It's been three weeks and let me tell you, my life has never been this juicier. Where do I even start?

The night that motherfucker stood me up, I changed into my pajamas ready to sleep at nine on a Friday. I was so angry, I really couldn't get past it. I was mostly angry at myself for allowing him to play me.
I felt so ridiculous that I came up with another lie on why my "rendez-vous" with dad was cancelled when Bella asked. The frustration wouldn't even let me sleep.

Fed up with all the bullshit, I gave myself a pep talk.
Harshly insulting myself, I took the conclusion that no boy deserved this much of my energy. So I woke up and called my homeboys to go and party like we usually did every weekends. I thought Bella would be up to it since earlier she had mentioned that she needed a break from everything, but she told Dylan to come with us and have fun. I think she was avoiding him.

We went to our usual spot, had a bunch of drinks and played around like usual. I got really drunk and even went to a handsome guy's crib. Fun fact? I couldn't bang him because my stupid head wouldn't get over the other mother fucker. But the guy was so nice about it, he drove me to my apartment and even made sure I was safe.

The next Saturday, I got this nasty hangover that didn't disappear the whole day. To be honest, I wasn't mad at it, at least it gave me an excuse to not go out. That night I had the weirdest dream, actually a fantasy. The dream was of me and Kaiden fighting about something I couldn't remember, and us having some make up sex. Like what the fuck? I woke up feeling so ashamed and so dirty. That was red flag number one. And when the next day I couldn't stop thinking about it and how good it would be? It was a second red flag and that's when I realized I had a crush on a man. An asshole to be precise. The only positive point about all of this is that it took my mind off of my mom thing.

I couldn't bring myself to have a crush on that  person for fuck sake so I took the decision to get busy with my work. For the next week I went back to intensely drawing and even got back in contact with my family except my sister. She was dead to me anyways. Dad had suggested that I plan an exhibition at the gallery to showcase my work and some other artists which was a great idea.

In the meantime, Bella really got serious with her thought and asked for a break with Dylan. Dylan had panicked and tried to know what was happening but I couldn't help him because she told him exactly what she told me.

One thing is for sure, when I was drawing, my mind and soul focused on just that. The bad thing, I always drew things that reflected my mood.

I was going to exhibit two of my pieces,
One was of a man only in boxers sitting on an old tall window, holding a candle that was only reflecting to his face. On his side, was a very cute cat that was looking at him. Surrounding was pure darkness and some raindrops on the window.

The second was of a man fully clothed in a tuxedo chocking a completely naked woman on a very ancient brick wall. I made the room look like a castle. Beside them was an extremely cute fluffy puppy that was shyly looking forward not daring to look at them.

Both had something in similar but I couldn't place what. The obvious was of two cute animals belonging to the two men. On a closer inspection, the first man kind of had Kaiden's face structure and the second man had Kaiden physique from the back. What the fuck?
In my defense I was an artist and like I said, most of the times I drew my mood. It was an honest, unconscious mistake. But I didn't have time to rectify anything because I only had one more week to the event and I wasn't done with the decoration, invitations and even choosing other drawings that could be showcased as well.

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Today was Thursday and the exhibition was tomorrow. Everything had fallen in place.
I decided to name the exhibition "Pain-ish" because all the paintings had some darkness in them. The ish was for the cute animals that made them brighter and cuter.

The decor was very antique and modern at the same time. We had chandeliers and some candles surrounding all the arts that would be showcased except mine and one other masterpiece that I chose myself. Of course since the exhibition was mine, to make it special, I put the three arts on auction at the end.

I and Bella had shopped for the special occasion.
I even invited Jack, Kaiden's room mate because we had actually talked in between and had kind of became friends.

" I can't wait for tomorrow. The world need to see my  new sexy ass." Bella says as we lay in my bed exhausted.

" Girl don't even. I am so anxious and tired. I legit can't feel my arms and legs." I say. These had been the most fruitful two weeks of my lazy ass until now.

" So do you think there will be handsome guys?" Bella says turning her head to me.

" I don't know. But everyone had a plus two and I invited about twenty people. You, me , the boys, Dad and Paul excluded so we'll see." I say though I wasn't really interested in hooking up with someone just yet.
" wait, you are asking this for me right? Last time I checked y'all took a 'break'" I say air quoting the break thing. Kind of thought it was ridiculous to me.

" Yeah, totally. So do you think your brother will come?" She says going back to looking at the ceiling like me.

" I mean, he better. You want to know because?" I ask her fully giving her my full attention now.

" Bro calm down. You know we are just friends. Plus it's kind of awkward between me and Dyl so I just want to know if I'll be with someone, while you entertain you guests." She says on her defense.

" Right." I say suspiciously not fully convinced. Bella was usually the shy type so her wearing a revealing
outfit was kind of weird. Unless she secretly wanted to tease Dyl.
We chatted a full hour about tomorrow's event and decided to call it a night at around nine because I had to wake up early and prepare everything before the night.

I woke up at around nine and drove immediately to the gallery. Selected some classical music with the dj and briefed the five waiters that I hired about the wines they would serve. So everything was now perfect. To answer you, yes my Dad was paying for the event that's why I was affording everything. He had said it was to make up for my sister's behavior and who I am to refuse?

I went home and started to prepare for the night.
My outfit was out of the norm. Who said you can't wear corsets fashionably? My outfit was of an off shoulder green corset, a long pleated loose black skirt that had a slit on the left that reached mid thigh. I wore black open high heels with it. For the accessories, I put on a big emerald BIB necklace with its earrings and a bracelet.
Bella wore a total black outfit of two pieces. A crop top and a long skirt that had a long slit at one side as well, paired with black open heels.
Overall, we looked gorgeous.

The event was going as planned until now. The only light we had was of the candles for now, we would switch the chandeliers on for the auction. I only knew half of the people that were there so it was really good seeing new faces. Even Jack came through with thankfully one of his friends that wasn't Kaiden. Perfect.

When the other arts were all sold out a bit later, we opened the room we had reserved for the auction.
I did on purpose to make the room smell like books. I loved the smell of old books.
Everyone took a number to bid, they all took their reserved sits. Everyone had called earlier to check in their plus ones so it was easier to reserve their seats together.

My first art of the man sitting alone that I had named (AUGUSTUS) was bidden by an old woman named mrs Harriet, at seventy thousand US dollars. She said it reminded of her long passed husband.Safe to say I wasn't deceived.

The second art of the man chocking the woman in a castle that I named ( Alcyone and Ceyx) was bidden at about two hundred thousand US dollars by a young very handsome guy named mr Alexander. Accompanied by a beautiful lady by his side, they were works of art themselves. He was fully dressed in a tuxedo but you could see his neck tattoos from his shirt. If I wasn't in the mood I was in, i would totally banged that.

After giving short thankful speech for the most successful night of my life, we called it a night.
Mr alexander had given his number to Bella to give it to me. Like How? It flattered me a lot, I wasn't sure I would give him a call though.
Reaching home, we find a car parked just beside our entry at the apartment.

" Go in, I will be there in a minute." I tell Bella when I realize who it was.
He was leaning the car looking in our direction. I take a small breath and step out of the car. I had the best night and no one would ruin that for me.

" Hi!" Kaiden says when I approach him.

" Hi!" I say back.

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Author's note: Whew, this was the longest chapters so far. You better appreciate it you pieces of scum😂😂😂. Can we talk about Bella? What do you think is happening with her? Also Mr alexander is a piece of meat. Why is Kaiden playing though?
Lastly I put Ivy's outfit at the beginning of the chapter if you want to see what she wore.
Our girl has a crush y'all 😭😭😭

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