The next morning when Alister woke up and headed out of her room to get her morning refreshing cup of coffee, she was greeted by no other than Courtney.
She was seated on the sofa, eyes trained on Alister holding her cup of coffee.
Alister walked up to her, ignoring her glares, and picked up her mug of coffee taking a slow sip.
Courtney continued to look at her the same way as a few seconds before she entered the small living room.
"What?? Why are you looking at me like that??"
Alister could not help but ask. Courtney's long stares were making her uncomfortable in the very morning.
"Looking at you in what way?"
Courtney retorted back, placing her coffee mug on the table.
"You know in what way, Ney..."
Alister said taking a seat on the adjacent sofa taking another sip of her coffee from the mug.
"Overnight you got a boyfriend and the whole wide world knows it before I do??"
Ney mockingly let out sitting up, glaring at Alister.
"You know it was not my part of the plan...everything just happened so fast..."
"Right everything happened so fast??. I was having my spa and I had been talking about you the whole time with the beautician and then your big face with that man airs up in the tv and they give me the weird face of how I, your family had no idea about you having a boyfriend...."
Courtney blurted out with no break, not giving a moment for Alister to speak up.
"Not my fault, you went on that spa right away accepting the offer from the devil when you were supposed to pick me up..."
Alister interrupted in. Courtney snorted at the fact that she was being accused of accepting the spa offer from him.
"So is this my fault now??"
"Is it not?? If you had rejected the offer and picked me up instead of him, none of this would have happened..."
Alister reasoned standing up too, walking off, and placing her mug on the sink in the kitchen.
There was a brief silence after that. Nobody spoke for a while. Ney stood ideal in the living room while Alister stood nearby the sink with her back facing Ney's.
"You...you have no idea how I felt in all of these...everything is just so different from our world..."
Alister muttered under her breath but loud enough for Ney to hear it.
She could not bid farewell to the events that happened last night from her head. It just kept repeating on its own and each time she could not help but feel like running away from all of it...before it would consume her.
Courtney strode forward and placed her hand on Alister's shoulder trying to calm her.
She understood how much Alister was sacrificing for the sake of their life. She knew that her outburst was unjustified.
"Are you alright??"
Alister nodded in response, turning to face her. Ney slid the hair strand falling on her face behind her earlobe.
"I m fine...just felt in a different place last night..."
Right away Alister's phone beeped breaking their calm moment. Ney went to pick it up for her but when she saw the caller, she decided to show it to Alister.
It was him...she had no idea how he even managed to get her phone number. She passed one last look at Ney and then pressed the green button.
"Good morning sweetheart..."
His morning hoarse voice sprung out from the other side. It sounded like he was somewhat happy and enthusiastic.
"Good...morning?"
Alister replied back in the confusion of not knowing what to say and what not to say.
"Get ready in five if you are not up yet. I m outside waiting for you..."
Hearing him, Alister got the shock of her life and immediately sprinted near the window to confirm if he was lying or being honest but then she could not believe that he...he was actually was here.
He looked up at her, leaning on the black Mercedes Benz, sunglasses on, phone stuck on his ears, flashing his million-dollar smile at her.
"What?? You thought I was lying? Sweetheart..."
His faint laughter was heard in the background. Ney also stood beside Alister, looking out to watch the devil in disguise.
"Do you want me to chase him off?"
She whispered near Alister's ears. Alister just shook her head in negative. She still could not part her eyes from his.
"Make it quick baby before I come up and get you ready....time is running..."
That was the last thing she heard from him before she hung up the call herself to get ready before he would really come up.
"You are not serious about listening to him??"
Courtney questioned as Alister made her way inside the bedroom. She could not believe at how obedient Alister was being as she never ever listened to anyone.
"You know that I have no other choice, Ney..."
Alister lamented, leaning on the door stand. She knew how crazy that psycho was. She had faced all of it last night.
"You can refuse him...you guys are not real..."
"He does not know that...that we are not real, Ney...this is what I have to do...go with the flow and get over with this..."
Alister explained Ney. She understood that Ney was only looking out for her and that worrying was justified.
"You are doing so much for us..."
Ney looked down feeling low at how she was not contributing at all to their problem. Alister was doing everything.
"No...I m doing this for me too...for us...Ney...you being here with me is enough..."
Alister strolled up to where Ney was standing and pulled her in for an intimate hug. Both the girls hugged each other to the bones.
"Now let me go and finish what I started."
Alister started pulling away from the hug and heading inside the bedroom to get ready for yet another day with the devil.
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