Chapter 45: How Old Are You?
Scarlett smiled and nodded, and when all the staff had left, she headed for the underground garage. As she pulled out her phone to ask Francis where he was, a sleek black car pulled up in front of her. Scarlett opened the door, climbed in, and fell directly into Francis’s arms.
“Can’t you just rest for a while?!” Scarlett murmured as her lips were sealed by Francis’s. As soon she got in the car, she was warmly welcomed by his passionate kiss.
After a while, Francis stopped and said, “I’ve told you not to drink that much!” Scarlett got up from his arms. “You got drunk yourself!” Francis pinched her cheek softly. He was a bit angry, but he just couldn’t resist her cute sexiness that always eased his anger and comforted his heart.
Suddenly, Francis lifted her to his legs before she could withdraw and resist. “What are you doing? Put me down…” Scarlett patted his arms and struggled to get down. “Don’t move!” Francis tightened his grasp.
Scarlett knew her protest was in vain, so she simply put her arms around his neck and leaned on his shoulder. She couldn’t escape, so she decided that she should change to a good posture and just enjoy the ride. After all, the man in front of her was someone she had taken a shine to.
“You’re too thin!”
“Wow, is this how you romance a woman? Try again!” Scarlett stared at him with a scowl on her face.
Francis laughed, “I want to see more of you. Show me.” He couldn’t help teasing her.
Scarlett quickly rounded her arms to cover her chest. “No way!” Her face turned even more scarlet under the dim light.
Francis had no intention to offend her even when he was hammered. Scarlett knew she was safe in his hands, but she remembered that she had an appointment with Stella tomorrow, so she said, “Take me back to school.”
“Go directly to the Hill,” Francis told the driver.
Scarlett rolled her eyes. “I’ve got an appointment with Stella. I need to fetch things for tomorrow’s shoot.”
Francis’s face turned dark when Scarlett told him she had to go back to campus. Hearing the name of Stella, “real” niece’s name, he felt strange inside for messing around with Scarlett. They must be about the same age, he thought.
“How old are you?”
Scarlett seemed to know what he was worried about, so she looked at him and smiled proudly, “I am 21!” She looked at his abashed face and added, “I’m 21, Uncle Francis!”
Francis knew that Scarlett was playing a trick on him, but he couldn’t blame her– he could only blame himself. Every time Scarlett appeared on his side, she seemed to him a mature woman with a tempting demeanor. Because of that, he sometimes forgot there was such a gap between their ages.
But Scarlett looked particularly happy. Watching Francis’s face turn red with embarrassment was a matter of joy to her. She was not afraid to tease him. Her tender hand, like a little fish, swam all over his face, neck, and shoulders.
Francis suddenly grabbed her hand and glared at her with his deep eyes, “Don’t call me uncle ever again.” Scarlett smiled an elated smile and said, “Then what should I call you?” Francis put down his hand and approached Scarlett’s ear, “What’s my name?”
“Francis…” His sudden advance took Scarlett by surprise.
“Then that’s it,” Francis said as he pecked her sexy lips.
Scarlett was frozen there, speechless. “So the age problem was simply solved?” She thought in the heart.
After she sat back to her position, Francis said to the front seat, “Go to UI first.”
Wearing a pink dress and a pair of pure white ballet shoes, Scarlett sat in a black sports car with one hand holding the steering wheel and the other clutching the gear. Her movements were fluid and wild, and between her eyes, there was a steady, soft glow that seemed to break through the screen.
Black sports car and the girly, pink dress the extreme contrast made her uniquely tempting. The high-speed camera recorded her every move. She pushed the door open and got out of the car. The clouds and the black car made a perfect black-and-white background, and she walked toward the lens in an eye-catching pink.
A corner of her dress waved in the breeze, and her long, lean legs were visible but still indistinct– she looked extremely ravishing. When she approached the camera, she caressed her hair, and a close-up shot showed her perfectly delicate side profile. She then turned to the camera and smiled a bright smile with her flaming lips and pearly white teeth.
The frame turned black, leaving the slogan of Stella’s magazine, “Fenzy: Forecasting Fashion.”
This video received more than one million hits within a day, and the official website of the magazine actually crashed. Too many visitors were trying to visit the site at the same time, hungry for information about the fascinating model at the center of the new campaign. All the staff members of Stella’s studio had to come back to the office to deal with this emergency.
Within half a day, the heroine of the video was recognized to be a student of Irving University, and “UI” and “ScarlettMorris” had again become the trending hashtags. Some people online launched a background search of Scarlett and dug up all the videos that had gone viral on the Internet just a few months ago. Some even organized a visit to UI to meet Scarlett in the flesh.
Fortunately, the final exam has been completed, and Scarlett successfully escaped from school. She had no choice but to hide in Stella’s studio and did not dare show her face outside.
A few days later, Scarlett thought the crisis was over and went to the supermarket to buy some snacks for herself. She didn’t expect she had become so widely known that fans would accost her even at the supermarket.
If it were not for the help of the staff, she would not have walked out of the supermarket that day. After being stuck at the supermarket, Scarlett dared not to leave the studio. She didn’t even go to T. B. S. Empire for work but asked for two weeks of sick leave.