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Chapter 8 - February

I hadn't expected jumping of the face of the earth socially to be easy but i sure as hell didn't expect all the buzzing of my phone especially recently.

As much as I'd enjoyed the past month here I had to dive back into reality because society had decided I'd had enough time to grieve and the fact that my new Louis Vuitton shoe line had just come out had sky rocketed my popularity making living under the radar particularly difficult.

Every Saturday our family went out to eat to help ease us all into the process of getting to know one another even if it was just taking a walk or showing me some of their memories together.

I sighed as I took another bite of my pizza. We had just gone out last night and something chilled like pizza seemed like a good idea tonight. It was just Jared, Diana, Lilliana and I in the house because my Dad had taken my stepmother on a date and to be honest we were all too lazy to do any real cooking.

Jared and I had gone out a few times since a couple weeks ago when we went out for the first time. I was actually beginning to enjoy his company and his friends. I felt like I was making friends I didn't have to watch my back for. It had taken me so long to make true honest friends who didn't just want to use me in New York and i definitely appreciated them but it was so much easier here and that was a feeling i cherished.

I had been texting my NY friends a lot as they made a habit of checking up on me. No one except Jennifer and my  PA Gwen know where I am. Well that's if you don't count the people I've met in this town.

It felt so good to not be known as some bog celebrity and to just chill or turn up like normal people my age. Of course all that was much too good to be true and i knew eventually my bubble had to burst I just never expected it to be this soon.

When I received the call this morning from Jennifer telling me all the information id been holding out on receiving and letting her handle for the past few days. My head felt like it was going to explode as she bombarded me with information only pausing to turn the page in her planner.
She gave me information on how the business was holding up and some events I needed to do to boost my career she also wanted to do a relisting of my assets and I had to sign the deeds to my new properties and so would Diana.
It felt like so much work that as i continued to listen the urge to dig myself into a hole and never leave kept growing.

My mom had never completely run her business and I now understood why. She mainly just OKed things and compiled new designs every once in a while, but the business could function well enough with Liz her best friend and the company's CEO running things only problem was that only the company's owner held the authority to okay anything and Diana doesn't even know she owns it. Which left me with a huge problem now.

The need to release a new design is imperative. I mean the death of a young and rising 49 year old (Yes my mother was 11 years old than my Dad) doesn't do well for business to release the last work she created would get the business going in the right way before we decide who will take over designs and what will happen next.

I groaned causing Lilly to burst into a fit of hysteria as I'd been making these frustrated noises for the good part of an hour.

The worst part is that wasn't all. Besides everything with my career and all the things my moms death had left in its wake there was also the charity unveiling which had to be done before my Mom's death becomes 'irrelevant'. Her words not mine.

After our hour and a half long conversation Jennifer, the godsend she is told me she was sending a PA down here to help me stay organised.

When I asked Jennifer what happened to my year long she just laughed and dropped the phone. I figure when my mom made her request she didn't know all this crazy that I just had to do.

I walked over to Lilly and buried my head in her stomach causing her to giggle and squirm before she finally made it out and forced me to chase her around the house. By the time i got back to the couch and my delicious slice of pizza o was breathless and not shocked to see that the couple had disappeared to unknown dark corners. I finished the pizza with Lilly and we left upstairs even though Lilliana's room was downstairs next to my parents. I was holding her hand as i opened the door to Diana's room to just have a normal conversation. I was ready to tell her everything.

I heard bumps and scrambles as I opened the door and shrieked when i finally realized what could possibly be happening. I quickly shut the door before Lilly could peek.

"Come in." I heard Diana say as though i wasn't going to be scarred for life by the thought of them getting while my room was right next door.

She gave me an innocent look as Jared blushed. O raised my brows at her suggestively and gave Jared a side eye and before I knew it the three of us were suffering from the same hysteria Lilly had been earlier.