Chapter 3

Its time to get ready in my birthday present from Damien which was a silk straight cut baby blue dress that has one shoulder and that is floor length. I curl my hair and take half of it up with bobbins. Apply light make-up and a touch of light pink lip gloss and a silver heel, I look at myself in the mirror and staring back at me is a beautiful young lady that I become once every year and ,despite the awful feeling in my gut, I smiled. I grabbed my silver shawl and purse and left my bedroom to meet my brother, whom would be my escort, downstairs and he looked at me as I came downstairs with a smile and offered his hand when I reached the bottom " You look beautiful little sis" he said as he kissed the top of my head " Its thanks to you and this dress " I say and he shakes his head at me " You would look beautiful in anything I just helped you look the best " and in that moment I realised just how much my brother has changed and I love it not knowing how to reply I merely smiled up at him and offered a thanks to which he took my hand and lead me to his black BMW M4. He opened the door for me and helped me into the passengers side ,closed the door for me and went to the drivers side he got in with the biggest grin and I knew it was because he loved his car and loved any time he could drive it. As he started the car he looked over at me " Oh and by the way sis... " I looked at him curious "...Happy Birthday " he says and speeds off at lighting speed like there's a pack of hungry wolves chasing us . I had to hold the dashboard to keep myself from flying out the window glad I put my seatbelt on already. I looked over to my brother and sent a prayer up to the goddess above and just watched as my brother attempted to kill us

Luckily we didn't die on the way to the restaurant and Damien came around to open my door. I glared at him and took his hand " Attempt to kill me like that again and I'll have to kill you in your sleep" I say and had the satisfaction of seeing him look a little afraid " You are complete and utter psychopath ,you know that " he said cause he knew I could and would do it so I just smiled a sadistic smile at him " Love you too bro" I said and kissed him on the cheek as I walked pass him to the enterence and I heard him mutter something unintelligible and just shrugged as I walked a little slower in order for him to catch up and about 3 seconds later he did and he hooked my arm again before we proceeded toward the reception, we gave our surname and they showed us our table and they told us that the other members of our party has already arrived we smiled and thanked the lady as she left us in front of the door to the private chambers we reserved.

As was expected nearly everyone was there and the missing party was my Dad which was strange since he always aimed to finish work before our celebration for my birthday ( he didn't need to for Damien's since he gets a party ) and as an obvious reaction I started to get worried but my mother was convinced he was just held up at work ,which is all sorts of wrong cause usually Aroura Steele would say that type of behaviour is inexcusable and call him and tell him to stop working and come to his daughter's party and the look on her face worried me still I chose to ignore it and tried to enjoy the dinner. So far I got all my presents - excluding my dads , I got a locket from my mom and matching charm bracelets from Susie and Angel, Damien gave me the dress. And we were half way through dinner when moms phone rang and she excused herself from the table to answer it and about 5 minutes later there was a scream and mom came running back through the door in a state of hysteria and she was trying to say something "I ...your dad...help...he ...he..." But she couldn't get a proper sentence out but at the mention of Dad my blood ran cold and Damien was quicker to react than me and ran to my mother's side " take deep breaths mom " he said and rubbed her back and she did as he asked and calmed down a bit " Now what happened mom?" he asked in a soothing tone that I didn't know he was capable. Mom took a deep breath and looked me in the eye as she spoke the words that turned my life around

" your dad

...he was in an accident... He died on impact."