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

when did you become a

mother chuckled. “Do I have to explain this? I just enjoyed

but is it necessary to try to reach out to her? Haven’t you have anything better to

meet anyone when you’re holed up in the house with your so-called essays. You’ll be turning thirty soon. At this rate, you could wind up

An awkward silence ensued.

have slapped

cussed at her own mouth for saying all the wrong things

her resolve to speak less going

sure things will work out fine eventually. The weather is getting colder, so I should be heading back to spend winter in W City. Probably be

was a little blasé, and only because she did not understand that the purpose of Hilary’s call was not actually

left Hilary, Clarissa did not return to Zen

twice a week. She was practically like a junior employee who needed supervision. Mandy in particular

was a rabid fan of her

she came in, so much so that she had to have snacks at the ready with which to pacify Mandy so that she may be able to get herself

to bring in more sources of income in the form of a video game adaptation and

you don’t have to think about these things anymore, why aren’t you posting new chapters? Even if you write only a thousand words a day, you should have consolidated quite a lot by now.

her own mouth

this by now. “Alright, you do whatever you have to do. I’ll send them

“You’re an evil mistress.”

“I’m not yet

that she might run with that and have some fun

and are cohabiting with him, what

tone left Clarissa red

Aren’t you afraid that

“Oh, I’m so scared!”

soon, cause that’s what the production company is keen on. There are also a few more requests for you to do some screenwriting. It would be better to step it up before

“What?”

seem that she would not only need to

had she the opportunity to slack off. With winter around the corner, the only thing she had on her mind was idling and sleeping

say you want to earn more to make rent? How

get down to

She wished

“Your office has been underutilized all this time. You should get in there. It’s quiet and you

like right

“Yes, now. Questions?”

“Nope. None at all.”

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

to Christian, “You know, Clarissa could just marry into wealth. I mean like, why’s she even working so hard? I’d do absolutely nothing were I in her shoes. I’d fly to Europe to feed pigeons every

it would be impossible not to once they had been around the building

was away when they were going through all these