Close your eyes and follow my lead

/Brian’s pov/

I start waking towards the direction of where she is gracefully setting up the tripod in her hand.

I may not have had so many interactions with Melanie caleb, but she made quite an impression on me when I screened her for the post of my fathers assistant.

More than wanting to speak to Melanie as an excuse to get Rhea off my back, I think I will use this opportunity to relay something important to her about how I want my proposal to be .

I know that me approaching any other Emerald ( the girl gang that Ember belongs to) would have gone the trick, but Rhea feels exceptional hatred towards Meelah because was suspended from college because of meelah which makes Meelah a stronger option to consider.

“Miss Caleb” I refer to Melanie in a professional tone but instead she looks around before awkwardly pointing to herself.

“You are Melanie Caleb Caleb right?” I ask her when she doesn’t stop staring at me in a questionable manner.

“ of course I am “ she answers and my eyes trail back to wach Rhea storm Into the hall.

“I need a favour from you” I politely ask and she sets her lips into a thin line before nodding skeptically.

“The thing is that I want to make my proposal to Ember really special and Mason Harvey offered to help with that but he said that he is going to need a little hand from you guys” I inform her and her confused look dissolves.

“How can we help?” She inquires.

“I was hoping you can coordinate the other emeralds to the backstage, Mason should have someone there waiting to brief you guys” I answer her and she nods as she folds her tripod back.

“I will do well to inform my girls” she agrees almost immediately.

“Thank you very much miss Caleb, this means a lot to me” I appreciate her but she squeeze her face.

“I prefer to be called Meelah outside the office environment” she informs and I nod understandingly mumbling point taking before turning away from her.

“It’s time to go and find my would be bride” I rub the palm of my hands trilled as I try to locate Embers car in the parking lot and my eyes land on Ember and her bestie stylishly hinting in my direction with their eyes.

Embers bestie is the one doing the gossiping while Ember tries to act cool and as I draw closer to them, I can see her bestie whispering something into her ear with hand gesture pointing to her brain before she flashes her a mischievous smile and walks away from her.

“Hello beautiful” I glides towards her trying to suppress my excitement as my eyes scans over her floor length wine ball gown that I think is absolutely gorgeous.

“May I?” I ask stretching out my hand to take hers in mine,and She nods slightly before putting her hand in mine.

“You look absolutely stunning my lady” I complement her as I raise her hand up and carefully twirl her around to get s better view of the dress.

“You also look really handsome” she complements while I fight to keep a straight face in front of her and instead fake my professional smile so that she won’t know that her compliment just striked a chord in my heart as my eyes observe her gestures keenly.

If simplicity is a person, that person should be called ember Weston because of how simple but yet elegantly she dresses to suit her body type.

The major thing that I think looks quite different about her is her chocolate hair that she has bleached to blonde but either ways, I think she still looks absolutely stunning with her blonde hair that is styled into perfection and the way her stylist styled the dress and face, dressed to kill for the occasion.

“Shall we?” I snap myself out of drooling at her mesmerizing beauty as I extend my arm .

Ember nods politely as she links her hand with mine while I guide her steps as we make our way to the door.

“We are on our way in” I tap the acoustic earpiece on my ear to give Mason instructions as the big curtain on the back drop slide open and we make our way in.

“Are you okay?” I whispers into her ear,as I start to feel her arms tightening around mine.

“I can’t do this,I can’t face so many people”She whispers back and I smile.

“You can do this, trust me…Just one step at a time and you won’t trip” I say looking into her eyes reassuringly.

“Can we have your attention here?”the anchor of the ceremony that I recommended to my dad announces through the public address system and I smile because Of the way Ember is blushing in embarrassed.

I didn’t make a mistake in recommending Mason Harvey to my father because it is sure that he dilivers expressly to his client.

“Do you trust me” I whisper into her ear when it seems like she was starting to feel uncomfortable from all the attention.

“You are going to be fine so just keep your eyes on me because at the end of the day, no one else matters apart from both of us” I assure her and she nods understandingly.

“Attention bride and groom!!” Mason says after hitting the public address system that makes a resounding sound and gets my attention to face the crowd.

“I know that we all are gathered here to witness you both get engaged to each other, but can you both please cut down on the oppression” Mason remarks and I smile again because he is shifting the focous to Ember and I instead of shifting the focous to kings corporations twenty fifth anniversary since this happens to be a double celebration.

“I know that a lot of people came to this party with their plus one, but for someone like me who came to answer duty call as a single Pringle,Brian can you stop putting so much pressure on me to get myself a beautiful woman like yours?” Mason cries out dramatically making everyone in the room bawl out in laughter because of Mason’s reputation that precedes him as a play boy.

“Can we all raise a toast to the bride and the groom because they look absolutely stunning together” Mason mentions as he beacons to one of the waiters to come over.

“We are going to have a whole lot of toasts coming on later because this the stars of todays show are my very own,and they deserve to be celebrated in a grand style”Brian announces as he picks up his wine glass.

One of the ushers hands both Ember and I a wine glass as the other waiters coordinate themselves orderly to do the same for our guests.

“Can we all rise up on our feet as we raise our wine glasses up to toast to the couples first step to forever” Mason professes raising his wine glass and the other people in the hall cheer with each other only for me Rhea to start walking towards Ember and I in her blood red floor length mermaid gown with slit in front that is rebelliously against the color language of the occasion but then it’s Rhea.

“Cheers to forever” Rhea whispers with Her blood red lips curving into a evil grin that confirms the fact that she is here to oppress Ember.

“Thanks for coming Rhea” Ember says as she cheers with her.

“You don’t look bad” Rhea gives Ember an half hearted compliment that makes me wish she didn’t open her mouth to say anything while Ember gives her an uncomfortable smile.

I know that Rhea came over to congratulate us both just to oppress Ember which I think is totally uncalled for because if not to oppress ember I don’t know why else she came all the way yo cheers to us

“I appreciate everyone of us that made one attempt or the other to share on the couples happiness today but I will like every one of us to get sited because we have a lot of activities on our agenda today” Mason informs and pauses for a while to allow the hall quiet down a bit

“I know that a lot of you are aware of who I am already, but for the sake of those who don’t know me, my name is Harvey Mason and I used to be president of the playboys association in silver city before I was taken off the streets”He announces and we all cheer for him.

“We have a double program here today of which both are very important so I am going to try my self in blending both programmed so that none of them suffers” he informs

“Taking is further in this program, we are going to usher both Brian and his fiancée to their seats with their bests song while we prepare to receive the ceo of kings corporation immediately after that.

Prior to this engagement ceremony I had to cajole Embers best friend to get a list of Embers favourite song so all I have to do is to raise my green card to the violinist to proceed with our earlier arrangements.

I take Embers hands in mine and we carefully walks towards our chair on the high table as my father stands up from his seat and makes his way towards the podium.

I have no business with my fathers speech, all I want is for him to get his speech over and done with so that I can proceed with the proposal that I have rehearsed like a million times In front of the mirror.

“Why is Mason the anchor of this ceremony?” Ember whispers into my ear as my father starts to deliver his speech

“I specifically asked Mason to be the anchor of our engagement ceremony because I know that he is that one person that can blend the two events properly and Carry everybody along in such a way that the people that are only attending the engagement ceremony won’t feel left out” I explain to her and she nods in understanding

If there is one person that I know in silver city that is competent enough to effortlessly dispense his job as an entertainer/ business owner so well, that person is Harvey Mason and that is why I had to practically beg him to do this for me even though we had less than two weeks to plan this whole engagement.

I barely pay attention to the content of my fathers speech simply because I have been playing how my proposal is going to go till I hear him say something and half the hall replies him

“Kings corporation” he says a little louder

“Luxury and comfort” I pronounce clearly so that Ember doesn’t appear lost

“A Whole lot of activities are going to be launched by our company to mark this milestone,but before any big announcement is made at this double event I am going to hand over to Brian kings”mr father says raising his glass in My direction.

Instead of moving from my seat, I wait for Embers girl gang to get up from their seats to prepare the way before me which they do my moving in sync while bearing flower baskets in their hands as the move towards the back of the event center where the whole proposal is supposed to take place.

I wait for mealanie to wave the green card as a go ahead signal that everything is reads and immediately she does, I get up to face Ember

“Shall we” I ask and she takes my hand after hesitating for a while

“Close your eyes and follow my lead” I whispers into her ear after She gets up and she nods.