It all made sense to her... The kiss, what she was feeling, it all made sense... His lips were perfect for hers, flowing along with hers. It was like she had done this before and she didn't want it to stop.

It felt so good... So nice... So wonderful... This stranger left her breathless... His magnetic scent... His... Wait!!!!!!! Stranger?! He was a stranger!!!! Oh no!!

Mia finally came to a realization. She opened her eyes, pushing him away gently before sitting up.

"What are you doing? What am I doing?!" Mia gasped, placing her hand over her mouth. Why on earth did she kiss a total stranger back?

Ryan pulled back as he noticed that Mia looked shocked and confused.

"Why did you do that?! You're trying to seduce me, aren't you?! She looked away. "Oh God." Mia laid on her side, turning her back at Ryan.

"I-I'm sorry." Ryan touched her back.

"I want to be left alone." Mia said to him.

"Did I do something wrong?" Ryan rubbed her back.

"You did when you kissed me, and I stupidly kissed back. Just leave me alone for a while, okay?" Mia said to him.

Ryan exhaled... "Okay. I'll be outside." He leaned forward, giving her a quick kiss on her temple. He opened the door, leaving Mia alone.

When Mia was sure he was out of the room, she sat up and groaned out loud.

"How could this happen!! That imbecile is trying to seduce me. How come I felt so weak and I couldn't resist him? What happened?" Mia found herself reminiscing about the kiss she shared with Ryan.

"Don't think about it." She snapped her thoughts away. "Why the hell am I thinking about it? I'm going crazy!" She took a pillow, placing it over her face before screaming into the pillow. He even had the guts to peck her face, has he no shame at all?! Mia couldn't cry or even get mad.

Ryan kept walking back and forth, he was very restless. Why did he actually kiss her? He hoped he didn't scare her further, that would be terrible. He had to apologize for his actions and hopefully Mia would forgive him. Just then, Mia opened the door.

"Are you okay?" Mia asked him. She saw the surprised look on his face.

"I'm fine." He studied her face. "Are you?"

"Perfectly fine." She cleared her throat when she noticed his eyes were attempting to search her face for something. "Why are you looking at me like that?" To her surprise, she gave him a small smile.

"So umm, you're not mad at me?" He asked her.

"I'm super mad at you for seducing me but that will be the last time it happens." The smile on her face disappeared. "Did you see my phone?" She asked him.

"Fiona's coming over to the hospital with your personal belongings."

"Okay." Mia nodded. She was about to close the door when he stopped her.

"I'm leaving. I still have things to do at the office. Do you need anything? I'll gladly get them for you." Ryan said to her.

"I don't want anything from you. Goodbye." Mia slammed the door shut.

Ryan sighed sadly... This girl really needed to calm down for a while. She was very difficult to tame. He walked away with a little hope that Mia was still going to open up to him sooner.
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Mia entered her apartment and was welcomed by her friends Danny and Andrew.

"Hey Mia." Danny greeted her.

"Hey." She looked at Andrew who was planing a video game. "Andrew."

"Sup Mimi. How come you're home late?" Andrew was more focused on his game.

"Yeah, Julia told me that you couldn't make it for the party." Danny said.

"Things came up, I couldn't attend." Mia walked straight to her room.

She was more than exhausted and the worst part was that she kept on thinking about the kiss...

After her long long long non stop showering, trying to drown herself in her thoughts, Mia had dinner and was quiet throughout.

Andrew already noticed her lack of interest in any thing they were talking about. She was very quick to withdraw from conversations and that wasn't the Mia he knew.

Andrew and Danny looked at themselves, debating whether to talk to Mia who was absentminded.

"Mia?" Danny finally spoke. "Are you okay because you don't seem okay to me... To us." She pointed at Andrew.

"We know that something's bothering you. The long showering, the piercing silence, the inattentiveness, that is not you. Do you wanna tell us what's going on?" Andrew asked her.

Mia looked at Andrew and then at Danny. She looked back and forth thrice before she finally placed her head on the table.

"I'm going crazy." She groaned out in frustration.

"What's really wrong?" Danny asked her. Andrew glanced at Danny.

She slowly lifted her head from the table... "I made a horrible mistake and I feel bad."

"What mistake?" Danny asked.

She looked at Andrew and turned back to Danny... "A mistake like... Kissing my boss?" Mia buried her face in her palms.

"What?!" Andrew and Danny exclaimed together.

"I feel like dying right now." Mia lamented.

"How did that happen?" Danny widened her eyes.

"He seduced me and I fell for it." Mia shook her head. "I'm really stupid."

"Babe, I need details. Details!" Danny was excited.

"What happened?" Andrew frowned.

Mia narrated from the story from when she had submitted her proposal for the project California.

"What happened after that?" Danny was so curious to know what happened.

"I thought I pushed him away but he didn't move. Then it happened." Mia bit her lip.

"Then what happened?" Danny smirked.

"I don't know. One second we were staring into each others eyes, the next, our lips were locking. I don't know how it happened!" Mia ruffled her hair. "It was a mistake." Mia shook her head.

"How long did you both kiss?" Danny grinned.

"What are you saying? Danny this is serious." Mia cried out.

"Kissing someone isn't serious. Did you enjoy it? Did you want more? What did he taste like?" Danny was the only one excited.

"Stop it Danny, stop teasing her." Andrew looked at Mia. "As long as he didn't hurt you, that's what matters."

"But I kissed him back, why would I kiss him back?" Mia asked them. She skipped the pills part and also the fact that Ryan had said he was her fiancée.

"Because you felt something. I've seen you in action, you don't even let random guys touch? But you allowed a total stranger kiss you. Something felt right and that's why you kissed him back." Danny was very happy.

"No no no!" Mia stood up. "I feel sick for kissing a person I barely know. Nothing about that kiss felt right." Mia hurried out of their midst back to her room. She was afraid that maybe Danny was right.

"Nothing felt right." Mia said to herself repeatedly.

Danny laughed.... "Come on, what is wrong with a simple harmless kiss? I can't wait for more drama." Danny told Andrew.

"When I see that guy, I'm gonna kill him. How could he take advantage of her like that?" Andrew frowned.

"Are you seriously buying that? You know how Mia is, she exaggerates too much. Maybe she enjoyed kissing him that's why she didn't pull back." Danny laughed...
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Ryan sat in his private study, he was furiously sketching a drawing on a sketchbook. It was a freehand sketch of Mia, though it was still incomplete but it was obvious. He was so engrossed in his drawing that he wasn't aware of Dony's presence in the room.

Dony had seen a little light coming from the study, she thought it was late for anyone to be in there. The door was slightly opened and when she pushed it slowly, she saw Ryan concentrating on his drawing. She walked up Ryan and stood beside him. He didn't even notice her enter or even standing beside him.

She peeped down at his drawing, studying it for a while but then she realized that it was the same face she'd always seen.

"You're drawing again." Dony broke the intense concentration.

Ryan abruptly stopped and looked at her. "How long have you been standing there?" He was taken by surprise.

"Not long." Dony smiled.

"Oh. Do you need something?" Ryan decided to pack up.

"Oh no, do continue. I got so fascinated looking at you." Dony walked around the table, standing across.

"It's nothing." Ryan chuckled.

"It must be something! Look at the floor, it's littered with papers. This really is important." She placed a finger on her chin.

Ryan looked around. She was right! There were squeezed papers all over the floor.

"Oh those? I'll clean the mess."

Dony smiled... "Is she your inspiration?" Dony asked him.

"No... I um... It's just a sketch." Ryan shrugged.

"Who is she?" Dony asked him.

"Who?"

"The girl in the drawing?"

"No one actually." Ryan shook his head.

"This isn't the first time you're drawing her. It's the hundredth time." Dony rolled her eyes.

"What are you talking about?" He frowned.

"Most drawings you do, they always have her face. Who is she?" Dony asked again.

Ryan cleared his throat... "It's no one."

"You have her pictures all over the artroom in grandpa's house, so many of them, I've seen them, all of them. And each time, it's always the same girl." Dony said to him.

"What! You were in my artroom? How did you get in there?" Ryan was shocked at her revelation.

Dony giggled... "Forgive me but I have a way I counter locks."

"That is wrong." Ryan was a bit upset that she had snooped around.

"Sorry. But my point is, there's this girl you're obsessed with and just the other day you had a portrait of her in here but I'm sure you took it to grandpa's house." Dony was talking about the portrait from the charity event. Ryan had transferred the photo portrait to Mr McLeod's house.

"Even again, I saw the documented profile of the man, the one that took the photo portrait... Andrew? Andrew Petereli. You're looking for him." Dony was spilling the beans one at a time.

"Dony, have you been going through my things?" Ryan was now upset. He hated when his private things are being intruded.

"I'm really sorry Ryan. I mistakenly stumbled upon it, it wasn't my intention." Dony but her lip.

"I don't like that you came in here without my permission."

"Ryan I'm sorry. I am only curious about why that face is the only face I see you paint or draw each time. I didn't mean to overstep my boundaries." Dony apologized.

Ryan sighed... "It's fine. You should go to bed, it's very late." He advised her.

Dony nodded.. "Okay." Dony headed towards the door. "Can I say one last thing?" Dony turned back at Ryan.

"Go ahead." He nodded...

"She's very pretty." Dony smiled at him before leaving.

Ryan looked at his drawing and a little smile appeared on his face. "Very pretty."
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Mia laid asleep cuddled up in her bed...

"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you."

Mixed voices chanted in her head...

"I love you more than you could ever imagine." A male voice spoke.

"I love you too." A female voice was heard.

Mia found herself in the arms of Ryan. They were laying on a bed, passionately kissing while a blanket covered their naked bodies.
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Mia walked out of her room in a blue one-piece pajamas.

"Good morning princess." Andrew greeted her as soon as she walked into the living room.

"Good morning." Mia dragged her feet into the kitchen.

"Seems like you didn't get enough sleep last night."

"More like couldn't get any." Mia said. She fixed herself a cup of coffee and went in the living room.

She had the worst nightmare of her life. A dream that she was on the same bed with Ryan, they were not only kissing but they were having sex. Having sex?! Why would she dream of having sex with a stranger and it felt so real. Ryan had definitely hexed her.

"Aren't you going to Mi-Tech?" Andrew asked her.

Mia sat beside him... "Didn't I tell you? I quit." Mia sipped her coffee.

"You quit?"

"That's the best thing to do." Mia nodded.

"How about Mrs Van? What are you gonna tell her?"

"I can't work with him and that maybe Archu might do a better job, if not, we should forget the deal and stick to event planning." Mia said to him.

"A million dollar is at stake here." Andrew reminded her.

"I'll make up for it somehow." Mia nodded... She had no idea how was going to break the news to Van. "How about you? No studio work today?" She asked him.

"I'll work from home." Andrew nodded...

"So it's you and I alone for now. I'll swing by Van's Events later." Mia smiled, folding her legs together.

"What do you want to watch?" Andrew took the TV remote from a table.
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Natalie had taken Bee and Dony to ALIE store...

"I'm actually working on a new lip balm. It's gonna be part of my next collection." Natalie told Dony.

"Have you decided a name for the collection?" Dony asked.

"Alie X Alex." Natalie said proudly.

"Wow." Dony nodded.

"It's gonna be launched on our anniversary. Nice right?" Natalie led Dony into her office.

Bee was busy talking to the male assistant who was loading up some boxes.

"Very nice." Dony sat on a very fancy chair. "I was telling Bee that you guys are my idol couple the other day."

"Really?" She laughed... "Believe me, we've had our terrible days. One time, I almost castrated him because I thought he was having fun with one of his co-star." Natalie shook her head.

"Really?" Dony laughed.

"Yes. I had just gotten new supplies for my pallette, he was so angry that he trashed all of them. I wept my eyeballs out because they cost a fortune." Natalie laughed. "So you see, we are not that perfect."

"At least yours is better than my cousin and Layla." Dony shrugged.

"Those two? They're just friends with benefits." Natalie said to her. "I'm still surprised that he's still with her." Natalie opened up her log book.

"To be honest, I like Layla a lot but I wonder why Ryan is with her when he loves another lady." Dony said.

Natalie looked at Dony... "What do you mean another lady? Is he having an affair?" Natalie was eager to know. Alex barely told her anything concerning Ryan.

"I don't know. But I know he's dead and crazy in love with some girl and it's definitely not Layla." Dony told her.

"How long have you noticed?" Natalie asked her.

"For five months now." Dony answered her.

"Five months?!"

"And I think it's been going on for quite a while. The artroom in my grandpa's place is pack with her pictures, sometimes I begin to wonder if it's just his fantasy."

"Hmm, five months is pretty long time." Natalie was curious on who the girl was.

"It could be more." Dony told her.

Bee entered inside office...

"Guess what, that Jay guy said he was gonna help me make a lipstick. How cool is that?" Bee said, taking a sit beside her sister.

"Okay girls, let's see how your creativity can kick in." Natalie dismissed the topic. She placed a tray of shimmer eye-shadows on the table. "You get to mix your own perfect eye-shadows."

"Awesome!" Bee wasted no time picking up some little bottles of glitters. "Let's get mixing!"
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"What do you think? Does this look somber enough?" Mia asked Andrew. She was dressed in an all white midi dress with white sandals, she let her hair flow down her back and decided to go make-up free.

She needed to look really sad and apologetic... Sick too! So that Mrs Van would listen and reason with her as to why she couldn't work with Ryan Webster.

Andrew was seated on the floor, when she asked, he looked up at her. He took a good look, inspecting her.

"So?" Mia frowned at his utter silence.

"Very somber." He nodded.. "No doubt that Mrs V is gonna fall for it, plus you're a great actress."

Mia curtsied with a wide smile. "Well thank you." She picked her bag from the couch. "I'll see you when I get back." She bent over, giving him a friendly kiss on the head. "Bye!" Mia walked to the door.

"Bye." He waved at her before she slammed the door.