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The next morning,Sylvia was the first to wake up. She tossed on the bed and stretched out her leg spreading her hands on the bed while her eyes was still shut closed. She felt the bed is more wider than hers. Struck with that thought,she opened her eyes slowly to look around her surrounding.

She looked down to her body to see if her clothes were still intact and to her relief it was. She sighed.

The first sight that came into her mind was the painting of the room and how large the room was compared to hers. The room was painted all white. The windows curtains were in minty green colored.

She continued accessing the room but couldn't place where this was and how she got here. She sat up and held her head which was banging seriously. "Ouch",she mumbled.

Still wondering where this was,she got up from the bed ignoring the headache she was having and walked out of the room.

On getting to the sitting room,she didn't see anyone in it just a cool sound of the music from the speakers filled the sitting room. 'Drag me down by One direction' was playing.
Sylvia started nodding her head to the beats and sang along : "All my life You stood by me When no one else was ever behind me All these lights They can't blind me With your love, nobody can drag me down
Nobody, nobody Nobody can drag me down Nobody, nobody Nobody can drag me down", and she kept singing and dancing to it hoping its gonna last long but was actually the end of the song.

"Uh-uhh. Why does it has to stop now that I'm enjoying the song?". She growled with a pout and held her forehead like she just remembered she was having headache and was about to sit on the couch when a sound of clap startled her.

"Woa,woa,woa. You're such a good singer and dancer. I was expecting to see you having a hangover but instead you're still fit to dance." Louis said with a grin and his hand was still clasped. He was putting on his black Adidas trouser and was having no shirt or singlet on.

"Huh? Louis? What you doing here?". She asked staring at him confusedly.

"Really? You mean you're asking me what I'm doing in my house?". Louis asked with a smirk.

Sylvia raised a brow. 'His house? Oh,its true, I woke up in a big bed and wide dope room,and most of all I'm right here in a sitting room which I don't know...no,I know now. Oh my goodness! How dumb I was. I was suppose to look for the owner and find out how I got here but look at me,I was stupidly dancing and singing on getting to the parlor. Damn me!',she thought to herself and face-palmed herself with a growl.

"I guess you figure out now. So..."

"How did I end up in your place?". She interrupted him.

"I'll talk about that while having breakfast. Please come with me to dinning." He replied and walked towards the dinning.

Sylvia drooled at his body as he walked towards the dinning. She shook her head and followed him behind. "May I know what happened last night?". She asked in a rude but quiet tone and took a sit opposite him.

"Let's have breakfast first before.."

"I need to know now." She snapped back glaring at him.

"OK, fine. Well,since you're so desperate to know,I'll tell you. You were drunk and almost got raped but I was your hero that saved you from getting raped. So I deserve some accolades." He explained briefly and took a sliced bread and spread the fried egg in it and a spoon of mayonnaise before jamming it with another slice and took a full bite of it.

Sylvia stared at him speechlessly not knowing what to say. She couldn't even imagine herself being raped out of all things that could be done to her. She sighed and fixed her gaze on the breakfast in front of her,she was damn hungry,and once she's hungry anything can wait. She stretched her hand and wanted to take a slice of bread but Louis held her wrist preventing her to take any.
"What?". She questioned.

"You just committed two offense. One,you haven't said thank you yet. Two, I told you I deserved some accolades. But you didn't do any,therefore...."

"Therefore what? You gonna punish me?". She dared glaring at him.

"Yes sweetheart. I'm gonna do just that because even if I ask you to apologize it might not be from your heart. So here's your punishment, you'll clean up all the rooms in this house, and you'll wash the dishes,the bathrooms and toilet when you're done with breakfast. Make sure is thoroughly clean. OK?". He asked with a smirk and waited for her response.

"Of course not. I won't do all that for you just because you saved my life yesterday. I'm not your slave. In fact I don't need your breakfast anymore, I'm leaving." She retorted and stood up to leave.

Louis stood up and blocked her way. "Tsk.tsk.tsk. Not so soon, I'm the king here and you're my maiden for today. Its only when you're done you're allowed to leave here. Am I cleared?" He asked staring at her and holding her wrist. Their face was just an inch apart. Their eyes were locked on each other. Both of them could feel each other's breath panting heavily.

Sylvia stared deep into his eyes. Instead of her to see anger and hatred,'she saw something different, something she couldn't really place out. Something that melted her heart to submit to him,something that made her wants to kiss him right away,something...'

"Am I cleared?". He interrupted her thoughts.

"Y..e..ah". She replied with a nod swallowing the lumps in her throat. She accepted to do the cleaning to be able to figure out what it is that got her ego melted down with him.

"Very good. Since you're not eating I'll..."

"I never said I'm not eating." She interrupted him and released her hand of his hold and walked back to the table and took a sit. While Louis chuckled and took a sit as well.
From that moment,they ate in silence.
**
Couple of hours later, Louis and Sylvia were sitting on the couch in the sitting room watching some music video on hipTv. Sylvia was putting on Louis's grey T-shirt and one of his grey Adidas trouser. "Woa,I'm exhausted. Guys can be so dirty." Sylvia grunted.

"Not all guys. I'm the neatest guy you could ever imagine." Louis said with a wink.

Sylvia rolled her eyes at that. "Hell no. You're no neatest guy. If you were you wouldn't ask me to help you clean up your house." She replied.

"I could do it myself. I just needed some help that's why I asked you. I've been so busy since I came back that's why everywhere became a mess. Its not like I saw you as a maiden that's why asked you to,I just thought you helping me out its gonna be fun. So that's why I didn't leave it all to you, I assisted you and we were able to do the work faster. I'm sorry,OK?". He apologized to her.

"Its OK. I enjoyed every bit of it so no need for apologies." She said with a smile.

"Really? Why did you enjoy me working you out? With just a look at you, I don't think you're the work type." He said.

"Well,...you're right. I don't like working much. But I just enjoyed cleaning your house up. Maybe because we did it together and you were saying some funny things the whole time which made it not to be boring." She replied.

"Oh. Thanks. Hold on let me get you something to eat I guess you must be hungry by now." He said standing up.

"Yeah I am. What do you have?". She asked.

"Noodles and boiled eggs. I just prepared it while you were having your bath." He answered.

"Great. Serve it please." She said excitedly.

Louis rolled his eyes. "I can't believe you're this excited over food...Noddles to be precised."

"Duh." She replied given him a tongue out.

Louis chuckled and left to the kitchen. Few minutes later he was back with two plates of noodles. He handed one to her and took the other.

"Hmm. Your noodles is delicious. Did you put a special ingredient in it?". She asked and Louis grin at her question.

"Yeah. Louis specials." He answered winking at her.

"Dumb head. Its not that. This noodles just have a nice taste that's why I'm asking." She said taking more noodles to her mouth.

"I know right. I bet you can't cook this way." He replied wiggling his brow.

"Shut up. Who told you I can't? Mine is way better than this." She retorted.

Louis snorted and continued with his food.
"Uhmm. If you don't mind,I wanna ask you some questions." He said pausing from his food.

"OK, go ahead". She replied eating more noodles.

"Why...why were you like that with Raymond?". He asked quietly.

Sylvia dropped her fork immediately she heard his name and stared at Louis. "Like how?". She managed to ask.

"Uhmm. I don't know how to put it.."

"Just put it anyhow then." She interrupted him.

"Why were you putting up an attitude whenever you're with Ray? I mean, you never really liked or love him right?". He asked.

She snorted. "You as well saw it too. How nice." She answered looking away.

"I...well.. I saw it with your body language, Ray saw it too. But why were you with him when you don't love him?". He asked.

"Why should I love him when he doesn't love me either?". She snapped back.

"You're returning the question now. Please tell me, I want to know why you were with him all this while when you never loved him." He said calmly.

"Its not important. Its over now,so what's the point?". She retorted.

"Its important I know." He said.

"Why? So you could go tell him the reason? I know you're his best friend, so I guess that's why you wanna know so you could report to him,huh?". She questioned with a glare.

"C'mon,Sylvia. Its not like that. I really want to know. I've always seen you as someone that's so mean and don't care about others feelings. I want to know why you did all that to him,please." He pleaded staring deep into her eyes.

"You wanna know, huh? I'll tell you. Its because....my mum drove the only guy that gave me happiness away from me. She drove him away and prisoned me to a life that I never wanted all because of wealth. She took me away from him. She tied me down with a promised marriage with Raymond. I pleaded with her not to take away my happiness but she did. And what do you expect when Ray and I was introduced? To fall in love with him?", she asked in a mockery tone but didn't wait for his response and she continued.

"Of course no. I couldn't just forget my ex like that just because I was in a relationship with Raymond. I decided to take the anger on him and lavished his money. I then began living an extravagant lifestyle. Well,that's what my mum wanted. A big house,car,money,list them. That's what she wanted, she never even cared if I loved him or not,she was only concerned about what I get from him. She even said I'll love him once he's married to me." She said in a cracked voice holding back her tears.

Louis sighed and rubbed her back to calm her. "I understand you now. I'm sorry you had to go through all that. But still,you shouldn't have accepted the marriage. What if Ray hadn't cancelled it,what could have happened? You'll marry him and both of you will live unhappily and perhaps it'll end up in a divorce?". He asked.

"Who cares huh?". She retorted.

"I do..Uhmm sorry. People who loves you cares. You should care more for yourself. Its your happiness we're talking about here." He answered.

There was awkward silence as minutes passed by.

"Can I ask you a question?". She finally said breaking the silence.

"Sure. What's it?". He asked staring at her.

"Who is the woman Ray is in love with right now? and don't you even dare lie to me that he's not seeing any woman." She warned waiting for his answer.

Louis opened his mouth to speak but words weren't coming out. He was surprise at the unexpected question. It wasn't in his hands to tell her who Raymond was seeing but that of Ray's.

"Are you gonna tell me or not?". She snarled.

"I...I... I'm sorry I can't tell you." He muttered calmly.

"Oh. Really? After telling you my personal things knowing quite well that you are Raymond's friend which I'm not meant to be conversing with you but I did,you choose not to tell me right?". She asked coldly.

"I'm sor....."

"Its fine. I should take my leave now." She interrupted waving her hand and she stood up and started walking away.

"Sylvia. Please wait. Fine. I'll. Tell. You." He said.

Sylvia smirk before turning to stare at him with her arms folded on her chest.
"I'm listening." She said.

"Please, promise me you won't act stupidly. Promise?". He asked.

"It depends." She said with an eye rolling.

"Its not it depends. Just promise me or I won't tell you anymore." He said.

"Fine. I promise." She replied raised her palm up in assurance.

"Good." He sighed heavily before he continued. "The woman Ray is in love with is....is.... Jasmine Williams."

"What?!" She exclaimed in awe her mouth in a gape.

"You know her?". Louis asked.

"Oh yes! That bitch. I'm going to kill her and throw her to the sea!" Sylvia swore clenching her fist and walked out of the parlor leaving Louis dumbfounded.

Woooh....what a temper Sylvia got there. It looks like Jasmine's head would be ripped off sooner by Sylvia. Poor Jasmine.

Its all Louis fault right? He betrayed Raymond. Ouch.

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