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MASKED
MAFIA?
(His Shy Spy…)
By; Sommy Pearl F.
CHAPTER 43,44&45
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THAT SAME MORNING**
R-BREEDS HOSPITAL**
Kev cleared his throat loudly before knocking the door.
“Come in” Harley spoke in french.
Kev smiled, pushed the door open and walk in.
“Mrs Gray!” He beamed when his eyes fell on Harley’s mother.
He walked to her and she smiled at him.
“Professor Kev, It’s indeed nice to see you” She humbly said, stretching her hand to him.
Kev held her hand and pec-ked the back of her palm.
He took it down and she smiled.
“I’m sorry but I have to leave now” Mrs Gray informed.
“Why?” Kev pouted, sadly.
“Mum has been here with me since yesterday. She missed her office too and she’s late today. Her boss has been on her phone and ne-ck all day” Harley chipped and Kev glanced at her.
“Okay, ma’am. Since I un-derstand now, you’re permitted to leave” Kev joked and Mrs Gray laughed. written by sommy pearl f.
“Thank you, Kev. Please take care of Harley. I’ll see you later”
” I’ll see you later, Harley. Mum will be back soon. Bye” Mrs Gray waved.
Harley smiled fully, as they both waved to her, until she left sight.
“My mum is really the best” Harley sighed in relief. She was speaking in french.
Kev walked closer to her and sat down on the chair.
“Professeur, Merci(thank you, professor)” She smiled.
“For?” He asked in korean.
“For making me, un-derstand my mum was a good mother after all and worth forgiving” Harley said.
Kev smiled.
“Hmmm…By the way, what about your first love. The girl you always told me about. Have you finally confessed your feelings to her, like I advised you to?” Harley asked in korean.
Kev looked down.
“Can you believe she also liked me too. Yet,I never saw it in her eyes… I never noticed her true feelings” He muttered, sadly.
“And why are you feeling down? Shouldn’t you be happy and relieved she also feels the same way??”
“I saw how upset she was, with me in her eyes, at that day but I failed to see how madly she was in love with me, all these days. When she was saying all this, I felt so guilty that I couldn’t utter a word nor could I move an inch”
Harley sighed.
“She has no right to blame you for not realizing her feelings. She too, didn’t realize you’ve feelings for her”
“It’s different, Harley”
“How???” She protested.
Kev de-eply sighed and ru-bbed his face.
“I never for once showed her my true feelings. Like a fool, I hid it de-ep that no one could tell but she showed her feelings transparently to me but I couldn’t un-derstand it, even though I noticed it”
Harley felt for him that she didn’t notice when she sadly sighed out loud.
“It’s fine. It’s not too late. Love will definately bloom if you both try”
“I think someone else likes her too”
“What?! Then you’d better act fast and smart”Harley adviced.
Kev only smiled, briefly.
MK’S MANSION***
THAT SAME MORNING***
Malcolm just took a quick bath and now, Ariana is ru-b-bing balm on his arm.
They were in his bedroom.
Ariana was still ru-b-bing the balm when she noticed the special pattern star tattoo on the lower part of his ne-ck.
The star was quite small but beautiful.
“The tattoo on my back is much better, bigger and beautiful, you know” He whispered, noticing her eyes on it.
Ariana took her gaze away, to his face.
Their eyes met, and they couldn’t help but stare de-eply, unknowingly.
Ariana saw a glimpse of her memory and she quickly shut her eyes ti-ghtly and held her head. It was really aching.
“Are you alright?” He asked, worriedly.
“Did you see something again?”
She nodded, silently.
“What was that?”
She slowly opened her eyes and looked at him.
“I don’t know if it’s really me or not. But I saw faint memories of myself. I was dressed weirdly. Like a bad girl. I was with someone too.A muscular person . This person also had a strange mask on its face”
“A strange mask?”
“My memory ended there so I couldn’t get the exact mask kind”
Malcolm sighed.
“Mister?” She called, calmly.
He raised his eyes to her.
“Do you think I was the bad girl in my memory? My face wasn’t smiling at all. I had dark make up on. My clothes were odd. Smokes seemed to be escaping from my mou-
“It’s not you” Malcolm quickly interrupted.
“How are you so sure?”
“Cause this is the real you and you’re a good person”
Ariana smiled, expo-sing all her set of beautiful, white teeth.
Malcolm felt his heart skip and he quickly took his eyes away.
“Hmm! Hmm!” He cleared his throat loudly.
“Hurry up with my cast. I nee-d to eat my breakfast so that I can leave”
“Leave? Where are yo- Oh, sorry. I shouldn’t be asking that”
Malcolm sighed, softly.
“I have a guest role at a kiddies variety show”
“Yeah! I didn’t forget that! I will watch and cheer for you” She gushed, chuckling.
Malcolm couldn’t look her sweet, pretty face so he quickly stood up.
“Hurry with the cast and let’s have breakfast”
****
“So, What’s up?” Gina asked, sitting down, across her.
Her friend, Mimi smi-rked and pushed her phone on the table towards her.
“Isn’t that who you claimed and boasted to be your one and only boyfriend. Well, It seems he has a better girl. I saw both of them today. I think that girl is familiar too”
“What??” Gina asked, and quickly took the phone.
She looked at the whole pictures and watched the video.
She bit her lower li-p angrily and slammed her palm on the table.
“The h*ll is this!!” She shouted and many eyes in the restaurant turned to her.
****
“Ah” Malcolm uttered, when his mouth opened.
Ariana swallowed her omelette and looked at him. Because of his broken arm, he couldn’t cook so Ariana prepared the light breakfast. written by sommy pearl f.
“What are you doing?” She asked, looking at his wide-ned mouth.
“Feed me” He pouted.
“I can’t eat because of this…” He showed her his hand.
Ariana laughed, shortly and dug her spoon into his omelette.
“Ahh” She told him, raising the filled spoon to his li-ps.
“Ahh” He mimicked.
She was about shoving the spoon into his mouth but she remembered something and quickly took the spoon backward.
“What…What are you doing? I almost got that” He was salivating already.
“I almost used my spoon for you” She shook her head.
“And is there a problem with it?” He frowned, slightly.
“Yes” Ariana rolled her eyes.
“Don’t you know its indirect ki-ssing??”
Malcolm laughed.
“You watch too much Asian series and telenovela”
“Whatever. Wait…Let me get you a spoon” She slowly dropped the spoon down but Malcolm quickly held her, with his good(left) arm and brou-ght the spoon forward.
He quickly opened his mouth and ate it.
“Heyyyy!” She shouted.
“I used it already so let’s share the same spoon!” He laughed.
“Never!” She laughed and ran to get a spoon from the kitchen.
40 MINUTES LATER**
“How do I look?” Malcolm asked.
“Looking good and handsome” She smiled, giving him a thumbs up.
He smiled, blus-hfully and briefly.
“So, I’m good to go?” He asked.
“Very! Good luck” She said.
“Thanks…”
“Wait. Your tie”
“Oops. Forgot that. Will you help me with that?”
Ariana scratched her head, and nodded.
****
MEANWHILE OUTSIDE MK’S MANSION**
Video shooting and production were going on.
A woman was talking to the camera. A mic stick was above her head as spoke.
“Viewers!! Welcome live to the the popular kiddies show in seoul, Sesame Street!! It’s Woo hee, once again on your screen! I’m sure many tuned in because we have a big and wonderful guest today,,, Malcolm Keepers!!” The host said, and the kids around her, clapped and screamed, happily.
“Guess what??? Right now, we’re close to none other than MK’s mansion. Yes! We’re here to surprise him. We’ll be moving him via our car too which will be heading to our filming location. We’re all excited, right now. Kids, are you happy??” Woo hee asked
“Yeeeesssss!!!” They all screamed.
“Since, we’re here, kids. We’ll be nee-ding a volunteer to knock on MK’s special door”
“Me!!! Me!!! Unnie, Meeeeeeee!!!” They screamed, simultaneously.
“All the kids wanna knock but for the sake of respect and decency, only 1 kid is nee-ded…”
“Awwwwnnnn” They M0-ned out, sadly.
“To get this lucky 1 kid, We’re gonna play a game, like we usually do. Are we ready, kids!!” Woo Hee asked the 10 kids, 5 boys and girls respectively.
“Yes!!” They shouted.
“Make a circle!” She ordered and they obeyed.
“Let’s play the name game. We ready??” She asked.
“Yes” They replied, nodding.
Woo hee started;
“Names of animals! No repeat! No pause! No stutter! Names of animals!! Names of animals are Lion-
“Tiger!”
“Hyena!”
“Cheetah!”
“Leopard”
“Leo- I mean, wolf”
“I’m sorry, Jack. But you’re out” Woo hee shook her head.
Jack inhaled de-eply and moved out of the line, relunctantly.
“Let’s start once more…
MINUTES LATER**
“And the winner is Vivian!” Woo hee smiled and everyone clapped.
“Vivian, please, come closer to knock on the one and only MK’s door. Kids, make way for her”
While clapping, their made way for her.
Vivian smiled widely as she came closer. She folded her fist, against the door and slowly moved it forward.
****
Malcolm was sitting on his bed, while Ariana was on her feet, knotting his ne-ck tie, carefully around his collar.
Malcolm looked up.
“I’m not done” She pouted.
Malcolm looked at her pouted li-ps and mashed up memories of that night came running into his head.
“That li-ps…looks familiar” He thought, still looking at it.
“Why are you staring at me? Is there something on my face?” She asked, touching it.
He swallowed ha-rd, and blinked his eyes away.
“Ariana,,, hurry” He told her.
“Huh?”
“I might lose my mind if you don’t hurry up” He took his eyes to her.
Ariana eyes ran nervously running around his face. She was just numb. But her hands were still on his ne-ck tie.
Malcolm breathed.
“You just don’t listen” He whispered and pulled her down to his thi-ghs.
Ariana’s body shivered, slightly. She looked at him, but her shy eyes couldn’t take it for so long so she quickly took it down, to his ne-ck tie.
She gulped nothing down her throat when she felt his arms around her wai-st.
He slowly moved his face to hers, but when he saw her face wasn’t into his, he took her hands away from his tie and made her coil her arms around his broad shoulders.
She looked at him, briefly and quickly took her eyes away, again.
Malcolm took her face up to his, by pulling iher chin, with just a finger.
Ariana now had no choice but to just watch him.
He was coming closer, with his eyes half closed.
Ariana blinked and gently shut her eyes too.
As their li-ps were about to crash, they heard a loud knock. This shocked them and brou-ght them back to their senses.
Ariana stood up quickly and Malcolm looked away. He exhaled.
“I’m sorry about-
“I’ll go get that” She cut in, and ran off. She was very nervous.
She went to the door and opened it.
“At least!!! MK!!! Yipeee!!!” Woo Hee smiled.
“Surpri- The kids stopped, halfway. All the glitters they spread, were all over.
“But…Unnie. This isn’t MK” Vivian muttered.
“Huh?” Woo Hee muttered, and turned around.
“Who’s this?? She apparently came out from MK’s mansion. Who are you?? She’s quite strange. She isn’t a family member either. Who are you?? What were you doing in there?? Please, look at my the camera and explain yourself to the whole world” Woo Hee gestured.
Arian was literally shaking. She looked at the cameras which took pictures and zoomed in vdeos of her.
They came closer to her too.
“What’s going on?” She muttered.
“Who are you??? The whole world is watching and would like to hear. We’re anxious!”
Many eyes were on her. The crews and kids too.
Ariana was trembling.
“What to do? Please, Mister…Help me” She sad, within.
Malcolm suddenly came out and placed his arm around her shoulders.
“OMG!! What’s happening!!” They exclaimed.
Malcolm had no choice. Not that he really wanted to do it too.
“Cameras off! She’s my girlfriend!” He declared, and everyone screamed.
The cameras even got to more work.
“Hold hands!!” One of the video production crews said.
“Smile!!” Another added.
“We’re so Fu-cked up” They both thought as they did so, facing the camera.
TBC