Chapter 2
"Miss, you need to wake up. You have school today and you don't want to be late again." A groggy voice sounded inside Alice's head.
"School?" She thought. She didn't know she had to go to college in the afterlife. Was this hell?
"Your father is waiting downstairs to eat breakfast with you. The kitchen made your favorite today." Her eyes peeled open in surprise.
Waffles in the afterlife? Her father? She was confused.
"What was going on?" She thought. She looked around her surroundings noticing it was her room from five years ago before she was killed by the stupid bitch and the man she thought adored her. Her hands clenched in anger as she remembered her death from her past life.
She looked down at her hands noticing that they were soft and clean,her nails were manicured and there were no calluses on her palms.
"Please hand me a mirror." She said to the maid by her side. The maid handed her a mirror,looking at her with brewing confusion.
Fiona looked at the mirror with shock, screaming. Almost throwing it off the bed.
"That's how we all react when we see your terrible makeup. Glad you feel the same way." The maid murmured.
Fiona touched her heavily made up face. Her lashes were thicker than feathers. The blush looked like she was a five year old child learning to mix colors. The foundation was like three shades lighter than her. Her brows were covered under the heavy foundation and her lips were painted a very short shade of green. Her hair was in pigtails with colorful bands all around. She looked heinous. She was disgusted by herself but she was here. Does that mean…
"What date is it?" She abruptly asked the maid.
The maid looked at her in confusion.Had the young Miss finally gone crazy? "It's the year 2021, February 12th 2021."
She had gone five years back. She had been reborn. She had another chance of living her life and correcting her mistakes.
"Tell my father that I'll check down soon." Alice said hurrying into the bathroom to shower and get rid of the hideous makeup.
From under her bathroom sink,she retrieved make up wipes and began to wipe the makeup from her face. She wiped until the table was filled with color stained wipes. Her face was finally clean. Her features were even more gorgeous than she remembered.
Her eyes were slanted like a cat's. She had bright sea green irises. Her nose was painted and perfect. Her lips were pink and plump and her hair was the darkest shade of black that reached her waist.
She hurriedly got in the shower as she thought about her old life.
She thought about how Octavia played her,made her think she was the perfect little sister and killed her at the end and how Grant acted like he was in love with her only for him to join forces with her stepsister and they even got married. She thought about her father's suspicious death and how quickly her stepmother was to cut her off funds and chase her out of the house. She would make them all pay dearly for their evil deeds.
She thought about Travis and how he sacrificed his life just to save her. She thought of all the ways she had treated him before. She was blinded by instigation from Octavia and manipulated into thinking things she shouldn't.
She's smarter and knows their next move literally.
She moves to her dresser and begins to apply all her creams, taking time and precision on each body part. She had another life and she was going to live this one with her well-being as number one.
She was applying some lip tint when a knock sounded. She knew who it was. It was Travis.
"Come in." She said, her voice shaking.
He wheels himself in, his face a mix of surprise and confusion. He immediately covers it up and looks at her with a scowl.
"Good morning,Alice. You-" His words were cut off when she leaped on his body.
He caught her like she doesn't weigh anything.
"I missed you." She said, burrowing her face into his neck.
"You missed me?" He said with shock.
"Yes, I missed you. I thought I'll never see you again." She said with tears stained cheeks.
"Well here I am." He said, still looking at her with a scowl.
"Yes, you are." She presses a kiss to his cheek.
His body hardened. The arm on her waist going very still.
"What happened to your face?" He asked her.
"I took off all the hideous makeup. Don't I look so beautiful?" She looked at him with shining eyes as if she were seeking compliments from him.
"You do look beautiful. With or without makeup." He said with utmost sincerity.
She giggled. "I have to go for breakfast with Dad. Would you like to come with me?"
Travis was confused and shocked. Was this another one of her plots to get him to lower his guard?
He remembered that she left school the day before only to spend time with that other boy. His smile was gone and it was replaced by a frown.
"Are you doing this for me to trust you again? So you'll go out with that silly boy."
"What silly boy?" She blinked her eyes in faux confusion. The only person I want to go out with is you silly." She laughed.
He was not amused and looked at her with slitted eyes.
"I know it's hard to believe but I am in love with you. Absolutely in love with you." She laid a peck on
his cheeks.
He froze,looking at her skeptically.
"Infact, let's get married."