—JENNIFER—When I called out for mom and dad again, a blast followed by loud shouts had me screaming. “ Surprisssseeeeeee!!!” All the lights were suddenly turned on, blinding me for a moment and I closed my eyes to restrain it from hurting my eyes. Everything happened so all of a sudden that I couldn't even get a chance to understand what was exactly going on. It took me another minute to adjust to the sudden lights and open my eyes to look around. Before I could notice anything else, my eyes landed on Mom and Dad. Without thinking about anything else, I raced towards them and stopped before Dad grabbing his shoulder. “ Are you fine? Mom, What happened? Are you both alright?” I asked in one breath, checking both of them for anything unusual, any Injury or even a scratch on them. “ Hey, Hey!! We are fine. See! Nothing is wrong. It was just a joke.” Dad replied, grabbing my hands and my brows furrowed together to stare at them dumbfounded. “ Joke? What doesn't that mea-” I was l
—JENNIFER—Everyone gave me gifts one by one before we settled down at the dining table for dinner. We had fun chatting which was mostly taken ahead by Alex and Micheal because of their bad sense of humour. After the dinner, Mathhew left for Brown mansion since it was past 11:00 PM. Anya stayed back with us since everyone decided to do something fun which they still couldn't decide after a whole hour of arguing and ranting. “ Alright kids. Have fun. We better be retiring to our beds.” Dad said as he and mom stood up. “ Good night.” We said before they walked to their room.After some more arguing and rejecting God knows how many ideas, everyone decided to do settle for Karaoke.“ But Uncle and Aunty would be disturbed.” Celeste said at the idea. “ Wait, Let me go and check the study if it's clean. It's soundproof so it will be fine.” I said immediately grinning at the idea and standing up. “ Thank god. I almost forgot about it.” Cally sighed remembering the way we would often use
—JENNIFER—I looked up with my widened eyes, only to meet with another pair of widened eyes that were staring at us. “ OH MY GOD!!” He gasped. “ WHAT THE FUCK ALEX??” Christian growled at him, moving in front of him. “ What the fuck is wrong with you? We were supposed to do Karaoke. And you are here fucking each other?” He rambled in disbelief as if we had betrayed him. “ Alex! What's going on??” I gasped, as I heard Cally's voice with approaching footsteps. Alex whipped his head to face Christian with a wicked smirk who was staring at him in disbelief. “ You won't believe what's going on, Baby. Come I'll show you.” Alex replied in the most dramatic voice as he eyed me and Christian wickedly. “ Oh My God. Stop him. He has gone mad.” I whisper shouted at Christian and he was fast to react. He grabbed Alex from the back of his Jacket and pulled back. “ If you dare speak a word to anyone, I'll tell Cally about every single one of your previous girlfriends.” Christian warned him
—JENNIFER—I bit my lips and shared a look with the girls as we realised what he was going to do. He walked back and emptied the whole jug of water over both the boys making them sit immediately with a jerk. “ What the heck!!” Both of them screeched, while wiping their faces that were dripping off water. “ Morning to you, Boys!” He stood, looming over them as they tried to get back to the sober world. “ Where are we?” Alex asked, rubbing his eyes and temple.“ Still alive, unfortunately.” Christian remarked, walking back and placing the jug back to the table. “ What the hell just happened here? .” Micheal spoke up, trying to get up. “ Move your asses both of you and get down for breakfast.” Christian said, offering his hand once again to me and making me stand up. “ You are cooking, Finally?” Alex’s face lit up and he snapped his face up to Christian. “ Come out of the sleep, Alex.” Christian rolled his eyes as he pulled me out of the room along with him. “ My head's hurting l
—CHRISTIAN—My sleep was broken when something stirred beside me and when I opened my eyes to look I realised that it wasn't something but someone and that someone was my beautiful little wife. I was only watching her expression changing again and again before she changed her position again and dropped all her weight on me. We were sleeping on the floor with our heads resting on the couch. Her head was barely touching the couch though, since she was using my shoulder as her pillow. I smiled before adjusting her head in a comfortable position and then looked around to see the situation of others. And it wasn't very pleasing. Everyone was drunk and they were soo going to be up with a bombering headache from the hangover. Shaking my head, I searched for my phone and checked the time. It was 6:00 in the morning. Making Jennifer's head to rest on the couch behind comfortably, I got up only to be stopped because of Alex and Micheal laying on the floor near the door like some homeless be
—CHRISTIAN—“ I was in love with her. But her only goal was money.” I saw Uncle stealing a sneaky glance from Aunty as he said those words. She was trying to look unbothered but her eyes couldn't hide the discomfort that arose at the mention of another woman. “ We were in a relationship for more than over a year when she suddenly decided to break up. That time was going really difficult for my business and I had faced a big loss and immediately after that she decided to leave me. Later I found out that she was now with another rich man. Nancy and I were childhood best friends because of our parents' friendship and when our parents decided to turn the friendship into a relationship, we both agreed and got married. After a month of our marriage, Catherine came back to me and lied to me that she was pregnant with my child and she wanted another chance. It was my mistake that I didn't tell Nancy about it and believed in Catherine's lies when she said she wants to start a fresh life with
—JENNIFER—It was shocking, unbelieving and confusing at the same time to see Catherine here. My last meeting with her wasn't fine at all. She was behaving weird and wanted to tell me something. But Alex and Christian interrupted us and Christian took me out of there.I had totally forgotten about all of this because of my birthday. But now again Christian and Alex are trying to keep me away as if they don't want me to meet her. It was all so suspicious. But what was even more weird was the way Mom and Dad were standing and watching her eat the breakfast as if she was the owner of this house and they were some uncalled, unwanted guests.They were looking anxious and afraid and it was so uncomfortable to see them like this. So I decided to put an end on all this drama and suspense. “ Get aside.” Pushing both Christian and Alex aside, I headed toward the dining area but was pulled back by Christian. The argument we had after that made my doubt to be strengthened that there's somethin
—JENNIFER—I thought I hadn't heard her right.“ Sorry?” So I apologised, asking her to repeat what she had to tell me. “ I'm your mother, Jennifer. Your biological mother who kept you in her womb for nine months. Who had given birth to you.” She answered, palming my cheek which I would have swatted in right that moment if I wasn't in this state of sudden speechlessness. I couldn't register her words for another whole minute and kept staring at her. Until a diamond ring on her finger pricked into my cheek, bringing me back to my senses. I blinked my eyes several times, trying to push away the sudden blurriness before swatting her hand away, roughly, taking her by surprise. “ What the hell? D-Do you even know what you are talking about?” I yelled at her, stepping back. “ I'm speaking the truth, Jennifer. You are my daughter, my blood.” She said, stepping ahead to reach me but I immediately took several steps back and grabbed Mom's hand, who was crying, God knows why. Stepping behin