Chapter 54: Chapter 54

"Oh em gee, am I interrupting anything?" Tiffany asked

"oh no, you are not interrupting anything," I told her

"Actually you are, you should have knocked before coming," Jade told her.

"knock? You know I'm not the knocking type and besides this is my bedroom, or at least it was." Tiffany said "Well... won't you introduce me to your friend, JJ?

"JJ?" I asked turning to him

"Please don't call me that," Jade said

"why not? It's such a cute name," Tiffany said. "Hi, I'm Tiffany, JJ's sweet and loving sister" she said to me and Jade rolled his eyes when she said sweet and loving.

"I'm UK, Jade's girlfriend, it's nice to finally meet you Tiffany," I said shaking her hand

"oh... em... gee... girlfriend? You know when my mother said JJ got bewitched by a black girl, I thought she was only saying that because she dislike blacks but you my dear are a stunning sight to behold," Tiffany said

"I'll take that as a compliment," I said pouring a glass of water for myself

"come on Tiffy, let's go talk downstairs," Jade said to her

"You go ahead, I'm not really in the mood to talk to you about anything, right now I have a lot of catching up to do with my sister-in-law," Tiffany said and I choked on my water.

"wow, you just saw her today and she is your sister-in-law?" Jade asked

"yep, I like her. Juliet doesn't seem to have a problem with her, and I can clearly see that you care about her, I'm sure that we'd become inseparable the few days I'd be staying here," she said

"Become inseparable? oh boy not you too," Jade said pinching the tip of his nose in between his eyes. "come with me UK, don't choose her over me, you'll never remain the same again, shell teach you all the evil things she knows," Jade said giving me his pleading look

"Alright, let's go," I said to him

"noooooooooooo!!!!!" Tiffany and Juliet said. "She fell for the pleading face, how could you fall for the pleading face UK?" Tiffany said, I turned and winked at her.

Jade was walking in front so he didn't see what I did, immediately he went out of the room, I locked the door behind him and left the key in the hole.

"Now that's what I'm talking about, baby. We have a lot in common UK," Tiffany said giving me a high five

"That's the third time daddy has fallen for mommy UK's tricks this morning," Juliet said to Tiffany.

"UK open the door this instance," Jade said rapping on the door

"I'd really love to but I don't want to miss the opportunity to know things about you which you would be too embarrassed to tell me," I told him

"speaking of that, I have something to show you. Help me pushed the bed," Tiffany said and the three of us slowly pushed the bed to the center of the room. Tiffany rolled the carpet, took out a small knife from her ankle boot, stuck it in a small space between the wooden floor and opened a small space, revealing a wooden box. she took it out, blew out the dust and opened it, there were papers, a picture album and a video recorder inside.

"Here is a collection of your boyfriend's embarrassing and silly moments. Some were compiled by mother and some by me. Have a wonderful time," Tiffany said handing me handing me the box.

I kept it on the bed and helped her push the bed to its original position, I was just excited to see what was in the box.The letters were mostly love notes he wrote to his high school crushes, "how did you get these letters?" I asked Tiffany

"I stole them from him, he always think that dad took his love letters but he was too scared to ask, my dad was a very strict man, especially to JJ," Tiffany replied.

"It seems he succeeded in sending some letters because I've seen few notes from different girls replying to his letters," I pointed out

"Yeah, they belong to the girls dumb enough to use me as their love messenger, their letters never get to JJ and at the end, they'll think he wasn't interested in them," she said.

"Don't you think that was a bit cruel?" I asked feeling bad for the teenage Jade whose love life was blocked by his very own sister.

"Cruel? You should have seen what he did to my girlfriend when she came to this house on his 19th birthday. just to make me feel bad for being gay, he kissed my girlfriend in front of everyone and the foolish girl was enjoying herself," she said

"oh dear, so it was only a tit for tat situation," I said

"No honey, it was a tooth for teeth situation, if you know what I mean. I wanted to destroy his entire love life for stealing Mel from me," she said slamming her right fist in her left palm.

"And you've gotten over with that right?" I asked, feeling a bit scared that she might continue her revenge on Jade by separating the two of us

"of course you don't have to worry about that. I'm over the whole revenge thing. It ended with Juliet's mother," she whispered the last line to my hearing only.

"oh my goodness Tiffany, why would you do that to the poor child?" I asked

"UK you should have seen Daphne, she deserved what happened to her." she said

"what happened to her?" I asked

"JJ liked Daphne but she was crazy over him, saying she was obsessed with him is an understatement. But that's not the point, this girl was the devil reincarnated, don't ask me what she did, just know that she was pure evil. Nobody at home liked her, except for JJ, he was blind to all bad side and never listened to anyone.

"On the day she gave birth, I called her and told her that it would be better if she never came back because JJ eloped with Mel. Although I was angry at my girlfriend for dumping me for my brother, she was better than Daphne and everyone knew it, including Daphne herself. I was surprised she took my words seriously, the next thing we heard was that she killed herself few days later."

"That is such a sad story, Aunt Tiff," Juliet said. Poor child, she doesn't know that the sad story was about her mother.

"Well let's see what is on the video recorder," I said changing the subject.

We went through the videos and the picture album, they were just pranks caught on camera.

Tiffany and I got to know each other, she was three years older than me but we had a lot in common, same favorite colors, same taste in clothing. She had been in Nigeria for two years and so we had a lot to talk about.

We talked about a lot of things and lost track of time, we didn't even notice when Jade stopped knocking.

"For the love of God, can someone please open this door and save my girlfriend and daughter from my sister," Jade said knocking the door lightly

"mommy UK can we open the door for daddy now?" Juliet asked

"Should I?" I asked Tiffany

"yeah, I think we've tortured him enough," Tiffany replied and I went to open the door.

At exactly 4 o'clock, Emy called me to come over to the fashion house, I arrived there 15 minutes later in a simple baby pink long sleeves dress. The 5 models were already there waiting for me, "sorry for keeping you guys waiting," I apologized

"Don't apologise, Emy isn't here yet. It's good you are here before her, come there's something I'd like us to do," one of the models said to me.

"We all know that we are starters in this industry, so instead of us fighting amongst ourselves and trying to pull each other down, why don't we start now to develop good relationship with ourselves. Yes we may become ambassadors for competing companies but that should not put an enmity between us.

" It wouldn't be a bad thing if the six of us become friends, I don't know for you guys but I'd really love it, we can help each other out when we're in need. The enmity between celebrities should end with us, we may not be able to make everyone change but gradually, they'll see that celebs shouldn't always be on each other's neck. So who's with me?" She asked

"I'm in" I said walking up to her

"me too," another model joined us

"I'm in"

"nice pep talk, count me in. We all turned to the last girl

"don't look at me, as long as no one intentionally upset me then count me in," she said joining us

"group hug?" the first girl said and we came together in a big embrace.

"As much as I love seeing this, we have a show in 4 hours and there are a lot to be done. There's a bus waiting outside, let's go ladies," Emy said and we all went outside.

The place was not so far from the fashion house, we used the back door to a big dressing room.

"Ladies, gather round I have something to say," Emy called

"Now this is the order in which you all will go out. Eva, you will open the showcase with Morning Breeze, Hazel will go next with Oceania. Jasmine, you will be the third person, presenting Magik, Ren will follow next, showcasing Peacock. Skye will go next with Moonlight, it suits your name, and for the last showcase for the first outing, UK will present dazzling Princess. You will all follow the same pattern for the second outing. Does anyone have something to say?"

"No" we chorused

"Alright ladies, get to work," Emy said and we went to our seats.

We each had 3 people working on us.

Hours later, the show started, we stood in line waiting to be called. I felt really nervous, my fear was that I might trip on my dress and fall or the shoes may make me fall.

Eva went out and came back 5 minutes later, "there's a whole crowd of people out there, I felt so scared. On her way back, Jasmine tripped on her dress, just as she got into the dressing room and sprained her ankle. "Ren, go on it's your turn now", Emy said before going to Jasmine.

"Are you alright darling?" Emy asked

"I am so sorry Emy, I was so clumsy and I've ripped your dress, I'm so so sorry," Jasmine cried

"Nonsense, I don't care about the cloth as much as I care about your well-being. Do you think you can get up?" Emy asked

Jasmine tried getting up but she fell again, "I think I've sprained my ankle," she cried "oh no, how do I go on with the second outing?"

"Nevermind about that, someone please take her to a seat and place some ice on her leg. I'm sorry Jasmine but you won't be able to showcase Spring for the second outing, you will be replaced. And I think the best person to take your place is UK, she's the same height as you,"