Chapter 8 Eight

The car was as silent as a graveyard as Kelvin was speeding to her house and even though he had so many things to say, he had no idea how to start it. But after deliberating for sometime, he tilted his head and talked.

"Do you still love him?" His voice broke into Alisha's thought and jerked her back to the reality.

"Huh?"

"Do you still love him? Zhang?"

Alisha heaved a sigh and looked out of the window. She didn't want to answer that question.

"It's obvious you still do. He doesn't deserves you."

"I know." she replied and tears rolled down her eyes "But I can't help myself. I've always loved him and right now, I can't stop myself from loving him."

"Were you at the club because of him?"

She wiped her tears away and looked at Kelvin "No. I was there because my friend wanted me to be there. But I wouldn't have come if I had known about him coming"

"Wow. You're trying to avoid him. Why are you trying to avoid him? He is a douchebag. He should be the one trying to avoid you."

"Why should he be the one trying to avoid me? I was the one that was trying to commit suicide. I am the one that the whole world is calling all sorts of ugly names."

"I know how you're feeling and I'm sorry that you're feeling that way."

"Don't be. Please... can we not go home."

Kelvin slowed down the car and said "What do you mean?"

"I want..to...go...to somewhere else. Maybe to a bar... Mindy told me that it's going to make me feel good."

"Mindy?"

"Miranda"

"Oh... okay"

Few seconds later, Kelvin's phone rang and he packed his car before picking it up.

"Shane... really?... okay...I will give her the phone right now."

Kelvin passed his phone to Alisha while Alisha gave him a questioning look.

"It's your friend." he whispered.

"Okay." she whispered back before placing the phone on her ear.

"Alisha, is that you?" Mindy asked worriedly on the phone.

"It's me Mindy. I'm sorry for leaving like that."

"Where are you? Are you okay?"

"Yes, I am."

"See Alisha, I don't really know what is going on here. There is a guy here that is claiming to know where you are. He said you're with his uncle or something like that. What's going on?"

"I'm okay and I'm save. We will talk tomorrow."

"Wait" Mindy whispered into the phone all of a sudden "Is he cute?" and Alisha imagined her rolling her eyes as she asked that question.

"I don't know." Alisha replied.

"He must be. For you to be planning to have a one night stand with him, he must be."

"Mindy" Alisha said annoyingly while someone clear their throat in the background.

"Make sure you do it..."

"Bye. We will talk tomorrow" Alisha hung up the phone as quickly as possible and passed it back to Kelvin who smirked at her.

He started his car and asked "Where are we going now?"

"To a bar." she replied.

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One hour later

"I hate Zhang!" Alisha shouted inside a bar drunkenly "He thinks that I still love him! Newsflash, I don't love you anymore! You are nothing to me! I will never forgive you!"

Kelvin who had been watching a drunk Alisha for some moment signalled to the bartender to prepare some coffee.

"Alisha, it's okay. We all know you hate Zhang." he said as he carefully handed her a cup of coffee which Alisha gulped down within a minute.

"He thinks that I'm going to be begging him to love me! I will never do that! Never!"

"Just calm down. Huh? Calm down."

All of a sudden, Alisha got out of her seat as if she had been jolted by an electric current and started walking towards the wall.

When Kelvin saw what was about to happen, he also jumped out of his seat and ran after her. He pulled her towards him and Alisha looked at him unfocusedly before murmuring. "Restroom. Restroom"

"What are you saying?" Kelvin asked worriedly.

"I want to puk..." But before she could finish the last word, she puked all over his clothes.

"Fuck!" he swore.

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Alisha woke up the next morning with a serious hangover. She slowly got out of the bed and was running towards her restroom but instead ran into a wall.

"Ouch!" she cried out.

Her eyes became widely opened instantly and she looked around the room.

"What the...?" She trailed off when she realized that she was not inside her room but before she could think far, someone knocked on the door.

"Is everything okay?" Kelvin asked behind the door. And last night memories came rushing back to her.

She shamefully covered her face with her hands and started thinking about how she was going to look at Kelvin in the eyes.

"Alisha, I heard your voice now. Good morning."

"Good morning Kelvin. I'm okay " she replied before heading to the restroom

After showering, Alisha put on a simple gown that Kelvin had given her before walking out of the room to join Kelvin in the sitting room.

"I'm sorry about last night" she said shamefully as she joined Kelvin.

"Oh that, it's okay. But as from today henceforth, you must not drink alcohol if I'm not there with you."

"Okay."

Alisha took in Kelvin's appearance. He was putting on a crazy jeans with a round neck top. His hair wasn't styled but it still looked good on him and his skin was just as flawless as ever. She instantly looked away from him when he looked at her direction.

He smirked and said cockily "I know you're looking at me. You can look at me. I'm used to it. It's what you have to get use to if you're too handsome."

"I wasn't looking at you" Alisha lied. For some reasons, she hated his cockiness.

He shrugged "Okay. If you say so."

They were both silent for almost five minutes before Kelvin broke the silence by saying "Let's talk about you and Zhang."

Alisha's heartbeat thumped faster when she heard Zhang's name and last night events came back to her mind. How she had felt when she saw Piaf's hand in Zhang's. How Zhang had ran after her as if she really mattered to him. How he had almost kissed her. How she had almost wanted him to and not to kiss her. And how Kelvin had showed up from nowhere.

"I don't want to." she said to Kelvin.

"But I want to. Should we?"

She slowly nodded her head because she realized that Kelvin wasn't one of those people that cared about your 'yes' or 'no'

"I heard that you've not showed up in school since the incident."

Alisha nodded.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because..." She trailed off.

"Because you're trying to avoid Zhang and your best friend, Piaf."

"It's not like..."

Kelvin cut her off "It's like that. The only reason why you're not in school is because of them which I'm not happy about."

She slowly looked into Kelvin's ocean blue eyes and sighed heavily. Throughout the whole week, she had been trying to lie to herself that the reason why she wasn't in school was because of the paparazzi but deep down, she knew that the reason why she wasn't in school was because she couldn't accept the fact that Zhang and Piaf were now in a relationship.

"Say something." Kelvin's voice broke into her thought.

"Uh... you're saying the truth" she said.

Kelvin smirked "I don't know how you're going to take this but..."

"Take what?" She asked curiously.

"I mean, what if we start dating."

Alisha's heart stopped beating when she heard this, her skin turned pale immediately, her eyes were as round as saucers and her mouth became widely opened.

"Are you trying to say that we should start dating?" Alisha asked shockingly. It wasn't because she was in love with Kelvin McSmith. It was because the whole thing sounded impossible.

How could Kelvin McSmith, the most handsome man that she had ever set her eyes on and the son of one of the richest men on Earth be asking her out?

He gave her a self-satisfied smile before saying "Oh common, you know what I'm talking about. It's not a real relationship. It's just to make Zhang jealous. I'm really bored and being in a fake relationship might be the best thing for me right now"

'Fake relationship!' echoed inside Alisha's brain for almost a minute before she angrily got out of her seat.

"You're crazy." she said.

"I'm just trying to help you out."

"Thank you for your suggestion but I'm not interested."

            
            

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