????SHE’S NOT A CINDERELLA????
????A Cinderella doesn’t have to be a princess????
✍️ Written By Precious Pinky✍️
????Chapter Thirty [30]????
Theme: moving in circles????
????Ruby’s Pov????
“Why are you both looking like you’ve just done something abominable in there?”
I look at Malcolm and he was staring right back at me. Each of us having the same matching look.
Did she hear us?
Was she only trying to play dumb?
Was this a set up to get us to confess with our own mouth?
Should we be worried?
Or better still, are we busted!
I cleared my throat and look back at her. She was staring in between Malcolm and I.
“Good morning?” I sounded not so sure.
I don’t know if I should be greeting when I know fully well that there’s a probability she caught me with her boyfriend.
Oh God, I look like a mistress who was caught red handed cheating with a married woman’s husband!
I feel so unclean.
I need to go to the church and confess all of my sins to the Pope!
She eyed me from head to toe and folds her arms over her chest.
“what is good about this morning?” She spat, angrily.
Okay, it’s official. She heard us.
I’m dead.
My once peaceful life is about to get ruined.
“I would have still be in my room having my beauty sleep if you had a damn phone!”
“Yeah, I know I’m not….wait, what…. Phone?”
Malcolm and i both said the word, ‘phone’ at the same time.
We were both staring at her, wide eyes.
Wait, is it what I’m thinking?
“What phone are you talking about?” Malcolm ask now.
“My phone, of course. Joe called me this morning waking me up from my sleep just to tell me to inform her about the location of where you guys are to train. And I wouldn’t have been disturbed from my sleep if she had a damn phone.” She explained, still having that annoyed look plastered on her face.
Wait, in conclusion to this whole shit is…Kara heard nothing about what Malcolm and I said in the bathroom.
We are save.
Shut up!
“Oh.” I let out a sigh of relief. My private life was still in tact.
“Oh? Is that all you are going to say? Oh? Listen, you better get a new phone and stop making Joe disturb my sleep! Do you know how awful it is to be woken out of bed with a voice as annoying as his?” She shuddered. “I feel sick.” She look in between us again. “why were you guys coming out of the bathroom together and what were you guys laughing at? wait, laughing?” She turned to Malcolm. “you don’t laugh.”
Oh no, we are back to square one!
I scratched the nape of neck as I swallowed the lump in my throat. I look over at Malcolm’s direction and he was looking so calm as if nothing was happening.
Well, he was rich! And me….? I’m poor and i fu-cking need this job like crazy but I also need Malcolm.
I love him so much and can’t afford to lose him. Again.
“Why do you care with who I laugh with and who I don’t?” He questioned, angrily.
“I’m your girlfriend, Mal. And I have as much right to know who it is you laugh with and don’t!”
“As just my girlfriend?” He stuffed his hands into his pan-ts pocket as he glared at her. “You are just my girlfriend, Kara and I can choose to break up with you any moment so don’t get so comfy in having the title of being my girlfriend.”
“What?”
He turned to me and say. “I will go get ready while you go and inform the rest of the guys about our plans for today.” And with that said, he left.
Malcolm was right!
I was just his girlfriend and he can wake up one morning and decide to break up with me.
I had no right over him and if there was any one in between me and this girl standing in front of me that has right, then it’s her.
She was his legit girlfriend while I was his back yard girlfriend.
I was his bed warmer….
I was his side chic.
I’m nothing compared to Kara.
I was no match for her when it comes to Malcolm.
Kara eyed me from head to toe before walking out and then disappeared into her room.
But the good news here was….she heard nothing!
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????Cherry’s Pov????
Ding dong!
Ding dong!
Ding….!
I strode out of the kitchen and made my way to the door.
I wonder who it was.
I looked throu-ghthe peephole and saw James, standing right in front of the door.
What was he doing here?
I wondered.
I unlocked the door and opened it.
“Good morning.” He greeted with a little wave. He was holding something with one hand while the other hand was free.
“Good morning.” I replied, still confused.
“How was your night?”
“Great? what are you doing here this early?” I ask, going straight to the point.
He laughs at my impatience. “Hope I didn’t disturb you or anything?”
God, j must have sounded so rude when I asked him that.
“Oh, not really. I was just preparing breakfast. I must have sounded rude… I’m sorry.”
“No, no, it fine. I’m…fine! Anyway, I brou-ght this for you guys.” He handed me the thing he was holding. “It’s a way of making myself feel welcomed in the neighborhood.” He smiled.
“Oh. Thanks.” I collected the thing that kinda look like a plate from him and gave him one of my best smile. “But hey, you were already welcomed the day you saved little Tyson from falling.” I say in all honesty.
He scratched the nape of his neck as a color flushed throu-ghhis cheeks. Wait, was he blus-hing?
I can’t believe i can make a guy blus-h. Damn, I’m good!
“It’s nothing. Like I said, I’m glad to have been of help to you guys. And yeah, that reminds me…where is he?” He ask, trying to look throu-ghmy shoulders into the house.
“In his room. Come on in.” I moved out of the way just to provide enough space for him to enter.
He raised a questioning brow at me. “Are you sure?”
“Ruby will kill me if she gets to find out that he didn’t treat her brother’s Savior well. Do you want me dead?” He slowly shook his head. “Good. Now come in.”
He smiled and walked into the house. I slammed the door shut from behind us and walked back into preparing dinner.
James followed from behind.
“He would be out very soon. You can just join me in preparing breakfast. Ah, you are also invited to have breakfast with us.”
He quickly shook his head. “Nah. I’m good. I don’t want to inconvenient you or your brother.”
“i’m inviting you to join us, James. You are a part of us now. And this is also our way of saying thank you for your kind deed. Please don’t reject us.”
“I’m not rejecting you guys.” He say.
“Well, you are rejecting our food which also means that you are rejecting us.” I batted my lashes at him.
“Do I any other option?”
“Actually, no.”
He grinned and shrugged off his shoulder. “Alright.”
Tyson walked out of his room and came into the kitchen.
“Good morning, Aunty Cherry!” He greeted, rubbing off the sleep from his eyes.
“Good morning. How was your night?”
“I dreamt of sister Ruby.” That was his reply.
That was always his reply.
I nod my head, stirring at the soup in the pot. “Then I guess you had a wonderful sleep then.”
He looks over at James and just like that, he was smiling.
“Superman!” He jumped into the arms of James.
James laughed at the nickname little Tyson gave him.
“How are you doing, man?”
“Great. How are you?”
“Great.”
They were both talking about something that less concerned me while I focused on the food I was cooking.
I took off the cover of the plate James had brou-ght over and look down at what was inside the plate. It was crispy chicken.
I love crispy chicken.
“Crispy chicken?” I side glance at him.
I could see the panic look on his face. I guess he thinks I don’t like it, little does he know that I’m in love with crispy chicken.
“Bad choice?”
“Nah. They are her favorite.”
“Really?” He let out a sigh of relief. “Then i made a wonderful choice then.”
“I will give you that.” I smiled. “Can you guys help me set up the table?”
“Sure.” I heard them say.
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We watched James as he took a bite of the rice and soup I had just cooked.
I won’t say I’m very good at cooking but I wasn’t that bad also.
I was….I was…just there.
“Hmm…. it’s delicious! i can’t believe you can cook like this.” He say as he took another note again.
Tyson grinned. “Aunty Cherry is the best cook after Sister Ruby of course.”
“So when is she going to come back because I’m very curious to see this Ruby of a girl in person.”
“Very soon. You will like her when you see her. She’s my best friend.”
“And my best sister!”
“Wow. I hope the spot of being my best neighbor isn’t taken?”
We all laughed over that silly joke and continued eating again in silence.
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????Ruby’s Pov????
“What exactly are you driving, Elve? We’ve been moving in circles!” Kara say as she gro-aned out in frustration.
“Well, don’t blame me. Even with the address given to us, I still don’t know where it’s located at!” He say as he put a stop to the engine and parked the car in the center of a deserted place.
“Why are we stopping now?” She ask again.
Elvis opens the door. “Do you want us to keep moving in circles?” That was his reply before he got out of the car and slammed the door shut.
We all got out of the car as well and looked around our surrounding.
There was no single soul out here aside from a booksto-re.
The booksto-re was looking so dusty and old.
“We should perhaps go in there and ask for directions.” Denise suggested.
“Heck, no. Can’t you see how dirty it is? And mind you, this is the exact same booksto-re where ghost live.”
“Ghosts don’t exist, Kara.” Malcolm say with an eye roll.
“And how will you know that?”
“Because it’s impossible!”
“Whatever. Let’s go in.” Mason say.
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#TBC.