Chapter 16 Hang out with my sister in law
Only ride with the people you walked with
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Irina's point of view:
"I am sorry for keeping you waiting, Kies. I have to now. She is here already." I said to him before getting out of the car. He only nodded in response to what I told him.
I was embraced with a bone-crushing hug immediately as I got out of the car. I almost lost my balance. She didn't even let me compose myself as I got out of the car.
"I can't breath" I managed to say.
"Oh, I am sorry about that." She said she released me from her hug.
"Hello," I said to her when he finally got to look at me properly.
"Hey. Let me introduce myself to you properly. I am Loana Ruslan Alexei, and I am your new sister-in-law and vice versa. I am the twin sister of your brother. I like to talk a lot so you have to bear with me. I love to talk about fashion mostly. That's all about me, what about you?" She smiled at me.
"I am Irina Anton. I don't really like to talk. That's all about me, I guess." I said to her.
"That hurts my ego." She said as she put her hand on her chest dramatically.
"I am sorry for that," I said.
"Let's explore" she said as she started walking in. I had no choice but to follow her.
"You can't win my brother's heart by being this hard on the outside you know. My brother is talkative, he is a clingy type, he is a playful type and he loves attention, not to forget he is a troublesome guy. These are his attributes when we were small. When he became the Don, he had to leave these weird attributes he possesses but I can tell you that he loves attention so much loves attention and he is a playful type." She informed me out of the blue.
I burst into laughter all of a sudden. He has female attributes. I have never heard or seen a man with such characteristics.
"You look so pretty while laughing. My brother is a lucky guy. You are also lucky, my brother is the most handsome man on Earth despite his arrogance" She said.
I stopped laughing and faced her.
"Excuse me, Ruslan is the most handsome man I have ever met." I opposed her.
"He should have been the finest but he has a baby face which does make him hot whereas my brother has a matured face which made him hotter." She explained in favor of her argument.
"Whatever" I said curtly, knowing that I just lost to her.
"Thanks for accepting defeat, Mrs Atono." She teased.
"Oh come on. I know my brother is finer than your brother so why argue? You are just being jealous that my brother is finer than yours." I thought out loud.
"Whatever. Go sit at the corner, let me go and order the coffee." She said as we entered the café.
"Okay," I muttered as I did as instructed.
I got a table in the corner, and I sat down in the chair while waiting for her.
Seriously, all of this feels like a dream. Going out of the house to hang out, stepping outside the house for the first time and here I am, I am sitting among the people in a cafe. I am amongst the crowd, I am among strangers. It is not like I will be seeing their faces every freaking day. I am so glad. This is the happiest day of my life.
"Here you go, Americano as you wanted. And I have mocha coffee here." She said she placed my coffee on the table before me.
"I never told you the kind of coffee I wanted, how do you know I want this particular coffee?" I asked her suspiciously.
"Don't give me that face. I asked my husband about your favorite coffee and he told me. Is it a crime to try to satisfy my sister-in-law?" She said fiercely.
"He got it wrong. My favorite coffee is a cappuccino. But I will manage this" I told her.
"My bad. I am sorry about that." She apologized.
"It's okay." There was silence after that.
I decided to break the silence.
"I have never stepped out of my mansion since I was born. I was told my mom gave birth to me in that same mansion. Growing up, I thought there was no life outside the mansion. I thought that was the only place where people exist. I never told that there was life beyond those gigantic gates.
I got everything I ever wanted as a child, I had a best friend, Sarah, who is always with me all the time. We explored the gardens, the workers' quarters, the playground, the whole mansion, the swimming pools, the lagoons, the busy part of the mansion, and the deserted area but I never stepped out of it.
It was when I started attending college online that I knew that lives are living healthy, unhealthy, happy, and sad beyond the gate. I always wanted to go out but I always told myself that there is time for everything. I know the time that I will go out is definitely coming and here it is.
I grew up seeing the same faces every freaking day except if they die or leave the house. But here I am, seeing different people with different ways of life.
I am so glad that I can finally see how the world is. Everything is beautiful. My mom once told me that the world is a wicked world when I told her I wanted to go out. But it was a lie, she lied to me." I sighed at the end.
"Maybe she is right, the world can be wicked. But it is based on the path you choose for your life. And there is this thing called destiny, which can play its trick on anyone. The world can be wicked, especially the world we were born into. It is dangerous to go out but you have to take the risk" she explained.
"Then why are you so free to do anything you like and to go out freely?" I asked her out of curiosity.
"I hid my identity ever since I was small. I didn't really live with my family. I moved in with my aunt when I was about eight years old. I relocated to Japan then. I didn't want anyone to know that I am from a family that kills so I changed myself into an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. No one knew I was a twin. We know that fact because we all know that I will be the strongest instrument to defeat or bring down Roman by the enemies. But I do come home during holiday, let's say occasionally. Well, I like to travel a lot. Like a lot." She explained.
"Oh!" I exclaimed.
"Yeah. And now that I've married Alexei, I have bodyguards trailing after me for my protection. It is so risky to come out alone now." She informed me.
"Oh!"I exclaimed again.
"You know what, I don't know what you have been through but all I know now is that, as long as I still cherish you, I will make you talk and talk and become talkative. I will teach you things about what a lady likes like fashion. I will never make your moments so boring. I promise you that" she said like it is that simple.
"You know, I have always been jealous of you since our wedding. The way you told me you are enjoying yourself at my house while I am suffering at my house. It has only been three days since the wedding and I feel. I should just file a divorce case. I feel like you are my lucky self while I am your unlucky self. You are okay with your new family while I am far from okay.
I have only met my husband and he is a fuck, I know his family is far worse than him because I know the expressions on their face on my wedding day. It looks so deadly. It is filled with hatred. I am still very afraid to meet them. You are the lucky one, Loana." I expressed my worries and jealousy.
"I am so sorry about that. I can't make the situation any better because I am in no position to do such a thing but I will try my best to talk to Roman. He has never been a jerk to my gender before. He just changed so much. I guess it is just trying to make your life miserable because of the 'hatred' the two families have for each other." She
confessed.
He is stupid if he thinks he can maltreat me because of the supposed hatred between the two families.
I will make him fall in love with me no matter what and when he does, I will decide to leave him or not.
Watch out for me, Roman Anton.
"Let's go to the mall. I have drunk all my coffee." She said as she stood up.
I looked down at my halfway drink of coffee, I picked it up, and drank everything.
I stood up and trailed behind her.
Let's see how the 'mall' thing goes.