***It breathed a frenzied morning the subsequent day***
Federico arrived at Edward's mansion. He stepped into the living room through the front doors. The geometric chandeliers dangling in the ceiling elucidated the room. The walls looked glossy, and floor tiling slick.
Federico caught a glimpse of the tall huge portrait of Celine hung on the wall and he paused staring at it grinning from ear to ear. The bright colors accentuated its liveliness.
He heard footsteps coming from the hallway and he turned to see Edward walking downstairs and Alia walking behind him. He was wearing a blue suit and a pair of black shoes.
Edward approached Federico immediately as he spotted him.
"How're you doing Federico?"
"Great. I er... Wanna pick up Celine. I want to take her out for us to go have some barbecue."
Edward furrowed his eyebrows feeling quite confused, "I don't understand. Isn't Celine with you?"
"With me? Didn't she come home last night?"
"No she didn't. She and her bodyguard aren't back yet."
Federico got shocked, he pulled out his phone from his trouser dialing up Celine's number.
"She is not picking up."
Edward panicked and he angrily gripped Federico's collar, "where the heck is my daughter? I let her go out with you last night now where is she?" He yelled.
"I don't know." He was quite startled.
"She was with you all the night, how can you not freaking know where she is?" Edward threw his collar and he almost stumbled.
"I left her with her guard, he should know where she is." Federico yelled.
Edward got impatient with him, he screamed, "if Noah told me where she could be, would I ask you where she is? You are her boyfriend, why did you leave her alone?"
"If there's anyone you should be mad at, then it's Noah since he's her guard or you for being stupid to employ a dumb guard for your princess!" Federico snapped.
Edward clenched his fists firmly and took a few steps to him, "are you trying to say it is my fault?"
Alia ran in between them and gently pushed Edward backwards, "do you wanna hit him? You two should be working together to look for Celine not arguing." She yelled.
Edward and Federico frowned at each other.
"Please calm down you two."
She smiled and said to herself rolling the curls of her hair, "like I really care if she is alright."
Edward felt irritated staring at Federico.
"I will be upstairs." He walked out of the room towards the stairs.
"Okay love." Alia smirked.
"I will get going now. Bye Alia." Federico walked away.
Noah slightly opened his eyes and he saw a sea of white. Images of Celine's car driving carelessly on the road, flashed through his mind and recollecting Celine's car falling on the cliff and rolling made him panic. Celine's loud screams echoed in his mind and he jolted out of his reverie.
He tried to get up from the ground, and he felt restrained as his ankle was stuck in the car. The car was toppled upside down. He had several scratches of bruises on his arms and face.
Noah sat up and he was quite surprised not to find Celine in the car. He started to wonder where he was and he heard pitches of waves and he looked back seeing an enormous sea flowing back and forth. He looked around and noticed huge rocks seated on the bare sand.
Noah was now worried about Celine. His heart was racing fast wondering where she might have been thrown to. He grabbed the door which was tightly jammed with his foot stuck inside and tried to yank it open. He pulled harder with his might, his arms were starting to tremble and he managed to spread the door open.
He fell on his back and sighed and he drew his foot away. He could feel a deep sharp pain in his foot, and he groaned loudly.
Noah sat up and he sighed. He stood up on his feet and he looked around but didn't spot Celine.
He limped from the car screaming her name, "Celine! Celine!"
He walked a few distance and he spotted Celine lying besides the sea like a log of wood. His lips curved into a cheerful smile and he hurried to her though his foot ached badly.
He knelt besides her and he noticed blood streaming from her forehead. Her dress was slightly torn, which uncovered the vest she wore. Her cheeks looked so pale.
Noah shook her and he called her name thrice but she was unresponsive. He raised her head from the ground and leaned her face on his chest.
He stroked her cheeks and stared at her face. "Celine..."
Celine heard his voice loudly in her mind, and she slowly opened her eyes. Noah's face was blurry in her sight. She stared at his face for several minutes till her sight got clearer and she realized that she was besides Noah.
She jerked and quickly moved from him. She felt a sharp pain in her head and moaned. She rubbed her head and asked with a weak voice, "what happened to me?"
"I think we fell off a cliff."
Celine shut her eyes recollecting her car driving towards the cliff and rolling down the cliff.
She jolted from her thoughts and she sprang up to her feet. Noah stood up.
Celine looked around and she got nervous, "where are we?"
"I think we are on an Island."
Celine exclaimed, "what!"
She noticed that the Island looks deserted and she yelled, "I don't want to stay here. We are far away from home, I've not seen my daddy yet, and, here I am, on an Island. How are we going to get out?"
"You should stop over thinking. Hey, look, your head's bleeding."
He tore up a piece from his shirt.
"It doesn't matter!" Celine yelled, "I just wanna get out of here."
Noah moved toward her and gently wrapped her forehead with the rag.
Noah sighed, and he was limping away from her.
"Where're you going?" She screamed.
Noah paused and he turned back to her, "to look for a place for us to stay."
Celine felt frightened staring at him leaving.
"Come back for me okay?"
Noah turned to her, and he said firmly, "I will not abandon you." He continued walking away.
Celine sat on a rock and she stared at her left and right feeling jittery. "What if someone catches me here? I'm all alone here. Noah you gotta come back. Do not forget me." She thought aloud.
She spotted a huge scorpion crawling towards her, she got frightened and screamed loudly and fled from the rock.
She crossed her arms together shivering muttering Noah's name like a frightened kitten.
"Where are you Noah? Please come back." She cried.
Edward was standing in the living room besides Alia complaining to the cops. He reported Celine missing and the cops came over to receive his statement.
The cop officer, Ryan said to him with a very firm look, "it's not up to 24 hours yet so we cannot declare Celine missing."
Edward got irked, "isn't the points I made enough to convince you that she's missing? She isn't picking any of my calls, I've called up all of her friends but nobody know where she is. What if she is kidnapped?" He yelled.
"Again, we can not declare her missing until it's been 24 hours."
Edward gnashed his teeth feeling frustrated.
Alia noticed that Edward was slowly going to lose his temper and she spoke to Ryan softly, "officer, we hope that you will take this matter seriously."
"We will. After it's been 24 hours, and if she's still missing, we will take actions." Ryan firmly said.
"Why do you have to delay or wait that long enough when my princess could be suffering? If anything should happen to my daughter, I will ruin you and your entire career officer." Edward wore an icey glare.
Alia patted his back, "calm down love."
"We will leave now." Officer Ryan said and they walked outside.
***It was six in the evening***
Noah returned to the rocks. Celine heard his footsteps and she quickly stood up from sitting on the floor soon as she spotted Noah.
She ran towards him and pulled him into a hug.
"Thanks for coming back for me Noah." She smiled wildly.
She moved from his arms, "next time, don't stay too long. Don't ever leave me alone. I almost got pricked by a scorpion. If you were besides me, my life wouldn't be threatened. I thought you were not gonna come back for me."
"Now, why will you think that? I promised not to abandon you."
"So, where're we going to sleep?"
"In a.....hut."
Celine gasped, "Celine Jackson is gonna be sleeping in a hut? What if a scorpion tries to bite me there? Or an ant crawl up to my body?"
Noah looked into her eyes,
"I'm not gonna let that happen to you."
He stretched out his hand to her and he said, "come on, let's go to."
Celine sighed and she held his hand and they left.
***It was eight in the night that same day***
Noah and Celine arrived at a small hut. Celine stared at it as if scanning it. She noticed that the woods are quite old, and quite small.
"Oh my gosh! Is this the place that you found?" She furrowed her eyebrows.
Noah nodded in reply, "yea. Let's go in."
"Go in?" Celine gasped and shook her head, "how can you expect that I, Celine Jackson will sleep in that hideous hut? Look at it, it's really irritating I wanna puke. What if there are several rats and termites in there. What if something happens to my beautiful skin? I don't wanna get wrinkles."
Noah tried to pacify her, "you will not get any wrinkles. No pest is in there. I just want you to have somewhere to sleep. Or would you want to sleep on the sand?"
Celine was mum.
Noah pulled out his shirt, "I'm going in. If you want, you can come in."
He hung his shirt on his shoulder and walked into the hut.
Celine was hesitating to go inside. She stared at the huge tall trees. They were covered by the darkness, and she looked around and heard some crickets chirping noisily.
She got quite scared and ran into the hut. The ancient door gave a whining sound as she pushed it open. Noah got quite startled by her wondering why she ran like she was being chased.
He stood up from the mat he lied and he walked to her, "What is the matter?"
Celine embraced him tightly, "I got nervous standing outside. A creature wanted to get me."
Noah gently pulled her from his arms, he felt slightly confused and furrowed his eyebrows, "what creature?"
"I don't know. I just know it wants to catch me. Why did you leave me outside?"
"You said you did not like the hut."
"Never leave my side. I don't want to get hurt."
"But do you wanna be beside me? Cause you get irritated by me."
"I don't want you to stay away from me." She softly said.
Noah stared into her eyes and he sighed. "Alright, come on, have some sleep."
Celine nodded. She tried to take some steps to the mat and she stepped on a rock. She was almost tripping, and Noah immediately held her in his arms. Celine turned to him staring into his eyes, and he stared into hers.
"Thanks."
Noah slowly removed his hands from her waist and she approached the mat. She bent, kneeled on it and lied on the mat.
The room was very tiny, and Noah squeezed himself on the mat. "Ugh!" He moaned.
He slowly turned and looked at Celine. Celine was staring at him and she noticed his bulging chest. She felt enticed and felt like sleeping in his arms and she turned away.
"I never knew that my guard is this attractive." She said to herself.
Noah stared at her grinning from ear to ear thinking, "I didn't know that you'll be this calm. Turns out you're not so cranky."
He sighed, "but even though you are cranky, you're a stunning beauty. At times I wonder why I can't get away from you when I really want to."
Celine thought, "let me stop thinking about him and go to sleep."
She yawned and shut her eyes.
The wind was blowing in and Noah noticed that Celine was shaking and he covered her with his jacket. He slowly pulled himself closer to her. He leaned on his arm and was rubbing her hair softly, and staring at her adorable cheeks.
Noah realized that he was starting to feel enticed to her and he said to himself, "stop it Noah don't be carried away."
He turned from her and he lied sideways and shut his eyes.