Afterlife Of Ember And Rhea

Chapter 59: Wait, You Have Green Eyes

"Ah! Ember good morning!" Sabrina said as soon as she saw him at the breakfast table.

"Hi, miss." Ember said.

"Uh...Ember?"

"Nah I'm Loraine."

"His cousin?"

"Yeah."

"Omg you guys look so alike, I couldn't even guess! All of you are so good looking."

"Well, I am. But maybe not Ember." He said. "I'm better."

"You don't sound as if you are in a good relationship with him."

"Of course, I don't like him! He's just rich and gets all the girls he want."

Sabrina was shocked. "Aren't you rich as well?"

"I'm even richer than him. I wonder why he's so lucky".

"He's not. Sometimes I feel as if he was cursed with misfortunes." She laughed.

"W-what?"

"Yeah! An Indian girl tried to snatch him away from me. He would've ended up destroying his life if she was still here."

Ember tried not to lose his character and said, "Leave that Ember. I'm richer and you're beautiful. We'll be a perfect match."

"Uh..."

"I don't think if he has ever told you how beautiful you are."

"Aww, yeah. He never did!"

"Maybe that's because he doesn't like you."

"He doesn't have to. I just want to get together with him and live my life happily with all the luxurious things!"

That surprised Ember. "So you don't really love him, do you?"

"Nope. He was only after that nasty girl. Thank God she left and he might have forgotten her after being in a coma."

"Why was he in a coma?"

"The doctor said that it had happened because of some traumatic head injury. He might have died."

"And...what would you do if he had," He paused. "...died?"

"I'll seek for richer boys." She laughed and said casually. Ember couldn't take it anymore so he got up. "Where are you going?"

"Mrs Helberg wanted us, brothers to have breakfast together."

"But you don't like him."

"What can I do? I'm bounded." He said and left.

"Why did you come here in the first place?" There was no response. He was gone.

* * * * *

"How was it??" Aed asked impatiently.

"You were right mom..." Ember said sadly.

"And did you really use my name for that?" Loraine asked irritatedly.

"Ember, if you don't like her, do I have a chance?" Maple said with hope but Loraine glared at him.

"So, what did you guys talk about?" Mrs Helberg asked and Ember played the recoding on his phone. Then they realized that Ember didn't ask her about that incident of Mrs Rosa Park's grandson. So they decided to send Loraine to Sabrina the following Evening.

* * * * *

Loraine walks in the corridor, waiting for Sabrina to arrive. Sabrina noticed him near her room and asked, "Are you here for me, Ember?" She fake smiled.

"I'm... Loraine."

"O-oh!"

"Y-you don't love Ember."

"Yeah but he's not dead right, I still have my chances to make him fall in love with me."

"But that would be false. And not a true relationship."

"Listen, who cares!"

Loraine realized that he had forgot to turn on the record button in his phone. "Hey, would you wanna go out with me tonight?" He said, unwillingly. He had to do something to make Sabrina leave for at least a second.

"Like, right now?"

"Yeah? Are you down?"

"Duh! Let me go and change." She said and rushed inside her room excitedly. In the meantime, Loraine started recording and put his phone back into his pocket. He also called Ember so that they could hear Sabrina at the same time.

Sabrina came out of the room, wearing an evening gown that the maids had offered her. Loraine stared her. Not because he found her gorgeous, but because of the overdone dress up. Sabrina blushed even though Loraine's motives weren't to show her he liked her in that dress.

They went to the closest Restaurant, where weren't many people around and it was easy for Loraine to take all the information out of Sabrina.

"Even though he sucks, what exactly happened that affected him?" Loraine asked after Sabrina ordered some food.

"Well, there was a mysterious death of Mrs Park's grandson. It was confirmed by her that it was his girlfriend who tried to push her on the road but he tried to save his grandmother and died in the accident. The thing is that, his girlfriend was Indian and because he never came back into his senses nobody can tell what exactly happened that day."

"What does that have to do with Ember?"

"Well, you see, after everybody got to know that it was Arorhea, who was after all this, the mayor of California ordered to exile Arorhea from USA. Because she's underage so she can't be arrested—nonsense. They could have arrested her."

"Who's she?"

"She was our classmate and she's from India. She was after Ember and because of her, Ember treated me badly!" She cried, shedding crocodile tears.

"How could it be her?"

"How can it not be?! She's Indian, almost the same age as the that guy and him and Ember are both rich! She's after rich boys!"

Loraine narrowed his eyes. "But you too." Sabrina choked, and started coughing. "I mean, you're after rich boys too."

"At least I wouldn't kill somebody and nor am I an Indian!"

"What if the murderer wasn't her?"

"W-what are you talking about?! Of course she was! Mrs Rosa Park has confirmed that!"

"First of all, who's she?"

"The wife of the Mayor of LA."

"Where does she lives?"

"H-how can I know?"

"You've been living here all along and you don't know where the mayor lives?"

"What are you here for? I don't want to answer your questions, Em-" She paused. "Loraine!" He sighed. "Wait, what?" And that's when she realized, "You have green eyes!"

-to be continued...

Loraine Helberg