I woke up with a huge head ache and a hot breath fanning my face. I open my eyes a little wider and see a half naked man next to me, I look down and see I'm naked too and his arm is around my waist. He stirs a little and faces his back to me.
{OMG what have I done.}
I sneak out of the bed and start to pick my clothes off the floor, one by one. I try to do it as quietly and quickly as possible so he doesn't wake up but the soreness between my legs doesn't really permit me to walk fast.
"Good morning Isabella." I look up and see Alexander rubbing his eyes boyishly.
{Shit!}
"Don't call me that!!" I scoffed while trying to force myself into my jeans.
"But it's cute." He said with a mischievous smirk. I glared at him which earned me a sarcastic eye roll from him while saying "fineee."
The room is silent while I put on my top before Alexander decides to break the silence "What are you doing getting dressed, it's like 6am... come back to bed Isabella." He said after looking at his wrist watch.
I sighed inwardly, having a feeling he wasn't going to stop calling me Isabella.
"That is exactly why I won't come back. It's already 6am." I said with a dry look.
"So do you have somewhere to be now?" He shrugged.
"Of course I do and it's called work, haven't you heard of it?"
"Well, I'm the boss" He said with a mocking grin.
"I am too and that is exactly why I'm in a hurry."
"Okay, can we at least get breakfast?" He said with a pleading look then smiling widely.
"No. I have to go. Sorry. Byee" I rush my words , Sprinting out the door.
The truth is that my work starts at any time I want it too as long I get it done– working from home as a fashion designer so I can keep up with college. I was just looking for an excuse to get out of there.
"Oh my car!!" I face palm myself. Retracing my steps, I poke my head through his room door, then ask about my car.
"It's downstairs and the keys are with the valet, don't worry I'll make a call and it'll be here shortly." Alexander said looking at me.
"Thank you" I smile lightly.
Alexander gets out from under the sheets then stands up and my eyes widen. Instantly realising that he is completely naked and showing me his full glory. He gives me that 'are you serious look' then reaches for his pants and fishes his phone out the front pocket.
He taps lazily on his phone then places it on his ear. After a while he ends the call and says to me "the car is down stairs Isabella."
"Ok thanks."
"Your welcome Isabella" he smiles widely
"Bye."
"Bye." Alexander says.
After finding my way out of the building, I get into my car which looks cleaner than I left it.
{That's strange.}
Driving back home wasn't the least bit pleasant, I had a throbbing headache. Finally I had reached home.
I opened my apartment door, backing it I held onto the knob while sliding down dramatically until my butt hit the floor.
"Ugghh!!"
My phone starts to ring but when I look at who's calling my face instantly falls.
"Hello Daddy?" I say with shaky breath.
"Isabella, nwa m nwanyị (my daughter), I called you and informed you about the passing of your older sister but you hung up on me, I was really scared; I thought you had gone and done something crazy." He says with a change in tone at every interval.
{You don't know the half of it.}
Giving an eye roll I replied "I'm fine dad."
"Now that I know that, I want you to call your mother. She is still trying to handle losing one child, she can't handle another" Dad said with a hitch in his voice at the word losing.
"Okay dad, I'll call her as soon as...." I'm interrupted by the sound of Bianca (my roommate and best friend) barging into the living room from her room yelling "They replied, they replied."
Making a shushing motion with my index finger on my lip to Bianca, I focus back on the conversation I was having.
"Isabella what was that, it..." my dad says with a shocked voice but I cut him off.
"It's nothing dad, don't worry, I'll call mum. Everything will be okay. I love you. Bye" I interrupted him.
"Bye nwa m nwanyị." He says and I cut the call.
"What happened Bianca? Why were you screaming like a crazy person?"
"You know the job application I sent to KM fashions?"
"Yeah!?"
"I got an email, they said I can come for an interview first thing Monday morning." She screams happily.
{Monday, that's next tomorrow.}
"I'm so happy for you!" I give her a hug and we both do a happy dance, then I remember I have to call mum and my face falls.
Excusing myself from the room, I walk into to my room and plop on my bed. I dial her number, she picks up after three rings. An hour of talking–Well it was mostly crying from both sides–To my mum on the phone I hang up, ensuring her that everything will be okay.
I open my room door only to find Bianca right outside with a sad look on her face."oh Bella, I'm so sorry. can you tell me how it happened?"
I burst into tears and Bianca gives me a comforting shoulder to cry on. After telling her everything about my sister's death then at the club with Alexander,she was having mixed feelings but right now she is in the kitchen making breakfast, which is probably eggs and toast because believe me, Bianca couldn't cook to save her life.
{Well things can only get better, right?.
I don't think anything can possibly make my life worse now.}
"Bella, Bella, Bella, breakfast is ready" Bianca says pulling me out of my thoughts. I give her a light smile and mouth 'thank you.'
When I'm done with breakfast, the only thing I want to do is go into a deep sleep and wake up when everything is better but I can't stop thinking about the huge mistake I made by losing my virginity to someone I barely knew.
{I hope we never cross paths again.}
{Even if he was undeniably handsome, I can't see... }
There is a knock on my room door.
"come in."
"Bella I know you are hurting and this isn't the right time but I have to ask, this Alexander you told me off... could he possibly be Alexander Hart? Because they may or may not be talking about you and him on tv right now"
I look dumbfoundedly at her before getting off the bed.
The lady on the news said "Alexander Hart, soon to be the biggest business man in New York, who seems to be taking over his father, Benjamin Richard Hart's company very soon and is rumored to have a new love interest. As he was spotted outside his club yesterday, kissing an unknown woman–right before they drove off into the night"
Bianca switches off the tv and looks at me sadly. "At least they don't know who you are?" She says trying to comfort me.
"It's only a matter of time before they do" I say with a distant look.