Diana Rose POV-When we entered, we all almost cried after we found out what Isabelle had reserved was one of the VIP rooms for everyone.Because we were all excited to taste the food here, we almost ordered everything on the menu, that’s why when all our orders arrived, we put together what I think were fifteen tables to fit our foods.“Our drivers, please make sure they are eating.” I whispered to a person who took our order while eating.“Yes, ma’am.”“Thank you.” I said with a smile.While eating, we compliment each other on the food until the topic turns to the white holiday ball.“I’m excited. I should be able to invite my crush. This is my last chance!”“I invited my crush, and she said yes!”“I need to be beautiful so that my crush will notice me—hey, Brena! Don’t be too beautiful so that my crush will notice me!”“Hahaha, I will take that as a compliment,”“This will be our white holiday ball, so it must be memorable!”“I’m just excited to have a long vacation!”They say the
(The next day...)-Diana Rose POV-“Maybe you will be late, ma’am, and the main gate will be closed.”“Wait, I’m still thinking.” I answer.“But ma’am, I thought it was an engagement proposal yesterday. My chest heaved a little with nervousness because your parents and Dylan might scold me.”Yesterday I told the driver pretended he saw nothing yesterday, and I said that it was nothing and above all, don’t tell my parents, including Dylan.Yesterday...I did not answer.Yesterday, I was so stunned that I did nothing but run outside. But I think my run yesterday is the answer? I removed Shin’s grip on my hand.For a few moments, I was stopped when someone knocked on the window, and as soon as I saw Brena outside, I rolled down the window.Brena opened her mouth to speak, but she closed it then smiled at me.“Pease forget what happened yesterday.”“Yes ma’am, what happened yesterday has been deleted from my memory!”I knew the driver wanted to cheer me up, so I forced myself to smile a
Diana Rose POV-THIS IS THE DAY THE WHITE HOLIDAY BALL AT HEIRS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL.In the two weeks that have passed, I haven’t seen Shin and if it happens, we will meet again later to talk.I wore a simple long fitted emerald gown, I just put on simple make-up, and I reduced the rest of my fake hair, my fake acne, I also wear a pretty neat hair wig so that somehow Patrice will be presentable at the event.It’s already six in the evening and I’m just now going to the ball venue at H.I.S. gymnasiumThe ball starts at six in the evening. It is said that every student has a video entrance and that is what I avoid. I don’t want a lot of evidence about Patrice because just a few months after this, I will leave as Patrice.I thought it would be better if there weren’t too many memories for Patrice to not cause a problem in the future.How many times have I received texts and missed calls from Isabelle telling
Diana Rose POV - EVEN IF I DON’T LOOK AROUND, I can feel many pairs of eyes looking at Andrew and me, especially Brena’s pair of eyes. Before accepting Andrew’s hand earlier, I looked at Brena and before I could speak, Brena nodded and told me it’s okay without a voice, that’s why in the end I accepted Andrew’s hand and now we are in the middle of the dance floor. My hands were clinging to Andrew’s nape while Andrew’s hands were on my waist. “You alright?” I looked up at Andrew and saw his smile. At this moment, I realized something about that eight seconds… “You look tense?” Andrew said with a questioning smile. I want to ask him with a hint of sarcasm that how can I not feel tense if I feel almost all eyes are on the two of us? I don’t know if it’s because of Andrew or because everyone knows Brena likes Andrew and this is the guy my friend likes I’m dancing with.. “Don’t worry about other people. Just enjoy tonight.” So Andrew can feel the many eyes watching us? I wonder i
(After two months...) . . Diana Rose POV - Two months ago, after Darryl found out about my impersonation as Patrice in H.I.S. Because Darryl did not agree with what I did, I was forced to suddenly return to the old school I attended. He took care of everything that needed to be taken care of during my transfer and, worst, Darryl banned me from H.I.S. That’s why I couldn’t say goodbye to the entire class except for one person. I also had no contact with them because Dylan was watching my phone. Darryl’s strictness with me tripled in everything after that night, which became the cycle of my life after that night only at home and school for two months. Darryl also doesn’t don’t want talking about what I did at H.I.S. so my few friends at H.I.S have become just one happy memory. With the entire class. Darryl also threw away every piece of evidence that would remind me of Patrice, from the cosmetics I used, even school works and books and notebooks, papers, to the pictures of us wi
Diana Rose POV - I took a deep breath as I waited for the big door in front of me to open and call my name. One of the big hotels hosted my eighteenth birthday, not a mansion. All I know is this the new branch of this hotel just opened. I didn’t take care of it either. Mom and dad were hired to organize and make the celebration smooth. Another thing is that in the past two months, because of Darryl’s strictness with me, I did nothing if I didn’t go to sleep, so I don’t even know what the venue looks like and how many people attended. The help of the event organizer was great, because I didn’t take care of anything, I just measured clothes and feet for my shoes and then I attended my birthday. “Let’s welcome our debutant! Diana Rose Soleta!” I took a deep breath, the moment I heard my name from inside. I gathered my courage as I opened the door. I think mom and dad have many invited guests and I don’t want to embarrass them because of me. I want to be perfect tonight because alo
Diana Rose POV - I saw in my peripheral vision the crowd cheering as the spotlight followed Shin’s walk. But in the meantime, I felt and heard something else, if not the loud pounding of my chest as if someone was drumming inside it. I couldn’t blink my eyes as I followed Shin. I also keep hearing the word fiancee, or maybe I just heard it wrong? Right... Shin couldn’t have arranged for me. Not him, Andrew should be my fiance. “He looks familiar,” I heard Darryl whisper. If Darryl hadn’t held my hand, I might have let go of the red roses I was holding because I couldn’t feel the entire system of my body. I felt like I ran out of blood and oxygen and it was hard to breathe. “You have an arranged marriage. This is the surprise of mom and dad?” Darryl whispered. “I’ll talk to them later.” What Darryl added caught my full attention. “I’ll come with you when you talk to them, please?” “No problem.” Wait—what about Andrew? I looked at Andrew. Because the attention was not on him
John Andrew’s POV-When we got back to the mansion from the eighteenth birthday of what I thought was my fiance, I right away talked to daddy.“What happened? Wasn’t I supposed to be Diana Rose Soleta’s fiance? I already had an arranged marriage with her. You told me that. What happened? Why did my friend—why did Alex arrange a marriage with Diana?”Before this school year started, my parents told me I had an arranged marriage with the name of Diana Rose Soleta and would announce it today.At first, I planned to cancel the arranged marriage because I don’t agree with that matter. My parents can order me to do anything, they can expect me to do anything, run their company, get high grades, be top of the whole batch, start a business that can grow in company—all of that, they can expect me to do those things, but not marrying to someone I don’t love. But it was like magic fate brought Diana and me together. The moment I found out
Diana Rose POV-I want to hide my tears. I want to bring my tears back to my eyes but I can’t.“Diana, don’t cry anymore.” Isabelle said to me.“I can’t help it.” I said, still crying. “Hold it as long as you can—no until we finish putting all the makeup on your face.” All the makeup that will be used on you is waterproof, so once the makeup is done, you can cry and cry until your eyes will be swollen.”I was crying like crazy and laughed at Isabelle’s words.“This is what we’ve all been waiting for. This is the day that will happen, so your beauty should dominate. So stop crying.”“But—”“No buts, Diana. Will you stop or I will slap all the makeup in front of you?”I stopped crying and nodded before hitting all the makeup.THIS IS THE DAY.We waited one year and nine months before this special day, Alex and I’s wedding, will happen. The process took a long time after what happened before.Miracle was a bit traumatized by what had happened then, especially the loss of Ronald. Mirac
Diana Rose POV-“Miracle!”Before I could run to Miracle, I saw Ronald was hugging Miracle to protect Miracle from the gun bullets.The rain of gunfire stopped at the same time as Ronald fell to the floor while bathing himself in blood.“Ronald! Miracle!” I was full of worry and shouted as I ran towards them.“Mommy, Papa doesn’t want to get up!” Miracle said, crying. “We’re still going to eat, aren’t we?”After I made sure that there was not even a single shot of Miracle from the gun, I first shifted my other attention to Ronald.I gently tap Ronald’s face. “Ronald, please open your eyes. Please.”I smiled when Ronald’s eyes slowly opened.“How to stop the bomb in Miracle’s body? Where is the remote to stop the time bomb in Miracle’s body?”“Do you think that I can hurt my daughter?” he said faintly.I stopped for a moment and shifted my gaze to Miracle who continued to cry because of Ronald’s condition.“No,” I looked back at Ronald. “I think I was scared.” I also looked back at th
Diana Rose POV-We heard a police siren.“Dammit, how did they track it down?”“Ronald, please. Stop this. I’m sure Alex didn’t like what happened to your sibling.”I have to make a way for us to stay here until the police find us in this room.“Shut up! Whether or not Alex likes it, it’s still Alex’s fault!”“But, Ronald...”My lips twitched when Ronald pointed a gun at me.“Will you keep quiet or will I fire the first bullet of this gun at Miracle?” Then he pointed his gun at Miracle.I shook my head. “No, please. I will shut up. If you want, I will go with you now, just don’t hurt Miracle. Please.”Ronald punched my stomach twice, causing me to feel weak. I felt him loosen my handcuffs, but my stomach felt an unfamiliar pain.I want to fight this time, but my stomach is in so much pain that my whole body is almost numb.“Let’s see who is more important t
Alex POV-Dammit.I miss Diana and Miracle so much. I shouldn’t have returned to New York, especially if I knew I would be stranded at the airport for two days because of the typhoon, and if I wasn’t required in that emergency meeting, I wouldn’t have come back without Diana and Miracle.“I’m sorry, but could you please hurry?” I said to Paulo, Isabelle’s husband.I asked Paulo to pick me up because I know how fast he can drive. He is a doctor and once he drove an ambulance in which I was also riding and how he drove, he even beat the one in the race car.“I’ve already maxed the speed limit, Alex. If I speed up, I might be over-speeding. This is not an ambulance.”He is right.“One more thing, calm down. I will have delivered you in less than thirty minutes.”“Fine.”I tried to contact Diana’s phone number, but I still can’t contact her. When I landed here around seven in the evening
Diana Rose POV - While I was getting my jacket and my bag, I still tried to contact Ronald’s number but I couldn’t call his phone number even though I couldn’t count the number of times I tried to contact him. I couldn’t think of anything other than going to see Miracle right away. That’s why after I got my bag and jacket, I left the house, just in time for a taxi to pass by, so I stopped it right away. I didn’t waste a single second and told the taxi driver the address that Ronald sent me. “Ma’am, it’s farther and then it’s late—” “I will pay any amount as long as you take me to this address.” I beg in desperation. I understand why the taxi driver almost refused. It’s a bit late at night and maybe he still has something to go to but at this time I’m desperate and willing to give all the money I have just to go to Miracle right away. “You look in
Diana Rose POV-After I finished meeting Ronald, he insisted on taking me to Isabelle’s house. Ronald also told me that is why there was no one at the cafe where we met because he rented it for the entire day.“Oh, my gosh, Diana Rose Soleta, we met!” Isabelle shouted as I entered their house. “I’ve been waiting for you. Why did you just visit me now?”The weather was hot, so we just stayed inside their house.“Because l met Ronald.”“I see. I understand.”Like Ronald, I just met Isabelle again and just now I could contact her.“I thought you forgot about me.”“Sorry, if I just contacted you now. I’ve been busy these past few weeks.”“I’m just kidding. I understand. Are you and Alex getting along?”“Yes,” I said with a smile. “Our family is complete now. We’ve been together these past weeks.”Isabelle’s jaw dropped. In joyful surprise, Isabelle’s jaw dropped, and then she hug
Diana Rose POV-Three weeks had passed, but it was still like a dream come true that we have now completed as a family.We did nothing for three weeks except bond after taking Miracle from school. But every Friday night, Alex returns to New York and then returns Monday morning, but often when an emergency in the company he needs it, Alex is back in New York to take care of his work. “Mommy, when is daddy coming home?” Miracle asked me as we were cooking breakfast.“Tomorrow morning, baby.”“By the way, do you want to go to school anymore?”“Yes, mommy. I want to say goodbye to everyone.”“Okay, I’ll take you later. Then that’s the last time you attend that school.”Alex has taken care of all the documents for our departure back to New York. It is a good thing Miracle agreed to return to New York because she said she liked it because his grandparents and his favorite is Uncle Darryl.
Diana Rose POV-“You two finally made up!” Darryl said when Alex and I visited him in his hotel room. “I’m sorry if I told Diana what I know.”“I think that’s fine.”“Of course!” I said. “You should have told me everything before.”“Calm down, Diana. Let’s not bring up the past.” Darryl said teasingly.“I’ll just get Miracle and I’s stuff, then we’ll move to Alex’s house—”“Our home, Diana. That’s our home,” Alex corrected me. “Our home. Miracle and I are moving there.”“Moving house?” Darryl asked in surprise.“Yes, why?” I ask.“That’s all you’re going to do? I mean, what do you plan to do now that you’ve settled? Other than that, I think you’re going to tell Miracle the truth. What else do you plan to do?”Alex and I looked at each other at Darryl’s question.“You don’t have any other plans?” Darryl asked, out of concern. “Hey Alex, what are you up to?”
Diana Rose POV-STRAWBERRY SCENT scented my sense of smell when my spirit woke up. At the same, time I felt a lot of pain in my, body especially in the lower part of it.For a few moments, I felt the edge of the bed I was lying on sink a little and I smelled strawberry scent even more.“Good morning, my SB.”Then I thought of opening my eyes after I heard Alex’s voice.“Good morning—why are you naked in front of me?”Alex was wearing nothing but a white towel for his lower body while he was wiping his wet hair with a white small towel.“It’s like you didn’t touch my whole body, you didn’t lick my man—”“Stop it!” I held my breath, cutting off the teasing Alex said to me.Every time I remember what I did last night with Alex, I feel like my whole body is burning with the shame of what I did. I didn’t mean it, I was just carried away by my emotions from what we were doing last night.