CHAPTER FORTY SIX **CHERRY** I woke up very early this morning and did all the necessary things that I had to do. I also prepared breakfast before taking my bath. When I was done in the bathroom, I came to my room and put on my panties and bra before wearing a white fitted button-down short sleeve shirt with a black on-the-knee frill peplum skirt. After I was done dressing up, I packed my hair into a ponytail since I didn't have time to style it. Then I did a little makeup of lipgloss, powder and mascara. I went to my shoe rack and slipped on a pair of cutout heels that has been at home for some time now without me using it, well it's time has come. When I was done dressing up, I took out a black handbag from my wardrobe and put in the essential things that I'll be needing for the interview. I also put in my small purse and phone before I walked out of my room. I had eaten breakfast before I went to take my bath so I didn't have any reason to wait behind. I saw my aunt and
CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN|ROYAL GATE HIGHSCHOOL||LUNCH TIME||CAFETERIA| *MARIANNA* I walked into the cafeteria with Vanessa, the rest of our friends were already here. We came late because of the chemistry teacher who thought that it would be nice to take some minutes out of lunch break to teach us, it wasn't that nice because all I kept thinking of was the food that will be served at the cafeteria today. We went straight to the counter to get our food before we headed to the table where we sit for lunch break now, the table had become our favorite spot to eat. Vanessa and I took our seats and started gobbling up our food without as much as saying hi to the others that were also present at the table. I felt numerous eyes burning into my head and looked up to see them staring at me."What?!" I asked loudly but it sounded funny because of the food stuffed into my mouth."Slow down with the food or you'll choke." Damien was the first to speak up and that was when I realized
CHAPTER FORTY EIGHT**MARIANNA**“Tyler is the one behind all of these.” Stanley spoke up and loud gasps rang out throughout the cafeteria. Even I was shocked that he mentioned Tyler’s name.“I’m the one behind this?!” Tyler exclaimed loudly, disbelief evident on his face and his voice too.“Really? Tyler is the one behind this?” Principal Raymond asked as he gestured at the cafeteria that was covered with all sorts of foods. Surely, Tyler have not done this sort of thing before.“Yes Sir, Tyler is the one.” Stanley bobbed his head.“But Sir! This stinky girl here called Marianna was the first person to empty a plate of spaghetti and sauce on me. Have you seen me?” Tyler pointed at his head and clothes.“You’re the one behind this?” Principal Raymond turned his accusing glare towards me and I squirmed as a result of fear. “Erm… huh…” I stuttered, not quite knowing what to say with that scary glare of his that is focused on me.“Answer me with well-formed words!” He barked and I jumpe
CHAPTER FORTY NINE**MARIANNA**"Marianna!""Marianna!" I heard someone's voice penetrate my sleep. I mumbled some inaudible things before I turned my head. I was drifting off to sleep again when the person shook me."Marianna! Wake up!" The person said loudly and I opened my eyes slowly. The person that was trying to wake me up was Tyler."What happened?" I raised my head from the table and rubbed my eyes."You slept off and it's late already. There's nobody left in the school. The students have served their detention and left." He explained."Oh shit!" I sprang up when I heard that. I winced in pain when I felt the effect of how I sprang up in my knee. For a moment there, I forget that my knee was bruised."Why didn't you wake me?" I asked, ignoring the pain in my knee as we walked out of the cafeteria together."You were tired and you seemed to be enjoying your sleep." He uttered."Acting like a gentleman, eh?" I quizzed teasingly."Fuck being a gentleman," He rolled his eyes, "I w
CHAPTER FIFTY**BRIANNA**"Brianna, report to my office right now." Mr. Adrian's voice rang out from the intercom and then it got silent, no greetings, just an order. What was I expecting? I stood up and left my office begrudgingly. I didn't feel like doing anything today. I just want to sit and do nothing but that's not possible since I had to work. I got to Mr. Adrian's office and went inside without bothering to knock."Good morning sir." I greeted grumpily."Good morning, Brianna," he responded coolly, "take a seat." He gestured towards the chairs that are in front of his desk and I sat down on one of them. I hope I am safe this morning with the way he offered me a seat. If he tries to kill me, I'll scream so loud everybody in the building will hear my screams, even though it means losing my voice."Is there something wrong, Sir?" I spoke up when the silence in the room was becoming uncomfortable."I have something to ask from you but let's start with this first." He said before
CHAPTER FIFTY ONE**BRIANNA** After more than a hour of driving on the road, the car finally pulled over in the parking lot of the mall. It was by far the biggest mall I have ever seen, people were trooping in and out of the mall and it made me wonder who the owner was, the person will be so freaking rich."Are you going to get down or you're just going to keep staring at the mall like you haven't seen one in your life?" Mr. Adrian's voice came up and snapped me out of my reverie and I rolled my eyes at his ridiculous statement. He never ceases to get me angry and that makes me want to punch his handsome face or give him a brain-reseting slap."Oh please, like seeing a big mall is a sort of achievement." I said coolly."Seeing one is not an achievement but owning one is." He said with a smug smirk on his face and got down from the car. It clicked in my head at that moment that he was the owner of the mall. Just how many industries are under his name? He has a tech company, automobi
CHAPTER FIFTY TWO**BRIANNA** Apparently, it turned out that Isabella dragged me to a secluded room that was different from the main mall. The room was filled with lots of racks and different varieties of clothes were hung on the racks, ranging from fancy to formal and to casual clothes. And let me add that they were all designer clothes. I was awestricken by the different types of clothes in the room. The amount of clothes here could start up a boutique meant for females only on its own. That's how much the clothes are."So this is where we are going to get you a perfect dress for the gala." Isabella stood in the middle of the room and gestured around with her arms spread wide."I feel like I'm in dress heaven." I said gushingly and she bursted into laughter."You're funny." She giggled and a grin broke out on my face."I'm flattered, you're one of the few people that have ever told me that. Thank you." I uttered with a small smile."Don't sweat it. Now let's start looking for your
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE**BRIANNA**After trying on more than one thousand dresses (I'm just exaggerating, I've only tried on like fifteen dresses) and showing them to Mr. Adrian with him rejecting them because they were either too revealing, too concealing, too long, too short or whatever, I finally came out of the dressing room for the umpteenth time with a scowl on my face. I was even sweating as a result of putting on a dress and stripping right back out of it because he was not satisfied with it, it felt like I was doing a sort of exercise against my wish.The dress that I'm putting on now is a red velvet fishtail dress with thin straps. The upper part is black with sweetheart neckline, pearls adorned the upper part. The dress showed a little bit of cleavage but I was okay with it. The dress came along with lush forearm length black satin gloves that felt good on the skin and a snow-white arctic fur boa shawl scarf.Isabella raked her eyes over my body and nodded with a smile playing