Novel & Cerita Yesterday's Star

"And now I hear out of nowhere that you have got a job in the Deluca Empire. Smack me by the face. What the hell is going on, Nadia?" Steph, my best friend, queried as she watched me do my makeup. It had been so long since I did proper makeup. Applying blush felt like I was performing a blood ritual. "I know, right..." I tried to say casually, an attempt to avoid the question of why I had been unavailable. "I'm pretty excited too. The Deluca Empire is a whole lot of big deal." I said as I tinted my already lined lips with a shade of nude lipstick. "How?

The kind of voice that could talk you off a ledge, or into something you never planned on doing. I was already too far gone to say no. He didn’t wait for an answer anyway. Just slid into the booth across from me like he belonged there. Like we’d done this before. “Bad day?” he asked. I huffed. “That obvious?” He shrugged. “You look like a man who’s trying to drink the disappointment away. I know the look.” I chuckled bitterly and swirled what was left in my glass. “Try Ten years of hard work. Still invisible.”

I had gambled games of love with life and I have sometimes questioned fate if truly there was someone always out there waiting for you, I mean meeting one stranger today at the very minutes this chemistry of love drenches both of you in its alcoholic spirit of no rejuvenation , all that is pleasure to be conformed and there’s no woman who doesn’t deserve pleasures. If you were going to stone at me before, do you still wish to do so now? Or do you have mercy on me because of my story, a history. Look at me, look closely and deeply into my eye balls. Do you see a woman who is afraid of being stoned to death. Never, I am not ashamed to say things the way it ought to be. I have suffered to bear

Several times, people found her passed out beside the grave. I let out a cold laugh and casually deleted the tutoring job advertisement from the part-time work group chat. A roommate who had gone to apply came back and complained, "I've never seen such a beautiful girl before. It's a shame she's so sickly. She gets out of bed and can barely catch her breath." That was Luna at seventeen, like an elf carefully raised inside a mansion. And when that elf finally grew wings and gained the freedom to fly beyond those walls, she found me and dropped to one knee to propose.

But I let greed win. Greed for Ryan Wills — the star, the idol, the man adored by millions. I was smitten by the fact that a superstar had chosen me, a nobody. I was carrying his child, and I thought that was enough. I sacrificed everything for that illusion, my best friend, my education, my career, everything like a fool.

After that apology video, Dominic attempted to contact me. "Aurora, I know you don't want to see me, but… I have some words I'd like to say to you face to face, even if it means I'll die." I blocked his number. He no longer had any right to bother or affect me in any way. The next day, the kingdom was celebrating the annual Full Moon Festival at the square. Dressed in an exquisite gown, I stood on a platform as the citizens paid homage to me.

Everything was falling into place exactly as she had hoped. Strutting out of the airport, Tabitha caught the faint sound of someone calling her name. She turned her head in the direction of the voice and saw her name printed on a huge sign in the waiting crowd. “Tabitha! Tabitha Bray!” Holding a placard up, Koben Nash squeezed his way out of the crowd and took quick paces to Tabitha. The confused look on Tabitha’s face didn’t upset Koben. Instead, he joked with a smile, “What? Did you forget me in just three years, Tabs?”

He looked at her and immediately understood what she had been through. “That kind of night huh?” he asked as he paced to the kitchen to fix her something. Jessica nodded and dropped herself on the couch. She scrolled through the channels. All the channels were showing the repeated shows from the previous day. She finally arrived at a news channel which was airing the weather updates. It was the only news she cared about at the moment. Adam returned with two mugs of hot chocolate. He handed the bigger mug to Jessica and she pecked him on the cheek in return. Adam joined her on the couch. A middle aged meteorologist arrived in front of the green screen weather map wearing overly formal attire.

She needed to warn him. "Welcome to the Evening Star." Travis said as if he was introducing a title of a play. "Evening star." Jason scoffed behind them. "Travis. Give me Morgan." Gavin's voice echoed with authority. Travis' crew seem to almost back away at the sound of Gavin's voice. The rage in it was terrifying. " You have a thing for redheads now. I thought blondes were your thing. Want to see if her blood matches her hair color?" Travis said the smirk on his face growing.