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BLAM!
Aphrodite closed the door to her room and stepped towards the center of the room. While in the living room, Helen, who was busy looking at her daughter's wedding invitation in hand, turned her attention to Aphrodite who was now approaching her.
"Look! It's really good, right?" He said he showed Aphrodite's wedding invitation in his hand. The woman he was talking to was silent for a moment, she was surprised to find several invitations arranged on the table.
"Mama, what is this?" Aphrodite's Mumbles.
"Whatchu mean? It's obvious this is your wedding invitation with Frans, are your eyes blind?" Tukas Helen then chose to focus on the invitation in her hand. Talking to Aphrodite irritated him, and the woman did not respond at all and instead shifted the conversation in another direction.
"No, it's not that. What I mean is why there are so many invitations? Who are we going to invite?" Aphrodite made clear the meaning of the question she had originally asked.
"Oh, Madame Fanny called and she said that she had sent her confidant to deliver a few hundred invitations to our family, who knows if there is something we want to invite so she gave it."
"But why didn't Mom just refuse? Besides, who are we gonna invite? We are only three, and have no other relatives. So why accept this many invitations?"
"Lone say it like that! Hear that! Mama received all these invitations because she wanted to give all these invitations to her friends. Mama wants to show them that the man who becomes the future daughter-in-law of the mother will be the son of a rich man. So my mom accepted all of this! Oh, you can also take one for that jerk you love, too" Helen got up to grab Aphrodite's hand and asked Aphrodite to hold the invitation.
"S-the jerk?" Aphrodite's birthday did not understand who Helen was referring to. He stared alternately between his wedding invitation and Helen before him.
"Yes, that son of a bitch Vier you love so much! Give him one, show him you can get a much better man than he is!"
"I-I don't think it's necessary." Aphrodite gave back the invitation in her hand to Helen. "Our lives are different now, we already have each other's lives and I don't want to interfere with his married life, so I better not invite him."
"No! You should invite him! Oh, my mom almost forgot. Bring one more, so you take two! It's impossible, right, you got married without inviting Jen?" Helen received one more invitation and gave the invitation to Aphrodite, now in her hands were two invitations that had just been given by Helen to her.
"If it's Jenia, I don't have a problem. I did plan to invite him, but if Vier. It's possible that he's busy with work and his family right now, so I don't want to bother him ma."
"No! Nah! Nah! Mama does not agree! Anyway you should invite him. The point! And don't dare argue. Remember that!" Helen emphasized her words.
Aphrodite speechless. He looked down at the two wedding invitations he held. Actually he was really lazy if he had to go back to the meeting with Xavier, even his injuries at this time were still not fully healed and still quite sad for him every time he remembered what he had experienced. But what is okay, Helen kept pushing and forcing him to invite the man.
"Do you understand?" Helen asked who managed to make him instantly aware of his daydream. Aphrodite looked up, looking at Helen before her. He nodded his head slowly in response.
"It's good that you understand." Helen got out of her place, walked over to the sofa there and sat down while taking care of all the invitations that were in front of her.
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Aphrodite glanced at the watch on her left wrist. The clock now shows at forty-thirty. And her best friend, Jenia still never arrived at the restaurant where she was waiting for this moment. After meeting with Fanny, Aphrodite immediately asked Jenia to meet him because there are things she needs to say and there is something she must give to her best friend.
As Helen had requested, Aphrodite inevitably had to follow her request. Sending her wedding invitations to Jenia and Xavier.
"Dite!" Call her. Aphrodite looked up, turned to the direction of the voice and found Jenia who had just arrived was walking towards her.
Aphrodite smiled when she finally met her best friend again. For a long time they had not met, especially after Aphrodite was too busy helping Fanny take care of all the preparations for her wedding.
"I'm sorry I'm late" he said, sitting there in an empty chair.
"It's okay. Oh yeah, you want to order something?"
"Later. By the way what do you want to talk to me about? Do you want to give me your wedding invitation?"
"Eh? How'd you know that?"
"Haha, isn't it obvious? We haven't seen each other in a long time because you're busy taking care of your wedding, so you asked me to come for it, right?"
"Yes, you're right. Oh, and this." Aphrodite offered an invitation to Jenia.
"Well, the invitation is very good" said Jenia as she grabbed the invitation and looked at him, but her face changed immediately when not her name on the cover of the invitation.
"Wait, did you invite Xavier?" Tanya Jenia looked up. Aphrodite looked at him with a surprised look, and Jenia showed him the invitation and the man's name was on it.
"Oh, sorry. I gave it wrong." Aphrodite grabbed back her invitation and gave the invitation with Jenia's name on the cover.
"Why did you invite him?"
"I don't want it, but Mama."
"What's? Aunt Helen asked you to invite her? What's for?"
"Mama said, I have to show her that I can get better than her."
"And you agreed?"
"I rejected it, but my mother forced me. I have no other choice, if I don't give it to her then mom will be mad."
Jenia fell silent, she could not understand Helen who asked Aphrodite to give the wedding invitation to her ex-boyfriend who had obviously hurt her and left her just like that.
"Yes, stop. Don't think about it. Better now we spend our time together, we meet so we spend our time together."
"All right."
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