3 days later
*Ringtone off alarm clock goes off*
I woke up after a dozen times and snoozed the alarm. Another tiring day of school is about to begin. Ugh,why does school have to start that early?
I did some stretches before getting out of bed to take a shower.
"Good morning Amber"
"Good Morning Leo" He flashes me his smile as he walked out of the bathroom. My face turned pink to the reaction of his smile.
Leo has been staying with us for 3 days since he ran away from home. I wonder why he has to leave home over me.
I still couldn't forget what happened last Saturday when I had dinner with his family and he held my hand out of the restaurant. Ugh, all this drama going on these days, can life can like normal?
I changed and went down to the dining room to have my breakfast.
When I was going down the staircase, I heard Leo talking on the phone with someone but he was not speaking English. Maybe he is talking with his family. Did his family told him to go back home?
"Oppa, it's been three days. When are you going to come back home?"
"Not now, Linda. I will go back when it is the right time."
He looked up towards my direction. "Talk to you later"
"I'm not done with you yet, Jung taekwoon!!!!"
Leo saw me and swiftly ended his call and gave me a smile.
"Hurry and eat your breakfast,we have to leave in 25 minutes!"
"Okay, can't you see that I am making my way down?"
"Nope, I can't.."
"Geez, you need to give your eyes check,Grandpa Leo"
He looked at me with those eyes that he wanted me dead and continued to eat his breakfast and I went to pour milk for the whole family.
"So what's the call about just now?"
"Just Linda telling me to go back home, I told her that I didn't want to go back to a home that doesn't respect my opinions of dating you. I mean is that anything wrong with that?"
"Emm, your mum just wants you to just listen to her." I carefully speak as I was afraid that I would hurt his feelings.
"I don't need that, quickly eat your breakfast"
"Yes" It got awkward all of a sudden. I didn't know where to look, I ended up only looking at the food.
"Emm, Leo? Have you thought of where are you going to work at? I suppose that you didn't bring out that much money." That broke the silence between us.
"Yea, I been thinking about that during these 3 days, I still don't know what can I work as? Any advice?"
"Well, you can work as a Barista at the cafe that you patronise or you can work with Amber at the bakery."
"I bet Leo wants to work at the cafe as he likes coffee so much, especially latte"
"How do you even know?"
"Duhh, you drink that all the time"
"Can't I even like coffee?"
"No" I mumbled under my breath so softly that he didn't even hear it and I swiftly finished my breakfast and put the plate in the sink.
All of us left the house. As usual, I sat in the car with my earpieces listening to all the K-pop songs that I have downloaded. Mandy influenced me into this.
Leo suddenly grabbed my hand while he was driving.
I was so shocked and slapped his hand away. "What are you even doing? We could even get into an accident."
He remained silent and keep driving while trying to hold my hand like just now.
Without even answering, Leo continued."Amber, can you promise me that you would never leave me?"
I let out a small laugh and teased him to avoid being awkward around him. "What happened to you this morning? Ate too much honey? Yea, I would never leave you."
Leo was usually not this cheesy. What was wrong with him? I could see that he was serious about it. Stupid boy, of course I would not leave him as I love him so much.
After that, he stopped talking to me and continued driving but he is still holding onto my hand.
He must be feeling so sad now, he looks fine from the outside, all smiling but must he shouldering all the worries all alone. I am his girlfriend, I should have a part in this too.
I know that he is thoughtful of me but this is just too much. How can his mum control him like that? I also wanted to help him but I didn't know how to help him.
"Bye, princess" He kissed my forehead and then I waved at him before he went onto his usual classes.
"Eww, that was disgusting. Somemore, it is in the morning"
I rolled my eyes at Alice that just arrived with her gang. I don't know what was her problem, always finding something with me.
"Jealous right? Then go get one."
I send a hurtful remark to her. I could see that she is trying to control her anger. But she seems a bit weird today. She would usually bicker with me but she walks away instead.
Well done, you pissed off Alice. Now, she wouldn't even bother you any time soon.
I continued walking to class when people from all directions greeted me good morning. I wonder why they do that all of a sudden.
"Good morning, Amber!"
"Good morning"
"Good morning, Miss Amber"
"Wait, why are you greeting me so formally all of a sudden?"
"Well, did you see what was on the news this morning?"
"No, why?"
I replied her and went on their web when I scrolled through the page when I saw the article "France's most richest woman passes away".
I began to be interested and looked more into the article. It says that a old lady in her 80s passed away from an heart attack in her home. The lady in the article looked so familiar, she looks like dad and me.
I zoomed in more into the picture and saw my grandma. Wait, it couldn't be. Grandma wasn't that rich from what I knew.
The last time I went to vacation with Mum and Dad, Grandma was dressed casually and lived in a cottage in the countryside, near to the countryside that I went on the trip.
I slapped my face twice as I wanted to wake up from the thoughts. Am I seeing things?
I read the rest of the article and was stunned at the last sentence of the article. "She willed all of her inheritance to her only granddaughter and her only grandson Miss Amber Parkerns and Mr Adam Elliot Caillier."
I dropped the phone, I was so shocked. I wasn't seeing things, the lady in the article was really my paternal grandmother. This couldn't be right.
I only knew that I lived in quite a big house when I was young and was now taken over to the Hawkins family because they wanted to live in there.
But how could this happen to me? I am just an ordinary girl living in her friend's house and working in a bakery.
I immediately went to the washroom to wash up and tried to collect my thoughts. I still couldn't believe how could this kind of thing happen to me? Who would have thought that I am the granddaughter of France's richest woman.
The girls that went in the washroom all had the same reaction as me. They all came up to me and gave me a hug and said congrats.
Wow, I am seriously not used to this attention. It makes me feel weird and awkward to suddenly have so many people coming up to me and congratulating me for getting the inheritance.
Some even asked for my number wanting to chat with this rich lady. That day was crazy. Even my friends were playing along. Nicholas and Mandy were all suddenly helping me to carry my stuff. Even Leo was playing along with it.
Holding my hand like a butler escorting the princess around. It just feels weird to be a rich lady in a night.
What in the world that I even deserved to be loved and worshipped?