Shopping

The next day.

After work, Ava asked Erika to go shopping with her. Erika came straight from her rehearsal to Ava's hospital, and then they went together to the new world shopping mall. In order to not recognize by fan's Erika covered her face with a mask and sunglasses.

Ava and Erika were walking shoulder to shoulder, Ava suddenly held Erika's arm and said in a sympathetic tone, "Rika, I used to envy you thinking you are such a big star, how wonderful it must be admired by thousands of people. But now seeing you closely I can understand how stressed your life actually is. You can't do anything openly, there is no privacy. Now I know it's better to be someone ordinary than a celebrity."

"I know, that's why I'm going to quit the showbiz in a few years," Erika said with a smile. Although she was in her early twenties but she has been in the entertainment circle for more than ten years. If she was not bored she would have left the circle already.

"Oh! So our Erika is going to take care of her husband and children at home?" Ava joked.

"Not really. Actually, I want to open my own clothing line."

"That's good but do you think Arvin will agree with that?"

"I think he is ok with it, in fact, he is more concerned with my filming career. Last night he told me every time he saw me holding hands and hugging another man on the TV, he just wanted to smash the TV." Erika said with a smile as she pulled Ava into a high-end women's clothing store.

"So you two are finally together?" Ava turned and started to look at the designer clothes in the shop. She couldn't find anything that interested her, probably because of the exquisite collection she had in her walking closet. She had no interest to buy clothes anyway, today she asked Erika to accompany her so she could buy a birthday gift for Oliver.

"Yes." Erika smiled and started to check out the new exclusive collection.

"So you two were together last night?" Ava asked with a mischievous smile.

"Yes," Erika said a bit embarrassed.

"In the hospital or?"

"Hotel," Erika said in a low voice.

"Oh! So you two already done it?" The smile on Ava's face got deeper.

Erika quickly waved and said, "no..no nothing happened. Actually, Arvin was very thoughtful, he said he wants to take things slow."

"Wow, that's so sweet." Ava admired Arvin's thoughtfulness.

Ava handed a woolen coat to Erika to try out. Erika's was very fare so Ava thought she would look good in the orange-pink coat.

Erika happily took the coat and picked some other dresses then went to the changing room to try on. She came out and asked Ava standing in front of the mirror, "Av's, what do you think?"

Ava looked at Erika and said with a bright smile, "You look really beautiful. It goes well with your temperament."

Erika immediately sent the clothes she picked including the coat to the front counter for check out.

"Av's I think this dress will look good on you, why don't you try it on." Erika saw a light blue dress and said with a smile.

"No, I am good. I have enough new clothes in my closet I don't want to buy anything else." Ava shook her head and refused.

Erika thought it was because of the price Ava was refusing. She pursed her lips and suddenly asked with narrowed eyes, "My brother didn't give you his bank card?"

Ava was a bit stunned and confused by the question. Why would Oliver give his card to her? She was not his wife, even if she was, she wouldn't like to take his card. She was a working woman she could earn for herself, maybe not as much as to pay for these expensive clothes but she could still afford cheaper designer dresses.

Ava looked at Erika and said calmly: "No."

"Oh my god! How could Oliver be so stingy? You are his girlfriend, he should have already given you a few credit cards. I will talk about him about it."

"What! No, Erika, please don't. I don't want his money. I have a job and I can support myself. Although I don't earn a chunk of money but I am ok with it. Besides, if I take money from your brother that will make me feel uncomfortable." Ava said thoughtfully.

"Av's you are really weird, other women would happily spend all his money and make him buy the whole world for them, you on the other hand don't want anything from him. Why are you with him then?" Erika said joking.

"Maybe it's his face I am interested in," Ava said with a playful smile.

"Right... Right, it's all about his handsome face." Erika laughed then turned to a shop assistant and said, "Excuse me I would like to take all this collection please." Erika turned to Ava and said with a serious face, "Ava I am getting these for you and you can't refuse and don't argue with Me."

"These shops have lowered their standard so much, I can't believe they have started to allow poor people into the shop. Surely they can't afford a dress worth tens of thousands so they brought others to pay for it. How shameless!" Suddenly, a sharp female voice full of mocking came from behind.

"I know what you mean. Some people will try to do anything to fit into a circle they don't even belong to." Another woman chirped in.

"That's right! Jessica, that's how the poor people are." Kiara and Jessica stood behind and kept throwing insulting words toward Ava.

"Kiara, how dare you..." Erika was so angry that she stepped forward ready to fight however, Ava held her back. She knew Erika was a celebrity and fighting with Kiara and Jessica in public will not be good for her image. Besides, she knew Kiara's words were for her so she didn't want Erika to fight for her. She didn't care what Kiara said anyway.

Ava smiled and said, "Forget it, Rika. We are human beings, why bother about a dog's barking."

Hearing Ava obviously Kiara's face turned black, she stepped forward and blocked Ava and said sharply, "Ava, who are you calling a dog?"

"Kiara didn't your primary school teach you to be modest." Erika chuckled.

"Kiara let it go. What do you expect from someone like her, there is a reason why she is my ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend." Jessica said in a harsh voice as she walked closer and looked at Erika fiercely.

Last night, Arvin posted a photo of his and Erika's declaring they were together. When Jessica saw it her blood started to boil. She was full of jealousy and when she saw Erika here today she decided to pick up a fight with her.