Chapter 2: Chapter2

#Chapter2

Frank forced a smile on his face, he hates it when she does that especially with the hands that she had been using in cleaning and throwing away garbage all day, he doesn’t like her touching him unless she has taken a bath but he couldn’t let his distaste be known, he needs somewhere to stay after all. /"Better than last./"

/"Don’t worry, soon you will find what you are looking for,/" she comforted him, she looked behind him, /"oh Tom is done bathing, want to take a shower?/"

Frank looked behind him and saw the so called Tom approaching them, definitely to greet them and he hates that, just what is it with the people here, why can’t they stay on their own? /"Yes,/" he forced out just as Tom got closer.

/"Hi Athena, hi Frank, tough day?/" He asked, his blue eyes shining in the sunset, he looked really handsome and with the water beads dripping on his body.

/"No, everything is good,/" Athena answered and he nodded and walked away. /"Why don’t you take a shower, I will try to fix up something for us to eat./"

/"Won’t you take a shower first?/" He asked, trying to hide the scowl on his face.

/"You want to and I can’t lay around waiting for you,/" she answered innocently.

/"You won’t be laying around, my suit, it needs to be washed, some stupid kids splashed dirty water on me while I was walking back./"

Athena smiled, /"oh Frank, they are not stupid, they probably didn’t realize they did that./"

/"Yeah, whatever, so can you wash it for me? I hope it can dry before morning and you can then take a bath after washing it then make dinner./"

Athena thought about it, /"alright,/" she smiled.

/"Thanks,/" Frank smiled, she leaned forward to kiss him and he took a step back before he could stop himself, then seeing the shock on her face, he pretended to be wiping out something from her hair, /"you must have had a really tough day, why don’t you hurry up with your duties so you can have a rest./"

Athena sighed and stretched herself, /"you are right, it’s been a tough day./"

/"Yeah, go ahead now,/" he said and turned, walking to the bathroom and Athena went back to their flat.

***

Athena woke up in the night to find Frank’s side in the bed empty, /"Frank?/" She called but when she got no answer, she got out of the bed and went into the living room, /"Frank?/" she saw him sitting on the only couch in the living room and closed up their distance. /"What is it?/" She asked, placing her hand on his shoulder.

Frank sighed, /"Nothing, just…thinking./"

Athena sat beside him immediately, /"what are you thinking about?/"

/"My life, Athena, look at me, at twenty three I have no source of income, nothing, I can’t even look after you the way I want to, the way I promised your mother I would./"

Athena smiled and placed her head on his shoulder, /"but Frank, it’s not your fault, I am sure mom understands perfectly. You are trying your best to make things better for us, you go out every morning to return at night because you are looking for a better job, that’s already you trying./"

/"But I am not trying hard enough, take a look at me, Athena, I had promised you that on your twenty second birthday that I would throw you a party and your birthday is in three months time, I have no hope of even fulfilling my promise to you./"

/"But three months is still far, Frank, you never can tell what would happen tomorrow…/"

/"Nothing is happening tomorrow, there would be no difference by then. Just face it Athena and tell it to my face, I am a complete failure./"

/"But you are not, you are the best designer I know and sooner than later the world would see that, you would go places Frank, I believe it, I believe in you. Tell me, which man in your age here ever had a contact with the top fashion industry? Tell me./"

Frank sighed, she is right, no one has which made every man his age envious of him, but he doesn’t want to be envied by them, he doesn’t want to be envied by lowlifes who have no hope of a better future. Out there in the city, they are men his age who are top celebrities, even the designer of the dress Hillary Queen wore the day he received the best Actor award is only twenty two and people know him, many celebrities wants him to design a dress for them. Many people envy him, even he envies him, as well as many designers, now that’s the kind of people he would want to envy him, people of high classes, where he belongs.

/"Frank, someday and not even far anymore, you will find what you are looking for, you will have that life you have always dreamed of, I strongly believe that,/" Athena encouraged.

Frank let out a deep breath, /"I know Athena but the thing is, I might be losing my chance./"

/"What do you mean?/"

/"To win the contest of Fashionista, I need to produce my designer and a model has to wear it to show off at a fashion show that only the workers including their CEO would attend, the design with highest rating will be the winner and the designer would be hired and become one of their many designers,/" he turned to her then, his green eyes twinkling with enthusiasm, /"do you know what that means? Athena, if I win this, our lives would change forever. Have you heard of Augustus Hawke?/"

Athena shook her head, she never knows anything that happens in the city because she never cares, why should she waste her time studying people who doesn’t even know about her existence?

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