Now and Forever

Chapter 12

I woke up to the birds chirping outside and the sun streaming through the curtains. I checked the time

on my phone and it read seven am. I didn't see any sign of Alexander around the room and I assumed

he had already gone out.

I grabbed my toilet bag and made my way to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth, used the toilet and

washed my face. I then had a long hot shower and only got out when my fingers became wrinkly. I

stepped out of the shower only to notice I hadn't brought any clothes with me from my suitcase. I

wrapped a towel around my body to which it stopped mid thigh and wrapped another one around my

hair.

I slowly opened the door and peeped to see if there was anyone in the room, to my luck this time,

Alexander wasn't there. I walked over to my suitcase and unzipped it while humming a song to myself.

I grabbed a pair of black undies with a matching bra and a blue floral sundress that stopped just above

my knees and had spaghetti straps.

I zipped up my suitcase, stood up and turned to head back to the bathroom but stopped in my tracks

when I saw Alexander looking at me wide - eyed as well, his hand on the doorknob, indicating that he

had just entered. His ears got pink at the top of them and as he quickly turned around. "I just wanted to

tell you that breakfast's ready." With that he quickly walked out and shut the door behind him without

giving me a chance to answer.

I went back into the bathroom and put on my clothes, moisturized my skin and combed out my hair,

leaving it hanging on my shoulders still wet from my shower. I went back into the room and grabbed a

pair of white flip flops and walked out of the room, my phone in hand.

***

As I walked down the stairs, a girl in an official maids outfit was walking up. "Good morning ma'am,

how may I help you." She said when we met on the steps. "Morning. Please call me Amelia, and umm,

can you please direct me where the dining room is?" I asked. "Just take the hallway on the right and

take a turn on the left." I nodded and thanked her as I made my way there.

I reached out to open the door but it abruptly opened revealing a flustered looking Alexander. He pulled

me in and wrapped a hand around my waist.

"Everyone, meet Amelia, my fiancée." I looked around the room to find three people, one of them who I

recognized as his mom, sitting around the glass dining table. "Morning." I smiled and waved awkwardly

at the people seated in front of me.

"Good morning Amelia." His mother said. "Morning." His father, who I think was David said, with a

polite smile on his face. Alexander was the exact copy of his dad. They both had the same hair color,

same grey orbs and same face structure, only his dad looked older.

Alexander pulled out a chair for me and himself. "Hi! I'm Audrey, Alex's younger sister." A girl that

looked so much like Alexander but had blonde hair but the same grey eyes, was sitting on my right

introduced herself. "I'm Amelia." I said and gave her a polite smile.

I put three pancakes on my plate and poured some orange juice in my glass. I had just finished my

second pancake when two girls that were so beautiful walked in. One of them looked like Alexander

from the same black locks to the grey beautiful orbs. She was wearing a black leather skirt that stopped

mid thigh and a white off the shoulder top with white five inch heels.

The other one had blonde platinum locks that ended on her lower back and had blue eyes. She was

wearing six inch green heels and was wearing a green dress that ended just above mid thigh and had a

deep necklace line, leaving little to the imagination.

The two took a seat opposite us, the one that looked like Alexander sitting next to Alexander's mom.

After taking a seat, both of them both threw me death glares and I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

Audrey must have seen the expression on my face because she nudged me in my side and whispered,

"don't mind Alexis, she doesn't like you because you apparently 'stole' Alexander away from her best

friend, who by the way, is a bitch." I giggled at what she said last and all heads turned to me.

You know that moment when you just want the world to swallow you whole? Well yeah, I was having

one of those moments right now. "So Amelia, where did you and Xander meet?" The girl that had the

platinum blonde hair seated next to Alexis asked me with a smug look on her face.

I opened my mouth to answer but Alexander beat it to me. "We met in Seattle." His answer was short

but it did the job. "Exactly how, did you meet?" Alexis asked next, with the same look on her face.

"I had gone to check on the company that is there because we weren't getting any profits from it. One

morning, I went to a coffee shop across the street from the building. I entered the coffee shop and

Amelia ran into me spilling coffee all over my shirt. She was frantically saying how sorry she was and

that it was a mistake-" "and I kept on trying to clean his shirt but it was no use. I said I'd do anything to

repay him back for spilling coffee on his shirt. He told me what I had to do to repay him and then we

started seeing each other." By the time we were done walking down 'memory lane' everyone but Alexis

and the other girl looked satisfied with our story.

I gave Alexander a side glance and saw him stare deadly at the girl, as if daring her to ask more

questions. "When did you guys meet?" They never give up, do they? "It was nine months ago."

Alexander said.

"Why didn't you tell us you were in a relationship Xander?" The girl said. "Because it was none of your

business." He replied to her through gritted teeth. "But it was ours, we're your family." Alexis added on

on.

At this point I thought Alexander was going to break his jaw from the way he was clenching and

unclenching it. "I didn't want him to tell anyone just yet that we were getting married. I wanted him to

keep it a secret." I said and that wiped the smug look right off her face.

The other girl abruptly stood up looking angry and stormed out of the dining room Alexis hot on her

trail, leaving me stunned, the others all looked like they were used to it.