Chapter 12 Mate

Anyee was so happy by seeing the dress. I can say she really liked it. She happily took it then she paused. She then turned back to me. Her smile was no more there. Her face showed she was in a dilemma. I knew what she was thinking. "you can take this one. It will suit you" I said to her smiling. She looked at me and said hesitantly "what will you wear? I mean …. Umm you can wear it if you like this" "Its ok you wear this I will wear something else. It is a bit bright. I want something dark not catch attention" what I said was not a lie. I never liked bright clothes. They just brought unnecessary attention. She became happy again after hearing what I said. Then she went to the changing room and changed into her red dress. The dress was T-shaped dress, from the lower neck to the mid thighs. It perfectly shows her necessary curves and long slender white legs. She was snowy white and that bright red dress made her look like so gorgeous. Her age looked even smaller. I was stunned looking at my beautiful friend. " You look like a princess" I complimented her as I take her hand in mine. "Really?" she smiled with lot of excitement. " Yeah you really look amazing today. I bet few of the co-workers will stuck their eyes only to my beautiful friend" I said winking at her. "Don t talk nonsense" she hit at my hand lightly. "I m not. I swore" I said as I put my fingers at my neck. "Alright let s find you something good to wear first" she said looking at the remaining dresses. "Try this one. It looks good among them" she said giving me a black dress. And i tried it on. It was nice. It was a full length dress with its ends decorated with silver sparks. It don t have any shoulders. It started from the very top of the neck and there was jewelry design. I had fair skin so black dress look good on me. "yo… Riley, how could you look so good on such a plane and dark clothes, hmm? It look so nice on you. All your curves are outlined. You look mature and bold like a real lady" she said as I look myself in the mirror. And I don t look that bad so I booked that one. After booking our clothes we went to parlor and decided our look for the party. I wasn t a bit in this thing. I swore If I can I would attend the banquet without makeup. I just feel uncomfortable on it. But Anyee was so excited for this party and I don t wanna turn her off just because I m introvert. I decided to do a natural minimal makeup look along with making my hair wavy. As for Anyee she choose a natural smoky makeup look and a straight look for her hair. When we re done choosing makeup we went to a roadside restaurant for some snacks. This restaurant was the place where I and Cami did our snacks. When I reach there the old madam quickly recognized me and came to welcome us. "How had you been all these time? And where your another friend. Its been quite long, you guys stopped coming" she asked about Cami. "we both are good, aunty. She is busy with her job. Once she is free we ll came here to have tasty snacks."I said smiling at her. "Then i ll wait. What will you guys want today?" she said. I knew every food items of here. I have tasted them many times before. "Aunty, bring us potato fries with your special chilly sauce and cold drinks and two burgers." I signaled 2 from my fingers at which she laughed. She smiled and left. "You really know thi place well?" Anyee asked me. "Yep, I used to came here a lot in my collage days." I said to her. "Who is the friend that aunt was talking?" "She is Cami. She is my best friend from school days." I told her about Cami. "Cami , I mean Camila was my only friend before I met you." I explained her. "I m happy to be friend with you." "Me too. I ll introduce you to Cami soon ." the only friend theory applies on Cami too. It ll be great if they also became friends. Soon our potato chips and burger came at our table. We ate our snack chatting happily. ______________________________ Soon it was our company s annual day. I got up from bed and take a quick shower. Then I made breakfast for Cami and me. While I was at the middle of our breakfast I got a call from Anyee. she came to pick me up. I bid bye to Cami and went out with Anyee. It was not our usual day so we don t have to go to our office. Instead we went to the clothes shop where we rented our clothes. We picked our clothes and headed to the parlor where our makeup appointment was fixed. But there was so much people there. Anyee and waited for hours. And still there was a long time to our turn. So we decided to do lunch first. When we came back from lunch we waited for about 10-15 min. and it was our turn. It took a lot time to do our hair and makeup. My whole body was sore from sitting in a same position for a long time. Finally it was done and we wore our clothes. After putting on dresses we went for some round of pictures. Soon it was 6 pm and we went to our company. After reaching there, we climbed on a bus arranged by our company. The banquet venue was a little far. After reaching there, I was beyond shocked. It was a very large place and was beautifully decorated. It was a open area with a big stage at the middle, and the stage was surrounded by a lot of tables around it. It has four big screens facing four directions at the top of the stage. There would be thousands people on the banquet so the ones who are at back tables can see live programs at those screen. There were a lot of reporters at the venue and so as the bodyguards. We can only enter when we show our card. While we were inside of the banquet area, we saw reporters running towards the entrance. They were saying vice-president. I guess she was the sexy looking girl who broke my phone that day. I also looked at the entrance ,Bella Scultz step inside. She was wearing a v necked light blue gown . she also wore a blue high heels matching her gown. She looked calm and elegant. Nothing like that day, she look so beautiful. All reporters were busy flattering the vice president. "Look , the president is here"someone shouted. Then from the corner of eyes I saw someone entering . I turned to look at him. There I saw yong and handsome boy entering. He was tall. His both hands were at pocket and he was taking a cold aura around him. He look dangerously handsome. His black hair and fair look was looking so good with his expensive looking black suit. He really….was handsome. Now I understand why Bella was so crazy for our CEO. When I was thinking this he looked at my direction. Our eyes locked and I felt something inside me beating so fast. And a wave of current like thing running in my blood vessels. Afterward I listen a voice, strange yet familiar voice. It only said a word "mate"