"Oh really?" my baba asked suspiciously. "Yeah. Now tell them about your family", I quickly shifted the attention on Raidan.
"Well, my parents are from Netherlands. They are into business. We've a house in Netherlands and lots of fertile lands. I've an elder sister, ummm... She's married and have a daughter. I also have four aunties and four uncles. Our family is also huge like yours", Raidan ended. This is the first time he talked about his family. He's from Netherlands, I had no idea.
"You are from Netherlands? Weren't you from USA?" Joey asked him exactly what I wanted to ask.
"I was born in Netherlands and of course my parents live in Netherlands but for a huge amount of time I've stayed in USA", Raidan replied.
"What do you do again?" someone asked but I couldn't comprehend who because my attention was on him.
"I'm mainly a student but I do part time job as a professor in Harvard University, also I'm into business", he replied. I guess he's the only one who would take being a professor at Harvard University as a part time job.
"Our scholarships are high. Also each of us have our own sponsorship so we bearly have to bear any expenses on our own. Also our endorsement fee is very high", I tried to explain why they didn't need to worry about our income. But they didn't seem to understand.
"What endorsement?" my boro fuffa asked suspicion is behind his eyes. He looked at us with something that felt a combination of wonder, disbelief and surprise.
"Well, as members of DT we can be considered as equal to public figures of educational industry. So, we often get endorsement for various products", Raidan explained.
"What type of products?" my dad asked out of curiosity.
"Various types of products, sometimes it's related to educational industry sometimes not. For example my last endorsement was with Tiffany and Co. of their latest products, the bridal collection", I elaborated even further so that it's easy for them to uunderstand.
"Oh!", came in unison from the family.
"Can I come with you?" he asked me all on a sudden. And for the matter of fact I didn't even realize when he came near me. He really doesn't make any sound while walking. Well it's good though cause I'm someone who makes all the noise of the world while walking.
"Sure but you sure about that? I thought you had a photoshoot for the magazine today".
"I don't like these so B is going instead of me", he said with a shrug. I really don't understand how can he not like it, it's Vogue Magazine we're talking about also they've insisting for months now to have him in their cover, but he always rejected them and now that he'd accepted them, he still isn't joining.
"Why??? This was such a good opportunity. It's Vogue magazine dude!!" I couldn't resist my curiosity so I ended up asking, making an expression that I believe was more than needed.
"I don't like it and I don't even read the Vogue magazine so what's the point?" Sometimes he really wonders me, Goddd!!
"Maybe after this, they would ask us, as a couple to do photo shoot!?" I said with 40 percent honestly mainly trying to tempt him.
"Ohh. You wanna be in there?" His question honestly sounded like sarcasm to me.
"I would love to", I replied honestly.
"Okay, so let's go now. Who else will be going with us?" Raidan asked as the van arrived at the parking lot.
"Joey, Matthew, Draya, Natasha, Mason, Ray and my friends, that's all".
"What about the people out here? Are they just gonna stay in the hotel?" He sounded seriously concerned.
"No, Naomi is coming and Elsa and Alexia are also coming, they are taking them to the Port Meadow and in The Story Museum afterwards. We'll be meeting them in the museum as well",
"I'm afraid not. I met your family and I think the feedback is good, now your evening belongs to me. I'm taking you somewhere", he said giving me an excitedly mysterious look. No matter what's it about but he's definitely trying to be secretive.
"You're still stuck on that? Okay fine", I surrendered because it would feel awful to say no to such an excited face like his.
"Let's go everyone, we're getting late", I said rushing everyone to get inside the car. Ohi and Roja really wanted to join and they begged me over multiple times but we really don't want to bring any kids with us so I had to sway them saying that they are gonna go to a more beautiful place .
We reached in the Templars Square around lunch time. We visited lots of shops after we had our lunch. We bought the bridesmaid dresses according to the choices of the bridesmaids. And brought Draya the dress for the maid of honour. Initially wanted to buy some clothes for the elderlis but they said they had just enough so they didn't need anymore.
We bought some dresses for the kids, well I choosed and Raidan paid. Initially I wanted to pay but he wouldn't let me. He would have even paid for the bridesmaids dresses as well but thankfully he was out with Matthew , Ray and Mason at that time. When we were leaving from the shop after buying the dresses he suddenly stopped because apparently he felt that he was being unfair cause he bought things for the kids but didn't buy anything to the ones who had joined them. They had rejected his offer of buying them suits but then he tricked them into buying them. When they tried out the suits they immediately liked them and so Raidan bought them each one suit. There was this navy blue suit that Raidan had tried and it looked dangerously good on him, almost as if it was made for him. And I really wanted this one for him and that's why I sneaked out when I wasn't noticed and bought that one for him.