?Pretty’s On The Inside?
[The World thinks She’s ugly but He sees her Beauty?]
By; Authoress Kamara
Episode 17
?Paris Myers?
I walked forward and then stopped right in my tracks seeing Sam heading out of the school hallway looking around as if he was searching for someone.
And then he gazed towards where I was, our eyes met. He began walking towards me as my breathing hitched wondering what went wrong.
Come on, Paris. Run!
But my legs wobbled as I remained there while he got to where I was.
“You are the girl who was with Xavier jist moments ago, right?”.
“Um, yeah?”. I replied still kind of scared.
“What were you doing with him? I know him and he can’t stay a minute with people of your kind, with females so I need to know what happened between both of you”.
People of my kind?!!
Females?!!
Okay, I think I’m getting confused here.
“Um, nothing h-happened. I-I just … “. I trail off taking in a deep breath so I would stop with the stuttering.
Sam looked at me and then stepped backwards. “I’m not going to hurt you if thats what you are thinking, miss”.
Ooh! I actually thought that he was going to do what Violet did to me earlier.
Seems like he’s different.
And thats odd.
“O-Oh”.
“I just need to know what went on there”. He said more calmly. “I’m not the type of person who solves things with violence and you look too sweet to try to mess with me”.
I look too sweet to mess with him?
Wow! I’m taking that as a compliment.
“I don’t want to mess with you”. I replied.
He paused and looked around sighing as he faced me again.
“You know that Xavier and I are in a relationship, right? You saw us that day, remember ?”. He added and I nodded in response.
“Good!”. Sam breathed out. “I know what you might be thinking, you might think that its odd to see guys do that but I really am into Xavier a lot”.
I cringe hearing that. “You like him?”.
“I know its awkward saying that and I’ve never told anyone about this before. I don’t have friends to tell it to but still … I just”. He stopped sighing. “All I’m saying is that, do you have anything to do with him?”.
“What? No!”. I said a little more confidently this time. “We were only just singing songs together and thats it”.
“Oh, music buddies ?”.
“Something like that”.
“So he was right about that”. Sam muttered running his hands through his hair nervous.
I outlined Sam’s features and concluded that he was cute.
Not as cute as Xavier. But just averagely.
Why would he prefer to be a gay! Why will he decide to go for a guy instead of a girl ?
He did say something about not having any friends or is it because of that?
“Sam?”.
I snap out of my thoughts to see Xavier coming towards us and my eyes almost popped out of my skull.
I held on to my bag tightly and quickly walked away not allowing Sam to say any thing.
I stopped at a far distance and looked back seeing Xavier with Samuel. He was talking to him but his eyes were on me.
I looked away and went on straight heading on to the route to my home.
My mind drifted to what Sam had said about Xavier not capable of spending more than a minute with people of the same gender like me.
That got me confused.
I mean, does Xavier hate females?
It seems like it because he has never done any duet with females in his entire music career and he’s rarely seen with them.
I’ve watched a lot of his music videos and they are always of him alone or maybe of another person but there are never females in it.
The last time I saw a girl featured in his pop music video was when he was sixteen and ever since then, all the songs he has been singing always ended up been emotional.
Could something be wrong?
Is he allergic to them or what?
I would have agreed with the last thought except for the fact that he’s seen around Violet.
I guess she’s the only females privileged to be seen with him.
I got shaken out of my depressing thoughts on hearing my phone ring. I quickly fished it out of my pocket and glanced at the caller I.D to see it was my Aunt Jenny calling.
Wait. What? Why is she calling?
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?Xavier Marion?
I stared at Paris as she walked off.
Why was she with Sam anyways?
“Why was she with you?”. I voiced out my thoughts as I faced him.
He ignored me going his way as I sighed watching him leave.
Maybe I should just let him be for a while.
I take a deep breath and sigh before I turn walking in another direction towards where the driver was waiting for me.
I got in and relaxed on the backseat closing my eyes.
All I need now is just a straight thinking and thats it.
I got interrupted by a sound and opened my eyes realizing that it was my phone that was actually ringing.
I grab it glancing at the screen and groan a little seeing it was Alvin, one of my managers.
“Yes?”. I spoke up after picking the call.
“Xavier, the entire board has been trying to contact you ever since yesterday. Where have you been? None of your official numbers went through”.
“If none of them went through then how are you talking to me?”.
“Don’t play smart with me, Xavier. This is your personal number and the only reason we are trying to contact you is to inform you of this new deal”.
“I’m not interested”.
“It was hard to secure this deal. You are to partner with number one leading__”.
“I’m not interested, Alvin”. I said lowly as I interrupted him.
Hesitation before a sigh followed …
“Your Dad secured this deal, Xavier so you can’t just say that you are not interested in it because you have to be. Its a huge deal”.
I dropped my phone back on the car seat not bothering to listen to whatever he was saying.
“Xavier? Xavier? You still there?”.
No! You got me uninterested the moment you mentioned my Dad.
I heard a click and knew that Alvin already cut the call which was good anyways ’cause I know I’m not speaking to him.
The car stopped and I looked out realizing that the driver was at the mansion already.
I stepped out of the car and walked towards the main doors. I paused and then signaled the bodyguards to stop following me before I went inside.
Sometimes they can be so exhilarating.
Walking right past the maids, I headed to the glass marble tiled stairs aware of the hush whispers I got from the female maids.
••OMG! Do you see the way he walks?
••His features is just like a demi-god
••I wish he noticed me
I shake my head going up the stairs while holding to the railings.
They do that all the time.
I got to my room and the doors opened on taking my iris scanned. Then I stepped in.
The sight of the classy objects welcomed me as everything was dripping in wealth.
I walk to the bed hoping to lie on it when I stop on hearing a sound. I turned seeing it was from the projector.
What the … ?
Who the heck wants to have a video call with me?
I grabbed the remote and accepted it. Then my Dad’s face came on making me wish I never accepted the video call.
“Marion”.
I sit on the fluffy bed removing my jacket as I was half-listening to what he was about to say.
“What is this I’m hearing about the deal that you are not interested in?”.
“Oh! So Alvin told you?”. I muttered clearly unconcerned about it.
“Marion!!”.
“I said it to the fucking idiot you gave to me as a manager. I’m not interested in the deal “.
“I don’t care if you are interested in it or not. You’ll be their brand ambassador”.
I looked at him on the projector screen noticing that he’s sprouting a new beard.
He’s like the older version of me. Just that I hate the fact we look so much alike.
“But__”.
“You will sign that deal, Marion”.
“But Dad … “. I started to argue.
“I do not want to hear any complaints. I do the talking and you do the listening, do you understand?!”.
“Yes, Sir”. I responded clenching my fists in silent anger.
“And you’ll have to partner with their already existing ambassador. Jeanne”.
I looked at him immediately. “What? No way. I’m not partnering with__”.
“A girl?”. His voice came out stern. “This is the umpteenth time you’ll be refusing to do anything with females when it comes to things like this. Are you hiding something from me, Marion?”.
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