~Dollhouse~(ON HOLD)

Chapter Two

'When you walk away, is when we really play, you don't hear me when I say'

Scarlett's mother had just come back from grocery shopping. As her mother opens the door she runs over to go and help her.

"Here mum, pass me a few of those bags," she says. Her mother looks at her with a grateful smile.

"Thank you sweetie," Scarlett was glad she was in a good mood after that.

"Oh darling, I almost forgot, we are going to have your fathers boss and his family come over for dinner tonight, so keep everything clean and in place, okay? Also go tell your brother the news"

"Sure thing mum," Scarlett answers with a smile. She runs off to Damian's room hoping he was tame.

She knocks on his door softly. "Hello? Bro?"

"Yeah sis come on in," Damian calls out from inside his bedroom. Scarlett walks inside his surprisingly well kept bedroom.

"Mum told me to tell you that we have, uh, dads boss and his family coming over for dinner later so please stay tidy," Scarlett tells him.

"Sure thing Scar," Damian says with a grin. Scarlett smiles back and walks out of his room, closing the door.

Scarlett walks into her bedroom, deciding that she should chang her current clothing since there were important people coming here. She searches through her wardrobe until she finds a cute, light blue puffy dress and decides to put that on along with her white sandals.

She then walks over to her vanity and gets out her makeup. She doesn't put a lot, only foundation, mascara and pale pink lipgloss.

She stands in front of her mirror to assess herself on how she looks. Happy with her current attire, she turns around and walks out her room, to ask her mum if she'd like some help setting the table for the guests.

She look at the dining table which only had a table cloth and some cutlery. "Hey mum, how many people are there in dads boss's family?" Scarlett asks, not even bothering to ask her mother if she needed help, knowing she'd probably say yes anyway.

"Ah, well, there is dads boss, his wife, and I think he has two children that he is bringing along," she calls out from the kitchen.

Okay so it's a table for eight only, Scarlett thought to herself, thanking God and Jesus that it was only another four people to clean up after.

Scarlett didn't really enjoy having visitors. She didn't like socialising with them and she didn't like how fake her family acted towards them. It just seemed so wrong.

After Scarlett had finally set the table, she decided that it looked a bit plain and thought it needed something to brighten the table up a little. Then she had an idea. She ran into her backyard where beautiful, flawless red roses grew. She picked around six of those lovely flowers and walked back inside, filling up the vase with water and arranging the roses neatly in the vase.

She placed the vase right in the middle of the table and sighed to herself. "Perfect, now it looks a little more presentable..."

She then heard the jingling noise of keys.

"Welcome to the Rose residence," Scarlett heard her fathers voice say. The visitors must have arrived with her father. Now I have to go greet them, don't I? Just flipping perfect. Scarlett walked over to the front of her house to go see her dads boss's family.

"Oh and this is my daughter, Scarlett. Scarlett please greet yourself," her father said as he looked at her expectantly.

"Hello, my name is Scarlett, it is such a pleasure to meet you," she said as she slightly bowed her head and stuck out her hand. The quite chubby man grabbed her hand and shook it firmly.

"Pleasure to meet you as well young lady. As you know, I am your fathers boss Mr David Cornedi and this is my wife Anastasia," he said gesturing to the most grouchiest woman Scarlett has ever seen.

"Nice to meet you," Scarlett says, trying to be polite. The mans wife just scoffed and turned her head. Her husband seemed unfazed about that little moment.

"And those are my two wonderful children, Rebecca and Matthew," Mr Cornedi said, finishing the introduction.

Scarlett glanced towards the two Cornedi's and greeted them with a polite 'hello'. Rebecca, just like her mother, ignored her, where as Matthew shook her hand unwillingly, trying so hard to be polite. At least he's trying.

They all then walk into the dining area where all of the food has been set. Scarlett's father had just finished introducing her mother to his boss, when Damian finally decided to show up.

"Oh hello everyone!" He started of cheerfully. "I'm Frederick's oldest son, Damian, pleasure to meet you all." Mr Cornedi smiles politely at his little introduction, whereas the rest of his family rolled their eyes in ignorance.

Damian looked towards Scarlett, raising his eyebrows as if to say sarcastically, 'well aren't these people wonderful and friendly!' Scarlett held back a giggle at this and Damian smiled at her.

The dinner was full of Scarlett's father and his boss joking around and talking, while her mother tried to make small talk with Mrs Cornedi, while she ignored her and started batting her eyes at Scarlett's father. Scarlett did not want to converse with the Cornedi children because they seemed quite stuck up and she didn't want to communicate with stupid suck up snobs. She just continued to talk to her brother, who was sitting next to her while the other children glared at them.

After dinner the Cornedi family finally decided to leave, much to Scarlett's relief, even though it was only 7:00pm. She hated them. Especially the wife. She seemed awfully strange, and seemed to take quite a liking to her father which made her feel uncomfortable. She decided to brush this feeling off as she stood there with the rest of her family, at the front of the house, waving goodbye.

"Thank god they're gone. I hope they don't come back anytime soon," Damian whispered into Scarlett's ear. This made her giggle.

Scarlett then head off to her room to have time to herself after that exhausting event. She lay down on her bed and stared at her ceiling. Not realising how tired she was, she slowly drifted off to sleep without knowing it.