• Kylie's POV 
“ Hey Mom.” I said as I hug her from behind.
“ Darling...” She said sweetly placing her hands on my cheek caressing it with so much love. I pecked her hands.
Feeling her warmth made my heat swelled with so much love for her.
“ You did not go for your shoot, your manager called--” She said, putting her hands down and continue doing what she was doing before I enter. Cutting the vegetables, I detached from the hug.
--So where did you go ? ”
I took a red apple from the small basket filled of apples and sat on the kitchen table swinging my legs in air forth and back eating the apple.
“ I'm talking to you, where did you go ? ” She said turning to face me holding the knife.
“ Somewhere.... A friend's house.” I told her.
“ A friend's house ?.... You don't know anybody as a friend in this country even you don't have an friend.” She look at me with a question look.
I fake a gasp pretending to be hurt.
“ Mum... Who told you I don't have a friend ? For your information mum, I have a friend infact millions of them.” I bit the apple and winked at her chuckling.
My mom laughed. “ Really ? I did not know you have millions of friends.... oh is it the one on Instagram ? Your followers ? Are they your friends ? Because that is the only one I know you have millions of.” Mum said rolling her eyes with her arms folded on her chest.
“ Mum ! ... I'm deeply hurt by your statement.” I said as I threw the apple towards the waste bin.
Or I think I did.
Stupid apple !
“ So that is why you tossed the apple to me.” She said glaring at me.
Instead it went to hit my mum,I wanted to laugh but I don't dare to.
“ I'm sorry,” I pouted as I came down from the table and picked the apple and threw it into the basket. “ but it is not my fault, I'm not the one who put the waste bin beside you.” I said still pouting.
She rolled her eyes. “ I wonder why it is so difficult for you to apologize without finding fault of the person you wronged.... Can't you say simple sorry without looking for what caused it ?... Is it that difficult ? ”
“ No, I will say it now... Simple sorry without looking for what caused it.” I smiled cheekily.
“ Oh God ! ” She groaned as she facepalmed herself.
I chuckled. “ I'm sorry, it was a mistake.” I pecked her cheeks as I said so.
She rolled her eyes. “ Anyways who is your friend ? ”
“ A girl from school, her name is Elle.”
“ You made a friend from school, awwwn....” She cooed.
I rolled my eyes.
“ So what is her name ? ”
“ Elle.... I just told you.”
“ I tend to forget things easily.--” She laughed, making me roll my eyes.
-- Let's forget about that, how did you guys meet ?”
“ In the toilet.”
She was quite surprised when I said toilet.
“ Toilet ? That's really disgusting, you guys became friends with your poops.”
I cringed in disgust when she said that. “ Eew , mom !!.... I was not even defecating neither was she. I was almost got caught with my disguse off so I hid in one of the toilet to prevent from seeing me and she shared her secrets to me then we became friends.”
“ She does not know about your secret, right ? ”
“ She knows.”
Mum gasped. “ We should eliminate her.”
“ Eliminate her ? Why ? Just because of some silly secret.”
“ I was only joking, it was because of this movie I watched with your brother, a thriller movie ; they killed the person who knew their secrets. So that is why I said so.” She smiled sheepishly.
I rolled my eyes.
“ Anyways what is her own secret ?”
I was lost in thought for a while then I spoke bringing myself back in reality.
“ Mom... ”
“ Yes ? ”
... If you are a teenager still schooling when you had a child and the father of the child hurt you unmeasurably looking at fact the father hurt you is not like he raped you guys got intimate with each other's consent afterwards he broke  your heart. Will you still tell him about the child ? ”
She sigh. “ Well I'm not a teenager so it is not easy to think like one.”
“ Just talk mom.”
“ Will I or not.... I don't know if I'm a teenager and I am pregnant, I will abort it because that baby signifies the moment I and the father shared while being intimate and I want to forget everything we ever shared and I don't need a baby to remind me of him... Selfish right ? ” She chuckled.
I did not respond.
“ But you know that will be really cruel of me taking an innocent life who does not know what is father did to me. As a reasonable person will do they will keep the child and if it is me I might tell him about the child I had for him if he accept it or not it is his own problem not mine. Everybody can make their choice, I made mine and he made his. Elle decided not to tell him ...”
“ I did not say it is Elle. ”
“ Well my common sense do, I asked you about her secrets then you asked me that question so what do you want me to think or is it you ? Are you pregnant ?”
I rolled my eyes. “ It is her. ”
“ She is one heck of a strong lady keeping and caring for the child. It her choice, Kye if she want to tell him or not. You can't force, maybe she is scared.”
“ Yeah, she is scared. Scared of being humiliated the second time. ” I sigh sadly.
“ So she made the choice not to tell him about the child to avoid that. Kylie don't tell anyone about the child even if she blurted out your secret, don't. I taught you better than that so don't fail my teaching.”
“ I never said I want to tell the father .”
“ Oh please, I know you better than yourself... You are not good at keeping secrets but please do so. It is not your story to tell, it is hers.”
“ Okay ma.”
“ Promise me, Kylie.”
“ I promise you mom.” I smiled.
“ Hope you are not crossing your fingers ? ” She said glaring at me.
I raised my hands up in the air. “ I am not... I, Kylie promise not to tell the father about the child, may God help me, Amen.” I put my hands down.
She laughed. “ Amen... Now go and freshen up let me finish my cooking.”
“ What are you cooking ? ”
“ When you are through bathing then you come downstairs to see the food I am cooking.” She said resuming cutting the vegetables.
I rolled my eyes walking out of the kitchen to my room.
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I felt someone sitting beside me, I turned it was Eric.
I wonder why he sat here.
“ Hey... I never knew you are offering marketing.” I said to him.
“ Well I am, I need it if I want to be a successful heir of my dad's company.” He smiled.
“ Oh, okay.” I said fiddling with the paper on the table.
“ So you are friends with Dani ? ”
“ Huh ? ”
“ Danielle...”
I knew who he was talking about, I did not even know her full name was Danielle I thought it was Emmanuella, looking at that the ‘Ella’  now I realize it did not end with an ‘e’.
“ So that is her full name.” I said in a surprise tone.
“ You don't know ? ” He asked feeling surprised.
“ Yeah, I only know her as Elle.”
“ Everyone knows her as that, she preferred that to Dani but I love calling her that to tease her.” He chuckled.
I smiled. “ It looks like you know her, what is your relationship with her ? ”
“ She did not tell you ? ”
“ She did not tell me anything...Tell me.”
“ There is nothing between us.” He said but his eyes said otherwise.
“ Really ? Then why did she run crying when she saw you ? ”
“ I don't know... Stop asking questions, it is getting too much. Focus your attention to your teacher.”
Humph! rude.
“ You are the one who came to sit to ask questions.” I said with an eye roll.
He rolled his eyes. “ Then let's stop there.” He said and walked back to his seat.
Something is definitely wrong.
I can feel it ! He still loves Elle.
But I wonder why he broke her heart maybe it was afterwards he realized he loves her.
I rub my chin, thinking of what to do.
“ I will have to find out about what really happened. So Elle can be happy once again.”