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Don’t you think it’s a bit too much?” I asked for the tenth time. It’s just a normal dinner and she is making me overdress.

“It’s never too much darling.” She smiles.

I know I’m going to regret going to this dinner but its free food and I can't say no to that.

Fuck Chanel.

She made me wear a spaghetti strap knee-length gown with heels, my hair was packed into a ponytail with one strand of hair out in front, she sprayed two different perfume on me.

“Wait, I wanna take pictures.”

She takes out her phone and starts to take random pictures of me.

“It’s won’t kill you to smile.”

It will kill me to smile. It certainly will.

I let out a breath and smiled.

“See, you look prettier smiling.”

Really, who wants to switch sisters?

I’m tired of mine.

By the time she was done taking pictures of me, it was already 7 pm, and as expected he is here on time.

“I will get the door,” Chanel yells, and she beats me to the door.

Adric walks into the living room, looking incredible in his black suit, a few button of his shirt was left open, I could see his tattoos.

Wow.

Oh my goodness...Did I just forget to breathe I think so.

He has something in his hand, it’s a flower bouquet, that’s sweet.

I waved my hand to get his attention and mouthed a ‘Hi.’

“Have her back before midnight,” Chanel says.

Adric gives me the flowers and leans in to whisper.

“You look lovely.” I smile.

I had the flowers over to Chanel. God that girl needs to stop smiling unnecessarily, he is definitely going to think we have been talking about him.

I know we have but he doesn’t need to know, right?

“Stop fucking smiling,” I whisper to Chanel so low I doubt he heard me.

She continues to smile.

Sisters can be very annoying or is it only mine.

“I’m sorry about my sister, she can be a lot sometimes.” I said once we got to the car, I’m sure he noticed how much she stared at him, and let’s not even talk about the smiling.

God.

“It’s fine.”

He is just been nice, my subconscious says.

There was an awkward silence that surrounded the car, my phone was in my left hand, pretending I’m scrolling through Instagram.

“Where are we going?.” I asked.

“It’s a surprise.” He replied.

Fuck, now I feel stupid. I shouldn’t have said anything.

And by the way, I hate surprises.

We drove for another ten minutes before we got to our destination. I’m not even surprised he picked an expensive restaurant.

We could see the restaurant through the glass window, it looked beautiful with the lighting and elegant.

Adric was a gentleman, he opened the door for me, that’s sweet of him.

“Mr.Stone, it’s nice to have you here tonight.” One of the staff said, he was behaving nervously around Adric.

“Why is everyone looking at us?.” And why everyone I meant the staff, it’s weird having to be stared at.

“I own the restaurant.”

Oh wow.

That was unexpected, I know he is a businessman, and he looked wealthy but fuck how much wealth is he.

The staff who went by the name Theodore lead us to a private space, it was on the roof, and it looked beautiful.

“I hope it’s to your taste.” Adric whispers into my ear.

A man was standing by the side playing violin, everything looked amazing.

I sat on my seat. There was wine on the table.

Adric smiled. “Wine.” He asked.

“No, I would just have water.”

I hope he doesn’t ask any questions, I don’t want him to know anything about me.

“Is this the only restaurant you own?” I found myself asking.

“I have three more in town.” He replied while sipping the wine.

“And the club.”

“It’s mine too.”

So he is fucking rich, not that I care or anything.

“Tell me about yourself, Maya.”

Oh, God.

“Uhm...There is nothing much.”

“Come on, there has to be something.”

“Uhmm.” Here goes nothing. “I lost my parents a year ago and ever since it has been Chanel and me.”

“I’m sorry about that.”

“It’s fine.”

“When did you open your coffee house,” I asked.

“Just long ago, Chanel and I got a lot of money from Dad’s insurance.”

“Ohh.”

“Yeah.”

Adric and I spoke for a while before the waiter came, I learned a lot about him, he started his work when he was 19, inherited his father’s family, was born with a gold spoon, and has a sister, he seems to have a perfect life.

He asked some questions about me but I managed to find a way not to answer, the less he knows about me, the better for both of us.

“I would like an Alfredo spaghetti with black chicken.”

“Black chicken, I have never had that before.”

I remember the first time I tasted black chicken it was because of Chanel, she wanted to try something new and it turned out good.

“You should try it.”

“Alright,” Adric replied.

He got rice and curry with black chicken and just like my first time, he loved it.

After dinner, he said he had another surprise, I texted Chanel telling her I would be late, and her reply was “Two fucks in one week, I’m proud.”

She can be very dramatic.

I hated the fact after this I would stay far away from Adric, I hope he understands, I really want to explain my situation to him but I don’t want pity, especially when I know he won’t stay away even if I told him to.

We got to the movie theater when I saw the movie we were going to watch, I let out a gasp.

“That’s my favorite.”

I have watched Purple Hearts a thousand times but I love it more than anything, I don’t mind watching it on replay.

“I’m glad I brought you then.”

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