Chapter three: A new beginning

My lazy eyes fell on the lady who had been assigned to do my makeup. As per Sophie's instruction, I must look exactly as Diana in every way possible even though I wasn't really the makeup type of girl but they left me with no other choice.

We had spent the last couple of hours at the mall searching for outfits for me. They were all glittery and sophisticated for a proper lady from a wealthy home. But to me, it felt like torture. Most of the dresses Sophie picked out required me to hold my breath at most.

I was beginning to rethink my decision, being rich came with a lot of difficulties too.

Jake walked into the small room with a photo on his left hand, he placed it on the vanity table and knocked against it gently.

"Here is what we want her to look like"

I snuck a peek at the photo of a lady grinning who looked no less than me. If I wasn't aware of my doppelganger, I'd have mistaken her as me.

There wasn't any much difference between us except that her skin was much nourished when compared to mine. It was truly unbelievable.

My parents never had another daughter aside from me and they never mentioned that I had any sister either. This could all be a coincidence.

"Aren't they the same person?"

Jake and I exchanged brief glances. He was the first to break off from the eye contact and raised his head to the lady who just spoke standing behind me. He laughed dryly, shaking his head.

"Of course they are the same person, but she needs to look exactly as she did two years ago. and that photo was taken two years ago"

From the expression on her face, I could tell she already bought the lie. Jake held the photo next to my face pointing out some features she should work on.

We spent the next one hour and forty five minutes on my makeup. Once she was done, she moved aside granting me access to see my reflection in the mirror.

I rounded my eyes in shock. I never knew I looked this pretty, my fingers grazed past the red lipstick on my lips.

"Don't!... don't do that!"

"It's my face isn't it? so why don't you just mind your business?" I inquired with an arched brow. At this point, Jake and his mum certainly had no control over me, because they needed me way more than I needed them.

The lady who took care of my makeup packed up her equipment and left through the door leaving Jake and I in our privacy.

"My business? do you have any idea of how much we spent to make your ugly face glow as Diana's?"

I was about to retort when I caught sight of the makeup lady standing by the door. She beamed at me and knocked on the door before making her way back into the room.

"I'm really sorry. I forgot the key to my apartment" She spoke pointing to the bunch of keys on the vanity table.

She picked it up and left afterwards. I felt kinda off about her actions a while ago. Was I just overthinking or did she really try to eavesdrop on our conversation?

Maybe I was just overthinking since Jake didn't find anything wrong with her actions. Who knows? maybe she was their close friend or so.

***

I've never been this nervous in my entire life. I watched the tree and garden shrubs that sped past us as the car made its way through the driveway.

Just a few minutes more and my life was going to change for good or for worse. But then again, there was nothing to be scared about. I'm Ivy Garcia. I reminded myself.

I went through the ten page script which was handed to me by Jake. We had a little argument on our way over here when he gave me the scripts which was nothing else other than the list of people Diana was well familiar with and her likes and dislikes.

There was absolutely no way I'd be able to learn all of these in a few minutes. The car came to a halt in front of the large white colored building.

My breath hung up in my chest, it all felt like a dream. A wide grin graced my face as I happily bolted out of the car, shocking Jake who was just about to say a word to me.

I failed to see his eyes grow large, I wobbled as soon I stepped out of the car, darn it!

These stupid stilettos I was made to wear were killing my ankles, as it stands, Diana loved her stilettos so much which meant that I was going to be stuck wearing high heels for a while.

My back met the car behind me before an angry looking lad stood in front of me with a hard glare directed to my face.

"What the heck do you think you're doing?! There's no room for that obnoxious behavior of yours alright?! stop acting like a thug! you're now a…

My left hand instinctively pressed against his mouth to stop him from yelling. Like I had said earlier, they needed me way more than I needed them and I wasn't going to tolerate any form of bullying from either one of them.

"I'm like a time bomb. And it would take me absolutely a second to change my decision to work for you and your mother! don't yell at me again! I'm not your girlfriend"

I didn't miss the look of shock on his face as soon as I said those words to him, I moved away from him, straightening the red satin gown I wore.

Few steps away from him and he hadn't moved from the same spot I left him, turning around swiftly I found him staring into space, it appeared my words knocked off his ego.

"Are we doing this or not?"

Jake briefly took a glance at me and mumbled something under his breath, perhaps he was cussing at me or worse plotting on how to make me pay.

After a few seconds, he regained his composure and began walking to me.

"Follow me"