P E A R LThe car we were in stopped in front of a luxurious looking hotel. The building and architecture was enough to tell me that everything I paid through my four years would be one night alone. Heck, a few hours. The fact that this was probably where we would be staying made me feel tense. Now that I knew just how rich he was, I felt the depth of my poverty stricken state. This man could easily solve my life’s issues, which includes college debt and loans with just 0.5% of a few thousand dollars.I snapped out of my deep state of thoughts when my door opened. I blinked at the opened door before I raised my gaze and saw Anthony standing behind the door with his hand motioning for me to get out. I smiled at him then got out of the car.I nodded at him and stepped aside for him to close the door. Once that was done, he offered his hand out for me to hold. The first thing I did was to look around us then at him. I noticed he was now wearing a cap that shielded his face. Something told
P E A R LWhat did this woman just say?My heart was hammering by the second as I dumbly stared at her. What was going on? Why did she call him her husband?“I asked you a question. What are you doing with my husband?”I immediately ended the call and jumped out of the bed. I was doomed. I have been sleeping with a married man. I came on a trip with a married man. I let a married man sleep with me. Jesus.I stopped and thought in the direction of Anthony. He had deceived me! He should have told me he was married and now, there is probably a curse looming over my life because of my stupidity. I just met this man, I knew nothing about him, only to find out he is married. Anger started to creep into me. He hid this from me and now, his wife had seen my face, and I couldn’t tell if she would find me and that meant… The school may find out. I felt filthy at that moment and wanted to leave, to run but I was in another country. Far away from home. How was I supposed to leave? Right now, I w
P E A R LI stared with sadness at the thirty five percent beside the course I had thought I would ace this semester. My test was fifteen percent and my exam score, twenty. The more I stared at the screen of my laptop, the more I tried to stop myself from tossing the laptop to the other side of my dorm room. The course has been a pain in my ass ever since I got into the second year of college. Last semester, I failed it and now, I did again. Whoever the professor was needed to know that his assistant did a shitty job at teaching us because I did not understand a fucking word.I slammed my palm on the table, startling my roommate beside me on her bed.“What’s wrong?” She asked, standing up.“I can’t believe it. I failed one of my courses.”“What course?” She asked and I sighed.“Data Analytics. I don’t know what to do anymore. At this rate, I am not graduating from college, Amy.”“Whoa, this is bad.” She was looking at the screen.I angrily got up and started to pace around the room, t
P E A R L Chapter’s Soundtrack One The Girls By The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp 24 Hours Ago… “There’s this party at a club my friend goes to. Would you like to come with me?” I sleepily raised my head from my pillow to look at her. A party sounded good right now. It was Sunday and I had nothing to do. The week had been a bad one for me and maybe a party was a good thing to make me feel good. “Sure, I’ll go with you,” I replied and dropped my head back on the pillow and shut my eyes. “Great. Do you have what to wear?” That took the sleep out of my eyes. I sat up on the bed in panic and stared at Amy with wide eyes. I spent so much time studying that I barely went out or even hung out with anyone. “No. No, I don’t have any outfit. But that depends on what type of club we are going to.” Amy laughed. “The club we are going to isn’t like some run down place, chica.” She rushed over to my bed and sat beside me. I could see excitement written on her face. I knew she was about to
P E A R L I have not said one word. He did not say anything either. Since I excused him, he wore his shirt and when he told me to come in, my ass has been on my seat while my heart pounded so fast. Was I going to be in trouble with him after last night? Why was he even acting as if he did not know me? He barely looked at me or even glanced my way. His attention was on his tablet and the stacks of papers on the desk. “Do you want something, Miss…” Ouch. He didn’t even know my name. I cleared my throat. “Pearl Williams.” “Hm. What problems do you have?” He asked, his eyes still on the tablet. I gritted my teeth at his behavior. Why was he acting as if he did not know who I was? There was basic evidence of our time last night on my body and his. I scoffed and leaned back on my seat. “Why are you acting as if you don’t know who I am?” He stopped what he was doing for a second before he continued scrolling through his tablet. He dropped it the next second and laced his fingers on t
P E A R L This cannot be happening. I cannot believe he actually came to class after seeing him. What was his reason for suddenly showing up? Worse of it all, he had to show up to class right after we slept with each other. Was he trying to make me completely fail this class? “S-sir?” His assistant walked over to him, looking confused, A part of me was glad that he was going to actually teach us and have his lazy assistants stop giving us crap in the name of teaching. I was enjoying the restlessness she was going through. At least now she would stop being egotistical and probably go back to whatever she was doing before she and the other one started tutoring us. “I do not like what keeps happening in my class. The massive failure is concerning. Do you not read your books and the materials provided?” He asked and the class started to mutter. He had the nerve to ask that when I already explained everything to him in his office. “Professor Marison,” one of my classmates said, stand
Chapter’s Soundtrack Scared To Be Lonely By Martin Garrix ft. Dua Lipa P E A R L I returned to my room after a long day at school, tired and hungry. I needed a very cold shower and was craving some food. Going to college had to be life’s way of testing your patience because each day that ended stressful, I either wanted to drop out of school or continue through the torture it was creating for me. Now, an added torture spawned and it was in the form of my professor. The room’s door opened and Amy walked in, singing out loud. She waved at me and I waved back. I watched her sit on her bed. “Hey, are you hungry?” “Yup. Was just about to head to the bathroom then eat out,” I replied and got up on my feet then walked over to the closet on the other end of the room. “There's this new restaurant my boyfriend told me about. Let’s go eat there.” I narrowed my eyes at her. Her boyfriend is rich, so it meant the place was expensive and my pocket had enough holes to know not to go with her.
Chapter’s Soundtrack Or Nah By Ty Dolla $ign, The Weeknd, Wiz Khalifa P E A R L I barely had time to check the huge house we had walked into before I was pinned to a wall and my lips taken by Professor Marison’s. I surrendered myself to him and wrapped my arm around his neck, kissing him back with every passion steaming inside me. His lips tasted so good, like the sweet drink he had been drinking and they were soft on mine. He knew just how to make me turn to jelly with those lips because right now, shivers went through my body and my knees were getting weak from the way he was kissing me. When his hands cupped my ass and pushed me closer to his taller frame, I moaned. His hands squeezed my ass and then he lifted me up with a small force. I took that as a sign and jumped upward then wrapped my legs around his waist. He pulled away from my lips and started to walk. I cupped the back of his head and leaned over his shoulder as he walked. The house was huge… The living room we were in