Instead of driving all way back to Riverside City, Julian told the diver to stopped by a hotel and checked in.
The driver was tired after having been driving for hours,
Julian was all the more exhausted by the hurried back-and-forth journey, so all he wanted was to find some place to relax.
What drove him to get things over with in such a rush was the idea of seeing Emelia as soon as possible.
Having taken a shower at the hotel, rather than hit the sack, he placed a call to Emelia to tell her he was back and his mother had been settled down.
He had made video call to her but was hung up by Emelia, who called him back in audio, "Sorry, I am not home yet, can't talk to you on video."
Julian replied with his understanding. Emelia could tell that he was tired by his voice, and it broke her heart, "You should really go to bed and take a good rest now."
"I am going to," said Julian with a sigh, " I am finally back."
He then went on to say gently, "I will come see you as soon as I can."
He had missed her so much over the last few days that it's driving him crazy to be away with her for any longer.
If he hadn't been so unbelievably whacked, he would have flown off to the Capital right away.
"Okay, " said Emelia, "go get some sleep. I am kind of busy. I gotta go now."
Holding the phone that's been hung up, he felt deeply frustrated.
Was she really so busy that she couldn't finish a call?
Before getting on the plane, he had told her on the phone that he would be more than happy to see her at the airport in Riverside City when he got off the plane.
But she only to have told him that she was sorry, saying she wouldn't be available that day, and she would find the time to see him when she had got the work done.
He gave up.
He repressed himself from doing that kind of thinking, saying to himself that he was the one going after the other in this relationship, so he should just thank god that she didn't shrink from him. He shouldn't expect any more from her.
Putting away his phone, he closed the heavy curtain and went to sleep.
What he didn't know was Emelia already was in Riverside City when he called her, which was why she hung up the video call.
Moreover, she sounded like that on purpose when she refused to come to Riverside City with the excuse of not having the time so as to surprise him.
She's not only in Riverside City, but actually on her way to the hotel.
Emelia came to the hotel on impulse because she had intended to wait for him in Riverside City, but she couldn't resist when she had felt how much he missed her on the call, so she came all the way there so he could see her when he woke up.
When she got to the hotel, instead of going to meet him right away, she left him more time to sleep by sitting relaxed at a coffee house nearby, attending to her work.
As the script of the show "I Gotta Find You" was almost ready, and the preparation was pretty much done, the show would be shot in a few days.
The show would be starred by Harry Zink and Zella Sabir, both recommended by her. It was a real surprise to her since she'd barely expected her suggestion would be taken.
It had caused quite a sensation on the media as the casting went public.
Harry had earned enough popularity from an urban teen show he had led with Nina Sanchez, but he was still too young to be recognized as a sophisticated actor.
Nina drew even more controversies for she had been something of a secondary character at most before "Princess Leilania", on which she just began to take some important part, but then this show raised her up to a heroine.
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