“OH my gee! You wouldn’t believe it bestie”, Amelia spoke into the phone giggling. She was sitting on the seat facing the mirror, and shouting at the top of her voice.
“You do not mean it baby”, Zoey responded.
Amelia laughed.
“I’m telling you, I never believed he was gonna accept, if someone had told me that he would, I never would believe”, she said.
“Okay, so what made you take the step anyway?”, Zoey asked.
Amelia rolled her eyes.
“Well, I had only decided to give it a try, just a try, I was ready to damn the consequences this time. If I perish, I perish”, she said and Zoey bursted into laughter, laughing non stop.
“Naughty you, jeez!”, she was still laughing.
“Yeah, I had to. This is another possible biggest chance to show us together to the world, most especially when people are thinking we aren’t an item, they need to see that we are, come on”, she said giggling.
Zoey laughed.
“You are right, absolutely right. So what time?”, she asked.
“Tonight”, she replied twisting her lips.
“Huh!”, Zoey gasped.
Tarmah who all the while had been standing by the door eavesdropping, nodded her head smirking, and immediately walked away.
It wasn’t her intention to eavesdrop though, she was only passing by the hallway and had heard her voice, then became curious to know more.
“You going to be there right?”, Amelia asked and Zoey sighed.
“Ughhh, this is impromptu you know”, she replied, “but on whose invitation even?”, she asked.
“Mine of course, my dad’s”.
“So I’m gonna be allowed entry?”.
“Yeah, of course”, she nodded.
Zoey sighed.
“Hmph, not promising you, but I will try to”.
Amelia smiled.
*
*
Lord Lucario’s Mansion
Jasira was sitting on the bed in her bedroom dressed in a nightie, chewing on chocolates and surfing on her phone when the door opened and Lord Lucario entered.
“Ahh ah!”, he shouted at once startling her, and she looked up with a start, with her eyes widened.
“What?”, she asked.
“You aren’t dressed up yet? The clock is ticking, tick tick”, he said leaving the door side and walking up to her.
She sighed.
“Well, yeah”, she replied carelessly and rolled her eyes.
“So why is that? You are going for the party Jasira”, he said.
She pouted.
“I know. You talking, you aren’t even dressed”, she said and pointed her phone at him, laughing.
He snorted.
“I am a man, I do not spend up to an hour getting dressed up like you ladies”, he said.
She laughed and waved her head.
“Anyways, I am still waiting for my makeup artistes, they are yet to arrive”, she said and turned her gaze to her phone.
“Huh, they aren’t?”, he asked looking around the room.
She shook her head.
“Nope”, she shortly replied.
He fumed.
“We paid heavily, they aren’t supposed to be late”, he said and turned to leave the room.
“Ugh…”, she scoffed and ignored him.
It wasn’t up to twenty minutes a knock came on her door and she looked up.
“You can enter”, she said in a singsong manner and turned back to her phone.
The door creaked open and a lady entered, followed by another. Jasira looked up at them, they were both blondes. One was older, and the other a young lady.
They carried with them a small sized basket which contained the makeup kits, and a mini box which contained the clothing. Slowly, they walked up to her, smiling.
“Good evening ma’am”, they greeted in unison and Jasira nodded.
“Good evening. You the ladies I been waiting for?”, she asked, twisting her lips.
The ladies glanced at each other and the older one sighed.
“We are very sorry ma’am, very sorry. We experienced a little delay at the gridlock”, the older one said, while the younger lady nodded her head in affirmation.
With a firm and emotionless look on her face, she looked from the spokeswoman to the nodding woman, saying nothing in reply. Then she scrambled out of the bed and walked up to the dressing table.
She first dropped her phone on the dressing table, then with a shove she pulled back the seat and sat, now facing the mirror.
“Ugh, ma’am, we are going to be helping you with the dress first, before the makeup”, the older lady said.
“So?”, Jasira replied.
“So you need to get up, let’s put the clothing on you”, she replied.
Jasira sighed and got up, never blame her, she wasn’t used to all these.
“By the way I am Hannah”, the older woman said, “and this is Yale, my assistant”, she said glancing at Yale.
Jasira nodded in response, saying nothing. Well, they already knew her name right?
“Ughhh…”, she mouthed and splayed her right palm on her face. She was now standing behind the seat, and facing the mirror.
Yale walked up to the couch where she had dropped the mini box, and zipped it open. Then she took out the clothings in it, and arranged them neatly on the center table and from there, they began primping her up.
***
The room was a little dark as only dim coloured lights, and candles from candle stands, lited up the whole place. A song was playing softly on a low tune from the stereo, the gentle evening breeze made the curtains flip and flip, as the French windows were still open.
A soft knock came on the door and it opened immediately, without the intruder waiting for a reply. It was Amelia.
She was looking all exquisite and glamorous in a silver coloured glam gown, her makeup was top notch, and her hairdo beautiful, adorned with beautiful pearls and hair pins. The gown was slitted on her left leg, from three inches above her knees, straight down to the hem.
She instantly saw Jeremy sitted on the couch already dressed, in a black Italian tuxedo, looking dashingly handsome, and her eyes glistened in astonishment.
“Wow!”, she mouthed lowly as she closed the door behind her and gracefully walked up to him. He was as expected, on the phone.
“Hi babe”, she said smiling broadly as she dropped her silver coloured purse beside him and took a stand in front of him, standing arms akimbo.
As she stood, she looked him all over with smiles on her face, admiring him. Wow, so he had actually dressed up, and was waiting for her huh? Oh my! Things were just falling in place for her this beautiful evening.
He looked up at her.
“Hi, are you set?”, he asked and she nodded her head.
“Yeah I am. You look so so good”, she complimented, and he scoffed, then got up and began walking away, leaving her hungry for a reply.
“You do not look bad yourself”, he grunted and placed his right hand on the door knob, then turned back at her.
She smiled, although she really wasn’t satisfied with the reply he gave, but she was happy he said something at least.
“Shall we?”, he asked looking at her.
Her eyes glistened. Wow, he was gonna open the door for her? Jeez! Happily, she picked up her purse which she had dropped on the couch and walked up to him.
“Yes baby”, she said.
He opened the door and she walked out, and he followed closing the door behind them.
New_Heaven
Their car arrived at the venue for the party about thirty minutes past seven pm. It was New Heaven, one of the most classic and expensive hotel. The conference hall of the hotel, was to be used.
As soon as the dark red coloured Land Rover screeched to a halt at the garage, two guards alighted, one from the front, and another from the back.
The one who had alighted from the front immediately walked few steps behind and opened the back door.
It was Jeremy who slowly alighted first, his right foot out, and then his whole body. Then Amelia followed, taking her time as well and alighting slowly. The guards just stood close by waiting.
There was an uproar as soon as the couple finished alighting, cheers and squeals from the people who gathered close by.
Their loud squeals invited more onlookers, and soon they were already surrounded by a lot of fans, taking pictures of them and calling at them.
The guards instantly swung into action, as they tried as much as they could, keeping the crowd at distance.
Reporters from the media houses arrived as well, and Jeremy scoffed.
“Keep them away”, he said to the guards.
“Okay boss”, one of them replied and the duo began walking away from the garage, towards the gigantic edifice before them.
?: Oh my! It’s the power couple, it’s them. A tiny lady’s voice squeaked.
?: My power couple. The billionaire heir and heiress.
?: They really gonna make a great couple.
?: Gee! Look at her glam gown, so beautiful, that must really be expensive.
?: My gee! They are actually still together, can’t you see the bond?
Someone shouted and Amelia smiled broadly at the crowd, then blew them a kiss. The cheers increased.
Jeremy meanwhile, maintained a straight face throughout the saga, he didn’t even glance at them or react to their many talks, but just had his gaze fixed on his destination.
It was Amelia who kept on grinning from ear to ear, blowing kisses at the crowd every now and then, waving at them and also trying to maintain walking on same pace with Jeremy, who seemed uninterested.
They finally got to the entrance of the hall and were halted by some media reporters, this time they just couldn’t escape it.
** “Oh my! Look who we have here”, one of the reporters at the door, a lady with a microphone squealed, shouting into her microphone and giggling, the camera man with her instantly turned his video camera to them.
Although it was like a bee hive at the entrance, lots and lots of people stood there, others coming in and out, but this reporter was smart and adroit enough, to halt the duo.
Jeremy saw them and scoffed, Amelia was all herself, smiling, then she laughed, revealing her thirty two.
** “Our power couple, billionaires making waves in the business world”, the lady reporter continued, “you are both welcome”, she said.
“Thank you so much, thank you”, Amelia said.
** “So Jeremy, are you here to actually give us hints on how to be as successful as you?”, the reporter asked, laughing.
Jeremy snorted and Amelia bursted into laughter.
“She dragged me here”, he had wanted to reply but kept mute instead.
“Oh no, no. We are only here to celebrate with a business associate, nothing more”, it was Amelia who replied, waving her head at both sides.
The reporter raised her eyebrows in surprise.
** “Oh, alright, that’s good. So tell me power couple, this rumour going on that you guys are no longer together, does your appearance tonight tells us that that rumour was really actually a rumour, or there is more to it? I’m sure your fans would like to know”, she said smiling.
Jeremy fumed, as he fiercely fought the urge to walk out on them, and Amelia laughed.
“There isn’t any more to it, we are still together, we are still an item, right baby?”, she rhetorically asked and glanced at him, then she turned back to the lady, “we are still together”, she said.
The reporter nodded knowingly, smiling.
** “Okay, so you trying to say that all those spreading around are just speculations?”, she asked and Amelia nodded.
“Yes they are, infact, I think…”, she trailed off and turned her gaze to the camera, looking straight into it.
“… I would like to tell the world, haters and lovers alike, my fans out there, that Jeremy and Amelia are still very much together. Stop following speculations and be happy for once”, she said and brushed her lips on Jeremy’s cheek.
** “Woohoo!!”, the reporter laughed and clapped her hands, “that’s awesome, we are happy to hear that”, she said.
Jeremy just stood mute and uninterested all the while, maintaining a straight and emotionless face, staring into space.
“So, shall we go in babe?”, Amelia asked looking at him, he snorted, and she smiled and licked her right arm over his left, and they strolled in, followed by the guards.
As soon as they got in two ushers rushed up to them. A blasting rock song was playing from the tannoys. Some people were up, dancing to the song, some gallivanted about while some were sitted.
The gigantic hall was damn beautiful and well decored, it was indeed a large hall.
“Welcome Sir, welcome ma’am”, the ushers greeted.
“May we show you to your table”, one of them said and Amelia smiled at him.
Immediately, the master of ceremony grabbed the microphone and made some mufffles into it, and then he spoke.
“Okay ladies and gentlemen, I would like us to welcome some important dignitaries that has just entered our midst, in the person of Mr Jeremy Petersons and Miss Amelia Redford, the billionaire power couple, we have got them in the building. Please put your hands together for them”, he announced and immediately, a defeaning round of applause and cheers from the crowd followed.
At one end of the hall, at a strategic position was Lord Lucario’s table. They were five people sitted around the table. Him, Jasira, Mico, and two other guys.
They had already arrived like thirty to forty minutes ago.
As soon as Jasira heard the announcement being made by the master of ceremony, she gasped and halted for a few seconds, then began stretching out her neck to look out.
And then, boom! She saw him, she saw the beautiful man as he gracefully walked in.
“What!”, she gasped.