Episode 07

A/n: Here's our female protagonist, her name is Micaela Alvarado.

Playlist ~ Alan Walker ft Sabrina - On my way

Micaela's POV

As I sat in front of the bar counter in a club that my friends took me to celebrate my wins, I couldn't help but marveled at how far I've come. I mean c'mon, is one thing to have a dream, but is another thing to live in the dream and I'm so happy that I am living in mine now. A few hours ago of me checking my Amazon author's account, I can't believe more than 23M people are following me, like I literally screamed when I saw it. My new novel had over 10M ratings and comments in just two weeks! Would you believe that?!!! OMG! When my friends Sabrina and Kim told me about it I didn't believe them until I was forced to log into my account to confirm if what they were saying and damn, I was dumbstruck when I saw it with my own eyes. How the hell did it happen? I've been a writer for almost five years now and 'Shattered Heart' isn't my first book that I wrote, I've written over four books mostly fictional but the least ratings I've got from each book was 3M, so you can imagine how everything changed tremendously.

Writing has been my passion right from highschool but I never had the chance to complete all the stories I started and I had to dispose them back then. My inspiration for writing came back again when I met two writers in the same college that I attended when I got here in Seoul. JB and Lee encouraged me to begin writing again after an English group project we were given to work on. The three of us in the group were told to come up with a drama play storyline based on love and then we were meant to act on it. After we all brought up different ideas, mine was picked and from there JB and Lee got to know that I was a writer so were there.

Starting writing back after the motivation I got from them wasn't really easy because I had to run two jobs so I can pay my college fee and also other bills. So it took me time before I could actually finish writing one book, for example my first book took me a year to finish and when I rounded up, JB was my editor who helped me published it on Amazon, it was still him who suggested the amazon Kindle site for me to put my book on there. My first book had 1k reads after 1month. Funny huh? Oh yes, the beginning was really tough but look at me now! My book is selling #1 in the same Amazon site.

"Micaela drink up more! We're here to celebrate your success as a famous author!" Sabrina squealed to my ears giggling so hard.

Oh here we are, my lousy friends are at it again. I drank the glass of whiskey and I joined them in the laughing competition. The music was way too loud but I like it anyways, we're here to celebrate, right? Right!

"Wow, it was quite unbelievable when I saw millions of people that has read your book! Shattered Hearts has made you famous babe!" Kim yelled dramatically and drank all the content of whiskey she was having and then poured more to each of our glasses.

"Yeah, I still can't believe it as well, I'm still surprised. I've been writing fictional books but it never got this much reads and ratings" I replied smiling sheepishly.

"And you wrote a nonfictional book and it got high reads. Isn't that amazing?" Kim asked giggling and we nodded in agreement.

"Sure it is. Let's toast to your success" Sabrina said and we brought our glasses together and she continues, "To more billions, girl! Cheers!"

"Cheers!" Kim and I responded a little bit loud and I caught the bar lady glared at us weirdly. I guess we're acting a little bit weird or noisy? Of course not, the club is noisy already. I ignored her and took a sip of my drink.

"But there's a question on my mind that I want to ask you" Sabrina's voice went high-pitched to my ears.

"Damn! I can hear you girl, you don't have to scream to my ears!" I yelled back at her and she chuckles.

"Whatever! The story you wrote about, who are those two people you wrote about in reality? I mean what are their real names?" Sabrina asked staring at me in the eyes. Her question threw me off guard and I all did was gaped at her.

"Yeah, I thought of asking her same question. In that book she actually hid the real identity of those two main characters. C'mon Micaela, tell us who they are, we're your close friends we won't disclose their identity to anyone. How did you know Luciano and Marianna story? Are they your college friends? Were they the one that told you about their real life story or you just knew about it? What are their real names?" Kim asked so many questions at a time.

My throat suddenly went dry and sweat made it way to my forehead. The glass I was holding started shaking and when I glanced down at my right hand that was on my thighs, I realized it was shaking out of nervousness. I tried to calm my nerves but it wasn't working.

"She doesn't trust us enough to tell us" Sabrina's voice went high-pitched again and I glanced up at both of them.

"Or maybe it's part of the rules authors have, they don't disclose identities of some of their real characters to avoid putting them in the hands of paparazzi" Kim replied.

"Yes, exactly, you're right" I hastily agreed.

"Yay! I'm always right!" Kim squealed excitedly and drank the whole content of her glass of whiskey while Sabrina scrunched up her nose disgustingly. Thank goodness, she just saved my butt.

"Whatever" Sabrina hissed with an eye roll and Kim giggled.

"Don't burn your throat Kim" I warned after watching her gulped a large quantity of the whiskey.

"I'm fine babe. C'mon, let's go break our legs in the dance floor!" She yelled standing up and twisting her body.

"I'm not much for dancing" I replied smiling and took a sip of my drink. Would I say my mood has turned off or I just feel guilty and tensed? Honestly I don't know which one it is.

"We're not going to beg you to, right Kim?" Sabrina asked and winked at Kim while Kim nods with a smug on her face. I shot both of them a suspicious glare.

"What are you girls planning against me? You girls know I don't do clubbing, I only accepted to come here because..." I asked.

"Nothing" Sabrina cuts in and stood up. In a flash both of them were standing at my sides. I squint confusedly trying to grasp what they're going to do to me.

"1, 2...3" Sabrina's voice counted and at the end of the count I was on my feet and hands were holding my left and my right arms.

"What are you girls doing?!" I half-yelled but it was ignored. Sabrina reached for my drink and forced me to drink up and I couldn't fight with her because they were holding my hands, so I drank up. "Are you girls crazy?!" I yelled after gulping down the whiskey which was burning my throat.

"Kim are we crazy?" Sabrina asked with humour in her voice.

"Maybe we are" Kim giggled and I felt both of them dragging me to the dance floor. For heaven's sake, how did I make these crazy girls my friends?

My black stiletto paired with my peach color curvy mini gown was almost tripping me off my feet as they were dragging me. "You girls should slow down, I'm on heels!" I yelled trying to catch my breath.

"We know that miss celebrity, just stop nagging us and have a little fun. Jeez, you're always too serious, you act like a nun all the time!" Sabrina hissed and continued dragging me to the dance floor while Kim laughed so hard and a small smile broke on my lips.

"I can't go there and dance, they're many people there, you girls already know how much I hate crowded places" I said and tried halting my footsteps.

"They don't bite Micaela, we're just here to celebrate your success. C'mon, stop being boring and live a little" Kim replied and they both continued dragging me along with them.

"She just said she doesn't want to dance in a crowded place, so let her be" a masculine voice said behind us and the three of us halted.

Who could be meddling in our business? He's talking to the wrong ladies, because the response he's about to get from Sabrina will result to him being enraged or upset. But first, let's get to see who he is. Like it was a planned work, the three of us turnaround at the same time and glance back to see....him.

My mouth flew open and I gasps in shock by the sight in front of me. This can't be real, it's an hallucination. I blinked my eyes to clear my doubts and I gasps in bewilderment to still find him standing there dressed in a black leather jacket like that of Damon in vampire diaries, paired with a black inner shirt and a black jeans. My eyes roams all over his body down to his foot which had a white and black dope sneakers. His hands were in his Jean pocket and his gaze was directly on me, he was looking so dashingly handsome more than ever before. He grew up to become a handsome and gorgeous prince after all.

"Fernando Perez" I mumbled almost in a whisper still in shock. We both locked gaze and that moment time stood still just like in the movies, this moment reminds me of Marichuy and Miguel in 'Don't mess in an angel' telenovelau series when those two had crossed paths. Let's leave the movies and face reality, my heart was throbbing faster as I stared at him. What was Fernando doing here?