Who does he think he is?

He thinks he can scare me like that?!

Just because he is powerful he thinks he can get his way around?!

It was getting dark as I walked down the street after buying groceries. I look up to see the sky, which was clear a few hours ago, beginning to cover with clouds. 

What is this? If it starts raining I don't know what I'll do! I don't even have an umbrella!

My car decided to break down. Surprise surprise! As soon as I reached home and now this. 

As I turn towards the residential block, the street became lonely. My residence was in the suburb which was usually a quiet place. Not a very good place to stay, I know. As soon as I have enough money I will shift in the the main city area. There were only a few houses around. Separated by unused plots of land, overgrown with wild grass and bushes. 

I looked at the time to see it was post 6 pm. It was oddly calm, just like  before the storm. Then slowly I felt the wind starting to blow and gaining strength. I still had about 2 block to go down.

I clutched the grocery bags tightly and pick up pace. I hear the leaves rustling and my feet crunch the dead ones beneath. I stop as I lose hold of one of the handles of the bag. Settling it, I notice the rustling was becoming louder and the leaves were crunched. I freeze momentarily, I knew the sound, it could only be made by someone walking. I don't recollect seeing any one behind me and the fact that it stopped after barely two steps bothered me. 

I slowly take my phone out and open the front camera, pretending to just check my face. I sneakily try to look behind me through it and see no one there. 

Maybe it was nothing, or maybe it was  some stray cat or something. 

I take a deep breath and start walking again. I think of the new wedding project at hand. There was a lot of work to be done and not much time left. No matter how much I hate him, I need to co operate with Mr. Smirky Pants in order to save my job and career. I vaguely remember seeing him in the paper. 

Asher Evans 

I feel a slight shiver and compose myself. So far I didn't hear any one behind and this time I tried my best to avoid all the leaves. 

Then it happened.

First on my hand I felt the drop, then when I looked up it fell in my eye. 

Darn!

I hold the bags close to my chest and start running. As I make it to the sharp turn I bump into someone and fall down. 

"Oh my! Are you okay?" I hear a female voice ask.

"Yes, I am fine. Are you okay?" I say looking at the spilt vegetables on the pavement, now soaking in the rain. I remove the hair from my eyes and look up to see a girl about my age, she had bight blue eyes or is it lilac? And dark brunette hair. She looked familiar but I couldn't pin point who. 

She gets up quickly and offers her hand. "I am quite fine, but you look dazed." She smiles.

I take her hand and get up, we were both quite wet by now and she pulls me under the shed of a near by window. 

I kept staring at my ruined food and she follows my gaze to it. "I am so sorry." She apologises pursing her lips. 

"Ah, please don't say sorry. Its not your fault." I say giving a slight smile. 

She looks at me intensely for a second or two as if figuring out something. I feel slightly conscious, she was really beautiful. She was most probably judging my plain bland self but who cares. She can judge me all she wants, right now all I was concerned about was my food lying dead. I'll miss you.

"Where do you stay?" She asks me. I look at her skeptically, then nod down the street. "About a block down."

"I'll drop you." She offers. 

I laugh once, "no it's okay, I'll go myself." 

I look at the rain now falling heavily. It didn't matter to me, I liked the rain so I can happily walk down. Also now since I didn't have the burden of the groceries. I sigh internally. Matt must be waiting and the fridge is almost empty. 

Sad life.

"No please, I am waiting for my car and your house is on my way." She says.

"I know-"

"Please!" She holds my hand and I give her a weird look.

"Uh, alright." I slowly slip my hand out of hers and smile momentarily. She grins happily and starts telling how she was waiting for almost half and hour and when it started raining she decided to move down herself to see where the car was  and bumped into me since she was looking at the phone and I had my gaze down on my steps.

I nod once in a while, bouncing on my feet. She seemed nice, I could befriend her, but right now my mood was slightly triggered due to my wasted food and money and also because I could not completely go and enjoy the rain after agreeing out of courtesy to let her drop me.

Soon I see a dark mercedes make its way towards us and my eyes widen. Is it hers?  

It stops in front of us and she opens the back door. I was too absorbed with taking in the shiny classy car that I didn't notice her motioning me to get in. 

"Hey! Um, excuse me, I didn't ask your name." She says politely, touching my arm lightly causing me to break out of my trance.

"What? Oh, uh, it's Cara."  I tell her blushing out of embarrassment. She chuckles.

I get in and she stops for a second looking up the street. She scrunches her eyebrows and mumbles something I can't comprehend, she gets in shaking her head.

I turn around but couldn't see anything from the tainted back glass. As the car starts to move, I catch someone walk away in the rear view mirror. 

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"Thank you so much for dropping me." I smile as I get out. 

"No problem!" The girl smiles back and I quickly make my way towards the door. She lowers her window looking at me and then it strikes me.

I face palm and turn around running up to her. "Hey, I am so sorry I didn't even ask you name!" I give a sheepish smile.

She laughs and looks at me with twinkling eyes. "Ah, Cara. I am Mae, Mae Waters. Nice to meet you! Now I am getting late so I need to go. I hope to meet you again!" She waves and the car goes past.

I wave back and start to go in. Mae Waters...I stop in my step suddenly, my eyes going wide as what she says finally registers.

Mae Waters?

Is it the same Mae Waters? Oh my God! I crouch down with a hand on my face. That's why they say be nice to everyone! You never know who you meet on your way. Not that I was rude or something, but at least I could have behaved in a more dignified manner than being a grumpy kid who was denied his chocolate. 

I just pray she doesn't say anything to Asher or he will have one more reason to torture me. Oh God what if she finds out that I am her wedding planner and decides to not work with me?! 

Be calm Cara, everything will be fine. She was nice, she said she hoped to see you again. Everything's good, everything's calm. 

I console myself and get up. I move in thinking about the person I saw in the rear view mirror.

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Hello everyone, how are you?

Long time no see. I apologize to all my readers. I know, I KNOW, I had said I will update very frequently then went away for more than half a year. That's a long time, most of you must have forgotten the existence of this book. I am sorry. I had my reasons though, I hope you understand. I had suddenly lost all my motivation and continuing was nearly impossible, I couldn't possibly count the number of times I wanted to stop proceeding with this book and felt really guilty each time someone commented 'update'. 

I am really sorry.

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But I am back. Yes I am. Be ready for an update spam. One update each day till about a week.