🌹R O S E🌹

🌹CHAPTER FORTY - FIVE🌹

The dress is hot red colored and the fabric is soft, but still not silk like, and has an off shoulder neckline that makes my collar bones pop more and my chest. Because it is off shoulder, it doesn't have any sleeves but even though the dress doesn't have sleeves, I think it does look amazing.

It's a ballgown and it hugs my waist but skirt goes all the way down right above the floor, but it is larger at the back so it goes out further and actually onto the floor itself. The heels that I'm wearing, even tough I didn't want to wear heels, I had to, they are wine red gladiator heels that make me look taller, I'm still shorter than Alexander, though.

I look at myself in the mirror and this dress might not have been my style before but now I believe my fashion style is changing a little. This dress looks so good on me, I remember when I had tried it on in the store and it looks just as good on me now as it did then.

However, the make-up makes the whole look even better on me and I actually look even more beautiful now. I'm gorgeous, I know it myself and I can't help but admire my own beauty. I'm more of a natural beauty kind of girl, but now make-up doesn't seem that bad.

From the few weeks that I've been around Alexander I've changed a whole lot, I can feel that. And for once I'm not hating the changes in my life, I actually do like them. I like the fact that I've changed, and it are good changes, and not bad and horrible ones.

I can't help but continue to stare at me in the bathroom mirror, and I keep wondering how to make this look even more beautiful and how to make me more beautiful than I already am but no matter how much I think about it, I can't put my finger on it.

Though, I do feel like there is something missing with my look, and as much as I want to, I can't find what it is. I suppose it doesn't matter as I can't even figure that out. Taking a one last look at my beautiful self, I exit the bathroom and as soon as I step out of the bathroom, my eyes instantly search the room until they find what I'm looking for.

As soon as I find it, my eyes lock at Alexander. He stands up from the bed that he had been sitting on and his jaw is dropped open and his eyes are wide open. "I... you... uh... I..." He stammers, not even finding words to say and his eyes are looking at me up and down.

This is something you never hear from him, as this is the first time that I've actually heard him stutter or stammer, he's always so clear on what he says and wants. Sometimes it's even scary. The look he's giving me makes me blush, but he can't see that.

I also stare at him because he looks so handsome right now. He's wearing a black suit, with a black tie, and a white shirt underneath. Sort of like he always wears, but this is totally different. Even I can tell that this suit cost a lot of dollars, and that's why it's expensive and looks very comfortable and well-made.

Alexander clears his throat and his jaw closes and his eyes aren't as widened as they were."You look stunning" He says, as he found his voice again. My blush only deepens when I hear him say those three words and my heart skips a beat. "You don't look so bad yourself" I say with a smirk.

I wanted to say that he looks like a Greek god because he's so sexy at the moment but I don't do that, though I was very temped to do that. "I have a gift for you" He tells me and then he turns to the bed and picks up a box that was sitting on the bed.

I hadn't even seen that box before. Then again, my attention was a bit on Alexander to even notice anything else. A dancing hippo could have been in the penthouse and my attention would have still be on Alexander, that's what he does to me.

Walking over to me, he stands in front of me and holds the box out for me. "Open it" He whispers to me, I eye the box. It doesn't look like much on the outside, as it's only black. It looks a lot like a shoe box that is the colored black, only this box isn't as high as a shoe box would normally be.

Taking once glance up at him, I slowly reach my hands up to open the box and I left the top off the black box. And I let out a gasp when I see what is inside that black box. Holy mother of all mothers, that is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life. My eyes are so widened right about now and I can't believe what they are looking at.

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In the elevator we wait until it goes down, which doesn't take that very long but the tension is still there. After the gift he got me, I got even more nervous which should be impossible and I was also confused at my feelings. I have these butterflies in my stomach and they flutter around.

My heart is beating faster in my chest, as if it's in a race with something, only there is no race to begin with. "The ball will be heavily guarded and I've added a few bodyguards for the both of us" Alexander says while we're passing the fifteenth floor.

"Why so heavy guarded?" I ask him. It's just a ball and nothing more, well technically it is more but heavily guarded seems a bit too much and the extra bodyguards that he has assigned to us is a bit over the top. "For our safety of course" He tells me as if I'm supposed to know that.

Of course I know that it means to keep us safe, but why? Will we be in danger on that ball? "I don't want anything happening to you. Besides, sometimes things tend to get a bit crazy there" He says with a smile on his face and a soft laugh, as if he's remembering something from the past.

The elevator opens and we walk into the lobby, ignoring all the people that are gawking at us and taking pictures of us, I supposed we will have to get used to that now since I think there will some paparazzi's there, but he told me that they will be kept at a distance from the ball and the people that will be attending the ball.

"Crazy? Crazy how?" I ask him as we go outside and he opens the car door for me on the limousine that he has. He actually bought a limousine to take us to that ball, because he wanted to go there in style. "Oh, believe me, it can get pretty crazy" He says as he gets into the car after I go and closes the door.

"Strange people try to beet inside or others trying to smuggle something illegal into the ball. One year there was a drunk man with a gun who had wandered inside and started shooting at people with his girlfriend. Thankfully no one was hurt. Well, unless you count the fact that he was kicked below the belt" He says and chuckles at the memory.

I can't believe that, that actually happened at a ball. I guess these things are crazy. I'm just glad that no one got hurt. "He was kicked below the belt, how?" I ask him, still not even sure if I can believe the things he's saying to me. This story is so crazy that it doesn't seem like a kind of thing that had happened, then again it could have since strange things can happen in the world, at any time, even at a ball.

"You know, a foot coming with a lot of force hitting the crouch area, and it hurts" He says laughing, I roll my eyes at him. "I don't mean how, how. I mean why how" I tell him, waving my hands around, trying to explain this to him, but I feel like he already knows that.

"I know. There was an old lady, if I remember correctly. I can't remember who it was, but she was one of the people that almost got shot by that man and she got pretty angry and kicked him below the belt in anger, but she also hit him in the head with her purse and actually knocked him out" He says, we both share a laugh.

"No way, did that happen. What was in her purse? Bricks?" I ask laughing, joking really. I find his story unbelievable, yet believable. It's strange that I believe this story, yet I know that I shouldn't believe it. "The world will never know" He says in a mysterious voice.

I glance outside, and that reminds me. "Where is the ball being held?" I ask him, but I don't look at him, my gaze is outside. It is already turning a bit dark outside as the time is nearing eight in the evening. "You'll see" He says, again his voice is mysterious, I get the feeling he doesn't want me to know anything.

Then again, when does he want me to know something? He's always so secretive with everything and that does frustrate me, but I will not allow that to ruin my night. I'm going to have the best night of my entire life on that ball. Then my glance turn over to my neck, or more importantly what's hanging from my neck.

A necklace was in the box that he had given me and it's literally the most fanciest and most expensive necklace that I've ever seen in my life and talk about how beautiful it is. It also makes my look complete, this is what I was missing earlier when I was looking at myself in the mirror.

I had been really stupid when I didn't realize that all I needed was a necklace or something on my neck, but I never thought that he would give me a necklace like this, and it really makes me feel like royalty. Then again, being within him makes me feel like royalty.

My mom and dad never wanted to spoil me and that is why I was never allowed to have that much money or buy whatever I wanted or go wherever I wanted, then again I never wanted those things growing up. My whole life, even from the earliest memories, all I can remember is starting my own business myself with no help, like my mom did.

The necklace is completely made out of diamonds, and they're in different sizes too. Around each diamond there is a chain of pure gold and the chain around my neck is made out of pure gold too. The necklace is pretty heavy, but I can hold it on my head.

"We're here" Alexander suddenly says, breaking me away from admiring the necklace and just about everything on my body right now. I truly look and feel like a princess right now. My eyes snap up to look at the scene outside of the car and for what like hundredth time today my jaw drops open and I can't help but admire this beauty.

I'm in awe of this place and I can't even believe that I'm going on a ball at this place or even a ball at all. This is still shocking to me as this all is taking me some time to let sink into my brain. "Wow" I whisper to myself as I stare outside the window.