What address am I taking you to?" The driver asked and it was then, she remembered she had initially lost her way.
She opened her phone and did not read the messages Rose sent but instead sent a message.
[What's the address of your house. Am lost]
Initially,
Rose was very busy as she helped her mother put things in order. Few minutes later, she was done and finally went to sit with Nora, her attention was sought for again so she excused herself and left. It was an old friend so Rose talked with her for long, reminiscing about the past. They were still engrossed in their talk when she looked and did not see Nora where she was seated before now so she checked around and sent her a text since the place was too noisy for call.
The message was replied not long after.
Seeing that Nora was alright, she stopped worrying about her and continued socialising with old friends when she caught a glimpse of her high school crush, he still looked as hot as ever. She was not expecting to see him here but remembering his father and her mother were business partners, she realized that he could also be here.
When she was sure that she was not hallucinating, she walked over to greet him. A lot of things seemed to have changed about him. For example, he did not act as proud as he used to when they were still in high school and chatted with her freely.
While chatting with him, old feelings she had for him back in high school surged back in full measure from where she had hidden them, she just wished they would chat like that forever and did all she could to elongate the chat.
When the party was over, she realised that Nora, who promised to be here has not arrived yet, she called her and kept dialing her number but nobody picked the call. She sent text messages which were not replied and she immediately got the feeling that something bad must have happened to her.
She thought of all kinds of probabilities but none seemed to be a perfect reason for her not to be here so she alerted her family.
They were about to call the police when she got a reply from Nora. As soon as she read it, she sent her the address of her home with shaky hands.
For her to ask for the address meant she was not in danger, she informed her family of the situation and everyone easened up.
Rose got another message from Nora.
(I'm safe. Sorry for getting you worried, Expect me in five minutes).
Rose was even more relieved after reading this.
Nora showed the address to the driver and was informed it was a five minutes drive from there so she sent a message immediately to Rose and got another message from Rose.
[Get your stupid ass down here, I told you not to leave this place for a second but you were stubborn and decided to get us worried
I would give you your deserved punishment when you return.]
"Us..." Nora looked at the word-us in the message and felt .....
Five minutes later, she had already arrived at the family house where the party took place.
When she was about to go out, the driver stuffed something into her hand.
'I was asked to give this to you" he said
"Everyone's waiting for you," he added to distract her from objecting. She looked up again and saw the persons waiting for her so she left with the business card. Everyone approached her worried.
"Hope nothing happened to you?"
"Where did you go to?"
As everyone was expressing their worry. Rose asked calmly.
"Who did you go out to stroll with?"
"No one. Why?"
"You would have told me you went out on a date and I would not disturb you instead of saying you were out on a stroll or don't you like him." Rose winked.
The him, she was referring to was the driver that dropped her.
"You ignored me so since there was no one else to talk to, I decided to take a stroll and while trying to find my way back I entered a road which looked just like the one I passed through and later realized that I had lost my way." Nora explained again.
"Really. Then why didn't you come in an uber or with the police if you actually did get lost" Rose asked and that was when everyone paid attention to the fact that she came here in a private car.
"I got a lift while coming back." she replied flatly.
"I don't know you as someone that trust strangers easily" Rose who insisted on arguing said.
"I'm going in, you youngsters continue."
Her mom said and went in.
"Maybe I easily trusted him because he's cute." Nora said to play along.
Rose's brother frowned and went in.
Nora and Rose talked for a while before finally going in.
The next day.
Rose went to her brother's room and met him playing with his phone.
"Hey, what's up" she called.
He did not reply so she pulled the phone from him.
"Do you need me to do anything for you" he asked without looking at her but at the phone.
"My friend and I are leaving soon." she informed.
"Noted." he relied swiftly.
"Won't you see us off?" she asked.
"Are you going right now" he asked
"Yes, I might drop her and come back or...
would you drop her for me?" she asked expectantly.
"No, she is not a child" he replied firmly.
"please... " she begged.
"Why do you want me to do it?" he asked.
"Jasper did not avoid me yesterday so I want to try my luck" she replied sincerely.
"You can come back after dropping her. Jasper is not running away. Don't be too desperate." he replied.
"I did not come here so you would insult me by calling me desperate. I'm not like you that would like someone and keep it to himself. I go for what I want. Understood?" she said angrily.
"And who are you talking about?" he asked.
"You can not deceive me by acting as if you don't care. If no one else here knows you, I do and that was why I thought we could help each other but since u don't want to grab the opportunity. I'd send someone else." She said and turned to leave.
"Wait" he called back.
"Since you have seen through me, don't you also know that she's crushing on someone already and I guess they already exchanged numbers. I don't want to hurt myself in the end"
Rose laughed.
"My little shy brother, I spoke with her. she's single and not crushing on anyone okay?"
"Let me pretend that I believe you and send her back then."
"Jinx, I'm off to Jasper 's place" Rose said and scurried off.