unexpected love

10 years ago

As I was running in the meadow with the wind  blowing through my long curly hair, my white dress stained with green grass I was hiding from my seeker. "Fran, where are you?"  yelled my bestfriend Nikki. Hehe she will never find me. As I was crouching through the grass watching as Nikki aimlessly looked around for me I saw something move in the corner of my eye. As I slowly turned I saw what I would fear most. I screamed as long as my voice would let me and ran out of the grass. "Found you Fran!" Nikki said smiling.
"Haha if I wouldn't have seen a snake you would have never found me".
"Is that why you screamed?" She asked.
"Yeah it was big!" I  explained. "Franny snakes are even that scary, get over it" she said rolling her eyes. Before I could say anything else she said "let's go inside and grab some food". We walked inside my family's huge mansion. Today my parent's were hosting  a picnic for close our closest family friend's,The Invashkov and the Williams. Adrian and Rose Invashkov have been my parents friends from the beginning. There daughter Salina was a little older then me, 16 I believe. I dont know, I really didn't like her. She was a snobby rich girl who had to have everything at her beck and call.
The Williams were also there. Evan William and my father, Pauly Moretti met at a business meeting years ago. There oldest son Jason was my brothers bestfriend.  He was what you would call a player. He could have any girl or even multiple girls just with a wink. His jet black hair and those Safire eyes would woo any girl, but not me. I would never like any male species that looked at a girl like a conquest. As I was busy thinking about everyone here, I did not see who i just ran into.
"Hey brat, you just made me spill my drink. Watch were you are going" said Salina. " I-im sorry Salina I didn't mean to" I said not looking at her. She really did intimidate me. " you just made me spill  grape juice on my 600$ bebe dress and all you can say is your sorry?! Ugh!" She exclaimed as she walked away. As she walked away my brother Genero and Jason walked up.
" Hey sis don't let Salina get to you. Just because she acts like she has a poll shoved up her a**  doesn't mean you have to let her get to you"  Haha that made me laugh.
" Yeah but she has one fine ass. You cant deny that G"  Jason said as he watched Salina walk away. Uhg please I really didn't want to hear them talk about her. As I walked away I saw Nikki sitting on  couch with mother. " Honey are you okay? You look like you just smelled something gross?"  My mother Carmella asked worriedly. " im fine mother. I just don't want to hear G and Jason talk about Salina"  I said with a disgusted look on my face. My mother got what I was implying and sighed " honey all boys are the same. If you find a man who truly loves you for being you, keep him close. There are far and few in between."  If only Jason could be on of those guys.
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Present day - Francesca pov

I came back into reality from my flashback. Those words my mother told me have stuck with me all this time. " honey all boys are the same. If you find a man who loves you for being you, keep them close. There are far and few in between."  That is what I will do. "Darling, darling are you alright?" My hairdresser Nina asked me.

"Yes yes im fine I was just thinking about stuff" I said. " what did you ask?" My voice sounded far away.

"Do you want your hair in a updo or down?"

"Surprise me, after all it is my 23rd birthday!"

"Oh darling you are going to look exquisite! The guys will not be able to stay away from you!" After two hours of preparing I was finally looking at myself in my full length mirror. My hair was up with a few strains framing my face. My make-up was light and my dress was a beautiful red that showed some curves but left room for imagination. It formed an X shape on my back but other then that it was modest.

" oh dear you are all grown up"  Nina said as she wiped off tears from her cheeks. Nina has been like a second mom to me when my parents were away on business trips. 

" Dont cry dear you will mess up your make-up and you dont want to keep the guest waiting!" Yes, I remember Im all dressed up to go have a party with people. Half the people I wont even know. I heard my father saying he was inviting every male specimen from the ages of 24-30 so hopefully " I would finally get out from under the covers" he would say. This will be a fun night. Note the sarcasm.

"Time to go hurt some mens egos" I smiled at Nina and winked. She just laughed and walked away.  As I walked out of my bedroom door I saw my papi waiting for me.

" sweetheart you look amazing. I am so proud of you." He said with a smile.

"thank you papi. I love you to."As we walked for the stairs I started hearing faint music of Italian artist. After all we are the Moretti family. Everything is Italian here. As we reached  stairs I stopped dwad in my tracks as everyone looked up at my in awe. This will be harder then I  thought.