CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN
Flex around
Oh oh
I can make it right
All right
All right
Ohhh! I can make it right
I sang BTS’s Make It Right as I watch the snow dropping outside the window and was shaking my ass to no one while I was having my morning exercise on the stationery bike in the gym.
On getting off the bike, I still continued my dance, lost in the world of BTS. I am not going to lie, half of what they were singing, I don’t know but listening to their songs is a great distraction to what my life actually is. With my headphone on, it is bye bye to the problems of my life for me.
I twisted, jumped and shaked my body with my eyes closed and the moment I opened them, I saw Maria in my face. I screamed out loud and fell to the ground
She hurriedly helped me up
“Oh my God! I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you” she apologized for her insensitivity as I removed the head phone from my head
“It is fine, I should be mindful of my surrounding”
“I am really, really sorry” she pleaded again now to my annoyance
“Maria, what can I do for you?” I changed the subject fast
“Ahh… I wanted to ask for your permission for a two days breaks”
“Two days breaks?” I asked again not trusting my ears.
“Yes, I spent the New Year’s Eve with my family… It is just two days” She clarified when she saw the disapproval on my face.
I really need to work on my facial expression
But seriously, are they planning on leaving me in this big house all alone, to celebrate the New Year’s alone?
“Your family are living in this house, why do you need to spend the New Year’s elsewhere”
“My eldest daughter and her boyfriend are not living in this place”
“Then they can come, invite them over, I don’t bite” I muttered in my desperate attempt to keep her with me
“The point of a vacation is not to work, I would be working if we stayed here”
“Then I would cook, you won’t have to enter the kitchen, at all” I tried again but she let out a heavy sigh.
Living with Maria all these months, I can tell when she is getting annoyed with me and she is right now
This is what Kylian had reduced me to, begging people to stay and celebrate the New Year with me
“You can go” I said in a low voice
“Really?” She replied in an upbeat voice. I nodded
“Thank you. I promise we will be back on the second of January”
I scoffed, that is no longer two days but three, I noted internally
She turned and I watch her practically dance to the entrance, then she turned back to me “Breakfast is ready” I nodded in acknowledgement
I fling the head phone in my hand away in annoyance, then sat on the treadmill disoriented. I have never had to spend New Year or Christmas alone and now I am doing it.
Will this be my new normal?
Been alone....
Marcus is not going to be around, I can't exactly go to Joy's and Fatima's considering our last encounter. Moreover, festivals like this are meant to be spent with families and not strangers
Maybe, I don’t have to be alone, I mean Marcus invited me to Ibiza. I could go with him and be back before they knew I was out of France. Suddenly, I felt a bolt of energy again as I picked my phone and called the handsome footballer
“Hey Marcus…. By chance, is the invite to Ibiza still on the table?” I asked wth so much happiness
I bounced downstairs to greet Maria and the others farewell on their journey. I greeted them except for Alice and Isa who were nowhere to be found
“Where is Alice and Isa” I asked innocently
“In their room, Isa is probably still trying to persuade Alice to go with us?” Esaias responded nonchalantly
“What?” I blurted out and startled the people with me “Alice is not going?”
“No, she is staying here with you” Maria explained
To say I was shot in the gut was an understatement. What made me assumed that Alice was going to go with them, I mean why would I think Alice would leave me to be on my own for a second. I wondered as I raced down to her room. I opened the door wide without knocking and I found the couple in each other’s embrace. Alice gently pats her girlfriend’s back
“Why are you not going?” I questioned intruding in the couple’s private moment. The two disengages
“Because I have a job to do” she answered my question snappily
“No, don’t deprive yourself of some happiness on my account, I won’t allow it”
“So, am I just suppose to leave you alone” she interjected
“I am not going to be alone” I blurted out. Alice frowned at what I said and moved closer to me unhappy
“Are you planning on staying over at Marcus’s place like you did during Christmas?” she inquired
“What? No!” Startled, I denied her accusation. Seriously, why is Marcus her first thought?
“So, I am suppose to believe that right, this is exactly why I can't leave you on your own. Who knows what you are going to do with him”
What is she talking about?
“I don’t even know what you are talking about, Marcus won’t even be around for the new year’s celebration”
“Oh! That is true” she looked away like she realized something “He is going to be in Ibiza”
What?
“How the hell did you know that?”
“It is New Year, I can’t just let you be on your own” Alice argued intensely. “I am going to stay back and spent it with you”
What? Is she really concerned about me right now? I will be lying if I say I am not touched by what she just said. If I didn’t have a plan of my own, I would selfishly let her stay back with me but I do. So, she gat to go
“I am touched by what you just said but you have a life of your own. For the next three days, forget about me and just think of yourself and Isa” I pointed to Isa
“Thank you for that, Bewa” Isa appreciated me, I guess she had tried and failed to get Alice to go with her
“She understands” Alice justified her obsession over me
“No, she does not” I pointed “Keep putting me over her and she would think that you are in love with me”
“What, that is ridiculous” she burst into laughter and then looked at Isa whose face was void of smile. Suddenly realising the situation, the smile on Alice’s face drains out “Oh! come on, Isabelle, you know I am not”
“Recently, I don’t anymore” Isa replied sassily and walked out of the room to her girlfriend’s dismay
“See what I am saying” I said with a smug look
“She can’t be serious”
“So, what are you going to do about the situation” I questioned my enemy who is like a sister to me now
“I know what to do but I can’t just leave you in this big house alone”
What can I say to get this beautiful lesbian off my back
“I was not planning on staying back too”
“What?”
“My bags are packed to move out the moment you people do, I was planning to checking myself into a hotel”
“A hotel?” She exclaimed
“Yes, I was going to check into a penthouse similar to the one I stayed in when I first moved to France”
“Just you alone, what will you do?”
“During day, I flex around. I could watch some Christmas movies on Netflix and take a stroll in the evening. Take some picture, you know I never visited Effiel tower since I arrived in France, I plan to do that”
I don’t understand how thesd lies were just rolling off my tongue without stress. Seeing the way Alice is looking at me with remorse, I say I would be a ten times Oscar winner for the best actress of the year
“I really should have let you go when you wanted to visit then” She looked down as she commented with regret
“Yeah, you should, it is your fault that I am just going now” I said jokingly
“Fine, then, I will go but…” She moved away from me and searched through her drawer. She came back later and hand me a card “I need you to check into Le Xapital”
“Le Xapital? Where is that”
“The hotel we lodged when you first came into France”
“What? No!” I protested
“It is either that or I stay with you”
“I am going to be fine in any hotel I lodge”
“I know but so I know you are safe, I want you in a hotel that will make your safety a priority”
I looked at her in bewilderment
“And why will they do that?” I asked in bafflement
“Because Kylian owns it”
What? Kylian owns a hotel? And one that grand
“So…” Alice continued as she hand the card in my hand “This opens the elevator to the private penthouse, it is yours”
I guess I can’t argue with her but I need to lodge into that hotel and never check out until I am back from Ibiza. I am pretty sure that Alice will be checking up on me
“Go upstairs and pack your bags, we are leaving together” she practically ordered me
“What? I was planning on leaving tomorrow”
“I am not leaving you alone in this house and I will watch you check into the penthouse”
Seriously? Fuck, I was planning on staying over at Marcus's place tonight. Shit!
“Aren’t you taking your job a little too seriously?”
“You would thank me for it one day” she stated as I walked out of the room
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SATURDAY 9.00 PM WAT
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