"Hello, Caroline sorry to bother you but is Drey over there?" Joanna asked at the other end.
"I have been calling her for hours but she has been ignoring my calls. I had no choice but to call you instead," Joanna lamented.
Caroline stared at Audrey to know the next step to take.
Understanding the meaning of her stares, Audrey crossed her hands as a signal for her to say no.
Caroline hesitated, not knowing whether that was the right thing to do.
"No, she is not here right now," Caroline responded after making up her mind.
"Really?" Joanna asked suspiciously. There was a hint of sadness in her voice as she talked.
There was quietness on the other end despite that Joanna's question was very simple.
Caroline felt bad about having to lie to Joanna but since it was her Young Miss who asked her to do it she couldn't go against her orders. Although they were quite close, the fact that they were still masters and servant remains. She dares not to overstep her boundaries.
"Caroline, are you lying to me…,"
"Yes-no… I mean no," the confused lady didn't know what to say and ended up spouting nonsense.
"Sorry about that. I meant to say yes, I am not lying to you," Caroline spoke in a more composed manner.
She sighed when she noticed that the deep frown on Audrey's forehead had eased.
"Miss Audrey is not in but I promise to inform her that you called when she returns," Caroline said.
Scared that she might make a mistake again if the conversation went on she silently prayed that Joanna would take the initiative and disconnect the call.
"Ok…," Joanna knows that something wasn't right but she chooses not to make things difficult for Caroline by playing along.
"Do call to inform me when she returns ok," Joanna said with a heavy heart. She disconnected the call after Caroline responded.
Arghh!
The frustrated Joanna screamed while hugging her head with two hands.
"I am sure she is there," Joanna said almost in tears.
Just to settle things with Audrey she had called to take a day off from work. She couldn't believe that in the end, she didn't get to see Audrey, not to mention talk to her.
"You have a superb sense of perception so I am sure you must know that she is in there right?" Joanna turned to face him. She held his hands laid on his thighs and tucked them a bit.
"She is ignoring me right… I guessed it correctly, hmm?" Joanna pleaded with her eyes as she looked into his eyeballs.
Amos who already knew partially what was going on inside the Lopez house stared at Joanna not knowing what reply to give her.
[Which answer will hurt her less; that Audrey is in there but refused to meet her and even went as far as ordering her maid to lie to her or the lie that Audrey wasn't at home?]
The last thing he wanted was to see her hurt more than she already was. To protect her emotions he would do anything.
Amos looked at her as he tried to weigh the response to give Joanna. Should he tell her the bitter truth or the not-so-sweet or bitter lies?
"Stop staring at me like that and say something," Joanna ordered as she tucked his hand a bit more intense.
"You are…,"
"Audrey is not at home," he blurted out when he saw tears forming in her eyes.
"I can't perceive her scent nor can I hear her talking so that means Caroline was telling you the truth," he took the risk and lied.
"Are you sure?" Joanna asked with doubts evident in her eyes and voice.
"Hmmm…," He shook his head affirmatively.
Inside Audrey's bedroom, a lady laying on the bed looking out of the window was seen sitting up on the bed.
"What an excellent liar he is," she scoffed.
"I bet he will win an Oscar in lies if such categories existed," She mumbled. Caroline, who was still waiting for her to eat, pretended as though she didn't hear her Young Miss' hateful words.
In the car, Amos shifted closer so that Joanna leaned her head against his broad shoulders.
"For how long is she going to keep this up?" Joanna muttered as she hugged his hand tighter.
Amos and Joanna stake out in front of Audrey's home for two hours. Even though she was in no mood to attend any lectures, she had no choice but to head to campus when she remembered that she had Miss Lana's classes that day.
If Mr Aidan was the mean wizard of the university then Miss Lana was the devil.
She doesn't only nag at every slightest mistake but doesn't treat students any nicer than Mr Aidan does.
Joanna would have brushed this off as a made-up story if someone told her. But she was a living witness to what Miss Lana is capable of.
"Let's go. We will come back to check on her when we return from campus," Joanna said. She moved back to her seat afterwards.
Audrey stood up from the bed and walked to the glass window on hearing the ignition of their car.
Standing there she stared down at the white car which had two occupants. Even when the car drive off she didn't look away.
"Young Miss, if you still like her quite a lot then why are you doing this to her?... Please enlighten me," Caroline said with her gaze concentrated on Audrey's back.
"What do you know," Audrey muttered as she turned and walked out of the room.
"Don't follow me. That's an order," Audrey's voice echoed in the room as she proceeded out of the room.
Audrey made her way downstairs. The guards at the door jumped to their feet sighting her from afar.
"Young Miss," the three guards greeted with a bow.
"I recall only asking you guys to make sure you don't let her into the house but I don't remember asking you guys to be rude to her so what happened here earlier?" Audrey demanded. Her fierce glares darted from one face to the other.
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