Ava

"You going out to meet Brad?" Poppy asked.

"Why do you guys always ask that? I'm not going to meet him."

"You always go out to meet him. So we thought you are going out to meet him," Lola said.

"Nope! I have a photoshoot of a couple," I said adjusting the lens.

"Photoshoot? Whose?" they asked in unison.

"Ezarah's brother and his wife."

"You mean Kai and Angelique?" Lola asked in wonder.

"Yeah, she asked if I can be their maternity photographer."

"Wow! You are going to meet Kai and Angelique," Poppy said while I smiled.

"My brother met all of them, he says they are actually cool and just like us. They are his friends," I said.

"Being a pop star's sister has its own benefits," Lola said while Poppy agreed on that.

"Not always, you see people tend to ask you questions or invite themselves home just so they could see my brother. Fortunately, my brother won't come home." I answered them tieing my shoelace.

"Ava, why your brother doesn't come home?" Poppy asked me a questioning look.

"He has his own reasons, you can say he feel comfortable in those hotel rooms," I said standing up.

"See you girls later!" I waved them a bye before stepping out of my dorm room.

It's been two weeks that I last saw Brad. We didn't meet after that incident in the gym. We four stayed in the gym, later Brad dropped me off at my dorm apartment. He didn't call me or text me, I don't want to sound desperate so I didn't call him.

Ezarah called me two days ago asking if I'm available for a photoshoot. She already knows that I work for a maternity agency as a photographer. I agreed as I don't have any work or any homework. We agreed to meet at one of their buildings where I'm going to click their pictures.

She informed me that it's their second baby photoshoot. She is in her fifth month. I spoke with Angel in a phone call. I heard so many stories about Kai and angel, one year ago they were the hot topic of the city. Every newspaper wrote articles about them. Kai being a popular racer and Angelique being an artist attracted people and they wanted to know everything about them.

I reached the penthouse and immediately I saw Ezarah.

"Hello Ezarah!"

"Hey!" she hugged me before I saw the people standing behind her.

"Kai and Angel, she is Ava."

"Hi." I said to Kai and Angel.

"Hello," they both greeted me in unison.

"This is my other brother Kenric." Ezarah pointed towards a guy who stood beside the glass wall. He was on his phone.

"We already arranged everything, the white cloth and lights." Ezarah said.

"Good." I said removing my bag and opening it.

"I will show you a few clicks so that you guys will have an idea about it." I said showing Angel my previous photoshoot of others.

"Sure," Angel said walking towards me. Their first kid wore a white shirt and brown pants just like his father. He looked so cute. Kai seemed to adore and love his son so much.

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"I really enjoyed being with your family, especially your son he is so cute." I said pinching the little boy's cheek.

"Thank you so much for being patient." Angel said.

"I've habituated so no problem." I replied smiling.

"The photos are really good, I can't wait to upload them."

"I will make a copy of them before I give you this pen drive. Your photo book will be arriving in two weeks." I said.

"That's great."

"You have to go somewhere?" Ezarah asked as Angel went to Kai.

"Dorms."

"Wanna grab dinner with me?" she asked.

"Sure." I didn't meet her second brother Kenric as he was in a rush about something.

"Just give me a minute, I will get my wallet," she said while I zipped my bag.

"Okay." When she returned back we went to the nearby restaurant. We have our order and waited for our food to arrive.

"You will be graduating next year?" She asked me.

"Yeah."

"Further plans?"

"Nah, I'm not interested in studying. I'm already working with two agencies as their photographer. I wanna open my own studio."

"That's really good. If you need help you can always call me," she said.

"Can I ask you something?" she asked with uncertainty.

"You can."

"Did something happened to Vincent before? Did he loved someone?" she asked out of the blue which made me chock.

"Hmm... All I can say is yeah he loved someone and I think he will love her till his last breath. There were many misunderstandings which they never going to solve I guess; as they both are running away from the situation. Vincent was so broken and went into depression for a few years now."

"I hope that he will try to solve those misunderstandings and get back with her." She said with a hopefully face.

"I and my family pray the same as we don't wanna lose that lady for Vincent. She is the one for him if you ask me." I said remembering Valerie's and Vincent's face.

"Why do you people are named as snipers?" I asked her with curiosity because everyone calls them snipers.

She let out a laugh "Ava, you know our four families right? McKenzies, knight's, Weinberg's and Lewis. We four families are very close like family. We all kids grew together and been there, when we were in teenage we decided to have a name for our group. So Nikolai, kreo and Kai came up with some names but Ryder chose snipers as we all trained and went to martial arts. That's how snipers name came, people started calling us as snipers."

"Woah! That's cool actually." I said in wonder.

"Yup!"

"You guys are very close?" I asked her.

"Yeah we are very close but we do fight and our fights aren't normal. We only fight when we are extremely angry, you must've heard about Rowen and Kai's fight?" she said.

"Yeah! It was an online sensation. I mean they fought dangerously." I said remembering the video of Kai's and Rowen's fight.

"That fight was about Kai hurting Angel. Angel loved Kai from childhood but my brother is the biggest stupid I ever have seen, he didn't like her actually. I mean he liked but his ego was slightly bigger than him. He crossed the limits and did stupid things which effected Angel the most, Rowen didn't like his little sister crying so he fought with Kai when Kai's things went little further." she explained.

"Hmm... That explains everything, they never posted anything about the fight." I said.

"That's because of our parents. They don't like news about us." She calmly said drinking her juice.

"Everyone in your group found their partners?" I asked her.

"Nah! Kenric, Kreo and I are single. Kenric's love story is complicated right now." she said.

"Complicated?"

"He is an advocate, there is a love and hate relationship going on with his assistant. We all think he is in love with her because he doesn't want her to resign but at the same time he is an asshole towards her." I laughed listening that, it's really interesting to listen others love stories or about their love stories.

"What about you then?" I asked her.

"Me? I'm the same age as you, I didn't find anyone interesting yet. What about you?"

"Don't tell this thing to my brother. I like this guy though but I feel like he isn't interested in me." I said taking a bite of my half-eaten pizza.

"Well, all I can suggest you is to wait. Maybe he likes you too, it's okay to make the first move from our side if you want to know how he feels about you." she suggested.

"I will think about it. I don't want to rush things now because we both started talking a few days back."

"Hmm... I understand." We talked about random things and about the snipers(the group).