Preparation

"Ah!!! There's a pimple on my face!" Brianna screamed from the bathroom as she was getting ready for the day today. Her plan was to go to the building to help with some more renovations and afterwards go shopping with Silvia.

Silvia quickly ran into her friend's washroom once she heard Brianna scream.

Brianna had a white towel wrapped around her head and another white towel wrapped around her body, covering the lady parts. Brianna was looking in the mirror, attacking the pimple on her face.

"What happened? I heard a scream!" Silvia said in a hurry and then realized that there was nothing wrong she glared at her friend crossing her arms.

Brianna looked at Silvia, who was standing at the door, looking annoyed. With her pointer finger, she pointed to the pimple above her top lip and under her nose, "I have a pimple." Brianna said with a fake pout.

Silvia rolled her eyes, "no one but you care about your pimple, why would you scream about something like that. I mean, it's not even life threatening."

"It's gross. Who wants a pile of built up dirt on their face?" Brianna asked, crossing her arms.

"Sometimes you are too over dramatic Bri baby." Silvia commented.

"You know it," Brianna said with a friendly wink, "now shoo, I need to finish getting ready." Brianna said shooing her best friend away, then closed the door and finished getting ready.

When Brianna was done, Silvia was sitting on the couch waiting for her.

The two girls were wearing an outfit similar to the one that they wore the day before because they were going back to the building, and the two were smart enough not to wear something nice that could easily get ruined.

Silvia had a bag with her with the clothes that they are going to be wearing once they leave to go shopping.

"Ready to go?" Brianna asked, and Silvia nodded.

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Silvia stood up and both of the girls left and started their way to the building.

*****

"Sorry dude, but I can't come. My mother came in at the last minute and said that I 'must' go to a ball." Jason said through the phone while he was explaining to his friend why he couldn't go to their meet up today.

"Awe, that sucks. Maybe next time."

"Yea, maybe next time. We better hope that my mother doesn't decide to ruin my plans again" Jason shrugged. "I got to go, bye." he said before hanging up.

Jason sighed and walked out of his office.

Theodore was down on the first floor printing out some papers when he saw his boss walk out of the building. Theodore quickly stopped what he was doing and ran after him.

"Sir, may I ask where you are going, and do you want me to accompany you?"

"No, continue doing your work here, I shouldn't be long." he answered as he got into his car.

Theodore nodded and walked back inside before Jason Drove off. He needed to let Brianna know she was going to accompany him to the ball today. She didn't really have a choice.

His window was down. As he was driving, he drove past the building that he picked Brianna up yesterday and heard a scream from it.

His car slowly came to a stop in front of the building, and he stepped out.

*****

~Earlier~

It was close to noon as Brianna was sitting in front of two by four on the ground. There was a nail sticking out of the piece of wood, and a metal hammer in her hand.

"Are you sure you can do this Bri baby, I heard a lot of stories about people breaking their thumbs because of a hammer, maybe you should let the professionals do this." Suggested Silvia.

Brianna shook her head, "its fine, I can do this," she said, "plus, it looks easy." Brianna added, pointing to a few workers on different parts of the floor, hammering the nails into the wood. They didn't look like they were hurting their thumbs in the hammer.

Brianna was a smart girl, but sometimes, her impulse takes over and she doesn't think before doing something stupid.

She raised the hammer in her left hand and held the nail with her right pointer finger and thumb. 1,2,3 and Brianna slammed the hammer down on to the nail with a loud bang and a scream.

"OWWWWW!!!!" The hammer slammed right onto her thumb. She quickly put her red thumb and sucked on it like a baby sucking on a pacifier.

Silvia was rolling around on the ground, holding her stomach and laughing to a point where tears were rolling down her cheeks.

Brianna glared at her friend.

"I… told… you… so…" Silvia said in between her laughs.

"Shut up." Brianna mumbled.

Then the doors opened, and a man walked in. Brianna turned her head to see who it was, "..."

The man who walked in was no one other than the one and only Jason Jay.

'Great. What is Mr Annoy Ass doing here?' Brianna questioned in her head, clearly unimpressed that he came.

Jason looked at Brianna and walked up to her with his hands in his pocket.

"Why are you sucking your thumb?" Questioned Jason when he was in front of her, looking down.

Silvia stopped laughing when she heard Jason and looked at him, then looked over at Brianna.

"Why are you here?" Brianna questioned back.

"I heard a scream, so I checked it out." he replied pursing his lips, "Now why are you sucking on your thumb?" He asked again.

"That is none of your business." she answered with a sassy tone, taking her thumb out of her mouth and quickly sliding it into her pocket.

"..." He saw the slight redness on her thumb, "why is your thumb red."

"She didn't listen to me and touched a hammer." Silvia cut in with a smile.

Jason nodded, "why did you even touch a hammer in the first place, especially without someone watching you to make sure you don't hurt yourself." He chuckled while she rolled her eyes.

"I was bored and wanted to try something new, I also wanted to help." she responded honestly.

"Maybe you should find another way to help that doesn't involve something that is dangerous like a hammer."

"Maybe you should stop bothering me and dig yourself a hole six feet under the group here would would spend the rest of your life in." she mumbled standing up and dusted herself off. "You can leave now." she said, dismissing him.

"Actually… I needed to talk to you privately." He grabbed her hand and pulled her outside while she glared at him.

"This is kidnapping." she pointed out and he just ignored her.

Once they were in his car he started, "remember when you said that you will go on a date with me when you made me apologize to your friend?"

She nodded with a smile as she remembered that time, 'ah, the good ol times.' She thought.

"And remember when I promised you you would make up for our missed date and waste my time?"

"..." Her smile faded.

"Well, I thought of how you would make it up to me."

"What is it?" She raised an eyebrow.

"You are going to act like my girlfriend at a ball."

"WHAT?" She screamed.

He winced and covered his ears, "you heard me."

"And why?"

"Because I need a girlfriend or else, my mother would choose a girlfriend for me, and I want to keep my single life longer." He replied.

"And if I don't do this…?"

"You don't have a choice." He smirked.

"What do I get out of it?"

"Anything you want… like money, or a new car, or even a mansion."

"I don't need that stuff. If you didn't know, I used to be the heiress for Jameson cooperation."

"What do you want then?"

"For you to stop bothering me."

He looked at her with a face that said 'are you serious.'

"You know, I'm not even sure when I'm asking what you want, you owe me and this is how you will do it." He replied, "I will send a group of people to make sure that you are ready by six so you don't do the same thing that you did last time. You can leave now."

She gave him a glare before getting out and slamming the door behind her.

When she walked into the building, Silvia was there wanting to know what Brianna and Jason were talking about, Brianna took the bag that they brought and walked to the room to change. When she came back out, she threw the bag at Silvia.

"get change, we are leaving early."

Silvia nodded and quickly left to get changed.

*****

Brianna and Silvia were sitting on a table in the food court, drinking a frozen lemonade.

Brianna was wearing a black crop top with blue skinny jeans, Silvia was wearing a pastel colored spaghetti strap sundress.

"And then he said, 'I don't even know why I'm asking you what you want, you are the one who owes me.'" She was explaining to Silvia what happened with her and Jason, mocking Jason's voice poorly.

"Wow, that jerk." Silvia rolled her eyes, "Maybe next time, you wouldn't be as stupid and decide to 'forget' about a date with him."

"Are you not even going to help me with this?"

"Nope, maybe this time you will learn your lesson."

Brianna rolled her eyes, "what a friend you are." Brianna said sarcastically.

Silvia giggled.

*****

Meanwhile, Jason was in his car, driving down the street, going back to his office with a smile on his face.

In his head, he knew Brianna would hate him, he just gave her a reason to hate him.

Once he got to his office building, he took the elevator to the top floor and went straight to his office. He called some people to meet Brianna at her hotel room to get her ready for him when he went to go pick her up. There was no way that he was going to allow Brianna to do the same thing that she did to him last time. This was important to him. His mother wasn't really going to choose a girlfriend for him, but if he walked in there without a girl, the girls there would start throwing themselves on him, and that gets annoying.

*****

It was 4 Pm when Brianna and Silvia got back to their hotel suite. When she got inside, she immediately threw off her clothes and jumped into the shower, letting the cold water hit her white skin. She was studying her thumb that she hammered earlier today. It was now a faded pink and part of her nail was chipped off. There was still lingering pain in her thumb, but it didn't hurt as much as it did when she hammered it.

Soon there was a knock on their door, and Brianna was getting out.

"Can you get that Silvi, I will be out in a minute!" Brianna shouted from her room and then looked for a comfy pair of pajamas.

When Brianna came out, Silvia was talking to a group of people trying to get them to leave. Brianna came behind Silvia and looked at the group.

The group looked like a fashion group. She tried to think of a reason there would be a fashion group when what Jason said early came to mind.

'I will send a group of people to make sure that you are ready by six so you don't do the same thing that you did last time.'

'So he wasn't joking about that…' Brianna said and then looked back at the group of people.

"If you guys are here because Jason sent you, you might as well just leave. I am not going."

"Sorry Miss Jameson but we were ordered here to prepare you or else we will not have a job." A lady with a clipboard said. She was probably the head of the group.

Brianna sighed, not in a mood to argue she let them in, and they got her ready to go.

*****

2 hours had passed, and a man was just putting the last bit of makeup on her when there was a knock on the door.

Silvia got up from her spot and opened the door.

Jason stood out of it in an elegant black fitted tuxedo and his hair combed black. He smelled like expensive cologne which made Brianna scrunch up her nose from the smell one the person finished and left. Not going to lie, Jason looked quite handsome in his tux.