19: A mess

It was Pliny, Victor's and Hardin's mom. She had the same taping habit as her husband. As soon as I turned she hugged me, although she barely reached my shoulders, I was shocked but hugged her back . She broke from the hug and kept her one hand on my face and said,"Honey, I heard whatever Victor said to you. I was standing there nearby. I'm so so sorry, he is a spoiled brat. From childhood he is not like that....he was like Hardin first, all bubbly but then he started becoming cold towards everyone and used to tell everyone that he is the bad twin and Hardin was the good twin." I looked at her and smiled "It's ok. "

She then turned to see if anyone is there and then said "Hardin is really close to your brothers and knew about you since his childhood. You know when Jack first handed your photo to Hardin, he got so excited and I never saw him so happy before. You know that he likes you no?"

I looked at her with shocked eyes and she started laughing "I'm not kidding honey,it's true." she said and went towards the main hall. I became flustered and my face became tomato red. I took the drinks and returned to the table. Everyone had one look at me and started questioning me as to what had happened and why my face was red. Hardin looked so worried that he opened a bottle and made me drink it.

Sam thought that I ate something and ran to get mom and dad. Mom and Dad came running along with Jack and Pliny who were then followed by uncle and aunt. Pliny looked at me and again started laughing. Everyone started looking at her. I looked at her and blurted out

" I....I....j....jus....just remembered something embarrassing so...." then everyone started laughing. Dad patted my head and then took everyone in the serving room.

It was almost 11 pm so I had my food, wished everyone good night, Hardin kissed my cheeks and Victor said very coldly "Night" and I ran upstairs. I had a bath, put on my night suit and lay on the bed,unable to sleep, remembering Pliny's words. I checked the time it was 12 am already, but the sound of the people was still there. I closed my eyes and before I realized I was asleep.

I then woke up at 3:30 am at the sound of someone fighting. I went near the staircase in my night suit and saw that the guests were already gone. It was uncle and Dad. They were drunk. I saw that only Jack and Pliny along with Victor and Hardin were remaining along with uncle, Ange,Nysa and Aunty. Mom and Aunty were trying to separate them both fighting, Jack who was trying to separate them also started fighting with them so then Pliny was also trying to calm them down. Nysa was telling Victor to calm them down but then Victor started fighting with her. Ange, Sam, Samuel and Hardin were keeping all the objects away so that no one gets hurt.what a mess!

I wanted to stop them but suddenly Hardin saw me at the top at stairs and then looked at everyone fighting and was about to say something....but I all of a sudden couldn't breathe, my heart was pounding, I had a sharp headache and then before everything went black I heard Hardin and Ange scream my name and I had a sense of falling, everything went black.