CHAPTER FOUR
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[X Gym, 10pm]
Trinidad just finished her night gymnastics session, all sweaty.
It's an Elite gym, so there's a indoor bathroom to clean up before going home, but she's not interested tonight
She wiped her sweat, threw on her waterproof jacket and hung her headphones around her neck, getting her bag and phone.
She walked out of the gym into the busy night.
Despite the fact that RIDE University is attended by rich kids worldwide, the school has no inbuilt school hostel, so students occupy the mansions in the street of Bel-Air.
They all live off-campus, extending beyond Bel-Air to Malibu to WeHo and Hollywood hills.
But this Bel-Air is worse cos it's the main campus environment.
Nights like this are insanely bright and always full of students taking strolls, wasting their nights, partying, sinning, and riding rough.
No one asks them questions. No one would dare get tangled in the web of the rich families, so these students get away with any fuckin s**t they spill.
The bright street lights made Trinidad grumble as she mounted her bike, checking her phone.
She's still reading about the new Computer Science student.
Cove Fabio.
Trinidad is the most brilliant Computer Science student, but that was before this insane guy arrived.
5:00 GPA? Just how brilliant is he?
Worse, he's a scholarship student. The first scholarship student in RIDE.
"Fûck," Trinidad muttered, finally pocketing her phone.
She kicked her bike to life and did a five minutes drive to a Studio Apartment.
Behind the studio apartment, there's a small Atelier.
She carried her nonchalant self into the Atelier, and as expected, Roxy and Elmira are inside.
Her girls.
Roxy is a canvas painter—owner of this Atelier. She paints for fun whenever she's not in campus.
Right now, she's all covered in paint stains. A cigar stick is stuck between her lips as she painted a tiger.
She's focused, but Elmira on the other hand is in front of a mirror, checking her breà sts out.
Her upper body is naked.
"You finally decided to come?" She looked back with a scoff, applying a dab of red lipstick on her lips.
"You both decided to ditch campus today?" Trinidad threw her weight on a sofa beside Elmira.
"Why the hell would we step campus on the first day of the semester? To listen to the boring orientation? Wear stupid Uniforms on the first day like we're highschool peeps? I'm not stepping campus till tomorrow" Roxy remarked, pulling her focus from her canvas. She faced the girls.
"I went with Scott, we used Stacy's airfield," Trinidad smiled.
"Of course you went with your Captain Scott. If he wasn't gay, I'd have said you both are hooked, but wait.... Stacy's airfield? How are you still alive?" Elmira snickered, wearing her blouse.
"Don't talk like Stacy is all that. She relies on her guards and cops for protection. She and Kehlani are the weakest of that bunch. The only fairly strong ones are the twins. They're as cringe as Disney bullies." Trinidad sighed, pouring herself alcohol from the bottle on the table.
"You didn't mention the Buffalo Zendaya," Roxy laughed, flinging her painting brush in the air.
She's holding her cigar between her fingers now, the smokes curling.
"Why would that fat slût matter?" Trinidad replied, and they all laughed mockingly.
Elmira suddenly gasped, standing with her face buried in her phone.
"Update in my Major group! Dorian's concert got ruined by Glitz Society! Cove was at the concert! He hit Stacy!" She announced.
"You're kidding! Someone actually hit that w***e?" Roxy threw off her cigar
Together with Trinidad, she checked Elmira's phone.
The news was posted anonymously. Stacy's name wasn't even mentioned, but the poster used SM for her and used CV for Cove... their initials.
"It really happened, and TV stations aren't rolling with the news? Even this one didn't mention their names," Roxy raised suspicious brows.
"Did you forget her father is the powerful Media Mogul? He controls the media so the news of his daughter's humiliation can't come out," Trinidad said.
"Well..... we already know who's SM and CF, so tommorow, we make it fill the campus, but damn...I love the Cove guy already. Is it weird that I get wet hearing his name? I can't wait to resume tomorrow! Trinidad you're in Computer Science with him you're so lucky!" Elmira moaned.
Elmira and Roxy are English students.
"I don't give a damn about his sassy boldness. I'm only concerned about how he's now ahead me as the most brilliant coding genius." Trinidad sat back, drinking her alcohol.
"You have Tania as your competitor in football, and now Cove is here to take your place in Computer Science too? Poor you." Elmira said.
Trinidad stuck her tongue out as a form of cursing, and Elmira laughed, pouring herself alcohol too.
They clinked glasses.
"Why is there no conversation about Dorian?" Trinidad asked.
"Who said that? Go to every damn Major group chat. He's all they're talking about. We're just not talking about him here, and I hope it remains that way," Elmira snapped.
"You seem to have a personal beef with him," Trinidad commented.
Elmira didn't reply. She's currently looking at Roxy who has been quiet.
Trinidad looked at Roxy too.
"What's up?" They chorused.
Roxy sat in front of them, her face all colored from her canvas paint.
"My studio apartment in front of this Atelier, I told you both I rented it out last year, right?" She said.
"Yeah?" Trinidad frowned.
"That reminds me, we haven't seen the occupant before. Is he some poor traveller?" Elmira said.
"You'd be shocked..." Roxy smirked.
Elmira and Trinidad stood at the same time, towering above Roxy.
"It's not Cove, is he?" They chorused.
Roxy grinned, meaning yes.
Elmira screamed excitedly.
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[Platinum Hospital]
A blue custom-made car hit the hospital private park at some minutes to 12am.
The engines didn't go down before Albert Montana jumped out.
Stacy's father.
A tall, good-looking man in his fifties.
Just like his daughter, his figure commands respect, and the guards who hopped down from the cars behind him followed him into the hospital as he made his entry.
Nurses moved out of the way, but some desperate ones looked up, making eye contacts and trying the art of seduction.
After all, Stacy is his only daughter. He refused to remarry since his wife died, so he could use a new wife.
Albert never looked at anyone. He focused on his destination, even as doctors rushed out to greet him.
The richest man in this city.
He entered Stacy's private ward where she's laying in bed with her girls surrounding her.
"Mr. Montana! Thank gawd you're here! She has been demanding for your presence," Zendaya stood.
She stepped aside with the girls, and Albert sat beside her daughter in bed.
Stacy's eyes are open, but her left cheek is slightly swollen.
Seeing that, Albert's eyes widened.
"So now I have to get hurt before you come see me?" She spoke clearly, holding his hand. "You've been on your trips since last week and wouldn't come see me. Now I got hurt and you flew over from Malibu?"
"Stacy —"
"Your daughter got bullied by a Garage boy. Why the hell would a Garage boy even be in my Campus?" She muttered, looking at him with puppy pained eyes.
"Sweetheart," Albert stated, stroking her hair. "The school chancellor didn't inform me before taking in that riffraff, but trust me to put things in place. He's in the police net? I'll make him apologize on his knees."
"That's exactly what I want. Him in front of me, on his knees." Stacy replied sharply.
Tania and Tasha chuckled.
"Yeah, Mr. Montana. That's exactly what's gonna work," Kehlani supported.
"Let him eat sand!" Zendaya added.
"I should thank you girls for always being with Stacy" Albert smiled at them brightly.
Kehlani nearly said something else, but she received a text, and she gasped, reading it.
It's from her boyfriend.
Max: Happy One year anniversary to us, Freckles. Come to the Elite2 Hotel?
He sent it at exactly 12am.
"Fûck! My Max!" Kehlani gushed, rushing out of the ward.
Zendaya followed her immediately.
Stacy got down from the bed, not wanting to miss the show.
"Your cheek is swollen, sweetheart! You can't leave!" Albert held her.
"I'll be fine dad! I need to go witness Kehlani's anniversary with the girls! Trust your sweetheart and just go handle that Garage Boy for me!" She blew him a kiss.
"Let's go!" The twins pulled her, rushing out of the ward to join Kehlani and Zendaya outside.
They packed themselves inside Kehlani's car, and it was Tania who drove this time.
The girls all have exotic car collections in different shades, but they're obsessed with driving together if their location is one place.
"Max is such a romanticist I can't!" Zendaya gushed.
"I was already planning to get mad at him if he forgot, but he texted at 12? I love him so much!" Kehlani shouted.
"What. Is. That!" Stacy and Tasha said at the same time.
They sighted it first—the billboard.
There's a note for Kehlani on the billboard! It's from Max.
Kehlani quickly winded every window down for better view.
It's really there...on the billboard.
• Hey, Lani. I just wanna tell you that you're the best thing that ever happened to me, and I love you so much it hurts. Happy One Year Anniversary to us, Freckles.
"Ok... Hot!" Tania grinned.
"Awww!!!" Zendaya and Tasha dramatically squealed.
"I'm so happy for you, Lani! Girl, Max is so into you!" Stacy praised.
"I'm driven to tears!" Kehlani sniffled.
"You deserve every good thing, baby," Stacy moaned, and Kehlani laughed.
The car pulled up at the Elite2 hotel park, and Kehlani was the first to get out. She jumped inside the hotel.
The girls had to run after her to catch up, and everyone of them turned on their phone cameras, ready to film as the elevator reached the 24th floor.
All of that floor is empty cos Max probably rented it out.
The room door is ajar, and Kehlani pushed it open, peeping inside first.
Balloons, glitters, confetti, sparkling fire, cake, roses, I LOVE YOU notes.
They're everywhere, and in bed, there are gifts—boxed and wrapped ones. Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Versace...
Name the brand.
Three big teddy bears, mickey mouse fluffies, all in Kehlani's signature colour burgundy.
"Aww! This is so cute! This is too damn cute!" Stacy got in with the friends, and Kehlani covered her mouth with her palm.
"Happy anniversary, Kehlani and Max!!" Tania and Tasha chorused.
"Go get your man, baby!" Zendaya screamed.
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