Astrid had refused to come out of her room ever since she got back from the mall.
Though the dresses she got were beautiful and big she still loved the one he had given to her in the morning.
She clutched onto the dress like her life depended on it. Just then Mattie walked inside her room without even knocking, which had startled her in the process.
"Ma'am.." she recalled Mattie had warned her not to dare call her by her name.
"Wow… so these are the dresses you got?" she asked her hands behind her back with a sly smirk laced on her face.
"Ye… yes," Astrid answered as she was having a bad feeling about this.
"Then enjoy wearing them," Mattie let out, pulling out her scissors.
Astrid eyes widened and rushed toward them but Mattie pointed the scissors at her.
"A step further this will be slashed deep into your flesh," Astrid was terrified of the scissors pointed at her for she had bad memories about it so she stood out of fear and then watched Mattie pull out all the dresses one by one placing cut them into pieces
Tears rolled out of Astrid's eyes. They had gone to the mall to get her these but now Mattie destroyed it all.
How would she tell Becky this was what had happened if she found out she didn't wear the dresses?
"I get to find out today you are nothing but a high school dropout," Astrid didn't find it unnatural since everyone around her knew this.
All she cared about was her dress getting ruined as she stood right watching because she was scared of going closer to her.
"It made me wonder how dare you trespass and get into my fiancee's charm," Mattie stated and threw the last dress on the ground.
"You aren't worth this dress, the one you are wearing, neither is my fiancee.." Mattie stated pointing the scissors at her as she shifted back fear clouding her.
"What the heck is going on here?" They both heard Julian's voice from the doorway.
Mattie shoved the scissors into Astrid's grip as she watched Julian walk inside.
Astrid was still in so much shock to process what had just happened until Mattie talked.
"Hey Julian… I had come to check on the dresses you got for her only to find her destroying them."
Mattie explained pointing at Astrid who still stared at the scissors gripping tight and hoping not to harm herself with it.
"What?" Julian let out his eyes tracing down to the dresses.
"I get that you don't like them but why the fuck destroy millions of dollars when you don't even worth them." Astrid was speechless to utter a word and just stared at her almost in tears.
"See, I am pretty sure she is just after wealth and nothing else," Julian was furious at this, his fist clenched so tight.
He is only tolerating this lady because he sees how his mum cares about her.
But seeing how she had destroyed the dresses his mom had gotten her pissed him off, "Mattie I want to have a word with her alone,"
Mattie was stunned at this "Not even with me here?" he nodded his head and this got her a bit annoyed.
"Fine," she yelled and stormed out of the room leaving both of the lads.
"I can't believe you can be this stupid, you have no dress and you still destroyed the one we bought for you out of love?" she lowers her head.
He strutted toward her as she shifted back her eyes on her feet, fear clouding her.
He noticed she doesn't exchange conversation with him that much unless it's important.
"I asked a question lady," his voice was a bit loud but she was too nervous to respond.
"I… I am sorry," she whispered and this pissed him off the most.
"You little sly devil using that innocent gaze to trick everyone?" He yelled at her and she held onto her dress in the process, her right hand gripping the sharp blades of the scissors and harming herself.
But she still couldn't open her eyes, Julain eyes met with her palm to see it was now bleeding.
He was stunned by how tightly she clutched it, despite her palm now bleeding.
"What the hell?" he yelled again, "You are bleeding," he stated now not wanting to pull the scissors from her roughly and hurt her more.
She released her tight grip and it fell from her palm, "I… am sorry," she whispered again, and this irked Julian the more.
"You are sorry for hurting yourself? Like I care," he stated and the way her head remained lower made him a bit worried.
At least she stares at his mum. How come she always refuses to look at him? Had he scared her so much? He thought.
"You should clean this up," Julian said as if controlled she immediately rushed into the bathroom.
Astrid shut the door and breathed out loudly, seeing her crush so mad at her wasn't a thing she wished for.
She cared too much about him to see him irritated at her, she placed her cut hands under the water and then hissed in pain.
This was the reason why she stayed away from anything sharp.
She always gets wounded by any sharp objects she holds so she decides to stay away.
"Are you okay?" she hears Julian's voice from outside, "Yes… you can leave," she yells from the bathroom, and this makes Julian sigh.
"Whatever, soothe yourself," he asserted and walked out then gestured for the guards to B take the dresses he had got inside her room without the knowledge of Mattie.
Astrid on the other hand finally gained the confidence to walk out of her bathroom and was shocked to see the same bags she had seen with him placed on her bed.
She walked toward them and opened a bag. To see they were the same out if her eyes had been on when she was about to leave the mall.
She checked them and was so excited, she quickly rushed to her door and locked it from the inside so anyone wouldn't just burst inside and destroy this one also.
"Thanks a lot, Julian," she said, clutching the dresses to herself as she was more than grateful for this.