????SHE’S NOT A CINDERELLA????
????A Cinderella doesn’t have to be a princess????
✍️ Written By Precious Pinky✍️
????Chapter Twenty-One [21]????
????Malcolm’s Pov????
I watched her leave.
Honestly, I don’t know exactly why I feel like she’s mask girl.
It’s not like mask girl was written on her forehead or anything but something keeps drawing me towards her.
Like a connection….
A feeling.
I don’t know.
But I’ve never felt this way for anyone aside from mask girl and…
…..Her.
“Hey babe.” Kara sat down beside me and leaned towards me, dropping a ki-ss at my right cheek and on my li-ps.
Yuck!
“Hey. Where have you been?” I ask.
“In my room? I was on the phone with Jenny.”
I nod my head looking away from her.
“What are you doing here all by yourself?” She ask after a long silence.
I shrugged. “Nothing.”
She smiled and stood up to her feet. “Want me to help with that?” She winked.
I look at her and stare at her in confusion. “And how will you do that?”
“Let’s take a stroll. I’ve never been to Boston and neither have you…so let’s take a stroll. just you and me.”
“Uhhhh….”
She grabbed my hand and pulled me up.
“Come on, Mal. It would be fun. Trust me.”
“But…”
“No one will recognize you here. Okay, maybe few will but it would be very difficult.”
“But…”
“I promise not to talk too much, if that’s what you are worried about.” She says, cutting me off for the second time.
“But…” She was already opening her mouth to talk when I spoke up immediately. “Don’t date cut me off again.” She shuts her mouth close and nod her head. “Better.” I sighed de-eply before proceeding. “But how about the guys? They too have never been to Boston…and I hate doing things without them.”
She rolled her eyes and gro-aned as well. “We can’t go with them, Mal. And if they want to take a stroll then they can go on their own. They don’t need to tag along with us before they can take a stroll or something.” She linked her arm throu-ghmine. “I want just you and I to go for this stroll…we could consider it as a date. Please?”
I stare at her face for a while.
I really don’t want to be anywhere with her. Going out with her is no fun.
Whenever we were on date, all she talks about is a celebrity talk show, a party with the Stars, a trip to Belgium, a family get together…
Arrrrgh!
She was the true definition of boredom.
But the problem here was…I can’t refuse her.
I was literally stuck with this ….girl.
“Alright. I will just have to go get my phone.”
She let go of my arm and clapped her hands together, jumping up and down in excitement.
“Okay. i will go get prepared then.” She blew a ki-ss at my way and ran to her room, giggling.
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I went upstairs and walked down to her room.
Her door was slightly open. So i looked throu-ghthe tiny space and saw her on the bed talking to someone on my phone.
She was lying down with her front while her back were facing the ceilings. Her legs were swinging on air and that position made her dress move down to her waist.
So yeah, her lap were very visible.
God, she has such a spotless skin.
Running my tongue from her foot down to her lap and to her thighs and to…
Okay, I should stop now.
But come to think of it, why will she stay in this kind of a position when she knows fully well that there are five boys around?
fu-ckmy subconsciousness for being so right!
I knocked on the door gently. I saw her sat upright and arranged her dress so it could cover her lap.
Seeing her in my shirt kind of make me feel so giddy.
Is it bad if a guy feel that way?
Giddy, i mean.
She fit perfectly well in my shirt.
“Who is it?”
I pushed the door open without answering the question.
“Really? You should have at least reply before barging in on me.” She says.
“I knocked.” I say.
“And I asked who was it. Was it that difficult to say your name?”
“I need my phone.” I say. completely ignoring her.
She eyed me from head to toe before sighing and then say.
“I’m still on the phone. Do you need it now?”
“Yeah. I’m actually going out.”
“Oh. with the guys?” She questioned.
I was going to answer when Johnny walked in without even knocking.
“Hey, tiny girl.” He winked.
Wait, did her face just coloured? Was she that excited just because Johnny winked at her?
And how come she didn’t yell at him for not knocking?
“Wow, you look so se-xy in that shirt. But you would have been more se-xy if you were in my shirt.”
“You think so?” She ask, smiling.
“No. I don’t think so.” That made the smile on her face drop but then Johnny added. “I know so.” The smile returned to her face again.
“I’m flattered. Oh, that reminds me… He was just telling me now that you guys are going out.”
Wait, when did i tell her that?
fu-ck!
Johnny look up at me in confusion. “Really? How come I didn’t hear about that?”
I scratched the nape of my neck.
“I… It’s actually just Kara and I. I’m sorry.”
“Don’t worry, Ruby and I can just go on our own. What do you think, tiny girl?”
“That would be nice. But… I’m not on the right outfit.”
“Yeah! That’s what we are going to be doing today…we are going shopping. I will invite the rest of the guys. It will be… shopping with the five…no, four stars. You are so blessed, tiny girl.”
“That would be very great. I can’t wait.” She was grinning now.
No, I can’t let that happen. I can’t let her go on shopping with the four guys…
I don’t want her to be alone with them.
Oh, shut up. I’m not jealous. I don’t even know if she’s really mask girl or not!
“I’m coming along.” I say without even thinking.
The room fell quiet and the two of them look up at me.
“What?” Johnny ask.
“Kara and i are coming along with you guys.”
“But I thought you are going out with just Kara.”
“I never said that.”
“You did. I’m a witness.” She say.
“You guys didn’t let me finish. I was going to say…Kara and I want to invite you guys out for a stroll.”
“Not bad. I will go inform the rest of the guys…Get prepared… tiny girl.” He stands up to his feet.
“Get prepared with what?” She ask looking down at her dress.
“Oh…you have no dress. Okay, get prepared by putting on a shoe.” Johnny say then ran out of the room leaving just me and her.
“Oh. Your phone.” She stretched out the phone to me and that was when o realized that she was still on call.
“You haven’t hanged up yet.” I point out.
“Oh, shit.” She mumbled under her breath… she was going to hang up but I stopped her. “Don’t you need your phone?”
“Still chat with your friend. I’m sure you have a lot of gist to tell her. We will be waiting for you downstairs.”
Geez, I can’t believe I can be such a gentleman.
She smiled at me. fu-ck. her smile was contagious. I don’t even know when I started smiling back at her.
“Thanks.” She says before I left the room.
I slammed the door shut and I make sure it was closed properly.
Why exactly did I say that? Now I have a whole lot of explanation to do with Kara.
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????Ruby’s Pov????
“Hey Cheers.”
“Ahhhh! Oh my fu-cking shit! You will be going shopping with the five Stars? Ahhhhhh!”
“Calm down, Cheers. you are going to damage my eardrums if you keep screaming like this.”
“And does it look like I care? Ahhhhh! Even Mal will be going with you guys.”
I inwardly rolled my eyes.
“And wait a minute…whose phone are you using to call me now? Like i mean, whose number is this?”
“Malcolm’s.” I say. awaiting her next scream. Which did came.
“Ahhhhh! Let’s just switch self… Ruby. fu-ck! You are so lucky.”
Cheery and I talked for a pretty long time. I even talked to Tyson and a-ssured him that I would be coming back home next two weeks. I missed him like crazy.
I’ve never been away from him for two long but like the saying goes; there are always first tries.
I hung up the call and went downstairs. I found the guy seated on the couch
But Kara wasn’t there.
I made my way to Mal and stretched his phone to him.
He collects it.
“Thanks. i really appreciate.”
“It’s alright. You can always come for the phone whenever you want to speak with your family.”
I smiled. “Thanks.”
Just then, Kara walked in already dressed.
She stare at everyone of us before focusing her attention on Mal and me.
“What’s going on here…why is everyone dressed?”
“We are all going to shop for tiny girl.” Johnny say, getting up to his feet.
He made his way towards me and placed his arms around my shoulder, pulling me closer.
“Do you need to hold her that close?” Mal say, eyeing Johnny from head to toe.
“mind your business!” Johnny replied.
“Wait. I don’t get. Who are the we?” Kara questioned.
“We are the we.” Malcolm say, getting up to his feet as well. “We should get going now.”
He walks out of the house while Kara ran after him.
Johnny, Elvis, Denise, Mason and me walked out of the house as well.
Why does it feel like today is going to be a memorable day?
I’m getting all excited now.
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“Here, try this on.” Johnny hands me a dress.
I walked into the dressing room to try on the dress.
The others were sitting down outside wiring for me to come out. I wore the dress and stare at myself on the mirror.
It was a pink floral dress with a small opening at the back. The dress was reaching my floor.
I look beautiful in it.
I took in a de-ep breath before walking out of the room.
“How is it?” I ask, calling their attentions.
They all turned to look at me. Each of them mouth were left hanging open as they stare at me.
Kara was just glaring me.
Before I knew it, Johnny started taking pictures.
“What are you doing?” Malcolm ask.
“Taking pictures of my tiny girl.” He answers.
“Your tiny girl?”
“Mind your business. Pose forme, tiny girl.”
I did just that. I started posing while he takes my pictures.
“That dress su-cks?” Malcolm says. He stood up to hos feet and walked over to a rack and picks up a red dress. “Here, try this on.”
“Hmm.” I collect it and went into the dressing room.
I tried on the dress and stare at myself at the mirror. Again.
It was a plain red dress with an invisible net at the neck side.
The dress was reaching my knee. It was beautiful.
I really love this dress.
Shut up!
I walked out of the room and saw the guys staring right at me.
It was as if they’ve been expecting me to walk out of the room.
“Wow. The dress is damn!” Denise say.
I smiled and spin around so they could get a better view of my dress.
“I love it!” Elvis say.
I smiled and look over at Mal. He was just dropping his phone into his pocket.
Wait, did Mal take a picture of me? Nah. i guess it’s just my imagination.
The guys picked some more dress for me. I didn’t even get to pick anyone for myself. They just did the picking while i did.the wearing and Kara did the glaring.
They even picked some shoes for me.
The dresses were both casual and outing dress.
casual dress like trousers, leggings, short and all that.
And I must say, the five stars did a pretty good job in choosing those beautiful dresses.
“Wow, I’m famished now.” Elvis says as we walked out of the boutique.
Each of them were holding my shopping bags. They’d refused to let me carry them by myself.
“Then let’s go eat.” Denise says.
“Yes!!!”
We went to eat at a restaurant. The meal was very delicious…
Is it obvious that I’m being sarcastic now?
The food su-ck!
“I’m going to vomit.” Johnny announced.
“You can’t. You don’t want to let them know how bad their food taste.” Denise say.
“i can’t do this.” Kara say. She hasn’t said a word until now.
“Me neither.” Elvis say.
“Keep a smiling face, Elve!” Denise says.
We started smiling as we eat the food. The owner of the place walked over to us with a smile on her face.
“Hope you are enjoying your food?” She asks.
“Mmm-hmm. it’s so delicious.” I say.
“That’s good to hear. I can tell one of my girls to bring some extra food for you guys. It’s would be on free.”
“No!!!!!” We all say in unison.
“No? Why?”
“Why? Why? Your food fu-cking su-ck! i can’t even chew well because of how bad your food taste. It makes me wanna puke!” Kara say.
“We don’t know her. We are not together.” Elvis and Johnny say.
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“I can’t believe we got kicked out of that place.” Denise say.
“Neither can i. I mean, we are the five Stars!” Johnny say.
We walked down the street and came across a roadside canteen.
I smiled and ran over to the canteen. They followed from behind.
“Thanks.” I collected a lobster and bite from it.
Yummy!
“I can’t eat that. It isn’t healthy.” Kara say, shaking her head in disapproval.
“Then don’t eat it.” I can’t believe I just said that to my boss.
But hey, whatever!
“Looks delicious.” Malcolm collected a lobster and bite from it. “Wow, it amazing.”
The others collected one for each of themselves aside from Kara who was still behaving like a rich spoilt child.
How can I forget? Tsk.
“It’s delicious!”
Wait. Did Mason just say Something?
Oh my God! I think there’s a miracle in this lobster.
“You better eat, Kara. This is far more better than those food we eat in big restaurant.” Denise say to her.
She look at us like we were committing a huge sin then gulped and collected one lobster for herself.
“I’m not going to eat this because i want to but I’m going to eat it because you all insist I do.”
Yeah. yeah. I always use that excuse too.
We were all talking and laughing as we eat the lobster.
It was more like…Having fun with the five Stars!
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#TBC