"Welcome Stephen" she heard her mother say as the young man also walked in. "What in the world!"... Arabella muttered as her gaze met his, was he...? She couldn't even get her words complete any longer as she stood there, star-struck. " Momm..." she trailed as she came back to her senses and glanced in her mother's direction. "Are they?" Arabella asked and received a nod from her mother. "Yes, these are the guests I was talking about" She heard her mother say, Arabella came back to her senses and greeted them but her thoughts were going haywire and in turmoil "Good evening, sir, ma" she greeted respectfully with a forced smile. "Dad, I thought you said we were visiting a friend," Stephen asked in confusion after he had greeted. He was in his office yesterday when his father suddenly called him and told him to come home because they were visiting a friend the next day. His father didn't even say much about it before he ended the call, that was why Stephen wasn't suspicious of anyt
***SUNDAY, AT AXEL'S MANSION** Mirabel sat down in the sitting room, conversing with Arabella on a video call. Her day started with a video call from Arabella who was raging out ever since the call began. "Like, can you just imagine? how dare he tell me I'm not his type" Arabella spouted out In a temper. "Was his words really that bad? I think it's a normal thing to have a particular standard you admire in a girl" Mirabel said, trying to come to a resolution with Arabella's thoughts. "Yeah, it's normal. But how dare he? I'm everyone's type" Arabella said, still not ready to give in. "Oh geez... are you sure you are okay, Ara? his words hurt your pride to such an extent?" Mirabel was surprised at Arabella's burning rage, it wasn't quite something Arabella does. She was the type to care less about what people say about her, but here she was pouring out her whole temper early this morning. "I also don't know what's wrong with me, but whatever it is, I'm sure it won't allow this matt
**** Mirabel sat down on a couch in the study doing nothing, she has been sitting there for almost an hour now 'Did he call me in here to come and do nothing but stare at him?' she mumbled inwardly. Axel who has been busy with some files ever since had almost forgotten about her presence, he rose his head up from the files when he heard her clear her throat, probably to draw back his attention that she was still there. He had called her for a reason but he became occupied and had forgotten about it. Axel picked up his phone from the table and answered it as a call came in, the person from the other line of the call said something which resulted in Axel rubbing his hands on his forehead before opening his mouth to speak "Meet me in the basement" that was all he said before he ended the call. Axel stood up from the swiveling chair and glanced at Mirabel "We are heading out" he uttered as he walked to the door "Huh? Together? Where are we going to?" Mirabel asked a row of questions.
Mirabel who has been sitting and staring around the room suddenly gave a loud yawn which attracted the eyes of the men who sat down going through something. Except for Axel who didn't glance at her as he typed away on his laptop "You are bored," he questioned the obvious. Mirabel felt like rolling her eyes hard at his statement, but she restrained from doing so because of the gazes on her "Yes, I'm bored, why did you even bring me?" she said boldly. Dave, Lucas, Marcel, and John who were working together on a file glanced at her amused by her tone and guts. Although they already had a hint that whoever would be beside their boss wouldn't be someone easy, this still came as a surprise to them. They immediately went back to what they were working on, they would prefer to stay deaf and invisible to whatever was happening. Axel swiveled his chair and glanced in Mirabel's direction with a brief smirk "Is that so?" he stood up from his seat and made his way towards the door "Follow me, a
"Mirabel, Mirabel" "Huh? What?" Mirabel was pulled out of her train of thought as she heard Charlotte call out her name and tap her shoulders. "I should be asking you what's wrong. you've been spacing out ever since you came to work today, are you okay?" Charlotte arranged the books on her table and glanced at Mirabel with a worried look. "Oh yeah, I'm okay" Mirabel rubbed her palms on her creased forehead. She honestly doesn't know what is wrong with her, whether it was because of the workload she had piled up or because Axel has been ghosting her presence throughout the week, ever since the last Sunday they went to the basement. Shrugging the thoughts off her shoulders, she picked up the scripts on her table. "What's the time?" she checked on her phone, it was already noon so she quickly arranged her things "Bye, I have work with Senior Ivy now" She dashed off the RAAH Department and went straight up to the drama auditorium. Mirabel arrived on time to see Ivy walking into the hal
****SCOTT MANSION** "Mom, Dad, I'm going out, I won't take long, I need to visit a friend" Sofia who was walking down the stairs uttered as she saw her parents in the sitting room. "You know you shouldn't be going out, right? you are still recuperating, can't you stay back and visit this friend tomorrow? or some other time?" Mrs. Scott inquired with a worried look on her face. "NO," Sofia said immediately, "it's not that far, so, no worries, I won't take long before I come back," said Sofia, to make her mom reason with her. "You can go, but make sure to arrive back home before the clock hits seven, I mean my words," Mr. Scott said sternly permitting his daughter to go. "Thanks, Dad, I'll be back home very soon, goodbye Mom" Sofia scurried her way out of the house after receiving the permission she wanted. She knew her parents were worried because of her health condition that's why she had to promise them that she would arrive back early. Sofia entered the red car which was for he
"It would be better if I don't even cross parts with him again, 'cause if I do..." Mirabel received a call from Arabella when she just arrived at Gold Fox early Monday morning. Arabella had called to inform her about her afternoon flight and that she wouldn't be in the country for the next two weeks. Their conversation ended up drifting to the topic of how Arabella's pride was marched on. "Are we still on this again, Ara?" Mirabel cut her short as she asked. She was in the RAAH preparing her things to go to the auditorium for acting. "Of course, we are still on this. Well, not till I get my sweet taste of revenge" Said Arabella from the other line of the call. "Hmm? I'll advice you to not go extreme with whatever plans you are brewing up" uttered Mirabel, walking out of the RAAH to head upstairs. "Yeah, yeah... I know. I just hope I don't cross parts with him again" muttered Arabella. "Later then..." Mirabel said before she hung up the call. She was focused on the screen of her p
Mirabel took her bag and headed out of the RAAH after work hours were over and the employees were leaving the company. On her way out she saw Charlotte heading in the same direction, walking back to the RAAH. "Aren't you leaving, yet?" asked Mirabel as they came to stand in front of each other. "I'll be out in a few minutes, I just have something I need to check on at the RAAH before I leave," Charlotte said and received a nod from Mirabel "So? How was the play? had fun?" Charlotte inquired, she was acting in a different movie so she wasn't to be included in the one Mirabel was acting on. "Yeah, it was okay," said Mirabel with a smile. "Good, mine is kind of tiring though. And oh, do you know Senior Ace is playing in the same movie as yours?" Charlotte questioned "Huh? No... I didn't know" Mirabel said with an oblivious look which made it obvious that she had no idea about it. "Oh, maybe it's because he hasn't attended any of the rehearsals that's why you don't know. I think he