Chained to Mr. Billionaire

IN A DARK PLACE

"Are you scared? because I am too. This fear in my head has been there for too long. We sleep now with the lights on. shadows make shapes in the light and I don't know what they might be"
- Brave (Riley Pierce)

After the encounter in the coffee shop, All I could ask was when would he be leaving for Paris. It was unusual for me to be invited somewhere far away aside from Shane. I haven't even been alone with a man to travel. I didn't know what to say aside from asking him when. But now to think about it, It would maybe put myself in a better mood.

I'm actually considering it without anyone else who knows me except Miles. A fresh environment that I could get lost into because the moment I stepped back to New York City, I couldn't breathe. Now I'm all alone in this Agency with the other models, snapping out their solos for some reason I did not pay attention to.

I was so lost in my thoughts that I almost had tripped when I was on my way to the photoshoot area. Ryder was nowhere to be seen and Miles being busy for his screening. I didn't know anyone that I could talk to in here except for Jenny and Jane who would always tell me to slay the photoshoots.

But for some reason, their company are warmly welcoming me that I could somehow smile at them and listen to their childish quarrel like how I shouldn't be wearing this or that or how I look isn't exactly what Jane wanted.

I shouldn't be distracted forever. I can't be just sitting here in the corner and stare at the sunset sky all alone. All by myself in the rooftop. I knew I looked like a homeless puppy at how I act at all.

I breathed out and stood up, replying to Shane's message about inviting me in a Halloween Party. The cold air clinging into my skin, hair and skirt being dragged away by the mild wind. It was in fact already five thirty in the afternoon. The sky in a combination of pink, blue, and yellow. The sun is about to disappear but this view...No.. This feeling in the rooftop made me feel like I belong in here.

The moment Miles had brought me in a rooftop even if I wasn't stable, it was the same feeling. Fresh air, Sky swallowing me up. I felt a little alive. The emotions coursing through my body in a good way.

A sound that all I could heard of were the sirens and beeping sounds of the road down below. But other than that, the moment of silence and alone could release the tensions that I felt. The only thing left is that I could live  in here for the rest of my life.

I'll be there. I'm on my way.

I sent the message immediately and tapped the keys to my contacts. Searching for his name that I haven't yet changed. Nor changing the wallpaper of my phone. I wanted to as every inch of pain rises up whenever I touch my phone but I couldn't bring myself to delete them.

To: Future Husband

I'll be dropping by to get my stuff that I left.

I gazed at the sky once again before I sent the message. I didn't bother to wait for a response—I expect him not to as I was fully aware he hadn't even contact me for almost a week already. The message I sent was left maybe open or ignored.

He wasn't even back in the office since I heard it from the Models that he was somewhere in Italy. Maybe on a vacation as what they claim to where he is. Or he is now at home but didn't bother to show himself in work. How funny how he thought to have a vacation when I'm here broken and bruised. I shouldn't be thinking that he would suck it all up like me. But I did.

I walked inside the building. Making my way towards the elevator. Tucking my hair in behind my ear. The building is awfully quiet that I had guessed that everybody had already been home or in a party to celebrate the Halloween.