The Engagement Party

Belinda's POV

IT was a really sunny afternoon at the Lagos Bar Beach, Lagos. I sighed deeply and flopped down on the long bench under the coconut trees, then adjusted the big brown hat on my head. At the instant I sat down, two of my servant girls approached me, each carrying big brown baskets.

"Ahh! What a stressful game", I exclaimed, picking up my phone which laid beside me.

I had left the rest of the people; my boyfriend and his friends at the horse park, where we had been playing horse racing for the past two hours since we arrived the beach, and now, I am damn tired, I had to leave them.

The two girls dropped the baskets with them on a mat already spread on the sharp brown sand, still under the tree, very close to where I was sitting.

Then they began offloading one of the bags, bringing out the contents; white flat ceramic plates, cutleries... infact, mostly food items. It was time for lunch.

I made a face.

"Hey, you both know we aren't gonna eat on that mat, go serve that meal on the roundtable", I snapped at them and turned back to my phone.

"Yes ma'am, we do", one of the girls said and I crumpled my face all the more.

I immediately breezed online and busied myself with my phone when suddenly it struck, I remembered something.

I gasped instantly cupping my left hand over my mouth, with my eyes widened in shock.

"Jeez!", I exclaimed and the girls snapped their heads at me.

"Is everything okay ma'am?", one of them asked.

"Oh my! I just remembered I haven't updated my fans, they must have been waiting for me, jeez. I actually told them my boyfriend and I would be visiting the beach today, and I promised to go live, my gee! Ella get the makeover, I need to go live now", I enthused, rushing my words.

"Straightaway ma'am", Ella said and immediately got up, grabbed the other basket and walked up to me.

"You continue setting the table, I will be needing that too. Be fast!", I shouted at the other girl who seemed to appear rather too tardy, and she hastened up.

Ella took out the makeup kits and got down to work.

I sighed deeply as she handed over a mirror to me, and I began staring at my reflection in it.

Well, there was no doubts, I'm very sure I am the most beautiful woman on earth, endowed with every good qualities a woman needs.

I am Belinda Nzeike, an actress, a fast rising actress in Nollywood. I joined the industry three years ago and over these years, I have featured in more than five hundred award winning movies, of which I am always the protagonist.

Whether good or bad protagonist, hero or villain, whatever role I play, I always deliver so well. I am very good and talented, most beautiful, most sophisticated.

Hahaha, most of my fans call me babydoll, and I think I am Nollywood's sweetheart, they love me so much.

And oh! The most sweetest of all, I happen to be the hearthrob, the chosen lady of Kelly Gregg, a colleague at work. Not just a colleague, a sophisticated one at that.

Like for real, ordinarily I never would ever believe that someone as Kelly Gregg would ever ask me to be his lady, like, jeez, it's so unbelievable.

First, he is one of the hottest and most handsome actor in the industry, he is more popular than I am, has so many fans, so many crushers, both known and unknown.

He has been in the industry for eight to seven years now, famous for acting romantic lead roles, and heroes in most blockbuster movies. He is a definition of every woman's dream. Yeah, every woman badly wanted him, but he chose me, hahaha, Kelly chose me over them all.

I could vividly remember that night when we had our very first serious conversation. It was on the night I had received my second award, in the AMMA at Abuja, where I bagged Most Promising Actress.

I would call it 'serious conversation' because, we had never sat down and conversed as we did that night since I came into the industry.

We had only met at movie locations on set and nothing more than "hi, how are you doing?".

Although we had played lovers on most movies but, the romance and emotions only started and ended on set, nothing more.

I most times thought of him as arrogant, not the caring guy, and kind of rude, like, despite everything I do think I have, fame, beauty, riches and all, this guy never gave me as much as a glance, until that fateful night.

Although I had bagged just one award that night, but it was though I had bagged more than one, why not? Kelly Gregg talked to me.

Before then, a lot of older ladies who had been in the industry long before I came always do felt I was trying to come up to their levels, even when I know my boundaries and still accord them their due respects, I still have that premonition that I was being hated on by them.

But unlike me, they conversed and talked with Kelly freely, I wouldn't lie, I envy them for that.

I also even heard from certain sources that most of them give their bodies to him all in a bid to get him to date them, but he knows what he wants, he never falls for that.

So Kelly getting in touch with me that night had escalated the whole issue, these women hated on me all the more now. Hahaha, but I do not care, I am that boss lady, Belinda Nzeike, I know what I want and I go for it.

Well, that was all two years ago, now, Kelly Gregg and I are lovers, I am his girlfriend, his one and only girlfriend, and he is my boyfriend. I feel I have it all now, what else would I ask for?

"Hahaha", I laughed out, still staring at my reflection in the mirror.

"I'm all done ma'am, you are good to go", Ella said as she began packing up the kits back into the basket.

I handed over the mirror to her and then went on live on my Instagram page.

"Hi lovelies, well, yeah, here I am at the beach having a wonderful time with my boyfriend", I enthused smiling into the camera and reading through the comments my fans had dropped.

*** I love you so much babydoll, I love your hat.

*** Woah! Your bikini is so beautiful, can you please give it to me?

*** Where is Kelly? I can't find him.

*** Ma'am, you look so beautiful, I love you Nollywood's sweetheart.

On and on the comments went. I laughed and smiled deeply reading through them all.

"Kelly is having a swell time with his friends at the horse park, do not worry guys, I'm gonna upload pics. Okay, I would like you guys to have lunch with me...", I trailed off as I got up and began walking up to the table where the girls were still working on, still filming as I went

I got there and Ella shoved back a seat and I sat down, then began filming the wonderful meal set for lunch.

"Lunch is being served and I'm really starving, can't wait to devour this wonderful things on the table, hahaha", then I turned the camera back to me.

"Alright lovelies, I should get going, catch you guys later", I said, blew a kiss to the camera and went off.

I sighed deeply then turned to Dera, the other of my servant girl.

"Hey, go tell my boyfriend that lunch is ready, and ask the photo crew to come along as well, I need to take some pictures as I eat", I said smoothening down my hair with my left hand.

"Alright ma'am", she said and ran off, towards the horse park.

They all turned up for lunch few minutes later, all six of them. My ever charming boyfriend, his best friend who happened to be our manager, a friend of Kelly, and the photo crew.

"Welcome baby", I enthused at Kelly, smiling and revealing my thirty-two as I stretched out my left arm to him.

"Woah! Thanks baby", he said as he took my arm and pecked on the back of my palm. I smiled so deeply.

"You ran off", he said as Ella shoved back a seat close to me, and he sat.

Before I could open my mouth to say a word, Felix, our manager, chipped in.

"Don't mind her, lazy bones", he said laughing. I rolled my eyes and tucked my hair behind my right ear.

"Well, that was only a means to get off, I needed to run some errands", I said looking down on the table and deliberately avoiding their eyes.

Kelly scoffed.

"Errands like what?", he asked picking up a seafood and throwing it into his mouth.

I removed my hat and turned to him, smiling.

"Well baby, I really needed to attend to my fans, I needed to. I had to go on live", I said and he sighed and looked away.

Well, I don't care, he has to learn to live with it. Kelly is one kind of a guy who is appalled by my decision to always keep all my affairs online, I love updating my fans on anything I do. Kelly doesn't seem to like it, or be okay with it, but he has to learn to live with it, I am his girlfriend, right?

"Can we eat guys? I'm starving", he said as a bowl of clean water was handed over to him by Dera, he washed his hands and picked up his cutleries.

Everyone was now set and ready to eat, Felix made a short prayer, and we began eating.

"Hey you, can you come over here and take my boyfriend and I some pictures?", I called to the man with the camera and Kelly instantly turned to me.

"Aren't you okay dear? We already taken pics while we were horse racing remember?", he asked and I pouted my lips.

"Come on baby you talk like you do not know I am a public figure. I need to update my facebook page, my Instagram page, my twitter, tiktok...".

"Holy shit!", he exclaimed cutting me short, and I pouted all the more.

"Bro leave the lady, let her have her way please", Felix chipped in, "it's just a picture", he said in a bid to end the question and answer session.

I smiled at him in a way to say 'thank you', then turned to the camera man who had already begun snapping.

Kelly shrugged his shoulders and continued with the food.

As soon as we finished eating, Kelly took my left hand in his and got up. Then he picked up my hat and wore it on me. I was befuddled.

"What's going on babe?", I asked, shaking my head.

"We need to go somewhere, somewhere far from here to cool off, just you and I", he replied, smiling.

My eyes widened in astonishment.

"Oh really? Where is this camera guy?", I asked and began looking around for him.

"Mm mm, no, nope", Kelly said shaking his head in disagreement and waving his right index finger as well.

"Okay?", I got up.

"Just you and I remember? A secluded place. Secrecy", he said.

"Okay baby I know, but it's just a harmless picture", I continued arguing.

"Linda!", he fumed and I shook, seeing how aggressive he was becoming.

"Okay okay, fine. Can we go now?", I asked, reluctantly giving up.

He sighed deeply, then took my left hand in his.

"Come with me", he said and we began walking away, towards the seaside.

"Going away guys?", Felix asked.

"Yeah, wanna go have fun with my sweetheart", I replied.

"Have fun guys", the other friend of Kelly spoke and I nodded, smiling.

Kelly didn't even give as much as a glance at them, let alone reply them. He just kept on walking, towards the seaside.

We walk passed a lot of fans who played at the seaside as we went, they were all screaming and waving at us. I was really enjoying this as I kept on blowing kisses at them. Kelly scoffed.

"Okay, so where we going babe?", I asked.

"Don't worry, you gonna see the place. It's a nice place", he replied, then turned to stare at me.

I noticed him staring and ignored, but when I couldn't take it any longer, I turned to him too, and our eyes met.

"You are staring", I said in a whisper.

He chuckled.

"Don't I have the right to stare at my babydoll huh?", he rhetorically asked and brushed his lips on mine.

I laughed.

"Of course you do", I said.

"Well, here we are", he said as we got to a particular spot, secluded as he had said, there was nobody around.

I was somewhat shocked as I turned to him with my arms opened.

"What we doing here? I see... I...", I immediately trailed off as soon as I noticed some drawings made on the sand.

It was a very big heart and in it was written the biggest question I had ever been asked.

"Huh!", I gasped and glanced at Kelly, he was standing with his arms behind him.

The drawing of the heart on the sand was very enormous that I had to run to the other end, and began reading the question as I walked back to the other end.

At the instant I turned back, Kelly was already down on one knee, looking at me.

"Ahh!", I gasped again as I cupped my hands over my mouth.

"Belinda Nzeike, my babydoll, would you carry my last name?", he popped up the question.

I was shocked, so shocked like, I wasn't expecting it at all, I wasn't. Even though I really wanted us to end up together but, jeez, this was so unbelievable.

I was still standing and contemplating on what next to say when I heard some sounds behind me, and I immediately turned, only to see the movie crew, Felix's movie crew, already gathered.

They were all there, taking videos with their phones and smiling at us, I was more than shocked now. I turned to Kelly.

"Hey, is this some kind of joke or what? Is this a prank, or a movie shoot?", I demanded.

He smiled.

"I'm serious Linda, very serious", he said, in the most softest voice I have ever heard him say.

I gave out a short laugh and stood arms akimbo.

"Okay, where is the ring?", I asked.

He looked up towards the crew and began calling on Felix who seemed to be so engrossed with the video they were taking as he directed the camera man.

"Felix... Felix", Kelly called almost in a whisper and two people standing beside him, tapped on him to gain his attention.

"Ugh...", he looked up at him.

"The ring... the ring", Kelly said in a muffle.

"Oh!", Felix exclaimed and ran up to him, dipping his right hand into his pocket as he ran.

He ran into the heart drawing and took out a dark pink and black ring box, then handed it over to Kelly, then ran back to where he was standing.

Jeez! I almost fainted, I almost passed out. This was real.

Kelly opened the box and the 24 karat gold ring glittered, shimmering under the sun. I cupped my hands over my mouth again to avoid myself from screaming out.

"This is real baby, no prank, no jokes. Will you marry me?", he asked.

A low gasp escaped my lips as I turned to the people behind me, they were all nodding and urging me to say yes.

I turned back to Kelly and started with nodding my head, and then the reply followed.

"Yes... yes Kelly, oh my gosh! Yes", I said stretching out my left hand to him, and he smiled and got up, walked up to me and wore the ring on my ring finger.

I began admiring the glittering ring and then out of the blues, I let out the scream welling up in me for a long while now and jumped on him, wrapping my arms around his neck.

Kelly chuckled and held me in a hug, his arms wrapped around me, it was the most passionate hug ever.

The cheers and squeals that followed was so defeaning, the people behind all clapped and cheered.

"Yo! Now, that's what I'm talking about. The power couple, Nollywood's power couple", Felix screamed out, clapping his hands.

Belinda's POV

I had been over the moon since I got home from the beach, so excited and overwhelmed. The whole thing was still very much real to believe. Like really? The promising Kelly Gregg and I engaged? Jeez!

After the big question was popped up, and I said yes, we had a little celebration over some glasses of red wine and then minutes later, we started the journey back home.

As soon as I got home, I immediately dashed into my room and changed from the bikini into something sweet, a black glam gown.

Then I picked up my phone and went live to update my fans on the latest news. Jeez! I couldn't believe this, the internet was already buzzing, Felix had really done a great job in inviting the movie crew.

That was exactly how I wanted and wished my proposal to be, publicized.

I finished with my live sessions and then went on to take pics of the beautiful ring on my finger, and I posted.

As soon as I was done, I went downstairs only to meet another shocker.

My mom, my little sis and a few of the family friends were already gathered in the large living room patiently waiting for me.

"Here comes who just got engaged", Becky my sister announced and the popping of a champagne followed immediately.

I was so astonished that I couldn't move a little further, I stopped in my tracks, still on the stairs, and watched, with smiles written all over my face.

"Congratulations", they all squealed out, clapping and cheering.

That was when I finally descended the stairs and Becky was the first to rush up to me and we hugged.

"Congratulations big sister, I'm so happy for you", she said and I smiled.

"Thank you sis", I replied, then Mom came forward and we hugged as well.

I hugged some other people, greeted them, they congratulated me and I was grateful to them for showing up.

Then the three of us went over to have a time together; my mom, sis and I. I sat down on the couch, and they both sat beside me.

"Woah big sis, you are really really trending, my goodness!", she exclaimed as her eyes were glued to her phone.

"Really?", I asked sheepishly.

"Yeah, everyone is literally talking about it. Awwn big sis, I'm so happy for you", she said pouting and I smiled.

"Thank you", I replied looking down on my finger and admiring the ring.

"Wow! I really can't believe it myself, so we would be planning a wedding and marriage ceremony very soon?", my mom asked and I laughed.

"Yes mama", I replied still admiring the ring.

"This ring is so beautiful, I know it must have cost Kelly a lot", mom said, her eyes on the ring.

I made a face.

"Yeah, not that expensive though, it's just five thousand dollars", I said.

Their eyes widened in shock.

"I knew it!", Mom exclaimed.

"You call five thousand dollars just? Huh?", Becky questioned, "and how do you even know? Were you with him when he bought it?", she jovially asked and I frowned.

"Will you shut up? How does that bother you?", I asked and she made a face.

"Kelly didn't do it well this time, he should have invited me to the proposal", Mom said, and we both turned to her.

"Huh? So you would do what there?", Becky asked.

Mom laughed.

"Ah ah! So I would let everyone know that my daughter is getting married soon", she said and I snorted.

"Nope, so you would steal my spotlight with that backside dancing of yours", I said, demonstrating with my arms and shoulders, Mom bursted into laughter.

"Yes of course, trust me", she replied and got up, then began dancing, Becky and I bursted into laughter.

"Exactly what I just talked about", I said amidst laughter, then directed my attention to my phone.

"You know what? I would go now to call all my friends and tell them that my daughter is getting married soon, we are trending", Mom said and left, laughing hysterically leaving us in total awe.

"What! How did Mom come to know about that word?", Becky asked, totally surprised.

I shrugged my shoulders.

"I'm as surprised as you too", I said.

"Yo! Jeez!", Becky exclaimed amidst laughter.

"I think I need to visit the beauty spa, I might just run into Jasmine, so that I can show off my bling bling", I enthused, admiring my finger as I did.

"Looks like you still haven't gotten over your rivalry with Jasmine", Becky said and I turned to her.

"Rivalry? Is that what you guys call it now?", I grimaced then looked away, "oh please, she is no where close to me, she isn't even worthy to pick up my flip flop", I said, with an amusing expression on my face.

"Hmm, she just only joined the industry you know", Becky said, shrugging her shoulders.

I frowned.

"And that is the more reason I need to put her in her place, since she came in, she has always been wanting to take my shine away", I replied, fuming.

"Hmm, it's okay", Becky replied with a careless look on her face, I didn't mind.

"Thank you. And then I would stop at my husband to be, ahhh...", I tucked my hair behind my ear, "I think he is over the moon right now, and overwhelmed that I said yes to him", I replied.

"Right", Becky nodded, "and also do tell him that you are trending", she said and we both bursted out laughing.

Kelly's POV

"Do not tell me to calm down, this wasn't what we discussed earlier on", I shouted and yelled, my voice echoing in the large living room as we descended the stairs, Felix and I.

"Really? I thought you understood what I was doing, I thought you knew the plans already", Felix argued, trying his best not to yell back at me.

"Knew what?", I shouted, we were now in the living room, "knew what exactly?", I asked, really vibrating in anger.

"We had all this planned out Kelly, and you knew it. I really don't know why you are upset", he said.

"Really?".

"Yeah, I actually thought you knew what I was doing", he said and began walking towards the kitchen, I followed him.

"Bro, I knew nothing. You just made publicity of what was supposed to be a private and simple...".

"Proposal, I know", he interrupted and I sighed, "but I'm sorry to disappoint you, it just had to happen that way".

"Felix", I called and he stopped in his tracks.

"Look Kelly I really need to be honest with you, you are a celebrity, a very famous and prominent one at that, nothing about you is private bro", he said.

"But why don't you let me decide that? You didn't even pre-inform me that you were gonna invite the whole movie crew", I argued.

"That was because I really didn't want you to freak out".

"Of course I'm gonna freak out, you really do know I dislike all these publicity stunts, especially when it concerns my private life and affairs", I said and his eyes widened.

"Hey, you can't dislike it Kelly, you can't. You should learn to embrace it, this is how we get the money, this is how the money flows in bro", he said and I was just too short of words to reply, I only kept staring at him rant all those wordings.

"What is even wrong with you?", he continued, "is it because I didn't invite May from the Entertainment World to witness it as well", he said blinking his eyelids and I immediately punched him on his right arm.

"Ahh!", he exclaimed in pain, "all these are for your good. Have you checked your Instagram? Go check it and see the huge traffic we are causing online, bro this proposal is one in a million", he kept on talking.

"You must be sick in the head", I finally let loose my anger and he bursted into laughter, rubbing the arm where I had punched.

"You should be happy I'm doing you good, you are supposed to be thanking me even", he said looking away.

"I should be thanking you", I mimicked him.

"Yeah, sure", he nodded.

I was just too not in the mood to reply his barrage of talks, the best thing to do was just to ignore him, and I quickly did.

"You aren't serious yet", I said and climbed up the stairs, heading for my room.

He laughed.

"I really need to get us some soda, your blood level is just increasing over unserious stuffs", I heard him say laughing, and dashing into the kitchen.

Katherine's POV

I was in the kitchen preparing Fufu and Egwusi soup, a very sumptuous and delicious African delicacy for a client of mine that serene evening, when suddenly, Chioma screamed out loud, from the sitting room, forcing me to run out of the kitchen, with a spatula in my right hand.

"What is it?", I asked as soon as I got into the sitting room, I'm very sure my eyes were widened in shock, the scream was loud enough to cause panicking, and probably heart failures for people with heart issues.

Chioma turned back to look at me and then back to the television. Apparently, she was watching the television, a programme was going on, an entertainment programme.

I sighed deeply, it was a sigh of relief when I found out, nothing had gone wrong.

"Have you gone nuts? Why would you scream out that way?", I asked, looking at her, not even minding whatever that was going on in the television.

Chioma ignored my question and just glued her eyes to the television, her hands were cupped over her mouth.

"Come on, aren't you seeing that?", she finally asked, pointing at the television and slowly, I turned my gaze towards it.

*** ... has today at the Lagos Bar Beach, proposed to his sweetheart and hearthrob, the talented fast rising actress, Belinda Nzeike.

"Oh my! Can you see that Sister Kathie? My two idols just got engaged. I love them both together, I love them", she said and began blowing them kisses.

I snorted, then bursted into laughter. What kind of a... should I say maniac or freak is this? That is Chioma for you, she is just too obsessed with these so called idols of hers, Kelly and Belinda.

Well, as for me, I can never be obsessed with a human, I can only appreciate and admit the fact that you are good at what you do, but to be obsessed with you, calling you my idol, nah, it's a no no for me.

Yeah, Kelly is one hell of a handsome actor, promising and talented, and so is Belinda, well, if the world says they are good together, then they are good together. Who am I to oppose it?

"Woah! Sis, it seems Elena didn't tell you about this", Chioma said, trying so very hard to divert her full attention from the television, to me.

I frowned, disrespect, this was a total disrespect to me, but anyways, I didn't mind.

"Tell me what?", I asked, adjusting my apron.

"About the proposal huh. She is your friend you know, your closest friend", she said.

I rolled my eyes.

"Thank God you said closest friend, and not best friend", I said and made to leave.

"Well, I know Elena to always feed you with stuffs concerning her brother, things I'm sure she tells no other except you. I expected she should have told you about the proposal", Chioma said and finally looked away from the television, she was now looking at me.

I sighed, this sister of mine must be too pork nosing, and meddling into people's affairs.

Well, Elena Gregg is my friend in college, same department, same course, and she is also the one and only sibling to Kelly, the handsome actor.

Chioma is actually right, Elena tells me virtually everything that goes on with her brother, which she never tell to others. We aren't best friends though, but we are very close, and Elena, she is a kind of a humble girl, despite being a celebrity's sister, she really doesn't show off.

Actually I didn't even know she was his sister at the first time our friendship clicked, she told me and I didn't believe, not until she showed me pictures and videos of them together, and not only that, they shared the same surname, I then had to believe.

Since then, she has been telling me things concerning him, things he plans to do, movies he is shooting or working on, and even the way he flirts with the older ladies in the industry, but not until he met Belinda.

Hahaha, I remember she even told me about them, he and Belinda, when their relationship newly started, but seriously as for this proposal part, I was never aware, she didn't tell me.

I sighed deeply.

"Well, she told me nothing, and it's none of your business whether she did or not", I replied her and began walking away.

"Hmmm", she mouthed.

"Do not scream out like that again, or I break that little head of yours with this spatula", I called back at her and she laughed.

I hurried into the kitchen, hoping my food hasn't burnt up.

Well, I am a medical student and a chef, I make deliveries to people who are interested in patronizing me, and hey, it isn't weird, I am doing that to support myself in school.

Jasmine's POV

I was kind of shocked to the bones seeing the internet buzzing, and going haywired with this proposal something, Belinda's. Ahhh, I felt pained although, a little pained, everyone, virtually everyone was talking about it.

"Hmm, like I can't believe this. So Kelly is very much in love with her, to the extent of engaging her?", I wondered aloud, still looking into my phone and Cynthia, a colleague sitting next to me, turned to look at me, then she bursted into laughter.

"What do you mean by very much in love with her?", she asked, "he loves her and that was why he went into a relationship with her in the first place", she said.

I made a face, that was an illusion to me.

"You think so?", I asked and she snorted.

"I know so, come on".

I shook my head in disagreement.

"Cynthia, don't you think he can go into a relationship with her not for the sake of love, but just to flirt?", I asked.

"Well, think ok? Not that that was what he did anyway, we only think", she grimaced.

I sighed deeply and drifted into thinking. Like seriously, why must Kelly engage her now, like why now? Look the way everyone is gushing about it, like is she the only celebrity to be so much talked about? Ahh!

Cynthia turned to me, noticing how deeply I sat thinking.

"Thinking of what next to do?", she asked and I hissed out loudly.

"Jasmine, don't you think you should slow down a bit with the way you go about this? You just joined the industry you know? You possibly can't outdo her", she said and I instantly went green with anger.

"Is that jealousy speaking through you?", I asked and she shook her head in befuddlement.

"What do you mean?", her eyes flickering as she asked.

"Ok old hag in the industry, I think it's time for you to leave my house", I said, ignoring her question.

"What? Old hag?", she questioned in disbelief.

"Yes, you heard me right. Cynthia or whatever you are called, are you jealous I only just joined the industry and I'm already making waves more than you are?", I asked and she was so astonished, it was written all over her.

"Are you referring to me?", she bawled and got up.

"No, I'm referring to your ass. Yeah, everyone keeps on telling me I only just joined the industry, I only just joined the industry. What is it? Yeah, I joined and so? Aren't I already taking the carpet off the feet of old hags like you?...".

"Jasmine?", Cynthia interrupted, her eyes were filled with so much astonishment.

"All you old ladies know how to do is flirt around with the big guys and hot bodies", I continued lambasting her.

"You bitch", she said walking up to me, and in a flash raised up her hand to land a slap on my cheek, I immediately got up and caught her hand mid air.

"You dare not, you are in my house", I said to her.

She fumed and forcefully released her hand from my grip.

"You would pay for this", she growled, grabbed her bag from the sofa and walked away.

I derogatorily watched her as she left, then I hissed and sat down.

"Hmm, Belinda, always trying to outdo me", I murmured to myself.

Well, that was true. I joined the industry about a year ago, I started partnering with Belinda, always starring together in movies and that was how I became known.

But inspite of everything, I noticed Belinda would never let me do things a celebrity would ordinarily do, she was always coming in my way and spoiling my chances to shine, always in a competition with me, now, it's her stupid engagement with Kelly, this is the biggest blow and has been bursting my brain since I found out. I didn't know what to do.

I sat up and decided to go get myself a glass of juice from the kitchen. I got to the kitchen and straight to the refrigerator, opened it and took out a pack of Exotic juice, I got a glass and poured a little into it.

I was about transferring the juice into my mouth when suddenly it struck, an idea came in and I smiled mischievously.