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Natasha decided to just stay around the buffet table for the rest of the night. She concluded that at least she could eat her worries away just for tonight. She already felt drained and had lost interest in this event.

What was she even thinking? She was wrong to expect that this party would go smoothly with no problems at all, technically it did, but for she and Dom it brought some unnecessary issues to resurface in her opinion.

She just could not catch a break when she needed one so badly. As she was busy eating kebabs it suddenly hit her that it must be nine pm by now, and at that same moment is occurred to her that she had forgotten that tomorrow would be a very important day for her and her own company.

Oh how could she have been so forgetful? She had just remembered that tomorrow would be the opening day of her store in Lexington, the store that she and Chloe worked so hard on brining to life.

She almost smacked herself on her forehead so hard, how could she have forgotten? How could she have been so busy not to realize that this party subtly clashed with her own plans.

Natasha shook her head, realizing that if she had just luckily remembered right now, there was a huge possibility that Chloe had forgotten about this as well.

Natasha wasted no time at all as she proceeded to look for Chloe, lucky for her, Chloe was not to far away.

"Chloe." she called as Chloe turned to look at her and smiled.

"Oh Natasha, I am really enjoying myself tonight." said Chloe as she giggled.

"I'm really glad about that Chloe, but I just remembered something really important." said Natasha.

"What is it?" asked Chloe.

"Tomorrow is the launch of our store in Lexington, it completely skipped my mind." said Natasha.

"Oh my lord Natasha, thank you so much for reminding me, it also completely slipped my mind." said Chloe as she gasped, to think that she had forgotten an event that they had worked so hard to see through to completion.

"I can't blame you, it skipped my mind as well. I can't stay here any longer, we need to make sure that everything for tomorrow is prepared and ready, there can be no slipups." said Natasha.

"You are definitely right about that, it's nine thirty right now, and Neil is still speaking to some clients, I doubt that I'll be able to leave until at least eleven, but you don't have to worry, everything on my end has been settled. I have allowed for media coverage like you asked me to, and my assistant has handled all the mundane technical things, so I think that we should be fine." said Chloe.

"Alright, then I guess it's left with me, there's still some final paperwork I have to sign off on, so I'll leave right now and hopefully see you early in the morning." said Natasha as Chloe laughed.

"I highly doubt that Natasha, but don't worry, I will make sure to be at the store before nine." said Chloe as Natasha laughed.

"Alright then, that's alright, I have to go now, see you tomorrow." said Natasha as she gave Chloe a quick hug.

"See you tomorrow." said Chloe as she smiled and Natasha hurried to find Dom, they came here together, and they had to leave together, there was no one else she could leave with, they were still all very busy.

To her luck, she spotted Dom not to far away talking to some people with his extremely fake smile. Natasha scoffed and shook her head as she walked up to him.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, can I talk to you?" she asked as she smiled and the people gave them some space.

"Is something wrong?" asked Dom, surprised to see her come to look for him.

"I just remembered that I have an important event tomorrow, so we need to leave right now, can we?" she asked him as he sighed in relief, he had been looking for a valid excuse to get out of here. This was a party and yet he still found himself doing more work instead of relaxing like he should have.

"Of course of course we can leave." said Dom cheerfully.

"Why do you look so happy?" asked Natasha.

"I've been looking for an excuse to leave." said Dom as he laughed.

"Oh please, excuse me, I will be taking my leave now." said Dom to the politely to the people he had been speaking to, he did not waste any time at all, he grabbed Natasha hand and lightly pulled her away with him.

"I wish that I hadn't given you a good reason to escape." said Natasha as Dom laughed.

"Oh but you did, so thank you for that." he replied with a smile.

"Now, to find Joy so we can get out of here." said Dom as he looked around, he was looking for the stairs.

"*Ugh*, Why is this girl so heavy?" asked Ethan as he carried Joy, he was looking for her parents, you see this is why he did not want to hang out with Joy, he always ended up being a babysitter.

"Mr. White, aunt Natasha." called Ethan as he caught sight of them and they turned to look at him.

"Oh Ethan, Joy's alright asleep." said Natasha as she laughed and carried the sleeping Joy from him.

"Yes, she fell asleep alright, and she's really heavy." said Ethan as Natasha laughed.

"Well thank you for bringing her to us." said Dom as he smiled and carried Joy from Natasha.

"Okay, see you later." said Ethan as he rushed off, now he could finally have his own fun.

"Now we can leave." said Natasha.

"But not before telling grandfather that we're leaving, or else he will be very upset if he doesn't see us before we leave." said Dom.

"Good point, let's go find him." said Natasha as she led the way.

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"Grandfather." she called as Ernest turned.

"Ahh my dear." said Ernest as he smiled.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"Well nothing, we just thought to tell you that we'll be leaving now." said Natasha as Ernest frowned.

"Aww, but why my dear, why can't you stay longer?" asked Ernest.

"Well I forgot that I have a business engagement early tomorrow morning, it completely skipped my mind, I need to go now, so I can wake up early." said Natasha.

"Aww, but do you really have to go?" asked Ernest sadly.

"I'm sorry grandfather, but we really do, Joy's already asleep, and it's been a long night, I wish we could stay longer, I really do, but we need to leave." said Dom.

"Oh hush there boy, I know you're lying, you want to leave." said Ernest as Dom laughed guiltily.

"I promise that we'll make it up to you later grandfather, just enjoy the party, and have a good time, everyone else is here to celebrate with you, so please have a good time." said Natasha as she smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Oh alright then, okay it's alright, take care and get home safely." said Ernest with a sigh of defeat.

"Thank you grandfather we will." replied Dom with a smile.

"And tell my precious great granddaughter that I will be coming to see her soon, or perhaps she can come over for a week or two." said Ernest with a smile as Dom chuckled nervously.

"Umm... maybe, we'll think about that, goodnight grandfather." said Dom as he smiled and he and Natasha walked away.

"You do know that you said you will make it up to me." shouted Ernest as they left.

"Yes we did, but we'll talk about that later grandfather." replied Dom as his pace quickened and Natasha shook her head.

"Why do you want to make him unhappy? If he wants Joy to come over for a week, it's fine, as long as he let us go, which he just did." she said to him.

"Oh, I know, but I don't like the idea of that right now, I'll explain later." said Dom as Natasha found herself confused, sometimes she didn't understand him, or maybe she didn't want to understand him, regardless, he was being really annoying at the moment.

"Whatever you say." she replied as they walked out of the exit into the parking lot.

"Now, where did I park?" asked Dom confused as he looked around.

"Did you seriously just forget where you parked?" asked Natasha as she facepalmed.

"Well yes, when we got here this place wasn't this full, and excuse me but it's been a long night, a long day actually. I think I'm sleep deprived." said Dom as he yawned.

"Just unlock your car and the alarm with blink." she reminded him.

"Oh yeah... I forgot my car does that." said Dom as he laughed sheepishly and pressed the unlock button on his car key and a black car blinked not to far away from them.

"Of course you did." said Natasha as she walked ahead annoyed.