Roxanne
"Are you excited, sis?" I ask as I plop down on her queen bed. I lay on my side, with my face towards her, my hand supporting my head.
"Duh." I giggle at her excited voice. "I mean I can never believe that the man whom I was always fantasizing about marrying since the day I saw him, is finally going to become mine. Isn't this like a dream come true?" She swirls towards me. Her jet blank hair was in a sleek updo. Her lips painted red and on pale skin it looked sexy.
"You mean to say the boy you saw on your 10th birthday." I point out. She just rolls her eyes and swirls back to the mirror to get her makeup done.
I flip on my back and gaze at the ceiling.
"But what about your dreams?" I ask her. I have heard that the women of that family, except for looking after a few charity monuments, are not allowed to do anything." I get on my side and take the earlier position. "That means you won't be able to continue your career in designing."
She shrugs. I groan in irritation. She gets on her feet, my eyes follow her figure. She dumps her robe, and her perfect model figure clothed in white lingerie greets me back.
She grabs the silver sequin dress from the hanger, accesses it and with a nod puts it on.
"So how do I look?" She twirls for me. I give her thumbs up. She has always been the beautiful one among the both of us.
She has straight black hip length hair, while I have wavy brown shoulder length hair. She has green eyes while I have brown eyes. She has a model figure while I have a normal body shape. She is 5'7" while I am just 5'4".
She is a complete opposite of me, except our skin tone.
And I never felt jealous of her, except when I was a teenager. For a few years I used to hate her for being my sister but now I love her the most.
"I hope he manages to keep himself from losing consciousness." I say. She laughs shyly.
"I am off." I again give her a thumbs up. I make myself comfortable on her bed.
She was behaving as if it was her first date. They have been dating for seven years. When they were of age 18 my sister had confessed to him and he said yes. I don't know why she was afraid of not being able to marry him. Whatever it was, now it is of no use since they are both supposed to marry each other.
I have never seen him. I do have seen him in magazines and news but never in reality. I admire him. At the age of 25 he was considered as a mastermind of business.
Let's just sleep here. Besides tomorrow I have college and I have to wake up early. Since I am in first year, it's a morning session.
*
I flutter my eyes open at the rustling sound.
What time is it?
I look at the digital watch to see two in the morning. I stilled when I hear moaning. My eyes land on the door where I can see the lining of someone's figure.
"Oh, yes Isaac." I freeze when I hear Emily's voice.
Is she....is she here doing what I think is inappropriate.
"Just fuck me." I shudder in disgust hearing her moan. I close my eyes as I rise from my sleeping figure. I switch on the lamp.
"Sis?" I called out. The moaning stops, but I can hear their heavy breathing.
"Oh my fucking god, what are you doing here baby sister." She exclaimed.
"Can I open my eyes first?" I ask. Meeting my soon to be brother in law like this would be so embarrassing.
"Oh yes." I open my eyes slowly. I couldn't see them clearly as they were still in the dark, and lamp light didn't help.
"I will go and sleep in another room." I inform them and make a run for my room. Hopefully they were beside the door. Without giving sis or her boyfriend to ask me anything I am outside of her door.
I stop running and start walking sluggishly. Yawning erupts from my mouth every few minutes. I stop before my room and open the door. Laying down on my bed, I let sleep take me in her arms again.
*
"Did Isaac leave?" I asked sis who was sitting across from me.
"Yes." She answers. Her attention on her phone. Her one hand is feeding her while her other hand is operating her phone.
"Hm." I bit my lips contemplating if I should ask her, but curiosity got the best of me. "Did you....did you both did the deed?" My voice is quiet.
"Yeah." She answers uninterested. And suddenly as if something snaps in her, her head snaps to me. "Don't tell me you still haven't popped your cherry?"
My eyes widened.
"Oh my fucking god." The dining room fills with her laugh. "When I turned 18, the first thing that I did was popped my v-card and had lots of sex, obviously with Isaac. It was so......"
I grab my pods and put them on my ear, silencing her voice. My face had turned completely red. I give her my deadliest glare. She laughs it off.
I promptly hit her leg with my foot and instantly she bends down to caress the injured place. I flick her now bented figure a middle finger and leave with my bag, hanging on my shoulder, for college.
"Where are you?" I asked, annoyed. My hands in the pockets of my military pants.
"Um, eating my breakfast." I roll my eyes.
"Come pick me up. I have left my house." I informed Brent. Without waiting for his reply I disconnected the call and continued my walk.
He and I have been friends since I can remember. We have always been in one class and bench partners, but in college his major is different from mine so his few classes are different from mine.
Suddenly a bike stops in front of me, making me flinch.
I glare at him.
"Want to give me a heart attack?" I grumble. I remove the pods and thrust them in my bag.
"You wouldn't die of a heart attack." He says while handing me a helmet. I roll my eyes. I put the helmet on my head and sat behind him.
While on our way I told him everything about last night. And since then he can't stop laughing.
"You continue your laugh, I am leaving." I say and hand him his helmet.
"Roxanne, here." I look at the side to see my other friends. Instantly I wave them back and run towards them.
The whole day went by, with surprise tests, assignment submission and boring lectures.
I am waiting for Brent, near his bike.
"Excuse me, ma'am." I look away from my phone. A man in black suit and glasses on his ear is standing in front of me.
"Yes."
"My boss has called you." I scowl.
"Who is your boss?" I asked. Did dad come to college?
"It's Isaac Rodriguez."
What is he doing here? Is sis with him?
"Okay." I answered him. I keep my phone in my back pocket after messaging Brent, telling about the change of plans.
I started following that man. He took me out of the college gate and on the other side the SUV caught my eyes. It's glass tinted. We crossed the road.
The man knocks on the door and says."I have brought Miss Miller with me." The man opens the door. The man turns to me. "Please get in, ma'am."
He moves away and my eyes land on the man, who is going to be my sister's husband, whom I always see in the news, the most powerful man's son, a business genius.
He is handsome, with sharp jawline, grey eyes, black hair and trimmed beard.
I get inside the car, and sit beside him.
"Hello, good evening." I greet him. It's awkward and last night has made it more awkward. I looked around and didn't find sis.
"Good evening." He greets me back. His voice sends chills down my spine. The car starts moving.
"Why did you call me?" He never took any effort to meet me during his dating years and now he has personally come for me, there must be a reason.
"Just wanted to get to know you." I nod my head in understanding. I doubt it.
"So, where is my sis?" I ask. I look at him to find his eyes already on me. Instantly I look away. His eyes are intense.
"She is with her friends." I nod my head.
"Do you prefer something in food?"
"Spaghetti." I answered. Maybe he really wants to know me. Since he is going to be my brother-in-law.
Never knowing that this was just a start. There were going to be many changes made in her life because of Isaac Rodriguez.
Roxanne"We are here." I look outside to see a restaurant. I get out and look down at my attire, which consists of military cargo pants and an white crop top. Not very suitable for this type of restaurant.I don't have a problem, but I hope he doesn't find it embarrassing. But if he had found it embarrassing he wouldn't have brought me here.Suddenly my hand gets grabbed. I look beside me to see Isaac holding it, while giving me angry eyes."Never get out of the door by yourself." He grits out.I nod my head and try to get my hand out of his hold. "Leave my hand, it's painful." I complain. He leaves my hand. He starts walking in. I don't take a step in.Does he think after behaving with me like this he gets to take me eat. He can marry my sister and for that he doesn't have to know me. Besides, I don't want to know this type of person.After realising that I am not following him, he stops. He turns and finds me, where he left me.He walks back."What is it? Let's go.""I don't wanna.
Roxanne"I don't want to marry Emily." My eyes widened at Isaac's words. My widened eyes turn towards sis to find her eyes already on him. Her hands were shaking. I get up to give her some warmth and everything gets stilled as I hear him say."I want to marry Roxanne." Sis's tearfilled eyes turn towards me. Her water filled eyes accusing me. I shake my head in a way to defend myself."What?" I hear dad shout."I want to marry Roxanne." Isaac repeats his words. Emily gets on her feet and runs away to her room. My water filled eyes turn towards Isaac. His eyes are already on me."I don't want to marry you." I shout.I shouldn't have decided to come here. I was better off by myself."You will." He challenges. "And if you don't, get your dad ready to say goodbye to his business and your sister to her designer career and say goodbye to your college as well." My blood boils in anger."Isaac, your grandfather had made an alliance between you and Emily. You can't marry her younger sister." I
Roxanne "I am not going to marry him." I shout uptenth times for my parents to hear. Since this morning we have been having this conversation. "You will." Dad shouts back. I glare at dad. "How can you even say that? That man straight away denied marrying sis, the person whom he was dating for years, dad, for years. How do you believe him to be loyal to me after marriage?" I snap. The thought of marrying my supposed brother-in-law is straightaway disgusting. "Just marry him, Roxanne." My shoulder slumps as I look at my sis. Her face was indifferent. The girl who was crying her eyes out yesterday, is also trying to make up my mind for marriage. "Why?" I asked, frustrated. She looks away as she says. "Because he will not back out. When he wants something he takes it by hook or by crook. Be grateful that he is at least asking to marry you." "But I am still young. I am just 19 and it's not an age for marriage." I cry out. "Besides, if I don't want to marry him, he won't force me, ri
Roxanne“Where are you taking me?" I asked. My eyes on the road. His car's glasses are so black that no one can see the inside.“To my office." He answers. I look at him in bafflement. “To your office?" I asked, unsure if I heard him correctly. He nods his head with a cute smile on his face.Agh. I hate him and his smiles.“Why? Do you want me to work for you?" I asked, tauntingly. Why the fuck is he taking me to his office?“If you want you can work, but I prefer you to work in my office." I glare at him.“No, really why are you taking me to your office." I asked, with seriousness. I blink my eyes when he flicks the tip of my nose.“Because, I have work and I also want to know you. I will do work while you tell me everything and anything about you. From your childhood to now, each and everything." My heart does a flip hearing that.“I don't want to marry you." I say and look away from his eyes as I feel I spilled water on his plans. He grabs my chin and turns my face towards his. Th
Roxanne“She was being a bitch so I had to give her a lesson." I say to Brent as I lean on his bike. My nails have all of my attention, as I found it more interesting.“That didn't mean you go and dump your coffee on her." Brent snaps back. I look at him with a straight face.“She did the same thing with Jane, so tit for tat." Instantly I recall Isaac's voice saying the same thing. I giggle at that.“What made you giggle? Share with me." I eye Brent judgmentally as I say. “No, I won't."His hand band around my neck as he pulls me to him. My face pressed up on his chest as he started tickling me. I laugh.“St-Sto…." I laugh. “Stop it." I laugh. My stomach starts hurting from all the laughing. Suddenly I find myself getting pulled away from Brent as he is thrown towards the ground.“What the fuck?" I shout after overcoming my laughing session.I pivot towards the person who punched Brent. My lips part when I find Isaac.His eyes focused on Brent which were blazing in anger. I try to j
Roxanne“Can I leave, now?" I asked. It has been hours since he revealed the date of our engagement. We had our lunch, basically he worked and I ate.And I felt bad about eating alone but I didn't invite him, since I am still angry by his earlier behaviour. And also because he hit Brent. I had messaged Brent earlier and he had said that he is fine, just a small cut and swelling.“Did you not like the books, or do you want something to play?" I twist my body to face him.“I am bored being coped up in this room. So I wanna leave. Besides, what are you even getting from me being here?" I asked.“I don't know. I just like seeing you in my office before my eyes." I huff in annoyance even if those words did give me butterflies.“Will I always have to come to your office?" I asked. I get on my feet and walk towards the floor to ceiling windows, behind Isaac's study table.“I am not sure." He answered. The city from here looked tiny and it gave the aura as if I was at the top of the world.
IsaacI look at all the rings bought by our jeweller. I lean back on the chair and eye jeweller's timid figure.“This shit you call the masterpiece?" I asked calmly. All the rings he showed are nothing else just pieces of shit.“You didn't like it, sir?" He asked, petrified. I give him a straight face. Who would even like this shit?“I will bring a new set, for you sir." He instantly offers.“No need. You can leave." I mutter, vexed by his collection of rings.“But sir, Senior Rodriguez has ordered me to have you get finalized a ring today only." I glare at him. He gets the idea and starts packing his rings to leave.Now dad is urging for a ring. Has his anger come down? Yesterday night he was throwing tantrums about how I am going against my grandfather's promise.I know if grandfather was alive today he would agree with this, since I am his one and only grandson. Besides, grandfather wanted an alliance with his best friend's family and Roxanne is their daughter.At first I agreed fo
Isaac“I will not be coming here tomorrow…." I look up from my computer to see Roxanne stepping in. “or even the day after tomorrow. No scratch that, I will not come here for a few days."I lean back as I eye her figure dressed in straight pants and black crop top. And I must say black looks good on her. Her hair pulled up in a messy high pony.I lift my eyebrow in question. She rolled her eyes and I bit my lip to stop the laugh. She trudges towards me and bangs her palm on the table.“I think you didn't hear what I said clearly, right?" I nod my head innocently. My eyes fall down, at her pale skin of belly, peeking through her crop top.I don't know how many people must have eyed that.“I said that I will not be coming here for a few days. I am fed up. I can't cope up in this place anymore." She says.My hold on my chair tightens.“Do you need anything else to keep you entertained here? I will get it prepared." I say with suppressed anger.“No, I don't need anything to keep myself en