Excerpt: "You jerk! How dare you? Just because you are my guardian and I have nobody to ask, did you think, you can take advantage of me? I thought you stand on high morals..." Rian turned Aria towards him not quietly understanding what was going on. Amelia and Rowan were in the same state. "Arrie! What happened? Did brother do something? Why are you angered so much?" He sounded very concerned. Alan leaned on his room door frame thinking what would be her answer. ..... Aria's mouth was wide open in shock. 'Sh*t! This man really has a mental illness. How can he forget so soon?' It vexed her more and wrung her hand to punch but Alan held her hand twirled her before pressing her back on him. "Young Miss Cooper! Mind your hand." He said loudly and whispered, "If you wanted more, you should have asked me." ~~~~ Aria Cooper, a confident, brave, intelligent, lively teenager turns insecure and timid losing her only family, her father. Alan Morgan, a cold, indifferent young President of Morgan Industries falls in love with the teenage girl who moves into his mansion. Being a cynic, will he be able to change and win over the girl's heart? Will he be able to find the culprit behind the murder of Aria Cooper's father who targets her? Will he be able to keep her safe? --- *** --- This is an original story. Story DISCORD: https://discord.gg/QhhXXWq Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/munchkin_2 Instagram: auth_munchkin Linktree: https://linktr.ee/munchkin *Credit to the real owner of the novel cover.
Aria quickly typed a message to Eva to be safe and moved ahead. She felt somebody coming behind her and turned but nobody was present.
It repeated twice and the room which she had to enter was at last and more than ten footsteps away. She didn't want to get on nerves and panic running around.
She quickly opened the settings in her mobile and turned off the flash before holding the mobile carefully clicking on the video record button.
She was about to open the door when the next room door opened and pushed her inside the dressing room snatching her mobile and locked the door before she heard multiple evil laughter.
It happened so quickly that Aria didn't get any time to react other than locking the mobile screen before she fell on the floor.
The laughter she heard were only girls but she couldn't identify anyone. She got up and went near the mirror to comb her hair and got ready calmly. After getting ready she was time passing when Eva opened the door accompanied by other classmates.
"Arrie!" The scared one was Eva who checked on her and hugged.
"I'm fine... Eva relax..." Aria patted on Eva to calm her.
Aria's message to Eva was, 'If I don't reach the ground in ten minutes, Come near the dressing room. Don't come alone. If you don't get me then inform Rian and Noah.'
Those ten minutes for Eva was like hell. She was pacing putting on a timer and after time up, she ran upstairs taking a girl and two boys from their class.
The other three sighed seeing Aria safe. Later they found Aria's mobile which screen was damaged.
"Arrie! Did you see them? Who did this to you?" Eva asked and similar questions from the other three were at Aria.
"No idea!" Aria didn't really have any idea.
Even though it was time, Aria and others went to the office room but Emma wasn't present. They were leaving, Jade entered. Aria asked, "Teacher Reed, may I borrow your laptop for five minutes?"
Jade recovered from his daze very quickly looking at Aria. He strode towards the table as he replied, "Sure!"
"Thank you, Teacher Reed."
She took his laptop and connected her mobile. She soon extracted the video and saw a girl in cheerleader dress peeking continuously at her from the corner of the corridor but it was far and couldn't identify the person. When she was being pushed inside, it had captured the two girls below their waist before Screen went blank.
Aria's concentration was on the laptop and didn't notice Jade looking at her in awestruck.
She replayed and last part multiple times before stopping at a hand that had a pearl bracelet. "Which cheer girl is wearing this bracelet?"
Aria leaned back on the chair staring at the screen then she felt a gaze on her and looked up to see Jade who instantly asked, "I think welcome dance by cheerlead team is over. Why are you still here?"
Only Eva noticed the difference in his gaze on Aria but she didn't butt in.
Aria's classmate replied, "Arrie was locked in the dressing room by somebody by nabbing her phone. They even ruined the mobile screen. Luckily Arrie is smart enough to notice the changes and had dropped a message to Eva hence we brought her out. Now we are checking who did it. Arrie had recorded the video."
Jade was shocked and looked at Aria. His panicked voice was very notable, "Aria! Are you fine? Did you get hurt?"
Aria slightly moved back to release his hold on her arms, "Teacher Reed, I'm perfectly alright. Thank you for the laptop."
She got up and turned around, his classmate spoke, "Arrie, it's Isla's bracelet. Look."
Aria saw the social media picture of Isla who uploaded quite a few pictures in that one picture clearly showed her bracelet.
Aria smiled to which the trio laughed. Jade was confused but followed them out as he heard Aria telling her classmate. "I thought she will hurt me if she stays near and kept her away. Ms.Heart throb must have thought I stole her fans. I will show her how to steal the limelight."
Aria soon reached the ground and explained what happened to Emma and PE teacher but she didn't tell who it was. She borrowed Emma's mobile and called Alan.
Alan who was in a meeting, received the call since it was from Emma. "Yes!"
Aria spoke hearing his voice, "President Morgan, Aria here. I hope I'm not disturbing your work."
Alan furrowed his brows not understanding why Aria called from Emma's mobile. "You aren't disturbing. What's wrong?"
The executives who heard him were flabbergasted in the meeting.
Aria continued, "If I ruin face or break a bone of an actress who is under your entertainment industry, will that be okay?"
Eva found it hard to control laughter and went aside.
Alan heard her serious voice. Even though he didn't know why she asked, he agreed as she wasn't the one do something like that without a reason, "No problem but you don't get hurt."
"Thank you! I don't have time now. I will let you know about it later. Go to go." Aria hung up without hearing the response.
She passed the mobile back and sent Eva to her seat before going towards the cheer girls' section where the lead Isla's face was dark as coal.
Isla didn't expect Aria to come out so soon. She had taken everyone's attention and was enjoying it to the core. If Aria goes, she would be sidelined again. She was thinking of possibilities to stop her but was shocked to see even the players getting distracted seeing Aria walk around the ground tossing the full white pom-pom in her hand.
She looked very graceful in her every step and was delighting to the eyes with her subtle smile. Even Isla found it hard to retract her gaze.
Aria glanced at the score and was very pleased to know Elite school was leading. She saw the darkened face of Rian and Noah looking at her. She knew it was because of her mischievous smile.
After reaching the cheer girls, Aria apologized, "Sorry girls! I'm late. How about the second set of cheers?"
All agreed as she was the lead. Isla gritted her teeth and went to the corner. Aria purposefully turned to the rest of the girls and stretched as she checked who was looking at Isla who accompanied her in the plan.
She easily identified two. In that one was Aria's supporter in the fourth set of cheers. But what she didn't expect was her simple side stretches to get 'Oh' for her.
She calmed down and turned front as she tightened her pony from which her snowy fair waist peeked a little which made Isla go green in envy.
"Start!" Aria commanded and started their moves effortlessly.
More than half of the audience's eyes were at the cheer girls of Elite school than the match.