????SHE’S NOT A CINDERELLA????
????A Cinderella doesn’t have to be a princess????
✍️Written By Precious Pinky✍️
????Chapter Twenty [20]????
????Cherry’s Pov????
“Aunty Cherry is Sister Ruby back from work?” Tyson asked me for the hundredth time today.
He was worried. And i was worried also. This have never happened before. Ruby don’t sleep out neither have she ever come late like this from work.
And even if she was going to come late wouldn’t she have at least give us a call or Something?
I’ve told Tyson that she was on her way but the truth was… I don’t know where she was.
I’ve tried calling her line but it was switched off.
“I’m sure she’s still on her way.” I say.
“It’s 2am, how can she still be on her way by this time? Do you think something bad have happened to her?”
What I seem to have forgotten was…this little man standing in front of me was way smarter than me.
I should have said another lie instead of saying the obvious one.
“No, no, of course not! Nothing bad has happened to her and I’m sure of it. Now go to bed while I wait for her arrival, okay?”
He shook his head in disapproval. “no, i will stay with you and wait for her arrival also.”
I knelt down in front of him so I could be on the same eye level with him.
“Sister Ruby won’t be very happy if she figures out that you didn’t go to bed on time. You know that right?”
“But I can’t seem to fall asleep.” He says.
I smiled and ki-ssed him on his cheek.
“Just close your eyes and imagine sister Ruby reading a bedtime story for you.”
“I hate imaginations.” He say, scrunching up his face in disgust.
I smiled. What a smart gentle man.
“Really? Then do you want me to read you a bedtime story?” I ask with a brow raised.
He placed his little index finger on his chin and act to be thinking of a reply.
He smiled and nodded his head.
“Now, let’s go.” I got up to my both feet and held out my hand for him to hold onto. He placed his tiny hands in mine and we both matched into his room.
I really hope that she was okay.
I hope nothing bad has really happened to her.
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????Ruby’s Pov????
“Why are you suddenly nice to me. i mean, you should hate me after what I had said to you earlier but why don’t you?”
He hesitate for a while before saying. “I’m looking for answers.”
I furred my brows in confusion.
Answers to what?
“Answers? What answers are you talking about?” I had to ask, okay. I was damn curious so don’t judge me.
“You seem to be curious.” He says.
“Well, that’s because I am.”
He chuckles lightly. “You should get some sleep. it’s late.” He picks up the tray and got up to his feet.
“Are you really leaving because it’s late or it’s because you are trying to avoid my question?”
He shrugged. “Some questions are not meant to be answered. I should go to bed.” He turned from me and walks out the door.
I laid in the darkness staring at the blank but dark ceilings.
It was suppose to be white but it was dark due to the darkness of the room.
I was still confuse about what just happened.
What answers was he really looking g for? Although it was none of my business.
I mean, he was Malcolm and I have no business with that name but… why does it feel like he was trying to avoid the question? Why does it feel like he was running away from it?
And why does it feel like the answers have something to do with me?
I sighed and shut my eyes closed to get some sleep when suddenly the name Tyson pop into my head. I quickly snapped my eyes open.
Shit!
I had totally forgotten to give them a call to inform them that I won’t be coming home in two weeks.
fu-ck! They must be very worried.
I grabbed my phone and turn it on but it wouldn’t on.
Oh no, my phone was switched off. It was dead due to low battery.
And do you know the unfortunate thing right here…? I will tell you, I don’t have a fu-cking charger to fu-cking charge the fu-cking phone.
Oh, shut the fu-ckup.
What do I do now? How do I give them a call?
That was a smart idea after all.
yes, you are and that’s because you are me.
I laid back down on the bed and covered my body with the blanket. I let out a de-ep breath and shut my eyes closed.
Tyson would be fine. He has Cherry by his side so I’m very sure that he was fine.
With that thought in mind… i drifted off to the wonderland.
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Grrrrrrrgh!
Grrrrrrrgh!
The alarm rung, waking up from my beauty sleep.
Arrrrgh, I hate alarms!
Wait. Alarm?
I don’t remember setting an alarm and that’s for two reasons; One, I wasn’t in my room and two, i didn’t pack an alarm while coming down here. I didn’t even get to pack few of my clothes.
I opened my eyes and came face to face with grinning Johnny.
He had an alarm clock beside my ear.
I thought as much.
“Hello sleepyhead, it’s time to rise and shine.”
I gro-aned externally and pulled the covers over my face.
I hate this guy. He always have a way of pulling me out of my wonderland.
He always interrupt my beauty sleep.
“Is she up yet?”
I pulled the covers off my face and saw Elvis standing at the doorway.
“We have work to do so get your as-soff that bed.” He ordered.
“My ankles hurt.” I say.
Speaking about the ankles…I don’t even feel any pain there again. I guess I’m fine now but hey, the guys don’t have to know that.
“Oh. We’ve totally forgotten about it.” Johnny says.
“Sorry for disturbing you.” Elvis says.
I shook my head waving them off. I guess my plan worked.
You see one reason why I should be thankful to that bit-ch for pushing me off the way and causing me to hurt my ankle.
If she hadn’t done that, Malcolm wouldn’t have carried me in his arms. He wouldn’t have prepare that delicious porridge for me and we wouldn’t have chatted all throu-ghthe night. And also, I wouldn’t have been able to escape the house arrangement.
Is this ankle pain not a blessing in disguise?
“It’s Fine. But I will like to watch you guys work if you don’t mind.” I say.
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“You aren’t wiping it properly, John.” I scolded.
Johnny scowled at me before starting to wipe the floor har-der . it was so hilarious to watch the five Stars clean.
I’m so blessed.
“Elve, you look like an as-sright now. You aren’t wiping the windows well. God, I wish my ankles were much better I would have done this myself.” I sarcastically say.
Oh shut up! Tbey don’t have to know that.
“Why aren’t you working?” The bit-ch had the nerve to ask me.
I point down at my ankle.
“Oh. But it should be fine by now.” She says.
“Well, it isn’t.” I reply.
She eyed me from head to toe before taking a seat beside me. I chose to ignore her. I don’t want to have any problem with her.
She wasn’t just the director’s only child, she was also Malcolm’s girlfriend.
And i have to respect her because of him.
“Babe, need my help?” She calls out to Malcolm who was brushing off the cobweb.
“I’m good.”
His gaze moved to me. Our eyes locked for a moment but I looked away, breaking the eye contact.
“Mason, what are you doing over there?” I ask him. He didn’t answer. “Mason.” He still didn’t answer. “MASON!” I yelled this time around.
“I’M SCRUBBING THE FLOOR WITH JOHNNY! He yelled out the reply.
I burst out laughing. He look so cute with that reaction.
“Den…” I haven’t called out his name finish when he cuts me off.
“I’m dusting the chairs!”
I smiled and turned back to Malcolm. He was pressing his phone now. I look up at the ceilings and could still see spiderweb.
“Uh…you should drop that phone down and focus on your work.” I say.
He looks over at me but said nothing and continued pressing his phone.
“Malcolm?” That was literally my first time to call his name.
God, his name sound so good coming out from my li-ps.
Malcolm felt it too because he stopped pressing his phone and glance over at me.
“You…” I cleared my throat. “The spiderweb.” Geez, this guys always make me nervous.
He cracked up a smile. “Hearing my name from your li-ps sounds hilarious…. don’t call my name again.”
I could hear the playful tone on his voice. He didn’t mean what he had just say.
“Malcolm.” I called out.
“Stop.”
“Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm….” I repeatedly called out his name, smiling.
I could feel Kara’s cold glare on me but I cared less.
Suddenly i saw the guys huddle up. I knitted my brows as I stare at their backs on me in confusion.
They were Whispering something to each other.
What were they planning?
Suddenly, they pulled out of the huddle and started making their way to me.
Elvis held out the brush, aiming it at me, Denise and the others did the same.
They were all approaching me.
I have to save myself!
I quickly got up to my feet and started running.
The guys stopped walking and stared at me with their mouth hanging open. They look down at my feet and up to my face.
I had stopped running and was staring at them also.
“You just ran by yourself with no one support.” Johnny says.
“Did I?”
“You….”
I quickly fell to the ground and started pretending as if my ankle hurts.
“It’s hurts so badly. I think the miracle that happened earlier has expired.” I say.
“Oh really.” Malcolm says, approaching me.
Before I knew it, he picks me up and threw me over his shoulder. My as-swas literally close to his face.
“put me down!” I say.
“Nice a-ss.”
“Stop looking at my a-ss.” I warned.
I could see the guys following us including Kara.
She was boiling in anger.
But hey, she shouldn’t blame me… her boyfriend was the one carrying me over his shoulder. I wasn’t the one who asked him to do that.
“i can’t help it.” He says. Suddenly he stopped moving. Phew finally! “Hope you can swim.”
wait, what?
I was thrown into a freezing water. I thought we were on a Titanic ship and that I had fallen into cold sea.
I pulled my head out of the water and gasp out for breath. I wiped the water from my eyes and opened them.
The five Stars were all laughing and yes, that includes Mason and Malcolm.
I glared at them in anger.
“That’s what you get for deceiving us.” Denise say in between laughter.
I stuck out my middle fingers to them.
“fu-ckyou too baby.” They sang in unison, walking away.
I hate those guys!!!
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I was in the bathroom, squeezing the water off my clothes. They were the only dress I had brou-ght for the trip.
My phone started ringing. I had charged the phone with Johnny’s charger.
I pick up the phone but it slide and entered inside the closet.
“No, no, no.” I tried bringing it out which did came out but the phone went blind.
fu-ckit!
How do I get a new phone now? Why was bad things happening to me?
But it was only just a white lie. It meant no harm.
I put on the we-t dress and walked out of the bathroom, hitting my phone against my right palm to get the water out.
water seem to be my enemy now.
I walked into my room and sat down on the foot of the bed and kept hitting the phone.
The door to my room was suddenly push open and there stood Kara.
“Hey bit-ch .” She walked further into my room. “I can see you are having fun with your phone.” She smiled.
“What do you want?”
“Stay the fu-ckaway from Mal. He is mine and mine alone so I would advice you to stop pushing your fu-cking self on him.”
Where was this coming from? And when did i push myself on him?
“Okay.” I reply. I have no time to argue with her or have any thing to say. I just have to focus on this useless phone of mine.
How do I communicate with Cherry now?
“And moreover, change your dress…it stink.” She walks out of my room.
I sniffed under my armpit….I don’t stink.but the dress does.
“Here.” A clothe came landing on my head and covering my face in the process.
Before I could take the clothes off, the person was already out of my room.
I stare down at the clothe and look up at my closed door.
Who could have brou-ght this clothe to me?
I sniffed the perfume and that was when I realized who owns it.
A smile appeared on my face as I took off my previous dress and wore the one given to me.
It was a big shirt. I don’t need to wear anything with the shirt because the shirt was reaching my thigh already.
I put my hair in a high bun and smiled at my reflection at the mirror.
Much better.
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“Can you please lend me your phone?” I pleaded.
“why?” He ask.
I know I shouldn’t be asking him of his phone after he had given me one of his shirt but I was desperate.
I needed to give Cherry a call and talk to Tyson.
I went to ask Johnny but he wasn’t around and so was Elvis and Denise not around.
And Mason…? That guy was weird.
“I need to call home. Please help me this once.”
“What about your phone?”
“It’s damaged. It fell inside the closet.”
“Really?”
I nod.
He looks down at his phone then up at me then down at his phone again before handing it over to me.
“Hurry.”
I smiled and collected the phone from him.
“Thanks. I owe you one.”
“You mean two. You owe me twice.”
I nod my head. He was right…I owe him twice.
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????Kara’s Pov????
“Arrrrgh!” I screamed at the top of my lungs in anger.
“What did Malcolm do this time around again?” My friend, Jennifer ask.
“I hate that girl. I hate that bit h with my life!”
“A third party has joined the game? Interesting.” Jennifer say.
“This isn’t funny, Jenny. This girl is taking my place. The five Stars like her. Never in my life have I seen them laugh the way they did today because of her. Even Malcolm and Mason laughed. Tbey were all laughing. And she was just ordering them around and they did nothing but listened to her.”
“Are you talking about the personal a-ssistant?”
“Yes. Her.”
“Wow. So what do you intend to do now?”
“i don’t know. And do you know what hurts most…? I just saw her on Malcolm’s shirt!”
“Wow, she’s really moving fast.”
“This isn’t funny, Jenny. Tell me what do I do?”
Jennifer has been my friend for over a year now. She was living with one of my cousins due to a issue in her family.
She had no place to go so I decided to take her to my cousin, Cam. And yeah, they are a thing now but I don’t care.
As far as he doesn’t hurt her and she was happy with him then I’m fine with whatever relationship they are into.
“Show her who the boss is.”
“How?”
“You are good at intimidating and belittling people so why are you acting like you don’t know how to do it anymore?”
“Oh…now I get what you are saying. I should show her who the boss is. I gave her this job and I have the power to take it back as well.”
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#TBC.