🌿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
🌿17🌿🌿Heidi’s POV 🌿I stared back at Lucas, and the look in his eyes could not be explained.“Since when?” He finally asked.“Yesterday. Do you have a problem with that?” I gathered the courage to ask.Lucas looked at me, smiled and shook his head. “No. Actually, I’m happy for you. Okay? I will be going back now. With my lunch.” I watched Lucas pick up the plastic bag, glanced at Nate before storming out of the class.I shrugged, looked at Nate. “He doesn’t like you very much…I guess that’s why he’s grumpy.” I said and checked my own words too.I didn’t know if it was just as I said it or perhaps, something else was wrong.“Who cares? I don’t like him either. Come on, let’s eat.” Nate said, and started bringing out the contents of his own bag. 🌿 Lucas’s POV 🌿I felt like I had been stabbed hard in the chest as I walked back to my class.I sat on a bench in the corridor, thinking about what I just heard.Were they really going out?, How could Heidi date a bully and miscrean
🌿18🌿 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿 “You heard what I said, ma’am. What did you do to Aryan’s grandmother? What did you do to her!” Luciana’s hand flew into the air and before I could notice what was going on, it had landed on my left cheek. I gasped, turned slowly to look I at her. “Did you just…slap me?” I asked, really bewildered. My face stung me, but I refused to let her see that I was in pain. Luciana stared hardly at me, moving closer. “How dare you accuse me of murder? Is that how much you hate me?” I stared at her, my head moving slowly. “No. I have a prove that you actually did it because you just showed me the type of beast you are. I’m going to tell my father what you just did to me!” With that, I turned and ran out of the house. 🌿 Writer’s POV 🌿 “Shit!” Luciana cursed under her breath immediately Heidi ran out of the house. She knew it was just a teenager's whim but she couldn’t stop herself from getting scared. She couldn’t understand how a girl of her age could be so bo
🌿 19🌿🌿 Writer’s POV 🌿 (Texas)“I need to get someone else to do this job, Raymond. That weakling is taking so much time.” Cassandra spat out as she stood in front of her bed in the spacious room.Raymond was sitting opposite her on a large sofa, his hands draped over the top.“So, who do you have in mind this time?” He asked.After thinking for a while, Cassandra’s face brightened. “This time around, I will be using someone very close to Derek.” Cassandra replied with a smile.“Someone close to Derek? Someone like…who? His daughter or who?” Raymond asked.Cassandra scoffed. “Oh come on. Why would I use my daughter against her father? She wouldn’t be able to do that.”“Do you…even think about your daughter at all? Do you still wanna see her?” Raymond asked folding his arms.“I already sent someone to help me find a better person for the job; someone close to Derek. You will see…this one will definitely work.” Cassandra said with assurance. 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿The next day at
🌿20🌿 🌿Lucas’s POV🌿“You what? Jesus Christ! Since when did it start, man?” Mario asked really surprised.I sighed deeply, shook my head. “I honestly don’t know when it started. Maybe when I was dating Daniella, and she started getting jealous. I don’t know.”Mario laughed. “Love is sure a strange thing, you know. Sometimes, it just comes out of the blues.”I looked at Mario and smiled. “Are you in love you? With Octavia?”Mario flashed me an embarrassed look. “Is it that obvious? She’s cute, and I want to tell her before we graduate.”“Thank you for your help though. Those bastards would have really hurt me.” I said with my face crumpled with pain.An hour later, I was feeling better and we got back to our way home. All through the rest of the day, I thought about the confession I made to Mario, and before dark, I knew it was true. I am in love with Heidi. 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿It was Saturday morning, and I woke up excited. Kieran was coming over to the house for the first time
🌿21🌿 🌿 Heidi’s POV 🌿Kieran took me to my bathroom, helped me wash my hair thoroughly. She had come over with her hair treatments and makeup kit.Once we were done washing my hair, she helped me set the dryer, and I had my hair dried up.“Sit here while I change your look.” Kieran said with a smile.I smiled back and sat in front of my mirror. I couldn’t believe I was looking at my hair. I looked so shinny, soft. I couldn’t stop touching it!I was already loving my new look.Kieran started by adding oil to my hair, brushed out the curls until it shone so brightly.She put light make-up on my face that made me look so beautiful. Well, I was a hidden beauty, and I didn’t need any makeup to bring it out!“Now. You will be putting this on. I brought this specially for you on my way here, because I know you don’t have any feminine dresses here.”I chuckled and collected the purple knee-length dress from Kieran, and turned to fa r the mirror with the beautiful dress in front of me.
22 Writer’s POVAfter she quietly left the house, Aryan returned home, very confused.Luciana’s conversation over the phone was highly suspicious, and she couldn’t get it out of her mind.She considered telling the head police and later kicked against it. She felt it was too late to start making assumptions and decided it was best she continued with the investigation until she sees a solid prove.**Luciana arrived at Cassandra’s abode hours later. The securities allowed her in and she found her way in.Cassandra was sitting under a shade, a guard begin her. As usual, she was having her drinks. “You are finally here.”“Yes. I’m finally here to clear things up. I don’t think I want to continue with this whole bull crap.” Luciana said, slamming some bundles of dollar notes on the table before Cassandra. “Here is part of the money you paid into my account. I’m no longer interested!“Someone already lost her life because of this! She saw me putting in some substance in Derek’s food
23 Heidi’s POV“Oh no.” I mumbled under my breath as soon as I saw Lucas walking towards us. I could tell he was mad at me.Nate stood up on his feet immediately Lucas came along, blocking him from coming closer to me. “What are you doing here?”“Are you going to stop me right now?” Lucas asked.“Of course I will. You are not needed here.” Nate replied, and his friends cheered him.I quickly stood up and stepped between them. “Nate, please stop this. Lucas is my bestie and you can’t stop him from coming to me just because we are friends.”Nate snapped around to look at me. “I won’t allow him come near you because the doesn’t want us to be together.”“Just stop it, okay? You are not my father and you won’t choose for me who to visit me!” I shouted at him, grabbed Lucas’s hand and pulled him along with me as we left the clubhouse.Outside, Lucas and I stood, staring at each other.“I’m sorry about what happened inside. I didn’t greet you first because I didn’t want to create a