Finally, it's Saturday. I can do anything I want inside the house, and just lay in bed with my bag of chips, just staring at my phone scrolling at random social media apps.

After 3 hours of laying on my bed, I finally head downstairs to eat my breakfast.

"Morning" I said as I sat down on my seat at the island table.

"Morning, dear. By the way, we're having a celebration in the building later night" My mom smiled at me as she offered me a cup of coffee.

"Celebration? For what?" I asked.

"Your mother won a Professional Entrepreneur of the Year award, remember?" My dad showed up and hugged my mom.

"Oh right, shoot, I have to book a stylist" I said.

"Don't worry, hun. I already booked Ms. Lavina for you" My mom said. Ms. Lavina is the stylist I trust the most, she's expensive but is worth it, her makeup is glorious, and she knows what suits the best for me, and for the occasion.

Around 4 in the afternoon, Ms. Lavina already arrived, and started on taking care of my appearance. She decided to do a natural makeup but with a classy look, and straighten my hair, then my elegant white long dress, paired with my glass heels. All styled by her.

As I walked out of the room, Lucas showed up infront of me holding two bottles of alcohol. "Drink?" He said with a big smile on his face, I couldn't resist but to smile too and grabbed one of the bottles.

"Mom's gonna kill us" I said in the middle of drinking.

"Mm, dad has our back" He laughed, and so did I.

"What are the two of you doing here! Get in the car right now! Put on a lot perfume, gosh" My mom showed up looking dissapointed at us, we were sitting in the backyard by the pool just drinking on our bottles.

"Talk about dad having our backs, huh?" I chuckled as we left.

We finally got to the venue and people were already there. Lucas and I blended in with the crowd as he went for his friend, and so did I when I saw Madison.

"Madison!" I said as I went closer.

"Omg, Dahlia! You came" She smiled and went in for a hug. "You look stunning!"

"Likewise" I chuckled. "Well, as the founder's daughter, I had to come"

We had a great chat, until she got called by her father. "Madison! Come quick"

"God, I have to go, again. See you, babes" She smiled and waved goodbye.

Then it was quite with me again. Madison's the only person who brightens occassion for me, she's such a bubbly person, and would be friends with anyone she meets.

"So we meet again" A guy showed up beside me, I turned around and saw him, Finn.

"Obviously, I'm the daughter of the one and only Emery Celeste" I said as I sipped on my champagne. "So wh-" Before I could finish my sentence, my eyes widened when he leaned over, with his head beside my mouth.

"You reek of alcohol" He said after standing back up.

"What were you doing? There are hundreds of people, you're embarrassing yourself" I said, looking away.

"As if you have never done that, embarrassing yourself" He smirked.

"Hey! That was days ago!" I slapped him on the shoulders.

"Okay, I'm back. Oh, Finn!" Madison showed up with a glass of champagne on her hand. "Oooh, dumb and dumber" She laughed.

"Dumb and dumber? Telling that to the top 1 in class?" I looked at her squinting my eyes.

"Aww, look at you three" We turned around and saw my mom, Finn's mom, and Madison's dad. We then stood up properly, fixing our clothes, and posture.

"Finn, I heard a lot about you from your mom. You go to school with these girls?" My mom smiled and looked at him.

"Oh, yeah, I do. Actually, we share the same class" Finn said.

"That's great, you can get along with these fashionistas" My mom laughed.

"Mom, not funny" I groaned. "Plus, Finn and I are not even close"

"But you were just interacting?" She raised a brow.

"Interacting and being close are two different things" I said.

The night continued to be the same, them congratulating my mother, everyone talking about business, everyone having fun, everyone chatting, and just everyone coming for the expensive drinks.

I wanted to go home already.

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07.16.22