If the four young women couldn’t recognize Diana’s surname, it was different for one young man who was now looking at Diana full of curiosity.
He had a feeling that this beautiful woman is not an ordinary person. Just the fact that she is an alumna of the rank 1 University in all of Great Blackhampton, that in itself is incredible.
Right after the introductions, they started to elect officers among themselves.
Diana remained quiet, trying to be inconspicuous. A good thing that the other graduate students wanted their names to be known so they volunteer themselves to the positions. Halynn and the other three insisted on being in it as well.
After that, Ben West handed out the pamphlets from the clubs and some Application forms. With that, they were dismissed.
Picking up her bag, Diana stood up and headed out. Moments later, she felt like somebody was following her. She s
Walking around the store, the ladies were followed by four attendants. The man who came with them, sat on a couch, drinking tea. There were sweet treats on the table as well. “What about this one?” Rosemary has been asking for her daughter’s opinion since they started browsing through the gowns. She held a long off the shoulder red velvet gown. Diana liked it but was still looking for other ones, so she just took it from her mom and handed it to the attendant. “I’ll try it out later..” Rosemary nodded and showed her another gown. This time is a white A-line gown that has a long sleeve on one side only. The attendant held that one too. After a while, the two seemed to find something they like. The two exchanged glances. “Take that one too..” Rosemary told the attendant who immediately moved to get it. Meanwhile, the other attendant went to get shoes or sandals as
At the Moonlit Fork Club, five young women sat together on one of the tables, chatting, drinking, and dancing, sometimes with other men. One of them was looking depressed while the other was busy messaging her boyfriend on her phone. The other three kept accepting invitations from men to dance, earning free drinks from them. “He really doesn’t want to come?” Matilda asked Olly for nth time. Her boyfriend responded with a sad emoji. “Baby, I can’t do anything. He really doesn’t want to. He even called up our colleagues to talk about business. I’m stuck here too.” Matilda sent him a gif of a girl with a pouting face. “I miss youuuuu..Mwaaahh” She sent a voice message. “I miss you moooooore… Mwaah..Mwaahh” He replied with a voice message as well. Halynn heard this from the side. Swirling, her drink, she tried to appear nonchalant as she asked.
“Get in.” A cold voice spoke. She raised her head and saw that Jayden was already about to get in his car. Looking around her, she didn’t see her friends. “Olly is taking them home.” Startled, Halynn could only open the car’s door and get in, afraid to be left behind. Jayden didn’t say a word to her the whole time, making her feel anxious. ‘Will he ask his parents to cancel our engagement?’ She feared. Her fists clenched tight, she summoned her courage to bite the bullet. This is her last chance. “Umm.. Can you not take me home? I--I don’t want my parents to see me like this.” Halynn said softly, as if about to cry again. Jayden frowned. “Why did you do this in the first place?” Halynn was quiet. “I know I was wrong. I’m sorry to involve you.” He didn’t say
5:30 AM, Tuesday, the alarm blared, waking the two ‘lovebirds’. Still with a little sleepiness left, Jayden stirred and reached for the alarm to shut it off. Stretching his muscles, he slowly left the bed and headed to wash up in the bathroom. It was only until the cold shower had completely woken him up that he remembered the events last night. His eyes dimmed. His lips curled up sinisterly. Although his so-called fiancee is not plain-looking, she still couldn’t compare to that woman he saw yesterday. Even from afar, he could tell that she was a beauty that didn’t need embellishments to bring it out. He kept wondering who that woman was. Yesterday, he already had his ears listening for any clue as to her background. He wanted to know her name, if she has a boyfriend, what course she is taking up, and if her family is influential. How he will proceed will depend on whet
Inside classroom 2A on the second floor, the students chattered amongst themselves while waiting for their Professor. Three young women were busy taking photos of themselves and browsing online. Matilda called Halynn as she was not in the room yet. They just got there not long ago. “Heyy.. You guys here yet?” Matilda asked. She came early, excited to know what happened after they separated last night. “Mmn. I’m on my way up now.” She said, her steps unhurried. “Okay… See you then..” “Mn.” Outside of the classroom, Diana was only a few steps to the door when she saw a familiar face just outside the door, looking at the time on his wristwatch. It made her look at her wristwatch too, sighing in relief when she saw she’s not late yet. “Good morning, Professor!” Diana greeted with a s
Henhall University is ranked 1st among all Colleges and Universities in the country of Great Blackhampton. Their University’s campus is quite spacious, having 11 buildings in total. Most of the building has 4 floors each. The Administrator’s building has the Cashier and Registrar’s office on the 1st floor while the teachers stay on the 2nd floor. The Deans stay on the 3rd floor and the board and head stay on the 4th floor. Hall of Knowledge building is an internet station from 1st to 2nd floor and a library from 3rd to 4th floor. There’s also a 4-floor building for the Cafeteria which is on the 1st and 2nd floors and Gym for the 3rd and 4th floor where students take their Physical Education classes. The other 4-floor buildings are Computer Studies Building, Engineering and Agriculture Building, Business and Management Building, and Education Building. There’s also the Arts and Sciences Buildi
“What’s your next subject, Diana?” Cora asked as Diana came back to her seat, bringing a round container and a light purple drink. “Umm.. I have Early Human Development at 1..” She answered after remembering her schedule. “Is it at 3A?” Diana nodded. Clap! Cora clapped her hands together, her face full of smiles. “We’re in the same class! Kobe too.. Let’s see.. That ends at 5pm, do you have another class after that?” Diana shook her head, slurping on the bubble tea. “Us too.. Tomorrow we have Introduction to Clinical and Community.. That’s every Monday and Wednesday, all morning. Then what else…” “Medicine I in the afternoon.” Kobe reminded her. “Oh..yeah.. Medicine I, also every Monday and Wednesday, all afternoon. We only have 4 subjects this semester. What about you?”
Olly turned to look at his friend. Shaking his head, he decided to drop the topic. As much as he felt bad for his girlfriend’s friend, he also didn’t want to side with her against his own friend. He has seen Jayden being approached by other girls. Initially they would say they were attracted to his looks, talents, skills or achievements, or even outright say they like his body. But in the end, they’re really just eyeing the position as his future wife. In the digital era, IT companies are really booming. Barrington Centre has been successful all these years, from rank 20, 6 years ago, now it has entered the top 10. Their ultimate goal is to beat Lovell Technologies which is ranked 1st Internationally. At 22 years old, not only is Jayden busy building his career, he is also busy fending off gold-diggers. Although Halynn’s family, Ashton Family, has a lot of branches of t
Lillian, Ernest and the rest arrived at the airport and were quickly assisted through the process. They were able to leave the airport and head to their residence easily. Adrian looked around and saw that everything seemed strange in his eyes. Nothing was familiar to him. It was when they were finally close to the mansion when he recognized the structure. He had dreamt of this place so many times. It had become hazy at some point. But now, he could see that this was more or less the place he lived in before he was taken. It had some new additions along with other changes such as the paint and the landscape design. But the overall structure was the same. As they entered the gates, he saw that there were a lot of people outside of the house. They were lined up even in this cold weather. Most of them seemed to be wearing uniforms under their black coats. The only ones who looked different than the others were the three couples and two young men. “Ah.. Everyone’s here.” Emma smiled
Adrian and Violet were apprehensive when they saw the big plane that they were going to ride on.Fortunately for them, they were flying through the private plane of the Lovell family, else, they would be even more embarrassed by the way they were acting.To their memory, this was their first time being on any plane.That simply was not true for Adrian, as the family had gone on vacations before that needed the plane. It’s just that this memory may have been forgotten by Adrian already.As for Violet, this was her first ever flight.They at least knew what a plane was.They were only anxious as to how they would feel once they’re already up in the air.Lillian and the rest tried to distract them from these thoughts.Hugh and Leroy offered them some wine and snacks.Emma and Priscilla showed them the movies they could watch on the screen in front of their seat.Lillian especially made sure they felt warm and comfortable, giving them blankets and pillows, showing them how to recline thei
“Yes, Dad. Alright–Mn..Goodnight.” Lucas said to Hugh on the phone.Hugh had called him to let him know that they would be heading back in the morning with Adrian and his friend, Violet.Hugh and Leroy’s secretaries have received updates regarding a background check on Violet’s family.They’ve decided to let Violet stay with the Lovell family as a guest.In the residence, there’s usually only the elders living with their staff. Usually, it would be busier during holidays and if there are any special occasions. In those times, everyone would gather in the residence and stay in their rooms reserved for them.Lillian and Ernest have held out hope that Adrian would return to them so they never thought of letting anybody else use it.Lillian would personally clean it and it was only in the later years that she let her staff help her.She wanted to preserve whatever remaining scent Adrian had left.There were times when she would burst out in tears, realizing that she could no longer recall
Soon, the driver, John Garcia, pulled up outside of the hotel where Lillian and the rest were staying.Adrian was no longer as anxious as he was half an hour ago, still he could still remember the bullets trying to penetrate through the car and the explosion after those goons’ cars had collided.Detective Jones glanced at him, noticing how pale Adrian was.Still, he commended him for not breaking down and not getting in their way.And also, because of him, they were able to rescue so many people who have been missing for years.Perhaps the Mayor might even think of rewarding Adrian because of his contribution.At the moment though, it was inappropriate to bring it up, given what the man had just experienced.So after escorting them to the hotel, Detective Jones left them, joining the other Officers with the rescued people.It was a field day for the reporters, gathering outside the police department.On the televisions of most households, they showed several people with their heads lo
As John Garcia was driving the car forward, everyone in the car held their breaths.They already knew that those people were Mortimer’s men. They could only play along for now, hoping for them to think that Adrian was in the other cars.But then–that possibility is very low.The black car they’re in was far from ordinary upon close inspection.And like clockwork, shots rang.Adrian ducked, covering his head with his arms.John Garcia gripped the steering wheel while Howard Dawson and Detective Jones cocked their guns.A voice of one of the policemen came on the comms. “Keep going. Follow the second group!”No matter what, they couldn’t let Adrian and the people who had just been rescued be in Mortimer’s hands again.John Garcia didn’t hesitate and quickly sped on.Mortimer’s men have picked the road where there’s only farm crops on each side, the road only leading one way.The city was still quite far so blending in or hiding in some alleyway would still be impossible.For now, they s
The drive was calm, with John Garcia, the driver not making any stops if he could help it.The car could drive even without gas as it can run on solar power.It could be recharged at a charging station, could store gas and could be powered through solar. This is all thanks to the upgrades done by the Lovell Technologies.With the drive being calm, Adrian fell to sleep.Even Detective Jones dozed off as well, his head hitting the window a couple of times.An hour into the drive, the car suddenly beeped in alarm.Adrian and Detective Jones groaned, having been woken up by the alarm.“What is it? What’s happening?” Detective Jones asked.“There seems to be an accident up ahead.” John Garcia answered, pointing at the GPS shown on the screen in front of him.“Is there another road we can take?” The bodyguard, Hoyt Cole asked.“This is the only road back to Westbury..” John Garcia answered.“Maybe the road is not totally blocked–” Detective Jones said.“Alright then–we’ll keep going..”“Sta
After canvassing the full layout of the building and accounting the number of people inside, Detective Jones and the other Officers made their strategic plan.An hour later, they made their move.Adrian was made to stay in the car while he viewed their perspective from the tablet device.He was given eyes for different cameras. Two more Officers were also monitoring it from their tablet devices.They compared every person found to the sketches from Adrian’s description of the people held captive. And also of the ones Adrian said were the people who ordered them around.Adrian watched as the trained Officers infiltrated the area covertly.CCTV cameras were hacked and made to play the same view over and over again.They knocked out the guards with tranquilizers, making sure they wouldn’t be waking up so soon.They were separated into groups. One made way to the sleeping quarters of the captives, another entered the main building, and another surrounded all possible exits.There were onl
Adrian held her hand, squeezing it.At that moment, Hugh returned to the room and was startled by the silence.“What happened?” He asked. His eyes wandered to Violet who now had her head lowered, her hand covering her eyes and her shoulders shaking.‘Is she crying?’ His brows furrowed.“Violet just remembered what happened that time when she was taken away.” Emma summarized it for him.He nodded. “By the way–I’ve just received information just now. Violet–it has something to do with you. If this is not a good time, I won’t say it.”She looked up, quickly wiping her tears with the cloth napkin.“No, please, I want to hear it.”Hugh nodded.“What is it, Hugh?” Emma asked.“It’s about her family.”They all glanced at Violet, gauging her reaction.“I remember–my mother died that time.” She said.Hugh nodded, confirming what she had remembered.Her heart fell. Deep inside, she was hoping that she was wrong. That she remembered it wrongly.Tears continued to fall down her cheeks. The napkin
Knock. Knock.“I’ll go get it..” Emma said.She opened the door and saw her younger brother, Adrian.“Ah.. Adrian.. What is it?”Adrian was startled.He stepped back to check if he knocked on the correct room or not.“You have something you need from Violet?” She smiled.His brows shot up. “Oh. Um–I was going to bring her to the dining room.”“Ah.. I see. Well, just in time. We’re done here as well.” Emma smiled. She turned her head and called over. “Come on you two..”“Okay!” Priscilla said. “Let’s go Violet..”Priscilla brought Violet over.Adrian was struck for a moment when he saw Violet.He had never seen her so dolled up.Her hair was beautiful and so is her overall look. Her face was even more beautiful than usual.Violet’s head hung as her cheeks blushed bright red.Adrian cleared his throat.“Let’s go..” Adrian tilted his head.“Mn.” Violet nodded.