Scarlett is pretty much the description of 'beauty with brains' and 'everyone has a scared past' together. Now what matters is her present. And this present need MONEY to fund someone's life.
Who? Someone close to her. But will she sign herself off...
"Family is not what we are born with, it is something we
create over the years of sticking together no matter what."
Scarlett for the first time in a long while felt secure.
As if the darkness around did not exist. As if the warm hand engulfing hers was the key to happiness and freedom and security.
She slowly opened her eyes and closed them sharply again.
She winced at the bright light around her.
She again opened her eyes and looked around her. To say that she was shocked was an understatement.
She looked to her right. There was sitting in the bed beside her, firmly holding her hand and masking a concerned expression.
"Scarlett, oh oh you're up. Oh, are you okay?" Alexander said.
"Yeah. Uh, what happened?", she said. She was confused as to why he was acting this way and why she was in the guest bedroom in the first place.
"Oh, well when me Alexander and dad came out you stood up and started to walk towards us but you fell limp to the ground and you've been out since the past 15 minutes and in fact, if you had not woken up right now then we might have called a doctor.", Grayson said.
"Oh, it's just probably because I was tired and stressed about how you guys would take the news.", she meekly whispered barely audibly.
She was relieved to know that all of that was merely a dream but now she was more than sure that she didn't want anyone to find out about their arrangement and would do anything for it to remain a secret.
Their secret.
"Well we did not want to believe that at first but we can see that you both care deeply for each other and love each other. Who are we to stop. Yes, we are a bit mad for you not even telling us that you had a boyfriend." Kristy said.
Oh, Kristy, I didn't know I had a boyfriend yet even a crush up until a few hours back, she wanted to say but held back.
Sam nodded in approval and said "You could have at least told me babe. I thought we were friends.", she said.
"I wanted to but couldn't. I knew that Gray wouldn't approve since I hate all those billionaires but, uh- why don't we discuss this over food or ice cream?" she said.
Everyone nodded and they went to the kitchen and sat down.
"Uh, so I thought for all these years that it was because of his dad that mom died.", she started but with her brows scrunched up.
She always did that whenever she was uncertain of how to say something.
"His dad?", Jhon said.
"Uh, yes, Matthy, I met him yesterday. I was shocked to see him and then he explained how he offered to pay for dad but dad refused to take a lot of money and shifted mom to a cheaper hospital. During the transfer, mom died. He said it was neither his nor dad's fault since that hospital was overcharging and dad couldn't take such a big loan. So it was just me prejudicing based on a misunderstanding. "she said.
"And you believed him?", Grayson said.
"At first no. But then yes. And I trust Alexander so I trust Matthy too.", she said.
Everyone seemed to have bought that lie. In reality, she believed Matthy because she knew her father was a man with too much pride. And that pride would never allow him to continue working at a place whose owner was the reason the love of his life had died.
After having a bit of their ice cream they all went to their room.
But now where would Alexander and Scarlett sleep? Obviously in Scarlett's room, right? No. never.
Why?
She had a twin bed that could fit only one person. So now where would the newly - fakely -marry sleep?
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"Matthew, come on, let's sleep. I'm sure it will be okay. And if it's not then well we will intervene and help them out. Okay. Let's just sleep.", Angelina said to her husband.
Matthew nodded and came to bed.
They were about to close the lamps and sleep when Nicky came bursting into the room crying her eyes out.
"Nicky, dear, what's wrong?", her grandma said, taking her in her embrace.
Soon after, Amara came in. The five year olds mom was searching for her daughter in the massive house for the past fifteen minutes.
Finally she found Nicky in her parents room.
"Nicky, baby, god mamma has been looking all over for.''she said, detaching her baby from Angelina.
"Mamma Xandy. Where is Xandy mamma?"the girl whispered, hiding her face in her mothers neck.
Her mother let out a chuckle. "Baby Xander got married right. So now he is with his wife.",she explained to her daughter.
"Like you and dadda?",the girl said, unaware of the fact that her parents were not married with her father being in the army not giving them enough time together.
"Not like me and dadda. Like granpa and granma.",she said.
Nicky, already tired from the whole day, fell asleep in mother 's arms without even responding.
"Mom, dad I'm gonna take her with me. We will talk about Xander and Scarlett later on.", saying this she stood up.
Amara was still not happy with the whole ordeal. She was mad, yes. But not at Scarlett but at Katherine and Alexander for planning this out. Had they not spoken about their dislike for each other and had they not planned all of this and talked to each other instead a poor - not literally - girl would not have been dragged in that mess.
Had they dealt with all of their problems like adults and not planned all of these devious tricks and pranks like highschoolers, all of the mess would not have happened.
But no, they could not and they had to be immature brats. She at times felt bad for herself for being Xander's elder sister.
Amara felt bad for Scarlett. She was not even asked for an opinion on this. No one asked her if she had a boyfriend or girlfriend or if she was already married to someone else.
Alexander was cold and ruthless and a completely arrogant jerk. He never cared for anyone except for his family. But now that Scarlett was a part of it too, would he care for someone outside of his little bubble?
Would he let his walls down? Would he be humane towards that angel or keep that facade of being a devil or not?
