THE b***h

Chapter Three : MAYBE, THE FUTURE ?

Fat Prince was still one of the best places for dinner parties,and Diana was having the time of her life,her favourite french wine in her hand ,she sipped slowly and smiled as auntie Esther pointed the people of interest.

"Esther?" A woman asked behind them, they both turned to the woman,and Esther smiled.

"Valerie Tan" Esther said and the two women hugged.

Diana turned about her,not meaning to join them anymore,she saw a friend of her,s at the other side of the hall and made to walk up to her but aunty Esther pulled her back.

"Meet Diana Han " Esther introduced,she proudly held Diana's hands.

"Hello"

"It's nice meeting you, Diana"

"She is an excellent model,she is an inspiration to me especially" Esther smiled.

Diana flushed,she avoided Mrs Tan,s face and fanned her face with her right hand as auntie Esther continued her flattery.

"Isn't the music just great, Diana" Mrs Tan asked,she smiled warmly,her eyes bright.

Diana looked up at her,but Mrs Tan was still smiling.

"Will you excuse me?" She said,her hand on Esther,s shoulder,the other holding her purse,she walked away.

Esther sighed. "Did I tell you she owns Diva Models,whoa!,that woman is powerful and plus she is one of my very good friends"

Diana was silent. "What is wrong?" Esther touched her arm,she turned to her.

"Nothing, excuse me"

Diana poured the remaining wine in her cup into the sink at the washroom,she brushed her hair with her hands and looked into the mirror.

"It must be the alcohol" She thought. " I must not be disturbed, everything will be fine."

She sighed and faked a smile in front of the mirror. She needed to get her head straight,it wasn't the time to think about her financial situations nor about Moldova,not about her past.

She chuckled nervously. " Valerie Tan is Mom?,what sought of a fool thinks like that" She scoffed,arranged the neckline of her dress,and walked out.

She could hear the faint music from the hall, someone was making a toast because the music was replaced by loud clapping,she turned to go in,but saw a woman walking away, drunkenly,she looked towards where the woman was going and saw a sign post saying. *Pool Area".

"Pool area??" She repeated,she looked at the direction again,and saw that the place was strangely dark. Her phone ringed,it was auntie Esther.

"Oh well,she is going to have a swim" She said unconcerned and started into the hall, she picked the call and slide it to her ear but stopped when she heard a grunt, followed by a groan.

She turned, without thinking , she walked further into the dark.

"Who are you!,what did you do to me!!" The woman yelled, she was near the pool,and they was a man in a hoodie,a bit farther from her, Diana could hardly see what was going on,there was only but a dim light shining across the pool.

"I am your doom!"

"My doom?" The woman repeated,she staggered further to the pool,shocked at his words.

"Go to hell,you wretch!!" The man shouted,he ran violently,and pushed the woman into the pool,the woman didn't struggle for more than a minute,it was as if she was near to death.

Diana gasped. She covered her mouth with both hands. She held unto a drainage pipe on the wall,she felt suddenly lightheaded.

She had seen so much of these,but not in real life,she was experiencing this real life. She had suddenly become a witness to murder,so she was stucked with two options. She had to either run away and pretend nothing ever happened or call the police and get herself into a huge mess.

The man stood there,it appeared as if he was startled by the turn of events,and the way the woman's still body floated at the surface made Diana queasy.

"Hello!!, Diana,where are you?" Auntie Esther shouted from the phone.

The man turned to her direction and immediately the lights came on,she scrambled to her feets,the man stared unmoving, shocked having been discovered,she hung up,and quickly turned on her camera in a haste,but the man ran to her,she ran off.

Diana didn't stop,she had just witnessed a murder,she couldn't stop,and the man didn't chase her after she left the pool and came into the hall,she couldn't find auntie Esther so she just ran away.

Sleep?, sleep eluded her that night,she couldnt think,she didn't want to think. She knew how she drove home and how weak she felt when she slumped on the sofa and pulled out her heels.

While she lay on the sofa, covered up,she remembered how she had to transfer money to the cab driver,she wasn't thinking well so she didn't pull out money from her purse and pay the driver.

"By the way,where is my purse?" She looked about her for the purse but couldn't find it. "Could I have....." She thumped on her head.

"i***t,i***t,damn you!!"

In the morning, she woke up with puffy eyelids due to lack of sleep,her eyes roved around her in search of her phone,she had been too tired last night that she didn't check on auntie Esther. She was however glad that the call with auntie Esther had been recorded,since she had her calls with aunt Esther on auto record.

She picked her jogging pants and a black cap to match and walked out of the house, determined to cool her head.

Twenty-five minutes on the exercise, Diana felt a presence of being followed,every turn she took, someone behind her was taking the same,so she slowed down a bit.

"Diana Han" A man voice called behind her,she hastened her steps and he did too, moving almost at the same pace. "Real name. Maria Erhan. Age 23,a glamour model,grew up in Tiraspol, Moldova,and ..." he stopped talking,she quickened her steps,two times faster than his,he brought his hand forward to get a hold at her shoulders, but she dodged and started running as fast as she could,not turning back once to see the face of her pursuer.

Diana took two more turns ,before stopping a while to rest,her hands supported her chest,She squatted beside a street lamp and bowed her head, she looked up to meet the outstretched hand of a man in a hoodie,with masks on,and with the look of a thug.

She looked at the outstretched hand and then to his face,not that she could recognise him.

"Who are you,what do you want?" She asked, standing up,being fully in control.

He quietly pulled out a card from his pockets and handed it to her,She glanced at the card then at him.

"Are you crazy?,why are you giving me a card?" She shouted.

"Take it,if you want to live" He growled.

She heard the rage in his voice and how his hold on the card in his hands tightened and she forced her hands to take the card from him,it was an access card for a golf course.

"What is this?" She inquired, but he ignored her when a black van stopped Infront of them and he boarded.

Mikayla leaned on the gate,her keys dangling from her hand,Diana walked towards the gate,sighting Mikayla,she looked away.

Mikayla gave a sigh of exaggerated boredom.

"When did you change your passcode?"

"Last night,what are you doing here?"

"Are we going to just stand here,lets go in"

Diana put in the passcode and they both walked in, Mikayla pulled her shoes by the door and slipped into a slipper,while Diana walked right in with her shoes on.

"Diana!!" She shouted. "Take out your shoes first"

"Say what you want and leave?" Diana slumped on the nearest sofa.

"Esther said you both went to Fat Prince last night"

"And so?"

"What happened,you left her alone"

"Did you know my ATM cards were rejected yesterday?"

"The bank manager had the accounts suspended,he said it was compulsory if we had to secure the accounts"

"Is that why you totally disappeared yesterday?"

"I am sorry"

"Which I guess isn't sincere"

"It is,I swear"

"I cannot believe you would do that to me,making me look like a fool at the mall"

Mikayla walked over to and sat beside her.

"Someone died yesterday at the party" She said.

"What?" Diana sat up,she had yet again just realised that she had witnessed a murder yesterday,and she bowed her head in shame unable to tell her the truth.

"Apparently,they said she committed suicide"

"Who?" Diana turned to her.

"Elida Choi,her husband cheated on her and to think she was going to become Chairwoman of Singapore Jewellers Association"

"What?"

"She was one of the nominees for that seat with ninety six votes with Amore Chua following behind, poor woman was frustrated with life and her shameless husband had to do that to her"

Diana bowed her head, confused on what to do. Mikayla looked around her,in search of something to keep her busy,she stood up and walked to the other room,coming back with a magazine.

She flipped through the magazine uninterested.

"Who is this?" Diana suddenly asked, pointing at one of the models.

" Christian Chua?,who doesn't know him" She smiled proudly.

"He does?" Diana smirked.

"Does what?" Mikayla frowned for being disturbed.

"Really is Christian Chua?"

"Whoa!,don't tell me you are crushing on him?" She stared, surprised. "Don't you dare crush on him,he is just eighteen,don't you dare crush on him"

"Definitely, darling,I am definitely crushing on this one"