CHAPTER 6–– THE DRAMA PART 2!

Can I go and die somewhere?

I thought as I looked at Alexeev’s mother holding the paper with a score of 70 with laughter in her eyes as she looked at her son and me sitting more straighter than the ruler line.

“So, is this how you treat the woman you are in love with? I apologize my dear, I wasn’t expecting my son to be that rude to the woman of his life.” She looked at me with such a clear and warm look that I almost felt whatever my boss spoke about her wasn’t even a pinch of truth.

Such a nice and warm woman can never be Alexander Alexeev’s mother. I deny any possibility as such. So, I which garbage was he found? Just kidding… maybe.

“Mom, all I wanted to do was confirm she knows me better…” well, he didn’t say anything wrong about that part. He did try his best to do that.

“With a questionnaire? And that too in the office when you should be working and should not disturb others in their work as well? Is this what I taught you? Oh well, I’ll deal with you later.” Then, she turned towards me and said “Well, I apologize again, my dear, really. How about you come to our house and let Alex introduce you to the famiglia?”

I was about to say something when she suddenly stood up and clapped her hands as if it was a done deal and said, “It would be so much fun to have you at casa!”

“…” I didn’t even spoke a word, but she even made sure to announce that I am going to stay there on Sunday to know more about the family I am going to be married in.

My very dear boss did try to put in his thoughts in words, but he was so badly ignored that even I felt sad for him though I also felt like laughing at him more.

“Oh yeah! I forgot that I also brought a date for you here but now that you are already smart enough to go for relationship, so, I’ll tell the girl to leave.” Mrs. Alexeev went out of the cabin with as much elegance as she came in with though she messed us our thoughts badly.

“So, that’s your mom.”

“Yeah, that’s my mom.”

We looked at each other and sighed as we realized just how close we were to losing our shit.

The woman was surely an enigma.

“We will select a dress for you for the dinner and now that you are going there with me, you will surely be liked by everyone there.” Alexander said as he decided on what I would wear while meeting his family and other things while all I was thinking was ‘is it better to sell a kidney?’

Who expected that a hard-faced boss like mine would have a whole city of a family?

It was amazing!

He was looking like a total family-oriented person. His niece looked at him with pouty lips, sweet smile and laughed as he moved to pick her up but in the middle of all of this, it was his smile that got me. He was hot when he was all stern and strict, but he was hotter when he laughed and his dimple on one side of his face showed.

I was smiling at all the siblings and their children when Mrs. Alexeev or Victoria, as she told me to call her smiled and held out her hand to me to hold which I did with a small smile as she took me to Alexander and made me stand beside him and hold his hand.

It was a surprisingly full and pretty evening, but the guilt crept on me again. It was all a lie at the end of the day, and it was melancholy to me.

I was to stay with them tonight and share a room with Alexander’s sister who was not at all relatable with the drama’s I watched.

They weren’t down-to-earth or anything but rather they were tight-knit and closed off to the world, mixed in their own world. They were allowing me in it out of pure belief that I was to be loved and protected which incited the feeling of guilt even more as she too held me close to herself and introduced me to each and every one to make sure that everyone knew that Alexander was taken while Alexander faking his affection as he looked at me when he was simply playing with his niece and nephews.

When we entered the front door all I felt was just what a misfit I was. His mother took my hand from Alexander and introduced me to everyone and smiled as everyone around made a little joke of why Alexander wasn’t agreeing to any relation was because he hadn’t yet found me. They spoke about each of them, introducing me to a part of them that I didn’t yet know.

I looked at him as his hand touched my back in order for him to fake affection as he laughed and looked in my eyes. It was a very weird feeling.

“Amy? Can I call you that?” Betony, Alexander’s niece asked me as she felt it was too long for her to speak.

“Yes, you sure can, sweety.” I smiled and held her hand which was small and cute in mine. She was such a cutie as she spoke about how her uncle Alex was always the one who bought her the most presents and how he is the nicest man alive. I am very lucky and should take care of her uncle Alex the best way possible.

“Surprisingly, I don’t see how your family is tough and hard-headed and doesn’t understand what space is…” I whispered to Alexander who looked at me with a brilliant smile and said “You just met them, why would they show you their true colors? They are stubborn and you will see that once they make sure you are right for me.”

“I think it’s you who is stubborn, your family is love.” He looked at me and laughed as he suddenly leaned towards me touching his nose to mine and said, “I so want to hear you say the same thing after a week with them.”

“You are so dramatic.”

He smiled at me and looked back at his mother dancing with his sister.