Hilton Hotel and Suites.
The day of the ceremony was here. All the invited guests were arriving at the venue. A fleet of different expensive models of cars were driving in one after the other. Each person adorned in exquisite attire. The guest's majestic entrance screamed wealth.
The celebrant stood holding a glass of wine in his hand. He hits the glass with a piece of metal, bringing people's attention to him.
"As you all know, this is my 80th birthday, and I thank you all for being here to celebrate with me. This year is different, I am celebrating alongside my grandson, Matthew. Everyone applauded as Matthew strides to me his grandfather on the stage, he wore a proud look. He smiled and waved to everyone in appreciation.
Mr. Jones continues; "Son, I am proud of the man you have become. However, I have never seen you with a girl before, let alone a girlfriend, does that mean that among all these beautiful schoolmates of yours there is none suitable for your liking?" Mr. Jones' words amused the crowd, and they all laughed.
Matthew, who was standing boldly beside his grandfather, smiled. He wore a brown bespoke designer suit. His shoe was made of leather, its design screams millions of dollars.
He took the microphone from his grandfather. "Grandfather," he called. "You are right, I have not been with any girl because I thought you would be against it. But since I have your permission, I have this announcement to make."
Everywhere went dead silence. He strode to where his classmates were all seated, the girls were all blushing.
'Could it be me?' They were all wondering. It would be such an honor to be a girlfriend to the grandson of the second most wealthy person in New York. Even the girls who came with their boyfriends would never mind being picked.
Edna began feeling guilty, blaming herself for accepting Hillary as her boyfriend. 'Matthew already knew I had a boyfriend, so he wouldn't even consider me. After all, I am his best friend's girlfriend." She murmured.
Matthew cleared his throat and then sly smiled his eyes went towards Susan the shy girl of their class, and she began shaking tremendously, "he really likes me?" Susan almost melted when she heard Matthew call her name. The other classmates were disappointed.
"Why Susan? She is not even as pretty as the other girls, so why her?" The students murmured among themselves.
All eyes were on Susan, and she didn't even know when she stood up.
A chilled anger boiled down her spine when she heard the next thing Matthew said. "Tap Edna, I want to tell her something." Edna was sitting behind her.
Susan had no choice but to tap Edna, as instructed. Anger was written all over her. Edna, whose head was buried in-between her knees, raised her head up.
"Edna be my girlfriend, my grandfather is in approval."
Edna's eyes widened in disbelief, she never thought that Matthew had an eye for her, after all, she was his best friend's girlfriend.
"But…" Edna wanted to make a difference, but Matthew interrupted.
"No but, just be my girlfriend, leave the rest for me".
"If you say, so I will be your girlfriend. Edna replied. The butterfly feeling overshadowed her and made her stomach tickle.
Sounds of applause were all over the place.
"My grandson is brave, he knows what he wants and went for it, what a beautiful damsel. I can proudly say that he took after me." Mr. Jones turned to the crowd and shared a toast, and the party began. There is a surplus of dishes of every kind, and drinks as well. Everyone can have as much as he can take.
In the midst of the enjoyment and cheering, people were making videos and posting them on social media platforms as well as the school gist group.
The noise from the other dometry woke him up.
" Hey, is that not Edna, Hillary's supposed girlfriend?"
"Of course that's her, I think she made the right choice, if it were my sister I wouldn't allow her to date such a low life like Hillary, he has nothing to offer.
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Matthew and Edna's love photos were all over the school gist group.
Anger boiled down Hillary's spin, on seeing the picture of them all loved up and kissing.
As though the pictures in the school gist group weren't enough other popular social media, like Instagram and twitter carried the news and some videos. Captions like; "Congratulations to the two love birds, The most romantic couples in town." There were congratulation messages from millions of fans under the comments sections.
Hillary did not want to believe it. "Maybe it's a dream and a prank, Edna loves me and can't betray me this way." He made excuses for her believing it was just a rumour. But as he was still assuring himself that it was a rumour, two of his dormitories were discussing it. His heart aches as he hears them saying they were happy for Edna. When he came to his senses, It was no prank or a dream.
"I am going there, maybe it's not true, I want to see for myself to be sure." Doubt and fear overshadowed him. Immediately he got dressed and off he went.
"If this was true I am definitely going to kill Matthew with my barehand." Hillary said without even thinking of the consequences of what he was planning to do. Entering the premises uninvited has its own consequence let alone hitting the celebrant. It could mean death. The patriarch Mason Jones wasn't someone to joke around with. Not even wealthy people let alone someone who doesn't have a family. To Mason Jones someone like Hillary is more like an ant that can be killed anytime and no one would notice or even question it.
As Hillary approached the venue, one of his classmates who were outside making out with a guy sighted him and stopped, "what is he doing here?" Before she could complete her sentence, Hillary was already inside the banquet hall where merriment was happening, the celebration was over it was an after party and all of the distinguished guests had already left living only the students and some young people partying.
Before Matthew could be notified of Hillary's present, Hillary had knocked him down with his punch. "So you had a plan to take my girlfriend away from me that is why you didn't invite me." As he was still speaking, two mercenaries on black ataire, who were probably Matthew's bouncers intervened immediately.
The students began scolding and reprimanding Hillary.
Matthew stood up from the floor, and wiped his bleeding nose, his mouth was also bleeding as well. Hillary's punch was very hard on him. But Matthew on the other hand was slightly drunk, he didn't feel much pain as he would have felt if he wasn't sober. Matthew smirked as though his face wasn't hurting.
"Hahaha haha!" Matthew laughed wickedly, "Best friend's You said?" It was at that moment that Edna saw what was going on and walked to them. Her anger blazed on Hillary. Matthew was still speaking, so she kept calm and watched the two.
Matthew then hits Hillary's chest while the deadly looking mercenaries held tightly his two arms that he could not move. "Hillary I was never you friend, not to talk of being your best friend, I only used you to get what I wanted, to pass mathematics of course and of course get close to Edna, he drew Edna close to himself in order to anger Hillary the more. I was never your friend so get that to your tiny little brain."
Edna smiled as Matthew berates Hillary, she was satisfied with all that had played out, earlier on she was wondering how to break the news to Hillary, she had some conscience anyways but Hillary's presence had made it a lot more easy.
Hillary felt another kind of excruciating pain in his heart as he heard what Matthew had to say and also he was triggered by the satisfying smile on Edna's face. He struggled to get away from the tight hand on him in order to hit Matthew the second time. but his strength was no match with even one of the men.
....
Matthew signaled the men and they dragged Hillary out of the hall to an empty and specious room. With the hitman equipment there shows that it was a torture room.
While the students continued partying, Matthew left to the room where Hillary was kept, he could hear the face smacking and beating sounds. Hillary was screaming out in pain, he was on the floor gasping for breath, when his eyes met with a shoe at the door post, someone stood tall in glamouring looks. The legs in the shoes began making steps towards where he was, slow but steady the footsteps continued.
It was none other than Matthew Jones, his outfit was different from the previous one, he sat on a chair in the room and brought out a pack of cigarettes, he placed a stick of cigarettes on his mouth and stretched out another to Hillary who was still breathing heavily on the floor and he declined.
Hillary had never tasted cigarettes all through his years of living, and he never thought Matthew was the kind that smokes. Matthew had always been soft but apparently with what had played out with some hours, Matthew was wolf in sheep covering, he was much more deadly than a sniper.
Following Hillary's rejection of the cigarette, Matthew laughed and lit the cigarette in his mouth, he exhaled the smoke to Hillary's face which made Hillary to cough so violently, he hates anything smoke.
Hillary's reaction made Matthew smirked."Poor boy. I have always liked Edna and you knew that, but you decided to take her away from me. His loud voice carried anger and hatred.
Right from their first year, Hillary had liked Edna so much and he did all he could do to get her to be his girlfriend but not until not until four years later Edna accepted to date him. Matthew on the other hand never showed interest in her which got Hillary confused of what Matthew is saying now.
On the edge of making his defense, Hillary stammered. "I.. I.." but before he could make a sentence one of the bouncers punched him and pushed him. "How dare you talk back."
Matthew smiled and his eyes met with Hillary's. "You did me wrong and you will pay dearly for it. Coward!" His voice echoed in the dark room. He stood and commanded the mercenaries to deal mercilessly with Hillary.
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"We lost him the doctor announced, after he did all he could to save Hillary. He withdrew his stethoscope from Hillary's chest and hung it between his shoulders. Adjusting his glasses he announced; "Death time 11:20 a.m, and one of the nurses wrote it down.
"Cover him up and make inquiries of his family." The doctor instructed.
The nurse in white uniform responded as was instructed by the doctor. She covered him in white cloth while the other nurse wrote something in the book that was on her hand.
On the look on his face, Hillary was brutally beaten. The mesinaries did just as Matthew had instructed, they didn't have mercy on him at all.