Laila's POV

I open my eyes to see Addison laying next to me with a horrified look on her face. I sit up and see we're both in my bed.

"What's wrong?" I ask in a raspy voice.

"Did we?" she whispers.

"Did we what?" I rub my sleepy eyes and look around.

"Did we have sex last night? You did use protection right?" she asks trying to hide her smile.

"Oh shut up! You wish we had sex you pervert." I get up and walk towards my bathroom.

"Oh ya I totally wanna have sex with you." she says sarcastically. "So you never really finished telling me what happened yesterday with you and Seth." Addison got up and walked into the bathroom with me.

"Well we had lunch, went lasertagging, and bowling." I said brushing my teeth.

"That's it? No birthday sex? Did you at least kiss him?"

"I kissed his cheek." I put my contacts in and washed my face. Addison walked over to the sink and took the spare tooth brush.

"Did you like the kiss?" she asks me with toothpaste dripping from her mouth.

"Ya it was great. His cheek is so soft." I start playing with my hair thinking about the kiss. That was just his cheek, can you imagine what his lips feel like?

"Oh my god! You're in love with him." she says shocked.

"No I'm not! Are you crazy? I'm not in love with Seth!" I deny it.

"You totally are!" Addison screams.

"Don't be ridiculous Addison. Mr. Donovan is a happily engaged man that doesn't belong with that two timing tramp! Did I just say that?" I ask shocked.

"Yup. Wow Laila I didn't know you were the jealous type." Addison said with a smirk.

"Ya me either." I mumbled getting ready for work. When I get down stairs, eggs and bacon are already on the table.

"So are you going to tell Seth that you're in love with him?" Addison asked me while shoving 7 pieces of bacon into her mouth.

"Of course not. Why would I do that?" I finish up my eggs and put my plate in the sink.

"Well for starters Ciara's only marrying him for publicity, you're in love with him, and he's in love with you." Addison says like it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"What makes you think he loves me back?" I slip my heels on and head for the door.

"What makes you think he doesn't? Oh come on Laila can't you see it?!" Addison yells after me as I walk out of the front door.

"Well apparently not. I'll see you when I get home." I get into my car and head for work. Seth Donovan does not love me, he doesn't love anyone but himself. That's a fact, you can even ask him. Ciara and Seth are only marrying each other for their own selfish reasons. Even if I wanted to tell him he'll only reject me, so there isn't even a point in trying.

I pull into the office parking lot and head for the door. I see Mason waiting at the front door and he starts walking towards me.

"Hey Laila, here's her number." he says handing me a piece of paper.

"Who's number?"

"Remember the girl that I like."

"Oh ya. You want me to call her?" I ask taking my phone out to put the number in.

"Ya just tell her about me and how awesome I am."

"Ok. That sounds easy enough. I'll see you around Mason." I head into the building and type in the number on the paper. But before I could finish, my phone says this number already exists. I click the number and see Addison's face. Holy shit, Mason's in love with Addison? How the hell do they even know each other?

I quickly put my phone away as I reach my floor. I'll deal with her later. When I walk in, the whole office is in chaos. People are yelling and papers are flying all over the place.

"What the hell is going on?" I ask Lea while she tries to calm down her husband who just punched someone in the face.

"One of the workers came into work this morning drunk and just started to beat the crap of people. Then everyone started to hit each other for no reason."

"Who's the guy that's drunk?" I asked looking around.

"That one over there." she points to a guy with blonde hair who looks like he's just been hit by a bus. "His name's Jack." I see Jack trying to punch Charlie in the face so I walk over to him. I squeeze myself in between them as I attempt to push them apart but Jack grabs my arm and shoves me away. He then continues to try and punch Charlie but he's to damn drunk to even stand up straight.

"Jack calm down!" I yell at him but he pushes me away again and this time hits Charlie right in the jaw. I grab Jack's arm and with all of my strength, try to pry him off of Charlie.

"You bitch, get off!" Jack spins around, grabs me by my throat, and slams my head into one of the office cabinets. When I open my eyes to look at him I see a fist heading straight for my face. I close my eyes waiting for the blow but it doesn't come. When I open my eyes I see Seth holding Jack's fist in his hand, which is only a couple inches away from my face. Seth takes Jack by the collar and drags him towards the elevator. When they both reach the elevator Seth throws Jack in with all of his strength, pushing him onto the floor in the process.

"If you can't come to work without getting into fights with all of my employees, then don't even bother showing up!" Seth presses the button to the first floor and then turns to face everyone. "Get back to work, all of you." He yells. Seth then walks over to me and kneels down infront of me.

"Are you ok? How's your head?" he asks in concern.

"It's fine."

"No it's not, come with me." he takes my hand in his and leads me to the small kitchen they have in the back. Seth lightly pushes me into a chair and opens the freezer, he takes out an ice pack and places it against my head.

"That was a stupid move you know." Seth says to me as he holds the ice pack in place.

"Ya I think I figured that out right when I was about to get punched."

"I think you should go home. I don't want you over working yourself today." Seth says to me.

"I'm fine don't worry about me, I just hit my head." I try to stand up to show him I'm fine but he pushes me back down into the chair.

"You did not just hit your head, you got it slammed into a cabinet." he pushes the ice pack a little harder into my head and I wince. "Sorry."

"No it's fine, and you're right it was a stupid move but I was only trying to help Charlie."

"Charlie is more than capable of helping himself. Now come on." Seth says standing up.

"Where are we going?" I ask standing up as well.

"We're going shopping." Seth grabs my hand again and drags me to his car

"And what exactly are we shopping for?" Seth opens the car door for me and I get into the passengers seat.

"I need a tux for the wedding and I need your opinion." he starts the car and heads for the mall.

"Why does my opinion matter, shouldn't you go with Ciara or one of your guy friends?" I mean it's not like I'm his fiancé or anything even though I really want to be. God shut up Laila, you're talking nonsense.

"Why would I go with them? They're all idiots, and what do you mean, your opinion means a lot to me." We pull into the parking lot of The Grove shopping mall. This mall is freaken expensive so I hope I'm not expected to buy anything.

"Can I ask you a favor?" Seth asks me as we walk through the doors of one of the most expensive malls in America.

"Ya sure."

"Can you be my best man at my wedding?"

"What?" I ask in surprise.

"Can you be my best man at my wedding, well woman?" he asks again.

"Don't you already have people for that?"

"Well ya but I need six people but I only have five." he explains to me.

"How can you not get one more person, I can name about 12 people who would love to be your best man." Seth leads me into a tux store named Ryder's Tuxedo Shop.

"Well I only trust about a handful of people and you're one of them. So how about it?" he raises his eyebrows.

"Fine. But I get to choose my dress." I start looking through tuxes but they all just look the same.

"Fine by me. All of these are just the same damn thing!" Seth yells looking at the rack of tuxedos.

"Ya I can see that. Here try this on so we can get this over with." I hand him a random tuxedo and he walks to a changing room.

"I have a feeling you don't like shopping very much." I walk to the dressing room with him and I wait outside the door.

"I would much rather drown myself then go shopping."

"Well that's pleasant." I hear the door open and see Seth in the tux I picked out. "So how does it look?"

"Awe you look so handsome." I walk up to him and start to fix his tie.

"Really, it seems a little plain."

"Seth I know this is your wedding and all but technically this wedding's for Ciara not you." I say to him.

"What?" he asks me in confusion.

"No one, not even you can out shine the bride. So even though you're marrying her it's her wedding, everything has to be her way. A girls wedding day is the biggest day of her life, so everything has to be just right." I try to explain to him as simple as possible.

"So what you're trying to say is that I have to look as plain as possible so I don't take the attention away from Ciara?"

"Yup."

"Well that was easy enough, I already do that. Ok we have our tux, let's go." Seth changes back into his normal clothes and he pays for the tux.

"Would you like a pendent to match your lovely brides dress, sir?" the lady at the counter asks.

"Um I guess so." Me and Seth look down at the array of pendents in the jewelry case.

"Sweet heart what color is your wedding dress?" the lady asks me.

"Oh I'm not-" I start to say but she cuts me off.

"What's your name sweet heart?" she asks me.

"Um Laila."

"And yours darling?" she turns to Seth.

"Seth."

"Oh how about these two then?" the woman pulls out two dark blue diamond studded pendants that are shaped like an L and an S.

"It's beautiful but-" she cuts me off again.

"Alright then it's settled, you'll get these two." she packages them up and hands it to Seth. "Free of charge."

"Thank you." Seth says to the woman.

"No problem. You two have a wonderful life together." she yells after us. I try to once again explain to her that me and Seth aren't getting married but Seth pulls me away before I get a chance.

"Oh let her come to her conclusions." he says to me. "So where to now miss?"

"Well I need a dress-"

"Then it's settled we're getting you a dress. Let's go!" Seth demands walking towards an expensive store. "And don't complain about how you feel bad that I'm spending my money on you ok? Just pick a god damn dress so we can go, I'm starving."

"Fine, but let me warn you I'm extremely picky." I say to him.

"Ya whatever."

He leads me into the store and all I can see are dresses that I would have never imagined myself wearing.

"Alright pick a dress, I'll be waiting here." he says sitting down in a chair.

"But I need your opinion."

"Will I get to see you naked?" he asks.

"No."

"Then you don't need my opinion for anything, you're on your own sweet heart."

"Seth please." I beg getting onto my knees and making a puppy dog face.

"Oh come on Laila....Fine!" I grab Seth's hand and drag him to a huge rack of dresses.

"Ok, pick one." I say to him.

"What! This is your dress, you pick one."

"But I picked out your tux so it would only be fair if you pick out my dress. As long as it's not ugly." he then sighs and looks through the dresses.

"Well it's should be dark blue to match the pendent and my tie. So how about this one?" Seth pulls out a short strapless dress with probably about a million diamonds on it from head to toe.

"Um, how about no."

"Why?" he frowns.

"Because I can't out shine Ciara and that's the ugliest thing I've ever seen." Seth puts the dress back and pulls out about 10 more dresses. All of them being either really ugly, too shiny, or way to revealing.

"You're impossible!" he yells at me.

"I warned you." I protested.

"Now what? We've been here for an hour and I haven't even seen you naked once." he complains.

"Oh quit whining we still have-" there it is, the dress. It's perfect!

"Um hello?! Laila?" Seth waves his hand in front of my face but I just ignore him.

"Wait here I'll be right back." I race to the dress leaving Seth behind. I grab the dress as fast as I can, like I'm afraid someone might take it. I find a dressing room and quickly try the dress on. It's dark blue, fits me in all the right places, and isn't too shiny. The dress has a one shoulder strap, it's mid thigh, and plain. It's perfect.

(^^^Above is picture of dress, also the girl in the picture isn't Laila.^^^)

I walk out of the dressing room to see Seth waiting for me. Before I could ask him how it looks his eyes bulge out of his head and he nearly falls to the floor.

"Holy shit!" he says a little too loud.

"Does it look good?" I ask him. Seth straightens his jacket and starts to walk around me, eyeing me up and down.

"Well it makes you look nice, elegant, and fucking sexy all at the same time. So, ya it looks good."

"Really?!" I ask excited.

"Yup now you just need a pair of shoes and you're good." I look down to his hand and see a small bag that says Sunrise Diamonds.

"What's that?" I ask him.

"Oh I just bought some jewelry for, uh Ciara."

"Oh ok then. Let's pick out some shoes." We ended up only getting a simple pair of dark blue stilettos with little bows at the end.

"Ok now that we have your shoes that you'll probably break your neck in, can we go get something to eat now?" Seth pleads.

"Yes we can. What do you want to eat?"

"How about Chinese?" Seth suggests.

"Fine by me." we both head to the food court and grab our food.

"So when me and Ciara get married we have to go on our honeymoon." Seth says to me randomly.

"Well that's how marriage works."

"Ya but I have to go there a couple weeks early to get the place ready." he continues.

"Ok?"

"Will you come with me?" he asks me shyly.

"What? What do you need me for?"

"Well you're my assistant and you have to assist me." he says like it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"Fair enough. Where are you going for your honeymoon?"

"My private island in the middle of the pacific." he continues to eat but I just stare at him. "What's the matter?"

"You have your own private island?" I asked shocked. Next thing you know he'll have his own private jet.

"Ya, and we'll get there on my private jet." he says casually. Well shoot me in the face why don't ya.

"Well ok then." Huh, a private island and jet. I put another spoon full of fried rice in my mouth and slowly chew it. How much money does this man have? Jeez!

"You ready to go?" he asks getting up.

"Uh ya." Seth grabs my tray and throws away the garbage.

"Let's get outta here." he grabs my arm and heads for the exit but something catches my eye.

"Seth Victoria's Secret's having a 50% off sale, can we go?" I beg him.

"No I don't wanna go in there."

"Please." I make the puppy dog face at him again.

"Ugh! Fine. You really need to stop doing that." We walk into Victoria's Secret and it smells like 20 different perfumes.

"Damn how do people breath in here?" Seth complains. I ignore him and walk over to the bras and underwear.

"How about this one?" Seth picks up a tiny purple lace panty.

"How about I shove it up your ass?" I threaten him.

"Ok I guess not. This one?" this time he hold up a panty with pink leopard print.

"That has leopard print on it and it's pink." I say to him.

"So, leapord's pretty sexy."

"No it's not, put that thing back!" I yell at him.

"Fine, this one?" he holds up an underwear that's just plain black with little lace patterns on it.

"Oh that's actually cute." I say to him.

"Really? Ok anything else?"

"Ya I need the matching bra, duh." I pick up a bra that's my size and matches the underwear along with a couple other things. I walk up to the counter with Seth and before I could even blind he hands the lady money.

"Thanks! Come again." she says.

"Ok now can we leave?" Seth whines.

"Yes." we walk to the car and put our bags in the trunk. "I have a strong feeling you're going to drop me home and I'm not going to be able to get my car back anytime soon."

"Wow you catch on fast." Seth smirks.

"So when are we leaving to go to this private island of yours?" I ask him.

"In 3 weeks. So you have plenty of time to pack." Seth pulls into my driveway and gets out of the car to help me with the bags.

"No it's ok. I got it." I grab my bags from Seth.

"You sure?"

"Ya it's only a dress and some bras."

"Ok well, see you tomorrow sweet cakes." he says.

"Alright. Seth, thank you so much for today. I had a lot of fun." I kiss his cheek and head for my door.

"Anytime Laila." Seth gets back into his car and drives off. I step into my house and drop all of my bags onto the floor.

"ADDISON MARIE BELL!!!! WE NEED TO TALK!! NOW!!!"