An Enemy to Love

Christian

I woke up feeling a presence beside me, my head hurt, god I had a huge hangover.
I stood up and got dressed. I walked downstairs to the kitchen and ate the breakfast the maid made.
After a few minutes I heard steps, "Good Morning, Christian.", she yawned. "Good Morning, Lauren.", I said not turning to look
at her. "Penny made breakfast", I suggested her to sit. Lauren and I already hooked up a few times, so it wasn't weird waking up next to her.
After breakfast I dropped her off and went to school.

"Hey dude, are you all set for the party tomorrow?", I asked Marco. Tomorrow was his birthday and we planned a big party at his house.
"Yes I'm all ready", he answered.

I knew today was gonna be a long day because I had to get dinner with family.
As soon as I got home Penny came, "You need to get ready Christian, your father is waiting in the car", she said with a smile, but stressed. Penny was our maid since I could think, she was always like a mother to me.
My mom passed away when I was not even 3 Months, but 4 years ago my father married another woman, a woman I despised.
The fact that he married another woman wasn't my problem, my problem was that he married her, Bianca now "Baker".

There were not many moments I liked my father, we had a distant relationship, he lived his life I lived mine, even though we lived in the same house. My father was a billionaire he wasn't modest about it, he always got what he wanted and he always used his money to get it.
Press was almost everywhere we went, and I had no choice but to act with it, with my father I was a different person, different style, different smile, different behavior, because if I didn't act how my father wanted me to act, I'd get punished.
Not in a physical way, but he yelled at me for hours every time I acted or dressed wrong.
I changed clothes, wearing a blue button-up-shirt and jeans. I got downstairs and in the car.
"Hello, father.", I said coolly. "Do not call me father in public it sounds to harsh", my dad said.
"We're in the car no one can hear us besides Bianca", I said getting frustrated.
"Don't use that tone on me, and don't talk about your stepmom like that.", ugh stepmom.
I didn't keep arguing, doing us both a favor.
After a little while we arrived at the restaurant. Our restaurant.
We sat down and paparazzi came, my father gave me a look that told me to smile so I did.
After a few photos he send the paparazzi away.
"We won't eat dinner alone today actually, Christian", my father said. Before I could ask who was joining us I already saw
them walking towards us.
"You remember Bianca's friend, Monica? She will join us with her daughter, Elizabeth. You know you two would make a great
couple.", my father said before turning around greeting them with Bianca. I wasn't craving to say hello or even smile, but my father send me a warning look. I rolled my eyes stood up and kissed Monica's and Elizabeth's hand.
Family Howard, were also filthy rich.

Elizabeth sat next to me, she looked at me and smiled, it was a nice smile, but she just wasn't my type. To be polite though, I smiled back. We started having small talk. "So Christian, do you have a girlfriend?", she asked resting her head on her hand. "No, I do not.", I said forcing a smile. We kept our small talk going. When our parents were busy talking too, she suddenly leaned in and whispered something in my ear, her read curly hair tickling my neck. "I can see in your eyes you're not attracted to me, and I'm not attracted to you, but our parents are forcing us so let's at least pretend we're having fun.", she whispered, her voice still sounding soft and nice she leaned back again and winked. I nodded, giving her a real smile.
After dinner our parents made us exchange numbers.

After that evening my father was happy. "Good son, you too are good for each other and she's pretty, also of course her family has a pretty good amount of money."
Of course. For him it's always about the money.
I gave him an obvious fake smile and got out of the car.
Later that evening she texted me actually, at first I wasn't really into texting with her but it got fun. Elizabeth and I texted hours and in the end we decided we could be good friends, so I also invited her to Marco's birthday party tomorrow.

The next morning I woke up 11 o'clock, packed my stuff and went to football practice.
When I got home I showered and got ready for Marco's Birthday party.
I drove to his house, when I got there I already saw decorations everywhere. It was now 5 p.m., the party started at 6 p.m.
so we had an hour to organize the last things.
"Happy Birthday man", I said giving him his present. I got inside and helped with the last things.

It was now 6 o'clock and the first guests arrived.
After a while Eliana arrived too.
"Did I miss something? Don't you live here sweetheart?", I said as she came through the front door wearing a red, backless, silk dress that just reached to her thighs and emphasized her hourglass figure.
"I came with my friends Christian, we met up at her's", she said in a duh tone.
"Sorry, no need to get sassy.", I said holding my hands up in the air sarcastic offended.

Heyyy guys! I hope you guys like the story so far! I'm already working on the next chapter! I'm sorry that the Chapters are so short I'll try to expand them! I'm always open for feedback! Next Chapter is in process🫶🏼💋