Milan stays silent for a while as he focuses on his food and ponders on Ariel's question. "Do not worry about it""Has something like this happened to you before?"Milan looks up at Ariel who is staring at him with concern. Milan puts down his cutlery and sighs. "What about you? Have you experienced this before?"Ariel goes silent and lowers her gaze to the knife on her tablet. "Yeah it has"Milan is stunned by her response as he didn't expect his suspicions would turn out to be true. "It actually happend to me back when I was in college. My dad was well known and people knew me as well. I had my own car then as well so one night while I was going back home from a party I was dragged to, a car was following me"Ariel had a sad smile on her face as she remembered the events of the past. "Back then I was so scared. I was alone and didn't know what to do and the road was practically empty. My battery was dead and I couldn't even call for help. It was really frustrating"Ariel chugs
The car comes to a halt, and Milan stares at Ariel's house. It was his first time dropping her off at her own house and not her family house. Ariel steps down from the car and smiles at Milan. "Thanks for dinner. Have a safe ride back home. ""Goodnight."Milan watches Ariel as she gets into her house safely before he zooms off to his house. …Xavier watches as the door is swung open for him, and Tessa stands at the door staring at him. "You're here so late?"Tessa gives Xavier a hug and welcomes him inside the house. Xavier gets himself comfortable on the couch while Tessa brings her freshly cooked mac and cheese. Xavier is excited as he digs into the food happily. With a smile on her face, Tessa sits next to him, rubbing his back. "I'm really glad you came, but I'm curious. Are you finally off probation?"Xavier nods with his mouth filled with food. "That's good news! I'm so glad that man didn't fire you. It would have ruined our entire plan. "Xavier places a warm hand on
Today was the day Milan would start working on the project with Ariel. Milan is dropped off at a large building covered in glass that would be used to work on the project. It was a special place to test cars and the new car Milan would be developing would be created in the building. As Milan walks into the building, he is greeted by workers all dressed in coveralls and safety goggles. Machine parts arre carried around to being working on the car. Milan is excited at how busy the place is with people moving around to work on the car. Milan looks around but doesn't see Ariel anywhere. Milan hears the reving of an engine from outside and goes to see who had arrived. From the car, Ariel and Troy step down and check out the building. Milan's face lights up when he sees Ariel in a red coverall and her red hair tied in a bun. Milan hadn't realised he had been smiling and admiring her from afar until he locked eyes with her. His smile instantly dies down, and he keeps his usual blank
Troy looks around the restaurant, trying to spot Ella. She had called him feeling uneasy and wanting to clear up somethings with him, so Troy had scheduled a dinner for them. Troy sess Ella dressed in a blue dress with her eyes scanning through the menu boredly. Troy smiles and walks over to her table, sitting opposite her. Ella notices his presence, and her face breaks up with a smile. "You made it!""I'm sorry I'm a bit late. I got stuck in traffic because of all the snow. "Ella helps to brush off a piece of snow from Troy's hair, causing hum to chuckle and mouth a little thank you. After they order their food, Ella suddenly goes back to looking gloomy. Troy tilts his head, starting at her eith concern. "What's wrong?"Ella looks up at Troy and shakes her head slightly. "I'm just slightly worried"The waiters approach their table with food and drinks pouring in a glass of wine for each of them. "What's on your mind? Tell me what's bothering you. "Ella hesitates, twirling t
Milan lets out a laugh, breaking the awkward silence in the room. "That's enough. Come, I'll drive you home. "Milan drops Ariel off at her house, making sure she gets in safely before going home. Milan wakes up the next day and checks the date on his phone to see that it was December 24th, which meant it was christmas Eve. Milan checks the time to see that it was only 8am in the morning, and he quickly rushed to call Ariel. He gets up from his bed as he wants for her to pick. "Milan? Is something wrong?"Milan could hear Ariel's sleepy voice, and he sighed in relief. "Why do you think something is wrong?"Milan asks purely out of curiosity. "No offence or anything, but it's early in the morning,"Milan chuckles. "I'm sorry if I'm bothering you from sleeping, but I wanted to tell you not to bother coming to work today,""Why?"Ariel almost instantly replied, and she sounded more awake. Milan was starting to be convinced that she was walking workaholic. "Does the thought of no
Ariel bursts into laughter, holding her stomach while Milan lets out a loud sigh. "Why are you here by this time?"Ariel catches her breath, wiping a tear from the side of her eye. "You were totally scared, weren't you?"Milan scoffs. "I'm more worried what might have happened to you if I didn't see it was you on time. I had a ranch in my hand, and it could have been really bad if I had ended up hitting you with it. ""But you didn't"Ariel says cheekily and walks past Milan. Milan let's out a sigh and still looked around, making sure someone else wasn't in the building watching them. Milan went ahead to make sure the doors were securely locked before making his way to Ariel. Ariel had been staring at the car and all the scattered tools on the floor. "You seem to have been working really hard. Did the workers leave already?"Milan takes a seat staring at the car. "They weren't here today. By the way, it's Christmas Eve. What are you doing here? Did you perhaps forget something
Milan wakes up the next morning, squinting his eyes at the sun that penetrated through the windows, almost blinding him. Milan groans and gets out of the room to check on Ariel. He knocks on her door three times, but there is no answer. With a little push, he discovers that the door has already opened. "Ariel? Are you still asleep?"Milan walks into the room hesitantly but doesn't see Ariel. He decides to walk around the building in search of her, but she is nowhere to be found. Milan concluded that she must have left already. After all, today was Christmas. Milan stares at the almost empty basket, and the empty cans of beer are scattered on the floor and smiles a bit. Milan found himself to be smiling for the past few days. Even inheriting his father's wealth didn't make him so happy as he found himself the past days. Milan picked up some tools and decided to continue working on the car. As he wiped off swear from his forehead, he got a call from Ariel. Milan takes off his gre
Milan hesitates for a while before dialing Ariel's number. She picks up during the second ring. "Hey Ariel. I don't think I'll be able to attend the dinner""It's alright""Why don't we meet up at the park? It's getting dark""Alright. Let's do that"…Milan puts on the sweater Victor had gifted him alongside the scarf. He puts on a coat over it and gets into his car and zooms off to the park. Milan stands admiring the lights that glittered on the Christmas tree in the middle of the park. Some people had come to take pictures underneath it and other sat around drinking hot cocoa and chatting with their friends. "Milan?"On hearing Ariel's voice Milan turns around and sends Ariel a warm smile. Ariel was dressed in all red. From her red hair to her red short skirt snd red sweater. She wore a little red cap and red boots as well. Milan chuckled at how she looked like a traffic light. "What?"Ariel furrowed her eyebrows at Milan. "You're laughing at me. Do I have something on my f