Corporate Prince

Chapter 77: A Great Surprise

Chapter 77

A Great Surprise

After Seto's confession of why he didn't like Christmas, Ana decided not to bring it up again. She was a little disappointed that they wouldn't be doing any of the normal couple things for Christmas Eve, but she wasn't going to be a royal ass about not getting to go on a date on that one specific day. Besides, she ended up being too busy to even sulk about it.

That night when Ana headed home after their arcade date, she found her mother and sister at the kitchen table planning something.

Aiko was biting her thumbnail as she argued with her mother over the color of what looked like cloth napkins. When her sister heard Ana enter, she looked up at her and asked, "Purple or lilac?"

Ana looked at the napkins and noticed that there wasn't a vast difference between them other than the shade. She knew that look on her sister's face, though, and answered seriously. "Lilac, if it's a spring event, purple if it's winter."

"Ah, yes. That's good. Let's go with purple, then." Aiko wrote something down and went back to looking at the napkins.

"Ok." Ana treaded carefully as she asked, "Winter event, then? What event is it? I haven't heard about anything lately."

Her mother looked up and grinned. "It's all very last minute. Aiko's engagement party is on Christmas Eve and the wedding will be in February."

Ana froze as she looked at Aiko. Her sister blushed deeply. Ana finally spoke when she got over her initial shock. "Oh, congratulations."

"Thanks," Aiko smiled bashfully.

Ana couldn't help herself. "This is sudden and fast. Are we having a shotgun wedding?"

The room grew quiet as no one said anything. What? I was just kidding, but why do they look so serious?

Her mother nodded to Aiko. Her sister took a deep breath, then looked at Ana and said, "I'm six weeks along."

"Oh." Ana blinked a few times. "OOOOHHH!"

Her mother burst out laughing at Ana's reaction and her sister smiled, but it was strained.

Aiko requested quietly, "Please don't tell anyone, though. It's really early."

"Right, right. I won't! Wow, congratulations, again." Ana was a little shocked at the whole thing. That Hoyhi moves fast.

Aiko looked at Ana and smiled. "You don't need to come to the engagement party since it's on Christmas Eve. I'm sure you and Kaiba-san—"

Ana cut her off. "I wouldn't miss the party for the world. Where's it being held?"

Aiko raised an eyebrow at her. "Where the Hoyhi's normally hold their parties here in town. At the Hoyhi mansion."

"That makes sense. How can I help? What else do you need to pick besides napkins?" Ana sat down at the table and drew her mother's and sisters' attention back to the planning. Ana coaxed them easily, successfully avoiding being asked why she wasn't going on a date with Seto on Christmas Eve.

***

During the time until Christmas break started, Ana helped with the party and when she got the chance to look through the invitations, she pulled Seto's invitation out and threw it away. No reason to bother him with this. She was so busy she didn't have time to do much else. After Seto left for Domino City, he'd messaged her a few times, but every time she started writing him back, her mother or sister would call her for help, making her responses much shorter than she wanted. Well, I'm sure he's busy. It should be fine.