Chapter 483 - Four Hundred And Eighty-three: Drama Queen (1/2)
The third point of view:
Everything happened as Isabella had predicted, Maya's place was unoccupied. Well, the only being they encountered was the security man who let them in after they mentioned Isabella sent them - the girl's name has become a gold mine. Pedro guessed the man was the ”eye” Isabella claimed she had on the place.
Pedro couldn't help but think, their children in the future would have a hard time claiming their inheritance because he was sure as hell Isabella would give them a run for their money.
”It's locked,” Anabelle tried the door.
”Give me space then,” Pedro said, flexing his shoulder as he warmed up.
Anabelle moved out of the way but not without a suspicious look as she tried to figure out his intention. She watched as Pedro took a step back and rammed his shoulder into the door. But instead of the door opening, he fell.
”Ouch, that one hurt,” He moaned, rubbing his shoulder.
”What did you just do?” Anabelle asked, hovering over him with a questioning expression.
”Trying to bring the door down? I've seen it in movies and it works ...” he frowned, ”Why didn't mine work and damn, this hurts like shit,”
”Because you're obviously an idiot. How would we sleep in the house if the door is down?!” She yelled at him, ”I've never slept with my door broken and privy to thieves, and even worse rapists!”
Pedro groaned, ”Chill drama queen, there's a security downstairs. Moreover, it's not exactly hard to fix a broken door,”
”Whatever,” Anabelle rolled her eyes and walked over to the door. She squatted down, ruffling through her hair for something.
”What are you doing?” Pedro sat up, intrigued.
”Trying to pick the lock, stupid,” she sassed at him, a hairpin in her grasp.
But Pedro was amused by her comment, ”That's impossible, the only person in our group who can pick a lock is....” his expression changed, ”Unless you learned it from her,”
Anabelle was smug, ”Yes, Pedro, you're not the only person that learned one or two things from Isabella,” She told him.
However, ten minutes later, the lock still hasn't been hacked.
Pedro leaned towards the sweating Anabelle whose sole attention was focused on working the lock. He said,
”You sure you can do this, or we can humbly contact the security to help us with...”
Click. The lock opened.
Anabelle turned, cocking a brow at him, ”You were saying?”
”A-hem,” Pedro cleared his throat awkwardly, ”Well, you're a woman of surprises,”
Anabelle stood to her feet with a grunt, she had lost feeling in her legs for squatting for so long, ”I'm not that useless, Pedro,”
Pedro frowned, ”I never said you were useless,” He corrected her.
”You don't need to say it, I see it in the way you guys stare at Isabella after she's accomplished an unimaginable feat while I don't try at all. You know, I'm the odd one in the group,” She threw her hands up, ”Isabella and Julie both share a common trait of being strong and badass. You? You're smart and intelligent and have interesting skills, but me? The sheltered princess of Spencer Clan who can't even take care of herself,”
”Don't beat yourself so hard, you have your own unique trait,”
”Don't try to console me,”
”Anabelle,” Pedro's gaze softened, placing his hands on her shoulder, ”I think you're unique, and you kind of remind me of a caterpillar,”
”What?!” Anabelle's face distorted, she couldn't believe what she just heard.
Pedro realized she misunderstood his intention and began to clear himself, ”I'm not trying to be insulting but alluding to the metamorphosis of a butterfly. You know, caterpillars are often viewed as useless by most people but in reality, they are a source of food and play an important role in ecosystems. Not to mention that various species of caterpillar are sources of silk, and some can be used for the biological control of invasive pest plants. But most importantly, they become beautiful butterflies in the end - ”
”Or moth,” She reminded him of the other likelihood.