Love is the Sunshine

Carla was about to step into the elevator, when she heard a familiar voice from behind. She froze and couldn't move.

"I told you to wait for me. Why didn't you listen to me?"

he said as he walked quickly towards her.

"Just stay away from me!"

She turned her back to him and faced the elevator not having the courage to look him in the eyes. Before she entered she said in a shaky voice, "Terence, since your grandfather has traveled all the way here to see you, so please spend more time with him and don't come to my house tonight."

She then went in the elevator and began to press the close button quickly so the door shut before he had time to join her.

"Sean and I will take care of ourselves. As for you, take care," she said just before they closed.

She felt a sense of relief when the doors shut separating her and Terence. Carla leaned against the wall feebly. It seemed like there were thousands of bees buzzing inside her head. She felt numb and confused and had trouble thinking straight.

Carla was overwhelmed with emotions.

She didn't know how to face Terence.

Terence stood silently staring at the closed elevator doors. He could have stopped her, but he thought it was best to just let it all sink in. It was a lot for her to accept all at once.

It was hard for her to bear so much in such a short time, so he let her go. Terence closed his eyes helplessly.

"Race, arrange a car for Carla and take her home. Make sure she gets home safely and wait until she is inside her home before you leave,"

Terence told his grandfather's most trusted man, Race, who followed him.

When Carla reached the bottom floor of the hotel and left the building, a Rolls-Royce limousine was waiting out the front for her.

The parking boy stood by the limousine and immediately stepped forward to open the door when he saw Carla. With white-gloved hands, he ushered her towards the limo.

"Miss Carla, this way please," he said formally.

Carla was taken aback by the formality of the situation. She stepped back frightened, she was way out of her depth. For all of her twenty years, she had never once experienced such extravagance.

"No, no, I can go back by taxi. Thank you all the same," she waved her hand as if to shoo him away. As a poor citizen, she couldn't afford such a luxury.

Race had just stepped out of the elevator and noticed Carla's reluctance to get into the limousine. He approached her and said respectfully, "Miss Carla, Mr. Terence has given them instructions to take you home safely.

home. Otherwise, they will

awkwardly. She knew what it was like when Karen yelled at her for doing something wrong, so she didn't want to get the men

quietly in the luxuriously leather upholstered seats. She felt intimidated by all of the pomp and extravagance that surrounded her, from the leather seats, expensive crystal wine goblets, flat-screen television, and so the list went on. Carla dared not touch anything, and she felt way out of her comfort

curb and the chauffeur opened the door for Carla.

first made sure that Carla was safely

it must be my dream. It was an illusion which couldn't possibly

up, Carla!'

behind the door and it turns out that it was you. Why didn't you come in?" Sean said when he opened the door and saw Carla just standing there with a blank look on her

way, where's

asked scratching his head and looking behind her and

went inside silently, with her shoulders slumped

don't you answer me? Where's Terence? Aren't you

followed her and kept

gave him a cold stare,

Not even a word. Do

of him? Everything was fine when you left. What happened? Why didn't Terence come back with you? I want

he kept persisting with his questions. Although he could tell that Carla was unhappy, he still wanted to

back because he will be

giving into him. "Oh, I

from us and we live in two, very different worlds. If he does leave, we need to accept it. Don't cry or try to persuade him to stay. Are we

had said. "Why? Even if Terence does go home to live with his family, he can still hang out with us.

understand what the

when he saw how upset Carla was, he hung

replied in a quiet

into her bed and wrapped

sleep a wink. All she saw in front of her was Terence's handsome face. Whether she closed her eyes or

of bed. She went to the bathroom and looked at her reflection in the mirror, and what stared back at her was a woman drained with two black bags under her eyes. She washed her face and brushed her teeth and went

who had taken charge

thought of Terence unintentionally and she shook her head, trying

an easy life with everything provided for him, would be willing to fall for her and

of this, she laughed ironically.

that she was holding dropped from her hand all of a sudden when she wiped the table absentmindedly. She sat at the dining table and brought her knees up to her chest, and hugged them as she stared blankly into

been sitting there, when a sound coming from the front door roused her

in quietly and was surprised to see Carla sitting there on her own.