You'll Fall For Me, Today or tomorrow

Hilary remained distracted and had little to contribute to their banter.

Though that was how she had always been in front of outsiders, Yvonne did not particularly appreciate her speaking in front of them.

She secretly despised Hilary, and would rather that the latter kept her mouth shut, especially in front of her own fiancé.

Hence no one found Hilary’s silence unusual.

When she got home, Hilary stayed in the room by herself and sifted through her smartphone for information on Shermaine. The more she saw, the more her mood devolved. She went on to look up on James Smallwood and immediately knew that it was him.

Hilary understood now why she had found Shermaine awfully familiar and even took an instant liking to her.

She began to sob uncontrollably away in the washroom with the showers left running so that no one could hear her and continued this way for some time.

By the time Zach entered the room, Hilary was already fast asleep.

Or rather, she pretended to be asleep, as she was worried that Zach might notice something amiss.

The next morning while Zach was away at the office, she immediately called up Clarissa.

Clarissa was a little miffed that her mother has asked to meet. There was a chill in the air which encroached upon her skin, so she would rather sleep in.

“What’s so important that we’ve to do this so early, Mom?”

Hilary’s words were almost upon her own lips before she swallowed them back down. She opted to adopt a more measured and casual approach.

“Early, you say? Is this your daily routine? What kind of work are you doing that doesn’t pay and leaves you so undisciplined? Look at how hard everyone else is hustling. You aren’t bad looking so even if you don’t want to work, you should put in a little effort to doll yourself up when you go out.”

Clarissa laughed a little, only to patronize her mother.

“Why aren’t you talking?”

“Your observations are spot-on, Mom. I’m not able to defend myself!”

“You know, I’m this close to giving up on you, girl.”

You had never cared about me that much anyway.

That was what Clarissa thought. Hilary paused before she asked, “Remember that we’ve met Shermaine last time? Do you know her? I really like her, so do you think you could introduce us?”

“Huh?”

Clarissa’s brows perked up. “I don’t really know her as we operate in different social circles. I’ve only interacted with her back then because she’s a friend of my classmate.”

“I see. That makes sense.”

fell silent, mildly disappointed, yet oddly

when did you become a fan of

have to explain this? I just enjoyed one of her movies that I’ve

to try to reach out to her? Haven’t you have anything better to

talk. I was wondering how you’re ever going to meet anyone when you’re holed up in the house with your so-called essays. You’ll be

An awkward silence ensued.

would have slapped herself if

mouth for saying all the

strengthened her resolve to

is getting colder, so I should be heading back to spend winter in W City. Probably be back next year.

that the purpose of Hilary’s call was not actually about

Clarissa did not return to Zen Highlands, but made a

subordinates would be fortuitous if they saw her in the office once or twice a week. She was practically like a junior employee who needed supervision. Mandy in particular had constantly pressed her for updates to

rabid fan of her writings herself with an insatiable

to have snacks at the ready with which to pacify Mandy so that she may

and Christian proved to be able assistants to Yael. They were able to bring in more sources of income in the form of a video game adaptation and peripherals within

thousand words a day, you should have consolidated quite a lot by now. Why haven’t you

spoke as she stuffed her own mouth with

this by now. “Alright, you do whatever you have to

“You’re an evil mistress.”

laughed, “I’m not

might run with that and have some fun with

with him, what else would that make you?

expression and tone left Clarissa red

Aren’t you

“Oh, I’m so scared!”

also a few more requests for you to do some screenwriting. It would be better to step it up before the

“What?”

need to avoid speaking but

the opportunity to slack off. With winter around the corner, the only thing she had on her mind was idling and sleeping in. She had not expected her

by what. Didn’t you say you want to earn

“I’ll get down to writing

the rental brought her focus back. She wished she had

underutilized all this time. You should get in there. It’s quiet and you won’t

mean like right

“Yes, now. Questions?”

“Nope. None at all.”

slipped into her own office. It was really quiet once the door closed

Clarissa could just marry into wealth. I mean like, why’s she even working

know about Matthew before, it would be impossible not to once they had been around the building long

fearfulness, to normalization. Clarissa was away when they were going through all these emotional stages. By the time she appeared, they were already