"Bastard…" Rachel muttered under her breath before sticking her phone back into her pocket, she looked up to see Yandel standing at the post of the passage way into the dining area."Jesus!" Rachel yelped, holding to her chest a bit as her heart raced erratically."We don't even look alike Celi," Yandel chuckled, making her roll her eyes."How long have you been standing there?" Rachel asked him, feeling a little uncomfortable, she could have been thinking out loud and he had heard her."Not long enough to be considered weird or freaky but long enough to here the most pissed off bastard I have ever heard," Yandel said, smiling sweetly at her while maintaining insane eye contact which made her stomach turn a little, no not really nausea but the kind of butterflies she has been avoiding."You can thank Xander for that, he definitely made that move intentionally, only God knows what else that evil bastard has planned," Rachel muttered under her breath."Have I mentioned you have the cut
You know the saying that goes, "no place like home." Well whoever came up with thst must have gone spent an awful lot of time away from their beds to realize this truth, she couldn't even deny it, her bed and pillow is everything to her not that the bed here wasn't comfortable, it was. In fact, it was a full queen sized bed and it had six pillows and a beautiful bed frame but it was not her bed so she only slept for like three hours and spent the rest tossing around trying to find a comfortable spot to place her head without stressing, feeling uncomfortable or hot.She even did some cardio during the night and tried some yoga to clear her state of mind and bring her peace but sleeping in Yandel's home was already enough trouble for her. She was put in the room next to Ace so she could check on him whenever she needed to during the night and she did check on him but somehow unlike her, he managed to make most of his night sleeping and snoring after such a long day of well deserved fun
"Good morning, Araceli," Emily greeted cheerfully, smiling brightly at Rachel who just gave a tight lip smile and ruffled Ethan's hair who was mindlessly wolfing down pancakes."How was your night?" Araceli asked, going to kiss Ace on the head."It was good, I can't say the same about yours though," Emily said, looking at Araceli carefully. She could see red marks around her eyes and her face was a little bit swollen."Rough night?" Emily asked."Don't we all," Rachel joked casually, sighing for what seemed like quadrillion time over the past six hours, she started to feel the stress and weight of a bad night on her eyelids. She really needed a vacation after all of this dramatic saga was over."Blueberries or chocolate chip pancakes?" Emily asked."Can I have both?" Araceli asked politely, pleading with her eyes, She knew Emily was a smart girl and she understood things are not right with her. So she served her both and gave her a peck on the head."I heard Yandel yelling, what was t
Rachel froze immediately he let out those words. The air was dead silent in the car, there was a barrier between them so Jeff didn't eavesdrop on their conversation, but what the hell did he mean by that, Did he know that she wasn't really Araceli? How would he even know? it's not possible. She has never slipped up or anything so what could make him say such."What…""I don't under..understand Ace, what do you mean by you have lost Araceli, you don't want to lose me too?" Rachel asked carefully, as her heart started to beat a little faster.If she had fucked this up, that means she was done for. All this while, she thought she was keeping Araceli's secret safe."I mean exactly what I said," Ace said, looking at her confidently, or was he really dreaming when Araceli appeared to him the night she had the accident that her friend would take over her body to take care of him."I don't think I understand you Ace…" Rachel replied, her tone was now a little higher than normal as she starte
"That fucker…"Amy hissed but not before apologizing for being rude and barging into Ace's room unannounced. She closed the door gently before working down the hall to check on the two other doors but they were locked. Which meant, Araceli's room could only be amongst the first two, she opened the second door to find Araceli smiling at her cunningly while lying on her bed swinging her leg back and forth like an excited kid waiting for a Christmas present."Oh you are worse than the devil himself," Amy exaggerated, narrowing her eyes at her which only made Rachel laugh more. Honestly, she couldn't remember why she changed the number of her room door when Amy asked, partly because she knew Amy was pretty predictable in the sense that she would always want to pull a stunt that didn't favor her or try to do something silly like how she used to call dibs on front sit wherever they were going out with Ricky and partly because she thought she had been to her room before so she replied kind
Well things escalated fast."So the first thing we are doing is changing your hair back to black bitch…" Amy announced with her hands on her chin looking at Rachel's brown hair. Rachel looked at her through the mirror and couldn't help but giggle at how serious she looked right now but she wouldn't dare interrupt her, she couldn't begin to pay for taking Amy off her work mode, she had already purchased some dye remover plus some black dye to darken her hair."But why did you change your hair color? I mean don't mind me, it looks really beautiful and natural. I just don't understand why you would change it," Amy asked her. How could she tell her that she was asking the wrong person, that she woke up on the hospital bed with that on her head, but she never even bothered to change it because she herself was a brunette so she didn't think Araceli had black hair and the black roots blended well into the brown, you would think it was intention, just products of really good hair dye and a
"Shall we all get dressed, it's almost four and we have to be there for the red carpet…" Rachel said.She turned around to face Ricky and Ben but already found Ben staring at her weirdly, it made her heart skip a beat, and no not in that way, but in a weird odd chill way. He was staring at her boldly now, he really wasn't even hiding it this time around."You can stop staring when ever you have had your full," Rachel said, smiling a bit not to come off as completely rude or like she had a problem with him."Sorry if I made you uncomfortable,""You did make me uncomfortable," Rachel deadpanned. The air was getting tense from both of them staring at each other for a few seconds that felt like a very long minutes."I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable but you really spoke like someone I knew in highschool but that is impossible since you know—" He paused, pointing at Rachel before pointing at his immediate surrounding, which was the multimillion dollar mansion he was standing in.They d
"No sex in my guest room Ricky!"Rachel screamed as she overheard them from the living room. But they had already started making out and were deaf to the world. So she decided to respect their privacy and left for the kitchen to find Amy drinking the wine she was supposed to use to cook."When they said reduce the wine Amy, I don't think that's what they meant," Rachel laughed as Amy poured an extra glass and passed it to her. Damn...she couldn't say no to wine, especially a D'amello wine, she really needed the wine to take off the edge for the evening. She checked her time and they still had roughly two hours to the event."So, who's gonna be your date to the event?" Amy asked, taking another sip at her wine as she hops off the counter to sit beside Araceli who was on the stool."I don't know, probably Xander—" Rachel replied, looking at Amy to see her reaction. She had a look of pity and disapproval but also that of helplessness in her eyes before she continued using her acrylic fi
"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