MISTRESSES

3: MARY (3)

The next day:

It was 12pm. already, but Mary was still sleeping. She was really exhausted from all that had happened the previous night. Not to mention the fact that she kept thinking about Matthew the whole night and blushed every time she remembered the kiss scene. But that was not all. She also regretted not being courageous enough to kiss Matthew on her own and not run away. She felt so childish, but despite that, she ended up falling asleep with the widest smile ever.

Her phone suddenly rang and woke her up. She didn't really see the caller id but responded.

     "Hello!" Mary said with sleepy eyes.

     "MARY, DON'T TELL ME YOU WERE STILL SLEEPING!"

     "Huh? Ivy, is that you?"

     "OF COURSE IT'S ME!"

     "Wait! Why are you calling and yelling at me so early?"

     "Early you say? It's 12 pm and you think it's early?"

     "Wait! If you say it's 12 pm already, then that means... Oh,no! The shoot!" Mary said and jumped out of bed, rushing to the bathroom. "Ivy, how could you let me sleep for so long?" Mary asked as she took her toothbrush.

     "Are you serious? I called you more than ten times."

Mary checked her phone after Ivy said that and realised she was right but wasn't ready to admit it.

     "But why didn't you insist?" Mary asked.

     "So you think calling a sleepyhead like you over ten times isn't insisting? What do you take me for? An alarm clock?"

     "No...?"

     "Well then, get your ass down here in twenty minutes if you don't want me to skin you."

     "Wait, where are you?"

     "In front of your house, you dummy."

     "But I can't get ready in just twenty minutes." Mary complained.

     "Then how about fifteen?"

     "Hey! It's too little."

     "Ten!"

     "No, wait...!"

     "Another word, and I'll go down to five minutes." Ivy said menacingly.

     "..."

     "That's better. See you soon and don't forget to cover your face." Ivy said and hung up.

Mary, on the other hand, released a sigh of relief as soon as the call was cut, but she knew she still had to get ready as soon as possible before Ivy came to check on her. She took one of the fastest showers of her life and got ready as soon as possible. She then left the house and got into the car that was waiting for her in front of her house.

     "Just in time." Ivy said with a smirk. "I thought I'd have had to come look for you, but it looks like I didn't have to. Aren't you happy?"

     "No? Because you still treat me like a kid."

     "But you're my little sister."

     "Yes, but I'm an adult now. I'm no longer the nine-year-old girl you used to run after to give a bath to."

     "I know you're all grown up now, and I'm sorry about that. But if I hadn't done what I did today, you would have missed the shoot and thus risked your job."

Mary stared at Ivy with an expressionless face before bursting into tears.

     "Thank you, Ivy... sniff! I don’t know what I would have done... sniff! Without you..."