Clair Elizabeth Renne

&

James Edward Willer

Invited you to join them

In

The celebration

Of

Their Marriage

Sunday, August 27th 2017

At five o'clock in the evening.

I looked at the white silky paper in front of me with wide eyes. It's been days since I got the news about my mother getting pregnant and marrying again but every time, that information goes through my brain, I feel the need to get shocked.

Every time...

So I think she finally found her wedding dress. The wedding is in five days, and What is hors d'oeur?

I can't even pronounce it. Well they did put a lot of there money on the wedding, I guess, the card alone looked more expensive then some of my clothes upstairs and Prospect Hotel is one of the most reputed five star hotel.

Don't tell me she didn't give this man's blinding money any consideration before she decided to marry him.

I was still holding the card in my hand, I felt something behind it.

It was a hand written letter sticked to the back of the card.

Mom's handwriting.

Danny and Damien, as you guys know, you both would be the maid of honour and ring bearer for my wedding, I would like for both of you to come live with me and James from somedays. It will mean a lot for both of us and I know that you guys still haven't gotten your dress and suit, which you'll be wearing to my wedding. I have brought you guys some clothes to try on.

So, think about it and it would really mean a lot to me if you guys come to stay with us.

Your Mom.

"No way."

I screamed a little, dropping the card in the process, shocked from the voice that just came from behind me. I jumped up, When I looked back to see a horrified Damien standing behind me.

I think he read the letter too.

"No. Danny I don't want to go there and try to 'bond' with her and her soon to be husband. It will be way too awkward." I feel you bro.

"I don't want to go either Dam." I cried thinking about the time when I went with her for her dress shopping.

I am still horrified.

"Don't want to go where?" We both flipped our heads to the new voice that just came from beside us.

That was dad.

He was standing on the last four stairs. Looking at us with his glasses.

I immediately picked the card and the letter from the floor and hid them behind me, totally forgetting about the fact that my dad is not actually blind and he could see me trying to hide something behind me.

I know dad will make us both go, even if we cry, even if we beg falling on our knees.

Believe me I have tried.

He really wants us to bond with our mother, but I really don't think that's the only reason she wants us there. Dad came forward, stepping down from the stairs and standing right beside us. I turned around to face him. More like hiding my back from him.

"What's that behind you princess?" He asked me, calm.

Way too calm

"Nothing Dad." Don't look at me like that.

"Show me Daniella." That was my cue.

I ripped the papers out from my back and showed them to him. He had no expressions on his face. It was hard to study what he was thinking,

"Hmm" was all he said when he looked at the card then he started reading the letter. I really wanted to snatch the letter from his hand and burn it on the stove.

Or make Damien eat it.

He looked at both of us with his glasses still at the tip of his nose, and then again closely studying the piece of paper.

Finally he dropped his hand which was holding the letter with a sign. He removed his glasses which was a silent way of telling us that whatever be the next words, that will come out of his mouth, would be totally serious and he would want us to follow them.

That is the reason why me and Damien never Drinks or smoke.

"So when are you guys going?" He asked us. Making us both look at him with popping eyes but none of us uttered a single word.

Seems like, we will be going to live with our mother, in her mansion looking house, with her businessman looking boyfriend.

"Wait!! I am the ring bearer?? When were you going to tell me this Daniella?"

I am in trouble.

............................................

"For the last time Chelsa, let me tell him how to solve this problem." I whispered frustrated from her. I am on my very edge right now, if it wasn't a library and she was not Jake's girlfriend, half of her hair would be in my hands right now.

"Daniella, let me tell him. I know how to solve this problem." She was way too confident about it, I don't think she even knows, what is the difference between a variable and a constant.

I have never been this irritated in my entire life, except when I went to stay with uncle Johnny for summer and his stupid daughter, Geena, who thought that it was fun to repeat everything I do, I never got to have a peaceful poop while I was in his house.

So I am sitting here in the library with Jake and his 'girlfriend' Chelsa. As promised I was going to tutor him today as I couldn't Yesterday due to my *cough* injury *cough* but as soon as we entered the library, Chelsa barged in too, stating that she also wants to study with us.

And let me tell you, her study only includes roaming her hands up and down Jake's thigh, whispering god knows what in his ear and giving me death stares.

I can only imagine her with an enormously large nose, hair all messed up and a broomstick in her hand.

She already has the voice.

And the laugh.

Now I know why Jake was failing maths, actually I am pretty shocked, how he is not failing every other subject.

"So you have to first make pairs, you know pairs Daniella. Oh I am sorry you don't." She said that and laughed a very girly yet creepy laugh and I looked at her, stabbing her eyes again and again in my imagination with my pencil.

Jake looked very confuse, I know he didn't understood a word Chelsa said and looked at me with helping eyes.

I feel sorry for him.

"Alright Chelsa, I don't think Jake is getting what you are saying, besides these are the steps for another question, you will never get a solution using these steps." I was talking calm, it was taking all of my patience to talk to her this calmly, and I don't think much is left, I swear if she said one more word insulting me, I am going to throw this maths book flat on her face.

Chelsa looked at me like she didn't believe me at all, with wide eyes and open mouth.

I really hope you catch a fly.

She looked at Jake who was trying very hard but failing miserably in hiding his discomfort.

I don't know why all of a sudden, she got so interested in studying with us leaving her cheerleading practice. And I don't think Mrs. Gilbert, the librarian, will take one more voice from our table and she will definitely throw us out of the library.

That women is scary.

She is telling us to keep it down for like half an hour now but I don't think Chelsa here has a mute button.

Even after seeing Jake's face and how he is silently begging for her to leave, Chelsa sat there not so silently and now she even started commenting on everything I was saying.

"So Jake where were we?" I asked smiling to which Jake smiled too.

"On the question, Daniella. Where else do you want to get?"

I looked at her. I really wish I could sew her lips together.

"So what you have to do is, you have to find the right root-"

"How fake can you be?" This is it.

"Alright cherry head. What is your problem?" I was furious by now.

No

I was beyond furious. I was looking at her with my pencil in my hand, it could break any minute now.

She was looking at me confused and furious at to what I had called her.

"What did you say to me?" She said and got up, making the chair screech and fall of due the fast impact. Everyone in the library was looking at us now. Very good, again, we are the centre of attention. That's totally what I want, NOT.

"You think being friends with Hunter,Kyle and Brody and sitting with them, you can do anything you want now? little nerd." She said in a loud voice which made Mrs. Gilbert to get up from her seat, push her round spectacles to her eyes and to walk in our direction. I opened my mouth to give her a piece of my mind but Jake beat me to it.

"Stop it Chelsa. Danny didn't do anything to you so why are you being so mean to her? Seriously what happened to you?"

Well if only he could see the love for him in my eyes.

He stood up for me? He took my side? Am I dreaming?

"Oh! So now she is so important to you? You are fighting with me for her?" I think she will cry now. She looked at me with a pained expression and turned around, flipping her ponytail in the process and storming out of the library, passing Mrs. Gilbert, who was still half way away from us.

That women walks really slow.

She was looking back at the door with one of her finger pointing up as she saw Chelsa stormed out of the library. She looked ahead and saw Jake following shortly after her and she lifted her finger again in an attempt to say something to him too, but he was too fast and she just followed him out of the door with her eyes. Finally she turned around to look at me. She lifted her finger the third time now and I prepared myself for some punishment, like I am not allowed in the library for a month or so, but she just looked at me for a while and signed.

"This is the first time, so I am just giving you a warning Ms. Jones. Next time there will be consequences." She turned around and started walking towards her desk.

Guess I won't be tutoring Jake anymore.

I wanted to cry.

Of course Jake would go behind her, she is his girlfriend for hell's sake. What did you think Danny? That just tutoring Jake twice a week would make him fall in love with you?

Pathetic.

I slopped down on the chair and put my hands under my head and laid down on the desk.

And I thought I had a chance, with Jake when clearly Chelsa is way more important for him then I ever can be.

"I hate my life." I whispered.

There was a sound of moving a chair and it came from the front of me telling me that someone just sat right in front on the same table. I don't know why but I thought that may be, just may be it's Jake, so I popped my head up and looked to see who it was.

"Jonathan.." He looked at me and shorty after he realised that it was me, which made his eyes go really wide. There was sweat evident on his forehead. He was holding his chemistry book in his hand and he looked like he saw a ghost which I think I was quite close to looking like one.

"Daniella? Is Kyle or Brody with you?" He asked me looking behind me and him and all over the library. The guy was really scared and I can tell that by the way he looked at me with those wide open black eyes. I don't blame him, Brody can be really scary if , he wants to.

"I just, wanted to say, I am sorry for the way Kyle and Brody acted with you that day. They thought you were someone else and I had no idea they would do something like that. Nor I would let them do anything like that again with anyone." I told him truthfully. I really had no idea they would force Jonathan to like me, that's why I am not telling them about Jake. They might even shave Chelsa's hair off.

Jonathan looked at me surprised, if his eyes get any bigger, he would probably tear his eyelids.

"So you don't like me?" He was looking down.

Was he sad?

"Not in that way, but I think you are a great guy." I smiled at him. He seems like a genuinely sweet guy. Not that I talk to him everyday but he did help me several time with assignments and projects. He was always helpful not like some other people in my class.

Like that Mean Nerdy Amy Welch. Once when I was on sick leave, she told me that we have to make a report on Clymadia for our literary class, which I was confused about at first but I made the report anyway and let me tell you, the day of the submission of the report was the most humiliating day of my life.

Mrs. Waters thought that I was trying to imply something on her. The look she gave me was enough to tell me that she will never like me again.

I will get back at her for that, one day.

I will.

Jonathan was smiling at me but soon his smile faded into that o shaped face you make when you see a dinosaur coming from a distance in Jurassic Park.

"I think I should go." He said that and got up and pop!

He was gone.

Does he know magic?

I turned around to look at everyone in the library, there were many wide eyes and open mouths.

Kyle and Hunter were walking inside the library as casually as they can and everyone was looking at them with unbelieving eyes. Even Mrs. Gilbert was removing her specs and cleaning them with her top blouse.

I think this is the first time both of them ever stepped foot in the library. I mean I can see people pinching themselves to make sure that they are not dreaming.

They came forward in front of me and Kyle said "Hey Danny."

I think a guy just fall from his chair, I looked behind them. And he is still looking at Hunter and Kyle with wide eyes , laying on the floor.

"What are you guys doing here?"

More like.

Are you lost?

"We came to study."

"What?" No, it was not me. I was too busy looking at them with wide eyes that I couldn't utter a single word.

That was half of the people in the library asking them all together.

All of them were looking at them stumped and I think most of them are going to pass out any minute now.

Mrs. Gilbert will be the first one.

Kyle and Hunter looked back and then back at me, behaving like it's a normal thing to stroll around in the library giving each person a shock attack.

I was looking at them. I don't know what to say?

How? When? Why?

I am pretty sure my mouth is open and so is everyone's else.

"You came in the library to study?" I asked dumbfounded.

Hunter raised one of his eyebrows at me. "What else are you supposed to do in a library? Strip dance?"

I think I just nodded my head.

No

Nooooo

Hunter and Kyle laughed at me, now shaking my head like a maniac. They both took the empty chairs in front of them, and sat down still chuckling, as I am the only one sitting on this table because Jonathan just disappeared magically.

"Why were you not at physics lab today?" Hunter asked me cocking up one of his eyebrows.

Yeah I skipped my physics lab to tutor Jake, well Mrs. Albert had to grant me this because I helped her or should I say, I practically made her entire Ph.D project.

Thanks to me, she is now continuing her studies. She said that she would give me extra credit too, which I think I have to talk to her about.

Yes I like to study.

"Well I was in the library, you know? Studying. Not strip dancing." I said that which made both of them chuckle. I certainly can't tell them about me tutoring Jake.

I can't believe it. Until last year I was in this library all by myself studying my butt off and today, I am sitting here joking around with two of the most hottest guys in school.

Talk about being popular.

I looked around to see all the death glares I was getting from all the girls in the library. Some of the girls who were adjusting their glasses with their pointer finger, were about to throw one of their big cardboard binded book at my face.

I don't like being popular.

All of a sudden a very worried looking Peeker Parker came running through the door. Mrs. Gilbert was about to get up and tell him to not run in the library but he was too fast for her, he came in front of me and took out his phone and soon a flash and a click came. The next moment he was out of the library through the door leaving, typing away something on his phone and Mrs. Gilbert with a dumbfounded looking face.

So I think peeker got a breaking news.

Both Kyle and Hunter were now looking behind them to see nothing but the air, peeker left behind. Then they looked back at me with confusion on their faces.

"I am so sorry Danny." I looked up to see, where the new voice came from making both Hunter and Kyle, flip their heads behind them.

Standing there, all in his glory was a very cute Jake. With worry in his eyes.

"I am so sorry about Chelsa, Danny. She will not disturb us again. Please don't you stop tutoring me. I really need your help." I resisted the urge to jump up and give him a life squeezing hug, I was still imagining myself with my arms around Jake's shoulders , when I came back to reality to look in front of me.

A very surprised Kyle and

A very amused Hunter.

Kyle and Hunter both looked at each other and in a matter of seconds both of their expressions changed to the infamous smirks.

Kyle got up from his place turned around to come face to face with Jake, he is taller then Jake," You won't mind if we study with you?"

What?

Wha? My mouth opened, I couldn't speak. My eyes were wide, I couldn't blink.

Jake was surprised and as soon as he was about to say something, Hunter also got up, he is taller them Jake too.

Why you have to be so short Jake?

He looked at Jake. "Of course he wouldn't. We also need some tutoring. We are failing miserably here."

No.

This can't be happening.

I can't tutor the three of them together. But I don't see them backing down either. I was now looking at them with furrowed eyebrows. I am making my angry face here, just look at me, will you?

Jake looked at me with confusion, I looked at him with unease, he was about to say something, "Alright then." Kyle said clapping his hands together, getting attention from several people in the library.

"It's settled then. Daniella will tutor the three of us from now on." Kyle said that grinning at me. I made my angry face again but he just winked at me and went out.

Mrs. Gilbert was now looking intently at the three of us. Paying a lot of attention to us. She had a poker face.

Hunter was now looking at me with the biggest smirk on his face. He came forward and whispered in my ear. "See you Friday, tutor." He backed up a little and kissed my left cheek. Making me blush real hard. He gave a look and a wave to Jake and went out of the library.

I was looking in front of me, the wall became really interesting suddenly.

I stretched my face to my side. All I could see was eyes. Wide eyes of different colours.

Everyone in the library saw Hunter kissing me. On cheek.

Hunter

Kiss

Cheek

Everyone, even Jake? Is there any way that he somehow, became blind for like five seconds?

Mrs. Gilbert was grinning. Every girl was glaring. Every guy was shocked and Jake was really, really uncomfortable.

Wait

What if I am not free on Friday?

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