amy asked, getting interested, anything to keep her out of her own mind will do. She didn't need anything else for now."Well, it's just a casual cliché game that we all know, you know the cliche 'never have I ever'?" Azariah suggested he saw her slack a little which meant her interest just dropped and he needed to do something about it. That's when he got the idea."Well to spice it up, it's going to be a game of freakiness, I believe we are both freaky enough but to whoever have done it gets to drink the champagne," Azariah filled her in and watched her slowly smile as she nodded her head to his suggestion, now she was interested."Okay okay...That's something I could do, but Be warned I might drink the whole thing," Amy said, smirking at him."Okay then, you ask first?" Azariah gave her an open ground to ask. Amy didn't really go deep in thought at first till she realized the sole essence of the game for her was to make sure she drank as many gulps that s
"Can I kiss you?" Azariah whispered."Yes please…"Amy closed her eyes and it seemed like her other senses heightened drastically. She could feel the cloud of his perfume engulfing her slowly as he edged closer to her. A soft tip of his fingers traced the side of her face as he traced the lines of her cheekbones down all the way to the sides of her lips and used his thumb to touch the bottom lip, and she felt shivers go down her body. It was almost like she was on a high and everything he did hit her like 8D sound did to the ears. She could feel her whole body getting warm but at the same time having waves of shivers as he kept tracing the lines of her neck down to her chest. This man was trying to be the death of her. He asked for a kiss but now it seemed like she was bare nakes in front of him and it was the way she could feel all of him at once even though it was just the mere tip of his fingers and his breath that was caressing her exposed skin. He placed his soft lips on the
Numb fun...that was the goal.That was her comfort zone, serving any bond that would make her stay awake at 3am in the middle of the night regretting her entire existence. She remembers being told that her mother died of childbirth when she was born and she had to live with the thoughts that she killed her mother right from a young age. From as little as eight, she knew what unripe guilt felt like, she would cry into Mr. Liam, her supposed to be guardian and ask him why she was so unlucky every night after which she would cry immensely and tell herself she was fine.She went ahead to drop out of highschool after her highschool melt down. She had abortion complications that kept her in the hospital and she couldn't pay the bills and Peter blocked her on every platform she could assess him and further threatened her to forget his existence. She did, she forgot everything except everything he did to her. She finally got out of the hospital alive and used her school fees for her final y
They headed towards the entrance and Amy started walking down the stairs. She looked up and realized there were still quite a few paparazzi outside. A few flashes went out towards her direction before realizing she wasn't that important and they stopped. Somehow it made her a little happy. She turned around looking for Azariah and he stood inside. He seemed to be on a call because she called out to him but he didn't reply to her . Instead, he kept signaling her to come back inside the building and she headed back inside to see what he had to say."Hey yo" "Santino, what's good?" Azariah hit up his personal weed dealer who was in charge of his weed farm. He had a lot of properties, some of them were registered under his name, some were registered under other people's name who he registered as collateral but they were also under his protection till it became a federal case. By no means, he wasn't a drug dealer, he just had a few operations here and there with illegal stuffs from bu
"That's creepy as hell Azariah and it's your funeral," Amy dismissed.There was something about the statement he made that made her stomach drop into a pool of doubt and obscure fears. Things she hadn't addressed like what if everything they said about him was true, what if he was actually ruthless, heartless and cunning, and she was falling for the forte, the cherry facade he dished out to her on a cute platter, it made her think about her whole life again and this was one of the times where she felt she had the advantage of thinking straight before things got wild.They were in front of the Grand Finesse hotel like Araceli's hotel in the city, it looked like a building from one of the old Scottish movies she had watched. Or though it was decorated by beautiful carvings that had emotions spilled all over it and the glass turntable doors like the one she saw in the movies.The lights were golden and green, Just like the lamp outside the hotel, they were all golden lights with green g
AmyAfter the awkwardly long and unnecessary handshake with Lara. We decided the air outside was getting a little too chill for the kind of clothes I had on.Azariah, Lara and I got into the hotel and she struggled so hard to not let her jaw sink to the floor and to over all keep her composure because the interior was to beautiful she didn't even know where to look at first, was it the indoor fountain right in the middle of the lobby, or the glass walls that were broken images that reflected just a part of you in every section or the green suede chairs placed in a pentagon shaped on the side or the fact that the whole place was a tint of gold but you couldn't point at it exactly.It was hard for me to understand how else to fit it all into my mind, I felt as if I looked around too much, people would think I was definitely a first timer because everyone else just walked around casually going about and doing their business.I saw a brown Alaska dog with a woman with an orange suit going
Note: this chapter majorly contains flash on Amy's past, so you can skip it if you are not interested in Amy's character.Amy"Are you ready to blow your mind along with some smoke?..." Azariah asked as he rushed forward to face her while walking backwards, he had an excited look on his face, a little too excited."Are you sure, this is some pretty strong stuff I got from my farm? I usually deal with strong clients,'' he told me," like that was going to scare me anyway. I started taking weed right from the age of fourteen. Growing up from grass to grass, we all got allocated to the same area, the pit area in the society that was creeping and crawling with uncensored gangs, drug dealers, blowers and so much more illegal shit you could think of. Weed was some you could find anywhere like alcohol, every fuckung shop in the area dealed weed, alcohol, pills and every other illegal drug, they dealt with highly rated pills highly for specific pharmaceutical use, you could tell almost everyo
"Araceli..""Yandel…Cole…""Sorry for being late your honor.." Araceli said with a confident smirk. All three of them walked in and it felt good, everyone had their jaws hanging down and eyes bulging out. Mrs Garcia was already on her feet about to run to hug her daughter while Amy stood there in tears. Ricky, Ben and Mariah were all on the same row, jaws hanging down in surprise. Emily and Nathan were totally unmoved instead, smiling proudly at their brother in a well tailored suit with Araceli by his side and Cole in jeans and black T like he always wore."And sorry for not being late as you guys thought I was.." Yandel said smiling at the crowd but especially at the man who was in a gray tailored suit and his hair was drawn back and held together by gel sitting beside Alice and Xander. The whole Miller family had a missed reaction but one of them in particular had his eye out of his socket more than the rest."Order court!! I will not condone such an insolent act in my court!!" He
Rachel"The Millers!!!" I yelled but paused again."Wait, they actually aren't the only ones you know…they are actually more of them, the Preston's, even the Azariah and I know all of the Xander's investments and none if it has nothing to do with the news outlets. I have gone through his papers before, his original documents that he had locked in a safe, that's how I knew he wasn't that smart to pull off all that happened," I told him my face dropping. What could Mister Douglas Miller, Alexander's father possibly want from us, that he would need me dead. Whoever this person was, has a good reason to kill me or want me dead but he also didn't make any sense.As for my father, not even I knew of the several women he has gone around with that my mother was very much aware of, but no one knew exactly why he did it. Sleeping with a married man's wife. So Mr Miller could have his reason for doing it, each of the Miller were suspects now and even Alice."Look, go freshen up okay, clean yours
Rachel"Hmm, you seem to like this place a lot huh.. Maybe you could join me, we would make a fun pair…" A familiar voice joked beside me. The familiarity of the voice was enough to spread chills all over my body, at the same time, soothe the burning feeling at the back of my head. It felt like my eyes were open yet closed, I could see her but I couldn't see anything else, just her."Araceli…" I called her name lightly before I felt my chest burn."Am I dead this time, did i make it this time around??" I asked her, looking at her smile so pretty at me, it was almost like staring at my reflection but the prototype. Even by mere looking at her I could see how much different she looked from me, she looked sharper while I was much more blunt on the edges "Isn't that a little narcissistic?? Staring and admiring me when I'm you.." She teased as I rolled my eyes in reflex."There's no way I'm you. I asked before who I was here and you never gave me an answer but now I see the answer clear a
"This is taking too long, we need to check up on him. I mean how long is it gonna take for the police and back up to get here?? Acting like we have the who goddamn day doing nothing but sitting down looking pretty and empty as hell," She looked at her mom hoping her whinig was going to get to her she was going to try and tell her to go in there and ask what's going on."You need to take a chill pill okay, for all we know, he got bigger fish to fry and you going there will just be getting in his way and taking up all his planned tattics and throwing them away. So no, Araceli, you are going to seat your impatient self down and wait till he is back," She continued typing and face timing on Ace's laptop since it was the only laptop available. For the past thirty minutes, she had been trying her best to just sit calm and enjoy the silence and sound of keyboard clicking but it was getting suffocating.It was already passed twenty five minutes and he wasn't back yet and he was yet to contact
Xander"Watch where you are going bro!! F!ck" My shirt had a little of starbuck strawberry shit on me and I knew with in seconds, I was going to start feeling so sticker and uncomfortable.I spilled several curses as I walked from my private gym to Where I was suppose to meet Alice. I don't know why of all places she couldn't just choose some where we could both be comfortable with a little less human interact."Hey, hey...Mr Miller right?" The man who ran into me came back and I held myself from groaning out loud. What the fuck does he want for fuck sake. I'm just trying to get to my meet up hoping I get lucky with her today because she has been acting extra weird ever since Saturday evening we had a fall out. She barely replied my text and after I sent a whole bunch of texts, she sends a cool or fine. It became increasingly over bearing so I decided to come to the gym and put some of my frustration into lifting some irons and honestly, it actually does work.Out of like ten, I was
They were only half way through watching lilo and stitch which Ben has probably watched for the twentieth time in the past four months. He still had the fire to watch it again, which was honestly amazing. Lilo and Stitch was a classic but Ricky was already tired of seeing it and was beginning to get really pissed off at Stitch's voice. It sounded like a really REALLY bad recording from the past, even though it was used as an alien voice, it was still really annoying to listen to.He decided to adjust his position in Ben's warm arms but found out that he had already slept off, and he was the one who changed the channel. Ricky tried to stand up to put the TV off and drink some water but he coiled his arms around him tighter and turned over so they weren't facing the light of the TV. Ricky stretched for the remote and turned off the TV so that they could sleep well.Just a few minutes after he made this life changing important decision as he himself was feeling really exhausted from the
"It's why I'm out here. I came to take him back then I realized that he didn't know me and you guys were not in the hanger so I headed back to the Car to see if anyone approached it. Don't worry about my wound, the cook there helped me clean up my wounds and stopped the blood loss and took out the mic they pull under my skin," He explained further as he stretched his arm. He looked behind me and Mrs Garcia and saw Ace holding a taser in his direction."F*ck...the whole family is actually like this.." He shook his head then decided to crank his neck making a cracking sound into the night."Do you even know how to use a taser?" He asked Ace, who looked at him cockingly."I have watched enough videos and I think lama is still passed out back at home, i hope they find a way to wake her up," He said proudly and I smiled till may brain processed the information that he just spewed and I realized that this boy electrocuted the cat in our household, which made sense why I didn't see the cling
I pressed the gun in his direction and he screamed...literally. I looked at him as his face turned to the palest form od white after pulling such a stunt on him. A click sound echoed in the night night showing that the shell was empty making him breath heavily."That's for keeping us twenty two minutes late," I smirked at him before walking past him making sure my elbow brushed his and walked up to the car signaling one of the guards to help take our luggages from the big SUV that was meant for the guards to drive. She wanted a more elaborate way of moving our things but I managed to convince her that we needed to move secretively without being noticed."That gave me a f*cking scare. What the hell was that about anyways, between you and your mom??" He picked a brown channel travel bag that was one of the monthly calendar gifts to our family."I don't know, years of vex, the fact that she ruined me of all the friends i made here in months, made them hate me and after that, she had the
Rachel"Do you have your bags and passports??" Mrs Garcia asked, holding my hands as we sat at the back seat of her favorite vintage 1965 which she only used for special occasions like when she was invited to Washington to make a speech in a forum that had some of the world's most b important people."Mum...the vintage," I stared at the Mustang and she smiled proudly at it."If not That I would be tagged as a loco puta. I would have named her my third child, she's so beautiful, isn't she??" She said with a dreamy look in her eyes as she looked at the car shining in its glory from the light Cole's private hanger had. The place was empty and we had guards to extra survey the area before we alighted.The place was huge as hell, the tarmacs to the runway lighting, it looked like a full mini airport and it was beautiful and there also happened to be a private restaurant just behind the huge garage that housed the plane. The name was something I didn't bother to read as the food called my