Chapter 31 - Chapter 30

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(CLAIRE)

I hurriedly sprinted over the puddles of water until I got home. The coat helped but the rest of my body still got soaked.

"Didn't you bring any umbrella?"

I gaped at the sound of that familiar voice. It was him. His height towered at the corner outside our house.

"Derick? H-how…?"I stammered.

""I remember I told you that I'd find your house no matter what," he spoke coolly and took a folded paper from his jacket pocket. It was my resume.

"Nothing that money couldn't buy…"

Nadine let her in when she noticed our presence and upon seeing that he looked well off had insisted of giving him something to drink. She held a cheap sachet of fruit juice and talked pretentiously modest. She even acted kind and gave me a towel to dry myself with.  

"Please seat," I offered unwillingly to him as I took off the coat to hang it by the window.  

He noticed it and immediately asked, "Whose coat was that?"

He isn't even my boyfriend to be that nosy about me!

"Ah, this?" I feigned a smile.

Lying has been so easy for me this past few days. If not for the fact that he's a regular at the fast food I was working at, I had probably kicked his ass out the house already.

I also loudened my voice for Dexter to hear

"I stopped by the thrift shop to buy a coat for my brother, Dexter, so he could finally get a job."  

"It's late. You should go home already," I added.

"Yeah," he crossed his legs.

"But I could stay up late just for you."

"I actually wanted to sleep early." Dang, I really do.

"Oh, then I'd be straightforward about my visit," he stood up and grabbed a sheathed lavender rose from the recess of his expensive Rideau Parka.

"I like you."

Shoot! I knew it was what he's going to say.

"And I want to court you to be my girlfriend."

Even worse!  

I shrugged my head in disapproval.

"You're joking."

"Do I look like it?"

"You don't look like a clown but damn, you have a talent to be one," I spat in annoyance.

"What did you even saw in me? I'm not even beautiful!"

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