Tummy ache

Half an hour into the drive, she realized that they had not yet reached home.

Regularly it just took them around 20 minutes to reach. Even the road seemed unfamiliar. On carefully analyzing, she figured out that they had already crossed her house and were heading towards the outskirts of the city.

She turned towards Meili with a questioning gaze. Seeing Meili focused on driving and not looking at her she popped the question "where are we heading to?"

Meili calmly replied "ohh! I forgot to tell you, my mom needs me to pick something up for her from her friend's. So we will pick it up first and then I will drop you home. I don't wish to go alone…. Okay?"

"hmmm"

Seeing that she believed her Meili heaved a secret sigh of relief. She was happy that she managed to not let the cat out of the bag for all these days. She was experiencing severe tummy ache by keep it from her bestie.

Another 15 minutes of drive and they reached their destination. As it was past 6 p.m, the sky had turned dark. Situated on the outskirts, there were just a few street lights and the area seemed rather secluded. Even then it was easy to guess that it was house to the elites and consists of only large or medium sized mansions.

The house in concern, was in completely darkness. Not even the lights in the lawn were on. The little light coming from the streets revealed that it was a beautiful Victorian style mansion, probably the most beautiful and grandest among all the houses in the neighborhood.

They parked the car at the entrance of the Mansion. Jinjing step out on the driveway and looked at the acres and acres of luscious green around the house. There was a beautiful landscape garden with a huge fountain complementing the royal mansion.

Enthralled by the ornate beauty of the mansion, Jinjing forgot about her misery.

Meili tapped on her shoulder and brought her back to earth and gestured her to the entrance.

Suddenly she stopped and said "ohh!! I forgot something in the car. You go ahead, I will catch up with you." Perplexed Jinjing nodded and went ahead and knocked on the grand door.

Few minutes passed but there was no response. She searched for the doorbell and pressed on it. Wondering why Meili did not return, Jinjing popped her head a little to look at the driveway.

At that instance, the mansion door opened and a hand pulled her inside and shut the door tight.