#Chapter106EpilogueBella's POVHere I am gazing at the ring that was in my finger. It was simple yet beautiful. When I first saw it I was simply awe struck."What you thinking fiancé?" Xavier asked me hugging me from behind. "How lucky I am." I said chuckling."I'm the lucky one babe." he said kissing my cheeks. I chuckled at him. "You ready for the wedding?" he asked me. I just nodded my head.Its been 1 months since he proposed. We have been preparing for the wedding ever since. And finally the day was here. Tomorrow we will be getting married.I can't believe that all of this is true. Liam was wrong. I have people who loves me. Who cares about me. Who takes care of me."Ok you need to go." I said chasing him away. He pouted and hugged me tighter. "Nooo." he whined while I chuckled."Come on. Its bad luck." I said giving him a stern look. He sighed and pulled away. He gave me a long kiss before pulling away.I waved him bye as he went sulking. Just when I closed the doo
#Chapter107Book Name Mia's POV"Wake up Mia. You are gonna be late for school. " Olivia yelled as she pulled off my blankets.I groaned as I wake up. I was doing my homework last minute last night hence I slept late.I heard my sister chuckle while I glared at her. In an instant she put her hands up in defence."Shower quick and come down." She said as she walked out of my room. I groggily went to my bathroom and did my morning routine.As I came out I picked out my outfit to wear today. I picked out a white shirt with black Jean skirt that reached above my knees and a denim shirt that reached the end of my skirtI applied some face cream with baby pink lipstick. I got down to have breakfast as I saw bacon and pancakes. My saliva drooled seeing it.As I was about to have breakfast, I realised that I was late for school. "Dad, mum I am late. I gonna head on first. Love you guys. Bye. " I said as I rushed out.I hear them chuckle. I quickly star
#Chapter108Mia's POVI am currently at the dance studio in my school practicing for my dance competition with Ash. Both of us are doing a duet. But at the same time I am also doing a solo performance which is exciting yet tiring. We have been practicing for almost 2 hours. We took a break as Ash and I sat down. "Gosh this is so tiring."Ash groaned while I laughed knowing how much of a complain queen he is. "You are such a complain queen." I said as he stuck his tongue. As he saw the time, "Shit. I gotta go Mia. My mum wanted me to come home early." He said as he start to pack. I bid him goodbye as he left.I went back to train for my solo dance. After another 1 and half hour, I decided to head home.I realized my phone was dead. I shrugged it off. As I was walking down the street, it suddenly start to rain.If it was anyone else they would have run off. But I love the rain. I started to skip and hum random tunes while getting wet in the rain. When I reached our house gate,
#Chapter109Mia's POVI woke up to my alarm ringing. Groaning I wake up. I rub my eyes to get off from my sleep. Soon I realised what happen yesterday. I can't believe anything. It felt like a dream. But I know it's not by the way my sister is squealing downstairs.The scary man is going to be family. Gosh I should really stop with 'scary man'. You cannot blame me though. He really is scary. I shook my head as I went to take my shower. After doing my morning routine I grabbed a pink summer dress with a white shoe and a white bag pack and got ready for school.I went down to greet my family. My mum gave me breakfast which I quickly start to eat. "Mia, come back home early would ya. The Mariano's are coming to have dinner with us." My dad said. I saw my sister smiling dreamily. I instantly tensed. I just nodded my head at him. "Also you and Olivia would be going shopping." My mum said.I groaned while my sister squealed. I love my sister and all but gosh I hate shopping with h
#Chapter110The entire time we were having our food, he kept glaring holes at the waiter. The waiter, who was oblivious to his glares, kept looking my way. Soon we were done with our food and had requested for our bill. Damien and Olivia started to argue on who was going to pay the bill.I just sat and waited. Soon the waiter came and that's when I saw his name badge. Adrian. Nice name I thought to myself. He was holding onto the bill and I thought he was going to give it one of them. But instead he gave it to me.Both of them stop arguing and stared at me. I fiddled with the bill. I thought I might have to pay the bill. As I was going to pay the bill, Damien snatched the bill and placed the bill amount. He started to glare holes into the back of the bill."Excuse me. I have somewhere to go." He said as he quickly stood up and left. Olivia and me just stared at each other. The waiter cleared his throat. "Oh, please you may take the money and go." Olivia said to him. He nodded his
#Chapter111Mia's POVTo say that dinner was boring would be an understatement. Everyone was busy with each other. Me on the other hand was just eating the delicious food and texting Ash constantly as I was very bored. We were sending each other jokes.One of the joke Ash sent me really made me laugh. Which draw attention from everyone. Everyone was looking at me as if I was crazy. However the scary man was glaring at my phone. I apologised and started to eat again.Soon we were done. Olivia was keep talking to the scary man. Like literally. She was clinging on to him. Olivia has dated several boys but she never and I mean NEVER was this crazy.We were in the living room. I sat in one of the coach with my mum while Olivia sat with the scary man. our dads went to my dad's office room.Suddenly, Olivia's phone. She excused herself and left. And we are back to the scary man staring at me. I swear this man loves to shoot me with his glares.We sat there with complete awkwardne
#Chapter112Mia's POVI was in school right now. With Ash trying to find seats with our lunch trays in our hands. The canteen seems to be crowded. " hey I found a spot for us to seat." Ash exclaimed. finally. We took our seats quickly and start to eat."So how was dinner yesterday. Anything interesting?" Ash asked as he wiggled his eyebrows at him. I threw my fries at him.He started to laugh at me. I just stick my tongue out at him. I had just told him about the café incident. And then I told him about how the scary man is going to marry Olivia. When he had heard about, he was quite shocked to the say the least.But then he started to laugh his ass off about how I call Damien 'scary man'. I just rolled my eyes at him."Answer my question." He asked once he stop laughing like a hyena. "Nothing. We had dinner and they left." I said to him.I didn't want to tell him about our little incident. His eyes still send shivers down my spine. Soon we were done. We had one last lesson
#Chapter113Mia's POVHere I am sitting in front of my mirror trying to process everything that happen yesterday. My parents told me not to go school as they had to talk more about the wedding. Why does this happens to me.Thinking about it, why did the scary man chose me? I mean my sister is a model, popular, pretty, smart and outgoing. Me on the other hand, plain, high school girl.This man is really is confusing. I prepared myself to go down and face my parents. Here goes nothing.I slowly made my way down to meet my parents. As I step into the living room, I saw my parents and Olivia sitting in the couch."Morning mum and dad." I greeted them. They turn to face me. "Morning sweetheart. Come and take a seat." My dad greeted me. I nodded and went to seat beside him.My dad took a deep breathe before starting. "Listen sweetheart, I know all of this a bit sudden and all. But Damien is a good men." He said. The scary man is good man? Haha."You will be happy with him. The we
#Chapter141EpilogueMia's POVHere I am standing in line waiting to be graduate. Yes you heard me. I am graduating. I am finally graduating. As much as I am excited to graduate, I'm gonna miss high school. High school is the only time you get to have fun.Make mistakes and laugh about them. A time that we will always cherish. I'm sure I'm gonna cherish these moments. I mean I literally got married when I was in high school.Talking about it, the whole school came to know that I'm Damien Mariano's wife. When people came to know about it, I was the hot topic of the school. Like literally. Everyone kept coming to me and asking how is it to be Damien Mariano's wife.It was overwhelming. But Ash was over there to help me. Lucky me. But people started to come into terms with it."Next, Amelia Mariano." yap. You heard it right. I changed my name to Mariano. Damien and me were having this discussion the other day. I wanted to do something for him, hence I agreed. You should have
#Chapter140Amelia's POV2 WEEKS LATERToday is the day. My competition. To say I am nervous would be an understatement. I'm having sweaty palms and cold feet. Ash and I have been practicing a lot the last 2 weeks. Without break. We can do this. I kept repeating this to myself.That's not the only thing. Damien said he has a surprise for me. I don't know what is it. I hope is not bad or I'm gonna whoop his ass.Damien and I have become very close these days. He has just return back to his work. No matter how many times we tell him to rest at home he wouldn't listen to any of us. Stubborn man.Also my graduation is tomorrow. I'm so excited.Ash is sitting beside me as we do some stretches before going. We were at the backstage as we listen to the host talking. He was going to introduce the chief guest."Now we call upon our Chief Guest Mr Mariano." When he said my eyes were almost bulge out. The claps were heard as I saw Damien coming up to the stage. His eyes darted to th
#Chapter139Mia's POVHere I am standing waiting for the doctor to say something as he checked. "Well he's statics are normal. Everything is normal. Just make sure he takes good rest. No stress for the time being. Follow the medication that I have prescribed." he stated as he got his medical kit."You sure doc? He's completely fine right?" I asked worried. Both the doc and Damien chuckled. "Im sure Mrs Mariano." he assured me. I nodded my head at him."I'll show him out." Marry suggested. With her left, it was left with Albert, my mum, my dad and my sister.Albert went and took a sit next to Damien. "You gave all of us heart attack, my son." he said as he pat his shoulder. Damien chuckled at that."I'm a Mariano. We are tough." he said with a smirk. "That we are son." he said as he suddenly hugged him. I just admired the moment.After that my dad, mum and sister went together to tell their well wishes. It was a heart warming scene to see. The four of them came to me to r
#Chapter138Mia's POV(Time skip)Its been one and half months since he has been in a coma. He has been transferred back home. The doctors thought it is better for him to be somewhere he is accustomed too.I have been in his side the entire side. I never went to school. I had stopped eating properly. The first week in his coma I didn't eat anything at all. I didn't even shower fearing he might wake up then.Ash swing by everyday bringing in my school staff and to check up on me. He always encouraged me to be strong for him.I wanted to be beside him when he wakes up. But my Dad and mum made me eat and shower. Yap. My dad, mum and Olivia came rushing down when they heard about. I ended crying in their shoulders when they came.Mary insisted that I go to school, stating she can look after him. But I declined. I wanted to be by his side. I need to be by his side. That's the only way I can be strong.Right now I am sitting beside him in the bed holding onto his hand. Its nigh
#Chapter137Mia's POVIts been 2 days since he left. 3rd morning I woke up without him beside me. I was missing him. Every time we spoke I could tell that he was missing me too, I cant wait to see him.I stood up and head to shower. Once showering and getting ready for school, I went down and saw Mary. I greeted her. She greeted me back. I took an apple as I went to take my car and drove to school.The other night when he called me, he told me to use any of his cars. But I insisted on using mine. I missed riding in my car.Upon reaching my school, I went to my locker. I saw Ash waiting for me. I took out the books I needed and shut my locker."Why are you looking so gloomy?" he asked me. "Nothing." I said and walked to our class. "Don't lie. Let me guess. You miss your husband right?" he asked me as we sit down.I sighed as I nodded my head. "Don't worry. He will be back soon." he assured me. "He said it will take another 2 more days." I said to him. "Oh." Is what he said. "
#Chapter136Mia's POVAs he promised, we did everything I wanted. We played video games till lunch. It was so much fun. At the beginning we kept losing to each other bit as the level got harder, we both lost in the game. We kept laughing until our stomach start to hurt.During lunch, Damien cooked us steak with mash potato. I gotta say, he's a quite the cook. After our lunch, we thought of just watching movies. The entire afternoon we spent on watching transformers. (Don't judge)I don't know how the day went by so fast but it went in a blur. We ordered some pizza for the night. We just talked and laughed as we ate our pizza.I learned so much about him. When he was in high school, he was a rugby player. He was a mommy's boy when he was young. That was until he was 0 years old. His mother passed away when he was 0 years old.I was so sorry for him. He turned cold after that. Until today. His favourite color is navy blue, his favourite hobby is going to the gym and favouri
#Chapter135Mia's POVAs I was waiting for Damien to pull up, it started to rain. I couldn't help it but get wet in the rain and play.I looked around and saw no one was there. I had stayed back longer than usual as I was rehearsing for the dance competition.By the time I was done, everyone has left. It was Friday so I wasn't expecting any less. Here I was in the middle of the road dancing like a fool that I was.I didn't care about anything to be honest. I loved the rain. Somehow it comforted me. For a few minutes I was just spinning and running around. As I stood there enjoying the rain,I felt two arms circling around me. Startled I turn around and saw Damien. My heart was racing being startled. My breathing was uneven.He was looking right into my eyes. His blue oceanic eyes were gazing at my hazelnut brown eyes. The rain was drops were dripping from his forehead down to the tip of his nose and pass through his lips and disappeared to his chest.He looked different.
#Chapter134Amelia's POVHis confession made my eyes go wide. Did he really mean what he say? I was just looking at him all this while. Just staring at him"Say something please." he looked at me pleadingly. I just stared at him in disbelief. I didn't know what to say."I know you would be mad for asking you in marriage, but I didn't know what else to do. I can't marry your sister when I am in love with you. That is why I asked your parents in hand marriage of you instead of your sister.""But then I realised that you were scared of me. I know when we first met I told you some mean things but that was because, I was scared of falling for you. But when I realised that I had already fallen it was too late. I did everything I could so that you wouldn't be afraid of me."I was blank. He did so much for me. I had all this while thought wrong about him. I was such an idiot. Without saying I hugged. I kept saying sorry, not knowing what else to say."I'm so sorry. I didn't know any
#Chapter133Mia's POVWe were driving for some time before he pulled into a familiar place. It was my favourite diner in the city. Usually my parents and Olivia doesn't like it if I were to come and eat here as they state its not our standard.But the food here is amazing. Especially their pie and milkshake. It was something to die for. As I was in excitement, I didn't realise my door opening.The scary man had open the door for me. Without saying anything at all, we walked right in. And to top it all he went to my favourite seat. The window seat. The view of the city from there is amazing to say the least.As we sat down I was still in shock. How did he know about this? Was this coincidence or did he actually know about it? But how."H-How did you know?" I asked astonished. He just chuckled. "Its a secret." he said as he start reading the menu.Just then Tanner, a 15 year old waiter came. "Hey Mia!" he cheered. "Hey Tanner. How ya doin?" I asked him. He just shrugged and ch