******
Pierce sat watching Joanna and Francis who kept whispering to each other while kissing amidst it.
He felt jealous, he should be the one there, he should be the one kissing her and not Francis but then he lost his chance.
“You eyes will pop out if you keep starring ” Alice said coming to join him.
“I don’t feel like talking to you” Pierce said.
“Talk? Don’t make me laugh, we both only throw insults at each other ” Alice said which got him sighing out in frustration.
“Starring won’t earn you her love” Alice said suddenly which got him looking at her.
“What do you mean?”
“Only a dummy wouldn’t notice the look in your eyes each time you stare at Joanna” Alice said sipping her juice.
“Is it always your concept to meddle in people business?” He asked hating the fact that Alice saw his feelings.
“As long as I can help them, then am willing to meddle and right now you…..”
“I don’t need your help neither do I want to talk to you. Do me a favour and leave me alone, you are beginning to annoy me” he said erasing the smile on Alice face.
“Fine then. You can seat here watching Joanna and the guy she loves. You loser” Alice said kicking his leg as she walk past him.
*****
Evelyn walk out of the rest room only to bump into some one.
“Am sorry” Pierce said turning to leave but Evelyn took hold of his hand.
“Are you leaving?” She asked.
“Yeah, I don’t think I have anything more to do here” Pierce said gently pulling his arm from her.
“But you have some thing to do” Evelyn said.
“What exactly?” Pierce asked wondering what he forgot to do.
“Joanna. Are you going to let Francis take her from you?” Evelyn asked.
“Get to the point” Pierce said tersely.
“I know you are interested in Joanna and I still love Francis, why don’t we do some thing to get the people we want?” Evelyn suggested.
“Am not interested” Pierce replied turning to leave but she held him back.
“Don’t you want to do something? You just can’t sit back and lose the girl you love” Evelyn said.
“You are right, I am interested in Joanna but she isn’t and what’s right for her is to let her be with the person she loves. Her happiness should be my happiness even though it isn’t with me, you should also do that for Francis that is, if you truly love him” Pierce said before walking off leaving Evelyn starring after him.
Feeling hurt, Evelyn turn to go back into the bar when she saw Theo starring at her.
“What?” She yelled at him.
“Pierce is right, if you truly love Francis like you claim then you should let him be with the one he loves” Theo said.
“Says the father of multi-dating” Evelyn said being sarcastic.
“Your right, have dated a lot of girls and have also dump them but I know the score which is never to fall in love with them. It was like that for you at first, you only dated Francis cause of what you could get out of him but then you fell for him. What am trying to say here is that you shouldn’t ruin someone happiness just to get yours, it won’t work. Keep that in mind” Theo said before walking past her, going into the male rest room.
Evelyn felt more hurt after hearing what Theo said to her. She loves Francis and the thought of giving him up makes her feel sad.
She was heading back to the bar and could hear Alice singing an off beat song but what caught her attention most was Linda who was waiting idle by the door.
“Finally” Linda said starring at her.
“Do you want to talk to me?” Evelyn asked.
“Yes” Linda replied.
“I don’t think we have anything to talk about” Evelyn said.
“Well if I tell you that I know of a way to help you get the guy you love, do you think we still have nothing to say to each other?” Linda asked startling her.
“How do you know that?”
“It was quite easy figuring you out. You love Francis and from my guess, you’ve been dating him before he met Joanna who now has his heart” Linda narrate making Evelyn angry.
“You are right” Evelyn said slowly.
“Good then. Am glad you answered truthfully cause if am to help you then I will need you to trust me” Linda said.
“To trust you? What do you intend to do?” Evelyn asked.
“It’s a plan that came to me while watching you and let me tell you that it’s gonna be a success cause wh@tëver I set my mind in doesn’t fail at all” Linda said looking smug and sure of herself and that some how rub off on Evelyn.
“Tell me about this plan of yours?” Evelyn asked slowly.
“Well I plan to hold a party the day after tomorrow and am gonna invite you all and that’s when we execute our plan” Linda said even as she told Evelyn of her plan.
******
∆ TWO DAYS LATER~ LINDA’S PARTY ∆
Joanna and Francis along with some other people stood on the dance floor dancing to the slow music and enjoying the evening when a girl ran into the room.
“Someone has fallen into the pool ” the girl yelled alerting everyone.
“Who?” Someone asked amongst the crowd.
“Alice, Alice fell into the water” The girl said and on hearing that Joanna took to her heels while Francis and the others followed.
“What’s wrong? Why are you so worked up about it?” Francis asked running along side Joanna.
“Alice can’t swim, she can’t” Joanna said worriedly even as they got to the pool side.
They all stop when they saw Alice safely out of the water but unconscious and Pierce kneeling over her.
” Wake up, Alice! ” The wet Pierce kept calling and when she failed to respond, he began to perform CPR on her.
He move to her lips wanting to kiss it but Joanna yelled at him.
“Don’t! Don’t kiss her” Joanna said.
“It’s a matter of life and death Joanna, if I don’t breathe air into her then there’s probability that she’s going to die ” Pierce said and before they could stop him, He kissed Alice.
On seeing the shock look on Joanna face, Francis finally understood the situation.
“Is this what I think it is?” Francis asked her and she turn to him, nodding slowly.
“Pierce just gave Alice her first kiss”
To be continued ✌️✌️✌️
