Someone Somewhere Is Made For You

#10 He is my soulmate

Ella.

"You are late Ella; did you forget what day it is?" Uncle Jose asked me as soon as I reached and I looked at him curiously.

He sighed.

"We have important guests today," He reminded me.

Oh right! One of Mama's business partners is coming home today!

I hopped inside while Uncle Jose closed the door for me.

"Let's go." I said.

As soon as we reached home, my maid was waiting for me, looking anxious.

"You are finally here!" She exclaimed as soon as she spotted me. "Come on, quick... the guests are on their way," She urged me.

"Ha...so we still got some time-" I was cut off as she dragged me inside.

"Hey! What's going on!?" I looked around as our stylist was inside.

"Your Mama asked me to get you ready," she said. "We don't have a lot of time, come on," She told me at my bewildered look.

So five minutes later, I was sitting in front of the mirror, deep in thought while she was doing my hair.

Something is really fishy here... um...Mama wouldn't ask them to do this without any reason.

Oh my God! What if she's trying to set me up with her business partner!

No...There's no way she will go as far as setting guys who could be as old as my own father...

I let out a sigh of relief.

I know business is important to mama, but she won't use me as a pawn.

"Here...You are ready," The stylist told me. "You look beautiful dear. I have only used makeup to sharpen your natural beauty, the makeup is not obvious at all." she said proudly and I turned back to the mirror.

She was right, she has just made it look like my natural style and with my dress, I looked like a sophisticated and elegant lady.

I thanked her and by the time she left, my maid came back to the room.

"Ella, your Mama is here with the guests," she informed me.

So I was ushered to greet the guests.

I stilled on my way down as I saw Uncle George with my Mama coming to the hall. He was both my Mama and Dad's friend during the good old days. It was more than a decade since I last saw him.

"Uncle George!"

I am happy to see him.

"Whoa! Ella, you have grown up to be a young beautiful woman!" He smiled genuinely.

I smiled back and descended the remaining steps.

"Hi, Ella." I heard the other voice and looked up just in time to see the handsome young man smiling at me. "It's nice to meet you after all these time," he said.

I stared at him.

Whoa! Surely it's not...

Hey... there's no way he is...

"Julian..." I said slowly and his smile widened.

"You still remember me!" he said.

The last time I saw him was when we were both in the elementary school at US. He was so skinny and small then.

"You...err...grew up," I said the first thing that came to my mind.

"Ella!" My Mama exclaimed.

"Uh... What I meant is-" I stopped as Julian chuckled.