Standing in your way

Chapter 46

I've been up since 7 this morning even though the ceremony took place at 12.

I'm tired but also excited for this evening's party, in fact it's now five in the afternoon and afterwards there will be a party this evening to celebrate the newlyweds.

Looking at myself through the window of a door I notice that the tears of joy mixed with those of emotion have not ruined the makeup too much, which is a good thing since it would be a real shame to ruin the work of art that the make-up artist created this morning

"Here you are" Lydia tells me, reaching me from behind, I turn and look at her, remaining enchanted once again by her beauty and elegance: she has chosen a suit that matches my dress, a midnight blue suit of jacket and trousers, and she didn't put anything under her jacket.

Simply fascinating

"Baby? Are you listening to me?" she asks me, placing a hand on my hip, I shake my head and meet her gaze smiling

"Sorry, what were you saying?" I ask her, placing a hand on her chest

"Your mother is looking for you" she tells me, I turn towards the room where all the guests are and almost immediately I meet my mother's gaze, which was already fixed on us

"And why did she send you?" she shrugs

"I don't know, we started talking to get to know each other and now she wants to talk to you" she tells me leaning against the wall and adjusting her sleeves, I look at her hands and think

"She asked me so many questions, not even like I should be your future wife" the heart skips a beat as our eyes meet. Neither of us says anything, leaving room for a good minute of silence that is all too deafening

"Uhm I'm going to my mother" I tell her looking down and hugging myself, she nods, stepping back and letting me pass,

As I walk around the room many glances rest on me, but only hers burn my skin

"Mom" I tell her, placing my hands on her shoulders from behind, she looks up in surprise

"Oh, come sit down" she points to a chair next to her

"What did you want to tell me?" I ask her, taking a glass of champagne from the waiter's tray, my mother alternating her gaze between me and behind me

"Her" sge says to me, I raise my eyebrows in surprise

"And what about her?" I ask her, then swallowing a sip of champagne

"I mean, are you two together?" my throat closes at the question, my lips part but without making a sound

"I don't, I mean, maybe yes but not officially" I tell her embarrassed without even looking at her face anymore, she frowns

"What do you mean, unofficially?" she asks, I sigh, closing my eyes

"Mom is complicated" I tell her, returning my gaze to her face, she smiles and shakes her head

"Complicated but in the meantime she came to your brother's wedding"

"It doesn't matter"

"Surely, any "friend" would have done it" in saying the sentence she underlines the word friend with a particular tone, I roll my eyes

"I don't know what she feels" I confess to her, exhaling, she places a hand on my thigh

"I think she feels the same way as you" he tells me lowering his voice and moving closer to my face, I blink a couple of times

"Trust your mother" 

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The start of the party arrived quickly, it's already eleven in the evening and it's just now that the real party begins.