As soon as the break had started, since Raina wasn't going anywhere it seemed, Kasey and Leilani had therefore gone to her instead.
When they had found her, she had seemed a little bit discouraged over something, and it was the fact that she had almost bought the necklace.
"Don't beat yourself up, Raina. You're doing well," Leilani had soothed, gently rubbing her arm with Kasey nodding.
"We would have probably done the same thing." Kasey had added. "Now come on. Don't give up. You're almost there. You're halfway."
Gosh, Raina Riele had really wished that she could have swapped positions with them at least although she couldn't have done that.
She was just happy though that they hadn't kicked her out of Unsuspected Love because that was her biggest fear.
"Nah, we couldn't kick you out. You're really important believe it or not," Kasey had promised her, smiling.
They weren't kicking her out now although if she had screwed up one more time then they might have actually considered doing it.
Depending on how badly she had screwed up.
The break overall was twenty minutes long, then it was time for the other half of the auction.
Raina Riele had practically fallen asleep for the 11th to 19th items because she wasn't interested in those, and even if she was it wasn't as though she could have brought them anyway.
Because she couldn't.
"Now we have come to the last item of the night," Maverick had announced after about two or so hours. "Best till last."
The auction had started with about seventy five to eighty people, now there were about twelve.
He had taken the topaz tiara from the treasure chest, where everybody had gasped and cheered.
"Where's Raina? Is she paying attention?"
"Bless her," Kasey had commented, pointing to her through the TV screen. "She's sleeping."
Leilani had kindly told her to wake up through the phone and she had done that.
As Maverick was talking about the topaz tiara, like he had been doing for all of the items, as in talking about them, that was when Raina had eventually woken up.
It was €500K so if someone had bid more than that then that would have been senseless as they were paying more than what the tiara was originally worth.
Kasey had told Raina through the phone to start bidding, and she did.
The starting number was €1K euros.
Standing up as quickly as she could, she had made 1K euros 1.5K.
They could have only bid €5K euros or less higher (minimum 50 euros) than the amount said, if they hadn't listened to this rule then they could have gotten into trouble.
The Italian guy known as Giovanni due to his name tag that had bid Raina Riele for the necklace earlier had stood up.
Either he was interested in the same things she was or he was deliberately bidding with her a lot to get on her last nerve.
He was wearing a tuxedo and he was very handsome, even if he was wearing sunglasses.
His next offer was €3K with oohs and aahs going everywhere.
Leilani: Come on Raina. You need to get this topaz tiara.
Raina Riele: I think I know that Leilani. Thank you very much. In the nicest way possible.
Giovanni wasn't the only person that was interested in the necklace as everybody else in the room was.
Kasey was right, the competition for this tiara was high because it was the most valuable item in the auction.
Someone had bid €8.
Then €18.
Then €50.
These prices were all in thousands.
"Hey hey hey. You can't go above 5K!"
"Be lenient on us man, it's the last item." Some kid the same age as Raina Riele it seemed had said.
For some reason, no one had said anything after €50K euros was yelled out, with Maverick realising this and moving on.
"Anyone wanna go above €50K?"
It wasn't even from Raina.
It was from that stupid Giovanni man that had seemed to be her biggest competition yet.
People had remained silent again, with Maverick yelling going once, then twice...
Kasey: Raina, why aren't you saying anything?
Raina Riele: I'm tryna think of a price that's not too high or too low either.
Maverick was just about to yell sold, until Raina Riele had shouted out €225K at the last minute, loudly enough to wake up the dead.
Everyone had looked at her as if she had just committed some sort of crime or something.
Kasey: Yes, Raina!
Raina Riele smiled.
She had really redeemed herself since the necklace incident which was what she had been trying to do the whole time.
"Whoa that's a big jump."
There was no point of Maverick going over the rules with these people because they really didn't seem to be listening to him.
Plus it was the last item of the auction anyway so he didn't really seem to mind if people had slightly broken the rules.
"Anyone for €225K?"
Silence for three or so seconds.
And then Giovanni had jumped to 300.
Raina bid 350.
Giovanni bid 375.
Someone bid 397, and when they did then they had received a lot of blank stares because that was a very odd number.
"What? I only have 800K. I need 3K for my plane back home tomorrow and food, and the rest for something else."
It had remained on 397 for a while, then Raina bid 430.
Giovanni 470.
Raina 480.
Giovanni 500.
They had been giving each other dirty looks the whole time.
"That's my final offer. And if you go higher than this price then that's stupid because you'll be paying more than what the original tiara was worth."
Sadly he was right, with Raina now constantly beating herself up for not saying 500 earlier.
She didn't do that in case she could have gotten things at the lower price.
"500 going once."
Leilani: Raina, somehow do something.
Kasey: She can't. She'll be paying extra.
Raina sighed as Maverick had announced that it was going twice.
She couldn't have done anything so he had said going three times.
Then she thought of something.
"€501K."
Everyone had stopped to look at her again, paying 1K extra seemed like the right thing to do.
Some people were even suspicious as to how she had so much money because she had seemed young.
Very young.
But she wasn't. She was just eighteen.
"You want to pay 1K extra euros than what the original tiara was worth?" Maverick had double checked, raising an eyebrow at her.
Leilani: Raina Riele. No. Don't pay extra. What are you doing?
Raina Riele: It's just 1K.
Kasey: 1K's a lot. And I know we need the real tiara to succeed this mission but what you're doing is kinda senseless. No offence.
She could have said a lower amount than 1K but that didn't seem very smart either to be honest.
She shook her head and it was sold to Giovanni.
That was the end of the auction.
So close...
Yet so so far at the same time as well.