Chapter 9: Chapter 9

Erica's pov:

I stood at near the window, trying to calm myself. Olivia's name itself was enough to make my blood boil. I took a deep breath to calm myself down. I rested my head against the frame of the window.

Everything was calm and peaceful for a while...however it was soon cut short when suddenly my landline started ringing with its annoying beeps. I contracted my eyebrows due to how annoyed I was. And reluctantly slid my head away from the window frame.

I walked over to the phone in a slow manner and picked it up. As I put the handset close to my ear, I was able to hear my receptionist's voice.

"Mrs. Wayne, Mr. Wayne has sent a message for you!" she stated. My eyes popped up as I was waiting to hear an update from Michael for a long time. It had been a long time since I heard his voice as well! Oh, how I missed him!

"Well? Go on! Tell me the message!" I demanded as I could not wait any longer. The suspense was killing me!

"Um, he said that he got a flight to LA and will arrive by tomorrow in the afternoon." she replied obediently.

I was relieved that everything went well, and no problem arose. I was extremely nervous that the police would interfere. I had to keep the plan a secret since it involved umm let's just say it involved.... not so legal activity. No one, not even Ruby who is so close to me and does my dirty work at times know about this.

During this whole plan, I felt like as if I was walking on eggshells but now that he was arriving soon, I felt calm. Well, I mean, it was bound to be a success as after all, I made this plan.

"Ok, thank you for the message! Oh, and please send Ruby to my office immediately!" I instructed while admiring my nails that I just got done at my favorite parlor.

"Ok!" she replied while I hung up.

As I waited for Ruby, I continued admiring my nails which had a white drip effect over a matte black nail polish. The lady really did an outstanding job with my nails but of course she could not do it without my idea for the drip effect, so I'll definitely give me some credit here!

Just then I heard the heavy glass door of my cabin open wide. I lifted my head and saw Ruby walking in with her huge black heels and black business suit. That's her normal attire.

"You called me?" She asked while folding her arms giving me the sassy attitude that she always gives me. I did not mind it as that was how we both interacted over the years.

Although I can admit sometimes, she pushes my buttons a lot. And when I mean a lot, I really mean a lot.

"Yes I-"

"You want me to call someone to fix your damn nails? They look extra hideous today." she mocked the creation I was so proud of, while giving me a questionable look. She was so bold that she would just speak her mind out to me.

"Oh, I'm tired of your shenanigans Ruby!" I raised one of my eyebrows and walked up towards her.

She scoffed, "ok ok, tell me what you want? Also, we can get to those nails later!" she smirked.

I got annoyed at that point, But I needed to tell her something very important, so I set my anger aside and told her what she needed to do for me.

I came up close to her and explained what her role in my new plan in a low voice was so that the other employees would not hear a thing that we were discussing about.

After hearing my plan, she gave me a confused look and yelled, "Are you crazy? How sure are you about this?"

I gave her a reassuring look and murmured "Oh shut up! I'm 100% sure about this! Just listen and do as I say!"

"Fine!" She rolled her eyes and started walking towards the main door.

She opened the door and before even leaving, she said with a disgusted face, "Oh and we gotta get your nails done asap! They need major help!"

I got annoyed once again but decided to let her go for the moment! She always manages to annoy me no matter what!

She finally left while I sat on my large chair and started going through the YouTube system reports for the day. It was such a boring job but if the cash flows in, I was not going to complain. The job of a CEO was not as lavishing as I thought it was when I first got the position. I never knew CEOs had to do actual work.

Guess I was very wrong!

Nikita's pov:

I woke up to a bright ray of light shining on my face. I covered my face with my hands in attempts to block the light while rubbing my eyes to remove the remaining sleep in me.

I got out of bed and wore my comfy hotel slippers. I was trying to recall what happened last night but the splitting headache that I had wouldn't let me!

To top it off, someone suddenly started knocking my door. I dragged myself to the door. My head felt heavy as if it was made of rocks! I could not bear the pain! Not feeling too great, I reluctantly opened the door slowly.

I unlocked the door, hoping that it was the room service guy with a huge tray of food as I was starving a lot more than I usually did in the mornings! I do not think I ate anything last night! That was weird since I was such a foodie.

Instead of being greeted with room service, I was greeted by the one and only brat, Olivia! Who had a huge smile on her face? I sighed as I had no energy to make her go away politely.

"This day could not get any worse! Could it?" I thought to myself while narrowing my eyes at Olivia to make sure I was not hallucinating things. My mind had a splitting headache, so I did not rule that out as a possibility!

"Are you real?" I asked while poking her forehead with my acrylic nail, making sure she was real.

"Of course, I am, silly!" she stated while walking into my room with a trolley. I was too tired to deal with her that I allowed her in. The trolley that she bought in, was making a lot screeching sounds as she pushed it into my room.

I was hungry, I had a huge headache, and I could not remember anything from last night. I rolled my eyes and walked into my room, closing the door behind me.

"Why are you here?" I questioned while rubbing my eyes again. My head felt so heavy. and I was yawning continuously.

"Well since you passed out yesterday in the middle of the party, Sam and I brought you up to your room! And I thought to come here to check on you while bringing some late morning breakfast. I figured that it would make you feel happy!" she said while pouring some water into a glass and topping it off with a few lemon slices while squeezing some of its juice into the water.

After hearing what Olivia said, my eyes started popping. What was she talking about?

I partially started remembering my plan of drugging Olivia and making her humiliate herself in front of everyone.

I started connecting the dots with what Olivia had told me and I got the biggest shock of my life!

"Did m-my p--p-plan backfire on me?" I could not believe that I fainted in front of everyone in the party. People must have been thinking that I was and am an alcoholic! I was feeling so embarrassed.

No! That was supposed to happen to Olivia! Not me!

To my added misery, I remembered that I used to preach my non-drinking habits in most of my YouTube videos! People were going to think that I am a hypocritical person!

Olivia then approached me and told me to drink the lemon water that she had prepared.

I immediately asked her whether anyone was gossiping about me from last night while drinking the lemon water. Even though I did not want to drink what she made, I still did as it really made me feel better. At least that brat was good for something.

Instead of answering me directly, Olivia looked at a corner, covered her mouth with her hand while her eyes started popping out! She looked like I had committed a crime or something. Her reaction to my question baffled me! What was she hiding?

I got up from my bed and out of immense curiosity! I demanded her to tell me what happened! I was desperate at that point to know more!

Just then, Olivia slowly pulled her phone out of her pocket and started doing something on it for a few seconds with the screen up close to her face.

I just stood there, at my spot, blankly, wondering what she was doing.

She then stopped and lifted her head, looking straight into my eyes, while slowly turning her phone to me. I gulped the saliva in my mouth and was feeling a bit nervous.

I just then realized she was showing me a video in which I was shown drunk and passing out in the middle of the party! It was taken by some random person who uploaded it to YouTube! It got over 4 million views. And the comment section was the ugliest thing I had ever seen!

I stood there in confusion, shock and mostly anger. I was so furious and embarrassed, and it was no one's but Olivia's fault. I stared at her in disgust when she was setting up my coffee table with plates filled with toast, eggs, sausage etc.

Her fake kindness was really getting on my nerves!

"Listen, you should not think much about this. After a week, it will die down and no one will find it interesting to talk about. Just sit tight and enjoy your breakfast since our VidCon schedule is free for today. Just relax!" She assured while leaving my room.

That video was the only thing that kept playing in my head after she had left. I was so angry that no one in the world could diminish this anger.

"Olivia!!" I yelled while punching my pillow to relive some anger.

I readjusted my hair and closed my eyes immediately while telling myself to calm down. I tried to take some deep breaths as well as they usually calm me down.

I sat down on the chair that was placed in front of the coffee table filled with my breakfast.

I grabbed a fork and started gobbling the food down! Did I mention I was hungry?

Despite me being grateful to Olivia for the breakfast, I knew I could not let her get away with this. Not one bit! She had to pay direly for it!

Since my plan ruined me instead of her, I knew I needed to come up with a grand plan to ruin her and her reputation for good!

I smirked at the thought of it and continued eating and enjoying my meal.

Olivia's pov:

After giving Nikita her breakfast, I happily went back to my room. The day looked so beautiful! It was the 'Perfect' day for the collab with Sam for my channel. I literally could not wait to meet him for some reason. It felt as if I wanted to spend the entire day with him.

I quickly sat on my bed, drank some water and took my phone out of my pocket.

I dialed Sam to confirm the timings for the video shoot as I remembered that we had not really discussed it properly. It also gave me a reason to just hear his voice. I was really in the mood to talk with him all day!

Ok, I sound like a creep! It was so weird.

After hearing the ring from my phone which sounded like it was playing forever, the line cut abruptly with a message saying that Sam had cut my call!

I looked at my phone in confusion as Sam usually picks up. It was not like him to do such a thing!

Why did Sam cut the call? I wonder what happened?