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Warmer than the sun Chapter 44
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:On the day of my college trip, while I was packing my clothes inside the bag, Alex asked, "Why are you being so slow?" And packed my clothes on my behalf. He took the bag and asked, "Did you pack everything for the trip?"When i nodded, he asked, "You didn't forget anything, right?""No.""Sit down and think for a minute about the things you packed. And try to remember if you forget something."I closed my eyes as he instructed even though I knew I packed every necessary essential for the trip. When I opened my eyes, he waited for my answer with those big eyes of his. I shook my head as my response and walked out of the room. Minutes later, he dropped me off at the train station and said, "Enjoy the trip to the best and Have a great time with your friends.""Aren't you sad that I'm leaving?"He ruffled my hair asking, "It's only a three day trip. I don't think it's necessary to be upset. Let's go out once you return as we planned."I thought he'll be sad and ask me not
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Hailey's pov:After dinner, everyone went to their tent with their group while some stayed behind the campfire to have a chat with their friends. Seeing them having a good time, it reminded me of Riley. She didn't make a call or message even after I called her many times. Didn't she see those missed calls or did she lose her phone? While I was looking at my phone, someone tapped on my shoulder and asked, "Are you expecting a call from anyone?""Riley didn't pick up my phone."He looked around as he asked, "Yeah, I haven't seen her since I got here. Didn't she come with you?" "No. She informed Mr Grey that it's an emergency and didn't come.""What is the emergency?""That's why I'm calling her but she's not picking up my phone.""Maybe she's not in a situation to pick up her phone. Moreover, it's almost midnight. Call her tomorrow." "Okay." Alex didn't go to his tent and stayed beside me as I looked at the junior year students playing games. I asked him, "Aren't you leaving?""Wha
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Hailey's pov:When i came to the cafe, it's closed. Am I early? When I checked, I wasn't. I made a call to Patrick asking, "Hey, where are you guys?" Patrick, "At my home ofcourse. Why?""It's 4pm. Why didn't you open the cafe yet? What if customers think it's closed?""Didn't Elise told you that cafe is closed today?""No. She didn't tell me anything."After I hung up with him, I walked to Alex's place. I locked the main door and came to the room to get a shower to find a bag in the room. What's this bag? Is he going somewhere? He said he has a swimming meet to go to. Is he going to stay there? I made a call to Alex, he asked me to check the bag and hung up on me just like that. Did he buy something for me?When I opened the bag, it was packed with my clothes, books and things which belongs to me. Why did he pack my things? There was a note inside a zip. When i opened it, there was a handwritten message from Alex. "Hailey, go home. I'm not saying this because I'm mad at you or I'm
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Hailey's pov:After my classes got over, I headed to Riley's house instead of going to Mr Louis office because Riley didn't show up for the college. I thought I could ask her the reason for not coming to the trip when I saw her at college but she didn't show up at college either. When I tried calling her, she didn't pick up my phone till now. Why isn't she calling me back? I'm going to her house and confront her. In this way, she can't run away from me. At Riley's house, it was locked. When i asked the neighbour, they didn't give me a proper answer which made me more confused. Where did she go? Let's go to the diner then. Minutes later, I came to the diner where Riley works as a part-timer. I asked her colleague, Gina. Her answers surprised me more than the neighbours. She said that Riley quitted her job at the diner. Why would she quit her job? What made her quit her job? What's going with you, Riley? When i felt my necklace getting warmer, I left the diner and walked away from it
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Hailey's pov:At the cafe, While i was getting rid of expired goods from the storage room, my phone rang. Patrick, "Why don't you just pick up the call and talk to them? It's been ringing since morning. It's 5 pm now." I turned off the phone and said, "It won't ring again." And put it in my pocket."Did you have a fight with your boyfriend?""No." "Then why aren't you picking it up?""Because that's not my boyfriend." "Oh. Okay." He gave an awkward silence and went to the counter after throwing away the trash. When I'm done with my work, I walked into the cafe and continued service. "Two espresso macchiato and one cappuccino, right?" When the customer nodded, I said, "It'll be ready in five minutes." And went to the counter to give Patrick the order. While I was waiting for it, I saw Harry walking into the cafe. What is he doing here? How the hell does he know where I work? I saw him taking a seat and raised his hand to take his order. Since the table belongs to Elise, she too
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Hailey's pov:At college, while I was doing an errand for Mr Grey, I thought of asking for his help so I waited for others to leave the office room so that I could talk to him. Mr Grey, "If you're done, you can leave to your class, Ms Walton." And continued writing something in his notebook. What if he told my parents about it? Father is already mad at me so I dropped my plan and walked out of the office room thinking about a way to get one million dollars quickly. While I was thinking, I noticed my necklace. A crazy idea came to my mind so I headed to the classroom.When the class got over, I went to Austin's desk. When he tried to ignore me as usual, I said, "I have to talk to you. Meet me at the rooftop after the lunch break." And moved out his way. An hour later, I waited for Austin on the rooftop. Austin came late asking, "What do you want to talk to me for?""I'm going to charge you for the blood you're consuming from me." He gave a weird look and let out a smirk asking, "How
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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
