Chapter 18- Paris Life Part I

Slowly my eyes opened and I saw that my head was on chase's lap and his head was against the wall. I looked around and the lights were on and everything was working.

Slowly I tried sitting up, not knowing our fingers were intertwined. As I pulled my other palm, it woke Chase up.

"Olive," he almost shouted, as he sat up quickly. "Are you okay?" He asked and I nodded.

Suddenly few people came up from the stairs and rushed towards us. I looked up to find Mr. Chivalry, Rhea, Jeremy and... Amanda. They stood in front of us while Chase and I were sitting there with our fingers intertwined.

"Ahem," Mr. Chivalry cleared his threat and smiled.

I looked up at Rhea and she was dressed up and so were the others.

"So were y'all like having a nice and romantic candle light talks at night without a candle?" Rhea started enthusiastically and Mr. Chivalry chuckled.

I stood up and realized that we fell asleep here yesterday night. Shit! Today is the presentation. I had to be ready for this.

"I'm sorry but I gotta go," I said as I ran down the stairs quickly.

"Why don't Olive and you come afterwards on the chopper? The flight is to leave in about 15 minutes now so we should get going but don't forget to pick her up and be there on time," Mr. Chivalry said as all of them hurried downstairs.

"Why don't I stay and come with them?" Amanda proposed just as I turned around to hear what Mr. Chivalry said.

"There's no need," Chase quickly spoke.

Rhea smiled and looked at me, signaling something. When I looked at Mr. Chivalry, his expressions weren't readable.

"Father, I can get ready and come with you guys. There's no need for us to come on a chopper," Chase stated as he looked at me from the corner of his eye.

"But how will Oli-" Mr. Chivalry started.

"It's totally fine Mr. Chivalry. I can get ready in like 5 minutes so there's no need to go on a chopper. I'll manage," I interjected as I took Rhea to the side. "Excuse me."

"Yo what's happening? First Chase acts all concerned about you then he denies Amanda from joining you both and he denies to go on a chopper with you and you do the same? What happened last night? Did you like accidentally bang him or something cause he don't seem very pleasant about anything," Rhea spoke as we entered her office.

"Oh my god Rhea for god's sake no. We just had a little talk yesterday night before getting stuck in the elevator," I spoke as I saw my bag which Rhea apparently brought for me.

She knew.

She trapped me in there with him?

No. How can it be her?

It wasn't her.

But then why did she bring me clothes?

How did she know?

"So my plan didn't work? Dang it," she muttered under her breath.

"So it was you. I half knew it. The elevator took forever to come back up. You were messing with it," I figured and she smirked.

"Oh how much I want to slap that smirk off your face. I had to spend the whole night with him," I almost whispered as I quickly showered and brushed my teeth.

"I'm ready," I said as I came out of the bathroom. "Let's go."

"But at least you had alone time with him," she whispered while we walked up to others.

Both of us we went next to Mr. Chivalry. "8 minutes, not that bad Olive," Mr. Chivalry stated as he checked his watch.

"We can leave now," I said.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go," he replied as all of left for airport.

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The ride to Paris was slow but quiet. Because of Mr. Chivalry and Rhea, I had to sit in the middle of Chase and Amanda. Whereas chase didn't talk but Amanda couldn't shut up about how her American aunt brought her tickets to Beyoncé concert.

No offense I love her too but Amanda couldn't stop bragging about it. Why is she even here? Wasn't she the reason that we didn't get the deal last time?

When we reached the hotel, the conference started. As I talked about all the positive reviews, Chase supported me and backed up my weak points.

The Paris clients liked our new and innovative idea and decided to give us the deal.

"Congratulations," one of the men shook mine and Chase's hand.

"They are perfect for each other. If they keep working together like this then there is no problem about getting any deals," other one spoke to Mr. Chivalry and he was thinking something.

"Well thank you guys for coming. Tonight is the first ball of winter and I'd love if you guys could make it," the first one said and Mr. Chivalry nodded.

"Of course we'll be there," he stated as all of us were quiet shocked. We gave him a quick glance and then just smiled.

"It's at the hall right next to this hotel. It starts at 7 and you would need a date," he winked and left.

When the dealers left, we headed back to our rooms. Mr. Chivalry said that we will be going to the ball but I didn't bring anything to wear. It was just a simple one day trip.

We were to leave at 9 PM for London. How complicated can it get? Mr. Chivalry said that we'll leave for airport directly from the ball.

Who knew I was gonna go to a freaking ball?

Rhea barged into my room and looked tensed. I looked at her as she walked back and forth in front of me.

"When you're done with your mini marathon, tell me what you're wearing," I said, looking out the window and finding the Eiffel Tower.

"What am I wearing? That's not the question you should ask. The question is, did you even bother to bring clothes? And the answer is a fucking No," she sighed deeply as she laid down on the bed next to me.

"Same here. I thought it was a one day trip so I haven't brought any clothes nor money to buy them. How will you go to the ball?" I looked at her.

"I? Only me? What about you?" She asked as she sat up, looking out the window with me.

"Well I could care less about any ball and I'm perfectly fine in my clothes right now. It's you who should be worried not me," I stated as I heard a knock on the door.

I went to the door and opened it to see Mr. Eugene standing at the door himself. He cleared his throat, looking at Rhea who was laying down on the bed awkwardly and was unaware of his presence.

"My wife decided to give you girls the clothes to wear to the ball. She figured that you didn't bring any with you and she'd be very pleased if you wear these," he spoke, rather professionally and handed me 3 boxes which were wrapped in a gift wrap.

"Also she gave me couple of accessories and makeup kit. She figured you might need it."

"Thank you so much Mr. Eugene," I spoke softly as I placed the boxes on the table and looked at Rhea who sat on bed, alerted.

"Glad I could help," he said. "I'll take your leave now." He left and I closed the door.

I looked at Rhea who sprung off the bed and started opening the boxes.

"Rhea they aren't all for us. One of them is for Amanda so don't open all of them," I told her but not that she was gonna listen to me.

"Well first come first serve. She isn't here so we get to choose what we want to wear," she spoke as she first revealed a pink dress. Her eyes sparkled and she opened the other one which was a black dress.

"Ooh," she shrieked as she threw the black dress on me and I catches it. "That's for you."

"What?" I asked.

"Black dress always does the magic. Whatever's wrong between you and Chase will all be fine if he sees you in that dress. Wear it and show me," she demanded.

"Okay," I said as I went to the restroom and changed. When I came out I saw Rhea sitting on the bed, wearing the pink dress, I cleared my throat as I walked up to her.

"Damn, if I didn't have Sameer, I'd definitely fall in love with you. Girl you don't even need makeup and your bangs, ugh why are you so beautiful," she said as she came to me and swung me around.

"Thank you for all the kind words but you look so much better. I wish Sameer was here, he'd see how beautiful you look," I smiled at her and she blushed.

I looked behind her and there laid a black and white dress which seemed too short. Rhea looked at what I was staring at and sighed. "It's for that slut. That dress isn't impressive at all, if chase saw her in it he'd probably kill himself."

"You shouldn't call her that. She might have slept with him but she might be nice," I spoke calmly as the door opened and there she was.

She looked at us and made a disgusted face. Then she walked over to the table and saw her dress.

"Thanks for saving this one. It's rather better than what shit you're wearing," she said looking at me.

"Well that was leftover and our choice is definitely better than that slutty outfit," Rhea commented as Amanda went to the bathroom to get dressed.

"You were saying something about her being nice," Rhea said as she took the makeup kit and started doing her makeup.

"Ugh whatever maybe she is a bitch for all we know but I don't care," I said as I took the bracelet which was sitting on the table.

Suddenly Amanda stormed out of the bathroom, in her dress which showed a lot of her upper thighs.

"Best fit for me," she said as she took another makeup kit and sat down across Rhea.

Rhea looked a bit angry and she made me sit down in the chair so she could do my makeup. I calmly sat down because every time Rhea gets mad she reminded me of keechee.

After hour hour or something finally she was done with my hair and makeup. I looked up and smiled.

"Rhea this is amazing," I said as I hugged her.

"Thanks and you look so much better than some people," she said, eyeing Amanda who was taking her sweet time getting ready.

She looked like a cupcake. Her face looked like it was dipped in a cake before she got a bad haircut. Oh god bless this poor child.

Rhea laughed and Amanda stood up angrily. "At least it's better than how you look," she said, stomping her way out of the room.

"Did I say that out loud?" I asked and Rhea laughed even more. "I guess I did, whoops."

"Let's go, the boys must be waiting," she said as she took my arm and we went out.

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How are the dresses up there? I love what Rhea is wearing but as I'm more of a black clothes person, I love what Olive is wearing.

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