I was pulled to go shopping with Yara during the weekends, she was just as nervous about the movie date like Nikki does but of course I will never tell her that. Peter was munching on a hotdog while we were in a women's section of the department store, Cloud was being summoned by his Dad to the palace because it turns out his Dad will stay there for a whole week

Which is a bad thing by the way, since his children hated him

"Does this look good on me?" Yara turned around while holding a light green dress in front of her "Or this?" She switched it by having the pants and crop top that she chose

"The dress looks great on you go for it" Peter said to her while chewing

I pointed to the crop top and pants "This is Nikki Matthews we are talking about Peter, Nikki and Yara might go somewhere fun after the movies like an amusement park or somewhere where it requires you to be physically active" I gave him a tissue to clean himself up cause the ketchup from the hotdog was smeared on his T-shirt

Yara took a hard long look at both of the outfits and decided "I'm gonna get them both, see you guys at the cashier" she hummed a small tune while strutting to the cashier and paying for her clothes

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You think it would be a great idea to go home was a choice, to begin with, but the home that I was coming back to has a guy who is severely depressed on the living room couch and is screaming every 5 seconds about how he is going to cut ties with his Dad once he graduates college

Once I got home from shopping with Peter and Yara, I took my sweet time to walk back to the penthouse, and while on my way back I met up with Aiden who was eating ice cream by the park. We chatted for a while and he asked me if I would go to his first concert and I did accept his invitation of course, like how could I miss my best friend's first concert

I came back to the penthouse by sunset and here we are

"Cloud are you gonna mope around until dinner?" I asked him while looking down at him on the couch laying flat on his stomach and his head buried on a couch pillow

"Do I even need to eat just to live at this point?"

"Yes you do because I still need you for my studies"

He raised his head from the pillow and glanced up at me "That was a bit cold-hearted and mean answer"

"Well I'm going to leave by next week and I don't want your dead body in the living room after I return" I grabbed an apple from the fruit basket and threw the apple at him

I sat on a couch across from him and held my hot cup of Joe "So what the heck happened at the palace that got you so mopey?"

I blew my drink gently before sipping it

"He asked me to bring and introduce you" he answered and I spat out my hot drink on the floor

THE HELL!?

I coughed and gasped for a breath of air to enter my lungs "Why did he ask you that?" My voice was now hoarse because of the unexpected news

"Because he wanted to meet the childhood friend turned girlfriend woman"

I want to know what happened to the conversation to go down to the point that his Dad wanted to meet me in person, I could imagine the scary tension in a room of me being asked by his father. Is this what it feels like when boyfriends meet their girlfriend's Dad!?

I gulped "So...when am I going to meet him?" My hands started to play with my hair from being nervous

I just prayed that it won't be tomorrow

"You'll be meeting him after your reunion" he answered then plopped his face back on the pillow

A wave of relief came over me, I just dodge a scary storm for now

Now that I think about it, I have never even seen his Dad's face before. All of his albums contained no picture of him even of Cloud was little

Cloud looked exhausted and I poked him with a broom that I got from the cleaning closet under the stairs "You almost dead?"

He gave me a small glare "Why? Are you planning to kill me? Too late cause I'm dying inside" he combed his hair with his fingers and wiggled around on the couch to sit up

I walked to put the broom back "Well you're not the only one dying inside Golden boy, imagine introducing me to your Dad"

He shivered "Ew, introducing you is just not right. Introduce yourself and I'll just wait outside, I don't even know what should I say: 'Meet my cute idiot girlfriend'" he has two jazz hands directing at me and looking at the mirror pretending he was talking to his Dad

I threw a slipper at him "Even if you say cute it doesn't cancel out when you added idiot" I removed another slipper from my left foot and threw it at his back while he ran away from me

He was behind the couch; the only thing that is the barrier from me throwing things at him. He gave me a sheepish grin and shrug

Even if he does that grin with that handsome face of his, it doesn't change the fact he called me an idiot

I grabbed the TV remote and was ready to throw it at him when suddenly we heard the elevator bells ring, the people that stepped out was Mom holding a paper bag and Dad holding a camera. I was supposed to throw the remote and Cloud has a tray ready to protect himself like a shield

Mom gasped and gave me a disappointed look, she puts down the paper bag on a nearby table and has both of her hands on her waist "Penelope Angel Price! What did I tell you about being violent!?" She asked me loudly

Dad puts the camera around his neck before he went to check on Cloud "Did she hit you?" He turned Cloud around in full 360°

Cloud shot me a mischievous look that only I got to see and he grabbed his arm "She threw me a slipper so hard my arm hurts a bit" he acted hurt

My jaw dropped and I turned to Mom "Have you ever seen the slipper? It is soft as fuck and you do not tell me that you got hurt from just a slipper" I got smacked at the shoulder by Mom

"Apologize to your boyfriend right now, he has been nothing but a sweetheart to you, and yet you return it with violence"

"A SwEeTHEaRT!?" I asked loudly and I was smacked at the shoulder again

"Ow! MOM!" I turned my body to fully face her

Cloud was trying to hide his laughter with a face pretending to be in pain "Does she always hurt you when you guys are alone?" Dad asked him and the audacity of the little shit nodded like I didn't take care of him during his vulnerable times

I was now growling at him with spite but Mom forced me to apologize like how a Mother forces two children to make up "Now you two make up while your father and I will put the food in the fridge" she pushed me close to Cloud, they turned their back on us and marched their way to the kitchen fridge with the paper bag with food that they made at home

I took the chance and grabbed Cloud by his sweater and pulled him to bend down to my height "Now listen here you little shit-"

"I was doing it for fun" he cut me off

"Fun? Do you call this fun? Why you..." My hand was starting to form into a fist but I was holding myself back because my parents are here and I don't think it would be nice of me to punch him square in the face

His mischievous smile was not helping either, it was helping me to forget what he did but he was acting to get me in trouble with my mother