writing camp+ A Fake marriage

Chapter: 1 No, one’s POV SAMUAL CARTER, A 27 year old successful businessman was pacing anxiously in his room. How it can ever happen? It just can’t happen? He was frustrated. He was enraged no furious. For once in his life, he doesn’t know what to do now. His mother Rosa Carter was already crying incessantly and inconsolably in her room. His father Aidan Carter was holding his head with both hands after a long argument with his friend & business partner Liam Forte. Sam was supposed to get married today with Mr. Liam Forte’s daughter ‘Eric’, though it is not a love marriage, but an arranged one, it’s more like a business proposal for Sam (& he loves business proposal) & when Mr. Liam Forte announced to his father that Eric eloped, it was like a big blow for Sam. How it can happen? How anyone can reject him? a He had everything, he was handsome, he was rich, not rich he was one of the richest businessman in the city, the CEO for topmost business empires at a young age & claimed as the most eligible bachelor by all those magazines – he was a complete package in all. Then how this could happen to him? It was not like he had loved Eric, so he actually did not at all care. She was eloping with someone whoever, but it was his pride that has been crushed. His all business associate have started gathering together, all the media was there to cover this well-hyped wedding of the most eligible bachelor, now his reputation and his family’s reputation was at stake. He doesn’t want to become a laughing stock for whole town. He doesn’t want tomorrow’s headlines mentioning him & his family for all wrong reasons. He glanced at his mother & then his father. Both were looking helpless & hopeless & in lots of pain. No, he can’t let his family be in such pain. With a decisive look in his eyes, he called his best friend & his secretary, Ethan. “Hello! Ethan, where are you?” He asked impatiently. “Well I am just on my way to the venue. Why? Missing me already?” Ethan was laughing. “Oh cut the crap Ethan. I want you to get a bride for me within an hour. Any decent looking girl will do.” He ordered him in a single breath. “What the hell? Why you need a bride when you are getting married today? Don’t tell me you two have fought & you decided to ditch her. You know you can’t do that Sam.” Ethan was having a lot of question, but Sam can’t answer all of them. He cut in “Eric ELOPED. You hear me. She eloped” he heard a screeching sound of a car & he cursed under his breaths. “Now move your lazy ass & get me a bride NOW.” “What the f**k” Ethan mumbled. Sandra, 24 years aspirant actress was walking on a busy road. Her eyes were blank. She looked lost. It was a chilly winter evening. She was walking for too long to remember. Her feet felt numb. But she can’t feel the pain. The wind was chilly but she can’t feel the coldness (even if she was not wearing her coat & was only in a plain shirt & jeans) actually she was cold from inside, her heart was cold. She wanted to cry so badly but her brain was not listening to any of her commands. Her feet were having a brain of their own & they were just dragging her. People were all around her, they were passing by her, giving her strong glares as if she was an alien. She had left everything, her career, her family just to marry the one whom she had loved with all her heart, he loved her too, (or it was just her imagination) and he betrayed her badly. After betraying her, he rejected her in the worst possible way. Now she doesn’t have anything. She doesn’t have anywhere to go. She don’t want to go anywhere either but her feet were just dragging her. There was only one sentence that kept on ringing in her brain again & again “YOU CAN’T BE ANY BODY’S WIFE. YOU CAN ONLY BE A MISTRESS”. A sudden loud screeching sound of a car broke her trance. Her feet decided to stop & she just sat on the pavement. Wondering where is she. But she was still too lost to think straight. Ethan’s Car stopped. His mind was in a complete mess. From where he can get a girl to be Sam’s bride. How he can marry any random girl without knowing her, her family background what, if the girl came out to be a gold digger? There were so many questions, but knowing Sam, he can understand his situation. He also knew that he must be having some foolproof plan to do all this. He raked his fingers in his hair and looked around. His eyes landed on Sandra. He was spell bound. He has never seen such a beautiful face. She was not wearing any make-up. But there was something in her face, it screams innocence & purity. He can’t think of anything else. He got down from the car and walked towards her. As he was approaching her, his heart was beating faster & faster. He never proposed to a girl even for himself & he have to do it to an unknown girl for his friend!! He took a deep breath, sat down in front of her & asked cautiously “will you marry my friend???”