Chapter 31
Somehow the smiles from Angel's sexy lip looked awkward when her eyes still darted on Ariella's body. When her eyes collided with Ariella's, Angel immediately looked away and tried to hide her feelings.
"I'm good. I miss you too, Angie. Mrs. Bloom, let me help you with your luggage." Ariella politely said to Angel's mother, Donna Bloom. She helps carry Donna's luggage to the bonnet of her car.
Today, Ariella wears a plaid long sleeve A-line knee-length dress which she bought yesterday. Along with a brown strappy block-heeled sandals suit with the dress's color combinations, green and blue-black.
The fluctuation in Ariella makes Angel worried, she was afraid that something would happen if Ariella changed her appearance. 'This is no good, I need to do something.' Angel said in her thought.
Angel gripped her luggage tightly even when Ariella tried to help her to put it in the bonnet, she still didn't let it go. Ariella raised her head to look at Angel, she could see Angel's eyes were filled with intense hatred. She frowned in surprise.
She raised her hand on Angel's shoulder and tried to awaken Angel from her daydreaming. "Angie? Are you okay?" Ariella stared at Angel with a worried face, a small shaking by Ariella on Angel's shoulder surprising her back to reality.
Instantly Angel realizes that her actual nature is almost exposed.
Angel quickly changed the look on her face with a spoiled and seductive smile. "I'm starving!!" she whimpered spoiled against Ariella. She pretended to be hungry by touching her deflated stomach.
Ariella smiled at Angel's behavior and the strange feeling she felt when she saw Angel's condition just now, was immediately erased.
"How about we go eat first before I send you and Mrs. Bloom home?" Implies Ariella to Angel. Ariella looked at Mrs. Bloom to make sure Mrs. Bloom also agreed with her suggestion. When she saw the nod from Mrs. Bloom, Ariella smiled.
Ariella feels a little jealous when she sees Angel whimpering to persuade her mother to agree. The way her mother treated her by rubbing Angel's cheeks and head made Ariella miss the touch from her mother.
"Let's go! I'm super hungry. I want to eat at my favorite place. I miss it." Angel grumbled happily.
On the way to the restaurant, Angel, who couldn't resist her curiosity about Ariella's transformation, began to question her cause for changing. "You look different today, from the usual you. You change the way you dress, it's beautiful." As she said, Angel felt like her throat was choked by a big rock.
It's hard for her to praise Ariella who looks even more beautiful than her. She clenched her hands so hard that her nails almost pierced her palms, holding back the rage she felt.
From her car's rearview mirror, Ariella glanced at Angel before she wanted to answer about it, seeing Angel's curious face, Ariella looked forward again. "For Sean...". Again she took a glance at Angel to see her reaction.
Angel's face immediately changed, Angel's stiffly surprised face could be guessed by Ariella. Ariella was silent for a moment.
"Y-you mean the changes you do was for Sean's sake?" Angel asked in a restrained voice.
"You shouldn't change just because of a man, it's a bad thing." All of sudden, Donna, Angel's mother voiced after just being silent from the start. As if she wants to back her daughter up for some reason.
Although she was a bit discouraged by Donna's words, Ariella resumed answering honestly the real reason. "For Sean to know that I can be beautiful even if not because of him and with whatever clothes I wear." As she chuckled.
"That's the reason for these changes, also when I look at the mirror during my usual clothes that's not how I wore when I was younger before my parent's death." She said in a low voice.
"E-err, it's that so? But why now? Still, it is a good thing... Hahaha." Angel laughs to cover up her awkwardness after almost revealing her secret to Ariella even though Ariella already knows it. The secret about her and Sean's infidelity.
A loud coughing sound from donna, made Ariella and Angel focus focused on her. She coughed until tears came out.
"Mummy, are you okay?" Angel asked her mother. She sounds worried about her mother's condition.
Angel gently rubbed her mother's back as well as held her mother's hand with another hand. "I'm fine, honey. I don't know why it happened all of a sudden." She explained to her daughter that there was something kept by her that something could not be expressed.
Ariella, who occasionally saw their situation from earlier from the rearview mirror, felt pity for Donna.