Chapter-51: Home Party[1]

31 December 1992.

As the sun's soft glow brightens the entire room. A figure got up from the bed and removed the curtains covering the window to let the light cover the room completely.

As the room is lightened up, a voice can be heard mumbling,

"Ric, it is too bright here. Could you cover the window,"

Ric smiled and went to the side of the bed where the mumbling was coming from.

"Wake up, Love. We have a lot of work to do," Ric said while kissing the forehead of Drew, who was lying on the bed.

"Don't wanna," said Drew while turning to the opposite side of Riv.

"If you don't get up from the bed this instant, I will carry you all the way to the toilet," said Ric.

Seeing her not responding, he replied,

"Fine then, have it your way."

"Ric, what are you doing!!!!... Hey, stop!!!!... Kyaaa!!!" Drew shouted all the way to the bathroom as Ric carried her.

In the kitchen room, while they were having breakfast.

"Ric, you meanie..." grumbled Drew while Ric was laughing.

Drew then sulked for a while until Ric coaxed her back to normal. Then the couple spent the rest of the time supervising the house decoration for the upcoming party during the night.

The party was not just a new year party. It is also the party of Ric shifting to this mansion as we as the grand opening of the community.

The date of the party was Drew's idea. She is the organizer of the party as well.

Ric is not much of a fan of any parties. After living a party life in his previous life, he has created some resistance to it.

On the other hand, Drew is a little party freak. She loves attending parties. From friend's birthday parties to high-class parties, there are no parties she doesn't attend.

Thanks to attending so many parties, she has a much larger social circle than Ric.

The number of guests invited to this party is large. From less known celebrities, producers, and directors to famous ones, all bigwigs of the Hollywood film production companies, selective famous TV and newspaper reporters were invited.

In the list, the number of guests invited by Drew was higher than that of Ric.

It is because of Drew being more active in Hollywood than Ric in these few years.

As Ric took a break from acting, he had less interaction with Hollywood. It became even less when he bought Columbia Pictures.

On the other hand, Drew completely didn't stop interacting with Hollywood even though she took a break as well.

She went to parties hosted by different celebrities or production companies, took different cameo roles in films and tv series, voice acted different film, tv, and game animation characters. She also didn't stop doing endorsements as well.

Thanks to that, she could invite more people than Ric could, and she was quite smug about it.

All Ric has done was shrugged his shoulders and roll his eyes in response.

This event was equally important to Drew as it is to Ric. For Ric, this is the announcement of him coming back to Hollywood.

On the other hand, for Drew, it is the announcement of their relationship status.

The entire world knows that they are couples, childhood sweethearts. But through their relationship, they nighter confirmed or denied it, just told they were best friends.

But their relationship status will be officially announced through this party. The reason behind this was the surprising move Ric made during their first visit to the mansion.

-FLASHBACK-

20 December 1992 Malibu, Dume Mansion

After finishing lunch, Ric, Drew, Winona, and Jennifer sat on the stage made at the slope overlooking the ocean.

"This place is gorgeous," said Jenny.

"I agree on that, jenny. Ric, you have really outdone yourself. This mansion, that fountain, park, and those villas. To describe in one word, fantastic," said Winona.

"Well, thank you," said Ric while performing 'the taking his hat off' act.

Then he looked at Drew, who was awfully quiet after lunch and now looking at the ocean vaguely.

"Drew, what happened?" asked Ric.

"Huh... Oh... nothing..." she replied after getting out of her thought. Then she paused for a moment with hesitation then said wistfully,

"I was thinking of how much it would be better if I could live in this kind of place together with you."

She then smiled to herself longingly then quickly changed the topic by cheerfully saying, "Anyway, Ric, if this is your surprise, then you have nailed it."

Ric smiled and said, "Not really, the surprise is yet to come. Oh... By the way, did you like the villas, Winona?"

"Of course, they are beautiful. Anyone will be lucky to live there," she replied.

"Then do you want to live here?" he asked again.

"Duh... I would love to live here. Especially on the last villa to the left. Why?" she said while narrowing her eyes.

"Consider yourself lucky," saying that Ric threw an object directly at Winona, who instinctively caught it.

When she looked at the item, she was shocked. Not only her both jenny and Drew was shocked as well.

"Ric, no, I can't take it. It's too much," said Winona while keeping the key on the table.

"Keep it. You know you need it if you guys want to live peacefully. Besides ,I am not giving it to you for free. You need to pay the amount you are paying now to your old home. Think of it as protection fee." said Ric with a smile.

Hearing him, all of them became quiet. Then both Winona and Jenny got up synchronously and rushed to Ric and hugged him.

"Thanks, Ric. Thank you so much," said Winona with a hoarse voice.

"Yes, Ric, you don't know what you have done for us," said Jenny.

"Hey, what is a friend for," said Ric with a smile while patting their back.

"Okay... Okay, enough melodrama. He is my boyfriend," said Drew while breaking them apart.

They laughed at her antique while she joined them as well.

"But it's not over yet," said Ric after they laughed for a while. Then he took Drew's hand while she looked at him with confusion.

"Love. Let's live together. Become hostless of this mansion." said Ric.

Once again, all of them got bewildered.

"You're not joking with me," Drew asked with her hand on her mouth.

Ric smiled and shook his head sideways in reply.

Finding her answer, she shrieked and jumped at Ric and kissed him deeply while others clapped and whistled.

-FLASHBACK- -ENDS-

After that incident, with the help of Ric, they quickly shifted to their new home.

And like Ric, they also went on a shopping spree while taking Ric everywhere.

At this moment, Ric realized why boys or men use to complain about taking their girlfriends or wife to shop.

After finishing their shift, Drew quickly settled down. After she came, not many things changed in the mansion.

The thing that changed was the decoration of their bedroom. And a large number of clothing items, shoes, and pieces of jewelry in the changing room.

She also proposed to organize a party to which Ric agreed.

As time passes, the time of the party finally arrived as the guests started to appear.