EPISODE 7
Harris parked his car in front of a mansion, it was quite bigger than Harris's so Arya could tell that Louis wasn't living alone.
"Come on, he's right inside" Harris moved to the door, inputed the passcode and went in without even knocking.
"Good morning sir and ma'am. Mr Louis will join you shortly" The Butler of the Thompsons greeted and left.
"Come here" Harris said to Arya and led the way into the main living room. A man who looked quite young was sitting there watching TV, so Arya thought he was Louis's Dad.
"Mr Todd" Harris called and greeted him warmly.
"Harris! Boy,how are you doing? What's the occasion, you rarely visit"The Mr Todd said with a smile.
"I just came by to collect something from Louis.. where's he by the way, he's keeping me waiting" Harris said and looked towards the entrance of the living room.
"Harris, introduce her to me, who's she?"
" Ah, so sorry. Mr Todd, this is Arya... a friend?" Harris said and shrugged.
"I'm Arya Hills" Arya said and shook Mr Todd outstretched hands.
"Very beautiful name" Mr Todd smiled and released her hand, he was equally surprised that someone her age didn't recognize him. He gave Harris a weird look and Harris chuckled.
"Huh.. Arya this is Mr Todd,.. the Todd Thompson. You don't know him? At all?"
Arya looked at Mr Todd cluelessly. " Am I supposed to know him? " She whispered to Harris.
"You don't watch movies at all? Mr Todd was a very popular actor before he retired, he acted in the most popular movies that were released when we were still teenagers then... You don't remember him at all? I'm sure you watched REAL that time, he's the main actor" Harris said, pointing to Mr Todd who was waiting for Arya to recall him.
"I didn't watch REAL, I'm sorry" Arya smiled weirdly.
"What? That movie was so popular then, especially among teenagers and youths then. Maybe you don't remember" Harris replied, thinking she was just trying not to be flustered, because Mr Todd is very popular.
"C'mon. She says she didn't watch it. It's okay Arya. I'm happy that at least one person doesn't recognize me" Mr Todd gave her a reassuring smile.
"I'm sorry for not recognizing you" Arya apologized. Harris became more curious, he wondered what her childhood was like, what happened to her when she was young.
" No, no.. it's nothing. I'm sorry for asking" Mr Todd smiled and went back to what he was watching.
"Grandpa, I told you to turn the TV off.. where's the butler, you should get something to eat now" Louis complained as he came in the main room.
Arya looked at Harris, surprised that Mr Todd was actually a grandfather.
"Ah, it's not that I'm disrespectful, he just doesn't want to be called Grandpa.. as you can see his face looks very young" Harris informed Arya and she nodded in realization. Someone would actually think he was a Dad since his face looked so young.
"You punk! Are you trying to make me old? I'll surprise you and make a comeback with a superb movie, you'll see" Mr Todd yelled at Louis.
"You already retired, just turn off the TV, it's not good for you eyes. You've maintained a good eyes till now, want to use glasses and look like a grandpa?"
" You're right. You guys enjoy" Mr Todd said and left them.
" Hi guys, you're that girl...name? " Louis asked and stretched his hand for a shake.
"Arya.. thanks for taking Emma home. Also, I still want to beat you up so, let's avoid each other for now" Arya said without taking his hand.
" Ha! Since I took Emma home, it should be fair then, let's be nice to each other from now on, okay?" Louis said and took Arya's hand forcefully, shaking her.
"Oh, your bag. Don't you agree that I'm a very smart person, if not I would have given your bag to Emma" Louis praised himself.
" You lied that she was with you that night,a three year old would have kept the bag too" Arya snickered.
Louis looked at Harris and while he shrugged and shook his head.
"We're going now, right? I have to get to work. Alright, then. Bye" Arya waved and turned to leave first.
"Argh... she's crazy. Eddie told me she slept at your house. Nothing happened?" Louis teased.
" You bastard, I'm not like you. And she's really crazy but I'll handle her, I still want her to pay for making me lose my investor"
" What will you do? You sent her to jail but got her out back, I doubt she'll do whatever you want"
"She's indebted to me so she can't run away. I'm leaving, see you later"
" You're coming to hangout with us later, ain't you?" Louis asked as he watched Harris walk away without replying him.
Harris went out and got into his car." Your house? Or workplace?"
"House...I need to take the company laptop back today"
"Oh, I forgot to ask .. what was your nightmare about?" Harris suddenly asked.
" Well, someone keeps trying to kill me in my dream" She replied.
"It must be a recurring dream. If you know the person in real life, you should stay away and make sure you don't die" Harris said to her and smiled.
Arya looked at him and was relieved by what he said. Even her own Dad didn't care about her nightmares, he was the first one to ever ask her about it. She smiled inwardly.
"I didn't think I'd be saying this but thank you for today... and yesterday night too, I know I can be a mess when I'm drunk. Just when I thought you were cold-hearted. I'm sure you'd like to cancel out the contract too, right? " Arya said and laughed nervously.
" No" He replied bluntly
"Fine, then" She said and was about to open the door to get out when Harris held her hand.
Arya quickly shook his hand off of hers." What is it?"
"Nevermind, go" He said and watched her leave.
" Damn it" Harris followed her out and was going to ask her to dinner with him.
"Arya wait" He called and went to her.
"Do you want to...
" Mr Peace!" Arya called interrupting Harris.
" Arya, good morning. Who is the owner of the car there? Did you get super rich overnight or something? What's going on?" Mr Peace asked suspiciously.
" C'mon, that's not my car. It's for this man. Mr Harris" Arya said and looked at Harris giving him a "greet him" look.
"Ah, Good morning sir. You must be the landlord" Harris said and Arya wondered how he knew immediately.
"Wait, did you say Harris? The sender's name was Harris too... huh..Harris Wilson was in the description too. Is he your boyfriend?" Mr Peace revealed.
Arya looked at Harris and saw that he was avoiding her face.
"Excuse me" Arya said to Mr Peace and dragged Harris away from there by his hand.
"Is it true? Did you really pay? Come to think of it you were the only one that saw the eviction notice in front of my door. Why?! Why did you do what I didn't send you to? I'm already indebted to you,why would you add this? What do you want from me?" Arya yelled at him.
" This is what I get for doing that? Fine, I wanted you to be more indebted to me, it's the only way we can keep meeting. You owe me money now, so sign the contract quickly, I give you three days" Harris said angrily and walked away to his car.
Arya heard the sound of his car zooming off and bent down. "Arya...you should have at least thanked him" She groaned and grabbed her hair tightly.
She had no choice now, she had to do whatever he wanted.