Bianca hops on her surfboard.
She watches the wave, popping up. She starts to paddle on it.
Bianca grins as she sights Jones taking up a fighting position. She puts her hands close to beside her chest as close and pushes up her whole body.
“ What the heck!” her back foot comes to the middle of her board first. The other foot follows her back foot, then she bends her knees and sees the front. Bianca kept her hand loose, her eyes looking in the direction of the incoming wave. She keeps an eye on Jones.
“too slow” Jones mouths, surfing close to her.
“What do you mean? You are behind me” Bianca giggles. She couldn't maintain her balance on the surfboard. She became dizzy and fell into the wave.
“What the heck!”
Bianca's surfboard turns over, and she screams, paddling her arms in the water but she was unable to swim. The crowd ran away to avoid getting into trouble.
Everyone gasps in shock. Jones's smile broadened from ear to ear, he jumped into the water holding her in his arms as he surfs to the sandy beach.
He lets Celine collapse on the floor. Jones's smile slowly transformed into a frown,
“No one stayed to gaze at my victory.” He creases his brow. “Darn! How do I build my lost image when my crowd keeps disappearing” Jones kicks her. Bianca starts coughing out water, rolling on the floor. The white sand got on her suit, she crinkled her nose. “You lack manners, you dare dropped me in this itchy sand.” Celine drunkenly staggers.
“Shit! The drugs should have worked earlier. That useless barman didn't spike your drink properly. Ugh….it was all wasted efforts.” Jones kicks the white sand over Celine's body. Celine sneezes, and she staggeringly stood up.
“The party is over? No!…nono!!” Bianca drunkenly yelled, rolling on the sand. Jones helps her up “Maybe this isn't a wasted effort. This is a great opportunity.” Jones chuckles.
He tosses Celine into his jeep.
He covers Celine with a towel his gaze cruising a figure moving closer to him.
“Hello?” Jones yells, he straightens his soon, chinning up.
“Are you leaving so soon?” A feminine voice walks closer to him. A gigantic smile spreads across Emily's face, her soul started singing and dancing, and her gaze scans Jones. A smile crept on his face, he grabs her arm.
“Yeah, what else? I'm the winner.” Jones said.
“Okay, baby. Aren't you supposed to give me a ride home?”Emily responded.
“Ehm…yeah but I'm kinda busy right now.” Jones chuckles, pinching his fingers.
Emily boards the jeep.
“How can you be so busy to the extent that you can give your lover a ride home?” Emily beams a smile.
Her heart was frozen in fear as she sighted a female covered in a towel. “Jones? How could you?” Does Emily's heart drown in the middle of an ocean? She anxiously pulls off the towel to have to clear gaze at the intruder.
“Celine? Is this the reason you are avoiding me?”.
“No! She's…she almost drowned, I saved her and want to take her home.”
“How? This isn't the first time she surfs after drinking. What did you do to her?”
“I did nothing…I swear…. she was extremely drunk and almost committed suicide.”
“Luckily, my instincts were only receiving me else I would have created a fuss.”Emily sways her hands in the air, and they both giggle.
“Why would I do that? Even with this ego-filled drunkard?” Jones chuckles, and he hops into the driver's seat.
“Yeah…she's chubby. Isn't your type”
“Babe, how about we have a date in your home to take over all the time I spent without you.”
“Really?…. Yes! Yes! I can't believe this is coming from you. ”
“You need to believe it” Emily beams a smile.
Jones pressed his lips together as he glimpses Celine from the front mirror “You are saved today, next time I will have a perfectly clean job done.”
He halts before the biggest mansion on the island with was Bianca's. Bianca was pacing back and forth, she halts seeing Celine being pulled out of a truck.
“Celine! What did you do to my daughter?”Bianca yells at Jones, she hastily grabs Celine.
“She drunk, she almost drowns in the river.”
Lucas ran out as screams and yelling enveloped his ear, he hurried outside with his gun. Lucas's eyes widen, he stretches his arms to help Celine but Bianca pushed his hand off her daughter.
“Oh my gosh! Lucas, you call this parenting? Huh? Never mind you are just useless. I don't know what came into me that made me entrust you with my daughter's life.” Bianca walks off, holding her staggeringly asleep daughter.
Lucas turns to Jones.
“Thanks for bringing her home.” He took a bow. Jones did the same, he walked away and boards his vehicle.
Lucas huff's air out of his nostrils, and he walked into the living room with a wrinkled forehead.
“Do you recollect I spend twenty years with you, helping you instead of finding a job and creating my own family? I sacrificed my whole life just to make sure you are happy and here you are raining insults and embarrassing me.”
“Whatever! Mr. Sacrificer.” Bianca hisses, and she drags Celine into her bedroom.
“Ungrateful bitch!” Lucas whispers.
Bianca paused, she flung Celine on the bed. She turns around clenching her fist into round tight balls. “What gives you the audacity to utter nonsense? Huh? You aren't doing me a favor alright? You decided to waste your time and I paid you”
“Is everything about money?”
Bianca's heart shallows. That was once her issue, she sold herself to Roberto for her mother's treatment. She kept mute for some seconds, she released her clenched fist with a droopy shoulder. “Only if I had money, my mum would still be alive, I won't be a widow I would have Henry by my side all the time and I won't become a single mother. Celine won't be fatherless and I won't be depressed.”
Bianca mumbled, forcing those tears back in.
She looks up, forcing a smile on her face. Her lips slowly spread, forcing out a chuckle. Will she one day know that life isn't only about money? Will she ever accept her past and move on?