SAME NIGHT★ STEWART’S MANSION**
“Welcome sir” the maid greeted him immediately he arrived at the house, but he was too tired to reply.
He fell on the couch, expecting Madelyn to rush downstairs to him as usual, but she never came.
“Is my princess asleep already?” He asked the maid.
“She left for her room immediately young master Dylan broke up with her, and….
“What!” He spranged up.
She hasn’t finished talking when he climbed the stairs fast, going to her room.
He opened the door and his eyes widened when he saw Madelyn in the pool of her own blood.
She was bleeding from the mouth, nose and ears.
“Madelyn!!!”
******
NEXT MORNING★ MONTANA HOSTEL**
Mr Addams dropped Delaney and Paisley in front of the hostel and Paisley hugged him immediately.
“See you on weekend dad!”
“I’m gonna miss you!” He smiled, hugging her back.
“Me too Dad, promise me you won’t drink this week” she replied, and he broke the hug.
“I promise, happy now?” He said, and she gave him a peck before leaving him.
He didn’t bother to say anything to Delaney, he just gave her an unfriendly look before getting in his car.
“Let’s go!” Paisley pulled Delaney into the hostel.
“School life starts again, the stress” Delaney sighed as they got to their room door.
“I know, right?” Paisley pouted as they opened the door and saw the girls in already.
“Babies!!!’ Carina screamed, hugging them both at once.
“Why are you guys always the first to get here?” Delaney giggled.
“Beats me” Melinda smiled as they arranged their bags back to the right places .
“How did you spend your Sundays?” Melinda asked.
“Dad took me out on a picnic, I was so sad cos Delaney wasn’t there, she was working yunno” Paisley pouted.
“I went on a mother-daughter shopping with my mum, it was so fun!” Carina gushed.
“I and my senior sis and our parents….we ate out throughout, it was nice spending time with my family” Melinda replied, and tears fell from Delaney’s eyes immediately.
“Delaney” Carina said surprisingly.
“Sweetheart” Paisley shifted to her and held her face.
“It’s just so sad that…I have no parents to make me feel special, all I do is work and study, I feel bad” she cried, and Paisley hugged her.
“Stop crying, you have me yunno, you have us” she said.
Carina and Melinda hugged them too, and they took turns to pat her back till Gigi rushed in.
“Guys guys!”
They quickly broke the hug and Delaney quickly wiped her tears.
“What’s up Gigi?” Carina smiled.
“You guys haven’t heard the latest gist?” She said.
“What?” Paisley asked curiously.
“Madelyn poisoned herself!” Gigi announced, and their eyes widened.
“What!” They chorused.
“Check the blog please!” Gigi shouted, and they all got their phones.
“Madelyn Stewart consumed poison last night because Dylan Bills broke up with her, what a love”
“What the!” Melinda shouted.
“f-__-k?” Carina said.
“Isn’t this mad?, I mean…how could she endanger her life cos of a guy?” Gigi said.
“Is she still alive?” Carina asked.
“Unfortunately yes, the poison has an antidote, if her body was found this morning trust me she’d have been long gone, but unfortunately, she was found last night, she’s recovering at the hospital” Gigi replied.
“I need to pee” Delaney said and entered the bathroom.
Immediately she saw the tub, she imagined the accidental kiss scene, and she closed her eyes.
“No…no…not now please” she told herself and opened it, but she started imagining Dylan in the tub, smiling at her.
“I’m sorry Dela” he said, and her eyes widened.
She ran to the tub but her imagination ended before she got there, he vanished.
“What’s all these?” She muttered, sitting on the tub wall.
*****
Twenty minutes later, Delaney left the hostel with the girls and they made their ways to school for the first class.
The gists is everywhere and everyone has their eyes glued to their phones as they walked.
“So…the runway audition and the sports practice will be shifted to tommorow cos of her?” Melinda said.
“She’s the assistant captain yunno, and she’s the chairwoman’s stepdaughter to be” Carina replied.
Immediately they got to the park, Leo and Gladys came out of their car and Paisley swallowed hard.
Leo tinted his black hair with strips of white, it made him look hotter and she could swear that she lost her breath immediately he walked past her.
The next car has the P3, but only Trevor and Midas came out of it, both looking their best.
Carina and Melinda has their gazes on Trevor who was smiling as he walked in with Midas.
“Wait… these guys ate handsomeness pills or what?, Why did they all become more handsome?” Gigi chuckled, but when she perceived a scent, she stopped talking and looked around.
It’s the same scent she perceives unconsciously from the guy who always takes her away from the lawn.
Anytime Madelyn and Gladys beats her to stupor in the yard and she faints, she always wakes to find herself in her room, but she has never seen the face of the person since she’s always unconscious.
“Let’s go to class babes, enough of the staring” Delaney said and made to leave with them, but Mavis drove roughly into the driveway, and immediately he came out, Delaney’s eyes widened.
He dressed to ki||, wearing a white loose shirt on slim denim pants, then white expensive sneakers and fashion glasses.
He changed his hairstyle from split to full bangs, his lips pink with balm.
Delaney’s eyes continued widening, and her mind went to when he licked ice cream from her lips last night.
He started walking to her, and she came back to her senses.
“No…no…no!!!” She shouted and ran off, surprising the girls.
“Sweetheart!” Paisley shouted as they all ran after her.
“Wait .. am I not Mavis anymore?” Mavis muttered.
******
HOSPITAL**
Dylan walked into the ward where Mr Stewart is sitting beside Madelyn’s bed, her eyes are still closed.
Immediately he showed up, Mr Stewart stood and raised his hand on him to slap him, but he held it.
“I didn’t make her drink poison, I only broke up” he said, throwing off his hand.
“If you knew you were gonna do this, you shouldn’t have asked her out in the first place!” Mr Stewart barked.
“Point of correction Mr, she asked me out herself, and I said yes with the condition that we’d break up anytime I want, and she agreed” Dylan replied.
“She could have died!” Mr Stewart shouted.
“I don’t care! I love someone else! And I’ll love only her till I die!” Dylan shouted back.
Mrs Gregor walked into the ward immediately, she turned Dylan to herself and slapped him soundly.
“Animal!” She spat, and someone else walked in instantly. Summer.
She walked straight to Mrs Gregor and turned her to herself.
“Hi, I’m Summer Bills” she said will a smirk before slapping her back thunderously .
TBC