"I always wake up smiling......
I think it's your fault."

PLAYLIST- Plot twist
Marc E. Bassy

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POV of Veronica

The first thing that I did was, I grabbed the nearest item and started hitting him.

Unfortunately I only found a cleaning cloth and started attacking him aimlessly. I knew that it won't do any good but something is better than nothing.

"You pervert, what do you think that you can grab my boobs!" I said while my face flushed up with embarrassment.

He stood up and tried to calm me down, "It's a misunderstanding, I didn't see that."

"Every culprit say this same line! You pervert!"

But finally I throw away that cloth and cover my chest with my hands. I expected him to give me an explanation but he sighs hopelessly and walks away.

***********

Tonight's whole scenario was so sickly embarrassing that I feel so bad about it.

Indeed I can already feel my life changing after this party after all nothing happened as I expected it to be.

Right now I am sitting on my couch, with my chin on my palm, I already got a cold deadly speech from my mom few minutes ago. Now I have to think of something else otherwise I'll be grounded for sure.

"Uncle Ben, Did you took out the details of Peter's daily schedule and about that guy who saved me." I refrained myself from saying his name cause I don't want him to assume that he has some special place in my heart.

"Yes princess, this is the information regarding prince's daily schedule. Moreover he is rejoining his college so Mrs. Hamilton also got you enrolled there." He said while handing me a sheet containing his daily activities in a tabular form.

"Regarding that kind man.," he said,

Kind man! Huh, he is a cold pervert.

"He is a senior in second year right now. His name is Caleb Hudson. Though he dropped the previous year due to some personal reasons but he is going to come back this year. Although we were unable to contact him but we found his watch near the reception area-" the uncle said while handing me his watch.

I cautiously took it and observed that it had stopped working, I guess water had entered inside it. I handed him back and said," Uncle make sure to get it repaired by tomorrow, I will personally give it back to him and thank him for saving me."

He nodded and left the room.

Yes, I will surely thank him for sexually harassing me. Ha ha ha ha

Now let me see what this jerk does in his entire day. I carried this sheet and pinned it in my message board. I read, re-read and did analysis of his routine for the fifth time and the only way to cross his roads is possibly before going to college, that is I have to do jogging over there.

So tiresome! If it weren't for mom then I wouldn't have even glanced at him.

I plopped down on my bed and took out my sketchbook from the drawer and flipped through the pages. I looked at my recent drawing, in which a princess was silently weeping near a chair.

Sighs....I can correlate myself with it.

I need to do something about this Rachel too. Innocent girls like them are more difficult to tackle with moreover this Caleb. Why beserk like them are dropped in my life. God should have chosen an easy life for me.

Pushing aside these thoughts, I kept back my sketch book and put on my charcoal face mask. I better take rest after all tomorrow I have to break the ice. I clutched my teddy bear and soon drifted into sleep.

*************

Yes, today I will nail it for sure, with this sexy jogging outfit I am sure that he wouldn't be able to resist my charms.

To make a good impression I even carefully selected my outfit. I am in my lucky white track pants paired up with
cute neon pink T-shirt. I pull out my wireless headphones and play one of my favourite songs, "Good for you", by Selena Gomez, after all, I had dressed up for him.

After ten minutes of jogging I can clearly make out his mansion from here also, so quicken my pace while her song pumps up my spirit. I was so lost in my own thoughts that I didn't saw the cycle coming from the opposite direction.

Before I could realise what is happening, the cyclist stops it at the right moment. I clutched the handle as if it would stop it. I quickly snapped my face up to look that who is this careless person who can't see a beautiful girl coming.

"YOU AGAIN!"

Is he stalking me or what?! Wherever I go even he is there.

This cold face guy, Caleb ignored me as if he didn't do anything and pedalled away.

"Hey, are you blind or what?" I scream at him. Then I notice that something fell from his pocket. Such a careless guy.

"Hey, ice cube face! Your notebook!" I call him out while running behind him but he was cycling too fast that I couldn't catch-up with him. Never mind I will give it to him personally after all I need to do my thanking. I am sure that his expressions will be worth watching.

"Ouch!" I wince with pain as I collide with someone.

"Oh no, my cake!" I heard a girl's voice. After rubbing my elbow, I notice that Rachel is crouching over her small box from which her cupcake has dropped out on the ground.

Huh!? Why on earth is every character of my story meeting at the same time now!

"I am sorry, I didn't saw you." I apologise genuinely after all it was my mistake that I was so lost in that Caleb's plan. Hey, is she crying? Even I crouch down to pat her back and I assure her that I will buy her another cake although I was not expecting her to be here.

"Veronica, you love to bully others isn't it!" I hear a male voice and I don't need to look up to see who it is.

Why do we three always meet together when she is wailing and I am always seen as a villain though I am the lead character.

"If you don't know what happened then better don't speak!" I retort while giving a nasty expression to Peter. On the contrary, he is busy taking care of his Cinderella! How exaggerating!

"Why do you like to bully her? If you want to take it down, then take it down on me!" He growl at me and then says in his sweet voice to Rachel, "Don't worry. I will buy Fifty cakes for you today for your lunch."

Huh! Sick dramatic prince. What does he thinks he is? Has he seen too many rich boys and poor girl drama or is he trying to act cool like Christian Grey!

"Can you just stop your act. I already apologised to her so need to make it a big issue."

"You-"

"You both stop fighting because of me. I'll go first I have to prepare some report." Rachel finally said.

Oh! I see you wanna act as the main actress isn't it!

With this she left us both. Now I can ask him about our date. Peter turned away to leave when I grabbed his shirt.

"What is it now? I don't want to talk to you."

"Don't be like this. By the way, what a coincidence isn't it that I met you here!" I say cheerfully while poking his shoulder.

"Oh really! By the way, what are you doing in front of my house?" He say while smiling. He is so easy to lure.

"Ah, I was jogging. This is your house! It's beautiful."

"Thanks for the compliment, but how come you came so far while jogging?"

Half of the distance covered by car and the rest by my legs, that's how I landed here.

"Oh just like that. Maybe destiny. When we have met so I wanted to ask you that our first meeting was havoc so why don't we set a date for us again?" I look at him with my cutest expressions.

He holds my hands and ask, "Date? You want a date with me?"

"Yes yes"

Suddenly he pushed my hand away and snarled at me," In my nightmare. After what you did do you think I would come with you." And with this, he left me standing over there at the pavement. I could literally hear the wind whistling behind me.

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My ringtone started blaring out of my iPhone.

Oh crap! It's mom!!

"Hello, mom, what's up?"

I know I'm down......

"I am glad that you decided to meet the prince now, so I sent for some press people to get your and prince's picture."

Huhhhhh!!!!!! You should have asked me!!!!!!

"Oh...I see."

"Don't disappoint me this time."

With this she hanged on. Only her words out vibrating in my ears. I am screwed this time, if I don't do something quickly then I'll be surely flashing with a bad picture. I guess I should try to convince Peter again, even for a second, it will be enough for me and for those he hungry paparazzi.

I immediately dialled his number, at first he cancelled my call but when I persistently called him ten times he finally picked it up.

"Why are you Calling me continually princess? Don't you have anything good to do?"

Jerk! If you weren't my fiancé then I would have shown you the consequences of talking to me like that.

"Come on, you know that our family always thought good about us. Let's set a date, you don't know me properly." I insisted in my sweet voice. But I can feel him huffing behind the phone, I don't care if he goes for a date with me or not but right now all I want is him to come here so that at least there would be a decent picture of me and him.

"Don't tell me, princess, that you are still waiting outside my house for my approval."

Fuck you!

"Who...who would wait for you! I had already left for my home." I said while cancelling the call, although I was still waiting outside his home. I looked at his picture which I had applied as my wallpaper last night. He was holding his credit cards and was smiling so widely that one can easily count his teeth.

I swear to god that I will surely break all these teeth of yours, you narcissistic, idiot douche bag!!

I should better leave this place as soon as possible before any camera clicks my picture.

*******

It was evening and mom was about to return from her office so I guess it would be better if I stay out of the house for few hours before she haves her dinner and goes back to rest. I know that I can't save myself from her lectures but it would be better if I would have it tomorrow when I would be all ready with my excuses.

I quickly pulled on my full sleeve pink jacket and pink shorts, then I covered my head with a matching pink cap. I stuffed my wallet, drawing book and car keys and ran out of the house. I ordered my driver to go back home because the place I'm going is my sort of secret hideout which I don't want to be discovered by anyone, that doesn't implies that it's some underground bunker or old warehouse. Within fifteen minutes drive out, I was in my most precious location!

"My favourite Comic Shop!!"

Most of people usually think that princesses only love to shop around and by dresses and all but I am not like them.

This place is just so cheerful, peaceful and spacious. The walls have been covered with cream coloured wooden planks to give it a cosy look and dark wooden flooring has been done. Various posters of comics have been pasted in a proper manner and the whole area is well lit and air conditioned. Cute sofas and couches of different shapes and patterns are arranged around colourful tables. Cutouts of different comic characters are standing at the corner of each lane of bookshelves making the atmosphere more thrilling.

I quickly pull out my drawing book and enter the store. I have my own favourite spot and that is, "BL Manga corner." (BL - boys' love)

I made myself comfortable on the pink couch kept near a cutout of the characters of "Somewhere in time", dang it! I love their pose in which, one of the guy is holding the other from behind and his lips are pressed on his neck. When I turn to my left only then I notice that there is also a huge white teddy bear whose neck is decorated with a pretty golden bow tie. It looks like an exact replica of the the teddy bear that I have in my room the only difference is that it is way to big then mine.

Impressive! I wonder when did they bought this teddy here, maybe they bought it tomorrow when I was in the ball. It was few inches taller then me with a smiling face. I ran my hand over its tummy which was made up of fluffy fabric.

I grazed my eyes through the latest BL mangas, and found the one for which I was waiting for the past few weeks. Fifteen minutes passed away when I finally decided to start drawing out my feelings.

POV of Caleb

Restaurants, hospitals and this comic store; my life is kind of packed up because of doing so many part time jobs. But what option do I have after all I have to pay my college fee.

Sometimes I felt like I am not living my life it's just as if I am removing the unknown debt of god. Students of my college think that how easy life I have - being all rounder and excelling in studies and they wish that they have a life like me. But I always pray that not even my enemy should get such a hard luck like mine. They don't know how much problems I have to face and they don't know how difficult it is for me to make my ends meet.

It was only because Peter was paying me high enough for just playing piano that I went there in the ball. If I would have known that a hard-headed girl with princess syndrome would be coming then I wouldn't have accepted his offer.

I mean how can anyone be so stupid to mistake someone else as her fiancé!

And I saved her life and she was calling me a pervert, why would I feel like touching her holy cushions, though I got to know one thing that they feel soft and squishy on touch.

Urrghh..... why am I thinking like a sick pervert?!

Moreover, I even lost my watch, I need to buy one.

Day before yesterday only I got the advertisement of vacant post in this comic store so I immediately contacted Miss Sia, owner of this store. Even she was kind enough to immediately assign me in this position and she even granted me leave for half day without cutting down my salary. She told me that initially, I could do a simple task of giving pamphlets to the people and then she would give me more work to do. I was glad enough to get this job but who would have known that I have to wear this bear costume.

After continuous four hours of wearing this thing, I was going to remove this costume when I heard a familiar voice. I looked towards the entrance to find that princess syndrome girl, Veronica.

For a moment I thought that I am hallucinating because of thirst and then I thought that maybe I am imagining things because I was thinking too much about yesterday's incident.

But it was true!

I debated whether I should remove this bear costume and run away or whether I should just stay here and see what she is doing here. Finally I decided to stay and watch, I never expected a girl like her to land up in this place!

She's different....

I kept on staring at her from my peripheral vision, scribbling something on her notebook. To get a good view I took subtle steps towards her.

Suddenly she turned back which caused me to stop rigidly. Then she resumed with her thing.

Thank god that she didn't suspect...for a moment I thought that I'm busted.

I again started walking towards her but again she spun around and looked at me with narrow eyes. Did she found out that it's not merely a stuff toy lying at the corner of the room? Cold sweat dripped down my back as I saw her closing her notebook and walking towards me. Suddenly she spoke;

"Do I look like I'm crazy?" She demanded an answer.

Yes.

Is what I wanted to say but I chose to stay still like a rock. Then she suddenly started laughing on her own amused thoughts that I couldn't guess. She was repeatedly saying 'definitely' as if she had discovered a dark secret and to my surprise she was even banging her table while laughing.

"You're so lucky, standing here in front of air conditioner! My life is pretty complicated." She said while sighing heavily, there was a mysterious sadness in her voice which made me wondered that why she is saying so when she is so damn rich and has her mom who loves her so much.

Like a wind, her mood shifted from sadness to aggressiveness.

"And do you know it's because of that Peter! What does he think he is?! Such a bipolar guy!"

Okay so her life is miserable because of her fiancé.

"And that evil witch, Rachel! I bet she loves to pull in her innocent look on her face! Trying to steal my fiancé!"

Oh! So there's one more. But I couldn't be more wrong,

"And that Caleb! Pretending to be my fiancé! He is the real villain of my love story. And does he even knows how to smile! That ice cube face pervert."

With this, she grabbed her pen like a dagger and repeatedly smashed it on her notebook!

On hearing my name from her, I can feel it how much she might be hating me.

With each thrust getting stronger and stronger, an unknown fear started to pile up in my gut. It felt as if she is not stabbing her notebook but me! Unknowingly, now I had been claimed as the villain of her love story.

Maybe I should have left earlier, at least I wouldn't have heard this. Now the thought of her wanting to stab me will give me nightmares!

I started to inch away from her but again like a wind, she jumped from her couch and looked at me with her piercing laser eyes. The adrenaline rushed in my body, screaming to run away but my feet seemed as if fixed with the floor.

I saw her coming towards me while she threw her notebook aside, and before I could realise that what is happening she started to blow punches on my stomach!

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