I'm yours

Part 4

„What in the world…?“ Beth stared at the mail she got from the bank. It said that with the 1st of December, 3 billion dollars were transferred to her bill. She decided to check it. After logging on her BNY Mellon account, Beth still couldn’t believe it. How? Why? It sure was a shock. Where from? “What the actual fuck?”

“No, madam, we certainly did not make a mistake.” A lady that worked at the financial department was reassuring Beth, who had to hear it with her ears, that those 3 billion dollars were on her bill, safe and sound. “Well, then will you care to explain from where in the world did that transferred?”, “Wasn’t it written in the mail?”, “If it was, I wouldn’t be here bothering you.” Beth was slightly losing her nerves to talk with that woman. “God damn it, Mike.” Claire, if Beth read the name right on the lady’s shirt, murmured the words and rolled her eyes, while Beth ‘patiently’ waited for her to continue. “Let’s start from the beginning. Since this bank was created, many people entrusted their hard-made money to us. In the past 65 years, not a single robbery escaped through those doors. We keep the money with a…” Beth wanted to explode. Maybe, if the young blonde in the short skirt in front of her didn’t say those words with an obvious boredom, almost sighing, while chewing gum with opened mouth, just maybe, she would have a little bit of understanding for the creature. She was probably hired with legs high in the air. “Excuse me.” Beth stopped her in the mid-talk. “I’m sorry for interruption, but can we please skip to the ‘main’ part? Please.” The blonde gave her a sour smile as she rolled her hair between her fingers. “Of course.” Now she had to drink water and cough up a little. ‘Calm the fuck down, Beth. You can do this, calm down.’ Beth repeated in herself while deeply breathing. “Anyway, on 1st December 2011, the bank got the report to disable the account of the Brant family because they tragically died in an accident. But before any of that happened, they declared from the bank that the money gets transferred to yours after the last of them dies, exactly 2 years after the time of death. And so, 3 billion dollars got to your account. You can do absolutely everything you want to with them. Congratulations.” The blonde finished with a heavy sigh.

“In short, you are rich.”, “Yes.”, “I mean, richer than you were before.”, “Yes.”, “You can spend it on everything you want.”, “No.”, “Why?”, “Because.”, “Because why?”, “Because fuck you.”, “Aw, Beth, come on, buy me a building.” Deb bothered Beth the whole time after she found out the news. “Debbie, you must not tell anyone of this, got it?” Beth told her in a death-serious tone. Well, that was her daily tone, but this one was more of a serious one. “Sure thing. If you buy me a building.”, “You do not need a whole building for yourself.”, “You know my name, not my story.”, “Anyway, go to your class. We’ll meet at the lunch.”

“Well, hello Elizabeth.” Emily and Amy greeted Beth in unison and sat down the table together with Deb and Beth. “You fucking told them.” Beth said to Deb after putting her sandwich down, right before biting it. “No, I didn’t, I swear.” Beth looked from Deb to Amy and to Emily, who gave her wide smiles. “I don’t know what are you two talking about, but we have a favor to ask you.” Emily said as they sat down. “No.”, “But you didn’t even heard it yet.”, “I’m not so sure I want to.”, “You’re so stubborn.”, “I told you so.” Deb replied to Amy, with the same expression as her sentence. “We’ll take serious measures until you say yes.” Emily said with a vicious grin, “You won’t.”, “We will. Now, listen to us. As you know, or you should know, our little Amy here celebrates her 18th birthday on this Saturday.” Emily cheerfully said and waited for Beth to reply. “Yeah, and?” Beth said with the mouthful, looking at all three of them. “Consider this as an invitation. We won’t take no as an answer. I’m not done yet.” Em said before Beth could protest. “The party is in the Seer’s. You know where’s that, right?” When Beth nodded her head, she continued. “We know you don’t like loud music or crowd places or people at all, but this is an 18th birthday. You remember yours, right?”, “Mhm.”, “Great. Now, what do you say?” Em asked with a smile. Beth swallowed the piece of a sandwich and clearly said ‘no’. After Em twitched her brow, she cleared her throat and shouted over the dining room. “Hey, Dean!” The boy who sat on the next part of the room with a group of friends looked over at Emily. “Elizabeth said she likes you!” Em shouted once again, pointing her finger at Beth. For a moment, everyone went quiet when someone started with a ‘ooh’ shouts. Dean, the boy who was Em’s (un)lucky random choice widened his eyes and slowly turned to his friends who were now laughing at him and tapping his back. While the whole school went crazy, Beth calmly ate her sandwich, not minding the noise around. “U-uhm, Em… wasn’t that a little too much?” Deb said insecurely, looking from Beth to her. “Beth, I can set you up a date if we go on like this. All you have to say is yes.”, “You really did it, huh?” Beth muttered with a soft smile. “I told you we’ll take serious measures until you say yes.”, “What are you going to do next?” Beth curiously asked. “Maybe I’ll convince him it’s some serious thing you’re into.”, “You know I’ll say no to the end, right?”, “Beth! Why? Why can’t you come?” Emily was persistent. “Because it’s the anniversary of my parents’ death.”

 Emily tightly shut her eyes while Amy’s jaw opened a little. “Oh, my God, Beth, I’m so sorry, I didn’t know…” Emily stopped when Beth started giggling. “Oh my fucking God, I was joking. Your faces were priceless.” Beth said while smiling and got a punch in the ribs from Emily. “God fucking damnit, I thought you were serious, Jesus Christ.” She mumbled while shaking her head. “Anyway, I’ll think about it.” Beth said while standing up from the table. “You will?”, “Yup. Now, if you’ll excuse me.” She said and went to her next class.
In the hallway, before she went in, Beth saw that Dean boy, walking through the hall while reading through some papers in his hands. Black hair, black shirt, it was him. Beth got to him and put a hand on his shoulder, but he didn’t even flinch, just kept moving.”Don’t worry, she wasn’t serious. I don’t like you.” She said with a somehow comforting voice. A second after she said that, it rang and she ran into the classroom, leaving Dean alone again.
‘Okay, that boy is well-built. It felt like he wore pads on his shoulder or something.’

“What about this one?”, “No, it’s too bright.”, “It won’t be in the club.”, “No. Next.”
Emily, Amy and Debbie together with Beth were looking clothes for the party that Beth supposed to wear.  To everyone’s surprise, Beth agreed to come, but only because she probably won’t see them again. And it’s been a long time since she got out. She also had time to finish her work.
Now, the worst part of that for Beth was shopping. She absolutely hated it. All that walking, trying clothes on only to buy a single piece of cloth that she doesn’t like. With parties is worse because you get to wear that only once. Appropriate for a party. For school? Not so much.
“Well, since you have pretty big breasts, I’d suggest you tight strapless shirt.” Emily said to Beth while showing her 3 different shirts, just as she described. “Why strapless and tight?”, “Tight because it shows your good figure, like your flat stomach and waist. Strapless because it will really look good on you.”, “You know I don’t care about that.” Beth pointed out her simple style of wearing. “I know, I know, but this is special occasion and you can look special at least once a year.”, “…Okay… Then why does it have to be bright?”, “Here we go again.” Em dramatically said and took a deep breath. “I want it to be in dark colors.”, “No, not this time. After we find you that, heels are next.”, “No. Anything but heels, please. Spare me at least of that.” Beth begged girls, but it didn’t work.

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After Beth put her black jeans, violet strapless shirt with a bow around it and a black glittery heel with platform on, she put on a little bit of make-up and a hairspray on her now curled hair. ‘I’m starting to think that it goes in a completely different order, but whatever.’ Finally, she sprayed her rarely used perfume, put on a jacket and left the apartment.
The girls said they’d wait for her near the Seer’s, she forgot the name of the place. But it’s not that it mattered because they couldn’t be unnoticed even if Beyoncé stood next to them.
“Beth, finally!” Debbie shouted, even Beth had 20 feet to reach them. As she got closer, she was about to apologize for ‘being late’, but Emily’s talking stopped her. “I create miracles.” With those words Beth’s brow twitched on her own. “I don’t look that different…” Beth murmured. “And what’s with you? Aren’t you guys cold?” she asked while looking at their skirts. And while looking at their outfits, she saw that there were 3 or 4 more girls that she didn’t know. But the whole night is ahead of them. “Since we’re all here, let’s go.” Amy said and led the group to the well-known place.