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thirty two

j a c q u e l i n e

She could hear drumming. Very loud drumming as if someone was tapping on a table. Which was very annoying and irksome.

"When will you wake up, Ms Leroy," a voice said in a worried tone. "It's been five hours almost."

Five hours? Five hours since what?

Jacqueline wanted to ask Antonio what had happened, but she couldn't move nor speak, and neither could she open her eyes. Instead, she produced something in between of a grunt and a groan. Antonio instantly sprang up.

"Are you awake, Ms Leroy?" When there was no response from her, he tried again, "Jacqueline?"

"Mmm," she answered in incoherent words, still not moving. "Mmmm."

"Good lord," her servant muttered and then, Jacqueline felt a slap on her cheeks. "There. . ."

"Oh, holy mothers of mothers!" She screamed immediately, eyes bulging open. "I'm up, I'm up. I'm up."

"Finally," Antonio sighed as Jacqueline slowly sat upwards on the bed. "It has been five hours since you've been unconscious, Jacqueline. And only god knows how worried I was."

Jacqueline seemed confused. "Why was I unconscious? What happened? Tell me."

Antonio smiled. "How about I just show you, huh?" When her face displayed more confusion, he handed her phone to her. "Read your last conversation with Francis, please."

She took the phone and went to her last conversation with Francis.

You're really showing me your picture? Your face is so effing cute and gorgeous, Jacqueline. You literally look stunning. Gosh, I can't contain my excitement. The heart at the end?

She slowly looked at Antonio. "This did not happen, did it? I didn't show my picture to Francis, huh?"

He shook his head. "You did, you did," and then he mused, "How can you not remember such a big thing?"

"Because it's big and I don't believe it?" She tried, feeling ecstatic and shocked at the same time.

I've finally done it. I've finally done something that I feared and couldn't do with any person. I must have fallen pretty badly. But what if he end up betraying me? What if he says that he cannot pursue this because he can't meet me and then he'll also go back? What if my heart is broken and there will be no remedy for it? What if-

"Are you alright, Ms Leroy?" Antonio questioned, shaking her. "You do not seem happy?"

"I'm fine," she lied. "Just a bit shocked. Can I call him?"

"That needy?" He joked, smiling. And when she glared at him, he said, "I'm just kidding. Call him. I'll make some food for you."

Antonio left and Jacqueline instantly called Francis.

"Hey, ange," he greeted her at the third bell.

Ange? Why is he calling me that?

"Hi," she replied, smiling. "How are you?"

"How are you? You fainted, Jacqueline, and not me."

"B-But you had an a-accident!" she reasoned. "My f-fainting is nothing."

"Hm,"

"What?"

"I hate it when you stutter," he revealed. "I don't want you to be shy around me, seeing as our relationship has progressed a lot."

Her cheeks warmed and the red on them increased. "R-Relationship? We aren't in a relationship, Francis."

"We can be," he laughed, causing the smile on her own face increase. "Yes, that can be possible."

"S-Stop!" Jacqueline exclaimed, wanting to smack him on the head to knock some sense in him. "Don't say that."

"I have full freedom of speech," he argued. "Unless Paris doesn't allow that. Does it?"

"Of course it does,"

"So. . ."

"So?"

"Do you want to see my face?" He slowly asked this as if afraid that she'd shy away and say no.

"Y-Yes," she whispered after a while, her own voice sounding unsure to her.

Why do I seem unsure? He's seen what I look like, it's only fair that he return the favour. Besides, he's asking this himself. I mean, that's got to mean something, right?

"What? I can't hear you?"

"Yes, I want to see your face," she said in a loud voice. "And Francis?"

"Yeah?"

"It better damn well be good,"

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