A Dream

Camala stood trying to stay as calm as she could as she awaits Dieago's return from the bathroom.Camala was gradually turning impatient wondering why Dieago was making her wait on him,her eyes scrutinize his room until they landed on frames of Clara and Dieago together as couple's.Camala was shocked at the sight in front of her eyes,her heart went into a cardiogenic shock.The girl in the frames looked exactly like her without a single difference aside she having short bulb hair,she was suddenly pionting at the frames with anxiety as she found it hard to breath while trying to say something that never came out of her lips, Camala staggered backwards unconsciously and bumped into Dieago who just emerged out of the bathroom, with his suit on.

"Are you okay?", Dieago questioned with concern as he saw Camala shivered in anxiety as her hand kept pionting at the frames.

Following the direction of her hand he saw his frames with he and Clara."Yeah those are our pics", Dieago say squeezing in a smile even though he was still confused at Camala's reaction.

Camala tried saying something again but for some unknown reasons she just couldn't,her voice refused to come out even when she opened her mouth,she was equally as bemused as Dieago as she could no longer speak after trying countless times.

"Michael!!", Dieago's voice thundered as his mood switched from wanting to tease Camala into a one of serious concern for her.

"Boss you called", Michael rushed in,in panick, Dieago only called on him like that only if he is in a very bad mood and nobody liked that side of him.

"Reach Louis and get him to organise the board meeting at my absence", Dieago ordered.

"But boss... this meeting needs your presence in it,top five of your father's business associate's flew in just for it", Michael protested as his eyes wandered and settled in the terrified looking Camala sitted on Dieago's bed.

"On your way out,get Oliver's ass up here", Dieago ordered ignoring Micheals protest, Michael's eyes were still focused on Camala as he wondered what was the up with her this time.

"I mean now!!", Dieago added to have Michael back on his heels.

Camala on her own part tried protesting,to tell Dieago she would be fine even though she wasn't sure of it, but unfortunately for her Dieago didn't get the message.

"You would be just fine",he reassured camala as he dialed the number of his specialized personal doctor.

Camala felt a throbbing pain in her head as she suddenly started feeling dizzy and her heart failed to do it's work,she tried calling on Dieago who was now backing her and was busy with his phone before she finally lost it and fell unconscious.

"Clara!!", Dieago called out as she sighted Camala's body slump down on his bed, after placing her properly on the bed and covering her body with the duvet,he beackond on his butler.

"Master you called",Old Mr Anthony said as soon as he was inside Dieago's room.

"Get me a bowl of ice water and a blanket", Dieago ordered while checking Camala's pulse."I shouldn't have made you work", Dieago murmured feeling guilty as he gently push some strand of hair away from Camala's face.He stood up immediately when his phone beeped and went to a side of the room to pick up.

"Buddy did you order I organize the meeting on my own!?", Louis vioce was heard protesting from the other side of the phone.

"Yeah".

"Why!?,I can't..,you know I can't!!".

"Then you are fired", Dieago said without remorse.

"Come on you must be joking right?,I mean...".

"Clara is in a rough condition right now,do what you have to do or quit the job", Dieago said and hanged up.

"F**k!!,f**k!!,f**k", Louis raged and threw is phone against the wall in his office.

After an hour a young lady about Camala's age ran into Dieago's room with the butler and Oliver following from behind and without being told she started examining Camala, after another hour of thorough check up,she turned to face Dieago and spoke.

"What exactly happened to her?".

"I don't know...,I left her in the room in a good condition but when I returned, she was in a total different state.

"Sir, did she maybe see something shocking or that frightened her?".

"No...,yes the picture,she was pointing at our pictures and she was looking all the at it".

"Akward...., you mean she went into shock because of her own pics?",Mary the doctor questioned in doubt.Then reality hit Dieago really hard,she wasn't really Clara but Camala,all this while he was selfishly trying to get her to turn into a person who she wasn't,he must have been crazy,he had turned into a beast for love,he thought with tightened muscles as he stared blankly at Camala's unconscious body on his bed.

"I think the person in the pic isn't her", Dieago mumbled out, getting everyone I the room confused.

"Can. I see the pic?",Mary requested and Oliver got down two of the frames."They look alike!!, identical twin!!",Mary exclaimed. a bit excited.

"Clara never mentioned a twin, neither did her forster parents", Dieago said to himself.

"Yes that's what I can say from this pics, but. we can't be an hundred percent sure,until we run a D and A test on them, things like this happens a lot, twins being separated from birth without knowing if the other exists ",Mary alighted.

"So she's really Camala and not Clara", Dieago said still wanting to doubt the bitter truth

"So their names are Clara and Camala",

"So they are twins isn't that great news boss"Oliver exclaimed but was quick to shut it up.

"So where's the other lady?,Cl....".Mary said finding it hard to get the name correctly.

"Clara went missing a year back,in Chicago,I met Camala here in New York", Dieago explained as he was gradually swallowing in the truth.

"You mean the twin hasn't gotten to meet each other!?",

"I really don't know", Dieago replied finding it hard to place things,so Clara is still missing?, where on earth could she be?,he still had something for her and still wanted to find her but he still felt something for Camala,he must be crazy isn't he?.

"That's fine for now,it explains a lot of things,I mean this lady here had a cardiogenic shock after seeing her sister's pic".

"So....?".

"She would be fine in some months time,she would only find it hard to speak as it seems she lost her voice due to the cardiac arrest",Mary explained.

"So is there anything she would be needing?", Dieago questioned with a plain look plastered on his face.

"A lot of rest, attention, love and care don't forget fruit won't cause any harm ".

"Thanks Mary, I'll do the needful later", Dieago said escorting her out.

"It's alright sir, I'll come by to check on her from time to time".

"That's fine with me", Dieago said as he exited the room with Mary.

"I didn't come with the necessary pills but I'll send something over.

"sure",Dieago replied nodding with a wandering mind.

"So....,she isn't our boss's fiancee....", Oliver spoke out loudly at Dieago's absence.

"You should learn to shut your blabbermouth",Mr Anthony said with a blank expression,he cared less about anything aside his job and his master Dieago.

"Come on old man", Oliver said always cheerful to gossip.

Dieago walked in with a straight and expressionless face."Oliver from today onwards you are going to be Camala's personal guard,I want your eyes and ears on her at all time",

"A demotion!!?", Oliver grumbled in frustration.

"Oliver!!", Dieago yelled startling both Oliver and the butler.

"Yes sir", Oliver replied with a straight face.

"Leave now", Dieago ordered staring at Camala quietly sleeping on his bed.

Camala forced her eyes open, and the first place they searched was wheo had seen the frames, flashing back she immediately sat up not minding the pain she felt this time all over her body.The room was lighted with dim lights,so her eyes easily adjusted with it, putting on her slippers she walked to the door which was left ajar and it was mounted by two heavily built guards.

"Ma'am you are not allowed to leave the room until the boss's says so",one of the guards spoke.

"What!!", Camala exclaimed but her vioce wasn't heard.

"Ma'am I'll go get your guard",the other guard said excusing himself.

Camala sat on Dieago's bed waiting impatiently for his arrival, on seeing him walk into the room with short strides she wanted to rain hell of abuse's on him but she realized she couldn't as her voice had stubbornly refused to come out.

"You're awake", Dieago said looking very depressed,he had been in his study thinking of Clara,and if he was really doing the right thing keeping Camala since the doctor left and it is now twelve in the midnight.

Camala glared dagger's at Dieago,she demonstrated asking for something to write on.

"Go get her a pen and book",Dieago ordered Oliver who had come into the room with Dieago.

When the book and pen was handed to Camala,she scribbled on it,"What the f**k happen to me?".

"You passed out", came Dieago's calm reply.

"Just like that!?",she scribbled again.

"Yeah, the doctor said you had a cardiac arrest and you would be needing a lot of rest, that's why I assigned Oliver as ya personal guard", Dieago explained.

With a roll of eyeballs she scribbled down"Am perfectly fine", throwing the book carelessly at Dieago she headed to her room with Oliver following her , Camala sat down on her bed wondering what she's gotten herself into,her head turned observing her environment,all she wanted was to be free,not to be a prisoner clearing off unending debts,is that too much to ask!?,she picked up her phone with the intention of talking to Flora but she gave up the idea when she remembered she has lost her voice, heaving a sigh of relief she layed on her bed facing herself upward as she stared at her reflection on the glass ceiling and allowed the goddess of sleep take her on a journey to another world.

Camala found herself walking in a dark corridor, and she found herself stopping in front of a door where two couples voice could be heard,her hand turned the door knob to have it open silently without being noticed,she stepped into the room which looked exactly like Dieago's study,she could hear him say something to a girl standing in front of him,yes it was the same girl in the frame.

"Clara you are not welcomed here", Dieago said with a straight face.

"Dieago you can't tell me that,am your fiancee, your would be wife remember",The lady's sweet vioce was heard,a voice which no man on earth could resist,a voice which sounded like music to the ears,a vioce which sang melody and harmony at the same time, unlike Camala's voice which was very stern.

"But you left me", Dieago pressed in the fact that hurt him the most.

"I didn't leave,I was kidnapped".

"By who?".

"How am I suppose to know that",

"Kidnappers always asks for huge amount of money or something else but yours didn't even leave a message,I searched everywhere in Chicago for you,every nook and cranny Clara and you know better that there is no hiding place in Chicago my father doesn't know about,so where went you?".

"Darling...,I know that but I was taken elsewhere away from Chicago,I escaped sweet, you know I adore and worship you, Dieago please take me back", Clara pleaded,she was looking all innocent and modest with her gown that stopped right below her knees.

"Am sorry to disappoint you Clara but right now,I have someone else in my life", Dieago said with an hint of sadness in his voice.

"But...but...,you ain't going to throw away what we have for that slut...", Clara's words stumbled over each other, not wanting to believe Dieago would choose a riff raff,a classless chick over her, Camala couldn't stop herself,she walked up to her and was about sending an slap across Clara's cheek when Dieago's voice stopped her.

"Don't you ever refer to Camala as that,else you would have me to deal with", Dieago raged out and for some unknown reasons Camala's hand hanging in the air fell to her side,her heart felt warm having someone defending her and being so protective of her,for once she felt the love and everything she had been longing for,she wandered why she always felt that way around Dieago,if only Dieago could see the smile that flashed on her face at his response to Clara but she seemed invisible to the people in the room as both one noticed her walk up to Clara's side.

"Don't tell me you've fallen for her Dieago, she's an imposter a made look alike who is here to tear us apart,am a doctor believe me when I say that, I'll prove it to you",Clara blabbered not ready to accept the rejection she was facing right now,her forster parents would not be happy with her if she failed to get Dieago back after running away with an unknown boyfriend, infact she was being forced to this,and here she is being rejected for a low class girl,they had threatened to disown her if she failed, something which she could have not afford to go through again, returning back to being an Orphane.

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