Still in MM Holdings
The crews and the photographers inside the set started to dismiss after Mario ordered them to do so. The moment when Pie suddenly left the set drew an intense puzzle to everybody. None of them knew what was really happening back then except Kim. That tom was the concrete reason behind the mystery. Kim stoned to the stage, consumed by bitterness and guilt. She has no idea where Pie has gone to neither she couldn't arrange any idea to look for the girl. In other words, she was clueless to her blunt end.
"Kim, are you alright?" Mario came to approach her. She saw how the guy who was practically a few inches towered over her looked down to find her eyes. The concern gaze of him was more than enough to show how he cared a lot about his tom friend. The facts that Kim never really had so many friends in her young days made this guy one of her best male friend in her life. Back to the time in high school, they were together in the same class from the beginning till they graduated. That's why Kim never hesitate to lend a help to Mario. As in example for today's photo shooting session. Kim came to help him for the magazine which he was about to publish for his father's company. Maurer's family was one of the leading aristocrat of fashion and clothing industry. He was appointed for the first time by his father to handle the next month new release fashion style of their brand clothing materials.
"I'm sorry for what has happening." Kim responded apologetically. The thought of her friend's failure for the best photo shoot of his work disturbed her mind momentarily.
"No, don't say that. I am the one who should say sorry to both of you. Pie might not be comfortable with it. I have forced her too much." Mario soothed. He ran his gaze around the set. He seemed to look for someone.
"I need to talk to Pie." He said. Just like what Kim has expected, his searching eyes were all trying to locate Pie's presence.
"I'll take care of her. You don't have to worry." Kim was the first one to counter the guy's intention. Even if Mario felt guilty for the matter, he wasn't really the concrete reason for the problem. In fact, he didn't know anything previously.
"Is it really fine?" Mario seemed not to agree with the idea. Kim knew him so well. Living his life in an aristocrat family, Mario was definitely raised up to be a man full of courtesy. He was down to the Earth despite his status yet he had every characteristics which every girl would look for.
"Just hand it to me. I'll talk to her." Kim assured it as not to make Mario brooded more even. "Excuse me." The tom hurriedly arranged her steps. Her clear mind start to realize that she needed to find Pie, as soon as possible.
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Dressing Room
By the time Kim walked into the room which they had used to prepare themselves earlier, she found Pie already got change to the clothes of her own. The petite girl seemed to rush somewhere when she frantically packed her stuffs into the handbag. Because Pie was too rush in her movement, her phone fell to the floor helplessly with a loud crushed sound. Kim watched how Pie gasped with the sight that the phone might not be able to be saved to its life anymore. She quickly knelt down as to pick the shuttered pieces. A soft murmur sound escaped from her slightly parted lips.
"We can buy a new one." Kim came to her side. Startled by the sudden presence of the tom, Pie jumped off her feet a little bit.
"Where are you going?" Kim asked and at the same time she knelt down to help Pie. Pie seemed didn't bother to answer the tom when she just hurriedly got on her feet again and later turned on her heels, ready to leave the place. It seemed like Kim's presence was the biggest disturbance to the girl.
"Hey Pie wait! Where are you going?" Kim managed to grab Pie's arm, making an abrupt pause to the petite lady's movement.
"Don't touch me!" Kim's hand loose its grip in one swift dodge. Pie definitely wasn't in her good mood.
"Where are you going?" The puzzled tom queried once again. A spark of hurt developed deep inside the tom's soul. Why was it even hurt when Pie did so to her? She couldn't understand it either.
"I'm going home. Are you satisfied?" Pie's body language depicted how the girl was irritate with the tom.
"Well at least let me have a change first. You come with me and you shall go back with me too." Kim said.
"I don't need you! I can go home by myself." Pie snapped.
"This is an order. You're not going anywhere." Kim dictated. The tom hurriedly grabbed her bag and took out her clothes from it. When she turned to look for Pie again, she saw the girl already headed to the exit.
"Stay still there and don't leave the room." Kim raised her warning voice.
Pie who was actually ready to turn the door's knob bravely turned to look to Kim once again. "What are you going to do to me if I'd leave?"
"Was it too difficult for you to wait for a minute? I won't take that long." Kim frowned. Pie made everything complicated.
"Who are you to dictate me?" Pie countered.
"Whether it is an agreement on the paper only or what not, you're still my fiancee Pie. MY FIANCEE!" The tom stressed every word of her speak clearly to Pie's hearing.
"I don't care about that. That agreement will end someday. Besides that, what do I get as a fiancee to you? Do you appreciate me for who I am? Do you ever treat me on how I am supposed to be treated as a fiancee to you?" Pie seemed not to give in.
"None." She inserted sarcastically. "Instead, you're taking me for granted." She scoffed with her own saying.
"If it was because the previous incident..." Kim didn't manage to continue her words.
"What?" Pie folded her arms, getting ready to listen to the sayings that will come out from Kim's mouth.
"I'm sorry." Kim said.
"You're saying sorry but you never meant it?" Pie sneered. "It was useless Kim. It was meaningless."
"What do you want me to do then?" Kim retorted with thousand expression of confusion in her face. "I said I'm sorry. I am really sorry Pie." She reiterated it clearly.
"No. You're not sincere with your apology." Pie shook her head and turned the door's knob again. In a split seconds, the girl gone from Kim's sight.
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The Lobby
"Pie wait! Pie wait!" Kim rushed to catch Pie's pace. She didn't care whether all gazes that fell to both of them. Pie was a bit too far in the front while she was chasing at the back. From time to time she saw how Pie tried to hide her face from the crowd. They made a scene at the building. It was like some sort of movie acting.
"Pie Mindara Manaying, stop there on your track." Kim shouted from afar. Pie's face started to redden in embarrassment. Everybody was looking at them. Just by her luck, she was getting closer to the entrance. Quickened her steps, Pie slid through the people who were actually entering the building and finally succeed to leave the place.
"Stupid Kim. It was so embarrassing." Pie complained to no one. The long line of cabs were waiting at the entrance, she just have to pick any of them and by then, she could actually escape from Kim.
"Please take me to this address." Pie talked to the cab's driver before he nodded knowingly, signalling to Pie that he knew the place.
When Pie thought she could heave a relief breath, she caught a glimpse of the one she wanted to avoid the most next to her at back seat. Kim was seated innocently and staring to her with the most annoying smile.
"What are you doing here?" Pie landed a pinch to Kim's arm.
"Ouch Pie. It's hurt." Kim whined.
"Please take us to the nearest florist shop." Kim said to the driver.
"No. Take me to the address I have given you." Pie corrected.
"Doubled fare." Kim handed some bank notes to the driver and turned to smile mischievously to Pie. The thing that Pie didn't remember, she didn't bring much money with her. In the end, she has to surrender to Kim.
"I hate you Kim. I hate you." Pie growled as the cab started to moving on the road.
"You don't have to say it for countless times Pie. I know it." Instead of seeing Kim get irritated with it, Pie saw Kim smiling widely like lunatic.
"Crazy!" Pie rolled her eyes.
"Stubborn." Kim continued after Pie.
"I hate you!!!!!!" Pie grabbed Kim's hand and bite it as might as she could.
"I swear it hurt so bad." Kim said helplessly.
"Don't hate me for too much Pie. Don't you afraid that someday you'll fall for me?" The tom stated.
"Never Kim. Never."
"By the time you got to know I have fall for you, I might be insane." Pie said. Slowly she let Kim's hand off her teeth. The two turned their sight to the other directions. Both were drown into their own thought. Does Pie going to fall for Kim someday? Or does Kim really start to fall for Pie now? The tale was yet a secret of tomorrow's fate.
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The Florist Shop
"What are we going to do here? I want to go home." Pie stomped on her feet while Kim kept dragging her to enter the shop. The refreshing natural fragrance of the flowers filled their lungs. It was enchanted to see those colourful kind of those flowers yet the shop seemed like a small garden in the middle of the town.
"Just follow me." Kim tightened her grip to Pie's hand. Pie looked to their entwined fingers. This could be the first time Kim did so to her.
"I am still mad at you. Note that." Pie muttered just audible to Kim's hearing.
"You're not going to be mad at me after this." Kim smiled to her.
Realizing how Kim flashed the sweet smile to her, Pie started to wonder if Kim was about to plan something out of her expectation again. "Are you planning to do something." She asked.
"Yes I do." Kim nodded as they kept walking along the narrow pathway inside the shop. They are heading to the counter.
"You wait here alright?" Kim led Pie to a chair. "Don't go anywhere. I'll be right back." Kim said and later the tom made her way to find the florist.
"Why do I even listen to Kim. This is so wrong."
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Minutes later...
Pie's gaze caught Kim returned to her side with something she hid at her back. She could sense something is going to happen but she wasn't sure how it will be going.
"Shall we go home now? I am tired." Pie get up from the chair hurriedly as Kim got nearer.
"Of course but right after this." Kim said.
"What are we going to do here?" Pie frowned with the thought that they were not going home so soon.
Things happened like a clip of directed movie when Kim slowly took out a bouquet of flower and stretched it out to her. It was a neatly arranged bouquet of white tulips.
"What is it for?" Uncertainly Pie took the flower from Kim.
"I don't know how would I prove that I really mean my apology to you earlier but one thing I am sure white tulips represent peace and forgiveness." Kim said.
"Pie, would you accept my apology?" Kim suddenly knelt down in front of Pie.
"Hey what are you doing? Stand up." Pie was startled with Kim's sudden act. Never she thought Kim would do such way to her.
"I'm sorry Pie. I'm really sorry." Kim iterated sincerely.
The moment seemed ceased to exist. Pie was speechless while Kim patiently wait for the response of the girl. Today, Pie did witness the kindness of Kim's self for the first and foremost time.
"Flowers didn't enough for the forgiveness." Pie claimed the lies. Tell her which girl would not melt with this such sweet apology. It was just she loved to make Kim's life complicated.
"What should I do then? Name it to me." It surprised Pie the most when Kim didn't recoil with the reply. Instead, Kim was so eager to hear her sentence of orders.
"You're definitely helplessly romantic, don't you? Go and think it yourself. I'm going home." Pie sighed and took the bouquet of the tulips with her. How Kim being such silly? Can't she think other way like taking her to eat ice - cream or what not in addition to this sweet apology. Stupid Kim.
"Ah I know." Kim blocked her way. "Come and follow me." Kim stretched out her hand to Pie again. Once Pie took the hand into hers, their fingers interlaced into each others securely and perfectly like an attraction of the magnet. Kim's hand was so warm yet Pie felt safe with it. They stepped out, leaving the florist shop and walked across the street.
Pie had no idea on where Kim would take her to until they reached an ice - cream store. Again, Pie wonder if Kim had that telepathy talent where she could read others mind. This is exactly what she thought earlier.
"I know you are going to like this." Kim opened the door for Pie and let the girl to enter the store first.
"You choose the flavor for me." Pie said as they read the list of served ice - cream on the board.
Kim took a glance to Pie before she nodded and gladly said to the ice - cream man, "One chocolate ice - cream for my fiancee and strawberry for me."
"How did you know that?" Pie's jaw dropped in her utmost surprise. She never told Kim her favorite food and what not. How could she hit the exact point of her favorite.
"We met because of the chocolate shake. Doesn't it make sense if I tell that you love chocolate?" Kim deduced her thought to Pie.
"And you're so stingy which made me stuck with you until now." Pie laughed as the memories slowly rushed down to her mind.
"Don't worry. Today is my treat for you. This is your ice - cream Miss." Kim handed the ice - cream to Pie.
"This is so good." Pie chuckled. Kim could feel relief when Pie finally start to laugh and smile again. The girl might probably in the mood now.
"Do you know that you're so childish?" Kim opened up their conversation as they spend some time at the store just to finish the own ice - cream.
"I don't care of what you're going to describe me. You're the worst person I have ever met." Pie responded. She continue to dig a spoonful of her ice - cream and feed it to herself.
"Can I taste some of your ice - cream?" Pie asked and at the same time she took Kim's ice - cream cup much closer to her.
"Hey that's mine." Kim dragged it back to her.
"Just a little bit." Pie tried to dunk her spoon to Kim's ice - cream cup but Kim manage took it away from her.
"I'll buy you a new one okay?" Kim said.
"No. I just want to taste a little bit of the flavor." Pie pouted.
"NO. This is mine." Kim shook her head and hid the cup from Pie.
"Please Kim.." Pie pursed her lower lips adding the dramatic effect to her plead.
"You got to exchange yours with mine but look at yours, you have finished it all." Kim contended.
"You're still stingy after all." Pie started to being sulky again.
"Kiss me first." Kim put the condition.
Indignant by the ridiculous condition, Pie's patient start to boil up again. She thought Kim was too much.
"Kiss me on the cheeks." Kim restated the condition.
"Never Kim. Never." Pie warned Kim with her blazing eyes.
By then Pie watch Kim rose up from her seat and a moment later, Kim stood right next to her. Clueless of what was going to happen next, Pie notified that Kim lowered her gaze to her gaze level.
"If you're not going to kiss me.."
"I'll do it." Kim whispered to her ears.
"Can I?" Kim queried softly.
"No." Pie shook her head fervently. She cupped her own cheeks in protective gesture.
"Oh your lips are so cute." Kim chuckled as to see Pie's reaction.
"Don't you ever dare to do it again." Pie said before she covered her mouth with her palms.
"Oppsy, now the cheeks were exposed." Kim smirked with the naughty gaze of her eyes.
Pie didn't manage to do anything when suddenly Kim's moist and soft lips touched her cheek. The blood started to rush up her face when she flushed uncontrollably with the kiss. Everybody was staring to them.
"Now the ice - cream is all yours." Kim placed the cup in front of Pie.
"You're so dead Kim." Pie snarled. The plastic spoon which she used to eat the ice - cream broke into two.
"Don't hate me Pie. Don't you afraid that you gonna fall for me someday?" Kim reminded her once again and returned to take her seat across her around the table.