HIS TRUE BEAUTY

AUTHOURESS’S POV

“The guests are here..(she paused). why are you not all dressed up already?”

“He is”.

Grandma replied instead.

“Wait, are you going to wear that?”

Abigail asked, holding back her laughter.

“What’s wrong with it?”Grandma replied to her again.

Abigail tried not to laugh again, checking him out.

“What’s up with that face, he looks good in them though”.

Grandma snapped back at her.

“You are the one behind this Grandma, I am not surprised”Abigail laughed hard.

She walked to where Bruno was.

“Well hello cutie, why don’t you smile a little, smii…. le , she pulled on Bruno’s cheek.

“You are getting him mad,”Grandma scolded her.

Abigail laughed out.

“Well, he should be with that outfit on”.

“You can say all you want to my baby but trust me , he won’t care about all that at all , as long as he makes his grandma happy he is okay”Grandma boasted.

“Pass me the chicken bowl, I want to taste some wings”she requested, taking a seat.

“I made those specially for him so don’t interrupt”Grandma bites back.

**BRUNO’S POV**

I walked down the reception room and found everyone there waiting already, a loud applause accompanied my presence.

“CEO!”

Their voices were loud and joyful, I wondered if they all prayed for Ferd to resign judging from how happy they looked while celebrating my new promotion, I tried to smile, searching secretly for Beauty.

I knew she wouldn’t attend the party of course, but deep down, I wish she was here with me, I wanted to see her again, maybe we can sort things out somehow .

“Hy nice to meet you Sir Bruno, you look…. old school”John , our Fashion magazine’s chief editor complimented me bluntly.

“I appreciate”I replied, trying to be as lovely as possible, my sister was at a corner, giving the smile sign as a reminder, I rolled my eyes annoyed.

Then I saw Jessi. She was also looking in my direction. There was something different about her. Jessi was a girl whose presence could easily be noticed.

I should say in times like this, she would tease me and make me totally uncomfortable with her extroverted aura, but today she was unusually cold.

Jessi is a friend of Beauty right?

So maybe she told her about us , maybe that’s why Jessi is like that, that cold.

“Who are you looking at Bruno?”

The voice was a new bit sort of familiar, I turned to know who the person was, to my sorry… it was ..

“Hi, I am Cherry”.

Interrupting my thoughts, she said that with a soft smile settled on her big lips, extending her hand.

I reluctantly accepted the handshake.

“Why are you looking at me like that, you’ve forgotten me so soon”she teased and hit me playfully on the shoulder.

“Oh my Gosh! Cherry, is that you?”Abigail exclaimed as she made her way through the crowd towards us.

“Yeah , you are looking pretty Aby!”

“Stop already?”Abigail said blushing sheepishly,”But.. look. at you, you look so unreal, you look like a goddess baby girl!”Abigail exclaimed.

“You are exaggerating like always,”Cherry said , with a soft hand pat on her hair.

“So what are you doing here?”I asked.

“Wow that was harsh.. I am your friend or…. are you still shy because of what happened that day?”Cherry replied with a question.

I swallowed hard.

“Can we not talk about that now”.

“What was that about?”Abigail askedContentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

Cherry gazed from one person to another.

“Well on my sweet sixteen birthday, Bruno and I shared our first kiss, he confessed he was a virgin, but as soon as I wanted us to get into it, he ran away like a girl leaving me unsatisfied”.

Abigail cracked up .

“Are you serious!”

“He was such an innocent and boring boy back then, but now I wonder who the first person was, he must have had lots and lots of women after that, I am also happy you are successful and also very popular as a fashion icon, most sexiest man 2019 till date, you are literally everything any lady could ask for in a man”Cherry said with a wink.

“Oh trust me , he is still boring as always,”Abigail said.

They laughed.

I was really angry about Cherry sharing our little secret to Abigail, whatever. I am not seventeen anymore and I don’t care what they think of me.

“If you will excuse me..”I turned to leave the two.

“Bruno she is an old friend, don’t ignore her childishly, get over it already!”Abigail scolded, I frowned annoyingly at her.

“Get over what?”Cherry asked curiously.

“Well you see , he had this bitch of a girlfriend…”

I left them and walked towards the balcony, and some of the company’s new employees approached me.

“Sir Bruno!”

I had to stop and listen to what they had to say.

***JESSI’S POV***

I kept trying Beauty’s line , but it wasn’t going, I thought maybe I could convince her to come over after all.

I wonder if they are still fighting because of Bruno’s company crisis, but Bruno was able to keep our company on top and everything’s back to normal. Why is she ignoring the party invitation, that is if at all Bruno sent her an invitation card.

“A drink ma’am?”

A male water in a tuxedo and bow tie said to me with a little now.

“Oooh emmm thanks”I replied slowly.

I took a glass from the tray and forced a smile at him. I have no appetite for this or anything else. I wanted to set things right between them. I have to tell Bruno about his father’s plan before it will be too late.

But then how? How will I say such a thing to him and how is he going to react? Will he even believe any word I say, but I guess I should go on anyway. If Mr Hathaway’s plan becomes successful, I am scared for the future of Beauty and Bruno.

I took a deep breath and tried a sip from the champagne glass, good wine quality though then I stared back at Bruno, he was done talking with the new employees.

This is a chance for me to get close to him, I started walking close towards the balcony where he was alone looking out of the window. He seemed troubled, maybe because he expected Beauty I guess, why won’t she pick up.

Suddenly a lady in a princess gown, her blonde full hair was straight and shiny styled up In a huge bun with nice bangs.

Her widely open back cleavage, displayed her nicely tattoo of a serpent and apple, tangled with a green robe-like forest tree branches in the middle of her back down her waist. Her round butt was very visible in a ball gown, her skin was fair and milky and her waist was tiny, the most intimidating part was her height and her attractive sexiness was clear even from the back view.

I wondered who she is. I have not seen anyone like that in our company before and also she is definitely not a new employee, none of our new set of employees could match her beauty, Kathy would be jealous of her too if she gets to see her.

She went to Bruno , I observed and stared more curious now. She put her hand around his neck and kissed him. That wasn’t a friendly or getting kiss, there was…