chapter 30

"It's done yayyyyy!!!" said Iris collapsing on the sofa.

"Yeah it is." replied Ailee joining her.

Tonight Emma will be introducing her boyfriend officially to the family. She just told her parents last week and they all were eager to meet and welcome him into the family. So here they were preparing for the grand dinner.

"You've met him before right?" asked Iris after few minutes of silence.

"Yes I did" she responded.

"So what do you think? Do you approve of him?"

"Hmmm he appears to be good but I don't know much."

She nodded thoughtfully.

"Whatcha both cooking?" came the voice of Alex from the other side of the room.

"Nothing" Iris replied dryly.

"Move yo ass and do some work. Don't be just sittin' around. Will ya?"

Iris gasped.

"How-fucking-dare you? You come here after hanging out with your 986 girlfriends and 10 dumb friends and have the audacity to ask us to work when all we've been doing all day was running around helping in cleaning and cooking. Don't you feel ashamed? You know what don't answer that. We already know. You are the most shameless, arrogant, egoistic-"

" Fucking hell woman! Atleast breathe"

She took deep and loud breaths deliberately to irk him even more.

Alex rolled his eyes and turned towards Ailee to find her busy with her phone.

"Don't tell me you got a boyfriend too now little munchkin. One is enough for me at the moment to deal with." he said plopping down next to her and peeking in her phone.

She quickly flipped it and gave him the best smile, racking her brain for a good response to throw back at him.

"I did and his name is Flynn Rider"

"Nice choice but Rapunzel is a cruel enemy you got yourself."

" They broke up long ago so I think we're good" she said giggling.

" Alright you ask him to wait till you turn 26 hmm?"

"But we are already engaged and the date for the-"

"Naah you're not getting married anytime soon and you're most definitely not moving outta here. He got to come here and live with us periodt." he said patting her head and left murmuring something about his beauty sleep.

Ailee smiled and nodded.

"God do we really share the same genes? I mean look at me and then look at him."

Ailee laughed looking at her enlarging her eyes for dramatic effects.

"Anyway I'm gonna go and shower and I think you should too."

She nodded and they went up into their rooms.

Upon reaching inside she checked her phone again to find multiple pictures of Doodle sent by her sugar.

She didn't bring him here because of this whole chaos in her house, well that is what she told him but the actual reason is that he won't be lonely at his home anymore. She noticed how he got busied with him and his place looked much more livelier.

She laughed at the last one which was a video where Doodle was running with his bottle of moisturizer in his mouth and Xavier was chasing him while cursing endlessly.

Sometime later she willed herself to get up and run herself a bath and decided to wear a beautiful white dress that reached up to her knees and applied a little makeup.

Satisfied with her looks she snapped a good thirty mirror selfies of herself and immediately sent it to her man who was eagerly waiting for them.

"Come out Lily! They're here" called out Gigi from outside.

"I'll be there in a minute" she replied and sat down on her bed to wear her white fancy flats.

It'll be fine Lily. You'll be fine.

She chanted with deep breaths and went down.

When she reached the living room she could hear people talking making her nervous.

She quietly entered and sat down next to Alex hoping no one would notice her and they did not except one who was looking at her very intently.

There were only two men present apart from her family, one was Mr Ferraro and the other she didn't recognise.

Where were his parents? she thought.

"Hey Alex?" she whispered in his ear.

"Yeah you good?" he replied quietly.

"Yes but who's that guy with Mr Ferraro?" she asked discretely pointing at the guy who was shamelessly staring at her.

"His cousin he said" he shrugged.

She made an 'O' face and sat back just listening to the conversation of her elders.

They all headed to the dining room and sat down.

Emma was sitting on the right of Damien Ferraro and on his left sat his cousin, Alvaro Russo.

"Ailee why aren't you eating?" asked Damien smiling politely.

Everyone looked at her making it harder for her to gulp with all the attention she was receiving.

"Salad please" she said almost inaudibly to get out of this situation and he passed it to her then continued the small talkings with her other very curious siblings.

Ailee couldn't eat.

She was one word away from having a panic attack. Alvaro 'accidentally' touched her foot three times because they were sitting across each other and everytime he mouthed her a sorry, there was always a nasty smirk resting on his face.

She was doing so fine with socializing so far but guess its limited to being with Xavier only, with others she just don't feel so confident.

The fact that none of her family members noticed it yet churned her stomach in a bad way.

For the first time she left without eating dessert and went outside in the garden and didn't go back inside till she saw them leaving.

They all gathered in the living room to share their experiences with the about-to-be family member and Ailee snuggled up with her father to calm down her racing heart in his warmth.

"Dad what do you think?" asked Emma. She hasn't stopped blushing all evening.

"He looks good and earns good too but I can't tell his personality in just one meet. I don't know how he is like from the inside so you better keep bringing him often I am not done testing him." he said nodding his head while patting Ailee's arm.

"Yeah I'm far from approving him just yet as well Emma. It will take 10 years tops for his documents to get approved by me." Alex voiced out his thoughts.

"I think he will keep our Emma happy. They looked so cute and he couldn't stop staring at Em. Remember when he accidentally dipped his chicken in water instead of the sauce that was so funny." Juliana, their mother said.

" Yeah he's whipped" said Mila biting her banana.

" Why are you so quiet Lils?" asked their father.

She got tear in her eyes. It was so traumatizing. The way he looked, his expressions, his touch everything. Should she tell him?

"Lily?"

She flinched and looked at her mother who was now sitting next to her and holding her hand.

Giving them a polite smile she said

"I-I am just not feeling great"

"Oh honey what's wrong? Shall we go to the doctor?" she asked worriedly.

"No I'll just take some medicine and sleep."

" Alright here's your medicine ma'am"

Her parents squished her in a tight hug from the both the sides and she erupted into laughters when they started tickling her with no mercy.

"S-stop sto-" she wheezed out and they stopped.

"Okay go now and rest"

She nodded and went back to her room.

Sitting on her bed she thought maybe she won't see him again?

And if she does and he showed no good changes then she will definitely tell her parents

or Xavier.

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