🌿9🌿 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿“Am I interrupting?” Daniella asked again as she got closer enough.“Daniella? What…are you doing here?” Lucas asked as he disengaged from me.Daniella smiled at him. “I’ve not had the chance to tell you that Heidi’s father and my mom are getting married.”“What!” Lucas exclaimed.I looked at Daniella, amazed at her gut. “My father is never going to marry your mother. Get that into your head. It’s never gonna happen, and do you know why? Because my mother will come back home!”Daniella chuckled. “It is better you stop dreaming.”“What did you just say to me?” I asked, glaring hard at her.“Okay, girls. Please, can you stop already? Why are you always at each other’s neck?”Just then, I looked up to see Luciana walking into the house too.Grumbling, I turned and stared walking away.“Heidi. Wait.”It was Luciana, stopping me authoritatively.I turned to look at her, folded my arms. “What do you want?”“I only want us to get along for your father’s sake, Heid
🌿10🌿 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿“Nate? Are you there?” I asked when the other line still remained silent.“Set…up who?”“Can you do it? I need to know if you will be able to do it.”“And what’s in for me, huh?” Nate asked after some time.I stood up from my bed, walked to the door and locked it before walking towards the window. “I will be your girlfriend.”Nate gasped from the other side of the line. “Are you serious right now? How do I trust you?”“I give you my word, Nate. I will go out with you.”“Okay. What’s the plan? Who am I setting up?”I smiled at the question. Exactly what I wanted to hear. TEXAS 🌿Cassandra’s POV🌿“Why would you do that!” I yelled into the phone, really flabbergasted.My hand trembled, really pissed off at the piece of news I was getting from the other side of the line.“Martha! This is going to complicate things! And before that happens, just know you won’t get a penny from me!”There was a sigh from the other side of the line. “I’m sorry boss, bu
🌿11🌿🌿 Lucas’s POV🌿“What are you staring at?” Daniella asked, waking me up from my dazzled state. She turned and her head, saw Heidi and turned back to look at me. “Is that her boyfriend?”“No!” I didn’t mean to snap but I did. “Sorry for snapping.”Heidi and Nate got to the spot we stood, and I held Heidi’s hand before she could walk by. “I want to speak to you.”Heidi glanced at Daniella, back at me. “You were talking to your girlfriend, isn’t it? I’m going to class with Nate.”“Can you just stay here for a while and allow him go to class on his own? He’s not a baby, and I’m sure he can find his way to his desk.” I replied, all the while, looking at Nate who scoffed at the end of my statement.“Heidi might be your bestie, but that doesn’t mean she can’t talk with someone else.” Nate retorted.I closed my eyes, willing myself to stay calm. “I need to speak with Heidi. Can you please continue your way to the class? She will join you very soon.” I was so pissed off.I saw Heidi
🌿12🌿 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿“What are you doing here?” I repeated the question.Luciana flashed me a smile, and shuffled the papers in her hand. Her nervousness was gone in a flash. “Nothing. I came by to make dinner for you guys, and when I came here, I found everywhere so messy, and thought I should do some cleaning.”I was silent. Looking at her with this strange look on my face.Of course, I didn’t believe a single word of what she said. Not even a word.I folded my arms, walked slowly into the room. “Does my father know you are here?”“Well…”“It is a 'no' or 'yes' question, Luciana.” I interrupted.Luciana turned, dropped the files in her hand on the drawer, then turned back to look at me. “No, he doesn’t know because I planned to surprise him.”I chuckled, and stared back at her. “You planned to surprise my father? What do you take me for, huh? It’s so glaring that you are searching for something! What are you looking for?”Luciana sighed with that innocent look still on her
🌿13🌿🌿 Lucas’s POV 🌿“I’m home!” I announced as I walked into the house. I dropped down my guitar in front of door, and looked up to see my mother coming down the stairs.She was wearing her nightwear, and that was when I realized how late it was.“Lucas. What happened? It’s almost ten pm.” Mom questioned. There was a cup of coffee in her hand as she walked towards me.“I’m sorry mom, but I was in the studio with the boys. We had to practice.” I replied, took her coffee cup, and sipped from it.Mom watched me and chuckled. “You always sip my coffee ever since you were little, and you still do.”I passed it back to her, smiling. “I know, right? I’m sorry if I got you worried. I will…” My phone beeped, alerting me of a message.“I will be in my room mom. Goodnight.” I said as I flipped out my phone from my pocket, took the stairs.I stopped in my tracks as my eyes caught the content of my latest message.I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was pictures of Daniella and some boy, sp
🌿 Episode 14 🌿 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿All through the night, Daniella kept throwing her arms and legs at me, pushing me off the bed, and giving me sleepless night.She threw up again, and I was so lucky she poured it out on the floor.By the time it was morning, I was seriously exhausted.As if the disastrous night wasn’t enough, the annoying girl had a hangover.Without having the power to stop myself, I had to go downstairs, make her soup and brought it up to my room for her. I served her breakfast in bed. Me?Wait a minute. Was I feeling guilty for setting her up?*Is that why am helping her?* No. She deserved it!“Thank you, Heidi. I never thought…” She started, and stopped to wince in pain, “This headache is killing me.” She cried.“Okay. Enjoy of this. I think I’ve helped you enough. You have to get going.” I voiced out, pointing at the door.As if she didn’t hear a bit of the words I said, she looked confusingly at me. “Do you know what happened last night? I can’t seem to rem
🌿15🌿 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿 Daniella followed me out immediately, stopping me from climbing down the stairs. We both stood at the hallway, glaring at each other. “What are you doing? Why did you stop me?” I barked at her. Daniella shook her head, looking at me. “I just want to know who you are; what type of person you are. Last night, you took care of me even though you don’t like me, and this morning, you made me soup for my hangover. “And now, you have that unspeakable hatred in your eyes.” Daniella said, and I went dead silent. Thinking now, I realized I didn’t even know who I was. “You don’t have to know who I am because you and I have nothing in common. I don’t know who you are.” I replied after I found my voice. “But I know who you are, and I want us to be sisters…” “Your mother is never gonna end up with my father! So, it’s better if you stop saying that!” I cautioned her. Daniella sighed. “You sounded very sure about that. Do you have plans of separating them? How will
🌿16🌿 🌿 Writer’s POV 🌿 “What was so urgent?” Luciana asked again, staring down at her wristwatch. She'd lied to Derek that she wanted to go to the mall to pick up a few things. “What’s happening? I thought you said this wouldn’t take time? Why haven’t you been able to do anything?” Cassandra asked as she stared up at Luciana. Luciana breathed in, and glanced at Raymond. “Can you excuse us, please?” Raymond frowned. “Why should I excuse you? I am Cassandra’s right hand man, so say whatever you want.” Cassandra glanced at him, smiled. “Give us few minutes, Ray. Thanks. So,” Cassandra continued after Raymond left, “What happened?” Luciana took the seat opposite Cassandra before looking at her. “Your daughter is making things too hard and difficult for me. She’s not only inquisitive, she’s wise and calculative thus suspecting me already.” Cassandra smiled sheepishly, sipped from her bottle of tequila. “She is? So, then what? She’s only thirteen, right?” Luciana stared strangely