Who is Adrian?

I slouch on my bed with my eyes lazily fixed on Harper, my best friend as she fawn over the new collection of designer clothes, shoes, bags, and whatever is making her look awe in my closet. She has been at it pretty much the whole time she has been here.

"Addy, can I borrow this dress? It looks good on me" Harper's long dark hair peeps out of the closet.

She propelled a cute smile at me. The type of smile she uses on men to get into their wallets.

She flashes the dress to me. It is a beautiful summer dress I stole from Brittany's closet.

Maybe I should take her offer and make her my personal shopper.

If I am going to snatch her man from her I need to dress as elegantly as she does.

I scanned the dress. "Nope," I twitched into a cross-legged position on my bed

Her smile eased to a frown.

"Why not? You don't like wearing dresses. If I don't rescue this dress. It will lie sadly in your closet for eternity." She said and pouted her lips adorably at me.

I step out of the bed alertly and snatched the dress from her hands and got it back on the hanger in the closet.

"William is meant to see me in this dress, not you. This is what I am wearing to meet him at the coffee shop tomorrow" I told her.

I haven't ditched the plan of accidentally meeting him at the coffee shop.

That meeting will be the genesis of my mission to get him to fall in love with me.

She draws her head back and flips her shoulder-length hair like a mean girl in a cheesy high school movie.

She huff. "Bitch, you are still going after that dude? I get it, he is the typically American Golden boy, the boy next door type of dude. Nothing special" She scoffs.

"There are more dudes I've seen in your elite social circle that are way more handsome and richer than he is." She added.

"But those guys are not William. They got nothing on him." I said with as I zone out dreaming about William.

She rolled her eyes and walked past me to sit on the armchair that faces the bed.

I got back to the bed and perch my ass at the foot to face her.

"William is my soulmate. The universe gifted him to me that night at the beach and I will rather die than watch him marry Brittany" I said unwaveringly, confessing shamelessly to her.

She paused and gave me an eerie look with her lips parted in amusement.

She shakes her head

"I don't know why I made you my best friend, Addy. You are too delusional sometimes" She darted her phone to the angle she wants and snapped a picture with a plastic smile on her face. For the gram of course. I bet she took a lot of pictures in my closet.

"You made me your best friend because I am rich, You are such a gold-digger, broke-ass chick" I sniggered starting a banter with her.

She paused halfway about to take another pic and placed her hand on her chest as if what I said had wounded her.

She gasped dramatically.

She smirked suddenly. "Of course rich girl. You are so weird for my liking. I wouldn't have made you my best friend if you weren't a trust fund babe" She sniggers back.

I gaped. "Ouch"

We glared at each other, then we suddenly burst out into hysterical laughter.

Calling her a gold-digger and she calling me a weirdo is a mean joke between us since high school, so no high school bully will use that to taunt us.

From the very first moment, I laid my eyes on a girl with long black hair sitting alone in the cafeteria eating from a lunch box instead of ordering expensive food served in the cafeteria. I knew she is going to be my best friend.

Harper was this poor brilliant scholarship kid in an elite private school for the most richest and famous kids in the country. And I was this rich weird kid, and a sister to Brittany, the most beautiful and popular girl in the school who looks nothing like me.

We both realized we are the school outcasts and had to stick together.

Eight years later we are still stuck together. We attend Yale University together and shared a studio apartment from our college days until I move back to my parent's mansion two years ago.

Being a daughter of two famous lawyers, I am always surrounded by fake friends who only get close to me to get favors from me. Harper is the only honest friend I have.

I know she is friends with me because I am rich but she has been honest about that fact.

Deep down I know she genuinely likes me for who I am not for who my parents are.

"Addy, can I ask you a favor?" She smiles sweetly at me.

Narrowed my eyes at her suspiciously.

"I am attending an influencers retreat next week and I need new clothes so …"

"You need my credit card?" I cut her off.

She smiled sheepishly. "Yes"

An evil plan formulated in my mind abruptly.

"Fine, but I need a favor from you," I said.

She frowns, wiggling herself uncomfortably in the armchair. "What favor?"

"I need you to hack into Brittany's phone in exchange I let you have my credit card for a month. You can shop as much as you want"

Her eyes widened. " What!" She shriek

"No way am I doing that" She protested.

I folded my arms across my chest. "Yes, you are doing that for me," I said firmly.

She shakes her head. "I told you I don't hack any more. I work for a legit company now. I need to be spooky clean." She hissed at me.

Aside from being an influencer. Harper works for a big Tech/software company as a software developer and a Cyber security analyst for this company.

She hacked into their system months ago, easily without breaking a sweat just for the fun of it. The company didn't throw her ass into jail when they found out but instead, they decided to deploy her service as a bug bounty Hunter preventing other hackers from hacking into the company's system, and also employed her as a software developer to design apps for their company.

Harper is a crazy genius in disguise. She fools people with her girly superficial personality pretending she is dumb when her ICU is very high.

I stood up from the bed and fetched my credit card.

I scooped down to face her. My right hand holding the armchair to support my weight.

"Are you sure you don't do that anymore?" I wave the credit card in her face. She gulped as her eyes enchantingly stare at the credit card with a glint of greed in them.

She reaches out to grab it but I redraw the credit card from her reach quickly.

"It will be yours for the month if only you agree to hack into my sister's phone"

She gritted at me clenching her fist and leveling it to her face.

"Fine," She said through her gnashed teeth agreeing in indignation.

I stood up straight. A victorious smile pecked on my face.

"Where is my bag?" she asked annoyingly.

I pointed to the coffee table beside the armchair.

She picked it up and climbed on my bed.

She sat in a cross-legged position.

She fished out a hair band from her bag and tied her hair into a ponytail.

She angrily took her laptop out of her bag.

"Why are we hacking her phone?" she asked

I joined her on the bed

I puffed a breath out. "I need to find anything to incriminate her. If I am going steal William from her I need to play dirty" I explained to her.

She blinked her eyes at me. "And you are going to this length for a guy who doesn't remember you?"

I grimace. Her words sting my chest.

I looked away to hide the grim on my face.

"You've never been in love Harper, you don't know the power love holds"

She snorted. "When you have to pay for your siblings' tuition fees and a lot of bills piled up on your kitchen counter. And your father's medical bills because his health insurance is not enough, this thing called love will be the last thing on your mind." She says sadly recalling me of her hard nut life.

The air become awkward and I felt somewhat guilty over the fact Harper has to struggle to pay bills whilst I have never had to worry about bills because I got parents who take care of that.

"I really like Brittany more than I do like you. She was the only popular girl in high school who was never mean to me. I hate you for making me invade her privacy." She said lamenting over what she is about to do with guilt painted on her face.

"But damn I love your credit card more than I do like both of you" She stared at my credit card in my hand desirably.

I laughed.

"Alright I just need her phone number which I have already," she says.

I watched her confusedly as she typed furiously on her laptop with a serious face on.

She paused.

"Let's see if your genius sister will fall for my SMS Trojan," She said with a malicious look on her face as her eyes are fixed hardly on her PC screen.

We waited for some minutes.

"I am in!" she exclaimed.

"Great!" I also exclaimed in relief.

"let's see what your sister is hiding I have gotten access to her messages," She tells me

I drag closer to have a look at her PC screen.

We spend a long time searching through my Brittany's messages but we didn't find anything dirty. She was spooky clean.

"Jeez, your sister is way cleaner than I accepted. She is way smarter than I thought. Of course, she will be a dumbass if she keeps incriminating messages on her phone." Harper sigh.

She slapped her hands on her face in frustration.

My shoulders also slump down in frustration.

Suddenly Harper's face lit up.

She glared at her PC screen. "Wait your sister has a new message "

I peered at the screen.

"There are no prior messages before this new message from this number." She frowns.

"It either your sister deleted their old chats or this is the first time he or she is messaging her."

Another message popped out. It read: This new dude you are fucking, tell me Brittany does he fuck you good like I used to?

Harper and I gasp in shock. "Oh, holy shit! This dude talks dirty! Damn!" Harper exclaimed.

Minutes later after a long wait Brittany replied. : Adrian what do you want from me? I told you never to text me unless I text you first.

So this dude is called Adrian and Brittany cheated on William with him?

My nerves pumps up as I wondered.

Adrian replied: I am not going to do the favors you want me to do for you. I just texted to tell you that. I wonder do you still think of me?

Brittany replied: I don't. It been over a year Adrian. I don't get attached to flings. And you know you got no option but to do those favors for me considering I know all your dirty secrets that will ruin your life.

Adrian replied: Meet me at the Candy's bar and grill in Bronx and let's talk about it.

We both watched the screen silently. A lot of stuff is running through my mind.

"Do you think Brittany is cheating on William with this Adrian dude?" I asked.

Harper shrugged. "I don't think so. From their conversations. Your sister mentioned they had a fling a year ago. And you also told me she has been with William for a year right?".

I nodded.

"And also judging from Adrian replies he sounds bitter. It could be Brittany dumped his ass when she met William."

I frown not happy that's the case. If Brittany is cheating on William. He will dump her ass making it easy for me to have him.

"But I am curious. What secrets is Brittany using as a leverage against this guy to make him do favors for her?" Harper said as she rubbed her chin There was a distance Look on her face.

"I am also curious about that," I said.

Suddenly a message popped out.

Brittany replied okay

She is meeting with Adrian in an hour.

Harper smiled mischievously. "Are you thinking what I am thinking?

I smiled deviously back at her. "Yep"

"We are going to do some spying, bitch" Harper said excitedly.

"Maybe you can get some dirty photos to send to her fiancé. Something dirty always goes down when you met an old fling" She smirked.

"You know what I mean?" She wriggled her eyebrows playfully.

Adrenaline rushed through me. My heart leaps with Joy.

I smiled. Maybe I can get one dirty Photo to make William cancel their wedding and then he becomes mine.