????Journey To The
Beauty Land????
(Once upon a kingdom…)
CHAPTER 21
By: Tofunmi Nikky
★★★★★
Anita’s room***
Anita made to roll on her bed but the aching that jolted throu-ghher hips alongside her joints shook her to the core so much that she froze on the bed. Opening her eyes, she wanted to stretch her body but a loud gro-an escaped her mouth due to the sudden pain.
“Arrgh….”she quickly shot up to seat upright on the bed.
She again felt the pains and hurriedly leaned against the wall, she looked over her body and she was clearly fine. So, what could be causing the sudden pain?
“Yes, ma’am. She’s yet to be back from school. I’m just going to pack her clothes for the laundry.”Peyton, a maid told Anita’s mother as she walked past her.
Mrs Green shot her a look before nodding and walking to take the stairs down to the living room.
Peyton entered the room but stopped abruptly halfway the room on seeing Anita writhing in pain on the bed.
“Ma’am,, Are you alright?”Peyton rushed to her side but was even more terrified when Anita couldn’t respond but only kept on holding her stomach and rolling on it as she gro-ans
“Ma’am Green…!!”Peyton hastily ran out of the room, descending the stairs as quick as possible
Anita heard her phone ringing and stretching her hand forth, she glanced at the caller’s ID. Austen…
“F*vk!”Before she could pick the call, pains shot throu-ghher collarbone this time. And she immediately put the phone aside…
Mrs Green and Peyton rushed back inside the room, and Mrs Green almost teared up on seeing the state her daughter was in.
“Call my driver, we are taking her to the hospital!”she ordered, and Peyton giving a small bow quickly dashed out of the room.
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Seth shut the door and led Sabrina to a sofa. Before Sabrina could take or even excuse himself, he had left her and went to there the telephone laid on a small study desk.
He pressed in the digit and put the telephone across his ear, phoning up the place chef.
“Prepare a quick five minutes meal. And other a-ssorted wines to go with, all in the minimum of five minutes. Then bring it over to my room. Hurry!”After saying and hearing an affirmative response from the maid, he ended the call and placed the telephone back to its place.
“I ate before coming, you don’t have to bother.”Sabrina said, quite nervously as she avoids his eyes and looked down on her nails interestingly
“Well, I don’t care. I want to feed you to the full brim.”Seth shook his head, and strolled to seat beside her
Sabrina glanced over at the small space between them and wanted to shift away a little bit, but knowing he’s going to notice, she decided not to bulge from the spot and just took her eyes away before he’s going to take notice of her discomfort.
“Now I want to hear the full story of why I went to your school just so I could see you, but guess what? You were no where to be found.”Seth said, straightening up so he was now looking at her.
Sabrina fisted her hands on her thighs. She bit on her bottom li-p… Heck, even Seth who wasn’t attending her school knows about her missing at school.
“Uhm, I-“Sabrina stammered a bit on her words, not knowing an excuse to give. Then she decided to say,”I skipped clas-sbecause I was feeling so sort of pains and had to visit the hospital.”
Afterwards, a knock came on the door and Sabrina sighed in relief, hoping Seth would have forgotten about the topic by the time he was done with whoever is at the door.
“Come in,”Seth responded, casting his eyes to the door.
The door opened and the chef walked in with a tray of healthy looking sumptuous dishes arranged on it.
“Sir,”the chef greeted and when he had placed the tray on the center glas-stable before them, he looked towards Sabrina and greeted her with a huge smile. He was somehow struck by her beauty that he couldn’t help himself.
Sabrina smiled back before taking her face away and darting it straight on Seth’s huge king sized bed. A puffy duvet was laid smoothly on it, and the walls was painted with white and blue. She smiled internally at the fact that he has the same wall colour as hers, but the little difference there is it’s also a mixture of white.
“Go ahead.”Seth said beside her and that’s when she realized the chef has left and she’s to start eating.
“This is too much.”Sabrina shook her head. Before her are different varieties of food like bacon, toasts, some croissant, ca-sserole and a bottled water, accompanied with a glas-sof red wine.
“Well, it’s all for you.”Seth smiled at her. He couldn’t bring himself to take his eyes away from her. Ever since the first day he saw her, her rare beauty struck him like lightening. And also, ever since he’s been born to this earth, never has he seen someone so gloriously gorgeous as her.
“No, I’m full.”she shook her head, leaning back on the chair. Now, only her eyes were on the food.
“Okay then,”he replied, also leaning back on the chair. Sabrina looked at him beamed instantly at the fact that now she won’t have to eat anything and can go out to find Luciano.
“But you’re going nowhere without eating those…”he suddenly added, pointing at the tray of meals. Her heart dropped as she glanced back on the food. Maybe now, she has no choice.
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Austen hurried up the hallway to get to his locker. He pressed the unlock code and when it opened, he brou-ght out his backpack from it. Glancing over at his wristwatch; it reads 5:57PM. He quickly locked his locker and went out of cla-ss.
By now, no more students was around at school. He was going over to his motorbike when someone called.
“Hey Austen!”Aria called, hasten her steps to reach him.
Austen didn’t even wait, instead he got on his motorbike and start up the engine. She reached him before he could go.
“Austen, I…”Aria made to speak but stopped when Austen sent his index finger to the air, signalling for her to stop.
Seeing this, she moved back nervously.
“You should stop coming after me. I really can’t love you back. Moreover, I’ve got a whole lot on my table to deal with more unnecessary headaches.”he spat bluntly at her, and zoomed off. Leaving her on the stand.
Aria sniffed, feeling the breamimg of tears about to fall down her eyes. Turning, she ran away.
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Luciano took the glas-sof red wine from the maid and after bowing, she left. He walked round and round the pool, trying to get his thoughts together.
Anita… What was that? What took place before his face back at school wasn’t just an ordinary thing.
It felt so strange, it looks so strange. It’s a mystery.
Where could that tunnel happened to come from? Anita can’t be just like that. He also can’t act oblivious to her disappearance, he has to call her and see. Afterwards, he’s going to know his next move, whether or not to go visit her.
Sipping from his wine, he signalled for his phone from the guard standing behind him. Collecting it, he scrolled throu-ghhis phone for her contact.
Sabrina having finished the meal halfway, Seth allowed her to go. A maid directed her to the pool and she walked over there.
“Prince Luciano…”Sighting him, Sabrina called jogging over to him from behind.
By then Luciano had pressed on Anita’s contact and it was now on dial.
He turned around and he couldn’t believe she was here. He remembered how he had left and restricted himself from knocking at Seth’s door.
Sabrina smiled at him, and as she glanced at the phone in his palms which shone clearing for her eyes, she made to talk,”I have to tell you som…”but stopped when she saw the name flashing on the screen… Anita.
“Hey. You said what?*he asked her, noticing how she had stopped on her words.
Quickly looking away from his phone she shook her head.
“Nevermind, I’ll get going.”she said and started leaving.
Luciano looked at his phone because he had seen her glancing at it, and back at her retreating figure.
Before she could finally leave, he grabbed her lightly by the arm and spun her over. Almost tripping on her feet, he quickly caught her in his arm before she could fall.
And she was left with staring at his enchanting hazel pair of eyes…
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Tbc