Chapter 7

" What could have gone wrong during the time when she was with Blaze?", but those were in answered questions.
He rubbed his big rummy with his hands pressing them hard as though he wanted to injure himself.
Filled with so much rage, he pushed a chair down and walked out of the room.
Crystal tried to be calm as she could so as to come up with another plan to go get the money that was left.
Lying on the sofa, her head rested on one arm while her leg was crossed on the other as though she was carrying the problems of the world on her shoulders.
Blaze was done with his friends but he didn't seem to be too happy and his friend had noticed it.
The expression on his face was like that of a doorman that had not yet been paid for the month.
"Are you okay Blaze?", his friend asked looking at him.
He looked at him and with a funny smile, he replied that he was doing okay.
Blaze was lying through his teeth and it was very obvious that something was on his mind but he couldn't say it to anyone.
He walked to his car, opened the door, and sat in it for some minutes before driving off.
Crystal was still in her same position starting at the wall-to-wall glass in her room like she was a stranger that had never been into that room.
The knock of the door quickly snapped her out of her dreamland and she struggled to stand on her feet but cramps had made their way to her legs as she had been sitting in the same positions with her legs crossed and folded for some minutes.
Her limbs finally stood still and she opened her door. It was Gina the maid.
" Ms. Crystal do you mind me serving you in the dining room or will you have your food here in your room?", She inquired nicely.
"You can bring it here Gina with a bottle of water", she responded.
She left for the kitchen to get the food for her Mistress.
Blaze got back home and went straight to his room and laid down on his bed. His thoughts were unstable and he needed some sleep in order to get better.
His phone rang up and he searched for it not knowing on which part he had dropped it on the bed.
When he finally picked up the phone, he saw an unknown number calling him and he couldn't think of whom it could be.
He picked up the phone and the voice on the other side of the phone was a lady.
" Hello, who am I talking to?", he asked skeptically.
"It's Miranda", the person answered.
He could make out anyone by that name so he asked further,
" Which Miranda please and what do you want?".
"I want you Blaze", the caller was very direct in her words.
Sorry Ms, but I think you have the wrong number.
The caller laughed out loud and said, "baby it is me, Miranda, we met last week at your house".
He reminded himself of the lady he spent the night with last week and the memories of their encounter came flashing in front of him and he responded,
" Miranda the pretty girl".
That was a trick if he always used whenever he couldn't make out a girl he had slept with or a girl he had dated in the past.
He met so many women on daily basis but he never had the courtesy to save up their number for obvious reasons.
"He dubbed me. That scheming two-faced son of a bitch drugged me and took away my honor and still gave me a briefcase filled with papers". She said with anger raving in her eyes like a lioness.
She was determined to get back the money at least for the sake of her inheritance.
She had gone downstairs and asked the maid to make something for her to eat. She needed strength and moreover, she didn't get to eat the whole morning.
The day was going to belong for her and she had failed her uncle.
She had to avoid her uncle at all costs till she had figured how to get the money and bring it to him.
Crystal went into the kitchen and told the maid to make French fries and chicken breast sauce with a lot of veggies in them.
She was about to say another word to the maid when she heard her uncle come up behind her, and touch her on her shoulder saying,
" I am not mad at you anymore because I know that you did your best", he spoke gently.
Peering up over her shoulder, Crystal's eyes were filled with hidden tears as she looked at her uncle seeming to be understanding.
"You don't need to cry little Crystal, all that we need is another plan, and this time it has to be better than the first", he asserted.
Crystal knew that her uncle wasn't a perfect person but this super understanding character trait of his, was simply just amazing.
She wiped off the little tears that had fallen off from her eyes with the help of the back of her hand and she nodded to what her uncle had just said.
" I want you to go upstairs and have a rest while Gina will make your food and bring it to you", he smiled at me.
That was unlike Uncle Max and she knew it well, but the fact that he didn't scold at her again, made her feel much more better to face the day.
Deep down in her heart, she knew that was just another facade from her uncle as he was good at the art of manipulation.
Crystal went up to her room and she heard her phone ring and it was her friends who were calling for shopping as usual she guessed.
She pushed the Do Not Disturb button on her phone and she walked into a smaller corner of her room which served as an inner sanctum for each moment she got sad.
"Can I come over to your house and keep you company, that is if you are not busy?", she asked with a sweet voice.
This was a good thing for Blaze as he will be able to feel better.
He didn't hesitate to give a favorable response to her and this was in his favor.
He hung up a call and rushed into the bathroom to take a shower and smell nice before the arrival of another victim in his house and his bed.
Crystal was done with her meal and she was able to find some sleep in the devastating state that she was in.
Her life was in a dilemma and her whole existence depended on that money that she has to bring so did her uncle made her believe.
She slept like an angel that has never come across any trouble with anything or anyone.
Uncle max came knocking on her door while she was asleep and she didn't hear him as she was deep in it.
He pushed her door gently and smiled at the fact that she was easily manipulated by him.
He shut her daughter and with a heavy sigh, he left from there and walked away.
The day was slowly giving way for the night to come and the evening was steady with beautiful weather and stars in the sky.
Crystal woke up after a long sleep and she didn't have control over her body yet. So she sat up on her bed and with the help of several pillows, she supported her back from hurting in that position that she was sitting.
It was sunset as she had noticed from glancing her room because it had become dark.
" For how long did I sleep?", she murmured to herself while she rubbed her head with the tips of her hands to ease the mild headache she was feeling.
She took her phone and removed the Do Not Disturb mode that she had activated during the day.
Her life was so lonely and full of sadness that sometimes she wished she had a sinking or even a pet to keep her company.
There was a knock on her door and she wondered who it might be.
"Crystal it's Georgia, are you in there?", the voice asked.
Georgia was one of her friends, the closest of them all.
" Yes Georgia comes in", she spoke softly.
She lived the door and walked into the room but couldn't see anything as the room was in total darkness. She could barely see anything. But after being in the dark for a while, she started seeing her friend as she now decided to address her.
"Are you okay Crystal? why are you sitting in the dark?". She interrogated as she reached for the switch.
Immediately after she had switched in the light, she now turned directly facing Crystal's direction. Squeezing her eyes to see her clearly as she hears her cry.
The sound from Crystals' voice was so alarming the soul as she shouted from deep down her mind.
Her eyes were already swollen from crying too much as though she was bereaved.
The kind of pain she was feeling could not be explained as she kept on looking at her friend with so much grieve in her heart.
Her friend was shocked by what she was seeing, because so speechless as she hurriedly rushed towards her location in order to find out what was troubling her to the point of making her cry that much.
"Hey Crystal, what is wrong with you my dear friend?", Georgia asked with so much chaos and anxiety to know what was going on as she had was lost with all the drama that Crystal was conducting.
Georgia touching and romancing her back in an attempt to calm her down was doing it in a very soft and subdued manner.
However, she had no idea if she was doing it right but all she knew was that it had to work as she continued rubbing her back like a baby.
She knew that it was a good idea because she has always been her favorite girlfriend since form childhood.
Crystal couldn't acknowledge what the problem was to her friend so she just sat still on the bed looking down at her feet.
Georgia came closer and sat by her bed and rubbed her shoulder and with a disturbed look she asked,
" I have been calling you all day but your phone had been switched off Crystal, that is so unlike you so I got worried and divided to pass by here to check on you", she related.
She was a strong girl but she also needed company during that moment and her friend had come just on time.
She hugged her friend and with so much sadness in her voice she said,
"Thank you do very much for checking up on me my friend, I really do appreciate it".
Her friend could see how pale she looked and so she seemed worried,
" Are you okay?", she further asked with a very tense look trying to figure out what was really the problem as she could not bear seeing her friend suffering in that manner.
In all her life knowing Crystal, she had only seen her in such a state when she lost her parents not until now that she does not know the real cause of her problem.
Looking at her while crying, she became so emotional too that she could not hold herself back from crying too.
Georgia began crying without knowing what the problem was. The bond between Georgia and Crystal has always been strong and became stronger and stronger day by day.
"Crystal, talk to me, I am your friend". Georgia said putting on a huge smile of motivation on her face in order to assure her that she wasn't alone in whatever it was she is going through and also that she has always got her back no matter what the problem was.
Crystal still sitting on her bed was still dumb due to the anger that had already nursed in her.
She did not know how to start explaining to her friend as she was so embarrassed about the whole incident. She was lost in her thoughts that she did not know what to think again.
However, she had no idea if she was going to ever recover from her present situation and state at that point in time following the crucial and bad incident that had just occurred to her very early that morning.
However, she could not tell her friend the actual incident that just happened very early that morning. It was a secret and was supposed to be known just between her and her uncle.
There was the need for her to keep her calm as she was so carried away with everything that could disturb her.
She kept on being calm. Her friend losing patience could no longer continue asking her the same questions.
So she had to force her to give her answers to her numerous questions as she held her firmly by the arms regardless of how painful it was to her.
All she wanted at that point in time were answers and only answers. No more, no less. And she was ready to get them no matter how hard it could be for her to get the answers.
As she was shaking her up, she came back to herself as she had already started regaining back her senses. She was coming back to herself. She was really lost in her time before.
At first, she was trying to hide everything from her as she said.
"Yes I am, I just have a dull headache", Crystal said trying to lie to her friend Georgia. She was trying to cover up everything from her as she did not want Georgia to know the whole truth about what was happening to her at that moment.
" Do you want me to go downstairs and tell Gina to get you something for that?", Her friend Georgia asked with a lot of concern for her as she wants to go downstairs and call for the house help to find out if she could help a little bit with the whole the whole situation.
The main reason why Georgia was insisting on calling for Gina to come up stairs was because, she thought that Gina could be of help.
She felt like she was kind of intruding in to Crystal's affairs as Crystal's new way of behaving towards her was so unfamiliar to her and she had never experienced such behavior from her before.
"No I will be fine Georgia", she responded with a very pale voice as she sounded so weird and very unusual. Her voice was sounding so frustrating as Georgia could barely even get what she was saying at that point in time.
Georgia, struggling to hear what Crystal was telling her decide to come more close to her so that she could hear directly from the horse's mouth.
" Why? are you sure you do not want me to call Gina for you?. She could help with your situation you know?", Georgia said with a very soft, calm and subdued voice trying to convince Crystal on accepting the proposal that she had just give to her about calling Gina for her.
But still yet, following how stubborn Crystal is just like the way she has always been, she still denied her proposal as she was vehemently refusing to accept the fact that she was wanting to Call Gina for her.
Well as it was not her will.
How ever, it was not going to do any good to her if she was going to call Gina for her but it could have added more pain to her because she needed a lot of space.
Due to the psychological trauma that she was undergoing right now, she could no more be like before so easily as she was abused as well as she was violated by a total stranger that she does not even know him so well.
All she knew about him was that he was a very wealthy man and not only wealthy as a millionaire but he was a well known and renounced Billionaire.
Georgia remained for a while with her friend trying her best to console her though not still getting to know and what was wrong with her. As she tried to figure out by her self every thing that was going wrong with her.
" Come on Crystal. You are actually making me to cry too. I don't still know why you have been crying for so long now. You have refused to tell me any thing. It's not fair you know? " said Georgia with a very low tune as well as she also feeling so sad due to the fact that she could not get to know why Crystal was in such a bad mood that morning because she had vehemently refusing to tell her any thing that concerned her problems that day which Georgia saw it to be totally and completely unlike the Crystal she had always known before.
After a long period of Georgia trying to convince Crystal to tell her just the surface of why she was acting so weirdly that morning, She finally succeeded to convince Crystal on telling her what she wanted to hear at that moment. At least, her efforts on convincing her did not go in vain.
All hopes were not yet gone because she had the confidence that Crystal will finally end up telling her what she wanted. Which she was finally falling for it as she started telling her some of the things that have been bothering her since that day had started.