"Aren't you tired Azai?"....
Mrs Alani asked focusing her eyes on him.
The both of them stared at him waiting for a reply.
"I'm not tired"... this answer was directed to Ava, as a stern gaze was on her.
"Well if he's not, Ava get to bed".
She entered the room, walked to the bed side, put her under the blanket patted her head.
"Goodnight you two"...
She closed the door slowly, straining her eyes to see the last of the room before the door is completely shut.
Ava didn't bother asking any questions, because she will never get a reply from him.
This attitude of his, she isn't sure of.
Meanwhile Azai was waiting patiently to hear what she had to say to him.
It pissed her off, so she rose up from the bed sitting upright to query him, only to see him looking furiously at her.
She fell back to the bed covering her head to toe.
....
She kept hearing notification sounds coming from his phone which drove away her sleep.
"is he doing this on purpose?"... She couldn't do anything to help herself.
His notifications turned to lullaby for her as she slept off by eleven-thirty.
She woke up late the next day.
Thinking she woke up late, he was still asleep.
Worse of all he slept on the couch which fitted him perfectly.
It looked like the chair was customized according to his size and height.
She walked over to the window. When she opened the curtains, the sun light just beamed on him. She looked at his ravishing figure, she could not stop looking at him.
His raven black hair beamed because of the light. He was dazzling. She shook it off.
She walked into the bathroom to take a bath.
He never woke up even after she was done.
She didn't know if to wake him up but then no one dared him to have a late night chat till twelve.
She left him in the room to go have her breakfast downstairs.
When she got there, no one was present. And she thought, why is everyone late to wake up this morning.
She was served breakfast of apple pie and Greek yogurt.
She ate slowly just to buy time till someone actually came downstairs but no one did.
She lost her appetite doing this.
She left the food on the table and went back to the room.
A woman servant came in from the kitchen and took the food away.
When she opened the door to the room, she looked straight at the bathroom door which had just opened. She closed the door quickly, waiting outside.
He looked at the door and walked to it, he placed his hand on the knob and opened it slowly when she from the other side opened it like she was just coming.
She walked straight to the bed, doing this It replayed in her head that this is her most frequent action since she got here.
He looked at her with a mixed expression. He knew clearly that this door had closed when his opened.
"What did you think?" he asked locking his gaze on her.
"What do you think?", she asked back. His question back fired on him. She didn't think anything so did he?...
He went silent for a brief moment. She looked in his direction just to see him staring intensely at her.
She paused looking into his eyes. When she heard, "where are you from?".
He had questions to ask about her but sometimes he just ignored them.
"I'm sorry for being impolite"....
she said calmly, bowing her head, seated on the bed.
"That's not what I want to hear". He said still staring intensely at her.
"You know what, what's your name?".
He asked adjusting his position.
"Ava".... she replied without sparing a glance at him.
"Ava who?"....
She fell silent because of this question. "You're not deaf"...he assumed for her.
"I know I'm from a middle class family and I cannot be compared to you. But can't I choose to speak and not?..."
Not that she didn't hear his question but she was thinking of a response.
What's with this girl. He thought. "I never judged you just because you are a middle class person. I only asked you for your full name".
"It's Ava George".
"Was it that hard to say"...he said to her. He took off and left the room.
She sighed heavily when he left. Once again he left his phone in the room.
She wants to believe it's unlocked, but when she picked it up from the table, it wasn't.
She frowned and put it down, but when she looked at it again and smiled maniacally. She took the phone with her back to the bed.
When he got to the dining room, his food was already prepared according to schedule. He ate slowly although he had forced himself to eat because he had no appetite.
He took out his car keys from his left pocket and left the house.
Ava stayed till afternoon, all alone. She hadn't heard from Mrs Alani or from Mr Gael.
She decided to go downstairs and check for them. She searched the entire room but she saw no one.
The staffs saw her roaming about the house but non of them could ask why she was restless.
Thanks to this, she actually got the opportunity to walk around the magnificent mansion. She smiled a lot most especially because, the house met her taste.
She also concluded that Mrs Alani and Mr Gael are not at home, because they can't be in their room all day
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He walked into Nyla's living room which is seen immediately after her front door.
She was coming down the stairs with her black curly hair that covered her side face, moving from side to side. With the mini white lace gown she wore, he was speechless.
"You can stop daydreaming now as you can see me"....she said with her perfect smile.
"Hug me"...he said to her after a long stare.
"No thank you"...she said picking up a glass cup, pouring some alcohol into it.
"care for some?", she asked looking at him.
"You know I don't drink alcohol". "And that's why I have a fridge of bottle water just for you".
"You could replace them with juice, but you choose water so you could make fun of me whenever you look at it", he stated. This isn't the first time she teases him because he can't drink alcohol.
She laughed and said...
"You live In a mansion, money is everywhere and anywhere, probably in meetings you as well see alcohol, how do you not drink alcohol?".
She has been curious for a while now, how on earth can he be drunk with just a cup of alcohol.
"I don't attend meetings". He replied frowning at her.
This isn't the first time she always talks about topics aside from the both of them.
He despises having physical conversation with her. Then again he can't resist seeing her pretty face for a day.