Fan Fiction |
by Sensitivegal
Chapter Forty-Eight ‘Meet The Parents’
December came and everything was going smoothly. Charlene still hasn’t told Edison of her owning My Studio. She just didn’t have the confident any more after what he said. Even though she had to tell him someday she thought that someday will be after the marriage probably. Most of everyone she knew knows about it, Kenny, Gillian, Shawn, Nicholas, Chase, Jane and some other employees back in America. She still hadn’t told the rest of her family.
She celebrated Thanks Giving as planned with Nicholas’s family. Then she went for Christmas holiday to England to celebrate Christmas with her family. Shawn too went with her. Her father invited him via phone. She was happy that he was accepting him in the family. Edison celebrated with his family. But his family had invited her to celebrate New Years with them. She was nervous all through Christmas.
‘Char, relax,’ Edison told her. They were just outside his parents’ house looking up at it. It wasn’t much of a house it was a mansion, bigger than his. The afternoon light was making the mansion look beautiful.
‘Are your parents nice people?’ she couldn’t help but ask.
‘For the nth time yes!’ he laughed and wrapped an arm around her neck pulling her closer. The other hand he was holding unto both their bags. Did she mention she was staying over?
‘Are you sure sure?’ she was so nervous that she was asking stupid questions.
‘Do you trust me?’ he looked at her.
That booted up her confidence taking the nervousness out. ‘I’m sorry. Let’s go before I freeze in this.’ She looked down at herself. She wore a turquoise dress.
‘Oh yes, what a dress!’ he let his eyes linger on her body. The dress held up on her shoulders by thin straps. The bodice revealed just enough of the curve of her cleavage to make him want to see more, then tapered to her slender waist before flaring into a full skirt. ‘Nice.’
She blushed. Then in panic she asked, ‘do you think it’s too much?’
‘First give me a kiss,’ he demanded. She perked her lips to him and he took it with one swift move. Kissing her hungry he then let go. ‘Now stop thinking too much and lets go in before we become a snow couple.’
She smiled and walked with him hand in hand to the door and rung the doorbell. ‘Don’t you have a key?’ she whispered.
‘No,’ he said just before the door opened to divulge an elderly woman in a maid’s uniform.
‘Master Edison,’ the woman greeted taking the bags from Edison. ‘Your family awaits your arrival.’
She held the door open for them to come in and then closed it behind them. She then guided them to the library were assuming his family was there only stopping to hand another maid their bags. Keeping her voice low as possible Charlene hissed, ‘you didn’t think to mention your family was posh!’
‘You never asked,’ he smiled.
‘You could have warned me,’ she scolded him still in a quiet voice.
‘Would you have come?’ he arched an eyebrow at her knowing fully that she wouldn’t have.
‘I watched this in the movies were the parents look down on the girl,’ she told her theory.
‘Then you should change it then,’ he said, amused by her theory. ‘And you could try and change, were us two get locked up in a room,’ he huskily whispered in her ear. His hand slid up her arm.
She pushed him away, which only made him laugh and pretend that he wanted her. She smacked his hand away again when he tried to grab her butt. ‘Eww! Stop it or when it comes to our honeymoon you’re going to sleep outside the bedroom!’ Even though she was threatening him she was doing it quietly but the way the maid was walking with her head slightly turned she knew that they were being heard. Her face went crimson red at the last sentence.
‘Why gorgeous, got something planned?’ he just couldn’t resist to tease her knowing well that she was embarrassed that the maid was listening in their conversation.
‘Shut up!’ she glared at him. He took her hand and squeezed it. Then he raised it up to kiss it. She quickly snatched her hand back. He chuckled.
They were just outside a double door. The maid entered first then they trailed behind. Edison managed to grab hold of her hand before they came full view of his parents. They were sitting together in one chair. Opposite them were a man and a woman. She guest that they were his brother and sister since they resemble him just a little. Edison did mention about them.
‘Mom, Dad, meet Charlene Choi,’ he introduced proudly. His parents inspected her closely as if to see anything wrong of her. ‘Charlene meet my parents and my brother and sister, Jay and Michelle.’ Charlene gave a short bow.
Silence filled the room as everyone was staring at her. She felt uncomfortable and looked up at Edison who was feeling uneasy as well. She wanted to hit him. How dare he be feeling uneasy? He should be trying to sooth her nervousness that had just built its way back up.
‘What do you do Charlene?’ at last his mother spoke.
‘I’m a fashion designer,’ she replied softly.
‘Do you have a family?’ Mr. Chen spoke.
‘Yes, I have a father and a stepmother,’ her hands were sweating up. She tried to take her hand from Edison’s grip but he held it tight. She felt as if she was comforting him not the other way around!
‘I hear you’re half cast,’ Michelle said smugly as if that’s a bad thing.
‘Yes, my father is white,’ she said it proudly. She hoped that wasn’t a problem.
‘It’s a shame for Daisy though,’ Mrs. Chen sighed. ‘She was just perfect for Edison.’
‘Mom!’ Edison shrieked. ‘I wish if no one mentions her name.’
Feeling that they had to respect his wishes they changed the subject. ‘Why don’t you two get settled in your rooms and then we’ll have tea,’ Mrs. Chen suggested.
Charlene was itching to say ‘I thought that’s what you’re doing now’ when she looked down on the coffee table which had on it four teacups half drank. But she didn’t want to sound rude at all. She bowed then was dragged off by Edison.
‘See that wasn’t that bad,’ Edison pointed out when they were earshot away from his parents. They walked down the hallway side by side. ‘You were getting all worked up for nothing!’
‘Yeah, right! You’re mother wanted you to marry Daisy!’
‘Please don’t mention her name again,’ he pleaded. ‘I feel so disgusted just hearing the name.’
‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ she called out. He covered his ears with his hands.
‘Stop it!’ he laughed. When they got to the stairway he ran up. She ran after him teasing him with the name.
Maybe celebrating New Years wasn’t going to be that bad! She thought. But she couldn’t be too sure if she was alone with them. She made a mental note that she will stick to Edison like glue.
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comments plz! oh yes it is Meet The Parent! will charlene surivive? will they do sumthing bad like break them up? well find out!
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