Exchanging Favors Chapter 3 The girl hung up the phone and went down the stairs to wait for , after 20min he got back from his shower. _Sweetie,will be here for lunch today, so we can talk about the wedding details, do you mind sweetie? _why the hell are talking like this? – She said entering in the living room. _my love this lady behind your back is our housemaid Lucie, Lucie this ismy future beloved wife. The girl turned to see the maid and greeted her. _Nice to meet you Lucie! _Mr.I didn’t know that you were engaged, is this new? Because I never saw this girl here. _More respect Lucie, this is Ms.your boss from now on and no, you never saw her here because of the photographers. _I’m sorry Ms., it will be a pleasure working for you. _That’s okay, you can call me. The housemaid left the room andstayed looking atwho was playing with a spoon in her mouth. _It’s childish, isn’t it? –said taking off the spoon of her mouth. _What? What is childish? –said a little bit out of Earth. _Playing with the spoon, isn’t that you were looking? _No, I was just watching the way… _The way what? _Thinking… I was thinking about our wedding that’s all. wasn’t thinking about their wedding, he adored the way she was eating the yogurt and the way she was playing with the spoon on her mouth. After taking breakfast they decided to do shopping spree to show people the happy couple they were. At lunch timedecided to meet them at a restaurant and they talked about the deal. _No offenceI liked you, butare you crazy? Did you lose your mind? You can’t marry with a strange woman. _She’s not a strange, in a month I’ll marry her with or without your support. _That’s okI’m not gonna be against you, I’ll tell the others about this love story and I hope everyone believes in you guys. _They will! –said giving a wild kiss on. _Take it easy! – The girl said smiling. smiled and continued eating,was tender and caring with her, just the same waywas with him and who saw them together could really believe that they loved each other. In a week everyone in the media, friends, and family already knew about the wedding, no one was against ‘cause they were really convincing and at the parties they were the most wanted by the photographers for being a beautiful couple. Aspromised her brother, after 2 weeks she called him asking if they would appeared at her wedding and the answer was a big NO, only would come and still he would come hid from his father, and he only could stay for 5 days other wise his father would notice. When she got to know that she was broken inside and if before this she wasn’t ready to prepare the wedding day now it got worse. The girl spent all day long in’s bedroom locked and crying without talking with anyone. Whengot in the house the maid went to talk to him. _Mr.your fiancé spent the day locked in your bedroom, she didn’t eat and I think she is crying. _Do you know why? _After you left this morning Mr., I heard her talking with her brother and then she locked herself in your bedroom. _Thank you Lucie! –said going to the kitchen. _Do you want me to prepare something for her? _No Lucie, I’ll do it myself. made a hot chocolate and toasts with strawberry jelly, put it in a tray and left the kitchen. _Lucie you can go home earlier today! _And the dinner? _I’ll do something later. The housemaid left andwent to the girl’s bedroom and didn’t see her there, then he went to his bedroom. _can I came in? _Of course you can this is your house, you don’t need to ask. – She answered wiping her tears put the tray on the bed and sat next to her. _What happened? Your family won’t be here? _No, my father didn’t let them come and he’s right, I did everything wrong, I shouldn’t be here! If I acted the way he wanted me to now I would be with my family and then when I got a job, I’d live the way I wanted without fighting with my dad. Now I’m getting married with someone who doesn’t even like me and whose only interest in this marriage is for me not having to pay a rent and you stay an year without fake girls which is interesting ‘cause I want your house. _you’ve made a mistake, everybody does sometimes. If you wanna give up its ok, we can cancel the wedding. You can go back to your house and make peace with your father you still have time to do it. _No, I can’t fix any of this. I made a deal with you and after an year maybe I’ll go back home! _Are you sure? – He said being all caring and tender with her. _I am! – The girl said turning to the other side of the bed and covering herself. _Do you wanna eat something? _No thank you! _I’ll take this to the kitchen, and take a shower. You can sleep here I’ll sleep in the other bedroom. On that nightspent most of the time thinking about whatsaid to him and on her, and at 5:22amsaw the girl entering in his bedroom. _what are you doing here? _It’s almost 5:30am soon Lucie will be here and I know she won’t like to see us apart. _Are you feeling better? _I don’t know, I couldn’t sleep and I have to see the dress at 8am. _It can’t be another day? _No, we’ll get married in 15 days and still missing a lot of things. _So is better you rest a little bit, I’ll take a shower and then I’ll stay in the living room to Lucie not have suspicious about us! _… I know that maybe this will be too much to ask, but could you stay here ‘till I fall asleep again? Please! _Of course I can, I’d love to! got back to the bed with the girl and she fell asleep in his arms, when the housemaid got in the house saw the tray that he made for her intact, so she made a beautiful breakfast table to them and when she went up the stairs to clean the guest rooms she saw them sleeping together holding each other, she closed the door andwoke up with the noise. When she noticed that Lee was hugging her even sleeping, she thought that really sweet of him and started to look at him with other eyes. Whennoticed that he was waking up, she faked she was sleeping,started to caress her face and she was loving that, when gentle he put his hand on her face and whispered in her ear. _I chose the perfect person to get married, beautiful, sensible, delicate, tender, friendly everything in one girl, and it’s a shame that it’s all fake… To Be Continued...