**Recap**
"Sir? She's here." She calls out.

"Bring her in." I hear an older voice say.

Karla's pov

I probably shouldn't go maybe it's not worth it. I started thinking.

"Karla, go on in." Miranda says opening the door for me.

Well I guess this is it. I mustered all the course had and walked in.

I walked into a big conference room with black office chairs at the head of the table was the man who has been ruining my family business little by little.
The man himself, Mr.Richards.

I put on my most serious face and looked straight into the eyes of this man as I walked closer to him leaving a two seats gap.

"Please sit." He says in an authoritative manner. And I sit on the second seat on the right.

I now examine the man.

He was tall probably, 5'11. He has blond hair which has been slicked back. Blue eyes which look very daring and a face which looks good for punching, lol. I meant, he has a nice face.

He's in a black suit which has no tie and maybe designer from the deep black colour. On his left hand he has a gold ring and is wearing a watch which looks very old and has a leather band.

" As we both now each other's names I don't see a reason for an introduction. Let's begin with business. In this file shows the rules of the contract for this marriage to my son. It has all the things you need to know about
the marriage and the duties you both have to perform. I have personally made the rules in here and my son is yet to read. So you can read it and get back to me on our next meeting. Apart from that this meeting is over."
He passes me the purple file and gets up to leave.

He gets to the door and I call out," Mr.Richards, isn't there another way you could help us without me marrying him?"

He looks at me and says," There were many things your father could have done to me, young lady but he narrowed it down to one. So no, there are no other ways to get my help apart from marrying my son."

This just made me angry," So you are willing to get your son married to a stranger all in the name of almost 2 decades old hatred?!"

At this he just walks out of the door.

The water works want to start but I take a deep breath raise my chin up high, pick up the purple file and my handbag and walk out of the conference room.

**Time lapse**

It's now 8:15 and I'm sitting on my bed with a bag of chocolate chip cookies and reading through the so called ,'contract' whiles the TV is showing Devil-ish which is the new raved movie.

It said the marriage will last three and a half years.
I've read both of our duties.

Reading through his part was pratically chill like monthly allowance, taking me out for events, having partners outside the marriage which is insulting but the fact that I can't do the smart is borderline degrading, to put it lightly.

Reading through mine there was one thing which was very disturbing to me.

It said," If in the three and a half years of marriage Ms. Karla Esperanza Roland is found with child of Mr. Aiden Johnathan Kingsley Richards she will be allowed to take care of the child but when the duration of the marriage is over she is to go back to her father's house without the child and must not pursue any contact with the child."

There was a clause before this which stated that if I was to be found pregnant with another man than my arranged husband the contract would be broken and they won't give a single penny.

I was so shocked by that clause I started crying. I mean I'm not trying to have a child with this arranged husband but imagine if that happened only to have your kid snatched away with no contact now that i s just horrible.

I sat and cried for anyone who had gone through such a thing.

**Time lapse**

I just got home from Friday classes.

"Karla" Jimena calls me from her room.

"Yes I'm coming." I said getting up from my desk which I was drawing on.

I open the door and get in.

" So what is it you want my weird twin?" I asked.

"I'm not the weird one, little sister." She says stressing the little sister.

I poke my tongue on out at her and rolls her eyes at this.

"Can you do my hair for me? Please?" She asked stressing please.

"Ok fine." I said and playfully rolled my eyes.

We walk into her very organized bathroom. Like y'all Jimena is putting me to shame over here.

Our equipment lies on the sink counter. I see blue wig, jewels, cream and styler.

"So what are we doing?" I asked.

" Rasta (Box braids), I've already washed and blow dried my hair as you can see and I've also cut the hair we would be using. *Raises the dark blue coloured hair.* So it's only left with sectioning and braiding.

I also got accessories.
*shows me the tiny hair jewels and string* "

"Ok well let's get braiding." I say.

"Wait, put on the speaker first." She says pointing to her pink Bluetooth speaker. I connect it. And that's when the concert began.

**Time lapse**

Two and a half hours later with little to no bathproom breaks, a few lemonades and some fine gossip.

When I say fine, I mean fine.

We were done with the braids and let me just say they were rocking since I was not a professional.

(Kayla's / Jimena's hair beloww!)

A

fter we were done we switched on the TV watched a few telenovelas then started talking about stuff, from beauty to make up from make up to fashion and from celebs to boys.

She showed me a few of her crushes on her main apps Instagram, tiktok and Twitter.

She also showed me a celebrity who was apparently a 'very important person.'
She told me his name was Aiden but on Instagram he used J.K. .

Then she showed me a picture on Instagram. He was in a very simple pose. His blonde hair tucked into a beanie, nice tan skin, some sunglasses shielding his face and a killer smile in his navy blazer and a cream white turtleneck sweater.

"Ok well he's kinda cute." I told Jimena.

"Told Ya!!" She said.

After that we slowly caught the bus to good ol' Dreamland.

A/N:
Hi. How are y'all?
Christmas is almost here, ahhh!!!
I'm so excited!!! Like 5 days more

How about y'all?

And to y'all who don't celebrate Christmas just enjoy the holidays. :)

I'll also be starting a countdown on Instagram. So here's my at queenieanne20 , if you want to join just share the countdown.

And this is not a shameless self promo. I hate those.

And if you share the countdown comment Rudolph's nose or a reindeer emoji, so that I know your from wattpad.

Anyways so this chap was a little like those over sprayed floral perfumes, literally choking y'all with the weird drama.

Who else dislikes Mr. Richards?
Like, why is that even a question at this point.
I know everyone here dislikes him but as a writer I must have sympathy cos he's literally a figment of my imagination,lol.

Y'all should not worry Karls is strong she ain't gonna fall like cardboard. She's a fighter.

Anywaysss, miss Karls over here is about to meet the manz!!
Who is wowed?

Well, I am.

I could remember getting confused while writting chapter 5 ( major editing or I'm even thinking of deleting) and trying to connect her past with present and future events but now I'm going to write about the most epic thing I've ever written. Ahh! Y'all I can't wait to put that part together!!

Ok that's all I have to say.
Thank you bubbs for reading!!
I love y'all so so much!!

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