The cold wind brushes on my skin as the goosebump rises on my bare arm, I m wearing a silk black gown with a slit from mid-thigh at the left side, I look down, I m standing on my balcony at the fifth floor, it's dark outside only with the moonlight shining at the garden in my backyard,right infront of me there is a jungle, tall trees with thick leaves even in the morning the forest is dark due to dense leaves, I turn around and look through the glass door of my balcony, there is a party going on, as much as I hate socialising that much my mother loves socialising, she threw me a birthday party without my acknowledgement with all the relatives and friends, I sigh deeply as I close my eyes as my waist lays against the cold metal of the railing of my balcony, I threw my head back and enjoyed the weather until it was disturbed by my best friend Jule, Jule and I have been friends since kindergarten she knows everything about me, just the way I know everything about her, She is wearing exact same gown as me in red colour and black sandels just the way I m wearing red sandals, we both are wearing same chanel rouge coco lipstick in shade ETIENNE A- she walks towards me, she have two red wine glasses in her hand, as the glass door behind her closes and the sound of music cut off, I deeply sigh and looked towards her knowing my mother sent her to bringme back in the party hall, even though I dont want to go, she looks at me, hands me the wine glass which was in her right hand, she turns and stand the way I m standing and she speaks in her honey voice
"I know Valentina how much you hate socialising but you can't spend your entire night here when it is your birthday party"
"I know Jule, but I m mad at my mother for this, she should have at least discussed it with me beforehand, I just had a really hard time at work and now this.." I sighed once again as I took a sip from my wine glass
"I get it but your mother did it for you" she spoke as she took a sip of wine from her glass, we both know that it is not true,
"You know that is not true when her daughter comes home tired after killing some enemies to see this knowing very well how much she hates socialising and wants to relax, look all of the guests are her friends, she didn't even care to invite any of mine, now I'll have to give them a separate party or else they will be mad at me for not inviting them" I spoke as I took another sip from my glass
"You know her better than me, what can I do she never listens to anyone's opinion other than her own," she said with a hint of sadness in her voice, I glance through the glass door down at the party hall, I see my mom talking with some of her friends, she is wearing dark purple gown, it is off-shoulder and it's made of velvet, I glance over at her neck she is wearing a big pearl neckless with matching earrings her sandals are mid heels covered with purple rhinestones, not trying to be mean but the shade ERIK B- of the very same collection of Chanel lipstick doesn't suit her, she looks up at me through the balcony door and gives me a side-eye, I sigh as I walked toward the beautiful giant glass door of my balcony opening it and making my way towards the huge stairs on my left, I looked over my shoulder to see Jule closing the balcony door as she runs towards me catching up my pace, I took the last sip of my wine, drinking it completely without a single drop left, as I handed my empty glass to Jule knowing my mother would hate it, if I greeted the guests with a glass of wine in my hand, though I never understood why she behaved like this with me, elegantly I slightly picked my gown from both of the side as I walk down the red carpet on the stairs careful to not accidently step on my dress and fall flat on my face creating emmbarresedment ffor myself, Jule who is right besides me walked down with two empty glasses of wine and her gown in hand, I pity her but my mom would kill me if she saw the wine glass in my hand, Jule whispers to me loud enough for only me to hear before she swings and leave me walking alone towards my mom,
"Valentina smile or else we are both dead by your mom"
I immediately smiled as she reminded me, walking over with a fake smile planted on my face, I walked towards my mom, and in front of her I see a beautiful woman her eyes are blue just like her pretty ocean blue colour silk gown, it is a sleeveless gown, the woman looked like she is in the mid-40s almost same age as my mom beside her stands a 6-foot tall guy with the most gorgeous black siren eyes and high nose bridge he was dressed formally all in coat, pant, shirt, tie and some leather black shoes, he looks around my age early 20s he looks over in my direction and gives me a slight smile which I gladly returned,
"Here is my beautiful daughter Valentina, Sabrina. Valentina meet Sabrina, my high-school friend" Mom said with the biggest smile,
"Nice to meet you, Aunt Sabrina," I said with a big smile and slightly bowed like a princess and forwarded my hand for a handshake which Sabrina gladly took and spoke softly with excitement,
"Nice to meet you too Valentina, Meet my son Greyson" Sabrina said,
I look over to my mom from my side eye and understood that they both want their children to get along and might have a plan of making us get married soon, my mom is half Asian which clarifies how much she is worried about my marriage though I just turned 24, a looked at Greyson with a smile on my face as I forwarded my hand to him after removing it from his mother's grip, which he accepted like a prince making my heart flutter but I won't let them notice but Jule noticed from across the room anyway, before I could tell my mom I m leaving she spoke,
"Valentina, why don't you show Greyson our house in the meantime while I talk with his mother over some tea?"
looking at my mom with the most un-natural smile, I said "Sure why not?" while clenching my jaw,
I look at Greyson as his fingers were running through his silk black hair setting them, I spoke
"Shall we go Greyson?"
"yeah sure why not?"
he said and we walked out from the crowd I took him to all the places I know in my mom's house, I will soon buy my own house which is why I say my mom's house, lastly I took him my bedroom, cause I just got a text from my mom about that, as soon as we went Greyson's mouth hung open at the interior of my bedroom, which is designed by me, as I also did interior designing course for fun, my wallpaper is black, and the ceiling has a galaxy painting on it looking around my room someone might think it is Halloween but it is cosy, Greyson spoke in the deep voice
"Is this your bedroom?" that guy is fascinated,
"Yes, it is" I spoke with a slight giggle,
"it's so gorgeous" Greysons eyes were shining like he was a little kid who got his favourite toy on his birthday, I smiled looking at his excitement
"You know I always loved this type of design," he said as his eyes met mine,
"Me too, I designed this by myself," I said flexing a bit,
"That is amazing Valentina can you design my bedroom too?" I giggled and replied,
"Yeah sure"
"By the way I have something to tell you I overheard our moms thinking about our marriage," he spoke with a worried expression, it felt like he knows me and that he also knows that I don't plan on getting married any time soon,
"Oh no I keep telling her to stop but she keeps worrying, what do you think about that?" I said, nervous because if he like me things would go out of my hand or maybe I m just overthinking like always but my thoughts got interrupted when Greyson hold my hand and spoke,
"Valentina I have something to tell you" he spoke in nervousness making my blood pressure rise high...