Manual of The Forbidden ➡ Irwin

Chapter 15.

After that a beautiful girl came from the back of the photo lab, giving me a wide smile.

"Hello," she said still smiling.

"Um.. Hello." I replied quietly.

She had a beautiful ivory skin, and big grey eyes and her rosy lips were coloured by a natural lipgloss, and her long dark hair resting on her delicate shoulders.

"Do you speak English?" she asked staring at me.

I nodded once.

"Okay then. What can I do for you?" she offered smiling even more but it wasn't a fake smile.

"Well..." I mumbled, "I wanted.. I mean I want to reveal some photos."

"Okay, but please let me finish with the photocopy machine, it's stuck this morning." I nodded again.

She was out of sight again but I could hear her saying quiet profanities at the stuck machine.

"Are you from America?" she asked.

"Emm.. No, I'm Australian." I tried to guess where the sound of her voice was coming, "are you?"

"No, but I would love to," she sighed "where are you from?"

"Sydney,"

"Ah!, really? I've always wanted to go there!" she was now next to me coming from a different side where she has gone to.

"Yes."

"How exciting!!, but there's still a lot to live here though," she shrugged, "my name is Taylor by the way, American name I know, my parents also like your culture, but don't call me Taylor, I think it doesn't suit me that much, call me Tay."

"Okay Tay, I'm Dawn."

"Your name is so beautiful!"

"Thanks," I said a little bit flattered at her statement.

That girl I just met made the time fly by, we talked and talked and you know talked, but she made me feel like she knew me from years ago, she talked which such an enthusiasm that made me feel so comfortable and familiarised like the way I felt when I was around Sharon.

"Who is this cute guy in your photos?" she asked removing that square piece of paper off the hydrocyanic acid hanging it in the string along the dark room, "a model?"

"It's my best friend's boyfriend,"

"And you hired him as a model?"

"No, Not exactly," I muttered.

"Well he's in the most of your pictures," she raised her eyebrows accusing me of something I didn't understand, "let me tell you he's really handsome."

"Are you implying something?" I narrowed my eyes.

"Not at all," she denied moving her head so fast that made me laugh.

"He was just captured by coincidence, that's all,"

"Okay, okay, but why your friend isn't in the pictures?"

"Because we were alone," I said in a whisper, her big eyes staring down at me with astonishment.

"It's not what you're thinking!" I felt embarrassed, "Sharon couldn't take me so she offered Ashton!"

"Sharon?, Ashton?"

"My friend, her boyfriend."

She nodded.

"He's really handsome, isn't he?"

"He is, A LOT, if I must add."

I could see her devilish smile across her face in the darkness of the room we were at, but she didn't say a word.

It had been amazing socialising with Tay, it felt like she knew me for years, and I was just the first day of knowing her, it's was weird but I liked it.

I decided to eat outside today again, but in not such a posh restaurant like the one Ashton had taken me to yesterday, I couldn't afford something like that.

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What I saw when I came into the apartment was completely disturbing, I opened the door just in the wrong moment, if I could just reacted a little faster I would've closed my eyes but it was already too late, I opened at the scene of Sharon's lips attached to Ashton's.

The Shrew was going crazy right now and she couldn't help it.

"Sorry!" I muttered feeling incredibly awkward at the moment they turned their attention to me, something that never happened when Sharon and her dick ex-boyfriend were making out, I felt like a third wheel but never so uncomfortable.

"Don't worry Dawn," she greeted me kindly coming close to me, and Ashton still siting on the couch, "where have you been all day beast?"

I laughed.

"Killing time," I shrugged, "without you around I'm bored, so I went out,"

"You went out alone by Venice's streets," her big blue eyes meeting mine at the moment.

"I didn't have another option, I wasn't going to stay inside all day wanting the world to go away or something."

"What's in the envelope?" she pointed at the yellow envelope in my left hand, where the recently revealed photos were saved.

I didn't have any problem telling her those were the pictures I had taken the last day, the problem was that I didn't know how to explain why her boyfriend was in most of them.

"No-nothing, just some photos," I stammered.

"Those you took yesterday?"

"Uh-huh,"

"Ah!, I want to see them," she claimed excited.

I grabbed the envelope tighter making it crunch, opening my eyes like soup plates.

"They're awful Shar," I said nervously.

"Bullshit, you're a great photographer, C'mon Dawn show them to me," she tried to take it but I put it in my back rapidly.

"Mmm... I'll do it tomorrow, I'm really tired, besides I have to throw a lot of them away since I don't like them." I was growing more anxious now.

"There's something you don't want me to see?, am I right?" she accused me, my heart began to run faster, and my hands were now sweaty.

"Yes, horrendous pictures you don't need to see so... Let me organise them and I'll be back in a minute, okay?" I mumbled.

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Why is she so nervous????

She didn't do nothing.

Bye

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