Acting weird

ANASTASIA

I began to pace around the room in worry, the moment the strange lady, who Jace had called Stacy left with him.

It seemed as if scarlet and the lady, had some sort of connection with each other.

They must have known each other, from the way she yanked my arm and spoke, they definitely knew each other and it felt as if she suspected me for a split second.

The way she stared at me, did not sit well with me at all, it made me worried.

What If she found out about me not being scarlet? Jace would murder me, he would strangle me to death for ever daring to fool him, and he would also request for the money he paid me, which I had already spent on grandma's treatment.

"Hey.." I waved at a maid who was passing by, I beckoned for her to come over.

"Ma'am.." she accorded me with respect, with her head bowed sightly, a respect I never got or enjoyed back at my home.

I wondered what my stepmom would be doing now about my disappearance, but this was not the right time to think about someone like her, a person who would never add meaning to my life.

"I need my pictures.." I demanded and she gave me a weird look.

I had failed to realize that my words were too vulgar.

"Well you see.." I began.

"I happened to have misplaced a picture of mine, the picture is very dear to me, so i just wondered if any of my pictures were lying around. I would love to find it, you know memories.." I grinned sheepishly.

"I think we have some lying around ma'am, I'll get them.." She said and left immediately. I found myself sighing in relief.

I needed to see how this scarlet looked, at least would able to point out the difference between the both of us, since they are all talking about how I changed my looks, or Scarlet’s, rather.

"Here it is ma'am.." the maids returned few minutes later giving me some pictures. I took a look at it, no doubt I and scarlet looked alike, so alike.

She was close to being my doppelgänger, if not for the eyes and hair color, that must be the reason why they all talking about how I changed my look.

"I want to visit the salon.." I requested, I needed to change my looks to that of Scarlet.

" I don't think that would be necessary, the master has his own personal stylist, I can call him over if you want.." she offered politely.

"Please do, I'll be waiting in my room.." I blurted in a quick tone, dashing away to my room.

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Few minutes later, the stylist had arrived. She was quite fast, I only needed to make a very few changes.

I changed my hair color to blonde, the initial color of scarlet's hair, then I requested for a pair of brown eye contacts, to make everything look more convincing.

This way if Stacy sees me the next time, she would be very convinced that I'm scarlet. If they asked why I changed back to my normal appearance, I would simply come up with an excuse.

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I stood in front of the mirror, while I took a good look at my new appearance.

I looked so much like her now. At this point, I could comfortably call myself Scarlet, and no one would have to question me, or have any suspicions about me.

My attention was diverted from the mirror, the moment I heard a car horn.

Jace was back, he came back earlier than I had expected.

I raced out of my room, heading straight for stair.

I could not wait to see his expression when he would meet the scarlet he has always known. To my dismay, I met Stacy instead.

Something about her didn't just sit well with me and I had to make sure to stay very far away from her, she reeked of trouble.

"You're back.." I exclaimed in surprise, and she kept her gaze on me.

"Yes.." she responded, not retrieving her eyes from me.

"So you have decided to go back to your blonde…" Those words came out like anything other than a question. She added a smile, probably to make herself look nice.

"Yes, I think it suits me better.." I voiced out, though that was a very big lie. My normal dark hair looked so good on me, not this blonde. I felt so weird at the moment.

"I think everything suits you scarlet, you're very pretty you know.." she praised me, which came as a little surprise to me but I decided to take the compliment. I'm pretty after all.

"I know right, I might try red next time.." I teased chuckling,

"I might as well join you.." she said, and we both burst out laughing, a laugh that was not sincere.

"Feel free.."

"Scarlet.. " she called softly,

"Can I help you with anything?"

"Yes.."

"Can you please go into Jace's room and help me get some files?" she requested in a polite manner.

"You see, he's so busy at work, an important meeting came up and he really needs those files, so please help me get them.."

"I would have gotten them myself, but I consider that rude, you know you both are married, so please.." she explained, with a warm smile on her face.

"Alright.." I drew out, even though I had this hunch that she was up to something.

I meant the sudden appearance.

If Jace needed the files, he could have sent Chris instead. Why go through the stress of sending her? Not only that, they had left this place, going their separate ways.

I headed to Jace's room, I had to be careful around Stacy, she seemed like a sly and cunning woman, I just had to be careful with her.

I quickly grabbed any file I could find in Jace's room, leaving immediately. That was the first time I would be going inside his room, his room reeked of his attractive smell.

"Here are the..''my voice trailed off and I realized Stacy was long gone.

She wasn’t there anymore! Didn’t she say she came to get some important files for Jace? Then why did she leave out of nowhere? Something was definitely fishy.