MY LOVELY AUTHOR'S

MISADVENTURES AND LUCK IN LIFE PART 3

Narrator’s POV

            Bora stared at her phone screen confused as to how she should react with Arata's articles and photos along with the now-dispersed Author Wallflower-Asha. Because of the paparazzi that captured photos of Arata and Author Wallflower, now Bora can see the reason why Arata is close to Author Wallflower.

            “They are neighbors and that's the reason Arata is being nice to her?” muttered Bora who suddenly felt annoyed at the photo of Arata and Author Wallflower looking at each other from the balcony of their adjoining apartment.

            That look. . , Arata's gaze on the woman was not the gaze he used to show to many people. Seeing Arata's face looking at Author Wallflower in the photo on her phone screen, made Bora feel confident with her fear all along.

            “Why are you angry again?” tanya Ulfa who is cleaning up Bora's wardrobe and arranging clothes for tomorrow's final shoot in the film Love Like Ectasy.

            Bora glanced at Ulfa and was curious at the thought of her innocent manager. “Have you seen the latest news about Author Wallflower?”

            Ulfa nodded her head. “Already. News about his relationship with Arata isn't it?”

            “Yes. What do you think, Ulfa? If you were in the position of Arata's manager, what would you do to overcome that? Are you going to clarify and deny the issue?” Bora asked with a curious face.

            “If I were Arata's manager, of course I would do just that, Bora. Now Arata is at the peak of his career, in another year or two his career can still rise again and Arata can still be more famous. Maybe he could get a chance to play a movie abroad. As a famous person, problems like this always come and if you want to maintain the future of Arata, you know, arata's side should have rejected the news and said that he has no special relationship with Author Wallflower unless they are neighbors as caught in the photo.”

            Bora smiled hearing the rational answer coming out of Ulfa's mouth.

            “Moreover Wallflower Author is now in trouble. The scandal about bullying has just come out and it will surely lead Arata fans to denounce Arata's relationship with Author Wallflower. So. .. if you want to maintain Arata's popularity, Arata's party should make an announcement if Arata does not have a relationship with Author Wallflower.” Ulfa added the answer after tidying up Bora's clothes in her closet.

            Bora's smile grew wider because it felt like God was siding with her and giving her help to destroy the Wallflower Author.

            In this way. . The name of Author Wallflower will be further destroyed and she will not have another chance to appear in public let alone appear near Arata, bora thought was full of spirit flames. Taste. . . God may have been answering my prayers all this time. God seemed to tell me that Arata was destined for me and not to be with that annoying woman who didn't know her place at all.

            Drrrtttt. . Bora's phone vibrated and on the screen appeared the name of Lusi who was making a call to Bora's phone.

            Bora looked towards Ulfa and asked Ulfa to come out from inside her room while receiving a call from Lusi.   

            “Halo, Lusi. Why call me?”

            “Have you seen Arata's news with Asha?”

            Bora nodded her head while playing with her hair because of the feeling of pleasure that was coming at her.          “Ya, I saw it.”

            “Is that you, Bora?”

            Bora shook her head. “Of course, no. It was someone else, I never knew if Arata and Asha lived next door. If I had known. .. . maybe it would have been a long time ago that I would have spread the word.”

            “What after this Asha will lose her name??” Bora caught a worried tone in Lusi's speech.

            “Of course. Arata will certainly not accept the issue and will definitely say no in his announcement later. We just need to wait for that and once that happens, Asha will lose everything as we expected.” Bora smiled happily as her heart impatiently waited for that day to come. “Why are you asking like that?”

            “Why?” Bora suddenly felt curious because of the words from Lusi. “Is something wrong?”

            “The apartment where Asha lives is the apartment where my brother lives.  The apartment was a middle class apartment and not an upper class one. How could a famous actor like Arata with such an expensive fee be living in such a medium-sized apartment? Don't you feel weird about that, Bora??”

            Bora shook her head because the feeling of pleasure that had already spread throughout her mind and heart. “You think too much, Lusi. Don't think strangely, we just need to wait for the woman's destruction after this and you'll get paid dearly for helping me, Lusi.”

            “Ahhh, hahahaha.” Bora heard Lusi's chuckling voice from inside her phone. “Alright, I understand that, Bora.  I seem to be the one who worries about it too much. Yes. . We both just need to wait for Asha's destruction just like you said, Bora.”

            Bora closed her call and stared at the ceiling of her room with a slightly curious face. Lusi's words have a point. Why does Arata live in such a middle-class apartment and not in a high-end apartment?

            Bora shook her head, trying to erase her own thoughts. Even if Arata liked the author, they became neighbors must have been just a coincidence. Even if Arata likes the author, Arata will definitely choose to let go of the woman rather than lose her popularity. I'm sure it is.

*

            Drtts. . .

            My phone shook repeatedly and the vibrations managed to wake me up from my sleep. I opened my eyes lazily and took a sitting position on the sofa where I fell asleep. Oh. . . 11pm.

            I picked up my phone and saw Arata's name appear on my phone screen. Without thinking I took the call. This bitch won't stop making calls before I answer those calls.

            “Ehm. . Why call me?”

            “Author is asleep??”

            “Yah. . It seems like an hour ago I fell asleep on the sofa in front of TV.” I rubbed my eyes and returned to my sleeping position on the sofa because of my extreme drowsiness. “Why?”

            “Can you go to your balcony? There's something I have to tell you and it should be in front of you, Author??”

            My eyes that had been closed because of drowsiness were very, very open to hear the ridiculous request from Arata. “Are you crazy?? You want the paparazzi to take our photos again??”

            “No, Author. This time there won't be any paparazzi taking photos of us both. After all, the paparazzi who took our photo was an acquaintance of Kak Rama, so as I said before, the photo we both spread was my plan with Kak Rama.” Arata tried to explain to me.

            “This time. . .what's your plan?” I got up from my seat, walked into the kitchen, took some drinking water and drank it. “You tried to erase the scandal about me with another scandal and this time it involved you. Don't you love the popularity you have?”

             “Hem.” Arata was silent for a moment as if he was a little reluctant to tell me his next plan. “After this, I'll end it, Author. Be it the scandal about you, the bullying you received and the scandal that happened with me, after this I will end it, Author.”

            “How to? Are you going to clarify the scandal yourself?” I know very well.. . that popularity is very important for public figures like Arata. So if he were to throw me away, I would be fully prepared.

            “Yes, Author. In two days. . . I will hold a press conference to clarify everything.”