????Journey To The
Beauty Land????
(Once upon a kingdom…)
CHAPTER 26
By: Tofunmi Nikky
★★★★★
As soon as Sabrina felt his li-ps on hers, alongside the obvious glares that Roselia was shooting up her skull, she jerked away from Luciano before the ki-ss would get more intense.
Luciano turned back to look at Roselia’s jaw strucked face and almost rolled his eyes.. What’s her problem, exactly?
????OMG, look at that!????
????He just fuc-k ing ki-ssed her????
????She just pulled back, maybe she’s not into the prince ????
And at the last rumor that flied up Sabrina’s ear, she found herself stalking away from the parking lot and out of the scene.
She got into her first clas-sand slumped on the chair with a relieved breath. But was there even anything to be relieved about? Luciano just ki-ssed her… He even did it in front of the whole crowd but why is she feeling like it’s wrong.
Oh yes, because of the unfamiliar lady by their front whom perhaps Luciano might have ki-ssed her to get rid off.
Sabrina rubbed a palm over her neck as nervous kicked in heavy bucks. She likes the ki-ss; heck, she enjoyed it but the way the lady was staring daggers at her was as if she nows all about her.
The teacher came in and started the cla-ss, causing Sabrina to huff aloud.
She’d forgotten she hasn’t taken off her backpack, so she quickly sli-pped it off her shoulders and slammed it frustrating against the desk, which hopefully, she was glad Mr Blake didn’t hear the thump.
Lost in her thoughts, she leaned forward against her desk, not even caring to bring out a notebook.
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★WOOD’S MANSION★
Anita raced her car back under the shelter of her home as soon as the security let open the gate. With huge tears streaming down her face, she pushed out her key from the car’s engine and climbed out of the car.
“Ma’am, welcome…”The maid walking past stopped by her to greet.
“Shut the hell up and eat your damned greetings!”Anita yelled at her, slamming her car door shut as she shut her off with her tooth grounded against the other.
Stomping angrily into the house, she kept lamenting.
The maid wasn’t surprised at her mood. If to talk, she’s going to thank the heavens because on Anita’s bad days like this, she could have landed her a slap but didn’t.
The maid started walking back in but halted her steps when she saw Anita’s shirt all ruined up with blood.
“Surely, what has happened was really bad.”the maid mumbled to herself, shaking her head before going into the building. She sighed out and hurried back into the kitchen when she couln’t find Anita anywhere in sight.
Anita entered her room and went straight into the bathroom, her phone on her hand.
Her eyes sting as a result of her heavy cries. She went to stand before the mirror and sniffed in her tears on seeing her bloodshot eyes.
“I’m going to kill her, I don’t care about where could have came from.”she toned to herself and turning away from the mirror, she wasn’t looking at where she was going. Almost tripping, her phone flew out of her hand and into the closet.
“Whatever.”she didn’t mind that the phone was just being drowned by the closet until she turned around to leave the bathroom.
“OMG! The s,*x tape of Austen and I that I had recorded.”her face wide-ned with shock at the fact that the video she was planning to blackmailed Austen with just had drowned.
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As soon as Sabrina left, Luciano also started walking away, glad to finally leave Roselia’s presence because it was actually getting more irritating. He skipped down the stairs but immediately he heard the sound of her heels approaching behind him, he stopped and turned around.
“Luci-“Roselia stopped on the spot as soon as Luciano snapped a hot stare at her.
“Now, tell me… What do hell do you want from me. Without the need of a soothsayer, I already know about you. It had be better you say why you’ve been stalking me now that’s I haven’t yet called my guards to throw you away into a damned dungeon!”He curtly chipped in, cli-pping her word shut.
“I, I, You…. Uhm- the thing is, don’t you remember me?”Stammering, Roselia asked. Though she was never the scared type, but right now, Luciano has her stammering. She thought she was going to speak with boldness but the way Luciano was simply looking down at her, it made it so ha-rd for her. Moreover, she was trying all her best not to make him more upset. A simple stare at her by him was enough to make her shake in fear.
“No. I. Don’t.”Luciano picked on the three words, making sure to put enough stress in them.
“Ok. Do you know you are not of this world?”Roselia took that answer from him as a progress, so she asked again with hopeful eyes.
He so much wanted to laugh right at her face and tell her it’s a big ‘lie’ but what if he’s heard that before? Most especially the fact that he believed Sabrina might be right. Now, hearing it from Roselia again, it seems true.
She expected a response from him but instead, he wore a blank expression.
“Infact, you and I are not from here.”she bu-ttressed, causing a dark glint to fly across Luciano’s face. She quickly advanced towards him with slow steps but he took a huge step back, shaking his head negatively.
“I will take my leave now…”he said instead, and turned around to leave. She again made to follow but he stopped as quickly as he heard her clic-king heels.
“And don’t you dare try to follow me.”he added, his icy voice conveying a warning that mustn’t be defiled. Then without even sparing a glance back at her, he walked away.
Nibbling on her lower li-p, she palmed her face in her palms and gritted.
“This is har-der than I thought.”
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Aria face brightened when she walked into a next clas-sand saw the space next to Austen vacant. With a gladdened face, she pushed throu-ghthe lockers and sat down beside him.
Austen whose head was buried over his phone as pressed on it looked beside him instantly.
“What are you doing beside me?”He spat at her and scoffed at the smile that was still on her face.
“Sitting, of course.”she shrugged and said.
Like the seat burns, he shifted far away from her and continued his business on the phone. Can’t she learn to go bother someone else?
“You know this is unfair, right? Ever since I had told you about my feelings towards you, you’ve been distancing yourself from me. You don’t even look at me when I walk past you. Is it a crime that I like you?”Aria said, sniffing and trying to keep her tears away.
“It’s a big fuc-k ing crime, especially when I don’t even like you back!”he blunted to her face as he leaned closer. She tried to maintained her balance on her seat but as Austen kept leaning closer, she fell off the seat and unto the floor.
“Better.”he smirked triumphantly before jumping on his feet and walking out of the cla-ss.
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LUNCH BREAK★
Sabrina felt pressed on her way to the cafetaria and decided to use the restroom. She got in and did the needed, but as she turned around to leave the restroom, her face paled at the sight before her.
“Nice meeting you, Sabrina.”Roselia smiled devilishly, stretching forth her left hand towards Sabrina for a shake.
“Do you remember the beauty land? The place you got your beauty that right now you are using to trick and sed-uce Luciano, my husband?”Roselia asked her, her palm still before Sabrina.
Sabrina felt her heart skip a beat immediately.
“If you can vividly remember the day you were brou-ght to the land and spoken to by my monsters to leave Luciano alone, you’ll recollect the fact that they could have beaten you to death or just kill you off at the spot but didn’t because I took pity on you and told them not to.”Roselia smirked at the end of her statement, loving the look of horror on Sabrina’s face.
“Now, shake my hand and tell me that ‘it’s nice meeting you'”Roselia urged her.
Gulping, Sabrina brou-ght forward her hand. She was fidgeting internally and somehow wish to crawl into the ground.
“Nice meeting you.”Sabrina muttered, shaking her hand and quickly withdrawing the next second.
Impressed, Roselia smiled with a nod and walked out of the restroom, her powers slamming the door shut and turning the lock.
“fuc-k !”Sabrina cursed and ran to the door, she laid her hands on the doorknob but it refused to open.
“Somebody help!!”she yelled exasperatedly on top her voice, trying the doorknob but she knew her efforts were futile. A tear escaped down her eye and blossomed down on her cheek as she slumped her back against the door, and crawled into a ball. Her heart starts to ache…
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Tbc