249 Chapter 249: I Am Tired (1/2)
The next day, when Faith came with the clean clothing, she noticed wounds around Kylie's waist. When she asked what they were from, Kylie said, ”They are nothing but superficial scratches. I got them from climbing out of the window at the hotel after the ceremony. It sounds bad, but it was nothing compared to what happened to Princess Dianna when she tried to get away from the paparazzi!”
”That was very bold of you,” Faith said. ”You must have been scared. I can only imagine what would have happened if the reporters had caught sight of you!”
”It was nothing,” Kylie laughed. ”I was still drunk at the time. I barely even remember it. At worst, they would have taken pictures of me puking.”
”Be that as it may,” Faith countered. ”You also look very tired.”
”I am tired,” Kylie admitted. ”I will tell you something in confidence: Ethan and I made love last night. It was very vigorous, but when he woke up, he was chipper and full of energy. With me, though, it is different. When we have sex, I wake up exhausted.”
Faith frowned and said, ”I can't relate to your story but, if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm your Huckleberry.”
”Thank you,” Kylie cried as she hugged Faith. ”You are a true friend.”
The day after the party, Cliff's face began to appear on the internet. Everyone knew that he'd holed up in a hotel room, but no one knew who he'd been with. The next day, when housekeeping opened the room, it was empty, and everyone had assumed that the mysterious woman had escaped through the window with Ethan.
Cliff had updated his Instagram with a short sentence: ”To the woman that I love the most, I wish you happiness throughout your life!”
Out of all of the things he could have said, people found this sentence particularly interesting because it implied unrequited love. Almost minutes after it had been posted, the server crashed as countless fans, and media personalities guessed who the woman was. Cliff's post had already been shared almost two billion times, which he would later learn, was a world record.
The mystery was cleared up days later, though, when Cliff came forward and said, ”I'm sorry to disappoint everyone, but my last post was for my mother. It was her birthday.”
The response to his post was mixed. It was definitely disappointing to have the story end so anticlimactically. That being said, many of Cliff's fans were in love with him, so they were happy when they learned that he was still single.
If there was any evidence that could prove she was the woman in the room with Cliff, Kylie assumed that the fallout would end her.
Faith drew her iPad form from her bag, opened an internet page, and gave it to Kylie. ”Read this,” she said.
Kylie pushed it back and said, ”Just read it and give me the Reader's Digest version.”
”I already read it,” Faith admitted. ”An earthquake struck Japan yesterday. There was a mass shooting in Italy this morning. A thousand-year-old turtle was released into its natural habitat. There is a new international clothing brand that everyone is talking about. They are boasting that their clothes' quality will be high, but their prices will be low. There is speculation that, if their product lives up to their hype, they could put businesses like Oscar de la Renta, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton out of business.
”A film directed by Bob Miller had its opening ceremony yesterday,” Faith continued. ”There is also some news about Sally Cooper. It is mostly about the film you will be working on together.”
”Is there any news about Khloe?” Kylie wondered.
”It is very strange,” Faith replied, ”but Khloe's entire life has been swept clean away. I searched for her name, and I didn't get a single response.”