Falling For Him

9. Meeting and Greeting.

"This goes right here." Alan said as he placed the decoration on the top of the long table which was kept at the corner. "All set." We both stood back and admired the efforts we had made.

The whole house was beautifully decorated by Alan, me and some of the men that his dad hired for decorating the house.

"It's 6:30. The guests will be coming in half an hour. Lets get ready." He checked the time on his wrist watch and hooled his hand with mine. We both walked up to his room and saw our dresses already kept on his huge king sized bed.

I took hold of my beautiful black dress and entered the bathroom to change. Once I wore it, I got out and saw Alan bottoning his tuxedo. "Woah woah." He smiled at me. "Wheres my purse." I started looking for my purse because my makeup kit was kept in it and i had very little time to do my make and do my hair.

"Right here." He handed me the purse which was kept on the sofa near the tv.

"Thanx." I took it from his hand and rumaged through it.

Once I had done my make up I curled my hair from the tips and let it fall down my shoulder. I took a last glance at the mirror and smiled. "Perfect."

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"Eva! Everyone is here." Alan knocked on the door. I had kicked him out of the room because he was annoying me soo much and couldn't let me curl my hair. He kept on going through my things and kept on telling me to try this on.

"Okayy!" I slide my feet in the heels that was burried in Alan's closet. I forgot to bring my matching heels but than I remembered that I had left my black heel in Alan's room long long time ago. I just wished it to fit perfectly and it unexpectedly did.

I opened the door and revealed Alan who was leaning on the wall beside. "Lets goo!" He took my hand and dragged me downstairs. "Calm down Alan! Im in heels." I told him. "Sorry." He slowed down and the pain in my feet decreased.

Once we were downstairs everyone was already there. The place was full of people who were chatting and laughing around.

A group of teenage girls and boys caught my attention. They waved at me and approached me. "Eva! Its been soo long." Carlos came towards me and hugged me. "Yeah."

"Hey!" Marie hugged me afterwards. A huge grin spreaded on her face. "How are you?" The hug was bone crushing.

"Hey. I'm cool. You?" I smiled back at her. "Im good."

"If it isn't Eva Summers." A familiar voice spoke from behind me. I twisted my head back and my grin widened as soon as Aunt Karlee's face came in sigh. "Heyyy." I hugged her. "How are you, hunny?" She asked.

Aunt Karlee is Alan's mother's sister. He calls her aunt karlee and she told me call her that too. She's super cool and awesome. Her husband, Smith, stood beside him along with her two twin daughters.

"Hello." Her daughter, Claire stretched her hand for me to shake. "Hey Claire." I bent down to the 4 year old girls level and smiled. "Hi." Her other twin, Niana greeted afterwards. "Hi Niana."  I smiled.

"Okay now! I need to take her away." Alan clapped his hand to get the group's attention when I stood up and he took me by my hand and started to walk away from them. "Bye guys. See you around." I yelled at them.

"Alan that was rude." I scolded him for dragging me away while we were greeting each other. "There are more people you need to meet."

We kept on walking until we reached the sofa where an old woman was seated. "Who's his?" I asked him. "Grandma." He said.

I've never gotten a chance to meet his grandmother. Alan's family usually visit her place on special ocassions. Only once she came here but unfortulately I wasn't here, cuz it was chrismas and i was at my uncle's place so I had no chance go meet her.

"Oh."

I and Alan approached her. "Grandma." Alan called out. Her head snapped towards us, the wide smile was still plastered on her face as she examined me. "You remember the girl i told you about?" He asked her as he sat down beside her and pulled me down beside him. "Oh yes. She was.. um.. Elle." She said making me laugh.

"Er.. sorry she has bad memory. She old ya know." Alan whispered to me and I nodded. "No grandma. Not Elle. Shes Eva." He told her.

"Oh yess. Now i remember. Sorry sorry." Shes soo sweet.

"Here she is." Alan leaned back, unblocking me and her grandmother smiled.

"Ohh.. hello dear." She stretched her hend. His family members are just soo sweet.

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I dropped down my heavy body on Alan's bed and threw the heels off my feet. "My feet hurts!" I groaned.

"Same here." He took off the suit and shoes. And plopped down beside me on the bed. The party wasn't over yet. Everybody were busy eating and i and Alan weren't feeling hungry at all so we came up here and decided to rest a bit.

A knock on the door intrupted us. Alan got up and opened the door to reveal his mom. "You guys sure you're not hungry? Because i don't think the guests will leave any food for you." She chuckled. "Nope mom. I'm not hungry."

Then they both turned towards me, waiting for my answer. "Not hungry at all." His mom smiled and left with an 'okay'.

Alan came back to the bed and plopped down. I took my phone from the side table. I left it here before so i decided to check it. I had a message from liam.

Liam: At what time will you be back? I'm going at fred's dinner is not ready if you feel hungry order something.

I replied with a k and rolled over to the other side.

Another knock intrupted us.Alan groaned and stood up. He opened the door and revealed a smiling Carlos.

"What do you want, bro?" Alan annoyingly asked. "I wasnt hungry and was bored too." He pushed past Alan and entered the room.

Marie and Sara, Alan's other cousin, entered the room behind Carlos. They all took a seat on the sofa and got comfortable.

"Wheres liam?" Carlos asked. Liak and Carlos are good friends. They usually chat too. "He has some work." I shrugged.

We talked a but more before i felt my phone vibrate. "Excuse me." I said to Carlos and took out my phone. I got a messave from an unknown number

Hey bestie. Its me, Brianna.

My eyes narrowed together in confusion. Why the hell is she messaging me? These past days brianna is being extremely nice to me. Like last time, when i was getting up to get a water bottle from the canteen she told to sit back and ordered her minion to bring me the bottle. She is doing me stupid favours like bringing me movie tickets -which i totally reject- and asking me if we could have lunch somewhere other than school.

Hey.

I answered back, not trying to be rude. I know its some sort of her plan. She has never been this nice towards me and i think this attitde is totally fake.

You free on saturday?

She asked.

No.

I replied. I clearly remember that i have to be with Ari the whole day. Not like i would say yes to brianna at any cause.

Oh, that's bad. I was thinking for a GTG.

Sorrry, I'm busy

No problem. Any other time :)

She is really hard to understand sometimes. But still i dont get why-. Two fingers snapped i front of me and brought me back to the present.

I looked up at carlos. "What?" I asked. "You zooned out. I asked you something."

"What?" I repeated. He groaned before speaking. "How's school?"

Ugh. School.