*chirp-chirp*
Fading away the darkness of night, the sun came out by spreading over its luminance all over the vast sky for welcoming the glorious morning.
"Thank you for letting me stay at your house Marie".Adele smiled graciously as she said. She then moved her half-lidded eyes sedately towards Julia to feel a sudden shock. Julia's intense gray orbs were gazing straight at Adele.
With heart beating unstoppably aching her chest, Adele slowly raised her palm and faintly waved at Julia. In return, she grinned brightly with waving back at her.
At that moment, Adele felt like her heart being pierced by Julia. She looked extremely beautiful when her fair, plumpy cheeks turned red and those deep gray orbs of hers sparkled as she smiled widely with her gleaming, white teeth showing.
"Um..'Kay then..Bye Julie..Le..let's meet at university..."
*Clack*
Adele got inside her lamborghini and sped off towards the mansion as fast as she could with her face turning whole red with astonishment. After she left, Marie went inside the house, Meanwhile, Julia stood leaning on their front door, watching the birds in their garden, having a lovely smile outside and awkward thoughts inside.
What happened to Ady? Why does her face turns red whenever our eyes meet? That never happened before when we were young? Now I'm confused! Is she in love with me?
"Julia! Come and have your breakfast honey".Marie called out for Julia lovingly.
"Yeah Mom! C'min"
Julia leapt to the old, rusty dining table placed at the centre portion of their kitchen with wearing the utmost joyous look on her face.
*Vroom-vroom*
After a couple of hours, Adele reached at the mansion. The guards rushed towards the gold coated, gigantic front gate and hastily opened it for her. As she entered, all of them bowed their heads down obediently. She then slowly parked the lamborghini without any screeching sounds and went inside the mansion silently.
Adele looked around the mansion and led out a deep sigh of relief.
"Phew! Guess Queen Mother have gone to the company"
"Not yet, Princess Adele"
Adele felt startled, a chill ran down her spine of hearing that familiar, pleasant voice echoing through all over down the grand, imperial staircase. She turned her head up to see Eleanor standing in front of their massive family picture with gazing down at her smiling.
"Where did you stay tonight Princess?"
Eleanor asked in a solemn manner while stepping downwards the left portion of the staircase. Without thinking twice, Adele darted towards the right portion of the staircase, then uttered out loud.
"Why do you care Queen Mother? I will do whatever I want! Hmph"
Adele stomped up the stairs with flames of rage burning through her whole body. As she was about to step on the last tread, Eleanor said something that caught her off guards.
"What did you say Queen Mother?"
"I said that the news article...it have been deleted, but it was not enough so I paid a news channel to prove that news article to be fake and now finally...the problem is all solved..but!"
Eleanor walked towards the entrance of the mansion and took the files from the maid who gave it to her everyday before setting out to the company. After taking over the files from her hands, Eleanor gestured the maid to leave. She then turned to Adele, and spoke off her last words looking at her fiercely with cold eyes.
"Don't repeat such a mistake again"
After completing her words, Eleanor elegantly walked out the mansion and went towards her dark, black bugatti, then drove off with her long, curly auburn hair ruffling along the air.
As soon as Eleanor left, Adele made a phone call to an anonymous number.
"All set?"
[ Yes Mam ]
"Well done"
*beep*
As the call ended, Adele had a sly smirk on her face, she then turned to climb up those rest of the stairs to her room, but her legs stopped from moving immediately, when she heard that sweet, innocent voice of Marie greeting her from behind.
"Bonjour, your higness!"
Adele turned to her back and looked down the stairs to feel an utmost ecstasy to see Marie.
"Bonjour Marie"
"Your highness, please freshen up yourself, I will select the clothes for you to wear today".Marie bowed her head down politely.
Adele nodded and went towards her room for freshening up. A while later, she went downstairs, after wearing the perfect pair of clothes Marie selected for her and getting her hair done by the other maids.
After having a delightful breakfast, Adele went straight outside the mansion, got inside their grand limousine, and as usual, the driver drove her to the university.
An hour later, Adele reached the university. All eyes were laid on her, she looked supremely majestic as always. She calmly walked through the hallway, as soon as she was finally alone without those unwanted attention over her, she darted to the announcement room of the university at third floor.
Adele entered while running her gaze all around the room. Being unhurried, she made the microphone on, cleared her throat and started speaking in a humble tone.
*chuckle*
After the announcement ended, everyone at the university including Julia stared at the speaker for a while with being both, shocked and confused. As the bell rang, all of them snapped out of that startling situation and went to their classes.
While on the way to classroom, Julia's mind was stucked up of wondering only one thing.
WHAT IS SHE PLANNING TO DO?!
Fours hours of waiting, finally led the bell to ring for the lunch break. All the students crowded at the cafeteria and were mesmerized by the pleasing aroma of different kinds of foods.
Being late, Julia was rushing towards the cafeteria as she had to stop by a professor, but someone, held onto her arm from behind, pulled closer with thudding against a wall. She lifted her head and realized it was not someone else but Adele.
"Ady!...I mean...Your Highness-"
"First of all Julie, you don't need to call me 'Your Highness' or somethin 'kay? Just call me Ady and...you should not eat that lunch at cafeteria"
"Wait, what? Ady? But why?"
*stomp-stomp*
Adele gently placed her finger over Julia's soft, thin lips.
"Shh...It's happenin".She uttered in a low tone with a wide grin on her face. On the other hand, Julia stood there confused of not having an idea about the situation.
*Mutter-mutter*
"Oh no! My stomach, it hurts!"
"Ah! what was in that food, I feel like throwin up"
"My goodness, washroom! I wanna go to washroom!"
The students were sprinting to the washroom even faster than in a marathon, with all of them gripping their hands over stomachs, but unfortunately, it was locked.
"Crap! Now who the heck locked the washroom?!".One of them shouted.
"It's me".A deep, velvety voice spoke out from behind.
All of them, turned their heads backward to get perplexed of seeing Adele.
She took out the keys to washroom from the pocket of her brunette, leather jacket and showed it off with jiggling it in the mid-air.
*clin-clan*
"I am the one who locked the washroom and also...."
*giggles*
"I am the one responsible...for all of you to end up in this miserable situation"
Gazes of different kinds were over Adele, some of uncertainty, some of shock and other some of disappointment. None of them muttered a single word, only silence lingered all over.
*clap-clap*
"Well first of all, let me make it clear...there was a bit of xxxx added in your special meal, and that caused your tummies to hella hurt like this! Ahaha!"
A sudden realistation lit up on their brains. Their legs started trembling in fright. Eventually, each one of them, understood the reason for Adele's actions. Not a single person dared to speak up to her, it was all silent.
"Again silence? Don't y'all wanna know why I did this all? Hm...Guess y'all have finally realized, but! let me say it in my way"
Adele stepped forward, with clasping her hands together in a delinquent way and talked by glaring with fuming, fierce eyes.
"So...I did all of this...as a PUNISHMENT, a punishment for making a mess out of me throughout the social media and all those freakin news channels by postingl those pictures which you all took yesterday!".She paused and viewed all of them one by one, then spoke with a radiant beam.
"Now...let me warn y'all for the first and the last time...never ever repeat such a mistake again! Or if did so..."
*snickers*
"Guess y'all know what's gonna happen, Hm? Well...here you go"
Adele threw those bunch of keys to one of the students standing there, then walked off stylishly with flipping her hair which shone beautifully, as a little ray of sunlight fell on her.
Without thinking further, the students unlocked the washroom and went inside to clear up their insides.
As Adele was walking towards her department, someone called out loudly for her. Immediately, she stopped, turned her head back and saw it was Julia, who was running behind to approach her.
"Ady...what was...all that now?".Julia spoke by panting heavily.
"Oh that! Well...first of all, you calm down yourself, Hm? Breath deeply from your nose".Adele quickly took a kerchief from her pocket and gently wiped off the sweat dripping from all over her face, after that, she continued on speaking.
"So Julie...you're askin me that 'what was all that' huh? Aha! It's my way of teachin lesson! And...."
Nuzzling on Julia's shoulders, Adele hugged her tight by the waist, then she slowly placed her forehead over Julia's head and spoke off her left over words with lightly whispering on her ears.
"I did this for the sake of both of us".Being startled, Julia shoved Adele forcefully.
"Both of us? What do you mean Ady?"
"I mean...in this article your face was not shown...but who knows...in future they might post a picture of you and me with your face showin in it?...wouldn't it be a prob? Hm?".Adele softly held onto Julia's chin and lifted her face upward.
"I would never let you get in any trouble and I'll be always there for you Julie"
Those words, picturised an image of that young princess resembling Adele who appeared in her mind last time. Suddenly, she felt like an electric shock running through each of her veins, her heart was beating faster. At that moment, she felt a 'connection' with Adele, not the one from their childhood friendship but a 'connection' from past life.
( To be continued )