My boon companion.

(14) Long Story Short..

The morning was blessed. A exquisite buffet breakfast, with several family members. Only eight stayed for the night, including Marta, Max and I. Maids were cleaning up any rubbish or broken ornaments, since seven in the morning.

After a long family discussion, I excused myself from the table. My phone was ringing.

"Morning Joseph," I smiled, for which reason I don't know why. I just felt really refreshed this morning, getting ready with Max.

"What time are you coming back?" He asked, with a glum tone to his voice.

"Around one, I need to pick up some groceries on my way back. Do you want anything?" I asked.

"No, just make sure you're back around one. Oh and just you please, I've got a surprise," he said with an expressionless tone.

'Mustn't be a good surprise then', I thought to myself.

"Okay, by boo.." he immediately hung up. Something didn't feel right, but I'm not going to let his blunt demeanour effect me. I checked the time and it had just turned past eleven o'clock.

"Marmae you wanna get ready with me," asked Marta who came from the dining table.

"Yeah, but do you have a dark brown eyebrow pencil?" I asked.

"Yeah, and I've got concealer I reckon for your skin tone. They placed the wrong packaging on the wrong toned bottle," she giggled and shook her head with a smile.

"Don't you miss Vladimir?" I asked.

"No, we're not as close as we're used to be. He's always working, especially because he's in the entertainment industry. I've gotten used to my loneliness, so I don't think much of him when he's gone anymore. To be honest, I think our affection for one another has decreased majorly, so I all I really miss are my kids," she spoke openly.

"Have you checked if he's been cheating on you?" I asked.

"Yeah, and he was so willing to let me check. I have his passwords on every media sight, and there's nothing," she sighed. "I've also showed up his workplace without letting him know, and still there's no trace of any affair," she shrugged.

"It's a little strange, but I guess people drift away," I looked down to the Violet carpet, in Marta's room.
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After applying simple makeup to myself, and taking my headscarf off, I undone the flat-twisted braids in my hair. Once I was done with my hair it looked popping- looking nice and coiled.

When everything was done I asked Max to take me home, as he was leaving to visit Elisabeth... well the twins. Max insisted to investigate the living conditions, to see if the twins were suitable in their new environment. He didn't want a nanny to raise his children, like Mr. Penn did with Elisabeth, he knew if anything he'd do it himself. I certainly agreed on his behalf, and assured him if it came to that matter, I'll be there for him and the kids 100%.

I know he regretted fucking a girl. She's twenty-two, but he was careless. Anything over twenty-one with a pretty face, boobs and a vagina was good enough for him... before he had his kids.
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"Thanks Maxie, I love you. Bye bye papa!" I stuck out my tongue before I ran into the apartment building, and he beeped his horn.

My plans were to pick up my purse, then to pick up a few food items. Also I was eager to find out this 'surprise', which didn't seem very... positive.

After unlocking my front door I turned into a statue, as if I looked at Medusa and blinked. My heart began to beat like Usain Bolt running the one hundred meter sprint. My demeanour went from zero to a hundred, whereas my emotion began to fire up like Mohammad Ali in a boxing ring.