4. Remembering him

Victoria and Amber had left the hotel. They boarded a cab as soon as they were on a main road. Inside the cab was silent now; they were both asleep, due to their fatigue, and the driver also drove silently.

"We're here." The driver said as he made the car to a halt. Amber rubbed her eyes, as she yawned.

"Toriii!" I think we're home already"

"Huh?"She opened her eyes like she wasn't sleeping just now.

"We've reached home, get up." Amber pulled her out of the taxi, as the man handed her their handbags. "you know we shouldn't be sleeping in cars." Amber said to the still sleepy Victoria.

"It's Plaintwood, everyone's family over here. Where are you ladies from?"

"We're from here." Victoria said.

"See who's awake now." Amber said to her friend, and the man sniggered.

"We are from this town. Don't you know us?"Amber now turned to face the driver.

"What are you, celebrities?" He chuckled once again.

"Yeah, we are." Amber's reply to his question made him want to laugh more, but he didn't, he just assumed that they might be drunk, because of how Victoria looked; she was still in yesterday's cloth, her hair messy.

"We,are two of the top models in this town, I can't believe he doesn't know us." She turned to speak to Victoria, but saw her walking inside and she sighed while shaking her head slightly. "Here."Amber paid off the driver.

Entering the house, both ladies could perceive aromas of food. They both looked at each other.

"My mum's at home!"Amber said with excitement in her voice and they both hurried to the kitchen.

"Mum." Amber hugged her mother from behind and so did Victoria. She stayed with the Claytons, since she legally became an adult, and started to pursue her modelling career.

"Girls, how was it?" Mrs Clayton turned off the cooker and turned to face them.

"Well...not so good, we didn't get picked, though Tori was almost awarded the model of the year, Tonya got it." Amber rushed through the events of the party.

"And there goes our one chance to work for Debbie collections." Victoria added.

"Yeah mom, the director of Debbie collections was there to pick new model for her latest works."

"Our trainer did mention that she went for the best and to her the best were those who had awards for that night." Victoria said again.

"Come on girls, you know you both are the best, I mean you can't go choosing your models from award shows, that's crazy." Mrs Clayton said, comforting them."Now you both go shower, before you eat breakfast, don't make my kitchen smelly." She covered her nose in a dramatic manner, and they all laughed.

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Drew came out of the car as soon as he reached where his boss was waiting. He was surprised, his boss could just leave him behind and let him return to him (Jake). Was it because of the woman at the hotel?

Strolling along the side of the road where the three cars that followed his boss were packed on the left, he stopped at one of the black range rovers and knocked twice on the window. Jake winded down the glass a little.

"Get in." He ordered.

"Yes sir."Drew hurried to the left part of the vehicle, he got in and the driver began driving other cars following behind, one of the guards now driving Drew's.

"What did she say?" Jake asked and Drew looked at him, his eyes were closed, with his head tilted backward on the car's headrest.

"Nothing much sir, she just asked after her friend from the night before." Drew said, scratching the back of his head,"She also asked who you were." Jake opened his eyes .

"Did you tell her?"

"No sir"

"Why didn't you?" Jake now faced him.

"I...I...I didn't know you wanted me to." Drew answered under Jake's intimidating eyes.

Jake turned away from his assistant, looking outside now, thinking of the drunk girl from last night.

"I want to know everything about her, do it once we get to our destination.

"Everything? Today?" Drew had to ask, he thought he could have a little break from work, as he boss was a work maniac.

"Everything." Jake said again and Drew cursed in his mind. He wished his boss would just let him enjoy been out of the city;'not everyone is a work bot like you'.Is he really here to see a woman? If so, why did he want to know about the hotel lady. Drew sighed silently.

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"So there I was, looking for Tori everywhere and about to use the elevator, this guy who was helping with locating Tori says 'ma'am I can't let you go there' " Amber imitated the security man's voice as she explained to her mother what happened over breakfast. "Then I go search round the area, even as far as the party venue, maybe she returned to the party, but she just wasn't there, and I knew at that moment my instincts were right to wanna check upstairs back at the hotel." She drank the pineapple juice In front of her and continued, "I went back to the hotel, went up through the stairs and there's this other guy, Tori you remember the man from this morning?"

"Yeah?"

"It was him, he begins to interrogate me like I'm some sort of criminal or something, told him I was looking for a friend, he says no way you could be up there, because the whole of the golden hall was made private for his boss' stay and that made me know Mr rich was you know, rich and I'm trying to convince him that Tori must be up there somewhere, he made a call to someone,who said I was right, probably, because he finally agreed and went to the room, you woke up in." Amber turned now to Victoria, " He came back, asked me to return to my room, that my friend was having a good time with Mr rich."she said stressing her last words 

"Don't believe her, I was drunk, I don't even remember a thing from last night." Victoria said putting some of the scrambled eggs in her mouth."And we shouldn't be talking when eating Amber, we're models remember?"

Mrs Clayton who was still laughing at Amber's story, finally stopped.

"Models or not, you shouldn't talk when eating, at least not on my table, only letting you guys do this because I'm quite interested in your story." she said giggling. 

"This isn't stopping anytime soon, is it?" Victoria just knew .

"C'mon honey, you are the most responsible person when drunk, I know of, how the hell did you get that drunk!" Mrs Clayton asked but before she could reply Amber chipped in.

"She tried out a new mix at the party."

"Oh." Mrs Clayton laughed once more.

After breakfast, both girls were still tired, they retired to their room. Victoria turned on the bed at looked at Amber sleeping, she couldn't sleep, though she was tired.

Victoria just laid there, looking at the ceiling, then there was this man, looking into her eyes, and she was in his arms wearing her royal blue dress, she had worn to the award. 'Where am I?' She thought to herself, because Amber was no longer there on the bed with her, instead it was this man; this tall man, kissing her, making her feel hot inside, she couldn't move, his hands held hers to the bed.......

"Tori?"She heard her name. 

"Tori?!"Amber called to her again, shaking her.Victoria opened her eyes, slowly as she sat up, wondering if it was a dream. 

"Why did you wake me Up?" Victoria asked almost sad that it had all stopped and even more surprised at herself for not wanting the dream to stop.

"Are you kidding me? You were grabbing the sheets, you scared me." Amber said looking at her suspiciously."what were you dreaming about anyways?"

"I don't remember." Victoria replied hastily trying to lie to her best friend, but she knew it was a hard thing to do."I need to pee, get up!"she pushed Amber up of her and ran to the bathroom.

Shutting the door and turning the lock, Victoria exhaled slowly. Was it him? Was it Mr rich?

"This is wild." She muttered to herself. Never in her life did she think she would dream of a man, she didn't even dream about her ex for one day. She didn't want to tell Amber that she finally remembered the man whose room she had slept in last night; it was more a dream than a remembrance though.

"Tori?" Amber called from outside."Are you ok?"

"Uhm...yeah" Victoria said opening the door and Amber didn't waste anytime in checking her body.

"Are you sick?"

"No? Why would you think that? Do I look sick?"

"Well, you don't?" Amber gave her the suspicious eyes."C'mon, fill me in!"Amber said standing hands akimbo at the bathrooms entrance, facing her Friend.

"Fill you in on what?" Victoria acted like she wasn't trying to hide something.

"I'm not as smart as you are,but you know I'm not stupid either."Amber rolled her eyes, "C'mon what were you dreaming about, did you see your face when I woke you up?"

"Ok fine." Victoria said and hurried to make sure the door to the room was locked."don't tell your mum this one ok?"

"Why? Did you dream about ken ?" Amber asked cheekily.

"No, him"

"Him who?"

"You know?" Victoria said hoping she didn't have to use the term'mr rich' and Amber gasped, with her mouth 'o' shaped.

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