Chapter 4 - The First Meeting
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Eight years ago
"Baby! Let's go! Your father's waiting!" Kate's mother screamed, calling her.
She turned around one more time in front of the mirror, " Come, mom!" She shouted back, then she picked up her purse on the bed and went out of her room.
Downstairs, her mother, Diana, who was wearing an elegant V-neck blue dress, smiled upon seeing her daughter walking down the stairs.
"Oh baby, you look so beautiful!" her mother exclaimed and kissed her cheeks.
"Thanks, mom!" She smiles back. And together, they walked towards the front door. Upon opening it, her father, who was talking to someone on his phone, turned to them and was speechless as he watched the two most beautiful girls in his life.
"I'll call you back later" he ended the call and strode towards his wife and daughter. "My love," he kissed his wife on the lips, "my baby," and his daughter on her cheeks, "why are you both so stunning tonight?"
The two girls laugh at the only man in their lives. "Come on, husband, we're gonna be late," her mom said.
She giggled as she opened the backseat door.
They are going to attend the debut party of her best friend's sister, who is also the daughter of her father's business partner.
They've arrived at the residence of the celebrant, where the party is being held.
As soon as they got out of the car, her best friend's ear-piercing scream grabbed the attention of the guests arriving together with them.
"Beshie!" Her best friend Jenny hugs her, "you have finally arrived!" She lets her go and greets her parents. " Good evening Auntie Di, Uncle Frank,". She kisses them both.
"Hey, beautiful Jen!" Her mom greeted her. "Has the party started?"
Her best friend shook her head, "not yet". She took her best friend's hands, and they entered the hall.
The place was beautifully arranged. Pink was the themed color. Not that it wasn't expected. Bethany, Jenny's older sister, is the school idol and queen.
"Where's your sister?" Kate asked Jenny as they walked towards their assigned table for the night.
"Still not done with her make-up, you know my sister," Jenny said as she rolled her eyes.
Yes, they knew her better than anyone. Bethany always wanted to be the center of the attraction. The perfect girl. She would go out in make-up like she would attend a party every time. Her dress and clothes are all signatures, and she only wears them one time! The girl is the typical spoiled brat.
The light was deemed to indicate the start of the celebration, as the emcee introduces the debutant for the night.
The spotlight focused at the top of the grand stairs where she will descend. "And now, ladies and gentlemen, our debutant this evening, Miss Bethany Ann Parkitson!" and the crowd applauds as she stands there in her glittering pink gown that everyone guesses worth a few thousand bucks.
Bethany slowly descends the stairs, and you can see in her eyes that she loves the attention and would love to keep that long.
At the bottom of the stairs awaits her parents, Mr&Mrs Parkitson. Both parents were so proud of their first child.
The program moves on until it's time for the eighteen roses. Eighteen special men in the debutant's life are one by one dance with her starting off with her father, Dr. Eugene Parkitson, a renowned surgeon and the director of the number one hospital in the city.
Kate couldn't stop but imagine someday she will have a party like this when she turns eighteen. Her eyes keep turning around as she admires every little bit of detail in that hall.
Her attention turns to the emcee when he introduces the next roses, whom he introduces as the debutant's boyfriend.
She looked at her best friend's "boyfriend?", Kate asked her, but it looked like her best friend didn't know anything about it as she, too, was surprised.
"I had no idea she had one," Jenny answered Kate.
The two turned their eyes on the floor as a man wearing a black suit, white shirt underneath, and a red tie approached the smiling debutant.
Kate was struck by lightning, and her jaw dropped. She had just found the son of Adonis in the hall. Her eyes focused on this man who happened to be Bethany's boyfriend. She may be young, she thought, but at that moment, she knew. She had fallen in love with him.
Her eyes were full of envy, jealous of Bethany. "I wish I could dance with him just once," she told herself.
After the dance, Bethany pulled her boyfriend and gave him a full-mouth kiss to the surprise and utter shock of everyone.
Kate notices Bethany's group of friends yelling and cheers at the lovebirds' lip-sucking on the floor.
When the emcee called the next rose, Kate's eyes never leaving him. She stared at him, memorizing his features, his eyes, nose, lips, those kissable lips.
She saw him walking towards the side garden. She excused herself to her parents, and Jenny said she was going to the restroom for a minute.
But she took a different turn and followed him silently into the garden. He was on the phone talking to someone. She hides behind a post, secretly looking at him.
A tap on her shoulder so surprised her that she screamed, but before she could utter it, her mouth was covered. When she turned to her side, it was Jenny.
"Shh..hey," Jenny removed her hand from her mouth, "what are you doing here," she asked, "what are you looking at?" And took a peak, and her eyes grew wide and turned to her best friend, a smirk appeared on her face. "You are checking Ulysses!" her best friend teased her.
"Checking?!" Kate whispered, screamed, "I'm not checking on Ulysses" she paused, "his name is Ulysses," and she turned to the man again.
Jenny's shoulder bumped her, "yep! Ulysses Winston Hemsworth, he's 20 yrs old and taking up business management. Bethany and he have been together for two months now." She explains to her, "and FYI, he is practically the university's number one pick for 'your boyfriend material'"
"Wow!" Kate's eyes are drooling over him, "he is."
"And he's taken," Jenny concluded.
Kate whimpered, "ahh, why did you shatter my fantasy, Jenny!"
Jenny laughed at her best friend "what?! Not like you didn't hear the emcee's intro to him before," she eyed her.
Kate pouted at her best friend. "Well, it's not a crime to fantasize."
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Four years after
It's now Jenny's eighteenth birthday. "Is he there yet?" Kate asked the birthday girl, her best friend, for the tenth time. She was still at her home waiting for her parents to go to Parkitson's house.
"Kate!" Her best friend yelled at her from the other side of the line, "how would I know who has arrived here? I'm preparing for my party here in my room, okay? I still haven't put on my gown yet, and you repeatedly interrupted my makeover, how am I gonna finish on time?!" She complained to me.
Kate grinned and gave a small laugh, "sorry Jenny, I'm just so excited to see him again" she talked about Ulysses, the boyfriend of Jenny's older sister.
Jenny burst out laughing, "I know you're madly in love with him, besty, but remember, the man is still Bethany's boyfriend," she said, shattering her illusion.
"Jenny!" Kate shrieked, "don't destroy my fantasy, I've been counting the days waiting for this moment to see him again," she pouted.
Jenny continues to laugh, "alright, alright, I'm gonna hang up now, my make-up will not be completed unless we stop chatting"
Kate nodded, " Okay, see you later besty!"
Kate and her parents arrived at Parkitson's house after almost two hours. She quickly runs her eyes around, scanning the place, looking for him. She excused herself after she greeted Jenny's parents, to walk and roam around before the party started. But in truth, she just wanted to look for him.
She found him by the side of the garden, eating the lips of a woman. They were covered by leaves, well, mostly the woman, as if shielding her from unwanted attention.
"Ahhh..." She heard the woman moaning like she was asking for more.
Curiosity, like a cat, she tiptoed as she walked towards them. And d*mn, she shouldn't be surprised, but the woman Ulysses was kissing was none other than Bethany.
Angry, yes, that's what she felt. Even though she doesn't have the right to be, she hates her.
After a quick kiss on her lips, she saw them walk back inside the house, his hand on her lower back as he walked with her head a little bit higher, as if she was showing everyone who had the most perfect boyfriend there.
Hurt. That's what Kate felt at that moment, like something had betrayed her. She slowly walked towards the house, calming herself. It's alright, she keeps saying to herself, trying to convince her inner mind that she shouldn't feel like that because she has no right to.
Throughout the party, Kate didn't pay any attention to it. She nailed herself to the chair after she gave her best friend her greetings and gift.
As the program went for her best friend to dance the eighteen roses, she noticed Ulysses walking out of the room. She frowned and wondered. Never thinking of anything, she got up and walked away, following his path.
Her strides took her to the back of the house, where she saw the greenhouse that Jenny's mom personally attended. I looked around, turning my head to see where he had gone, as I walked towards the wooded house.
She saw him turning this way, right? She thought to herself. She tried to open the door, but it was locked. She walked around to see if there was an opening, like a window or something. As she reached the back of the greenhouse, she heard something. At first, it was a soft noise that she couldn't comprehend. Then it becomes louder as she gets to an opening that she found. A window was slightly opened. She peeked inside to see where the noise was coming from. The inside was dark, she focused her eyes and looked around to see who was in there. Then the noise becomes moans. She could hear a woman moaning, and she could also hear a man panting.
Her eyes went wide as she realized what was happening. Looks like someone has been making the greenhouse their private motel. She covered her mouth as she saw the two figures illuminated by the moonlight. Shock. Wow. She couldn't believe her eyes at what she saw. At who she saw. Laying on the wooden table is her best friend's sister, Bethany. But what shocked her more was the man on top and pounding on her, and it was not the person she was expecting to be. Yes, the man she is having s*x with was not Ulysses, but someone else.
Her eyes frowned as she recognized the man. It was one of her classmates. She thinks hard and remembers what Jenny told her when she introduced them to her one time. Anthony, the captain of the basketball team.
"Don't stop, Tony!" She heard Bethany's voice, "faster! Harder!" She screamed, begging for him to do her.
The man, who she now recognized as Tony, grabbed Bethany's hands and put them above her head, "I will baby! I will f*ck you faster and harder!" He then grabbed her legs and spread them wider as he thrust harder inside of her.
Kate could no longer stand and watched that she turned around to walk away from that place. But as soon as she does, her face hits a solid block. "Aw!" She wanted to scream but managed to hold her voice. As she was rubbing her face, she looked up to see what or who she had hit. It was Ulysses.
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