INTERTWINED PERFECTION {Currently Editing}

CHAPTER 23

{Edited}

IVAN:

Mum was quiet today and I've got callies outburst to thank for that.

  As our pool side continued to get flooded with guest and Diana didn't show up I let my self believe she just might miss the event.

"Need a glass?" Bernice called from behind me. She arrived Mexico this morning.

"Yeah, thanks" I took the champaign she held

"Nice dress" I commented admiring her red gown.

"Thanks" she smiled "Excuse me" she went on to meet some other people and I was left alone.

I sat down on a stool under the shadow, from here nobody could see me.

I combed through the crowd with my eyes and saw Diana come in with her cousin...There goes nothing.
Steve held Diana in a more possessive way than a cousin probably should.
Not that I care but I've always had my suspicion about these two.

Diana's father was a way too busy man. He was a vet, as well as a rancher.
He had married his late wife Doris Chadwick out of convenience and not love.

He had a fairly large ranch then and if he married her he would have enough money to enlarge his ranch.

One year into their marriage Doris died during child birth and since Doris was an orphan all her money went to him.

Back to Diana. I saw mother hurry to her. She pulled Diana away from Steve and told her something.

Diana looked frantically around searching for something or someone...me.

She argued with Steve over something before he agreed. They walked together into the party looking more like cousins than when they first stepped in.

Steve was about six years my senior which makes him eight years older than Diana. Something was odd with this two.

Steve is black, from Kenya he said. Problem is I don't know of her family married to black.

I don't even know any one except her father.

I needed to eat so I helped myself to a plate of  barbeque. With my plate and champaign I was heading to my corner but my dear sister stopped me.

"Where have you been?"

"Around?

"Did you see Diana come in?"

"Yes?"

"Noticed her and her cousin, Anything weird?"

"A little" I needed to sit

"Open your eyes hermano!" She snapped.

"Callie, she said Steve is her cou---"

"You know any of her family that is black?" She hissed "Open your eyes Ivan!"

"Hmm!"

"I'll figure out what is wrong with those two"

"Thanks"

"Don't thank me now" she patted my back "Wait 'til it's over"

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RUFI:

Ivan woke me this morning and gave me his best wishes on my first day at work. I braced myself for an encounter with Ms stupid.

Maria made breakfast giving me more time to get ready. Ana-Blaire resumed with her Nana after school.

I got to the massive blue gate that housed 'the honey source'. Last I heard their product was already in 16African countries, three European countries, and one Asian country.