Once Upon a Time

eight....

         Audora ran down the stairs hurriedly before falling into the arms of man. A Blondie with the dark blue eyes. He pulled her to himself and stroked her hair.

"My love, I missed you so much." He said and she tightened her arms around him in reply. She released him to stare at how well he looked. Staring at him after a long time brought back their memories. She missed him so much, so damn much!

"Darius, is that you my dear?" Kara said, smiling immediately she recognized him and engulfing him in a warm embrace.

"Yes mother, I missed you too." He replied.

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    Clarissa noticed that the office was oddly different today.  She later discovered Cynthia's desk empty on her way back from lunch. She rolled her eyes at how oblivious she had been to her absence. This was very unusual. Thia was never absent from work except when she catches a fever, other than that, one can say she loves working.

Typical,

"Becky, quick question, I haven't seen Thia around is everything okay?" Clarissa asked.

"Clarissa, Thia has been fired." Becky told her.

"You aren't serious, are you?"

"You don't seem to notice what goes on in this office Clarissa, Thia was fired yesterday. She just left angrily and then the news went round."

"Yesterday? Why am I just knowing of this?"

"You left, remember?" Becky said with a raised brow before smiling.

"I almost forgot," Clarissa sighed. Her mind were filled with thoughts of why he would actually fire her. It couldn't be because of her, could it?

"Don't overthink it baby girl, If you ask me I think he did it for you. I mean why else would he do it." Becky shrugged. "So we should celebrate, now you have Daniel all to yourself." Becky told her winking at her.

Daniel all to herself! The thought sounded nice, she didn't deny it.

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( flashback)

    Standing by a Porsche was a guy on Nike's wear. He tapped impatiently checking his time for the nth time. Where could she be?! He was suppose to pick her up here and now she was nowhere to be found. For goodness sake she wasn't even picking up her calls.

Maybe she was running late, maybe her class was closing a little late, maybe..... He sighed when he ran out of excuses for her tardiness. This wasn't the first time this was happening and he didn't know how much he could take. After a while of waiting, he started off towards the school building to look for her.

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A locker shut aggressively and the girl combed her hair with her fingers in frustration. Another test was ruined for her. If she wanted to make up for the last test that was a complete failure, she had to pass this one. But this one, was a complete failure too.

"Damn calculus!" She almost punched her locker but she held back her hand thinking of the consequences. She groaned once more before turning to leave accidentally bumping into the figure that was coming right to her.

"Sorry," She paused. Daniel? Her cousin's boyfriend? What was he doing here? She mentally face palmed herself thinking of how stupid she could be. Of course he came looking for his girlfriend.

She subconsciously ogled him, praising him on how good looking he was looking that evening.

"I don't think Clara would be so happy seeing her cousin swoon over her guy too." He smirked at her. He knew how good looking he is and it was getting in his head, like literally. She rolled her eyes rather and began walking away from him, but he followed her.