The Offer

Chapter 2

Scarlet

It has been about two weeks since that night and and I didn't seem to get a grip.Why is that you may ask? It's simply because I couldn't stop thinking about the gorgeous man I saw at LUX some nights ago. The picture of him looking dashing in his very expensive suit, smoking a cigarette has haunted my dreams.Aiden Mayers... There were times when I found myself searching his name on the internet hoping that the tabloids had some juicy news about him of if there were some latest pictures of him taken by the paparazzis. I was borderline obsessed with the guy. I had never acted like this before. This behavior was so weird and definetely unreasonable for me.

I needed a time out from all this craziness that was going through my mind because of just one man that I saw only once in my life.Maybe being in the city and knowing that I can run into him anytime messed with my head big time.So when Lilly had suggested a fun weekend just us girls in her parent's lakehouse I agreed on the spot.It was just a few minutes away from the city and, with Lilly's parents gone on a business trip out of town, we had the whole place to ourselves.It was just perfect! The four of us just hanging out, relaxing with no care in the world, gossiping mostly about boys. Yeah...well the last thing was something I was not so interested to do. 

Well another thing that troubled my mind was that, when I told my parents about the tripa couple of days prior, they both pressured me to cancel it. There was this crazy urgency in them and when I demanded to know the reason why I can go, the only thing that they said was that we, as a family we, had other plans. I was  was going to let this go, so after a really long fight that I thought was never going to end, I finally managed to persist them that we can do whatever that thing we had to do was any other time they wanted. They seemed so disappointed by the way things turned out, but the part the actually had me curious was the last words my father whispered, before I walked out of the living room, sure that I hadn't heard him.But I did...

"How will I tell Brandon to reschedule again?"

Who is even Brandon?! Is he a friend of my father's? Maybe a business partner? I don't know but what any of this has to do with me to begin with?! 

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It was Friday morning and I was waiting by the front door of our house for Coleen to come pick me up.She had just gotten her license and she wanted to be the driver that will take us to the lakehouse. I wanted so bad to get my license too but I couldn't find time to do that. I had Bruce to drive me anywhere I wanted anyway. Suddenly, Coleen pulled up in her Mercedes jeep and got out to help put my bags in the boot of the car. I was the last of the group that got picked up so as I stepped in the co-driver's seat, greeted the rest of the girls and buckled up, we were ready to go.

After a 30-minute drive full of laughs and '90s songs, we finally reahed our destination.The place was truly breathtaking. I had been here a couple of times before, but this place seems to suprise me every time. It was a beautiful two-story building with light grey walls and a wide white porch. As we unloaded our stuff from the car and went inside the house I realised that the interior was even better. The whole place gave off a really homey vibe with the big fireplace, the plush carpets all around and the amazing couches filled with pillows of all sizes. And don't get me started on the view!  Behind the house there was the lake surrounded by many trees,something that made the scenery a million times more great and a small pier that was ideal for little boats to anchor. I opened the patio double doors and stepped outside and took a deep breath, revelling on the smell and peacefulness this place offered. 

After we settled on the rooms that Coleen provided to us, we went to the kitchen to make something to eat since we were all starving. We ate our lovely pasta outside with some wine and as we were enjoying the calm and the sun that was aout to set behind the tall trees, that's when we firsth heard it. A deafening noise that sounded like many exciting screams. Exciting screams that seemed to belong to males...