Dark Lies

Chapter One

'It's always hard living a double life, giving people the perception that you're one thing when in actuality, you're nothing close to it. But what people forget is that the hardest thing about telling lies is, it gets hard living up to those expectations, 'til the point you begin believing their true.'

NEW YORK CITY
8:00A.M.

Walking out of Fortress Bond Bank, Luna Michealson went through her stylish duffel bag searching for her most precious belonging. Her skin glowing as bright as day, black short hair, tall, brown eyes... dressed in the most expensive tight floral dress, blue sunglasses, high heels all topped up with the most elegant straw hat. After seconds of searching, in that one split second she realised she had the wrong bag, quickly turned around and went into the bank only to be told there was no such item lost in the bank.

"Taxi! Taxi! Taxi!" She yelled standing on the pavement in front of Fortress Bond Bank. A yellow cab stopped in front of her and as she opened the back door, she noticed another man getting in with her. The two doors closed as they finally sat down.
"What are you doing? This is my cab!" She said now frustrated and angered,
"Get ou..." but before she could finish her sentence the cab took off.
"No need to get all angered." Said the deep voice of an unknown man.
"The name's Twist, Ashton Twist," the man said anxiously awaiting for an answer, "...by chance are you going to tell me your name?".

Luna calmed herself and tried hiding her sweaty shaky hand, Ashton searched through his blazer and pulled out a black and white handkerchief offering it to her, she awkwardly grabbed it and wiped her hand. After laughing at herself she uttered," Sorry, I am Luna Michealson. I know what you are thinking and yes I am the self-made youngest  billionaire who did it all while looking so hip and fashionable..." as she carried on talking about herself and her career Ashton interrupted her, "Sorry but I don't know who you are." Luna's face turned pink and she stopped speaking. The whole ride turned into that moment when you realise you have toilet paper sticking out of your pants and the whole entire room is staring with disgust and laughing at your pain, but nonetheless they made it work as seeing that none of them felt ashamed. The driver glared into rear mirror also little by little joining the conversation. Luna took out her phone and handed it to Ashton who then in return gave his to her and they exchanged phone numbers. Luna had only given Ashton her numbers because she thought that she would never see him again, but little did she know.

"Oh I'm here, driver stop." They both paused, looked at each other and smiled before Ashton offered to pay for them both and they discovered they live in the same apartment building. They both jumped out of the cab amazed they lived in the same apartment.

"Which number are you at? Maybe I could come and sleep with you sometime." Ashton asked with a smirk on his face, only realizing after what he had said and so fixed himself by saying, "Not sleep, I meant hang, chill, visit maybe."
"I'm in 8B and yourself?" Luna replied.
"I'm in 9A. I'll come over at about 7." Ashton uttered.

No one really means it when inviting someone into their homes but here she was with one of the most handsome and sexiest men there was just three feet away from her. She knew they would again meet at some point,  so she just left without saying a word.

(In her head she was thinking of jumping on him right then and kissing him, I mean who wouldn't, but that would just have to wait)

After having ran up the flight of stairs, her left high heel broke. She opened her apartment door and went into her lonely and messy apartment she realized she had called herself a billionaire but still lived in a shitty apartment.

'Maybe I could say I'm visiting my sister who lives in the city and she just called me to say that she wouldn't be coming to her apartment today and that I should take care of it...' she carried on thinking of lies and what to say.

In a flash, she cleaned the apartment, opened the windows to get that horrific stench out and began cooking food for her 'date' tonight. She went out to buy the best dress at her favorite clothing store, Helior.

Meanwhile, in apartment 9A, Ashton was stressing out after promising himself he wouldn't go out with anyone else after the last drama which his baby momma created, but then he thought this one would be just one night then he'd go.

There were thirty minutes left until their date began and Luna had finished all she had to do. She heard a knock on her door and fixed herself while rushing to open her door. "Hey," Luna said after seeing Ashton on the other side of the door.

"Come in, come in!"
"So this is where you live?" Ashton asked with a confused look on his face.
"No, of course not, my apartment is being fumigated and so I moved here with my friend in the mean time." She said with a stressed look on her face.

A few moments after, "I brought some takeaways for us to eat." Ashton uttered not realizing Luna had cooked food for them which she then threw away into the dustbin just to satisfy Ashton.

45 minutes later after long conversations they finished the food.

"Let's be real okay, why are we acting like an old married couple, we are twenty, let's go out and have fun!" Luna uttered with a very loving and happy-go-lucky looking face. That was the moment when Ashton realized he didn't think of Luna like he did his other girlfriends, because this time he actually felt love for the first time in his life and that he wanted to see where this was heading.

The pair set sail on a sunset cruise, went out clubbing, stargazing and rode to the top of the Empire State Building. What a time to be alive. Whilst walking on the pavement a few blocks away from their apartment they spoke about how they thought this night was going to end and what was going to happen, but to their surprise it was nothing like they'd imagined, instead it was magical.

23:55P.M.

Luna got into her bedroom and euphorically jumped up and down.

She then freshened up, and before she could sleep she received a text message from her sister, reading that her parents had fixed her up with someone.

Luna put her hands on her head and let out two simple words, "Oh, Shit!..."