Beata was almost laughing out loud at Yael's words. If River heard what Yael said, she knew that with his temper, he might even cause trouble on the cruise ship.
So Beata decided that she had to make this birthday celebration very ordinary and not reveal her thoughts. Of course, there was still something that she needed to do.
For example, when they returned to their room after dinner, Beata had to think carefully about how she would celebrate her birthday with Yael. With the venue issue resolved, Beata picked up her phone and replied to Mikayla's message in the group chat, "I've decided! Let's go on a cruise together!"
As soon as this message was sent out, everyone in the group chat became excited. Although cruising was a common way of celebrating birthdays for them all by now, since it was Beata, the youngest sister's special day, they wanted it done right.
They were discussing how they could make this cruise more interesting when River still hadn't appeared yet. Beata stared at her phone for a long time but didn't see any response from him, which made her heart beat faster.
She looked at Yael and asked, "Yael, has my brother figured out my plan?"
Yael didn't answer because it was obvious that River must have already seen through everything. He just didn't want to tell Beata because then she would start getting nervous.
As expected by Yael and everyone else who knew him well enough, River held his phone tightly while looking at it for a long time until his face turned livid with anger.
Averi tried comforting him but eventually joined in on planning the party instead of trying too hard, as he took Averi's phone from her hand and hugged her saying, "Babe, please calm me down. I'm feeling uneasy."
"Don't be so petty," Averi said teasingly while trying not to laugh too much, knowing full well what was going through Rivers mind right now. "Beata has grown up."
"But I'm still uncomfortable," River replied stubbornly.
He wasn't really uncomfortable about Yael and Beata's relationship progressing further; he just saw through their plans clearly, which made him feel like he had been played around with unnecessarily again
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