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Hailey's pov:A week later, Riley: "Your brother said you haven't been home lately. How long are you planning to stay at Alex's place?" I rolled my eyes, "The reason I blocked him was to avoid him, but he finds other ways to get to me. What's his problem with me?" "Let me ask you. When are you going home? I don't mind you living with Alex, but don't you worry about your parents?" "Like they care." After seeing the message, I said, "Alex is here. See you on Monday.” And left her house. I saw Alex waiting for me in front of Riley's house. After getting on his bike, I asked, "Where are we going today?" "Surprise." And started the bike. He parked his bike in a parking lot near the station and took my bag. "Is this place far from here?" He nodded as he led the way, holding my hand. After we got on the train, the two of us sat by the window. "You can sleep in the meantime. It will be four hours before we get there." "This is my first time travelling by train. How could I mis
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Hailey's pov:Alex and I came to my grandmother's house. "Wait here. I'll go get the key." I got the key from the neighbour and opened the house. Alex asked after entering the house, "is this where you grew up?" I nodded and said, "Yes." "Granny's favourite hobby is collecting artefacts, so this house is filled with them. My friend wonders whether I'm living in a museum and making fun of it.""It looks beautiful." When he touched one of the artefacts, he said, “Wow, that's neat. No one believes this house hasn't been open for five years." "There are people who run the house for money." "This house belongs to my grandmother's father. Kind of like a traditional heirloom. I got a lot of beatings for scratching the wall, and breaking some artefacts. She's very sensitive about this place." I showed Alex where I play and where I eat at grandma's house and walked him around the house. "Come, I'll show you my room." And led him into my room. I sat on the bed in my room and said, "This i
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Hailey's pov:After the trip, I went to my house. When i entered the house, I saw mom, dad and Charlie sitting in the living room. Are they having a family meeting? Whatever. When I ignored them and tried to go to my room, dad shouted my name and asked me to stop. I said as I stepped on the stairs, "I'm sorry. I don't have any energy to argue with you, let me go to my room and have a good sleep." "I'm tired."Dad, "Charlie said you're not coming home these days. Tell me where you 've been all these days and you can go to your room when we're done.""Why don't you ask Charlie about that too? Why bother asking me?" "Don't try to get on my nerves." "Answer my question." "Where were you staying?""With a friend."He got mad and yelled, "Doesn't this friend have a name?" "Alex.""I thought you were with Riley but Charlie said you're staying with some guy. Who's he?" "He's not some guy. He's my boyfriend."Mom, "Why didn't you say you have a boyfriend?" "Why do I have to tell you everyt
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Hailey's pov:Alex and I came to the supermarket to buy groceries. As I was walking down the aisle, Alex asked me to have a look at the cups which were in the discount. It was a matching mug for people in relationships. Alex asked excitedly, "Shall we get one of these?""It's a couple coffee mugs. Do you like this kinda stuff?""Yeah, since we're living together, we should have something like this, it's a romantic gesture of showing off love to the person we like."Is he thinking I'm going to stay in his house forever? How am I going to tell him that it's for temporary? After I nodde, he put the couple mugs into the cart and walked to the other side of the aisle where I stayed and looked at the other couple mugs on the display. "Hey!" When I turned around, I saw Dean. "I saw your confession video in our college group. You made quite a scene at the swimming meet. The people who criticise you were all cheering for your relationship. How did you do that?" When i tried to leave, he sto
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Hailey's pov:When I woke up, I saw Alex in front of me. He looked worried, asking me, "Hailey, can you hear me?"I nodded with my half opened eyes and looked at my other side to find Austin. He wasn't there. I sat straight and looked around but I couldn't find him anywhere near me. Where did he go? Did he disappear again? While I was searching for him, Alex asked me, "Hailey, How did you end up here?"I tried to get up without answering him. He held me and asked again worriedly, "Hailey, what happened?" "Did someone rob you?" "No. Let's go home. I feel hungry." "Did you skip lunch? Is that why you fainted? Why didn't you tell me when we're at-"I cut him off saying, "Shall we please get out of this place first?" And we both headed to Alex's house. ~ The next morning, From the time I entered the classroom, I stared at Austin who was pretending to be listening to the teacher. Riley tapped on my desk and asked, "Did you see the notice board?""No." When I tried to look at Austin,
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Hailey's pov:As soon as my classes got over, I went to my parents' company. I've never been to their working place because I wasn't interested in those things. Seeing me waiting in the lobby, mom came to me excitedly, "Hailey…" I brushed her hands on me as I said, "I have something to talk about with you. Do you have time to talk? If you're busy, I'll just-" She cut me off saying, "No, no. I have time. Let's talk. Come on." And took me to some big cabin. She showed me a seat and took her seat across the table asking me about the thing I wanted to talk about. I started, "I don't want to beat around the bush so let me ask you straight. Am I adopted?" She went into a shock after I asked that question for a moment and asked, "What?"I leaned forward and repeated, "Am. I. Adopted?" She got up from her seat asking, "Hailey, what are you upto now? Aren't you satisfied enough with moving out of the house already? What's with this question? What made you think like this? Do you think we'
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Hailey's pov:I came to Alex's place after finishing my work at the cafe. When I asked him, he said he'll be home by 10 pm. Using the time, let's surprise him by preparing a cake. I learnt this cake from Elise when I saw her bringing it to work. Eggless apple cake. It sounds simple when she explains it to me, let's see how it'll turn out in practice. I prepared the ingredients for the eggless apple cake recipe: apples, milk, sugar, lemon, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon powder, baking powder and salt. Firstly, apples were peeled and cut into cubes to make a puree. Secondly, in a bowl, I added milk and sugar, the prepared apple puree, melted butter, apple cider vinegar, and cinnamon powder and gave it a mix. Thirdly, I added the dry ingredients to the wet. After giving it a mix, I poured it into a pan and kept it in a preheated oven and waited for thirty minutes. While I was waiting for the cake to be baked, I heard the doorbell. When I looked at the time, it was 9. Did Alex come earl
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Hailey's pov:While I was preparing for college, Alex said, "I have a meeting with swimming club members so don't wait for me." "Okay."When I finished keeping my books inside my bag, he hugged me from behind saying, "Since the music club is having an event, it's been a hectic week for us." "Why don't we go out this weekend instead of having a homedate? I have some places in my mind-"I cut him off saying, "I have a college trip to go to." "Oh, then we'll hang out once your college trip ends. I'll prepare the places and let's choose when you're back from your trip." I broke the hug and said, "It's getting late for college." He held my hand asking, "Are you mad at me?" I pulled my hand saying, "We could only see…" I paused and said, "If we didn't leave now, we might miss our classes. Let's go."At college, when I tried to go to my foreign language class after the first hour, Mr Grey stopped me and said, "Do you have class now?" "Yes, sir. I have an elective class.""Alright, afte
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Hailey's pov:I drove away from the house as soon as I saw those images from the old diary. I dialled Mr Perez's number, and he answered, "Yeah?" "I'd like to see you. Where are you? Are you at your place? Please send me the address.""It's 3 am.""What's the big deal? I need to see you straight away. Please send me the address.""Is something wrong?" I hung up with him and dialled Jane's number to get his address from her. I went immediately to Mr Perez's house after having the address from her. I knocked on his door and stood in front of it, expecting him to open it. I walked in when the door opened. "Did you fight with your parents?" he inquired. I handed him the diary and asked him to open it. He was clearly astonished to see those photographs. "What is our relationship?" I questioned as I approached him."We're friends.""Do friends kiss like this?" I inquired, pulling up the kissing image. "Hailey… I'm sorry I didn't mean…" "Why didn't you come back to me, Alex? What took
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Hailey's pov:When i came to the company, I saw Mr Perez talking with my employees. I ignored him and walked to my cabin. While i was working, Jane, my personal assistant, came in and informed me, "Mr Perez is here to talk with you about the production, mam. Shall I let him in?"When I nodded, Mr Perez walked in with a big smile on his face. After he sat down, I asked while looking at my laptop, "Jane told me you have something to talk about the production. What is it?" "Since we're going to take the scenes today, I thought you might be interested to join us…"I cut him off saying, "I'm sorry about that, Mr Perez. I have other work to look at.""Alright." When he was about to leave, I asked, "Send me the clips once the scenes are done, Mr Perez." He gave me a nod and walked out of my cabin. Shit! Why do I feel like I was rude to him? I really want to be there and look at the production process but I don't want to see him. Why is it so hard to ignore someone? I have never ignored s
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Alex's pov:After getting the residential address from Hailey's personal assistant, I took Hailey to her house. When I knocked on the door, the door was opened by Mrs Walton. When I walked in holding Hailey, Mrs Walton asked, "Do I know you? You look familiar to me.""I'm Alexander Perez, I'm working with Ms Walton for an advertisement." When she showed me the room, I made her lay on the bed and walked out of the room. When I tried to leave the house, Mr Walton walked in asking, "What are you doing here?" Mrs Walton, "He's working with Hailey. I think she got a little drunk so he came to drop her."Mr Walton, "He's not working with Hailey." And turned to me asking, "What are you doing here? How did you find her?" I sighed and said, "We met at a success party which was held in Dallas. Hailey's the one who asked me to do an advertisement for her new product. If you don't believe me, you can ask her personal assistant."He made a call to Hailey's personal assistant and talked to her.
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Alex's pov:Back in Kansas in Hailey's meeting room, Hailey introduced the production team members along with their designations, "That's Jeremy, he's the director. Elisabeth, she's assistant director and cinematographer, Mason, Location manager. Patrick, costume designer and Cyrus from the accounting department. I picked out the best ones from each department, Mr Perez." I got up from the seat and said, "Don't want to beat around the bush, so I'll jump right into the story I made." I showed the storyboard I prepared for the brand and explained it to everyone in the meeting room and asked for their suggestions. They were more responsive than I expected. I felt relaxed after hearing about their ideas and the enthusiasm they showed for the project. After everyone left the meeting room, Hailey asked me, "Why didn't you say anything about the team? I thought you'd pick whoever you want and discard the others. Or did you take them because you're feeling that I'm forcing it on you?" "I'
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Alex's pov:When I talked about the proposal from RJ industries for making an advertisement for their new product to Mr Torrez, he immediately talked with Hailey and made a deal with her in an online meeting. When Mr Torrez ended his speech with closing words to Hailey, "We're glad to work with you, Ms Walton." Hailey thanked him back and said, "Thanks for collaborating with us, Mr Torrez and Mr Perez." And ended the call with hailey. Mr Torrez said to the employees, "I'll check the list and update who will be going to Kansas for the project in the group. Now, you may disperse."After everyone left, I stayed and asked Mr Torrez, "Can I go to Kansas and take care of it in person?""Let's send someone from the production team." He said as he was looking into his laptop. I sighed and said, "Antonio, let me go to Kansas."He leaned back on the chair asking, "Why are you so persistent? Is it because you're the one who brought up this proposal?""No.""Then what's the deal? Why do you wan
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~ EIGHT YEARS LATER ~Alex's pov:"Good morning, Perez!" When Ms Sanchez greeted me, I greeted her back by saying, "Good morning Ms Sanchez." "The President asked you to meet him when you're here, Sir.""Okay, I'll go ahead. Thank you for informing me." And headed to the president's cabin. When I entered the cabin, the president said, "I heard the campaign went pretty well. As expected, you gave your best even though it's not your position. Thank you for your hard work, Mr Perez." And placed a letter on the table saying, "And, I want you to do me a favour. While I was thinking about a person to send for our latest advertisement success party, you came to my mind, Mr Perez. I hope you're free this weekend to attend this party on behalf of me." He pointed to the invitation saying, "I attached the flight tickets, hotel room details and the place of the party with the invitation for your reference." "I have an important meeting to go to. Otherwise I would have gone by myself."He didn'
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Hailey's pov:A week later, Since I felt bored and alone, I couldn't stay home any longer and came to college.As I walked in the hallway, everyone stared at me but I didn't give attention to any of them. In the classroom, I became invisible from my own friends and classmates. No one talked with me or asked for my help on anything. The teacher who asked me to run an errand for him everytime now forgot my name. People in the canteen treated me like trash so I walked out without eating anything. I went to Alex's classroom, but he wasn't there. His classmates said he's on leave today. When the second bell rang, I was on the way to the next class, I saw Alex walking somewhere. Didn't they say he didn't come today? I walked to him and called out his name, "Alex." He looked at my bandaged hands and asked, "Why didn't you stay home and rest until you recover?"I hugged him as soon as I realised he still cares for me. He broke the hug and said, "I have to go. Take care." I held his hand
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Hailey's pov:When I woke up, I was in the hospital. When I tried to get up, my hand felt heavy to even lift it up in the air. When I took a look at it, it was bandaged well. What happened to my hand? I touched it to feel the pain and I remembered what happened. Riley?! I removed the trip's needle from the back of my hand and got out of the bed. And when i came out of the room, mom and dad were sitting on the three seater chair. Seeing me they came to me calling out my name, mom, "Hailey! What are you doing out of the bed?" I peeked through other rooms asking, "Where's Riley? What room is she in?" Mom held my hand saying, "Calm down. Calm down, Hailey. Come on, let's go to your room first."I brushed her off asking, "Where's Riley? I want to see her." And started looking inside every room I came across. "I want to see her right now."Dad, "Hailey, listen to me." When I ignored him and kept looking for Riley, she grabbed both of my shoulders and said while looking into my eyes, "She
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Hailey's pov:After I arrived at the street where Riley sent the address, I messaged her that I reached and got a reply from her that she's nearby. I put my phone back in my pocket and waited for her looking either side of the street. It looked empty which scared me a little. As I was waiting for her, I saw Riley walking towards me from my right. I ran to her and gave her a hug. She returned the hug asking, "What's the emergency? Why did you ask me to come see you? What happened?"I opened the zip a little and showed her what's in that bag saying, "One million dollars like you said. Is this enough for them or do you need more?" Riley closed the bag asking, "Are you insane? How did you get this money? Did you ask your parents? Did you ask them?" I looked away from looking at her and said, "No. I didn't ask them." "I got it from… it doesn't matter who it is. Just take the money and give it to them. And, stop hiding yourself from them from now on." And gave her the money. "I can't ta
