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"Best headline of the week, Ace Winston and Quinn Manchester aren't actually in love it's all a fake," He laughed and shook his head. "I just took a video and picture of you."
Ace and Quinn froze, "You can't release that," Quinn said with dread and he chuckled.
He raised his camera in the air mockingly and pouted then walked away. "You know this is your fault," Ace deadpanned going after the man, Quinn scoffed unbelievably and hit his head earning a loud "Ow!" from him.
"Wait!" Ace yelled when they saw the man standing in front of the elevator.
"I'll sue you for taking that picture and video," Ace said and the man looked at him abruptly, his eyes widening as the confidence he had earlier suddenly escaped from his ears.
"You invaded our privacy and came into where we live, took our picture without our consent, and eavesdropped on our conversation. Moreover, we're both influential people so doing this..mm is what's the word... oh yeah wrong," Ace said sternly.
Quinn looked up at Ace beneath her lashes, she hadn't seen him like that before and she kept it behind her mind to remember to use it against him.
"Ace-Ace please calm down let's talk this out."
"The Camera?" Ace asked holding his hands out.
The man looked at his camera nervously, this headline would increase his pay by a lot and his boss would finally respect him.
But who the hell wants to get sued?
The man slowly handed Ace the Camera. Ace grabbed the Camera and deleted the pictures, took out the memory card, and kept it in his pocket.
Ace gave the Camera back to its owner who had a traumatized look on his face, "My promotion!" The man cried holding his camera as his life depended on it.
Quinn stifled a laugh and opened the elevator, Ace kept his arm around the man's shoulder and led him to the elevator.
"You'll get a promotion some other way," Ace said waving to the man as the elevator began closing.
"Amen!" Quinn added clasping her hands as the elevator closed.
"We make a good team.," Ace laughed as they were about to hug each other but they immediately decided against it and abruptly turned away from each other.
"Um-" Ace cleared his throat and adjusted his cap while Quinn tucked her hair behind her ear.
"So.... You still wanna go on the date?"
Quinn turned her gaze to him, her mouth slightly agape.
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"Our interiors are totally different," Ace laughed as he touched the frame of Quinn's portrait beside her dining set, it was a beautiful portrait of Quinn wearing a blue long gown that flowed behind her.
"Wait here I'll go change."
Quinn went into her closet to change into something she could wear and not freeze to death while Ace continued roaming her apartment which felt warm and homey.
He opened a door and it lead him to a bedroom, Ace let out a cocky laugh and slowly closed the door behind him. The room was a little messy with a deep pink towel roughly tossed on the bed, a makeup box opened on her dresser, and a black sandal tossed at the base of the Queen size bed.
It was obvious that it was her room, mostly because the room had a fizzy peach gummy sweet smell like Quinn. He let out a small laugh as he noticed the box of McDonald's on the side table beside her bed.
Beside the box was a small picture frame, it held a picture of young Quinn and a boy who looked a tiny bit older than her. Ace tilted his head.
"Does she have a brother?" He asked himself oblivious and reached out to take hold of the picture.
"Ace!" Quinn's voice suddenly ran through the air and Ace's hand stopped midway as he turned back.
"Ace?"
Ace shut his eyes and took deep breaths before going out of the room, only to be caught by Quinn who was standing across the room with her hands folded on her chest and her left leg tapping the floor impatiently, her eyes shooting lasers at him.
Ace pressed his lips together, "I was looking for the bathroom.....yeah the bathroom."
"Can't you read?"
Quinn pointed at a door beside her room's door which had a sign in it saying 'Bathroom'
Ace choked on his breath, "I missed it," he lied.
Quinn furrowed her eyebrows. "You really are something," she mumbled. Ace scanned her.
She was wearing a short gown and boots that went up right above her knee, a scarf around her neck, and a small bag. She let her curly midnight-black hair flow freely on her shoulders.
"Dressing up to the actress's profile, I see," Ace said mockingly, she huffed.
"I have an image to keep, I can't be seen letting my guard down. If I'm going out with someone I hate I should look decent at least."
Ace chuckled, "The paparazzi must still be in front of the building." He pointed out.
"Carl said to take the fire escape, so they would be more curious about our relationship seeing how secretive we are."
Quinn flickered her gaze to the ground and back to the man before her, "Let's go," She finally said and Ace took a hold of her hands in his.
They went out through the back where a black car was waiting for them.
"Where are we going?"
"Carl arranged a small dinner at a remote garden somewhere the paparazzi can't reach us, to make them itch to get any about us."
Quinn slowly used her seatbelt as a feeling of nostalgia hit her hard and she felt a bile forming in her throat. "Great."She managed to say as the car started and she looked outside using her hair as a curtain to hide her face trying to control herself.
"You alright? Not like I care but this is my card I can't have you throwing up here or anything," Ace asked noticing how uncomfortable she seemed, he gazed at her worriedly, diverting his attention between the road and her.
"Yeah... I'm fine," She forced a laugh and tucked her hair behind her ear.
Ace let out a puff, "You had me startled there, I haven't seen you like that before."
Ace suddenly stopped the car copying the action the car in front of him did, they were stuck in a traffic jam.
"Did an accident happen?" Ace wondered why there was a traffic jam, "It seems so." He added when they heard an ambulance arriving.
"I'll be back," Quinn said lost in her thoughts as she opened the door and went out without waiting to hear anything from Ace, who called her repeatedly.
She walked past the cars, jammed up until she got to the sidewalk and continued to let her limbs lead her then stopped at where the two cars harshly collided against each other, a lifeless body hanging out from the car that had been turned upside down and two people injury badly in the second car.
Quinn felt her legs take two steps backward as the scene before she began to become blurry, the sound of the ambulance and the people around became too vivid she took her hands to her ear to block the sounds as the tears rolled down her cheeks to her chin.
"Angus, Angus get up," She shook her head trying to get the voice from the past away, she wanted to stop her aching heart from hurting, her throat became hoarse feeling like someone was strangling her as the tears slipped from her glassy eyes and dropped on the scarf around her neck.
Beads of sweat formed on her forehead which began aching her seriously, she hadn't experienced this in a long time and she thought she had gotten over it and had to check which was the only reason she came to the scene. But she was wrong she hadn't gotten over it.
The first time this happened to her she thought she was dying and cried a lot begging to go to the hospital now, she's gotten used to it but it still terrified her.
Suddenly she wished she had stayed in the car.
She breathed heavily and almost stumbled as the lifeless body was carried on a stretcher making a scene from her past flash before her eyes, she tried to forget it she didn't want to see it but it felt like she was reliving the moment she dreaded the most in her life.
She shut her eyes, sobbing uncontrollably, and felt her legs give up on her, she was ready to hit the cold floor but a pair of warm arms caught her right before that could happen.
"Quinn, Quinn are you alright?" Ace's soft voice came, his tone gave it away that he was beyond worried.
His voice seemed distant to her ears.
She could only see him for five seconds as her gaze became blurry making it impossible for her to see him clearly, she wanted to talk, to tell him to take her away from there.
But she couldn't, the bile was still in her throat, she felt her body begin to tremble and she held his arm and buried her tear-stained face in his chest. His warm embrace somehow made an electric buzzy feeling erupt from her spine.
"Take me away from here Ace... please."
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