Once I got home, I threw my bag on the couch and gaze at Rebecca."You didn’t get the job, did you?" She asks noticing the frown line on my forehead "I got the job, but-""Really!" She rushes to me pulling me into a hug "I can’t believe this, you got the job, oh my gosh we have to celebrate." She says with excitement, she pulls away and looks at me "You said ‘but’ at the end of the sentence. What happened?"I kept to where I stood and nodded my head "Why, did they reduce your salary?" She ask and I shook my head in disagreement "Did they tell you to take a night shift?" I shook my head again and walked over to the couch, I buried my head on the couch and screamed into it."What’s wrong babe." She asked sounding very concerned "It’s my boss," I say"Is he hot? Did he ask you to have sex with him?""No, but-" I exhale wondering what to tell her"But what?"I gulped the lump in my throat and blurted out "My boss is Richie Maranzano"She gasped as her eyes widened in shock "What!""Yeah
They say the sixteenth birthday party is the most important birthday party of a girl's life. It is joyful and memorable. Mine started joyful everyone was happy, Dad was singing I was dancing with my mom. I felt like a princess that day, in fact, I am a princess. My daddy’s little princess. Everything changed in a blink of an eye and suddenly it became an unexpected memory. It was very memorable such that it left a scar in the corner of my heart."Mom, I can’t go. I’m scared." I said sniffling between words. "You can do it, you have to." My mom said trying so hard to be brave but I can tell that she is scared. We all are. "No, I can’t, I can’t do it, Mom. I can’t leave you." Tears streamed down my face as I wiped them away. "You can and you will do it for me, for dad, and yourself." She said as I kept shaking my head disagreeing with her.She pushed me forward and waved her hands dismissively. "Go" She instructed "I can’t, I ca-" My throat felt like it was closing as I spoke each wo
It is night already which means a few minutes before the office dinner party. If it wasn’t for Rebecca and her dumb little influencing mouth, I wouldn’t have been getting ready. Goddamn! Richie didn’t even ask me to be his date, it was like a saying because he didn’t bother to hear my opinion on that.Rebecca has spent almost an hour painting my face all in the name of makeup and I’m fucking exhausted from that. "Goddamn! Becca, how long is it gonna take?" I say, groaning in annoyance "Just a few touches and we will be done." She responds I swear she has been saying that for the past thirty minutes. She applied a red lipstick on my lip and closed the tub before handing me a small mirror to look at myself. As I gaze at my reflection, the thoughts of my horrible sixteenth birthday party flashed through my eyes. That was the last time I had makeup done. I instantly dropped the mirror on the table trying so hard not to react."You don’t like the makeup?" Rebecca asks I gulped the lump
My eyes went wide as I kept to where I was sitting. I didn’t move an inch or say a word. My mind was blasting with questions. Questions like; what the hell Richie is doing? Why the heck is he doing this? Is this all part of a Mafia plan? What could they possibly want with me? When he said Rachel Green, was he referring to me? All these questions poured into my brain like a tidal wave.Richie and I don’t even know each other- well I know everything about him and I’m certainly sure that he knows nothing about me. With all my research I can tell that Richie isn’t the marriage kind of guy so why did he propose to me?I think I’m going to freak out. This is bad, this is very bad. I want to stop Richie but I don’t know how? Whenever I’m shocked, I lose myself just the way I’m losing myself right now. I feel like I’m paralyzed. My eyes were still locked on Richie’s eyes, he smiled at me and put the ring on my finger. "You make me feel complete." He whispers to me and then presses his lips on
I feel like today is going to be a great day for me. I always wanted to ruin or hurt Richie’s life either physically or emotionally and I think smashing a rejection in his face will be a small win for me. I have planned on how I will reject Richie, I am not going to do it in private, I will do it in public so everyone will know that Richie Maranzano is not every woman’s dream. Oh lord! This is going to be interesting, I can’t wait to do that. I have finished dressing up for work and was admiring myself as I apply red lipstick. "Rachel," Rebecca says walking into my room "Why are you up so early," I say looking at her through the mirror"We need to talk." "You broke up with your boyfriend didn’t you?" I asked turning back to look at her. I won’t be surprised if she did. "Not yet and it’s not even about me, it’s about you." She pointed at me "Those my lips look good?" I pout closing the lid of the lipstick."Oh wow! Is that red or nude?" She asks suddenly interested in what I’m say
"Is that what you want?" Rebecca asks through the phone as we're on a video call.A few minutes after I accepted Richie’s proposal, my phone starts to blast with calls, most were unknown numbers so I didn’t pick them up. The only call I picked up was Rebecca’s. She was beyond surprised and I am too. I didn’t expect to accept Richie’s proposal but here I am with a ring on my finger. "I don’t know, I was so confused at that moment and when I saw that evidence all I can think about is exposing Richie. And the only way I could think of is getting engaged with him." I say"I just feel like I will be able to get information and so many things about him now that I’m his fiancé." I continue "Well, you’re right on that but are you really sure about this? I just don’t want you to regret what you did.""I don’t know if I’m sure but even if I’m not sure about this, there is no going back. I have the ring on my finger and I did say yes.""That’s true. Anyways congratulations Richie Maranzino’s fi
"I want you to move in with me," Richie says "What? Why will I move with you?" I ask"Because I want you to." "Well, that’s not enough," I say. I can’t stand Richie, I hate him. If I move in with him, my life will be much worse than it already is. Acting like I don’t hate Richie and pretending everything is fine between Richie and me is killing me and if I move in with him, I might lose the little patience I have in me to tolerate him. Although this seems two ways sided, If I move in with him, it will be a great opportunity for me to get all the information I need about him and it will make it easier for me to ruin him. I don’t even think it will reach up to a month before I crush him into pieces. I will literally be his worst mistake. "I don’t want to pressure you into moving in with me but think about it, you’ve said yes and you are technically engaged to me. But it’s your choice, you can decide on whatever you want." He says "I don’t know, I’m-" I halted mid-sentence as I rethi
The ambulance arrives, and they force me away so they can treat Richie’s wounds and load him into the ambulance. I was worried that more blood would flow if I moved my hand, but thankfully it didn't. I hold on to Richie’s hand tightly as the ambulance drives. At the hospital, they force me away from him again. I feel like this is all my fault, if I had seen the plank falling down, Richie wouldn’t have rushed to save me and he wouldn’t have risked his life for me. While sitting in the waiting room, I consider if I should call one of Richie’s family members but I didn’t know how to tell them that Richie is in the hospital and is bleeding to death because he was trying to save me. I should be the one laying on the hospital bed, it should be my blood flowing out, I should be the one in pain. Richie doesn’t deserve all this. It’s my fault and I am supposed to be in there not Richie. If anything happens to Richie today, I will blame myself for it because it’s my fault. I want to ruin Ri