Chapter 11
"Jason, please." Julie called after Jason again but he just opened the car and sat himself in the front seat while banging it's door as he closed it making Grace and Geff who were already in the car flinch. Seeing that, Julie gave up and also quietly entered the passengers seat of the car where Grace was seated looking so angry. Infact the moment she entered the car she could feel the air was tensed and she wondered why because she was sure it wasn't because of Jason entering the car in anger. She felt something was up between Grace and Geff especially after they didn't utter a thing even after Jason got into the car angrily.
"Hey what's up?" Julie asked whispering into Grace's ear so that the boys who were at the front seat won't hear. Grace however just shrugged and shook her head and Julie got the message that she wasn't going to talk.
"Can we please now go?" Geff finally spoke addressing the driver that had been assigned to them by Akothee Safaris. It seems like it was going to be a long journey knowing that everyone was mad for some reason. That meant no one was going to talk to another person. It was gonna be a tensed situation. To imagine that when they came they were so happy even made it funny. If they knew they were gonna come and be mad at each other like that, then they wouldn't have come at all. Julie could have just cooked and celebrate her hit song at home maybe she wouldn't even be dating Jason. Nevertheless they would just sit there and see what would happen next.
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After being showed to their rooms Seth, Audrey and Sam rushed to Sebatians room to get answers. Good enough Sebatian hadn't locked his door due to his excitement. So they just opened the door and went in finding a smiling sebastian looking through the window as if staring at something outside. Seth being curious as always rushed to the window to see what his brother was staring at only to see a car leaving the hotel's premises and nothing else.
"Don't tell me you like that damn car Seb, coz I'd really think you lost your awesome taste of cars." Seth commented smirking as he watched the car leave.
"I've never lost taste and will never do Seth. You know that too." Sebatian answered not even looking at him. He just kept staring at the car while smiling until it dissappeared.
"Then why are you smiling goofily at that car. That's so unlike you. Especially the goofily smiling part." Sam commented standing beside him too.
"I was gonna say the same thing." Audrey who was standing next to Seth also added while hugging him from behind.
"I can't really be that stupid to just smile at a car. And please refrain from putting my smiling with the word 'goofily' in the same sentence" Sebatian commented while moving away from the window heading to the coach across the room. "And what are you all even doing in my room? Don't you have your rooms to be in?" He added while sitting down on the coach.
"If you weren't staring at the car then most probably you were staring at someone who got into that car. And if I'm to guess right, I could say that particular person in that car is the same mysterious girl you gave your t-shirt." Audrey commented ignoring his question while walking towards the coach opposite the one he was sitted.
" And that will definitely explain why you are walking around with a bare chest right now." Seth added joining Audrey on the coach.
" And in addition it will also explain why you are in possession of a female's blouse placed just right there on the coach you are sitting on." Sam who had noticed the blouse when they entered but hadn't said anything about it finally said it. All this while Sebastian just looked at them in shock wondering where they got the information. How they even knew about the Tshirt puzzled him more.
"Ooh shit, I totally hadn't noticed that but boy, we definitely solved the puzzle correctly. We three can make a hell of puzzle solvers if not some FBI agents, Haha." Seth said while laughing proudly knowing that this time round they had cornered sebastian.
" Goodness. Seb! If you have her blouse and she was in your Tshirt, does that mean you two did.... "
"Stop it Audrey!" Seb interrupted her feeling irritated. "Infact all of you should just take your puzzle solving somewhere else and not my room. I'm definitely not interested." He added sternly.
"Come on bro. We just need you to say something atleast. If you finally got laid, atleast tell us so we can celebrate that. Just that I'd be surprised to death that you got laid by a total stranger from another continent. I mean, that'll really make me faint. Not that I care though and I'm sure Audrey and Sam don't care either. " Seth told him chuckling while Audrey nudged him playfully. Sam on the other side couldn't help but laugh at Seth's comment.
" Aargh, Sese, just get the hell out of my room already. Whether I got laid or not is none of your business, so please spare me the fainting and the shock to death." Sebastian answered as he stood up picking Julie's blouse and headed to the bedroom.
"Hey Seb, wait. We wanted to ask you something else." Sam stopped him from going.
"It better be something entirely different from what you've been ranting about since you entered this room." Sebastian warned them stopping on his tracks.
"Well yeah. It's actually about this hotel. The receptionist and the hotel attendants who showed us to our rooms kept referring you as the boss. Do you truly own this place?" Seth asked him directly knowing that Sebastian liked to be asked things directly. 'To save time'. That's what he always said.
" Yes it is. Are you shocked? Please don't be coz I'm not ready to burry you if you are gonna be shocked to death. " Sebastian answered chuckling with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
"Sorry bro, your sarcasm doesn't tickel me at all. So if it's yours why didn't you name it Parker hotel like the rest of the hotels around the world? Why Pearly Palacio?" Seth asked curiously ignoring the sarcasm that Sebastian had used on him.
"It's probably a palace of pearls I mean the name suggests something like that." Audrey commented thoughtfully.
"Or maybe you built it using pearls?" Sam asked thoughtfully too.
"Good trial my friends. It's truly something connected to your guesses. However even if I explain to you guys now why I named it that, you still won't get it. So just forget about it. You'll all know when the time is right. Now that I've answered you questions please let me go rest. Remember to close the door behind you when you guys decide to leave my room" Sebastian said dismissing them and then headed to his bedroom. Not that he was going to rest as he had said but he just wanted some cool time so he could think about the girl he met, whom he didn't even get her name but had named her the black pearl. The girl couldn't leave his head and he just wanted to sit down and think about her.
"Hey, do you think dad and mom knows that Seb owns this kind of a hotel over here?" Seth asked Sam after Sebastian left.
" I don't know about that but I'm sure even if they did, they wouldn't really care much about it. Plus you are a lawyer. You shouldn't be poking your nose into the affairs of the men in the business world. " Sam answered while smirking at him. He was always protecting Sebastian wherever the case. That's why he was his best friend and not just his cousin. And as much as he also wasn't aware about the hotel, he knew that Sebastian must have had a good reason not to disclose the information to anyone yet. So he kind of stuck to his side nevertheless.
"You unbelievable. You know you and Seb are actually the same. I mean you two are just egotistical spoilt brats. Too full of themselves." Seth answered rolling his eyes at him.
"I won't deny the egoistical part and probably the too full of himself part but kindly keep the spoilt brat with you coz the spoilt brat is definitely you and not us. We were brought up by an iron hand, our grandpa, but you, you've been a mama's boy. And that most definitely makes you the spoilt brat. " Samuel continued with the bickering knowing he was going to win eventually.
" Jeez, do you guys ever stop arguing and bickering over nothing. Just a few minutes ago it was us versus Seb now you two are pulling each other's nerves again. Goodness I could go mad just being around you Parkers!" Audrey exclaimed getting up from her seat. She had dated Seth for close to 2 years and she had been around them many times but she still hadn't gotten used to their all the time bickering. No day went peacefully without them arguing about something and sometimes it drove her nuts but sometimes it also made her laugh. She just never got used to it.
"If you can go mad now, then you'd probably die after this spoilt brat marries you and you are stuck with us forever." Samuel answered chuckling at her. He had been there when Seth had met Audrey and they all knew Seth had truly loved Audrey. Everyone knew Seth was serious about her and the fact that Audrey was very likable by everyone, the whole family had encouraged Seth to settle with her. So he was sure that Seth was eventually going to marry her. Considering the fact that her family were also billionaires since she came from a family of well known doctors who owned different private hospitals in the US, which led to her herself being a well known pediatrician in one of the hospitals. And the fact that her family were also stonge Adventists made the Parkers accept her fully. The Parkers always considered faith as a serious issue when it came to marriage. So non of them overlooked it even a bit.
"Yeah I'm probably gonna die especially if I spend another second here watching you two argue. Babe, can we go to our room please? We need to rest you know." Audrey asked Seth while pulling him up already. Seth not wanting to continue with the stupid argument stood up and followed Audrey to the door.
" See you around kids. Please don't over work yourselves too much while in bed. We still have alot of touring to do around this place." Samuel shouted after them as they left.
"Idiot, no one asked you not bring along your domineering girlfriend." Seth answered smirking at him as he exited.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." Sam answered but in a low tone as if he was saying it more to himself than Seth.
And after Seth and Audrey left, he sprawled himself on the coach as he lay down waiting for Sebastian to come out so they could have some serious conversations alone like they've always done. He was still curious about the mysteruous girl who had his t-shirt and him his blouse. He just had to know what truly happened because he was so sure Sebastian hadn't gotten laid. He wasn't even the type to engage in careless sexual activities and most specifically he believed in the no sex before marriage thing. So he was sure something else might have happened and he just had to wait so he could ask him while they were alone.