MARRY ME NOW

Oh my. I shouldn’t have come to this party. There were so many eyes staring in our direction.

I looked down unable to look at the people. I snapped my head up when I heard a clash of broken glass.

The broken glass was next to Mr Kings, maybe he had mistakingly dropped it. His eyes were right at me, I looked down again. “Let’s go in.” I heard Jake’s voice, really close to my ear.

I nodded and we walked in. He was going towards where Mr Kings was. Oh god, what’s he going to do there? They are friends remember?

I sighed walking along with him, we soon reach there and we untangled our hands. “Jake! My man!” A dude in a grey suit said, he hugged Jake patting his back.

“Who is the beautiful lady?” Another guy with a dark red suit asked him. “Ah, this is Tessa, my girlfriend,” Jake said making me gasp.

Hitting him, I said. “No, I’m, not.”

“… yet,” Jake said, I noticed who he was looking at. Mr Kings. His eyes were solely on Mr Kings when he said that.

What game was he playing?

Seriously, call him by his name, not Mr Kings, you can call him that when you’re at work! My subconsciousness screamed at me. Yeah… His name is Austin.

Mr Kings had a scowl on his face. He took another glass of wine and took a sip from it. Wasn’t he going to say hello to his friends? suddenly stretch his hand to me. “Let’s go dance.” He said. I looked at him nervously. I don’t know how to dance this type of dance. The dude in the grey suit chuckled. “Why? You’re scared to dance?” I couldn’t help to notice his adorable dimples. He was good-looking the four guys in front of me are good-looking.

The one in a white suit, Jake.

The one in the black suit, Mr Ki- Austin.

The one in a grey suit still doesn’t know his name.

The one in a dark red suit still doesn’t know his name.

They all seem to have known each other for a very long time, they might be good friends. Four good-looking friends… But Austin was the most good-looking…

Shut up!

“N-no, I’m not.” Why did I stutter?

“You seem scared.” The one in the dark red suit said, a little smile tugging my lip,

“No, I’m not,” I said and I heard Austin snort.

I shifted my eyes to look at me, he was looking at me while sipping from his wine. I looked away from him.

I took Jake’s hand and he led me to the dance floor, well not before I noticed Austin tensed.

Seriously, what is with me and noticing Austin?

Okay, I should have told them I was scared of dancing because I don’t know anything about this dance. I looked at the couples in each other’s hands, dancing around the dancing floor.

“Relax, it’s gonna be fun.” I heard Jake say. Bringing me closer to him, he placed his hand over my waist. Our hands locked.

I unconsciously followed his moves. Wow, I’m not that bad. We danced for a couple of minutes, it felt like I was floating in the sky.

Just when we were done we parted. “I’d go get something to drink.” He said and I nodded my head.

“Oh, Tessa! I thought you weren’t coming!” I heard Yvonne say playfully.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

I turned around to see her, she wore a red short gown, her lips painted red, and her fingernails also painted red. To be truthful, she would have looked really good if the gown she was wearing wasn’t that short.

“I wasn’t, Jake suddenly showed up at my house,” I told her.

“Oh okay, how is the party so far?” She asked.

“It is okay,” I replied.

I smiled at her and she smiled back. I turned my head and noticed Austin coming towards where we were.

Yvonne beamed, she stretched out her hand for him to hold, he got to where we were, and he stretched out towards me. Awkward.

I thought he was going to ask Yvonne for a dance. She would have been so happy. I looked at the hand stretched towards me then at Yvonne.

“May I have this dance?” He finally asked. I blushed. Why did he suddenly want to dance with me? Maybe if I dance with him, he’d consider me not going with him on that business travel. I hate to travel. Maybe he would listen to my pleas not to go

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Third Person’s POV

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Jake led Tessa to the dance floor, and a minute later they started dancing. Austin scowled at both of them, for some reason he felt jealous, his jaw clenched and unclenched.

“I wonder why Austin is jealous.” His friend in the grey suit, Dave said to his other friend in a dark red suit, Carson.

“Ye, h, I wonder why. ” Carson said in a smirking teasing manner, he looked at Austin.

“Why are you like this Austin?” He asked, the smirk never leaving his face. Austin ignored them and continued drinking from his wine. The four guys knew each other since kindergarten.

Austin, Jake, Dave, and Carson.

They were inseparable, sure they fight all the time but they still stocked together. They knew each other so well. “Crushing on your friend’s girlfriend isn’t a good thing, ma,” Dave said shaking his head.

Austin snorted at the word ‘girlfriend’ she wasn’t his girlfriend. “So… Jake told me he was going to ask her out,” Carson said to Dave.

It was a lie but he wanted to get a reaction from Austin. “Yeah, something about asking her to be his girlfriend.”

That didn’t faze Austin.

“I mean, she’s going to spend the night with Jake tonight… In his hotel room, I’m sure she’ll fall for him just by seeing him naked.” Said Dave.

“Shut up!” Austin snapped.

They smirked. “Why? We weren’t talking about you, oh, now I get, you like her don’t you?” Carson said the obvious.

Dave was busy looking at Jake and Tessa, she doesn’t seem to like him that way. Jake excused himself from her.

“You might want to go dance with, take the spot,” Dave said to Austin.

Austin didn’t answer him. “I’m sure if Jake comes back he’d take her to his-”

Austin gave him an annoyed look. But he wanted to dance with her, he wanted to feel her close to his body. He wasn’t the shy type. He’s asked so many ladies out in the past.

But he wasn’t going to ask her out… He wanted to dance with her. He walked towards where she was. As always, he had everyone’s attention.

Reaching her he stretched his hand for her, ignoring her friend’s hand stretched towards him.

She hesitated before taking his hand, her cheeks tainted pink.

Yvonne stared at the two of them. Her eyes suddenly held hatred for her friend Tessa.

She couldn’t stand to see them so close so she practically ran away. She went into the other room of the party, where the bar was.

She slowly walked to a sit, dropping herself on it, and she cried. She hated Tessa, so much.

First, t she got Jake and now she’s after Austin.

Austin seems to like her though… She’d do anything to make him hate her.

She’d still have to pretend to be her friend to make this work.

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