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"The wedding is in two weeks" her eyes sparkled when she said this.

"Wow congratulations mom! I never knew you and dad decided to get married again"

"No you silly" she chuckles and shakes her head, "As much as I like this idea, it's not our wedding I'm talking about"

"Then whose?" I have a feeling this is not going to end well

"Yours... Lucrecia and Ezra Ambrosia" 

What?!

"How? I mean Ezra never mentioned this sudden change of plans... What's the rush anyway?" I said composing myself

"I know that honey, but even Ezra is unaware of it"

"Mother, what do you mean that he is not aware of this?! It's our wedding for Christ sake!" saying I rose my hands in air dramatically, "You should have at least asked us if we were comfortable in the first place"

"Crecia..." I know that tone very well, she narrows her eyes at me, "Aren't you happy with this relationship? I thought you of all people would come asking me if we can hurry up and do a small ceremony"

"Why of course I am happy mother" I sighed, "What if there's an emergency business call?"

"I'm sure both of your P.A. knows their job very well" she huffed

"So how come Ezra doesn't know about this? and why the rush?"

"Cleone called Xavier asking us to meet him, later that evening we went to their place. They told us about Ezra's plans for a press conference to make your engagement news public. Later they told us that... since everyone knows now that you are engaged to each other..."

"... Let me complete the sentence for you. They thought it would be great if we get married as soon as possible; and merge their companies" I cut her off.

"That's because..."

"Because what mother?!" I didn't let her finish the sentence and she threw me a glare.

"Stop cutting my sentences in between and listen up. Cleone has a hole in his heart"

"WHAT?!" Holy! That explains why he is always sick these days.

"Yes. The day after you had announced your engagement with Ezra, they went for a regular check up and when the reports came, The doctors told that he had not one  but two holes in it"

"Oh my. Does Ezra know?" That's horrible. Maybe I should stop calling him a chihuahua. What? How does calling him a chihuahua and his father's sickness are relatable you fool?!  Okay maybe I will continue calling him a chihuahua but I still feel bad for him. Drama Queen!

"They are planning on telling him today"

"Umm hmm? And?"

"The doctor said that, there's only 50 percent chances of his survival following a surgery. So we all decided that it would be better if the wedding is held in two weeks and then he can have a surgery afterwards"

"Ezra will lose it" I whispered, "Mother, I gotta go. Ciao" I blew her a kiss

"Bye honey, take care of Ezra"

"Ja ja ja" saying I hung up the call.

Can my life get anymore dramatic?! I swear I could earn more if I make a movie out of it. Do give me a role if you ever get down with it. Ah how can I forget you inner self. Such a lady you are *ahem* you sure are getting a role. I mean half of the things you say make it seem more dramatic than it already is. Bitch!  Ignoring my talkative inner self, I placed my phone on the glass table top and thought of sleeping to past sometime. 

Sleep didn't came to me. It has been an hour and half since I'm turning my sides on the bed like a freaking caterpillar. So caterpillar turns itself huh?!  What it doesn't? Sorry my biology is weak but you got the idea. So your Biology is weak... oh?!  Shut up.

This whole time my thoughts drifted back to Ezra. I mean there's no doubt that I am ready to back off this marriage but I don't have a choice either. The thing is I don't actually know him. I mean how much information does any search engine or gossip magazine provide you apart from what his abs looks like or how many hook-ups he have had. I wanted to know who really Ezra Ambrosia is behind the closed doors. You're only curious to find out what he really looks like behind the bathroom door. Bitch. Pervert. Ugh shut up. Will come back to give you wake-up calls every now and then. Pushing naked Ezra's thoughts aside... Ha! see I knew you were thinking about that!

I got up from the bed and moved out of my room to the awfully quite hallway. Don't get me wrong, I am not a stalker or something but right now I'am way to bored and also the curiosity of getting to know more about Ezra is making me do it. You know right that Curiosity  killed the cat?   And satisfaction bought her back to life. Huh do whatever you want to do. But then don't complain that I did not warn you!  I was confused as to from where I should begin my exploration... Dora the freaking Explorer!  Could you just stay quite for some time? I'm trying to do something important. Ja ja ja!

I made my way towards Ezra's office; I mean that's a safe choice and who knows I might find something and hold against him and then find my way out of this mess? *eye rolls*  I turned the door knob and entered in a beautiful space. Ezra's office comprised of a wooden table on far end on my right and a rocking chair on the very end of the room near the window. On to my left side, there is a huge book shelf that reaches quite the roof and it had all sorts of books ranging from fiction, to auto-biographies and almost everything. There were two lounge chairs in front of the book shelf separated by a small coffee table. A big fluffy rug was spread in the center of the room. The office was warm yet cozy and had a digital-modern fire place in the center of the wall along side the window.

I moved into the room and went straight to the bookshelf, scanning for a good read to pass my time. I happen to get my hands on Wuthering Heights and took it out of the shelf. I noticed that, it was one of the first editions of the book; I wonder how Ezra managed to get his hand on it. Making a mental note to ask him about this, I made my way towards my bedroom. I know I was here to find something against him but I didn't feel like doing it. Call it a change of heart but invading his personal space to get things done is not really my style. I would find my way out by some other means rather than doing this. Also the book shelf really called me in and that is actually why I spared Ezra this time. 

Having spent the next two hours reading this book in my room, I got bored again. I wanted to do something more exciting and I needed something to work on. Heck even Ela didn't send me anything from the office to start working on. It was then I thought of exploring the house. I kept the book where my phone was lying and moved out of the room. I stood in front of Ezra's bedroom door. Shaking my head, I dropped the idea of checking out his room, yeah because that's invasion of personal space right?!  Right!  Oh c'mon.! Just take a look for heaven's sake. He's not even here in the first place. Also when will you ever get a chance to take a look at the lion's den?  You mean to say more like a chihuahua's kennel?  Ja ja ja. Just take a look. It won't hurt you. I guess you're right; saying I went in.

Ezra's room was fairly spacious. It was as if an artist have had splashed some gold, creme and teal colors altogether. A round shaped king sized bed was placed in the center of the room and in front of it was a TV hanging from the ceiling. The sheets were all black and silky. A dark marble texture accent wall was behind the bed as the main attraction of the room. On my left, on the very end of the room were doors that led towards the bathroom and attached walk-in closet. A chest of drawers were placed on the farther right of the room, beside which there was a real fire place. Two love seat couches were placed in front of the fire place with blankets kept on it for the sake of aesthetics.

I moved further into the room and took in every small detail of it. The bed looked well made and the room was fairly clean. I wonder if he likes to keep his things in a systematic way or is it just that he haven't even entered the room which is why it is clean? Whatever that might be but all I got to know about Ezra is that, he definitely has a good taste. He did a great job in designing and decorating the place. I then moved around to the fire place and sat on one of the couches, taking a look at everything when I found something unusual. The chest of drawers weren't the normal ones in which we stack our clothes or makeup. It was quite big for it to be like a regular one and also it's style was unique. Wanting to see what's inside, I walked towards it. I did not hear anyone enter the room and just when I was about to open it, a voice spoke,

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"

I was so startled by the voice that I accidentally pulled the drawer along with me and fell on the ground. I look up to see a furious Ezra sending daggers at me. If looks could kill, I would have been 16 feet down. But what shocked me wasn't Ezra but the things that splurged out of the drawer... Guns and ammunition. Fuck.

"I... umm..." I tried to speak up but Ezra cut me off

"I CLEARLY TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM MY ROOM!" I finched at his voice, "Haven't I Lucrecia?"

"Ah.. Yes... But I was bored?"

"Bored?! Ah fuck me!"  gladly,  "IF YOU WERE SO FUCKING BORED THEN GO WATCH A MOVIE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON! Didn't your parents teach you what personal space is?"

I was getting irritated by his tone of voice and the fact that he dragged my parents in this is NOT GOOD, "STOP SHOUTING AT ME! And care to explain what is this?!" I pointed at the guns that were lying beside me

"Who do you think you are? Why should I answer you huh?"  he huffed.

"You are bound to answer me dammit! I'm soon marrying a psycho who stacks guns in his drawers where normal people keep their clothes"

"Very well then" He smirked, "I'm glad you found out who am I and what am I capable of doing..." he dangerously took a step towards me, "... so now be a good girl and go to your room and get all dolled up. We have a party to attend"

"I. am. not. going. anywhere. with. YOU!" 

I tried to go to my room when he suddenly grabbed my wrist and spun me around. He held me by my cheeks forcefully and made me look into his eyes.

"You will do as I say. Or else we won't like the end results" saying he pushed me away.

I was beyond angry with how he treated me and before I could control, my hand connected with his cheek. "Asshole" saying I left an angry beast.

Holy shit you actually slapped him Lucrecia!  I know.

I think I just started a war...

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It's WAR TIME!

There you have it guys! Today's chapter was fun to write. I think I'm actually spoiling you guys with long-ass chapter haha!

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