Surprisingly Royal

👸Chapter 16: Making up

Chapter dedicated to Poetic-reviver

I unlock the door of my house and to my surprise I find Emily sitting with my mum at the living room.

"What are you doing here?"I ask without thinking immediately I walk inside

She stands on her feet
"I mean how come you are here."I say less harshly

"I came to talk to you."she answers.

"Why don't you drop these in your room and join us here.''mum suggests

"Okay..I will be right back "I say moving to my room.

When I walk into my room I drop the shopping bag on the bed,remove my boots and jacket then I put on slippers.

I wonder why she is here.
But its a good thing tho I needed to talk to her anyways.

I move to the sitting room after drinking something from the kitchen.

"I will leave you two here to sort things out then."mum says excusing herself

I nod and i sit on the opposite couch from where Emily is sitting.

We sit there awkwardly as if we are both contemplating on what to say next.

She is the one to speak up first
And I'm grateful since I didnt know how to start the conversation.

" as I said earlier. I came to talk to you. When I came earlier you weren't here so I decide to talk to your mum about everything whiles waiting for you."she says

"Ok....sorry you had to wait. I was out with some friends."I say

"Don't worry."

"I wanted to apologize for what happened last time..I should have looked at things from your prospective. I was so concerned with what had happened to my sister to the extent that i pushed you away from me."

I just keep quiet not wanting to say anything.
She doesnt know how she is making me feel right now with what she is saying.

I feel like a heavy weight has been removed from my shoulders. I never thought that she would leave her house to wait for me in mine just to apologize.

"When you looked back that day after i told you to leave my house.
I felt very miserable with what I did
I simply destroyed our relationship without even giving it a chance. I was so concerned about what Father said to me about our friendship and Melanie's arranged marriage . I didn't want to cause any further problem for Melanie.
I'm so sorry Ciara. I shouldn't have said all those words to you
You were simply trying to help and i misunderstood everything just like my parents."she says on the verge of crying.

I stand up from my couch and sit closer to her
"Hey Em it's okay. It's not your fault all this happened.I understand why you did that.. It's not easy when you think you are the cause of the pain someone dear to you is facing"I say holding her hand.

"You mean so much to me Ciara..I shouldn't have been such a jerk to you."

"It's alright I'm not mad at you....anyways How are things going back there."

"Well.....Melanie declined the marriage proposal infront of the whole family yesterday. And she made it known to everyone present there what had recently happened and that she won't allow anyone even our parents to force her into marrying  someone she barely knows."

"That's so brave of her to do that. Are your parents cool with that? "

"My Father wasn't but Melanie stood to her words and kept on refusing to marry that boy. Eventually my dad gave up since he didnt want his reputation to be ruined any further. But he strictly forbid her from talking or meeting Samuel."

"Can't your father just understand that those two are made for each other and will be happy together. Why is he trying to ruin things for the both of them."

"Dad is the most difficult person I've ever known in my life. He doesn't agree to things he is against so easily. He won't be able to keep those two apart anyways because now my sister is fed up with his disaprovals. She meets Samuel now and then when our parents aren't around."

"Where did she gather such enough courage from?"i say slightly laughing. Because the Melanie i know is too calm and sweet to go against her father

"Well....She said she overheard our conversation last time and well she felt it wasn't right for the both of us to be kept from what we want. So we hatched a plan to play along with Fathers decision till the time all our family members are gathered in order to get our wishes approved."

"Nice......Do your parents even know you are here?"

"I'm sure by now they do but that won't change anything trust me.I've been waiting so long for an apportunity to come here today  and i won't let anything ruin this moment."she says smiling warmly at me. I squeeze her hand a bit and smile back

"I've really missed you Emily. How I wished that we had spent this whole day together for the preparation towards the ball."

"I've missed you more. I also wished for the same thing but I was too scared to come to you to apologize. I was scared you would push me out of your house just like i did."

"You should have known I would certainly not do such a thing. I will always hear you out before I decide to throw you out my house. You need to remember this alright. How come you are even here then?"

"Well...Melanie literally locked me out of the house. She talked me into at least trying to talk you in order to set things right but well when i was hesitating, she tricked me into walking out of the house and i had no choice than to come here.

"I'm thankful to her that she did this. If she hadnt, I'm not sure i wouldn't be spending this evening with you right close to me,If our friendship depended on your chicken attitude" I say jokingly

"Yeah me too... Lets just stop discussing about this and simply focus on the ball.
Have i told you how gorgeous your hair and nails look?I'm totally jealous with your new look"

"Thanks baby. I was almost getting impatient to hear your compliments about how I'm looking today. anyways what is this big bag doing in my sitting area."

"Well....your mum asked me to go get my outfit for this evening so that we would dress up together.
And you can't even imagine what I brought for the both of us to use for the ball.only if you are okay with me dressing here of course."she says excitedly

"Why of course. I would really need extra hands in fixing me for the ball. I'm a mess I tell you.....now I'm anxious about this ball something."

"Oh come on there is no need to worry when I'm here."

"If you say so."

We spend the next twenty minutes talking about things going on.

And i tell her about Matilda and Carlos
She finds everything i do with Carlos soo sentimental and I'm not even surprise about her reaction to all this drama going on. She has always been the romantic and Sentimental one in our friendship

"Dinner is ready girls."we hear mum shout from the kitchen

I take Emily's bag to my room and join both of them in the kitchen.

¤¤¤¤

Thanks for reading.

Till next time

Beryl ☺
iamnanaserwaa8