"Is anything wrong? Did he do something to you?" Madam Stella asked.
"No..but," Charmaine was saying but was interrupted when Madam Stella was called.
"We'll talk over the phone, honey " madam Stella said before hurrying away.
Charmaine sighed and started walking out of the bar ignoring the men hungry gaze on her body.
Charmaine alighted from the cab in front of her house and paid the cabman.
She opened the gate and walked into the compound.
She started heading to her apartment but stopped when she saw a teenage girl walk out of her door, slamming it hard.
She knew the girl is a student in her younger brother's school.
The girl walked past her and it was then Charmaine noticed the pretty girl was in tears.
"Again!" Charmaine thought furiously knowing her younger brother was a Playboy.
'What the hell is wrong with Luke!' Charmaine thought furiously and turned to comfort the girl but she already walked out of the gate.
She rubbed her forehead and bit her lips angrily before walking into the house.
"Hey, sis!" Luke said bending to pick his sis on the cheeks.
"Fuck off!" Charmaine said walking to the kitchen to get a glass cup of water.
"Ouch," Luke groaned.
"Charmaine, what was that, huh?" he asked, also walking to the kitchen.
Charmaine opened the fridge and brought out a chilled bottle of water.
"Charmaine!" Luke pout.
She grabbed a glass cup and poured herself some water still ignoring him.
She gulped it down her throat while Lucien watched her.
He knew the job she was doing and knew she was doing it just for his sake and their stepmother's.
Anytime she comes back looking tired, he pities her and feels pure rage for himself.
If it wasn't for him, his sis wouldn't engage in such job.
But she wouldn't even allow him to work,even if it's a part time job.
She insists on providing everything and he knows it's not easy.
If only their parents aren't dead.
If only their stepmother never had that accident while she was doing different jobs just to feed them.
Now everything is on Charmaine.
"Hey, Luke!" Charmaine called.
"I thought you were ignoring me." Luke said.
"I was until i saw you were lost in thought." Charmaine rolled her eyes.
"Ohh!" Luke scratched his hair.
"Are you probably thinking about the girl that left here in tears?" Charmaine asked.
"Ohh...you mean Sarah?" Luke asked.
"I don't care what her name is. Luke! This will be the thirtieth time a girl will walk out of this apartment in tears!"
"Thirtieth? C'mon sis. You exaggerate so much. It's not even up to twenty times. It should be the eighteenth time or so." Luke said.
"You think it's a good thing to make a girl cry? Luke! I knew what you did to Chris when he made me cry. You almost killed him."
"Well, that guy was a motherfucker!" Luke said remembering the incidence which made him feel like punching Chris all over again.
"And you're...?" Charmaine asked.
"Okay sis, I'll change." Luke said.
"You're always saying that and you keep repeating the same thing."
"I also want to change! But they keep coming to me! And..i can't resist" Luke said putting in place the strand of hair that fell on his forehead.
Charmaine stared at her younger brother and wished he wasn't this good looking.
He's right!
They keep coming to him.
Girls flock around Luke like flies,even those older than him.
His beautifully crafted face is just so perfect,he has a narrow straight nose and his huge eyes were so blue against his smooth chocolate skin,he has chiseled features and he's tall and powerfully built for a seventeen years old high school student.
He always stood out among others.
And most of all he's freaking intelligent, always getting a gold medal at the end of each term.
His intelligence has been unmatched, which has drawn greater attention to him. Charmaine is adamant that he won't quit school like she did. She promised herself that she would see to it that Luke finished school and earned his degree. She has a deep affection for her younger brother. "Gosh! For all of this, you're still young," Charmaine remarked. "I'm seventeen!"