Juliet who sat together with her classmates was busy watching Mel. She frowned and pulled her phone out,
' It was enough that I try to hide her. Why should I? It's not like I'm so scheming to get into one of the prestigious families to be their granddaughter!!! '
Just before she could think twice, the call went through.
" Hello? " a cold voice, spoke.
" Do you know whom I met on the cruise, Alex? "
....
Spencer went around chatting to all his friends while his eyes always lingered on a blonde dressed in a white gown.
He cut the cake as soon as the clock strike twelve.
The crowd congratulated him for his 15th year birthday.
" So, did you enjoy the party? " He asked Juliet as the guests retired for the night.
" Yeah, it was really good, the best actually. The arrangements are gorgeous," she said, looking around the hall.
" Not as much as you, you look gorgeous tonight," he said and smiled at her flushed face.
She could help but smile at his words.
' Oh my, why is she so cute? '
....
3rd floor, deck:
Mel lay on the bed thinking about what Amory told her. Laying down she drifted into a deep slumber.
**the talk**
" I need you to stay away from Brenden. " Amory said.
Mel looked at her, baffled, " What do you mean by that? "
" Nothing that 'you' need to know now. Leave him alone, it's for your good. You don't even know him. He may seem close but trust me, it's not a shallow well that you're trying to jump into. " She said to Mel, staring right through her eyes.
Mel sighed, ' What does she even mean by that? Does she mean that Bren is hiding things from her? Well, it's not a thing that she didn't know, but rather, didn't care about. '
" Come, let's go get changed for the party tonight. " she sighed along as Mel fell silent.
Mel looked at her sudden change of atmosphere around her. Turning around she found Amory smiling at the horizon.
" Is something funny? " Mel asked, staring blankly at the smiling Amory.
" Nah, I just... Neven in a thousand years did I expect that I would see this happening. " She sighed.
" About what happening, actually? " Mel asked, even more, confused than before.
" My best man being confused with his life over a girl. "
....
Lucas and Skylar met outside the hall.
" So, we'll talk about that day, shall we? " Lucas glared at Skylar as he mentioned the scene, the scene in which he caught Scarlet and Skylar.
Skylar frowned, ruffled his hair, and sighed, " Could you please not bring it up Venom? "
"Are you really the Vermilion Dragon? Are you sure? Because you don't seem to be him right now. " Lucas snapped, " To me, the Vermillion Dragon was a righteous person, not a jerk who goes out with his brother's fiancé. "
Skylar frowned harder, listening to Lucas.
" Lucas... it's just, " he stuttered.
" Don't try anything, just save your breath. " Lucas left him and went up the stairs.
Skylar sighed as he looked at Lucas's disappearing back.
' How can I explain it to you, little Venom? '
....
The party ended well, the families departed, hopefully well...
Mel sighed as she entered her ' blue haven ' or her room in the White mansion.
" At last!!! " she sighed as she lay back on her bed.
Suddenly there was a low knock on the door.
She sat up straight, " Come in. "
Brenden walked in and sat on her bed beside her.
" I'll be leaving tomorrow, I don't know whether the gadgets are allowed there, but I'll try to stay in touch with you. " He said, looking and judging her expressions.
' Why would I even try? I can't, but ' he sighed, ' I can't see her sad '
" It's good then, at least once would do than never. Try to always be in touch. " she smiled at him, reassuring him.
' I wonder which institute in NY wouldn't allow gadgets unless, it's not NY... ' She thought but didn't let her baseless assumptions get to her head.
' Doubts are never baseless, especially if we really don't know who he really is... ' her sub-conscious cautioned her.
Mel was amused, ' What the hell? I really thought you were only supposed to snap at me sarcastically. '
' Don't get too ahead of yourself, ' her subconscious snapped, ' I meant you were so stupid to have a mysterious guy for a crush and had a je*k for your other crush. '
Mel frowned, what-so-ever her subconscious is never gonna react well towards her is she? ' Well, she isn't totally wrong too...'
" Is something wrong? " Brenden asked as she remained quiet for some time now.
She shook her head, " No, nothing. Just simple thoughts. "
He saw her reluctance towards him, for the first time, ' What did Amory say to her? Did she tell her about my secret? No, Amory would never do that to me... '
" I'll go, I have something to speak to Erick," he said and walked out.
' Well, it's good if she herself maintains distance from him. It's good for her... '
....
Brenden directly went into Erick's study after getting out of Mel's room.
" Excuse me, Erick? " he knocked twice at the door and entered as Erick called him in.
Erick put down the book in his hand and looked at his grandson and smiled, " So, what do you want this time- take care of Mel while your away for a while or for a-lot while? " he asked sarcastically.
Brenden chuckled at him and sighed, " Is it so obvious? "
" Well, that's the only favor you've asked me for the past 7 years. " he pointed out.
Brenden frowned but didn't deny it, " I'll be away for an entire year, this time. So, I want you to take her to your place after her school ends, that's in a few months, if that's fine. "
Erick: " Definitely, I was planning for it, anyways. I'm glad that you thought of it. "
....
Brenden frowned and left Erick's study filled with deep thoughts.
He himself had a lot of doubts with stuff, with people, with himself...
He really didn't want to hide from his family, rather he was glad to have met them but he couldn't get himself to trust them.
' I tried, trust me I really did try to confide in them, but I failed- miserably! '
He sighed deeply and went outside the Mansion, he really needed some time away from all these complications.
All he really wanted was to be normal, like any other person, facing normal, sane problems, having a simple background, normal parents... well, any parents would do, unlike him with none!
....
Skylar just had, had a conversation with Scarlet. He really had to clear his head and talking to her had cleared it for him.
He walked to his closet and took out his black leather jacket and a motor bike's key.
Suddenly he saw a perfect bad-boy grinning at him from the mirror.
" Don't be so happy Dragon, not yet. The girl isn't even yours, yet! " he pouted sadly and himself.
He pulled out his phone getting out of the Mansion, " Ryder, get the beauties ready, we have an assignment!!! " saying that he hung up and went into the garage to get his crime partner- his motorbike.
....
Mel lay on her back, staring blankly at the ceiling of her room, again!
" What the hell is wrong with me? " she mumbled as she screamed inside her head and sighed.
She was really fed-up living with expectations for her family but this- this situation with no expectation and a path to follow really killed her.
' Not that I really wanna live.' she shrugged.
Her sub-conscious rolled her eyes at her and punched a small toy beside her.
' What? Urgh... don't answer me!!! ' she groaned and put her face on a pillow and kicked another one down.
Suddenly she sat upright and took a deep breath, and let it out, trying to calm herself.
" Ok, it'll all clear up if I have a small walk in the garden," she said to herself and got off the bed.
....
Spencer had left his gaming head-phones ceased by Judith as she needed him to quit playing, earlier so, he had to get them. He had many chances to do so before, but he didn't.
' Never mind, let me just get it now. It's not like I'm gonna miss the game tonight just because my mom has my head-phones!!! ' he thought, determined, and went into his parent's room.
The room was just like any other huge, decorated, a lot colorful as his mother loved colors, but no difference other than that.
Suddenly he tripped on a box seemingly a cage and heard a loud purr.
' Holy cr*p!!! ' he fell along with the cat and the cage opened letting the cat getaway.
He was about to go after the cat but his hands had found the head-phones.
He frowned lightly but shrugged it off, ' Well, I don't think mom or dad for that matter would suspect me so, I'm off! ' he ran away to his room as his game was about to begin.
....
Mel roamed around and found a small, cute little cat lying at the entrance of the mansion. She smiled and went to pick it up.
' I don't think there were any cats at the mansion before, ' she thought but shrugged as the cat rubbed against her feet, ' Well, never mind, maybe I hadn't noticed it earlier. '
' What the hell have you ever noticed before? '