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“Rhoda?” Cindy looked around.
“Yes. Why isn’t she here?” Malcolm asked.
“Talking about Rhoda. We haven’t seen her since today. I don’t even know why she is not here yet” Cindy replied.
“Anyways, I’m sure she’ll be here soon. You and your girlfriend is trending massively so she’ll be here, certainly. Let’s get straight to the point,,, what happened??” She asked.
“Swears. I don’t know either. It was just unaware. I was caught offguard. I had to do something to save Ariana” Malcolm replied, already taking out a cigarette.
“And the only thing that you could do to save her was too act immaturely and insensibly?? Ariana? your girlfriend?? Don’t you think that’s too much!” Cindy scolded.
“And I mentioned it earlier! It was so unaware that my mouth spewed such mistake Do you think I ain’t regretting it right now? The mistake has been made. There’s nothing I can do!” He shouted.
Cindy sighed, and scattered her hair.
“Let’s just kill her. I can’t keep on doing this”
“Listen. She’s getting her memory into bits. Give her more time so that she can remember. Then,,, she’ll be a goner. Let not waste what we started” Malcolm explained and puffed out smoke from his mouth.
Cindy bit her lips.
“Tomorrow,, I’ll scan her brain. Let’s see her far she’s getting”
He only nodded. written by sommy pearl f.
“I hope you’ll fix it soon” She uttered.
“But boss,,, what happened to your arm? This isn’t a small accident like you mentioned live” Kev said.
“Huh…I fell down from the bed and hit my arm hard on the floor”
Ken scoffed and stood up. He walked to him, and inspected his arm, holding it a bit high.
“What are you doing??” Malcolm grunted.
“This looks quite big for a small accident, to me. If you wanna lie, don’t do that in front of me. I’m speaking from my attorney’s perspective” He whispered.
Malcolm only scoffed.
****
“Who’s that?” Ariana muttered, and walked closer to the door.
She looked through the monitoring system and widened her eyes in surprise.
“What’s she doing here? I thought the show already got to an end” Ariana thought and opened it.
She was on her pajamas now.
“Miss Woo Hee? What are you doing here?” Ariana asked, gently.
Woo Hee smiled, and exposed her hand which was holding a duck toy.
“Thats mine…” Ariana smiled, and collected it.
“You left that at the shoot and I thought you might need it” Woo Hee smiled.
Ariana nodded and muttered a thank you.
“I’m sure Malcolm really loves you…” She whispered.
“Huh??” Ariana whispered, and quickly looked up at her.
“By the way, he steals stares at you and the way he smiles at you, from behind….I’m really sure his feelings for you is genuine”
Ariana chuckled, nervously.
“Goodnight, Ariana” Woo Hee waved.
“Same here…” Ariana waved, back.
****
“I’m leaving first” Cindy stood up, and started walking past the door.
Suddenly, she started moving, backwards and the others noticed.
Rhoda was moving towards her, with a bottle of beer in her hand.
“Okay guys. Somebody is f*cking dead drunk here and the only person who can coax her is Malcolm” Cindy said.
Malcolm dropped his 3rd cigarette on the ash tray and walked towards her.
“Rhoda. Hey…” He whispered, holding her both shoulders, firmly.
Rhoda was staggering, seriously.
“Why her?” She muttered.
“Who?” He asked.
“Ariana…”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you like her?”
“What sort of ques- He paused, and looked around. All eyes were on him.
“Why are you talking like this? Why would you ask that. I can see you are drunk” He said, taking away the bottle.
“Please, don’t like her. Like me instead” She shook her head.
“I’m doing all this for you. for our love so…don’t do this. If you have any tint of feelings for her…Its over” She whispered and slumped.
Malcolm was fast in catching her.
“What’s she saying?” Cindy scoffed and walked away.
“I’ll take her home” Malcolm muttered and gave her a piggy back.
Oliver quickly texted Gina.
*Let’s meet at 9. More Bar*
He sighed and pocketed his phone. Just then, Ken and Kev stood up.
“Ken? Go without me. I’ll catch up with you” Kev said.
Ken nodded and walked out.
Kev ran out and saw Cindy walking away slowly. He quickly ran to her and grabbed her arm.
“Cindy?” He whispered, immediately she turned to him.
“Can we talk, please? I’ve something to tell you”
Oliver sneaked in fast, and held her other arm.
“She’s with me… She promised me a all nighter training” He lied.
“Let’s go of her, first. I just wanna talk with her. Thats all. You guys can sort wh@tëver it is, later” Kev said.
“Nope. doesn’t work that way. We still have lots of things to do and talking will while away time”
Cindy sighed and looked at Kev.
“Kev,,,, let go of me”
Kev looked down sadly and did so.
Cindy took her eyes to Oliver who was already smiling.
“You too!! Let go of me!!!” She barked.
Oliver flinched and took his hand off and with that, she left their sights.
****
Malcolm slowly kept Rhoda on the bed, and covered her neatly with the duvet. written by sommy pearl f.
He stroked her hair and proceeded to leave when she suddenly grabbed his arm.
He turned to her. She was whispering, with her closed eyes.
“She’s still drunk” He thought and bent down.
“Rhoda? Is there anything you want before I leave?” He asked.
Before he could realize what was going on, Rhoda threw her arms around his shoulders and made her way to his lips.
Malcolm quickly broke from her hold and stood up.
“You’re still drunk. Rest well” He muttered and left.
Immediately, he did, Rhoda opened her eyes and sat upright on the bed.
She stroked her hair and bit her lips hard.
“Malcolm…Please,,, just fall in love with me” She whispered, with hot tears soaked in her eyes.
