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My mother then ushered us into the booth and Christian ended up sitting on the end with me next to him. Everyone was chatting and catching up except Christian who was quiet and only speaking when a question was directed at him.

The waiter came to the table and smirked as he saw me and I suddenly felt uncomfortable with the attention he was giving me.

He had taken everyone's order and then when he got to me his voice got huskier and more suggestive and I shifted uncomfortably as I ordered.

He smiled and walked away and I sighed.

My mother chuckled and said, "Well sweetheart, someone seemed quite interested in you over there."

I narrowed my eyes at her playfully and then laughed shaking my head.

My father then cleared his throat and with a serious tone, "We brought you two here for something. Something important."

Suddenly the mood at the table had become very serious. I looked up at my dad and I saw his eyes looked very serious.

Mr McArthur then started and said, "We've been talking and we believe that you two should unite our families.. not just through the many years of friendship, but with marriage."

Everything stilled for a moment.

They want Christian and I to get married when we haven't seen each other in years. We hadn't even stayed in contact over the years.

I looked at Christian and he looked just as stiff as I was.

Mrs McArthur then said, "We really think you guys would be perfect for each other. You're both currently single and aren't getting any younger. This is something we've always envisioned from the moment you guys got along when you were kids."

My mother then said, "We would never do or ask something of you that wasn't what's best for you, I promise."

Christian and I remained silent and our parents were just staring at us waiting for a reaction. I was waiting for Christian to react because I had nothing to say and right now I had no reaction.

Mrs McArthur said, "Marie you are gorgeous, smart, caring and a strong woman. You're someone I want for my baby and Christian needs someone like you in his life. I sincerely don't think there could be a more perfect fit."

After a few seconds my mother gushed and said, "And the grandbabies would be s gorgeous and smart."

Mrs McArthur giggled with my mother as if they were already imagining it.

Cristian finally spoke and said, "It's all up to Angelica. "

Christian had never called me Marie when we were younger and whenever I asked him why he just shrugged.

Everyone turned towards me and looked so hopeful and I thought, well first of all I don't want to disappoint them and second of all I didn't mind marrying Christian was my dream when we were kids.

I turned to Christian and said, "Are you sure ? On marrying me..."

He stared at me for a little bit, "Yeah I'm sure. I don't say things I'm not sure of."

Well that was rude I thought and his face didn't even change.

I turned to our parents and I said, "You guys know I got out a relationship three months ago and I can't just come out engaged because it will looked very wrong."

I saw their shoulders drop a little, I laughed on the inside they were like little kids.

I continued and said, "It means we'll have to date for a bit then the other stuff, if thats okay with Christian of course."

They had hope back in their eyes as they turned to Christian and all he had to say was, I'm okay with that.

When our parents heard that they broke out smiling and started talking among themselves. I could hear Christian mother and my mother talking about the wedding and all that whilst my dad and his dad had moved onto other things.

I laughed and turned to Christian and said, "Didn't they just look like children."

He looked at me and nodded but I could see a smile at the edge of his mouth. He went back onto his phone amd I decided to do the same.

The waiter came with food for our parents and gave it to them and then came back with two plates which I assumed were Christian' and I's.

He very harshly put Christian 's plate in front of him and then said, "And for the beautiful lady," with a wink after.

I felt uncomfortable again and looked at my plate with a frown. I really didn't want to make a scene but that was unprofessional of him.

The waiter was about to ask if there was anything else and Christian harshly asked the waiter, "What was that?"

The whole table kept quiet and the waiter seemed not so confident anymore. Christian asked even harsher when the waiter didn't reply, "What the heck was that!?"

I heard Mrs McArthur hiss language at Christian which he ignored and stared at the waiter.

Again the waiter didn't reply, "Can't you tell you're making my girlfriend uncomfortable."

The waiter started stuttering and said, "I had no idea sir. I didn't know she was your girlfriend."

Everytime someone said girlfriend my cheeks were turning more and more pink.

I could tell Christian was seething next to me and said to the waiter, "Even if she wasn't my girlfriend that was highly inappropriate, in fact. where is your manager?"

I knew I had to stop this so I put my hand on Christian thigh and looked at him and said, "It's okay Christian, please don't."

He looked into my eyes and I think he could tell how uncomfortable I was and sighed and said, "Go."

The waiter scurried away and as soon as he was out of the private room Mr McArthur started with, "Atta boy."

This earned Mr McArthur abpunch in the shoulder from Mrs McArthur and he shrugged. We all started laughing at Mr McArthur and then I noticed my hand was still on Christian' thigh.

I quickly removed it and my cheeks set aflame, I picked up my fork and started eating.

After the lunch I had gone to the shopping strip that had Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci and stores of that stature. We had gone through every store and I had told her about lunch and my "marriage" to Christian.

Ever since I had told her she hadn't stopped talked about how cute her godbabies were going to be and how hot Christian was.

She was not wrong because if the babies came out looking like Christian I was doing to have good looking babies.

After the shopping I had gone home amd relaxed because I was exhausted.

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