Lola's POV

You know what I hate more than cheating?

Pretending!

Don't fucking put up an act with me.

It fucking pisses me off.

I stepped back as he withdrew his head from trying to take a better look at me reddened cheek which was now fading away.

"I'm really sorry about..." He started as I looked at him with small forced up smile.

"Okay, well, business is over. So, byeeee."I cut him off in an oddly cheery manner as I stood in front of my door, waving him away.

This is me, being calm.

Even my calm screams anger.

"Can you..." He started as I cut him off again as I snuck a glance at the window slightly open as I huffed out a sigh.

"Look, you better leave while I'm being nice. I would hate for my sister to hear what I am about to say to you" I told him with a glare as he looked at me in confusion.

Honestly, I just didn't feel like speaking to him.

The deal is over, go your way and I go mine.

I had stolen from him and he sorta let it slide, so I was gonna push the whole call me a whore thing under the carpet.

"You know, I'm still a bit confused. You are mad at me that my friend hit you?" He asked with a look that says he was trying to understand my reasoning.

What?!!

Does he think I'm unreasonable or overreacting?

"Get out!" I barked pointing towards the gate as he shook his head, huffing out a frustrated sigh.

"I tried, I'm sorry for what Clement did to you, I truly am but cut me some slack, how was I supposed to know that.." He said in an explanatory manner as I let out a dry laughter.

"How were you supposed to know?" I asked in disbelief.

He fucking turned me to some pack of juice, which everyone could get a sip from.

The door swung open as Kosi revealed herself.

"You might have want to leave. Your car might not be safe, anymore. It's quite late."Kosi told him as he simply nodded before turning and leaving.

I just watched in astonishment how he walked out the compound and how Kosi closed the gate behind him.

"Uhhh! What a jerk" I let out with a scoff as Kosi looked at me trying to put pieces together.

"What exactly happened?" She asked as I sighed in frustration.

"Alchemy of Souls is on" Dara screamed from inside as Kosi and I widened our eyes in disbelief, running inside as the day's event slowly faded away from my head.

There's nothing a good Kdrama can't fix.

Oh!!

Except the stupid mentality of rich brats.

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Derinsola's POV

"You fixed things? Even without the flowers or composed songs" Tunmise asked me as I still stared at her in utter disbelief.

She had used the words "relationship or not?" earlier today and I had concluded she had found out.

But here she was still as clueless as ever.

"Yes, Tunmi. Now can I hang up" I asked in a bored tone as I stripped off my shirt, pouncing on my bed immediately.

"Hmm, I always saw Lola as the type that loved grand romantic gesture." She told me as I sighed.

"I guess you were wrong...."I replied taking in a deep breath.

"I can't believe you guys are together. Like I never imagined it. You had always been more of the church girl type of guy. Love ehn..." Tunmise rambled on as I immediately came up with something to end this annoying conversation.

"Uhrm, Tunmise, I'm getting another call. I'll talk to you later.." I spoke hurriedly as I hung up the phone, throwing my phone across the bed as I sank deeper into my bedding.

I couldn't help but imagine how torturing the next few weeks was going to be.

I had spoken to my mum later too and she could not stop rambling about how we had left abruptly and how she would love to see us both again.

Tunmise's rambling were quite bearable compared to my mother's.

I wonder how they loved her, despite the fact that she didn't really change her attitude much.

Helll, I remembered how she was like...

"Sometimes, he could be an assho....."I remembered how she paused after the glare I shot her before she let out an awkward cough.

And my mother laughed, calling us cute.

It was probably out of desperation to see her son get married.

Unfortunately, that would have happened quite sooner if Deborah hadn't gotten married today.

I bit hard on my lips, at the thought of her and her husband having sex this minute.

This thought drove me crazy.

I hadn't thought about this much during the day, why was it coming back, now?

"Focus on me"

These words echoed in my head and I couldn't help but remember the kiss on the cheek that followed.

Lola!!

And I couldn't help but think back to how raging furious she was few hours ago.

What exactly happened?

She seemed like a crazy person but I had a feeling it wasn't just about the slap.

Though, the slap already made me fucking furious.

And now, thinking back at the way I had spoken to her, I acted like a freaking ass.

I just laid on my bed for a few minutes more, while my mind rummaged randomly for possible reasons for her to react that way.

If she had acted visious like she always did, maybe I wouldn't be so concerned.

If she had hit me in the face, maybe I wouldn't be feeling so guilt.

I heard my phone ring as I immediately looked at the caller before deciding not to pick it up.

Tunmise seems to forget we weren't really related.

I beep followed seconds later as I read the text from Tunmise.

Tunmise
I took photos. Check them out on my Instagram.

I rolled my eyes, ignoring the text as I pushed away my phone deciding to just relax.

But soon, my curiosity got the best of me as I grabbed my phone and logged into my Instagram, navigating my way to Tunmise's new post, which she had tagged me on.

I looked at the first photo, which was a picture of the bride and the groom on the dance floor as they both bored their eyes into each other.

I felt a pang on my chest as I felt myself scanning Deborah's outfit and how breath taking she looked in the arms of another man.

I felt the need to stop staring as I knew it would do me no good.

I swiped to the next picture and it was a photo of Tunmise and my mum with Kola as they all had this ear to ear smile.

You would think they were my mum's kids.

We practically grew up together, even until Kola's parents died in a crash, my parents stood as parental figures in their lives.

And this fact warmed my heart. I had no biological siblings anymore but they were definitely siblings to me.

I noticed a figure that looked like Lola in the background, sitting at a corner and sipping on a wine glass.

She was all blurred out but I knew it was her. It was quite obvious.

I inwardly sighed at the thought of her.

Attempting to understand that lady would give someone an headache.

Trying to avoid the guilt that crept in as I looked at her blurred figure, I swiped to the next picture.

The guilt I avoided looked me in the eyes in form of a laughing Lola with her hands held up towards the screen.

She looked completely free and comfortable. She didn't have her signature uninterested look or forced up smile, her laughter was genuine and extremely pretty.

I found myself staring a bit longer than I should.

And the next minute, I found myself tapping the picture for a tag and I saw myself spending the next hour stalking her Instagram page.

It didn't contain much. Occasional pictures of herself, her sister and the lady I had met earlier today, her seemingly simple lifestyle and some quotes here and there.

She had barely 500 followers and her last post was 6 months ago.

Well, not the type of person I had imagined she would be.

She fitted into the slay queen life style.

After scanning her pictures on Instagram repeatedly, my brain decided that it was ready to satisfy its curiosity.

I was gonna find out what happened.

I pulled myself off the bed, grabbing my phone and keys before dressing up.

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Derinsola's POV

Sitting in work the next day after spending the whole night been consumed by anger and thoughts, wasn't the best experience in the world.

I sat there, recapping the events of last night as my eyes suddenly shot towards the door which swung open.

“Sir, It's past 8pm.”Rita spoke as I nodded, understand what she meant.

“I have some work to take care of, so you may leave for today.”I told her knowing fully well she should have left for home a while ago.

She nodded before telling me goodnight and walking back out.

But on her way, I heard her greet someone, who was walking in.

“Bro!” Kola spoke finding his way in as he sat on the seat opposite me as I turned off my computer and winced at the pain if felt when my knuckles grazed the edge of the keyboard.

“Woah!! It got this bad?” Kola asked as he looked at my face.

I didn't look that bad but my lips were pretty busted.

Turns out Clement is an asshole.

When I went to confront him, things went out of control and long story short, I don't feel so great.

And I was able to find out the reason behind Lola's behaviour, yesterday.

“You could say that” I told him as I reclined on my chair, taking in deep breaths.

“Clement even looks worse, than you do” Kola spoke as I rolled my eyes at him.

Now, ladies were out of my life. I will just focus on my work.

I have had enough of drama from that gender in the past two months.

First, Deborah and her wedding bomb.

Then, the dramatic thief.

I suddenly felt guilt calling her a thief, even if it was just in my mind.

Clement had told her the fact that I had called her a money pinching whore and a cheap person.

I could understand why she was pretty offended, especially when she was paying me back with the whole fake girlfriend act.

But the funny thing was I was even more guilty about the fact, I had called her all these because I had seen another side of her.

The side with her sister.

And I can't help but feel maybe I had jumped into conclusion.

“It's ringing again” I heard as I shot my head towards Kola who held my phone in his hands.

“What?” I asked in complete confusion.

He turned the screen to me as an unknown number was being dialled.

“Who?” I asked in a whisper as Kola whispered the name 'Lolaʼ which sent my eyes widening.

Immediately, the number picked up as Kola tapped on the speaker button.

“Yeah, who's this?” I heard a little girl's voice call out as Kola and I shot each other confused looks.

The background sounded noisy like a loud song being played.

“Is this Lola's phone?” I asked thinking this could be her little sister.

“Yeah, if you need to tell her anything, just tell me, I'll deliver your message to her tomorrow morning.”She spoke hurriedly as I slowly collected the phone from Kola.

“Dara, are you not?” I asked her as she sighed before replying.

“Yes. Do you know me?” She asked me.

“Kinda. Where's your sister? And why are you answering the call? ” I asked her, wondering why she was with the phone.

“She's here and I'm answering the phone because I was using her phone to watch Kdrama.”The girl answered sound bored as I heard a sound of someone trying to sing as I recognised the voice.

“Girl, why are you playing with me
I don't gat the time for that.”. I heard as I immediately knew it was Lola.

She continued to mumble incoherent lyrics as I zoned out on the little girl's voice.

“Okay, I'm hanging up” The girl spoke as I snapped back out.

“Wait, can you give the phone to your sister?” I told her as she paused before yelling out.

“Lola, one guy is calling. He wants to speak to you” She yelled out as I heard Lola respond.

“Who?” She asked her little sister from a distance.

“What's your name, sir?” She asked me.

“Tell her Derin” I told her as she immediately yelled out to Lola.

“Derin” She yelled as I winced at the deafening sound of her yell.

There was a long pause before I heard Lola's voice, which sounded closer than it was before.

“Hang up” She spoke as I was taken aback by her response to her sister.

Kola stared at me in amazement as I felt extremely stunned by her response and the cold tone in her voice.

“Okay. Sir, she's busy, Byeee” I heard before the beep at the end of the call which signified the call had ended.

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Author's Note.

Hiiii

My chapters are even more boring than the last.

It's the result of writer's block o. I'm just trying hard to update as soon as possible due to requests from friends.

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