CHAPTER 11

'At least you are my wife on set' said Agatha smiling.

'My husband to be will be arriving soon. I don't know what to expect' said Talia who hardly looked at Agatha since she knew what the response was already going to be.

'And so? You are going to quit working for Alani production?' asked Agatha who seemed angered by her words.

'That's not what I have meant. I love this production and I love seeing you everyday and working with you. I just wanted to tell you that a few things will change. Don't come closer to from then' said Talia who finished dressing and left the room.

She went to the production house garden and sat there as tears welled down her eyes. She never expected that it would hurt her so much sacrificing the person she loves for an unplanned gift. Jack who saw her from a distance decided to approach her and sat beside her. With a scary face, he looked at her and wanted to console her but she instead put her arms together and looked on the other side of the space.

'I see love between you two. Is it the problem?' said Jack in a hesitant voice.

Agatha who was passing by passed and saw Jack and Talia having a conversation, she approached them filled with lots of anger.

'What is going on here?' asked Agatha in a harsh voice.

'We are just having a lit conversation. I wanted to know what is really bothering Talia' said Jack in a pellucid voice.

'Something that she cannot tell the director? What can that be? Is it that bad that you are the only one who can help in this production? Are you a counsellor? When did you do that course? I guess! You went to a....' said Agatha but Talia who felt that Jack was intimidated immediately interrupted.

'Stop! Stop Agatha. There is nothing wrong with Jack having a conversation with me. You are unbelievable' said Talia who stood from the bench and left.

Agatha looked at Talia leave with soft seductive eyes then turned towards Jack, looked at him filled with lots of anger. Jack hesitantly wanted to leave but Agatha stopped him from leaving. She sat beside him.

'Tell me, what do you exactly want from Talia?" said Agatha in a hoarse voice.

She always spoke like that in the middle of an anger or an argument. Jack was speechless. He only wanted to be a shoulder to lean on For Talia.

'Speechless? Fine! Stay away from her' said Agatha who stood and threatened Jack by holding his neck.

Talia who had not completely left saw what happened and was astonished. She ran towards them and pushed Agatha's arm away making both of them fall on each other. In that, motion, they gazed on each other for a while. Agatha pushed Talia closer as she leaked her lips ready to kiss Talia whose eyes shoot in anger. Talia instead stood and assisted Agatha to stand. She stood beside shy for a while since Jack was still around and was looking at them in awe.

'We are back cast and crew. Hope you had a lovely lunch' said Alani whose voice could be heard in the whole production house.

She was softspoken but had a loud voice. Sometimes she knew that her voice would offend someone but did not bother to speak anything about it. Alani went and sat at her usual position not minding whether she saw tension where Agatha was or not.

'Stop speaking to Jack like that Agatha. That is too rude' said Talia who seemed a little bit tensed.

Jack knew the situation was going to be out of hand. He left to where Alani was seated and began going through his phone.

Talia looked at Agatha filled with lots of sadness. She felt that Agatha was really out of hand but Agatha did not even dare to find anything wrong with it. She instead left the garden house, took her handbag and left. She always felt like the heaven. She felt she was the say in the project. Therefore, the production needed to persuade her instead of her to persuade the production.

Alani decided to end the production at that instant. She felt humiliated by the way that Agatha had left the production. She drove faster to an extent that she almost got hit by a trailer. This made Agatha who had seen it from the side mirror of the car to stop the car.

She drove backwards and went to check if Alani had gotten into an accident. Alani got out of the car and wagged at Agatha who was still inside her car. Agatha parked her car at the roadside and went out of the car.

'You wanna die' asked Agatha who was very much worried.

'Not when I am following the most prideful person I have ever met in my entire universe' said Alani filled with lots of anger.

Agatha moved closer to Alani. She always smelt something bad when bad things happened just by looking at somebody's mouth and nose.

'How about we go to my house and take a few sips of alcohol?' said Agatha smiling.

Alani nodded her head in agreement. She had never been in Agatha's house before. It was the kind of house that everybody wanted to enter but nobody bothered to enter because she had restrictions and she had the right to authorize whether she wanted the person or not. They entered their cars and drove off.

Agatha guided Alani to her home. She set the perimeters and made her free to explore the house. Funny how world set them apart. Alani was the producer of the show but Agatha was richer than her. Agatha popped the champagne she had on her wall cabinet.

'Why all these?' asked Alani a bit confused.

Her main aim was to confront Agatha but not drink with her. Yet for a fact, Agatha was one person with twisted mind, she always read in between the graph and lines which made her easy to manipulate her especially when she knew other people's weaknesses.