Now and Forever novel Chapter 13

Audrey and I had made plans of going shopping later on in the afternoon so I decided to pack away my clothes in to the closet to pass time.

I dragged my suitcase to the closet and saw one side of the closet was filled with Alexander's clothes and the other side was empty.

I started out by hanging the dresses, then tops and ended by hanging the jackets last. I then folded my jeans and shorts and put my undies and bras, the pajamas that Bella had gotten me and my swimsuits in a drawer that was beneath my pants.

By time I was done, it was around eleven am so I decided to organize my skin and hair products in the bathroom. It didn't take me that long to organize them since I didn't have many of them.

There was a knock on the door and the sound of it opening. I popped my head out of the bathroom door to see who it was then Audrey walked in and sat on the bed.

"Hey Audrey, do you need anything?" I asked as I walked out of the bathroom and towards the bed. "Are you ready?" She asked. I looked at the time on my phone and it showed that it was a quarter to mid day.

I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. "It's not yet one o'clock." I said while looking back at her. She sighed dramatically while falling back on the bed on her back. "But I'm so booored." She whined as she put an arm over her eyes.

I chuckled lightly and walked back into the closet to get a purse to put my wallet and phone in.

We walked out of the room and made our way downstairs. On the stairs we met Alexis and her friend. "Where are you guys going?" Let's call her Ms Annoying shall we? Asked. "None of your business Bethany." -Oh, so that's her name. So much for my great nicknaming skills. *Cue eye roll*- Audrey said as she just walked past them.

I could sense the tension between them so I just gave them a polite smile and followed Audrey down the stairs. We turned going towards the left hallway when Alexander walked out of some sort of room that had brown double doors. "Where are you guys going?" He asked when he closed the door and came to stand in front of us.

"The mall for shopping." Audrey said. "Isn't it too early to go?" He asked looking at her. "Any ways, I need to talk to you Amelia." He said turning to me and motioned me to follow him. "Make sure you guys get evening dresses, we have been invited to a gala hosted by Mr Richards and his wife." His mom said also coming out of the room Alexander had just walked out of.

He opened a room and this time, he let me walk in first. The room looked like it was a lounge of some sort. "What do you want to talk about?" I asked when he had closed the door. "We need to sign a contract for this... what ever it's called." I nodded my head in understanding and motioned him to continue. "We were supposed to sign it when we went back to the states after two weeks, but our trip has been extended." He said.

"Why?" I asked. "My mom asked me to extend it by two more weeks so that she can get to know her 'daughter' more." He finished off with an eye roll at the end. I don't know why, but it kind of hurt when he said daughter with quotation marks around it.

"Is that all?" I asked. "No," he said as he dug something out of his pocket. "I need you to take this and use it to buy a dress for this evening and more clothes for the longer stay here." He said handing me a credit card. "I can't." Is all I said, pushing it back to him.

"Why not?"

"Because it'll look like I'm 'with you' just for your money." I said looking down at the floor. He shook his head, pushed the card into my hands and walked away, leaving me in the room by myself.

I walked out of the room and walked to where I had left Audrey earlier on. We walked into what looked like garage that had many looking expensive cars that were all black and were heavily tinted.

Audrey chose a Grand Jeep Cherokee and got into the drivers seat while I slid into the passenger seat as she started the car and drove out of the garage.

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