My Crazy Housemate

0Mia returned to Leo's apartment when she was done speaking with James but she didn't see Leo at home.      3

She was a bit disappointed but returned to her room anyway while passing by Tara who was giving her sad puppy eyes. Tara enjoyed those days when Mia was always running from her while they raced around the apartment since it had been fun. But now, Mia was no longer playing with her.      

Mia slumped on her bed in exhaustion.     

James had questioned her like she was a little girl and had spent hours explaining to her what to do and not do in a relationship. He had taken it upon himself to teach her about boys since it was her first relationship.      

He almost blew up at her when she confessed she had told Leo she liked him first. According to him, she never should have done that.      

"He obviously likes you and I think he is holding back because of something. It's not a bad thing that you told him you liked him, but he may want to jump into having something with you even if he's not cleared up whatever is going on with him." James had advised her.      

"So... what am I going to do?" Mia asked helplessly.      

This had been James way of distracting her from all she was going through but she wasn't sure she liked this method and all he was telling her.      

Although she knew this wasn't a conversation they were both supposed to be having right now considering all that had happened, she just couldn't push this topic aside. It was very important to her.      

"Speak with him. Ask him to tell you whatever is going on with him. If he confessed to you that he liked you, then you deserve to know.... it's the least he owes you." James explained.     

"And what if he doesn't say a word to me? What if he says there's nothing to talk about?" She asked, already sounding hopeless.      

"If he truly loves you, he is going to tell you something for sure, just to make sure you understand and do not leave him later. This is the truth Mia." James assured her.      

Mia rolled over and went to stand by the window to stare into space.     

How come her life was suddenly so full of drama?     

And lately, she was beginning to feel she had bad luck. Things never went smoothly for her. Once one thing ends, another comes.     

"You should purge yourself of bad luck,  more may come your way."      

She suddenly heard a clear voice speak to her and turned around immediately but no one was there.      

Those words... she remembered those words correctly.      

The fortune-teller she had met at the park had said those words to her.     

Had he been right?     

   ***********     

Leo sat inside a private hospital room where Mary was admitted while her mother sat by her bedside.      

He wouldn't have bothered giving them such comfort in the hospital if he didn't want to have a private time with them. He had made sure not to send them to his parents' hospital. He didn't want anything that would make them start asking him questions.      

"If Mia agrees to it, we are going to press charges against you both." Leo said while looking at Mary who looked like she was going to collapse again at any moment. Her face was an eyesore and she had bandages wrapping some parts of her body that had been seriously bruised from the first fight with Rachel and Mira then the beating Mia gave her later.     

"Please, it was never my intention to do all I did." Mary cried. "I didn't have any choice."      

"You did have a choice!" He snapped at her quickly when he noticed Linda was about to say something.      

"As her older sister, you should have been smarter. You should have been responsible! But you left all of that to your little sister. She slaved away her teenage years while you lived happily. She worked her ass off just to make sure you graduate from university yet, you dropped out and ran away. Now you also want her to slave away her youth for you?  You had to do that to her and sell her off?" He asked harshly with his eyes red from anger.      

"I didn't mean to sell her off! I have been sending money to my mother. She's here to bear me witness. I just had to run away at that point because Mr Timothy was looking for me to pay up the debt." Mary cried defensively.      

"But I kept sending money home every month."      

"Stop repeating it like you were doing Mia a favor by sending money home. It was your fucking debt for chrissake. A debt you were supposed to pay on your own. But she worked herself to breaking point just to do this for you and I hate the fact that you still sound like you did nothing wrong."     

"Mr King—"     

"Stay out of this Linda." Leo snapped at Linda who was about to speak.      

"This is all your fault. And it makes me so angry that I just want to throw you both in prison, but I'll have to speak with Mia first before I decide what to do about it. And I want you both to know that no matter what she decides to do to you two, I am going to take her side and also make sure you both pay her every penny she had worked her ass off just to make sure the debt was paid. And I'll warn you never to leave this room. It won't be too difficult searching for either of you." He warned before standing up.      

"Thank you... Mr King... for being beside Mia." Linda said suddenly in a choked voice when he got to the door.      

Leo stopped and turned around to look at her face, then he snorted.     

"You really do not deserve to tell me that." He said coldly before leaving the room.      

  ***********     

Jeremy's mood turned foul after Chloe left.      

"I thought you said this was going to work and she would speak with me first?" He texted with an angry face emoticon to a certain person.      

"Of course, it read it online that it always works. What's wrong?" Ellie texted back.      

"She looked at me like I wasn't even there before walking away.  Look, I'm tired of this whole thing. I'm not even sure she ate anything. Her eyes looked so tired." He complained.     

"You are such a softie." Ellie replied with a laughing emoticon.      

"Trust me, maybe not now, but eventually, it is going to work."     

"Eventually?" Jeremy texted with a shocked-face emoticon.      

"What do you mean by eventually? So you aren't even sure it's going to work now? Wow! I'm so silly to have listened to you."      

"Yea, maybe you are. Who listens to their eight years old sister for relationship advise anyway?" She asked and sent a grinning emoticon.      

"But this is going to work. A lot of people online said so." She sent again but he sighed and exited the chat.     

"What's with the look? Missing the boss?" A young male staff asked with an amused smile.     

"No" He answered dryly.     

"You both had a lover's quarrel?" He asked as he cocked his head to the side to observe Jeremy.      

"We aren't dating." Jeremy corrected immediately.     

Chloe had asked him not to get any ideas and even when she had asked him to pretend like he was her boyfriend in front of David, she hadn't gone through with it.     

Now that he thought about it, he didn't know whether he was to blame Chloe for playing with his feelings or blame himself for keeping his hopes up.      

   ********     

Chloe cussed under her breath as she drove towards the location of the meeting.     

Her assistants were very busy and since the man had said he wanted to have the meeting with her, she had gone alone instead.     

What did he think he was doing snubbing her?      

Because of him she hadn't eaten anything since  she had expected he was going to bring her something. How could he ignore her and pretend like he hadn't seen her?      

"He should act all he wants. I don't even care." She hissed and decided to not think about it.     

She remembered she was yet to call Louis concerning David's sister so she called him and placed it on loudspeaker.      

"Little sister!" He greeted.     

"Stop calling me that. I'm surprised you are available to take my call."     

He chuckled lightly before asking.. "Why did you call?"      

"There is a friend of mine whose sister is sick. Please can you help me run checks on her and let me know what is wrong?"     

"Does this friend have a long hair?" Louis asked in a suspicious tone.      

"Jeremy? No! That's not him. How do you know him?" She asked in surprise.      

"Let's talk about it later. You can ask your friend to meet me at the hospital by 2 o'clock tomorrow—"     

"Why does he have to meet you?" She asked in alarm and heard him sigh wearily.     

"I wasn't referring to the Jeremy guy. Why are you so nervous?"     

Chloe heaved a deep sigh of relief as she realised he was talking about David and his sister instead.      

"And we are both going to talk about this Jeremy guy soon." He said before disconnecting the call.      

What was it with everyone knowing about Jeremy? She had dated David for four years yet no one knew but barely a few weeks with Jeremy and the whole world knew about him.      

This wasn't looking good for her at all. What if her parents found out about it? She was going to be in deep trouble.      

She was so lost in thought that she didn't see another car coming and collided into it.