< VALERIE’S HOME ~ GYM >
Chloe was in the gym working out when Stephanie came to join her.
“Preparing for the marathon? I suggest you don’t cause your gonna lose” She said watching Chloe who kept running on the running machine.
“If you are here to annoy me, I suggest you don’t but instead you can help me watch the time” Chloe said while Stephanie sent her a glare.
“I just came to ask you about some thing” Stephanie said moving towards the machine.
“What’s going on between you and Bryan?” She asked.
“Nothing” Chloe replied her focus on what’s she is doing.
“But you two seemed intimate during lunch today? Are you perhaps dating?” Stephanie asked and that got Chloe stopping the machine.
“Why are you asking?” Chloe asked in return.
“Am just curious” Stephanie replied.
“Then you might as well go and ask Bryan. Since you are dating his brother, he will gladly tell you about it. Am very busy ” Chloe said taking her face towel before leaving the gym.
A while later Chloe was on the phone trying to call Carmen, hoping that some how she will get a reply when she lost her footing and ended up falling down the stairs.
Chloe clutch on her right foot since it sprained during her fall but apart from that, she had no other injury which got her feeling relieved.
Getting a ice pack will help relieve her foot pain, she thought even as she went to the kitchen.
*****
< NEXT DAY ~ HOSPITAL>
“Your foot is sprained, you’ve got to rest it for some few weeks” the doctor told Chloe.
“Few weeks? But I will be participating in a marathon this Friday” she said.
“Then you’ve got to quit it ” he replied which got Chloe thinking about the deal she made with Bryan.
“I can’t possibly quit ” she said.
“If you don’t want to end up as a cripple, I suggest you follow my advise. These are some drugs you can get to relieve the pain and remember not to stress your foot ” the doctor said even as she left his office.
She had woken up to feel her foot hurting like crazy and so she had called up her friends to tell them that she will be late to school and was only expecting some sort of drug to lessen her pain in the hospital but she ended up receiving this news instead, she thought as she kept limping.
She was heading to the nurse office when she saw Leo walk by.
“What’s he doing here?” She murmured to herself and was still watching him when she noticed that he was following Bryan.
What would Bryan be doing in the hospital and why would Leo be quietly following him?
Quickly she pulled out her phone and made a call to Bryan.
“You’ve got to leave the hospital, you are being followed by Leo”
“Uh? How on earth is that possi…..”
“Just do as I say and you will lose him” she said cutting him off.
A while later, she stood at the back entrance of the hospital waiting for Bryan to show up which he did and quickly she pulled him to hide behind a wall.
Leo came out a while later and not seeing any one, he went back into the hospital.
“That was a close one” she murmured before glaring at Bryan.
“What are you even doing here?” Chloe yelled at him.
“Trying to make sure am correct” he replied even as she stared at the spoon which he had wrapped up in a nylon.
“Whose cutlery are those?” She asked already knowing the answer he would give.
“What do you think?”
“Are you going to keep up with this?” She asked feeling frustrated.
“Yes. The only thing I have to prove that you are not Valerie is my words and so I want to have a concrete evidence and the only way I can achieve that is by getting a DNA of you and Valerie’s mom” he replied.
“You really are frustrating me. Why can’t you just stay quiet until the race is over!”
“This is important to me. I know I might seem like a thief and a liar to you and believe me when I say I also feel that way but you should try to give me a chance too”
“Why aren’t you telling me the important part? Why aren’t you telling me where the real Valerie is and why you are pretending to be her? ” He demanded in return.
“I already told you, I can’t tell you because I made a promise to some one. The person isn’t around or else I would have gotten her permission to tell you about it and…..”
“I suggest you stop it! If you really are doing it for a good cause like you claim then you will be honest with me and since you can’t do that, I can’t keep your secret too” he added before walking off.
Not wanting things to end this way, Chloe chased him till she caught up with him in front of the hospital where he had his bike parked.
“You are being mean!” She yelled at him.
“This isn’t me being mean, it’s me…..”
“It’s you being the good observer, I know but you are starting to become a nosy person” she yelled again.
“Me! A nosy person?” He asked in surprise.
“If you aren’t being nosy then why do you keep on butting in? Why aren’t you giving me the chance I ask for?” Chloe asked.
“That’s because I……”
“What’s going on here?” A voice asked and that got them turning only to see……..
To be continued ✌️✌️✌️