The Secrets Hidden In The Scars

      Meanwhile, Terrence and Raquelle are sitting at home, standing on the balcony of their room, watching what’s happening outside, and enjoying the warm wind blowing their hair and clothes nicely. While the girl is leaning on the railings, the man is standing behind her and hugging her by the waist with both arms, sometimes putting his face on her shoulder.       “Oh, that sweet couple is walking somewhere,” Terrence says with a quiet chuckle, while the wind is blowing his disheveled hair and shirt with quarter sleeves, the color of which starts from black and ends with white, and which perfectly fits his dark blue, definitely new jeans and gray shoes. “They were so busy with their business that they forgot about us.”       “Where have they been?” Raquelle asks, feeling confident in an above-knee black dress with middle open sides that is tight to the girl’s stunning body, expresses her dignity perfectly and fits her shoes with the high heels of the same color, the silver bracelets on her hands, and the earrings in the form of a plumage covered with brilliants.       “I don’t know. But I think at the home of one of them.”       “They’ve had an idyll for a few months.”       “I noticed. My bro doesn’t stop admiring his beauty and saying how lucky he is to have her.”       “And how they supposed each other during the trial. Natalia looked at Edward with great pity when he was trying to protect himself. And he wanted to be near my friend when she was speaking to the judge. How determinedly he closed her with himself when that man wanted to wound her but wounded him.”       “Oh, and how he almost killed that sick stinker Wainwright, who stared at all the girls in the courtroom, said bad things to them, and felt many of them up. If not for the rules about keeping order in the room, Edward would’ve had no mercy for him.”       “We should’ve definitely been afraid of him ‘cause your brother was so wild. When he was beating that sick scumbag, the girls and I were shocked! But we gained respect for him when he let that man wound him.”       “Still, we could understand him. I would’ve also killed that bastard if he’d insolently felt you up and treated you rudely before my eyes.”       “I’m sure that Mr. Rochester would’ve had the pleasure of helping Edward. He wanted to attack Wainwright several times.”       “They would’ve killed him, and Father would’ve been happy to deal with Uncle Michael.”       “Not just him, honey. You and Edward would’ve also helped Mr. MacClife deal with Michael.”       “I don’t deny it. I would’ve told that man everything I thought of him. And in the case of Edward, it’s all clear ‘cause my brother heard too much from Uncle Michael over the past years.”       “And Michael tried to put him in prison,” Raquelle sighs heavily. “He wanted to do everything for Edward to be found guilty.”       “I think Uncle didn’t really know the murder was committed by his accomplice Eric,” Terrence assumes. “I watched his reaction when the judge announced the result of the DNA test that let us know that Brown was guilty of the death of my father’s friend. He was terribly mad. And if he had been brought to the courtroom, he would’ve gotten green from the judge’s words about Edward being pronounced non-guilty.”       “Michael didn’t plan to kill Nicolas, despite disliking him. He told the judge that he didn’t tell Eric to kill Mr. MacClife’s friend.”       “No, no, Uncle didn’t have to do with it. That was Eric and Nicolas’ contras. Personal reasons.”       “At least something Michael didn’t have to do with.”       “Yeah, but he got what he deserved. Uncle will spend the rest of his life in prison.”       “I think nobody expected he would get that sentence.”       “Agree, but I don’t feel sorry for Uncle,” Terrence says confidently. “I have no reason to feel sorry for that man, who was making my life worse when I didn’t know who he was. And who was harming my family for a long time.”       “But luckily, this story ended well,” Raquelle notices with a slight smile. “On the day of the announcement of the sentence for Michael and his pals.”       “I had a bad feeling after that for a long time. Hearing some ruts cursing you and your family is terrible. Of course, I didn’t take those words seriously, but that was unpleasant anyway.”       “But the most shocking moment was the day of the announcement of the sentence for Wainwright for Natalia’s charges.”       “He’s really sick! He must get therapy! People like him would hardly be healthy. They were born assholes and will die assholes. And if Edward had died because of him, and his wound had been much more serious, I would’ve killed that bastard.”       “But the judge pronounced him mentally sick and put him in a prison hospital.”       “Yes, that’s good Mr. Torres got a medical report, which confirmed that Wainwright must’ve gotten therapy.”       “After what he did, everybody made sure about it.”       “I hope he is under close control there.”       “It’s been three months, but nothing has happened.”       “No, only not that. If one person from that gang runs away, trouble will happen. If Uncle runs, all of us will be dead. And Wainwright’s runaway will make us nervous. Especially Natalia. And Edward wouldn’t leave him alone and would kill him somewhere.”       “I know…” Raquelle sighs heavily again, looking at what surrounds her with sadness in her eyes. “But I don’t want it to happen. I don’t wanna be worried for a few months and spend many nerves about the hearings.”       “I get it, my love.” Terrence hugs Raquelle a little tighter, slowly running the tip of his nose over her cheek, which he kisses cutely. “But I think it’s gonna be okay. This story ended once and forever.”       “Sure…” Raquelle smiles slightly.       “And yeah, let’s not talk about the trial. It’s so unpleasant for me to remember that. I don’t wanna think of the hell that we experienced.”       “I know,” Raquelle pronounces quietly with sadness in her eyes. “It’s also unpleasant for me to think about it, but I still think of that. Like it happened yesterday.”       “But we shouldn’t get stuck on it. Life goes on. We should forget that hell and live quietly.”       “Trying, but I can barely do it…”       “Over the past months, our life got much better. The guys and I finally recorded our first album. You’re getting more successful as a model and often participate in shootings and fashion shows. Edward started to earn great money as a songwriter alongside his work in the band. And Father got the shipbuilding company back and is disappearing there all day.”       “You’re right, there’s no reason to complain,” Raquelle replies thoughtfully.       “And if it’s so, let’s try not to talk about what we had to experience. Let’s think about our wedding. It’s time to work on it much more seriously.”       “What about you?” Raquelle half turns her head on Terrence. “Even if I try to forget that, it’s gonna be hard for you to do it.”       “I can forget everything if nothing and nobody reminds me of that,” Terrence replies confidently. “My parents try not to talk about it with Edward and me. And Edward doesn’t wanna talk about it. As well as Natalia.”       “Well, if nobody reminds me of what happened, I can also forget that hell once and forever,” Raquelle says thoughtfully. “But it doesn’t mean we wouldn’t love to think about that nightmare when being alone.”       “Maybe. But we’ll have no time to think about it. Get busy with work and nice business, and we will be so busy that we won’t have time to think about bad things.”       “Although it’s been three months, we need each other to find the strength to tear this page off. And I wouldn’t personally like to stay alone, ‘cause I might go crazy in this case.”       “You’re not alone, Raquelle,” Terrence replies softly, caressing Raquelle’s cheek tenderly. “You have a family and many loyal friends that will always be by your side. We’re all ready to help. Nobody will leave you in trouble, even if you’re running from us and saying you could take it.”       “I know, Terrence,” Raquelle says with a slight smile. “And I’m so lucky I’m surrounded by people, whom I could completely trust. Thanks to them, I find the strength to keep moving on.”       “You know, sweetheart, you’ve lately suffered from attacks of depression too often,” Terrence notices thoughtfully, looking at Raquelle with sadness in his eyes. “Life got kind of better, but you look unhappy sometimes.”       “Why do you think so?”       “I dunno. But sometimes I have a feeling that something isn’t right with you. Maybe, something bothers you? Or do you have some problems?”       “Erm…” Raquelle bites her lip, starting to breathe a little heavily and swallowing up nervously, while her eyes scarily run from one side to another. “Why do you think so?”       “Don’t be shy, Raquelle, if something bothers you, you can share it with me. I’m your fiancé and have the right to know what happens to you, and what you need to be happy.”       “I’m happy now,” Raquelle smiles a little tensely. “I’m happy to have such a wonderful man, a loving family, amazing friends, and a favorite job. I’m not poor or hungry. I have everything.”       “Are you worried about me? Afraid that I wouldn’t take what still bothers me?”       “Of course, I am.”       “Ah, Raquelle…” Terrence tenderly kisses Raquelle on her temple and one of her shoulders, putting his arms around her neck and locking his fingers on her chest. “I’m strong and would solve any problem. These things can’t be forgotten immediately, and I do realize it. But believe me, a few months later after the end of this story, I got much better, and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”       “Gosh, Terrence, how may I not be worried about you?” Raquelle wonders. “You’re one of my closest people that I adore with all my heart. And I can’t wait to get married to you.”       “I know, my sunshine. But your changing condition scares me sometimes. I don’t wanna see you like this.”       “Terrence…”       “How do I help you get better? I’d do anything for you.”       “You’re doing too much for me. And it’s enough.”       “If you want, we can have another trip abroad. Maybe, it would help you relax and forget the bad things.”       “I doubt that we could travel at the nearest time,” Raquelle replies thoughtfully. “I have many shootings and offers to participate in fashion shows. And you work with your band and get ready to release the album. The lads and you are gonna have to attend some concerts every day and perform somewhere to promote your songs.”       “This work doesn’t make me exhausted,” Terrence smiles shyly. “I madly liked working on the album with the guys. They’re all awesome! And we’re gonna have fun on the photoshoot for the promotion of the album and its design very soon. Moreover, the release of the single, for which we’re also gonna have a shoot, is scheduled.”       “You see how much work you have! And after the release of the album, a tour will get much closer.”       “It’s too early to talk about a tour. We only plan a photoshoot, the release of our first single, and the music video for it. I’ll definitely need the experience that I got at the photoshoots.”       “I can’t wait for the photos from our photoshoot for the commercial for the fall collection of clothes to be released.”       “Oh, I love their brand!” Terrence exclaims. “And I’m so happy they invited us to work with them.”       “Yeah, our second shoot was much better than the first one,” Raquelle laughs shyly.       “That’s right! I could kiss you and feel you up as much as I wanted, and you would’ve done nothing to me. You didn’t show off and didn't pretend to be a Show Queen.”       “Yes, yes, you haven’t changed since that time. You were a shameless and insolent donkey, and you stayed one.”       “Anyway, you and I worked very well, babe. Though, I ain’t surprised. Because I can do anything I do. I could easily work in a modeling business and be the face of a brand.”       “Maybe, you’ll get the offer of becoming the face of the man’s perfume when the popularity of your band raises.”       “I’ll surely think about this offer,” Terrence promises confidently and rubs the tip of his hands against Raquelle’s cheek tenderly. “Moreover, I have a great adviser, who would give me a couple of appreciative pieces of advice. As a professional with many years of work and rich experience.”       “I could even come to the shooting with you,” Raquelle says with a slight smile.       “It would be great. My workability would be many times better if I had such a wonderful girl like you by my side.”       “Terrence…”       “I finally, highly rated my work with you after the second time.” Terrence runs the back of his hand slowly over Raquelle’s cheek. “We spent a great time that I will never forget.”       “And of course, you didn’t miss a chance to praise yourself to the skies and become a restless child,” Raquelle replies with a laugh.       “What’s wrong?” Terrence smiles innocently. “I had nothing to do, while the people were getting everything ready for the shooting. And because you were already dressed and brushed, it would’ve been a crime to miss a chance to play with you.”       “Sometimes I was ashamed of you. I wanted to pretend that I didn’t know that little boy, who forgot that he was an adult man.”       “Said by the girl, who didn’t mind having some fun,” Terrence says with a smile. “When I suggested you play, you never minded and had fun with me.”       “I think the funniest moment was a play with fake leaves,” Raquelle chuckles quietly.       “Because you threw them over my head?” Terrence wonders with a shy chuckle.       “You were perfect anyway. You say if you’re totally dirty, it won’t make you worse.”       “Oh, that’s good there weren’t dirty pools there. Otherwise, I would’ve had to wash the dirt off me for a long time.”       “You know, I’m happy, as well. Because I wouldn’t have wanted to be in mud if you’d thrown me at that. I would’ve better fallen in a bunch of leaves and tolerated your tickling than looked like a grubby pig.”       “Sorry, cutie,” Terrence smiles innocently. “I should’ve punished you a little for ruffling my hair and throwing leaves on me.”       “At least you made amend by riding me on your back like a horse,” Raquelle replies with admiration. “I’ll never get sick of it. I’m sorry that I didn’t have a whip. I would’ve given you speed, so you moved faster. Because you were like a snail!”       “M-m-m, I feel BDSM…”       “Knowing that you’re sick, I’m sure you would’ve liked it.”       “I’d be happy if you made me happy with your disarming smile and sonorous, infecting laugh often,” Terrence says softly. “I do like it so-o-o much!”       “Well, if you’re doing your best for that, it will happen,” Raquelle replies with a mysterious smile. “For example, smile frequently. Because I like your wonderful smile, as well.”       “Oh, yay, babe, I’m so perfect,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised, presses Raquelle closer to himself, puts his nose in her shoulder, and kisses her cutely on the temple, still hugging the girl from behind and putting his hand on her belly.       “Oh, MacClife, don’t start it…”       “Just don’t lie. If you start to deny this irrefutable fact, I will not believe you. Because you completely recognize my awesomeness.”       “You know, I heard that narcissus always behaved so. They see nothing bad about themselves and think they’re literally Gods.”       “I’m not a narcissus! Why can’t people stop thinking that my confidence is my narcissism?”       “You should just be shyer. But in any situation, you’ll always find something to praise yourself for.”       “Ah, babe, how can I be shyer if I have such a gorgeous beauty by my side?” Terrence smiles widely and kisses Raquelle’s open shoulder cutely. “You must be kidding!”       “Oh, okay, arguing about it with you is worthless. Let’s better go down to wait for our guests. And make sure that we have enough food for tonight.”       “And I’m suggesting we spend a more interesting time…” Terrence purrs in Raquelle’s ear quietly and tenderly, running his nose over her loose, slightly wavy hair. “I can do very much for you.”       “What if someone stops us insolently?”       “Don't worry, you and I have a little more than one hour.”       “Actually, I made a hairstyle and did makeup. Do you want me to go to the guests with disheveled hair?”       “I see nothing bad about it.” Terrence takes Raquelle’s earring covered with brilliants and looks at it for two seconds. “A little mess has never been bad.”       “Don’t forget that our guy in love, Benjamin Parker, is at this house.”       “Ah, yeah, Benjamin… He started to recall the address of this house much more often after he stood on the right track.”       “I didn’t think he’d start to date Blair. I thought nothing serious would happen between them. But it seems like their relationship is getting stronger.”       “So, because I softly pushed my friend to some things, Ben is as happy as my bro, Edward, and my dear friends, Daniel and Peter.”       “Oh, yeah!” Raquelle laughs shyly. “You completed your mission, Cupid!”       “I’m doing this for the good things because I wish my friends happiness.”       “I can imagine what Parker would’ve done to you if Blair had rejected him.”       “I didn’t even think of it,” Terrence says with pride. “I knew it would happen. And Parker is trying to play the role of a family man successfully.”       “Are you waiting for him to meet a failure?” Raquelle chuckles.       “Why do you think so? You know I’m for the happiness of my close people.”       “I’m surprised you haven’t gone to annoy them.”       “No, somehow later. I’m giving the romantic number one the chance to be with his girlfriend.”       “And how long are ya gonna stay here?”       “Until the romantic number two, better known as my beloved brother, and his blonde beauty come here.”       “And which number are you gonna have?”       “I’m out of the line!” Terrence replies with a sly smile. “I’m perfect, and everyone knows it.”       “Praising yourself again?”       “No! Just a constant of the fact!”       “Oh, Terrence…” Raquelle turns on Terrence with a quiet sigh, leaning on the railing, moves his hands off her softly, and crosses her arms over her chest. “You wanna show your superiority over the others again.”       “Not true! I…”       “Yes, yes, yes! I did believe you.”       “Ah, sweetie…” Terrence takes Raquelle by the shoulders softly. “Okay… If it calms you down, I’m gonna be the number one, and the others go after me.”       “Number one?” Raquelle frowns slightly.       “As the oldest member of our company.”       “Oh, okay,” Raquelle glances aside for a second. “Let’s think I’m happy with this answer.”       “Decided then,” Terrence, leaning on the railing so that Raquelle has no place to go, comes close to her and examines her face with his half-closed eyes. “And now we can play a little…”       “Hey!” Raquelle puts her index finger up. “I am warning you, Terrence MacClife, if you start this game, I won’t be responsible for myself.”       “What’s wrong, baby?” Terrence smiles slyly. “Are you gonna resist such an attractive man again?”       “Don’t deprive me of my mind. Or you’ll regret it!”       “Seriously?” Terrence wonders and runs his open mouth over Raquelle’s forehead and cheeks. “And how?”       “Get off, MacClife, I ain’t gonna mess around you now.”       “You know that if you’re one meter away from me, I won’t leave you alone.”       “I’m not guilty of you not being able to hold yourself down.”       “Do you think I should hold myself down?” Terrence looks into Raquelle’s eyes closely. “You deprived me of my mind when I saw you for the first time. When you became the first girl that wasn’t put under my spells after the first attempt.”       “Don’t get excited…” Raquelle laughs shyly. “Control yourself…”       “Moreover, you’re especially gorgeous now.” Terrence barely touches Raquelle’s lips with his lips, breathes in the smell of the skin on the curve of her neck, and breathes on it with a hot breath. “So sexy in this stunning dress… You decided to please your beloved man…”       “Did I say I put it on for you?”       “Who else?” Terrence wonders, runs his lips slowly over a curve of Raquelle’s neck, and reaches for the area behind her ear, while she shakes slightly with closed eyes. “Not for Blair, of course…”       “If it makes you nervous, just don’t look at me.”       “I can, but I don’t want…” Terrence grabs Raquelle’s ear with his lips and caresses her earlobe. “Oh, damn, you smell so deliciously… I already want you to death.”       “I’m afraid you’ll have to wait ‘till tonight,” Raquelle replies thoughtfully and bites her lip slightly, looking into Terrence’s eyes. “Of course, I also want you so badly and dream of undressing and caressing you. But I’ll delay it for later.”       “Why would you hold yourself down?” Terrence leaves a couple of tender kisses on the curve of Raquelle’s neck. “You and I have a little time. We could do very much…”       Terrence moves his hand off the railing and caresses Raquelle’s cheek tenderly, while the girl glances at the free way and decides to use the moment. Not moving her eyes off the man, she sharply goes aside. But he instantly grabs his fiancée by the waist with one arm and presses her close to himself.       “So, where does such a stunning girl want to slip away from me?” Terrence smiles slyly and puts a free hand on Raquelle’s buttocks, which he squeezes tenderly.       “Me? Slip away?” Raquelle smiles innocently, rounding her eyes. “Come on, honey? How could it happen?”       “Pretending to be hard to reach again?”       “You are too insolent.”       “Really?” Terrence, still holding Raquelle by the waist with one arm, puts his free hand on her flat belly and caresses it slowly. “Do you really think so?”       “So, handsome, do you think you’d get what you want if you felt me up from head to foot?” Raquelle clicks her tongue quietly, shaking her head.       “I just haven’t reached your most sensitive areas,” Terrence replies in a quiet, low voice with a sly smile, running his lips over all the parts of Raquelle’s face. “But if I do it, you’ll surely be mine.”       “Maybe, in your dreams.”       When Raquelle wants to go aside with a wish to tease Terrence a little, he grabs her by the curves of her waist and presses her very closely to himself, already feeling the passion and not going to give up.       “Hey, hey, don’t move,” Terrence says quietly and grabs Raquelle much tighter after she attempts to break free. “Don’t move, I said!”       “If you don’t let me go now, you’ll regret it,” Raquelle says confidently.       “Did you wanna say if I didn’t let you go, you’d give me pleasure?” Terrence moves one hand slowly to Raquelle’s thigh, raises the edge of her dress slightly, and runs it over the naked skin. “To drive me crazy and make me take this gorgeous dress off you…”       “Go to the fuck!”       “M-m-m, it seems like I have a deal with a rude, bad bitch that must be kicked a little,” Terrence smiles slyly and claps Raquelle on her buttocks playfully. “Okay, I can speak to this type.”       “I don’t have a deal with insolent, arrogant peacocks.”       “Want me to show some rudeness?” Terrence grabs Raquelle by the throat tightly but tenderly with his head proudly raised, pushing her to the railing softly.       “You want me to slap you in your insolent face?”       “You know me well, Cameron. I get what I want, no matter what the cost.”       “I’m not playing your games.”       “You’ll do anything I tell you. And you won’t dare to mind it.”       “Wrong, MacClife,” Raquelle replies confidently and grabs Terrence sharply by the collar. “You will be making my dreams come true on my first order.”       “Actually, the head of the home is a man,” Terrence notices and, putting his hands on Raquelle’s buttocks, presses her to himself sharply. “So, he does control everything and makes such stubborn and sexy bitches like you obey them.”       “Can you go to hell with your command tone?”       “You do like me commanding you.” Terrence runs his hand over Raquelle’s naked thigh. “You like obeying the real man.”       “I hate when someone deprives me of freedom.”       “You say one thing, but you think of another.” Terrence grabs Raquelle tightly by the hair and kisses her sharply on the lips, making the girl moan two seconds later.       “You’re gonna spend a lot of time feeling me up and licking me.”       “It’s okay, I don’t rush.” Terrence leaves an exciting kiss on one of the curves of Raquelle’s neck, while another hand of his squeezes her buttocks tightly. “Ah, holy shit! Your smell drives me crazy!”       “But it doesn’t get me excited,” Raquelle smiles slyly and closes her eyes with a feeling of a slight shake in her whole body and a fast heartbeat.       “Wait for a while, baby. You’ll be screaming from pleasure soon.”       “You’re dreaming too much…”       “You do want me to take this dress off you and fuck you cruelly.”       “You didn’t surprise me,” Raquelle exhales sharply. “I’ve always known you’re a sick bastard.”       “Asking for great trouble?”       “Alright, pretty guy, stop playing. Let me go now! Let me go, I said!”       “We haven’t dealt with everything!”       “I swear I shall hit you between your legs if you don’t get off me.”       “If you do it, I shall tear your dress right here.” Terrence leaves a couple of slight bites on the curve of Raquelle’s neck and massages her breasts tightly but tenderly, making her moan quietly. “You will go nowhere until you give me pleasure!”       “It’s not a part of my current plans.”       Raquelle tries to step aside again, but Terrence grabs her from behind immediately, presses her closer to himself, and grabs her tightly by the throat, while his second hand slides over her belly.       “Quiet, quiet, sweetie, quiet,” Terrence says in Raquelle’s ear in a low, velvet voice with a sly smile, touches her ear with his lips, and caresses the area behind it with the tip of his tongue. “We have some things to do…”       “I need to get out…” Raquelle says with a heavy breath. “For a second…”       “Hey, stop!” Terrence sharply pulls Raquelle down when she shows resistance again.       “Go to the fuck, asshole.”       “Quiet, I said!” Terrence throws with his head proudly raised and grabs Raquelle by the throat much tighter, feeling how fast her heart is beating. “Stay quiet, bitch!”       “Calm down, Terrence, I won’t be dancing attendance upon you,” Raquelle says confidently, feeling how Terrence’s hot breath is burning the skin on her neck.       “You will, babe, you will. You will do it immediately.” Terrence sharply leans Raquelle’s head back and covers the front of her neck with kisses, while his other hand squeezes her breasts confidently. “I only need to warm you up, so you don’t dare to think of resisting me. So, you get hot and wet…”       “I’m sorry that you can’t do this.”       “I’ll do it for a few minutes.”       “Don’t be so self-confident.”       “I am a professional at seducing girls and know all of their erogenic zones.”       Terrence’s hand slides over Raquelle’s belly, gets underneath her skirt, and caresses her crotch with his fingertips. That’s why the girl makes a quiet moan with her head leaned back and gets the bottom of her body tense strongly, feeling that a tormenting tension is getting stronger somewhere in her abdomen.       “Oh, gosh…” Raquelle pronounces.       “So, babe, like it?” Terrence smiles slyly, runs his lips over the curve of Raquelle’s neck, and reaches the area behind her ear that he caresses tenderly, while his other hand massages her breasts confidently.       “I feel nothing…” Raquelle lies with her eyes rolled up. “Nothing…”       “Come on?” Terrence runs his thumb over Raquelle’s lips. “Why are you breathing so heavily? Why is your heart beating so fast?”       “It seemed to you…”       “The more you lie to me, the more I want to undress you and spread your legs.” Terrence massages Raquelle’s breasts with both hands more intensively and stimulates her tough nipples, watching how the girl’s body is twitching with a tender shake.       “Asshole…” Raquelle pronounces in a hoarse voice. “I hate you… Hate…”       “I know, I’m imitable.” Terrence grabs Raquelle tightly by the throat with both hands and, leaning her head back, gives her a passionate kiss, getting his tongue into her mouth immediately and running it over the girl’s palate and tongue confidently.       “M-m-m…” Raquelle runs her tongue tenderly around Terrence’s tongue, making him make a quiet moan.       Two seconds later, Terrence turns Raquelle sharply on himself and keeps kissing her, grabbing her tightly by the hair and putting a free hand on the curve of her waist. The man’s assertiveness and his amazing skill at kissing deprive the girl of the will quickly. She answers him with pleasure, running her hands slowly over his arms, touching which makes her shake. During a little break, the lovers look into each other’s eyes. The girl runs her hands slowly over the man’s torso with a sly smile, behaving playfully enough and looking at her fiancé with an eating look.       “So, you want me to give you pleasure?” Raquelle specifies in a low, velvety voice and bites her bottom lip slightly, as her hand moves to Terrence’s abdomen. “Well, I dunno… Of course, I could do something… But you’ll have to give something to me back…”       “We both know we want the same,” Terrence purrs quietly. “You want me, I want you…”       “Yeah?”       “You’re thinking about it.” Terrence runs the tip of his nose or lips slowly over Raquelle’s neck, collarbones, and breasts. “I know it.”       “Maybe…” Raquelle exhales with a shake and closes her eyes with the feeling that her heart stops for a moment.       “Tell me you want me,” Terrence whispers in Raquelle’s ear, running his fingers through Raquelle’s hair. “That I drive you crazy…”       “Yeah…” Raquelle pronounces eagerly, breathing heavily enough and feeling a slight dizziness. “I want… Want you…”       “Me too…” Terrence snuggles his face in the curve of Raquelle’s neck and covers it with kisses generously, holding her by the back with both hands. “Oh, damn, Raquelle… You’re imitable…”       “You’re a bastard…” Raquelle runs her hands underneath Terrence’s gradient shirt and slides over the naked masculine six-pack, understanding that her heart starts beating much faster from the dizzying smell of the man’s perfume based on liqueur, musk, cinnamon, and cedar. “Why are you the heck so attractive? And smelling so sexually…”       “If you don’t stop provoking, you will not run away from me,” Terrence replies in a low, hoarse voice, breathing in the smell of Raquelle’s skin mixed with the perfume of bergamot, musk, jasmine, and pink peppercorns.       “Let me go, and everything will be over,” Raquelle smiles innocently, while her hands go up and stop on Terrence’s chest, which she rubs tenderly underneath his shirt.       “Are you kidding me?”       “Why?” Raquelle moves her hands to the small of Terrence’s back and caresses it with her fingertips tenderly, causing a strong shake and tension in his body. “I’m not kind of undressing you and getting naked myself… Not showing you my beautiful underwear…”       “Oh, yay, babe, take everything off you!”       “What if I don’t wear underwear?” Raquelle smiles slyly. “No knickers, no bra.”       “I wanna check it out!” Terrence exclaims with passion in his eyes.       “You can’t do it.”       “Don't wake up an animal inside me,” Terrence replies in a lower voice, raising Raquelle’s dress strongly and running it over her thigh. “I can do anything if you provoke me.”       “I imagine how excited you’d get if you had no opportunity to feel me up so insolently.” Raquelle, looking into Terrence’s eyes confidently, runs her hand over his torso and reaches for his abdomen, which she tenderly caresses with her fingertips, feeling how strongly his muscles get tense. “If I did anything I wanted to you, and you only had to lie and enjoy.”       “Ar-r-r, don’t get me wild, bitch!” Terrence grabs Raquelle tightly by the throat, gets a free hand underneath her skirt, and caresses her crotch confidently, smiling smugly when she bends slightly backward with a quiet, sensual moan and rolls her eyes. “Otherwise, you’ll be deprived of the opportunity to kiss and caress my gorgeous body. While I’ll be doing anything I want to you. If I wish to kiss you – I’ll kiss. If I want, I’ll torture you and give you a little when you ask much more.”       “My gosh, I have the same plans for you.” Raquelle leaves a couple of kisses on the curve of Terrence’s neck, while her hands are placed on his buttocks, hearing a quiet moan from the man, who feels that his body kind of gets an electric shock. “I imagine you being tortured because of being helpless. Because I give you a little part of what I can do. And walk in front of you in my underwear.”       “You have a chance to leave, Raquelle Cameron…” Terrence exhales sharply, while his hands are placed on the curves of Raquelle’s waist and move to her buttocks. “I can let you go and take it yet…”       “Oh, no, handsome!” Raquelle tightly grabs Terrence by the collar of the shirt and sets her confident look into his eyes. “Since you got me involved in this game, I ain’t gonna leave it so easily.”       “Think better, babe…” Terrence runs the tip of his nose slowly over Raquelle’s face and hair, and lets his hands caress her thighs and buttocks and massage her breasts. “You have a little time… But then it will be too late…”       “Refusing this pleasure?” Raquelle exhales sensually. “Are you kidding me?”       “Not at all!” Terrence leaves a short kiss on Raquelle’s lips, all the parts of her face, the area behind her ear, and the curve of her neck, smiling slyly when she makes a blissful moan with closed eyes and her head leaned back. “Just wanna play a little and use a chance to caress the gorgeous body of my beloved girl.”       “You’ll have this chance,” Raquelle says confidently with a sly smile. “But if you wanna get great pleasure, you’ll have to work hard.”       “I’m ready! Ready for everything to get such a gorgeous beauty.”       Terrence grabs Raquelle’s face and kisses her on the lips so suddenly that the girl does not understand what happened. At first, she moans something, but she relaxes quickly and lets her hands slide over the masculine body, running her fingers through his hair, playing with it and pulling slightly, caressing his face, neck, shoulders, and forearms, grabbing his wrists, caressing his torso, and holding him by the small of his back or waist. MacClife, Sr.'s hands are caressing the lady’s body: hair, face, neck, shoulders, waist, belly, back, thighs, buttocks… The man shows assertiveness and hunger from the beginning and lets her know he would not accept the loss of control of the situation, being very confident and knowing that any of his actions would lead to success. Sometimes they step away to catch some air and then give much more passion to their kisses, using their tongues actively to give each other much more dizzying emotions.       When Raquelle leans her head back with closed eyes slightly, Terrence covers the front of her neck with short kisses, doing this confidently but slowly to make the pleasure last longer. His arms hug the girl by the waist tightly, and his hands hold her by the back, but later, one of them slides to her thighs, which he caresses and squeezes tenderly. That’s why she sometimes makes quiet, sensual moans, literally hearing her heartbeat in her head and smiling blissfully with a feeling of eternal pleasure. The man feels an all-embracing ecstasy from just one touch of the skin of his beloved fiancée with his hands or lips and a feeling of her fingertips on his body that she does not leave without attention.       “Ah, Raquelle, you’re so divine,” Terrence says in a low, little hoarse voice with a wide smile and runs the tip of his tongue over the skin on the curve of Raquelle’s neck, while one hand of him caresses her thigh, and another does it to her buttocks. “Ar-r-r… I do wanna eat you!”       “Oh, shit, Terrence…” Raquelle sighs sensually. “You’re wild… Just crazy!”       “And you’re fucking sexy.” Terrence leaves a few kisses on Raquelle’s collarbones and reaches for her breasts, which he squeezes tenderly. “Your body is a masterpiece.”       “I won’t bear it…” Raquelle runs her fingers through Terrence’s hair, squeezes them tightly, and pulls them strongly with quiet moans of pleasure. “Holy shit… Oh…”       “Enjoy, babe,” Terrence advises with a sly smile, raising Raquelle’s dress slightly and squeezing her naked buttock confidently, while his lips cover her breasts that are shown out of a deep, attractive décolleté with kisses. “Feel this moment…”       “Damn… I never thought… I’d… Go crazy from this… Someone feeling me up so insolently and shamelessly…”       “You know, I didn’t also think I’d meet a girl that would blow my mind.” Terrence slowly covers Raquelle’s shoulders, chin, cheeks, cheekbones, and temples with short kisses. “And make me forget anything in the world with her pretense. Nobody else made me as crazy as you.”       “Please, Terrence, don’t do this anymore… I can’t…”       “It’s just the beginning. When I go further, you’ll be whining very loudly. Whining from pleasure.”       “Oh, no…”       “Relax, babe.” Terrence grabs Raquelle’s face with both hands, kisses her on the tip of her nose, and runs his fingers through her hair at the roots. “I know what I'm doing. I shall do my best for you to beg to take you soon.”       Terrence kisses Raquelle sharply on the lips and gives her a continuous, assertive kiss, to which she answers with a quiet moan. The girl’s arms are put around the man’s waist, and her hands get underneath his shirt and slide over his back, which she starts scratching with her nails slightly. The smell of the man’s skin clouds her mind more and more, and her fiancé’s confident and determined actions deprive her of her will and let her know that she would be powerless in front of this man, despite any kind of resistance.       “Gosh, Terrence…” Raquelle pronounces in a quiet, hoarse voice. “You’re so imitable… Drive me crazy…”       “I’m really imitable,” Terrence smiles smugly, leaves a couple of pecks on Raquelle’s lips, and leaves kisses on the curve of her neck that he has not kissed yet with quiet moans of enjoyment. “And I can’t resist you. It’s beyond my strength.”       “Stop… Before it’s too late.”       “I can’t.” Terrence tenderly pinches the skin of Raquelle’s neck, while she makes a blissful moan with closed eyes. “I can’t stay indifferent when the case is about you. You make me wish to take the clothes off you as soon as possible…”       “Then be ready to hold me tightly in a few seconds. Because I’m barely standing on my feet.”       “Don’t worry, sweetheart. I’ll react and take you in my arms.”       “Aren’t you sick of carrying me in your arms?” Raquelle laughs shyly. “You carried me and ride on your back enough!”       “It’s not a problem for me!” Terrence barely bites the skin on one of the most sensitive areas on the curve of Raquelle’s neck, while his hands squeeze and caress her naked buttocks and thighs. “Such a magnificent beauty deserves it.”       Terrence leaves a short kiss on Raquelle’s lips that makes her heart stop for a moment. Then he covers the girl’s neck generously with kisses and slight bites and leaves wet paths on it. All of it makes her forget about any resistance and makes her feel the nice warmth that is spreading all over her body and relaxes every single muscle. So much that Raquelle's legs get weak. However, Terrence grabs tightly the girl, who takes him by his wide shoulders.       “Sh-h-h-h…” Terrence whispers in Raquelle’s ear, praising her closely to himself and running his hands over her back. “Quiet, babe, quiet… Don’t forget to breathe.”       “Your fault!” Raquelle throws in a low voice with a heavy breath. “Because of you, I can barely stand on my feet!”       “You’re kinda especially sensitive today.” Terrence runs his hand slowly over Raquelle’s belly. “Either your mood is playful, or you’re full of hormones…”       “It starts shaking after just one touch of yours!”       “It does know everything about real men,” Terrence notices confidently, running his hands over Raquelle’s thighs.       “Alright, MacClife, you’ll pay me for it. I will do so that you, asshole, whine like a hungry dog.”       “We will see it…” Terrence purrs quietly, running the tip of his nose over the curve of Raquelle’s neck, and kisses the area tenderly behind her ear two times.       “Ar-r-r, I hate myself for getting weak for you!”       “Nobody has been able to resist me yet.” Terrence caresses Raquelle’s ear with his open lips. “Nobody…”       Terrence gives Raquelle a continuous kiss on the lips and caresses her mouth with his tongue, while one hand of him squeezes her buttocks tenderly, and another massages her small breasts confidently. He immediately hears her sensual moans, which caress his ear tenderly and encourage him to be much more determined. His hands are caressing her head and sliding over the curves of her waist, her arms, belly, and thighs, and his lips are kissing her neck, collarbones, and shoulders. The man spares no caress for his beloved girl, despite a passionate wish to possess this beauty. And being obsessed with passion, Terrence forgets that he is not in his room and wants to take the dress of Raquelle, putting his hands on her back and trying to feel some clatters.       “No, Terrence, not here…” Raquelle pronounces with a heavy breath in a quiet, low voice. “Let’s go to the bedroom… I wanna do it on the bed…”       “M-m-m, I forgot we were still on the balcony…” Terrence purrs with a wide smile, holding Raquelle by the curves of her waist. “You made me forget everything in the world.”       “And you made me die from the wish to make love with you.”       “I’m gonna make your wish come true with pleasure.”       “Listen, MacClife, shut up and go to the bedroom!” Raquelle moans loudly. “Before I undress you right here.”       “I will go with pleasure. And you, honey, will go nowhere!”       When Raquelle tries to say something, Terrence takes the girl into his arms. While the man carries her out of the balcony, she puts her arm around his neck, head on his shoulder, runs her free palm over the man’s chest, and leaves it on this one, feeling how fast the heart of her beloved man is beating. After ending up in the bedroom, Terrence places Raquelle on the bed, glances at the closed door of the room, and smiles widely. And then he sits on the bed, raises himself above the girl, into the eyes of who he looks for two seconds, and gives her a tender kiss on the lips, to which she answers with pleasure, running her finger through his little disheveled hair. But a few seconds later, the man steps back and examines the blushed face of the girl breathing heavily with his eyes, while she puts her hands on his tough masculine chest.       “Damn, how gorgeous you are,” Terrence pronounces in a low, soft voice. “I feel madly proud that I got such a stunning beauty.”       “One of my familiars was right when they said freaking handsome people were usually insolent and shameless,” Raquelle replies quietly. “You’re freaking attractive, but far from being a good boy.”       “But you like it anyway. You love such bad and hot guys like me. And I’d be really surprised if such a sexual and passionate girl needed a shy botanist. That would be a log in a bed and inexperienced in love things.”       “I just liked what I got from you.”       “I said you’d die from boredom next to a good guy,” Terrence replies with pride, caressing Raquelle’s head and running his hand over his her thrown on different sides. “And you wouldn’t forget me after the first sight of me.”       “Oh, yeah, forgetting your attempts to feel me up a few minutes after the meeting is impossible!”       “If you’d wanted it, you would’ve prevented it. But you were happy with it.”       “You’re right, asshole.”       “So, as you have nobody to compare me with, I’ll always be the best for you.” Terrence runs his hand over Raquelle’s belly and leaves it on this one, feeling how tense this part of the body gets. “Here’s another reason why I can feel proud.”       “No other man blew my mind as well as you did. You’re the only one to have something that drives me really crazy…”       “You’re the only one to blame for making me so wild.”       “Huh, you’re sick anyway!” Raquelle chuckles kindly. “Mad, shameless, and insolent!”       “You have a very bad opinion of me, babe.” Terrence moves his hand to Raquelle’s naked thigh and caresses the inside of it tenderly. “Though, you’re by far from a good girl. You sometimes behave so badly that you must get your ass kicked.”       “Try to do it,” Raquelle smiles slyly, looking into Terrence’s eyes confidently. “With your hands tied up to the bed.”       “M-m-m… I’d do it to you with pleasure. And I’d undress you.”       “No, sweetie, I mean, your hands tied up to the bed. And I could also undress you.”       “You wanna wake up an animal inside me?” Terrence runs his hand underneath Raquelle’s skirt and caresses her crotch confidently, understanding how much she gets tense, and how heavily she is breathing. “That could obviously tame such a bad bitch!”       “A-a-a, damn, Terrence, stop it!”       “Quiet, baby, quiet, I’m doing nothing yet,” Terrence replies in a low, soft voice, running his hand over Raquelle’s belly with a sly smile and massaging her breasts tenderly, while she bends backward slightly and makes a sensual sigh. “Just a little warm-up. A warm-up before you’re lying naked, wet, and ready for the real pleasure.”       “Damn, why is it you? Why do I lose my mind because of you? Why do I react like this when you barely touch me?”       “You just want me – here’s the guess,” Terrence smiles mysteriously, caressing the curves of Raquelle’s waist with both hands and running them over her naked thighs. “Maybe, you’d pretend that you don’t care at first, but it’s a matter of time. If I warn you up enough, you won’t even think about showing resistance some time later.”       “You got what you wanted… I want you… To death…”       “You will get it then. That’s why, not to torture each other, I’m suggesting that we don’t save it for later to give each other incredible pleasure. At first, I’ll warm you up a little, and then you’ll make me happy.”       With these words, Terrence caresses Raquelle’s head tenderly, runs his fingers through her soft, silky hair, and caresses her body with both hands and his fingertips with great pleasure: from neck, collarbones, and breasts to the curves of her waist and belly. While the girl does not hold down her quiet moans, tenses all her muscles, bends her back backward, and presses the back of her head to the pillow, breathing heavily enough with a feeling of heat and a fast heartbeat.       “Yeah, but you, motherfucker, will be delaying it and teasing me on purpose,” Raquelle says in a little hoarse voice with a loud breath. “Until I turn into a hungry tiger.”       “No, you ain’t ready yet,” Terrence replies confidently with a sly smile, covering Raquelle’s neck, collarbones, and breasts with tender kisses and caressing her arms, the curves of her waist, and her belly with both hands. “Such a stunning cutie needs very much time to get wet.”       “You’re an asshole! Ah! Son of a bitch! Who I hate!”       “You irritate me, too.”       “Oh, my gosh…” Raquelle rolls her eyes when Terrence runs his hands over her naked thighs. “M-m-m…”       “Quiet, quiet, baby, sh-h-h…” Terrence whispers in Raquelle’s ear, tenderly caresses it with his lips, and leaves a couple of kisses on the area behind it.       Terrence gives Raquelle a tender, exciting kiss on the lips, to which she answers obediently.       “Enjoy these minutes, during which I’m tender for you.” Terrence grabs Raquelle’s chin with his mouth tenderly. “Because I will be much ruder later.”       “I can’t take it anymore…” Raquelle makes a sensual moan. “I can’t hold it down… Can’t resist you… Your charms… Your attraction… Your sexuality… Your everything…”       “You don’t resist.” Terrence leaves a few kisses on the front of Raquelle’s neck, while she slightly leans her head back with a feeling of the shake in her whole body. “Just relax, and I’ll do everything. You just need to be a good girl. And then, if you really want it, I’ll be happy to accept your thankfulness as the same paradisiacal minutes of pleasure.”       “Stop the fuck mocking me! I’m about to die, but you, son of a bitch, dare to tell me about it!”       “I could do a lot, so any other man doesn’t steal such a sexy cutie from me,” Terrence smiles widely, covering Raquelle’s breasts with kisses and squeezing them tenderly with his hand. “Being your fiancé is such hard but fucking nice work. That I’m ready to do with great pleasure. Because I want you to belong only to me… I’m the only one to have the right to kiss and hug you…”       “As if being your fiancée is the easiest work in the world,” Raquelle rolls her eyes and grabs Terrence’s face tightly, setting her bedroom gaze on his half-closed eyes. “Some people do wanna steal my man and drool over him. And one handsome guy madly likes it and always finds a moment to show off for them.”       “It makes me feel much prouder,” Terrence says confidently. “It’s so nice that girls still consider me fucking attractive and make love with me in their dreams.”       “What did you say?” Raquelle grabs Terrence sharply by the collar with both hands and brings his face very close to hers, breathing heavily enough. “Speak out, you, filthy male!”       “Hey, hey, relax, baby, relax,” Terrence laughs shyly and leaves a short kiss on almost all parts of Raquelle’s face. “I need nobody but you.”       “Joking with me is bad!”       “Do you, silly, think I’ll dare to exchange such a sexual hellcat for another girl?” Terrence leaves a short kiss on Raquelle’s lips and pulls the bottom and top lips tenderly. “No… You’re hurting me…”       “You won’t get off me with kisses!”       “Kisses of Terrence MacClife himself that any girl dreams about?”       “Not any girl,” Raquelle smiles slyly. “I don’t think of them.”       “Oh, come on!” Terrence runs the tip of his nose slowly over all the parts of Raquelle’s face and leaves a short kiss on the area behind her ear and the curve of her neck, the skin on which he bites slightly. “I will never believe you can stay indifferent to my kisses and caresses. Because I see how you whine, bend backward, and moan…”       “Everyone sees what they want to see,” Raquelle exhales slowly, understanding how her heart is beating like crazy and feeling a little dizzy.       “Okay, say what you want.” Terrence runs his hand over Raquelle’s belly and does it to the tip of his nose, leaving kisses on naked areas that are open thanks to the cuts on her black slim tight dress. “Your gorgeous body will say everything for you… It can’t lie as insolently as you do…”       “I actually never lie.”       “Alright, stop talking!” Terrence says confidently with a heavy breath, runs the tip of his nose over the front of Raquelle’s neck, kisses her on the lips cutely, and caresses them with a thumb. “Let’s focus on getting pleasure.”       “Did you want to say, let me do my best for your heart to stop?”       “Shut up and enjoy, bitch.”       Terrence sharply gets closer to Raquelle’s lips and gets her involved in a kiss, to which she answers immediately, putting her arms around his neck and running her fingers through his hair. The man’s hands caress the girl’s face, neck, shoulders, collarbones, breasts, forearms, and belly. The heart stops for a moment and starts beating faster when their tongues contact one another and touch the most sensitive areas in their mouths. And the attraction gets stronger every second and subdues any wish to resist and think of something else except each other.       Sometimes Terrence runs his fingers through Raquelle’s dark hair thrown on the pillow. And one of them slides down to her thigh and tightly squeezes her buttock when she slightly raises up the bottom of her body. The girl breathing heavily feels super confident and is not shy of showing her emotions, which she is obsessed with, openly. The muscles are nicely twirling after any kiss and any touch of the man’s hands, and the hot body craves to get more and more. At some moment, Raquelle leans her head back with her slightly open mouth and closed eyes, and Terrence sinks his lips into the front of her neck, covering it with much more assertive kisses with very quiet moans. That’s why she makes much more sensual moans and sticks up her breasts, which also get some attention from the man.       “Damn, MacClife…” Raquelle rolls her eyes. “You’re driving me crazy… Damn! Ah! You’re like a vampire… Who, however, takes away my strength, not my blood…”       “I doubt I’d resist such a sexy beauty if I were a vampire,” Terrence replies in a low, deep voice, caressing Raquelle’s breasts with a hand and squeezing them tightly with his fingers.       “You’re crazy…” Raquelle makes a continuous moan. “Crazy…”       “Anyone would go crazy when seeing you.” Terrence breathes in the incredibly attractive smell of Raquelle’s skin on her neck, which clouds his mind. “Holy shit… Your smell is just magnificent…”       Terrence looks at Raquelle like charmed, caressing the curves of her neck with his fingertips and understanding how tense her body is.       “Soon, you’re gonna be mine…” Terrence runs the tip of his tongue over a little part of the skin on the front of Raquelle’s neck and the curves of her neck and leaves a couple of tender bites on every single one.       Raquelle swallows up nervously and exhales loudly, leaning her head back and pressing it tightly to the pillow with a feeling of shake in her whole body and something warm between her legs.       “Damn, what you’re doing to me…” Raquelle pronounces with a heavy breath. “Terrence… Damn, Terrence…”       But Terrence says nothing and keeps covering Raquelle’s body with kisses, caressing it with both hands, lips, and the tip of his tongue and squeezing what he can squeeze tightly. The girl puts her arms around his neck tightly at some moment and pulls his hair strongly in passion. A little later, she moves her hand on his back, gets underneath his shirt confidently, and starts caressing and scratching this naked part of his body with her nails. It makes the man smile widely with a special fire in his eyes.       “Raquelle, my love…” Terrence pronounces with enjoyment. “How gorgeous you are… So imitable…”       “How long are you gonna torture me?” Raquelle makes a quiet moan with closed eyes, slightly raising the bottom of her body, while Terrence puts his arm around her waist and runs the tip of his nose over her belly.       “As much as I want.”       “Please, Terrence… Take me… I want you…”       “No, not so fast… Now it’s not time…”       “Please…”       Raquelle’s hand reaches for the buttons on Terrence’s shirt that she wants to open. But the man does not let her do it with a sly smile, tightly grabbing her by the writs and pressing them to the pillow.       “Sh-h-h, no, babe, not now…” Terrence slowly pronounces in a low voice with a sly smile. “I know you can’t wait to caress my gorgeous body and undress me. But I’m not allowing you to do this.”       “You can’t forbid me anything,” Raquelle says confidently. “I have the right to do anything I want to you.”       “Right. You do. When I let you do it.”       “If I want, I can tie you up to the bed and torture you right now.”       “Oh, oh, what a bad girl…” Terrence claps Raquelle on her thigh with a sly smile. “I should kick you a little.”       “Are you still waiting for me to do everything you want someday?”       “Hope dies last.” Terrence runs his hand underneath Raquelle’s dress and caresses her crotch confidently with his fingers and gets underneath her underwear to stimulate her clitoris.       “Ar-r-r, you’re an asshole…” Raquelle pronounces in a hoarse voice with a heavy breath. “Shameless bastard…”       “Want me to keep doing this?”       “Insolent motherfucker… Fucking son of a bitch…”       “Don’t make me become much ruder, bitch.” Terrence gives much more pressure, as he stimulates Raquelle’s clitoris.       “A-a-a-a… And you, bastard, don’t make me hit you on your balls. So, you whine at the whole neighborhood.”       “I always say you sound fucking sexy when you insult me,” Terrence replies with a wide smile, running his hand over the inside of Raquelle’s thighs. “Ar-r-r… They do wake up a bad guy inside me…”       “When have you been good?” Raquelle chuckles. “You always act like an insolent, filthy male that has too great self-confidence!”       “Don’t make me wild, bitch!” Terrence grabs Raquelle tightly by the throat, looking into her eyes closely, while his free hand slides over her belly and squeezes her breasts confidently, and his fingers actively stimulate her tough nipples. “Otherwise, I shall your dress to the fuck. And fuck you so hard that you will scream at the top of your lungs from pleasure.”       “Ar-r-r, why do I like that you behave like this?” Raquelle growls with enjoyment. “You’re so sexy when you’re obsessed with passion and anger at the same time.”       “So, you want rudeness?” Terrence sharply raises Raquelle’s hands above her head and holds them tightly, raising himself above the girl, who does not look scared and looks into his eyes confidently with a sly smile. “Okay, cutie, let it happen!”       Terrence gets Raquelle involved in an incredibly passionate kiss, to which she answers with pleasure, breathing heavily enough, caressing her tongue and palate with his tongue confidently. That’s why they feel a slight dizziness, understand that the temperature of their bodies is getting higher, and hear their fast heartbeats somewhere in their throats and heads. A little later, the man reaches for the girl’s neck, collarbones, and breasts, which he covers generously with kisses and caresses with the tip of his tongue, letting her hands go by this moment. While she pulls his hair strongly, scratches his naked back with her nails, rubs his wide chest confidently, and squeezes his tough buttocks tightly.       “Oh, Terrence…” Raquelle exhales sensually and turns her head to the side with closed eyes. “You’re so imitable…”       “I am, babe,” Terrence smiles smugly and turns Raquelle’s head sharply on him, grabbing her by the chin. “Look at me! Don’t dare to turn aside!”       Terrence leaves a few short kisses on the blissful face of Raquelle, running his hand over her belly when he keeps kissing her neck, shoulders, collarbones, and breasts.       “Drug…” Terrence pronounces with a peaceful smile. “My personal sort of drug that I need more and more every day…”       Terrence runs his hands slowly over Raquelle’s thighs and does it to her long naked legs, noticing how beautifully her thin ankles look in the gorgeous black crisscross shoes made of suede with high heels.       “So flawless…” Terrence pronounces in a low voice with enjoyment and leaves a couple of kisses on Raquelle’s ankle that he is holding.       After caressing her legs and admiring the amazingly smooth skin, Terrence goes back to the top of Raquelle’s body, running his hands over her thighs and the curves of her waist and running the tip of his nose over her belly. Then he grabs the girl by the hair with a quiet growl, leans her head back, and leaves a few kisses on the front of her neck. At first, she bends backward strongly with her eyes rolled and exhales quietly, but then she takes him by the shoulders, presses him to herself sharply, and kisses him on the lips greedily, getting him involved in an assertive kiss, to which he answers with pleasure. At some moment, Raquelle raises herself slightly, and Terrence puts his arm around her waist and his hand on her back and squeezes and caresses her buttocks with his other free hand, moaning quietly when feeling the long nail on the nape of his neck. Every single touch, every single kiss, every single hug – it all provokes a hurricane of passion. Both of them are obsessed with feelings that make them feel strong dizziness and a wish to get more and more every minute.       A little later, Raquelle sharply changes the position, placing Terrence on the bed confidently and raising herself above him, while her lips keep caressing his lips, her tongue slides over his palate and around his tongue, and her hands hold his face tightly, pull his hair strongly, or stay on the tough, masculine chest. The man’s hands keep being placed on her buttocks underneath the dress and caressing her naked thighs, but they sometimes slide over her back and the curves of her thin waist. At some moment, the girl leaves a few kisses on his cheeks, cheekbones, and the area behind his ears, which she caresses with her lips and bites slightly with her teeth. And then she takes the way from kisses to the curve of his neck, which the brunette covers with kisses generously, and bites especially sensitive areas of it tenderly.       “Oh, shit…” Terrence exhales sharply with closed eyes. “M-m-m…”       “Enjoy and relax, babe,” Raquelle says in a hoarse voice with a sly smile. “Don’t be so tense…”       Raquelle generously covers another curve of Terrence’s neck with kisses and bites, and leaves a few wet paths on it with the tip of her tongue. She runs her hands over his torso confidently, while he feels restless and tenses all the muscles in his body. And when the girl’s hands get underneath his shirt and raise it slightly, and her tender lips slide over his abdomen and leave a couple of kisses on it, he kind of gets an electric shock all over his body.       “Oh, fuck…” Terrence pronounces in a low, hoarse voice. “Fuck…”       However, Raquelle says nothing and keeps covering Terrence’s abdomen with kisses and caressing it with her lips. A little later, she opens a few buttons to open his tough chest and gives it a few exciting kisses, not hiding her chuckle when seeing how excited the man gets because of her actions. And when the girl leaves a few kisses on the front of the man’s neck and then gives him a kiss on the lips with a loud breath, he hugs her tightly with both arms and runs his hands over her back with the hope of controlling his emotions somehow.       Some time later, Raquelle gets much softer and caresses tenderly Terrence’s face and neck and strokes his hair during the kiss, while he just keeps his hands on her thigh or buttocks. And then the girl breaks the kiss slowly, steps back from the man, and lies next to him with a heavy breath. Two seconds later, they look into each other’s eyes, seeing that their faces are blush enough. After this, Raquelle rolls onto her side toward Terrence and lies under his arm, putting her head on his shoulder and hand on his chest, through which she can feel the crazy heartbeat of her beloved man.       “So, who is crazy, you say?” Terrence breaks the silence in a low, hoarse voice.       “Obviously, you!” Raquelle chuckles.       “I could argue.” Terrence sits up slowly and glances at Raquelle. “I’ve never had a much sicker girl before.”       “And I don’t know a sicker man than you,” Raquelle says confidently and decides to sit up.       “So, babe, you did choose such a gorgeous, handsome guy.” Terrence runs his hand over Raquelle’s cheek and caresses the inside of her thighs with another hand tenderly, looking into her eyes closely. “My little girl couldn’t resist incredibly strong charms. It’s so hot and wet between her legs. M-m-m…”       “As for your great love for you, I don’t doubt it ‘cause you’re well known in the show business thanks to this fact.” Raquelle puts her hands on Terrence’s chest and smiles slyly. “Ask anyone, and they will confirm it.”       “And many girls can confidently confirm how imitable I am at love things,” Terrence replies with his head proudly raised. “But at heart, you know it, as well.”       “It’s hard to deny it. Your character is very passionate.”       “Just like yours, my goddess.” Terrence grabs Raquelle by the throat rudely. “I love when you snap at me and make me treat you rudely.”       “Yes, yes, I know! No girl dared to reject you, but I dared to piss you off and refused to fuck you at the first meeting.”       “I feel bored when a girl doesn’t show any resistance. And then I got such a beautiful catch that shows off much before giving in to me.”       “And if you’d held down your hot passion, I would've been less cruel and aggressive,” Raquelle says with an innocent smile, grabbing Terrence by the collar tightly, bringing her face to his face, and looking into his eyes confidently.       “Actually, I warned that if you didn’t stop provoking me, you wouldn’t get off me easily. And you know that I can’t stay indifferent when looking at such a posh girl.”       “So, can’t you do it at all?” Raquelle smiles slyly, running her finger slowly over her breasts that are shown out of the décolleté, and gets the attention of Terrence, who sets his widely open eyes on it with a slightly open mouth.       “Stop mocking me!”       “Am I mocking? I’m doing nothing! But you’re restless, as if I’m walking naked in front of you or performing a private dance for you.”       “M-m-m, it would be so great…” Terrence purrs with a wide smile, looking at Raquelle from head to foot. “Maybe, you really move your ass and become a cat bending backward beautifully? Huh?”       “If you want, I can keep driving you crazy.” Raquelle moves closer to Terrence and puts her arms around his neck from behind, bringing her face to his ear, which she barely touches with her lips. “Just let me know it…”       “Then make your fiancé happy,” Terrence says in a low voice, shaking slightly because of what Raquelle whispers in his ear. “Very happy. Such an awesome, handsome man needs much attention.”       “Of course, I can, but I ain’t sure if you can bear it,” Raquelle gets suspicious and runs her hand slowly over Terrence’s chest, caressing his ear with her lips tenderly and biting it slightly.       “Why can’t I? I can!”       “C’mon?” Raquelle runs her tongue slowly over the area behind Terrence’s ear. “Are you sure?”       “If you, bitch, don’t stop doing this, you’ll have to regret it. Hear me?”       When Terrence half turns on Raquelle and wants to get control of her, she stops him, pressing the man closer to himself.       “Quiet, handsome, don’t move,” Raquelle says in a low voice with a smug smile, running her hands over Terrence’s chest tenderly. “You don’t want me to go too far and do something like this…”       “Oh, shit!” Terrence pronounces when his body gets obsessed with a strong shake because Raquelle moves her hand to his abdomen and squeezes his tough penis tenderly. “Damn… Holy shit…”       “Relax, sweetie, don’t be so tense,” Raquelle sinks her teeth into the skin of the curve of the neck of Terrence breathing heavily. “As if I’m caressing your penis with my lips…”       “You definitely want to ask for trouble and wake up a wild animal inside me,” Terrence assumes in a hoarse voice. “Make me die from a wish to see you absolutely naked and caress your body… Tear your dress off, take off your jewelry, and fuck you as hard as possible…”       “Well, you’ve gotta deserve it…” Raquelle runs her lips over the curve of Terrence’s neck and leaves a little wet path on it with the tip of her tongue, while her hands keep sliding over the tough torso or massaging his penis tenderly. “Get access to my body…”       “Huh, who said that? You’re my fiancée. Nobody will ban me from doing what I want to you. Even you. I shouldn’t ask you for permission to kiss, hug and undress you.”       “Oh, how rude you are…” Raquelle tightly grabs Terrence by the throat with one hand and runs another over his chest. “Someone needs strong kicks. Long and cruel torture…”       “Don’t think it would change something. I will do my best for you to become mine and not to pretend to be hard to reach.”       “Oh, how beautiful your dreams are…”       “I want you… I wanna caress your naked body…”       “You will do it later. When I want.”       “Damn, do you wanna kill me with a sweet death?” Terrence laughs shyly.       “No, Terrence, you’ll kill me sooner.” Raquelle leaves a couple of tender kisses on the nape of Terrence’s neck. “Someday, I won’t be able to bear it…”       “It’s already freaking hard for me to keep my emotions under control.”       “You have to do it now.” Raquelle tenderly hugs Terrence around the shoulders and puts her head on one of them. “You’ll get what you want after I torture you a little.”       “Yeah, you, bitch, do love torturing me…”       “So, you don’t forget it soon.”       With these words, Raquelle puts the tip of her nose in Terrence’s cheek and rubs it against the one, while he shyly smiles and grabs the girl’s arms, with which she hugs him around the shoulders.       “I love when you have a playful mood,” Terrence confesses. “When you’re ready to make me happy…”       “If you try hard, I’ll give you much more than you want,” Raquelle says in Terrence’s ear in a velvety, low voice. “Much more…”       Raquelle kisses Terrence tenderly on the nape of the neck, making the man smile shyly and relax slowly, while the lady’s hands massage his tough shoulders, neck, straight back, and arms. Sometimes she runs the tip of her nose or her lips over his face, feeling the incredible smell of his white from nature skin, and understands that her heart stops after any touch to the man’s body. Terrence sometimes makes quiet moans and does not resist when Raquelle, leaving tender kisses on the curve of his neck, puts her arms around his waist, slowly opens the other buttons of his shirt, takes it off his shoulders, and puts it aside. The girl generously covers his naked back with tender kisses and squeezes the soft skin with both hands. That’s why a nice warmth is spreading all over the man’s body, and his heart starts beating faster. His tough torso also gets some caress from the tender lady’s hands, and his wide shoulders get her kisses.       At some moment, Raquelle wants to leave a peck on Terrence’s cheek and cover his face with kisses. But when her face is one centimeter away from his face, he half turns his head on her. The points of their noses contact slightly, and they succumb to the wish to look into each other’s eyes and throw a gaze at their lips. A few seconds later, the girl gets the man involved in a tender kiss, softly grabbing him by the throat with one hand and putting another on his chest, while he caresses tenderly her laps and thighs. But then MacClife, Sr., kisses his fiancée on the cheek and the curve of her neck. He slowly turns on her and generously covers her neck with tender kisses that make her moan sensually with closed eyes. A little later, Terrence turns Raquelle with her back to him, moves her disheveled hair aside, barely touches the nape of her neck with his lips, and starts massaging her shoulders and then her back softly but confidently. It makes her moan from pleasure sensually and feel so relaxed that she would hardly resist if he came up with another idea.       Understanding it, Terrence softly pushes Raquelle so that she lies on her stomach and keeps massaging her neck, back, and shoulder tenderly, sometimes running his fingertips or lips over them. It makes her feel a strong shake in her whole relaxed body and a wish to moan much louder. The man would be happy to open the zipper of the dress and kiss it fully. But sadly, it does not have any buttons or clasps. Nevertheless, he gets much pleasure from caressing her body and leaving slight kisses on the open parts.       One minute or two later, Raquelle relaxes completely and keeps her eyes closed, as she enjoys the warmth that is spreading all over her body. Terrence decides that it’s enough and stops this massage not to let the girl fall asleep. And seeing how relaxed she is, he tenderly takes her by the shoulders and brings his face to her ear to whisper with a slight smile:       “Raquelle, don’t fall asleep…” Terrence moves some of Raquelle’s hair aside to open her face and caresses her cheek tenderly. “I understand you feel very good, but now it’s not time to sleep ‘cause we’re gonna have some visitors soon.”       “Get off…” Raquelle moans quietly with closed eyes. “Better massage my back again… You do it so well…”       “I promise I will do it tonight before going to sleep. But now wake up, my darling…” Terrence shakes Raquelle by the back slightly. “Wake up, I said.”       “You will do it without me tonight.”       “No, sweetie, you will not stay here. I swear, if you don’t get up now, I will take you in my arms and carry you to the living room.”       “I wouldn’t mind it…”       “Get up, I said! Or do you want me to make your blood boil in your veins?” Terrence squeezes Raquelle’s buttocks tenderly, raises her dress, and claps on them. “Babe, can you hear me?”       “Get off, MacClife…”       “Okay… Then, let’s do it otherwise…”       Terrence puts his hand under Raquelle’s stomach, takes her tightly, and presses her to himself, making her sit up. After this, he moves the hair of the girl inclining her head aside, and caresses the nape of her neck with his lips, on which he leaves many, many tender kisses, while one hand of him holds her by the throat, and another massages her breasts confidently, and his fingers stimulate her nipples. It makes Raquelle moan quietly and feel a strong shake, while Terrence’s tough hands start caressing her body again, which reacts to any act of his immediately.       “You’re gorgeous, my love,” Terrence pronounces in a quiet, low voice with a wide smile, runs the tip of his nose over the curve of Raquelle’s neck, breathing in the incredible smell of her skin, and leaves a few tender kisses on it. “Flawless…”       All these Terrence’s actions make Raquelle moan quietly and breathe heavily, forgetting about her wish to fall asleep, and breathes heavily. At some moment, she leans her head back, understanding how strongly her body is shaking, while the man’s fingertips caress the front of her neck, his warm, strong hand keeps caressing her breasts, and his lips kiss her shoulders tenderly.       “Quiet, quiet, sweetie, don’t move,” Terrence whispers in Raquelle’s ear with a sly smile and covers the front of her neck with kisses, while his free hand reaches for her thigh and caresses the inside of it confidently, understanding how the hot enough body of the girl shakes strongly and hearing her sensual moans. “Okay, good girl… Good girl…”       “Please, Terrence…” Raquelle pronounces quietly in a shaking voice. “Terrence…”       “Ar-r-r, how attractive and sexy you are, baby. Nobody has gotten me much more excited than you do.”       Terrence lies Raquelle on the bed sharply and greedily kisses her on the lips with a loud, heavy breath, feeling a crazy heartbeat that literally echoes in his temples, tightly grabbing her hair on the top of her head with his fingers, running his free hand underneath her dress, feeling her soft to touch knickers, getting underneath it, and stimulates her clitoris confidently. That’s why the girl makes much louder moans and gets her thighs tense, understanding that she feels hot because of just one touch of a finger to this sensitive area.       “So what, cutie, woke up?” Terrence asks with a sly smile and leaves a few kisses on all the parts of Raquelle’s neck, while she squeezes the blanket with both hands tightly in the hope that it will help her control the hurricane of emotions. “Wonderful!”       “I hate you, asshole…” Raquelle exhales sensually. “For being able to relax me sharply first… And then bring me to madness… To a heart attack…”       “C’mon, baby, get mad. C’mon… You become so sexy when you get wild. I do wanna throw you on the bed and fuck you cruelly.”       “A-r-r-r…” Raquelle, breathing heavily, bends her back backward when one hand of Terrence raises her dress much more, reaches for her naked belly, and caresses it tenderly, and another caresses her perfectly smooth legs. “Scumbag… May you…”       “Want me to tear this dress to the fuck and reach for what’s hidden underneath it?”       “I will reach for what you have in your fucking jeans, asshole!”       When Raquelle wants to get up, Terrence immediately pulls her down and, tightly grabbing her by the throat, brings his face very close to her face with a sly, wide smile.       “Sh-h-h…” Terrence shushes. “Don't dare to move, bitch…”       “You want me to hit you in your insolent face?”       “You will have a chance to work your hands and mouth. Do your best for my penis to feel good.”       “Shut up, bastard!” Raquelle growls quietly, feeling that every cell of her body is strongly tense. “Go to the fuck! I’ll do nothing for you!”       “We will see it. See what you will say when I kick your ass enough. And teach you to listen to your lord.”       Terrence breathing heavily kisses Raquelle sharply on the lips, taking her hands tightly and pressing them to the pillow when she tries to put them on his back. He behaves rudely, with assertiveness, bites and licks both of her lips and caresses her mouth with his tongue, doing this so masterfully that the girl makes a quiet moan and answers him back. After a few exciting kisses and slight bites on her neck, on which he leaves a couple of wet paths, her collarbones, and her breasts, the man raises the girl’s dress much more, using the fact that she slightly raises the bottom of her body. The man’s warm hands confidently slide over the naked waist and thighs, and his lips start covering her belly with a special pleasure.       Raquelle smiles widely with closed eyes and tightly grabs the pillow with both hands, breathing heavily and understanding that the crazy heartbeat echoes in her temples. However, Terrence can also barely breathe and does not almost understand what is happening around him, being smitten by the incredible smell of this dark-haired beauty, whose hot and pliant body immediately reacts to any of his caresses and kisses.       “Ah, the hellcat is good!” Terrence pronounces in a low, little hoarse voice with enjoyment, while his hands keep caressing the curves of Raquelle’s waist, and his lips cover her abdomen with kisses. “Unbelievably sexy…”       “I want you…” Raquelle pronounces with a loud breath and moans sensually. “Take me, Terrence… Please…”       “With great pleasure, babe. I shall show you everything Terrence MacClife can do. Everything any girl would sell her soul to a devil for.”       Terrence puts his hand under Raquelle’s back and raises her to take off the black dress that does not let him reach for the nude body, which gets him delighted. But when his hands take the edges of the skirt, and his lips leave kisses on every single part of her face, both of them hear a male voice that sounds on the first floor:       “Edward! Hiya, buddy! Glad to see ya!”       It makes Terrence and Raquelle step away sharply and get sober immediately. They closely start listening to the sounds from the living room and hear a loud clap of the hands that lets them know that one greets another.       “Hey, Ben, it’s been a while!” Edward’s cheerful voice pronounces. “You look very happy.”       “You also spread light and happiness,” Benjamin replies confidently. “A literally walking positive!”       “You speak like my brother. He does love this phrase.”       “But I hit the bullseye,” Benjamin falls into silence for a second. “Oh, hey, Natalia! It’s been a while.”       “Hi, Ben,” Natalia replies amicably. “Glad to see you.”       “Wow, you’re such a beauty today! You dressed like a bride! And MacClife dressed up like a groom.”       “Maybe… Maybe… By the way, you really look very happy.”       “I have no reason to complain! My life is wonderful, and I’m happy with everything.”       “Because you and I are dating?” Blair’s voice pronounces.       “Of course, my sweetheart. I’m the happiest man in the world ‘cause I met such an amazing girl.”       “We see,” Natalia says shyly.       “Yeah, where’s my beloved bro?” Edward asks. “I don’t see him here…”       “And where did my best friend disappear?”       “Those lovebirds are up,” Benjamin replies confidently. “It seems like they’re having the passion now. I guess they decided to have a quick sex before your arrival.”       “Oh, it means the blonde and I were rushing for nothing!” Edward chuckles. “Although during a phone talk, Terrence resented that we hadn’t come, I’m sure that it got out of his head after he saw Raquelle.”       “Yeah, Cameron can blow MacClife, Sr.’s mind,” Natalia laughs shyly. “He does drool every time he sees her.”       “Oh, don’t worry, guys!” Benjamin exclaims. “They’ll hear our talk now and come here shortly.”       “Look for them near those railings on the second floor,” Edward says confidently. “That’s the favorite place of our beloved couple that does spread a passion.”       “The view of the living room is very good there,” Blair notices shyly.       “That’s why they love standing there and watching us.”       “So, we’re advising you, guys, to look there and wait for their appearance,” Natalia says confidently.       Everybody laughs shyly, and then they start talking much quieter. That’s why Terrence and Raquelle, being a little sober, but a little blushed, feeling the sweat and breathing heavily cannot hear them.       “So, it’s time to stop,” Raquelle says thoughtfully, fixing her hair.       “Edward didn’t lie when saying he’d come here just in time,” Terrence clicks his fingers. “I kicked that rutrag a little, and he came here quickly.”       “Maybe, he’s late? I don’t know what time it is now!”       “Maybe, But the important thing is that he and his girlfriend are here.”       “So, we only need to wait for Daniel and Anna and Peter and Helene.”       “Oh, those will come later!” Terrence waves a hand. “And the men will surely blame the girls and say they dressed up, did makeup, and brushed for too long.”       “At least, they called and said they’d go on the way soon.”       “We’ll see it.”       Silence settles in the air for two seconds, during which Raquelle and Terrence smile shyly and fix their hair.       “Oh, okay, we should go,” Terrence says confidently, takes his gradient shirt, puts it on, and closes all the buttons except two top ones. “May Parker make them funny for a while, and you and I will come to ourselves quickly and go down.”       “They really guessed what we were doing here,” Raquelle laughs shyly. “Your brother has a very good intuition and reads you like a familiar book.”       “As if I don’t know what he had done before he heard a call on Natalia’s phone. How my brother seduced her at first, and then your friend pleased him.”       “Oh, Terrence…”       Raquelle gets up from the bed lazily, pulls her dress down, fixes the belts of her shoes, comes to the mirror, brushes her hair a little, and makes changes in her makeup made in gray and white colors. Terrence strokes down his disheveled hair, and runs his hands over his blushed face.       “Oh, okay, you go to them first,” Terrence suggests tiredly and gets up slowly. “I’ll go to the bathroom and wash my face with cold water.”       “Okay,” Raquelle smiles shyly. “Join when you’re ready.”       “Sure, my love.” Terrence comes to Raquelle from behind and, taking her by the curves of her waist, kisses her on the cheek tenderly. “I won’t stay here long.”       “Hey, get off me.” Raquelle softly gets out of Terrence’s hug. “Otherwise, we’ll never leave this room.”       “Just one kiss.” Terrence grabs Raquelle’s head and kisses her on the forehead tenderly. “No more.”       “Okay, one!” Raquelle caresses one cheek of Terrence and kisses another cutely. “Okay, go.”       Raquelle turns around with her head proudly raised and, slightly shaking her thighs, comes to the door with a smooth walk and leaves the room, while Terrence watches her with a wide smile. But when he stays alone, he pulls his shirt down, fixes the collar and sleeves, comes to the mirror, and claps himself on his burning cheeks with the hope of shaking up a little.       

***

      Raquelle goes downstairs to the first floor, holding by the railings, and sees Benjamin, Blair, Edward, and Natalia, who are hugging their sweethearts and talking to each other funnily. At some moment, the four people stop talking because they hear a quiet but clear knock of heels that happens because of the contact with marble, which the stairs are made of, and move their eyes to the dark-haired beauty.       “What are you talking about, guys?” Raquelle asks with a slight smile. “Did I miss something?”       “Maybe, only the visit of some people,” Blair replies and points at Edward and Natalia, who wave a hand at Raquelle shyly.       “You spoke so loudly that Terrence and I quickly understood who came here.”       “Did we talk so loudly?” Benjamin rounds his eyes.       “I can tell you everything you said.”       “Okay… Maybe…”       “Hey…” Raquelle glances at Natalia and Edward. “Hey, guys.”       “Hey, Raquelle,” Edward and Natalia welcome amicably.       Raquelle comes to Edward and Natalia, hugs them amicably, and shares an amicable kiss on the cheek.       “You spread the light and happiness, as always,” Raquelle says with a slight smile. “And brought them to this house.”       “Ben and Blair told us the same,” Edward replies amicably.       “A truth is a truth, buddy,” Benjamin shrugs with a shy smile. “When you go somewhere, you light up everything around.”       “You literally disperse clouds in the city and bring warmth to it,” Blair smiles shyly.       “There’s definitely a part of the truth,” Raquelle replies confidently.       Edward and Natalia look at each other with slight smiles on their faces, as they are embracing each other.       “Hey, Raquelle, why did you come to us alone?” Benjamin asks and smiles mysteriously. “Where’s our irresistible and too self-confident peacock?”       “Is he cleaning his wings after the wild caresses that you decided to give each other to shorten the time?” Edward laughs shyly, crossing his arms over his chest.       “He’s up, in our room,” Raquelle replies amicably. “Our handsome guy will get down now.”       “Yeah, friend, I see MacClife drove you crazy again,” Natalia chuckles. “You literally light up from happiness…”       “Oh, he got stuck to me like a bad penny.” Raquelle tucks a strand of her hair behind her ear and, rolling her eyes, twirls her earring in the form of a feather. “I couldn’t get off him…”       “No surprise!” Benjamin exclaims. “The spring has come! March cats are haunting and going crazy. So, our imitable Terry is also full of hormones.”       “Huh, that March cat is full of hormones all year round,” Edward chuckles. “He can get excited even when he looks at the naked him in the mirror.”       “There’s something about it,” Raquelle laughs shyly.       “You’re guilty of it, my dear,” Natalia replies confidently. “You tease him all the time, and he gets tortured.”       “Well… I’d bet who teases who…”       Everybody laughs shyly, and the short silence settles in the air for a few seconds. Then Benjamin looks at Raquelle, Natalia, and Edward quickly. More specifically, the way they are dressed up.       “Hey, guys, I see you got divided into the dark side and the light one,” Benjamin notices cheerfully.       “Right!” Blair agrees with a slight smile. “It seems like Raquelle is on the dark side, and Edward and Natalia are on the light one.”       “Listen, I think we’re gonna have a fight between light and darkness,” Benjamin says funnily.       “M-m-m, right…” Edward smiles mysteriously, looking at Raquelle. “Cameron is wearing black…”       “So, friend, did you choose the dark side?” Natalia laughs shyly.       “Nope, friend, I’m still on the light one,” Raquelle replies confidently. “I just recently bought the black dress and decided to put it on.”       “It’s a new one?”       “Brand new.”       “I must confess that you look good in dresses,” Edward confesses. “One of the rarest cases when I see you in a dress. You usually put them on only at public events.”       “As if you’re really gonna attend somewhere,” Natalia adds. “Hair, makeup, dress, shoes with high heels, earrings…”       “Actually, no,” Raquelle replies shyly. “Just wanted to put on something beautiful… And make my sweetheart happy.”       “Oh, be careful, my dear,” Edward chuckles. “You could make your sweetheart so happy that he, being obsessed with a crazy passion, would tear this dress up. But the dress is beautiful. I wouldn’t love to throw it off.”       “Don’t worry, Edward, I know how to get that horse cold.”       “I hope you are using the gift that I gave you for your relationship anniversary,” Benjamin smiles mysteriously. “I was picking it up especially for a man like my dearest childhood friend.”       “And I’m madly grateful to you for such a wonderful present that I use very often.”       Everybody smiles shyly again and says nothing for two seconds. After this, Raquelle glances at Edward and Natalia standing together and hugging each other.       “Hey, Natalia…” Raquelle smiles slightly. “You’re wearing such a beautiful dress… You seem so tender and feminine in it.”       “As it turned out, I dressed up for the reason,” Natalia smiles mysteriously. “Something special happened…”       “My gosh…” Raquelle glances at Edward. “And you, Edward? You had a special event that made you put on a white shirt?”       “Maybe…” Edward rolls his eyes, hugs Natalia tightly, and throws a tender gaze at her. “Something truly grandiose really happened.”       “Don’t ya wanna tell us about it?” Benjamin asks, hugging Blair by the waist and looking at Edward and Natalia with a mysterious smile.       “Your happy faces say that’s something very good,” Blair notices. “Maybe, you tell us what happened? We’re really interested.”       “Patience, my dears, patience,” Edward replies confidently. “My beauty and I will tell you everything.”       “Let’s just wait for the one to get lost somewhere at this house,” Natalia adds, pressing herself closely to Edward and putting her hand on his chest.       “He got lost but will be found,” Raquelle chuckles shyly. “He’ll run nowhere!”       “Hey, friend, did your lord also stand on the dark side?” Benjamin asks. “Would he show up for us in all black? Or are you gonna be the only one to prefer wearing black?”       “Who knows, Parker,” Edward pronounces thoughtfully.       “Actually, Terrence…” Raquelle wants to say something.       But Raquelle has to fall into silence because everybody hears the loud voice of Terrence, who is going downstairs with two cases of guitar in his hands:       “As for my preference to stand on the dark or light side, I haven’t decided it, and I am somewhere in the middle.”       Raquelle, Natalia, Edward, Benjamin, and Blair turn on Terrence’s voice.       “Oh, the March cat has been found!” Benjamin chuckles.       “Huh, I’d bet who a March cat is!” Terrence exclaims, going down to the living room at this moment.       “Yeah, Your Highness, why did you leave your gorgeous queen alone and not wish to come to us along with her?”       “But I’m here now.” Terrence puts the cases of the guitar on one of the sofas. “Your irresistible and all-favorite king did his business and came to you.”       “A self-called king doesn’t mean a king. And without a crown, he is nobody!”       “I shall have a crown. And I already have confession and love. As well as my beloved queen, whom I’m ready to carry in my arms…”       With these words, Terrence comes to Raquelle and runs his hand over her back with his head proudly raised, not hiding his slight smile and making her smile. And then the man glances at Edward, who is standing behind Natalia and hugging her around the shoulders.       “Oh, hey, guys,” Terrence greets with a slight smile. “You came in time, you didn’t get us wrong.”       “I did say my swallow would drive us for a few minutes,” Edward smiles shyly with his head proudly raised. “All the cars changed lines in front of me and freed my way. Just because I have a cool car now. Much better and newer than yours.”       “Oh, yeah. And when I go on the road, there are actually no cars. Because the lord goes on it! Terrence MacClife himself!”       “Aha, a lord of peacocks, roosters, and chickens,” Edward chuckles.       “I’m gonna pretend that I didn’t hear another stupid joke of yours.”       While Benjamin, Natalia, Blair, and Raquelle laugh shyly, Edward clicks his tongue quietly, shaking his head, comes to Terrence, and welcomes him with an amicable hug and a slight clap on the back. After stepping back from his brother, MacClife, Sr., comes to Natalia, hugs her tightly, and kisses her on the cheek amicably.       “Listen, friend, you’re a beauty today!” Terrence admires. “I’m delighted!”       “The guys told me the same,” Natalia smiles shyly, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.       “You know, a truth is a truth.”       “Oh, MacClife, you’re an insolent peacock, but you can please anyone with compliments.”       “I’m not pleasing, I’m telling the truth.”       “Okay, let’s think it’s true!”       “Hey, haven’t the others come?” Edward asks.       “Not yet,” Terrence shakes his head.       “As I understand, Daniel and Peter and Anna and Helene will be a little late,” Natalia assumes thoughtfully.       “Raquelle and I think that when they come here, Rose and Perkins will blame the girls and say they should get ready quickly.”       “It will happen,” Edward replies confidently.       “And it sounds offensive,” Raquelle throws gloomily.       “We aren’t guilty that you, sweet girls, get ready for a half hour,” Terrence laughs shyly. “Or much more.”       “We’re trying hard for someone,” Raquelle says a little louder, setting a gloomy look into Terrence’s eyes. “Information for thinking, just saying.”       “But you don’t appreciate it!” Natalia frowns strongly, crossing her arms over her chest.       “Not at all!” Edward protests, comes to Natalia, and hugs her by the waist from behind tenderly. “I rated all of your hard work a long time ago. You look incredible, and I wanna look at you all the time.”       “You think you’d get off it?”       “I don’t doubt.”       “Okay, you won.”       Natalia smiles shyly with a slight blush on her face, while Terrence glances at Raquelle looking at the man questioningly with her arms crossed over her chest.       “Don’t look at me like this!” Terrence exclaims, comes to Raquelle, and hugs her by the waist from behind. “For me, you’ll always be imitable. And now I’m losing my mind over how gorgeous you look.”       “Trying to wash my brains?” Raquelle asks with a sly smile.       “Not at all, cutie.”       “I’m gonna pretend I believed you.”       Terrence laughs shyly and presses Raquelle to himself, while Benjamin and Blair, hugging each other cutely, watch the two couples with slight smiles on their faces.       “They’re so happy,” Blair says with a slight smile. “I finally see the happiness on their faces.”       “These guys deserve to be happy after everything they had to experience,” Benjamin replies confidently.       “I see no reason to be sad: Terrence and his band are gonna release their first song, Edward finally started to earn enough money, Raquelle shoots regularly and participates in fashion shows, and Natalia is just happy. Happy to have such a wonderful man.”       “She lights up from happiness next to him,” Benjamin cracks a slight smile at Blair. “Just like you do. You’ve lately looked much happier and smiled much more.”       “There is a reason.” Blair moves her eyes to Benjamin and smiles shyly at him. “And even though it’s hard for me at times, I’m happy that everything is fine with me.”       “I’d like you to always be happy and never be sad.”       “I’m already happy with you,” Blair says softly. “Really. I never thought I could be so happy.”       “Glad to hear it. Though, I didn’t also believe one girl would make me so happy, change many things about me, and open my eyes to many things.”       “Don’t say it, honey. You’ve always been a wonderful man, and I’m so lucky to have you. I know I could always count on your help and be sure you’ll come after a first call.”       “Sure, sweetie. And anyway, thank you so much, Blair. Thank you for giving me so much happiness. You’re an amazing person.”       “I hope, more unforgettable memories are waiting for us.”       “I don’t doubt it.”       “Aw, Benjamin…”       “Please, Blair, call me Ben,” Benjamin says softly, taking Blair’s hands. “You know that I don’t like being called Benjamin. For my friends and my close people, I’m Ben. And Benjamin for everyone.”       “Sorry, sorry, Ben…” Blair inclines her head guiltily, moving her eyes down. “I forgot…”       “It’s okay, my sweetheart, it’s okay,” Benjamin hugs Blair around the shoulders with a slight smile and presses her closer to himself, while she puts her hands on his back.       “You know, honestly, I still can’t believe what’s happening,” Blair confesses shyly and glances at Benjamin. “I can’t realize that it’s the truth. Although it’s been a while since we started to date, I still keep thinking it’s a dream.”       “Honestly, me too,” Benjamin replies thoughtfully. “I thought I wouldn’t really fall in love with a girl. Even seeing Terrence falling in love with Raquelle literally before my eyes, I didn’t believe that real love existed. But now I understand my friend, who talked about this feeling with delight.”       “I hadn’t actually thought of love before I met you. I dated nobody. I didn’t know what that was. I mean… I knew it thanks to movies and TV shows… But I’ve gotta admit that I was a little afraid of this evil feeling. Because I know many people, who are disappointed in love and swear not to fall in love anymore.”       “If people are made for each other, they will never break, no matter how hard their problems are. They’ll do their best to solve them and others that they will have in the future. No need to guess to say that Terrence and Raquelle are made for each other. They must be together. Looking at them, we think these two do fit each other.”       “And thank God, everything is wonderful about them,” Blair smiles slightly and glances at Edward and Natalia talking about something with Terrence and Raquelle cutely. “And I’m truly happy for Natalia and Edward. That girl is wonderful. And that guy is also a good man. Even if many bad things were said about him.”       “I like these two, too. People are right when they say MacClife, Jr., and Rochester bring the light and happiness where they go together.”       “Agree. When you look at them, your mood gets much better.”       “I’m glad they didn’t break up after the conflict. Edward realized that Natalia was just framed, and she didn’t have the courage to confess everything.”       “Oh, no need to talk about it! It all stayed in the past. Let’s better be happy that the people around us are very happy, and we may not be worried about them.”       “You’re right, sweetie. However, not only do they have to worry about nothing, but also you, Blair.”       “I know, but you know that I have a hard life and literally provide for my mother and brother.”       “But you must not give up and leave your family.”       “I will not leave them not for anything. It’s just getting harder and harder. Knowing that my brother is growing up and asking more and more, and Mother would die early or late.”       “If you have a very hard situation, I can always help you. Of course, I’m not a rich man and don’t earn much, but I could help you with money.”       “I’d never ask someone to lend me money. Especially you.”       “Anyway, you have me, your family, and many other people. Violetta and Christiana have always treated you well. And Terrence and Raquelle love you.”       “I know, Ben,” Blair replies with a slight smile. “I’m really very happy I ain’t deprived of such wonderful people. I have someone to talk to.”       “I’m always ready to listen and help you.”       “Thank you so much for everything you’re doing for me.”       “It’s nice to do good things for a good person,” Benjamin replies amicably. “Who didn’t reject me.”       “Aw, sweetie…”       Blair kisses Benjamin cutely on the cheek and hugs him with a wide smile, and he answers her back with pleasure, hugging the girl by the waist and shoulders, putting his nose in the top of her head, and giving her his warmth. And a few seconds later, she steps back from the man and looks into his eyes for some time with tenderness in her gaze. After hesitating a little, Parker brings his face to hers and slightly touches her cheek with the tip of his nose, making Stewart laugh and smile shyly. But a little later, the lovers give each other a short kiss on the lips and a much more continuous one. While Benjamin holds Blair’s face in his hands, she puts her hands on his hips and tries to stay relaxed, letting her sweetheart control the situation because she does not have enough experience to do it.       Meanwhile, Terrence and Raquelle and Edward and Natalia are busy with a talk, standing on another side of the living room and not hiding their smiles, while they press themselves to their sweethearts.       “I still can’t believe we’re gonna release our first album so soon,” Terrence says with a wide smile. “I literally started to lose belief in recording it someday. But at the nearest time, we’re releasing our first single.”       “And I never thought I’d get a chance to start a music career,” Edward replies with enthusiasm. “And an author of songs for many artists.”       “Oh, yeah, after you joined our band, we started to sound in a new way. Kinda especially. We all worked with great enthusiasm. Our work was much better than I expected.”       “I’ll never stop thanking you and the lads, thanks for asking me to become a part of the band.”       “I can’t personally wait for the release of the album,” Raquelle confesses cheerfully. “I already wanna listen to it.”       “We’ll rate their work when the first single of the guys is out,” Natalia replies happily.       “The important thing is to live ‘till that moment.”       “And I bet for anything that our MacClife brothers, Perkins, and Rose surely buy their own album when it’s out. They’re gonna be promoting it in all possible ways. And listen to it literally on a walk.”       “You know, Rochester, if you don’t praise yourself, nobody will do it,” Raquelle laughs shyly.       “What’s wrong with buying what our band worked so hard for several months?” Terrence wonders. “Everyone buys their own albums and listens to them!”       “I’ll one hundred percent buy it,” Edward says confidently.       “Are you gonna enjoy your singing?” Raquelle laughs shyly. “Or try to make sure that it’s all not a dream?”       “No, I think Terrence is gonna enjoy his singing,” Natalia chuckles. “He’s gonna get pleasure from it. And he’ll puff his big tail much more.”       “Telling everyone how irresistible and talented he is.”       “It’s okay, girls, when you’re listening to my song, you’ll be whopping with happiness and admiring me,” Terrence says with pride.       “Aha, why you?” Edward wonders. “No! Since you decided to make a band, be pleased to share your success with Daniel, Peter, and me!”       “Okay, I’ll give you a chance to get your minute of fame. You deserve it.”       “Be careful, bro. We three may easily leave the band and create something ours.”       “Aha, now! You won’t get off me so easily! You’re gonna play with me in the band ‘till you become old, helpless men.”       Raquelle and Natalia laugh shyly, while Terrence and Edward hug them a little tighter. And at some moment, the blonde glances at Benjamin and Blair flirting cutely, and smiles slightly.       “It seems like that couple has the future,” Natalia says thoughtfully.       “I didn’t think Parker would date a shy girl,” Edward laughs shyly. “But he looks cute with Blair.”       “At least he started to recall the address of this house more often,” Terrence notices confidently. “Ben has come here almost every day since he started to date Blair.”       “Sometimes she invites him here for a cup of coffee,” Raquelle replies thoughtfully.       “Yeah, it’s nice to admire his mug face.” Terrence chuckles quietly. “But if I didn’t let him know that I was two meters away from him, Parker wouldn’t be pleased to see me. He’s in love now!”       “Aha, Cupid arrow shot his heart so deeply that he notices nothing but Blair,” Edward laughs shyly, putting his hands on his hips.       “And it’s been happening for a few months…”       “Yeah, honey, he doesn’t definitely care about you,” Raquelle chuckles.       “You’re right, he has more important business than a certain arrogant peacock with a big crown on his head,” Natalia adds thoughtfully.       “Eh-h, no, no!” Terrence exclaims. “I’m not certain! C’mon! I am Terrence MacClife! The man, who everyone goes crazy from.”       “Yeah…” Edward exhales tiredly. “I wonder, how would you behave if you were John Smith or Anthony Stone? Would you be shyer or stay the same egoistic rooster, who believes everyone has a crush on him?”       “No matter which name I have, I’d be irresistible anyway. Nature gave me all the best that it got.”       “Oh, shit… You already make me wish to strangle you.”       Raquelle and Natalia say nothing and just look at each other and start watching Benjamin and Blair with slight smiles, while they stop kissing and just hug each other tenderly and say something, looking into each other’s eyes.       “Listen, the love epidemic kind of started,” Raquelle says thoughtfully. “Everybody falls in love with someone and is happy with them.”       “Well, yeah,” Natalia agrees. “Only Christopher is single.”       “Oh, Chris does feel good!” Terrence waves a hand. “He doesn’t care about it.”       “True,” Edward confirms. “Christopher isn’t gonna get a girlfriend or especially a family. He lives for his pleasure and owes nobody.”       “Anyway, he will not stay single,” Raquelle replies confidently with a slight smile. “Christopher is a very good and decent man. I personally like him.”       “I think so,” Natalia smiles shyly. “If a girl wanna be with him, she will definitely like Chris after talking to him a little.”       Silence settles in the air, during which the four keep watching Benjamin and Blair, who come to them later, hugging each other.       “Are you talking about us?” Benjamin smiles mysteriously.       “We did, we don’t deny it,” Raquelle replies amicably.       “Yeah, we talked about how cute you look together,” Natalia adds with a slight smile.       “Nice to hear it,” Benjamin confesses.       “Ah, Parker…” Terrence crosses his arms over his chest. “You’re like a cat that ate fresh sour cream.”       “You know, MacClife, when your beauty Raquelle is near you, you also roll your eyes and purr like a cat.”       “You didn’t believe me when I was telling you about my feelings. But now you felt it by yourself and realized that a real love did exist.”       “I know, I know, I recognize and regret it,” Benjamin raises his hands. “I wasn’t right.”       “C’mon, I think we all thought so,” Edward assumes with a slight smile.       “So, didn’t you believe in love?”       “I didn’t believe I could love so much.”       “You know, Edward, not loving such a beauty like Natalia is just impossible. And yeah, I must confess that you and your bro have wonderful taste in girls. You only choose the best and hit the bullseye after the first attempt.”       “Maybe, the beauties chose us?” Edward smiles mysteriously, hugging Natalia by the waist and pressing her closer to himself. “They saw us and couldn’t resist.”       “Aha. One succumbed to the man, who calls himself the imitable Apollo, and another loved the pretty face of the guy, who starts to take after his brother more and more.”       “No, buddy,” Natalia says shyly. “I originally got a crush on Edward’s charming voice, not his face.”       “I believe Blair couldn’t also resist the one to unsuccessfully try to be better than me,” Terrence says confidently, hugging Raquelle by the waist.       “Blair loves me for my rich inside world,” Benjamin says with his head proudly raised, pressing Blair to himself tightly. “I can always talk about something. To your information, I’m a very good talker with broad knowledge.”       “Oh, yeah. Let’s see how your knowledge would be rated by Blair’s family when it’s your time to meet them.”       “Actually, I’ve already introduced Ben to my mother and younger brother,” Blair confesses shyly.       “Really?” Raquelle rounds her eyes.       “And how did your family accept Ben?” Edward asks.       “Very good. My mother liked Ben immediately, and he got on well with her. And my younger bro literally fell in love with him. Harry has been very attracted to him over the past few months.”       “I like that boy, as well,” Benjamin confesses with a slight smile. “I love playing and talking with Harold. He’s pretty smart and funny. Great joker, by the way.”       “Well, I think it’s a chance to get some experience communicating with children,” Terrence assumes thoughtfully. “You’d be ready if you became a daddy someday.”       “And every time I go home, Harry starts to ask me about Ben literally on the doorstep,” Blair confesses shyly.       “Oh, I’d have the pleasure of staying with him every day,” Benjamin replies confidently. “But I have a job. I can’t leave everything and go to him. But I always visit Harry when I have free time.”       “I believe you’re getting ready to become a daddy,” Edward laughs shyly.       “Someday. But I must confess that my mother started to ask me to make her a grandmother and let her babysit a grandchild more often.”       “I think all moms are the same. They’re always worried when we don’t rush to marry and make children. Of course, fathers don’t mind it, as well, but they don’t insist as hard as mothers.”       “You’re right, buddy. But I can say nothing about fathers, ‘cause mine left my family when I was a child. I told you that my parents are divorced, and Father got another wife and common children.”       “Yeah, I know.”       “And as I understand, are you gonna go to Blair’s home and get experience by playing with that boy?” Terrence assumes.       “Yup, I’m gonna visit him,” Benjamin replies. “But at first, Blair and I agreed to walk.”       “Walk?”       “But…” Benjamin cracks a smile. “Only if you, dear Mr. MacClife, kindly agree to let Blair go for two or three hours.”       “You can take her away for more than two or three hours,” Terrence laughs shyly.       “I promise I won’t take your servant for a long time. When we decide to say goodbye, I’ll bring her here.”       “But I will try to come back soon,” Blair says with a slight smile.       “Don’t worry, you can go back whenever you want,” Terrence replies confidently.       “Thank you so much, Mr. MacClife.”       “You can call me by my name. Don’t be shy. If you call Edward and Natalia by their names, why would you call me Mr. MacClife?”       “Alright… Terrence… If it’s good for you…”       “And I let you call me by the name a long time ago,” Raquelle says amicably and tucks a strand behind her ear.       “I know.”       “And honestly, I don’t like this type of address. I’ve always felt uncomfortable when I’m called Ms. Cameron. Erm… I feel… Weird… So, when I meet people, I ask them to call me by my name in most cases.”       “Yeah, when you’re surrounded by those, who call you by your name, it’s hard to get used to it when someone calls you officially,” Natalia replies with a slight smile.       “So, let’s do it without such words as ‘mister’, ‘miss’ and ‘missis’. We aren’t strangers to each other and can quietly call each other by the name.”       “If nobody minds it, why not,” Blair smiles shyly.       Silence settles in the air for two seconds, after which Benjamin glances at the watch in the living room.       “Okay, guys, I think Blair and I better go,” Benjamin says thoughtfully.       “You can stay if you want,” Raquelle suggests amicably. “We’d be happy. The guys wouldn’t mind, either.”       “The next time. Blair and I agreed about everything, and Harold is waiting for my arrival.”       “Then have a nice pastime, then,” Terrence wishes.       “I wish you the same,” Edward adds amicably.       “Me too,” Raquelle and Natalia agree at the same time.       “Thanks a lot, friends!” Benjamin thanks truly. “Give my greetings to the men and the girls. And say I’ll join you someday.”       “Okay, we will,” Terrence promises confidently. “Don’t worry.”       Benjamin and Blair say goodbye to Terrence, Raquelle, Edward, and Natalia, hugging them amicably and saying something nice.       “Bye, guys!” Benjamin waves a hand. “See ya soon!”       “Bye!” Terrence, Raquelle, Edward, and Natalia say goodbye at a different time.       Terrence leads Benjamin and Blair to the hall door and locks it after they leave the house. And after this, MacClife, Sr., returns to Edward, Raquelle, and Natalia with a slight smile on his face.       “It seems like Parker is super serious about getting ready for fatherhood,” Natalia says with a slight smile. “He literally runs to that guy.”       “Oh, yeah, he doesn’t have to feed Harold, put him to sleep, and change his diapers,” Terrence laughs shyly. “In this case, it’s an adult boy, who can serve himself. And Parker only has to entrain that boy.”       At this moment, the two couples in love sit down in front of each other.       “Hey, what’s the age of that boy?” Edward asks.       “I don’t know exactly, but about ten or eleven,” Terrence replies thoughtfully.       “Yeah,” Raquelle nods. “I thought Harold was too little, but during one of the talks between Blair and me, she said he was older.”       “A teenage age is super close,” Edward notices.       “Blair and her mother are nervous because of it. As she said, he’s very obedient now, studies well, and always helps them at home. But it doesn’t mean he’d stay the same at a teenage age.”       “And that boy is gonna fall in love with girls and bring them home soon,” Natalia says thoughtfully. “And girls might not always be good.”       “That’s why they’re nervous. They hope Harry will help them after growing up and find a job, ‘cause Blair can’t provide for her family alone.”       “And seeing that the guys around him live much better, he might get angry,” Terrence assumes. “He might ask his mother and sister to buy something expensive that his friends have. Phones, tablets, computers, consoles, and something like this…”       “And after getting a refusal, he might get enraged and make the life of his family hard,” Edward says thoughtfully.       “Yeah, and it would happen that Blair and her mother explained to Harry that they have a hard life and couldn’t buy him something expensive for nothing,” Natalia adds.       “Exactly!” Raquelle exclaims. “Blair and I talked about it…”       Silence settles in the air for two seconds, after which Terrence looks at everybody.       “Oh, okay, guys, let’s change the subject,” Terrence suggests tiredly. “Now it's too early to talk about it. But two or three years later, we could come back to this talk.”       “Yeah, we should get busy with something, while waiting for the others,” Raquelle agrees thoughtfully, wrapping a strand of her hair around her finger.       “I wonder where those two couples are?” Edward asks, scratching his temple. “And when will they be pleased to come here?”       “They will come ‘cause they’ve got no choice!” Natalia exclaims funnily. “In the opposite case, we’ll spend a wonderful time without them.”       “In the opposite case, Daniel and Peter will regret it,” Terrence says confidently. “Even if they blame Anna and Helene for it.”       “You don’t better mess up with those idiots,” Edward chuckles. “We may expect anything from them.”       “They don’t better mess up with me. Otherwise, I will kick the asses of the two so that they will regret it.”       “Well, remembering how they joked on us when we were at the studio, I’m starting to be afraid that Perkins and Rose may do something on the photoshoot and the shootings of the music video for our first single.”       “It’s okay, bro, we won’t leave it unnoticed and will make their life hard,” Terrence replies confidently. “So, they don’t think they will get off it.”       “Now we understand why you wanna work on the band’s business so hard,” Raquelle laughs shyly. “You’re having fun.”       “I’m sure we’re gonna have much fun on the photoshoot. We already know it’s gonna be super cool, and we’ll put on gorgeous clothes. Many of them are from famous brands, just saying.”       “Oh, yeah!” Edward exclaims cheerfully with a wide smile. “I can’t wait to put them on! I've never worn clothes from famous brands, but I terribly wanna feel like a cool guy in expensive clothes.”       “To be cool, you don’t need expensive clothes,” Natalia replies with a slight smile. “You should only get a guitar and stand in front of a microphone.”       “No, that’s not quite cool. I personally want to perform in the suit of a real rocker. Well, or at least a leather jacket with lots of zippers and clatters. That would be super cool!”       “Oh, yeah, putting a suit of the rocker or a leather jacket with thorns on someone with such a pretty face!” Terrence laughs shyly. “A look of the innocent angel would fit you more. Not a virgin, of course, but still…”       “And I don’t know how the look of the rocker, a peacock tail on your ass, and a big crown would fit one another.”       “You’ll see I’m gonna be an irresistible rocker soon. How cool photos for the single, the album, and the commercial will be. And how cool our first music video is gonna be.”       “We’ll see if you can be a model. And what you learned from the together work with Raquelle.”       “Hey, yeah, guys!” Natalia exclaims. “You haven’t told us about what your together photoshoot for the fall collection of clothes was.”       “I really liked it,” Terrence replies with a slight smile. “That’s cool that the brand chose us two as the faces of the collection. It’s amazing, but for the years of my career, I never got an offer to become the face of a brand.”       “Small loss,” Edward smiles innocently.       “Shut up, Edward.”       “He liked it for just one reason,” Raquelle replies funnily. “Because during the shoot, he was mocking me. Throwing leaves, striking me down in a bunch of them, and doing something else.”       “Yeah! You shouldn’t have started it! I just kicked your ass a little! So, you were a good girl and behaved well!”       “Aha! As if you were a good boy!”       “Sure! I was a very good one!”       “Oh yeah, everybody but you are guilty!”       “Oh, c’mon, you liked it! You were whooping and didn’t wanna stop having fun!”       “I was whooping ‘cause I felt tickling! You were tickling my whole body!”       “Yeah, as if you weren’t doing! You know that I can barely take a tickling, but you did that!”       “Hooray, you’ve finally recognized your weakness for just something.”       “So, you can say nothing more,” Natalia claps on her laps with a slight smile. “It’s clear that you had a lot of fun at the shooting.”       “I’ve already made conclusions,” Edward adds.       “If it’s so, we’d like to know about your work, Edward,” Raquelle changes the subject. “What is it like to be an author and a co-author of songs?”       “That’s really cool!” Edward replies cheerfully with a wide smile. “Some songs are out and have gotten popular enough. And Derek and Gordon from ‘Lost In Time’ are gonna release their album with three songs of mine included.”       “Oh, yeah, bro, you rock!” Terrence exclaims and leans back in the sofa. “The guys wanted to get one song, but you wrote three.”       “Those songs were recorded with my pretense, and I know how they would sound. I’m assuring you, that’s gonna be a bomb!”       “You’re a favorite guy of George for a reason. He loves you probably more than Pete, Dan, or me. Well… Maybe, he has the same love for the blond. Smith adores him, too.”       “Yeah, but George doesn’t show it openly and treats all of us in the same good way. And he’s delighted by the songs that we recorded for our album.”       “He really started to treat us better. Yes, that man is harsh and cruel sometimes, but he isn’t so bad. So, we’re lucky with our manager.”       “Aha, but you said you wanted to change him!”       “We did. But it’s in the past now. Moreover, Smith does know how and when to promote us.”       “Having such a good team, we can expect good sales of the album.”       “And after the announcement of the tour, everybody will go to buy tickets. I’m sure we’re gonna have at least one sold-out show.”       “And Raquelle and I want places in the first line closer to the stage,” Natalia says confidently.       “Yes, yes, I’ve never been to concerts, and it’s a good chance for me,” Raquelle adds with enthusiasm.       “And don’t forget about Anna and Helene.”       “Sure! The girls and I wanna go to at least one of your shows!”       “Aw, sweet girls…” Terrence smiles shyly, hugs Raquelle around the shoulders, and presses her close to himself. “You know that we’d do it with pleasure. We’d reserve the best places if you asked us about it.”       “Your pretense would help us perform much better,” Edward adds confidently.       “We know,” Raquelle replies amicably. “And we can’t wait for the announcement of your tour.”       “As the most loyal and favorite fans of us, you’ll know it first,” Terrence promises confidently.       “Raquelle and I memorized your words!” Natalia says, raising her index finger. “And when Anna and Helene come here, we’ll tell them what you said. We’ll remind you of your promise when it’s time.”       “Okay, okay, beauties, we got it,” Terrence smiles shyly.       The four share a slight smile and say nothing for two seconds. But after this, Terrence looks at what Edward and Natalia are wearing.       “Listen, friends, why did you dress like this?” Terrence asks. “Total white… One put on a gorgeous dress with shoes on heels. And another put his old things aside and finally started to look like the one, with whom nobody would be ashamed to go outside.”       “I just got money and started to wear good clothes,” Edward replies with his head proudly raised. “I’m now a cool, fashionable guy.”       “Well, you’re too elegant today. Is there a reason?”       “Maybe…”       “Hey, what did you mean when you said you had a good piece of news on the phone?”       “Yes, Edward!” Raquelle meddles with a slight smile. “Natalia and you are so happy as if something interesting happened to you.”       “It’s true,” Natalia smiles mysteriously, putting her hand on Edward’s lap. “Something very good really happened.”       “Something very important,” Edward specifies, takes Natalia’s hand, and cracks a slight smile.       Terrence and Raquelle look at each other before the man glances at Natalia and Edward with a sly smile and says:       “Hey, guys, speak out, what happened to you!”       “Yes, yes, speak!” Raquelle says with delight. “I’m dying from curiosity!”       “Erm, maybe, we should wait for the others not to say the same several times?” Edward suggests hesitantly. “And when they come, Natalia and I will tell you one piece of news.”       “C’mon, secret guys, speak out already!” Terrence waves a hand. “What did you get into? And yeah, I think I told you that I would do nothing for you if you got into something again!”       “What kind of trouble would you give us this time, my dears?” Raquelle smiles innocently.       “Well…” Edward pronounces thoughtfully, biting his lip slightly. “I think we’re gonna be not less busy than you. Trouble is gonna be very nice… But hard, I have to confess…”       “Nice trouble?” Terrence frowns slightly.       At this moment, Raquelle stops her eyes on Natalia’s left hand. More specifically, the silver ring with a rose that Edward gifted her for their engagement.       “Wow, Natalia!” Raquelle smiles slightly. “What a beautiful ring! I’ve never seen it before!”       “Ring?” Terrence wonders, glances at Natalia’s ring, and unconsciously thinks of the day when he proposed to Raquelle to marry. “Left hand?”       Raquelle glances at her left hand. More specifically, her ring finger, on which she has the ring that Terrence gifted her for their engagement.       “My gosh…” Raquelle opens her mouth. “Guys… You…”       After looking at each other with wide smiles, Edward and Natalia move their eyes to Terrence and Raquelle and say happily at the same time:       “Yes, we are engaged!”       During the pause that settled in the air for two seconds, Raquelle opens her mouth wider, and Terrence smiles widely.       “Are you what?” Raquelle and Terrence wonder loudly, setting their questioning looks on Natalia and Edward.       “Engaged,” Edward smiles shyly. “Natalia and I are gonna get married.”       “Damn, guys, are you serious?” Terrence cannot believe it.       “Look here!” Natalia exclaims, showing Terrence her left hand and pointing at the engagement ring on her ring finger. “So, get ready, MacClife, I’m gonna become a part of your family soon. Edward proposed to me, and I, as you can see, said yes with pleasure.”       “My gosh, Natalia…” Raquelle smiles widely, putting her hands folded to one another to her mouth. “Friend…”       “Get ready to accept the new member of the family,” Edward says confidently, holding Natalia by the shoulders. “This blonde-haired beauty is gonna be one of us soon.”       “A-a-a!” Terrence makes a happy whoop. “What a cool piece of news!”       “I’m so happy for you!” Raquelle adds happily.       “So, I’m proud to introduce my fiancée, who is gonna become my wife soon,” Edward says with a wide smile.       “My gosh, I’m so excited!” Natalia confesses excitedly. “I can’t believe I’m getting married!”       “We’ll become a family!” Raquelle exclaims loudly and happily.       “Yeah!” Natalia, Edward, and Terrence pronounce loudly.       The four get up from the sofa sharply, still making happy whoops. While Terrence runs to Edward and takes him in a tight hug with a wide smile on his face, Raquelle goes to congratulate the excited Natalia.       “Natalia, friend!” Raquelle exclaims happily and takes Natalia in an amicable hug. “Congratulations! I’m so happy for you.”       “Thanks a lot, Raquelle!” Natalia thanks with a wide smile, steps back from Raquelle, and puts her hands on her checks. “My gosh, I’m finally gonna get married!”       “So, you finally waited for this moment. How long you were dreaming about it, and your time has come.”       “I can’t believe it! It must be a dream!”       “You deserve to be happy, darling.” Raquelle takes Natalia’s hands with a slight smile. “You suffered a lot, but fate gave you a long-awaited gift. This is the award for all of your tears.”       “I couldn’t believe it when Edward proposed to me to marry. And I couldn’t believe when he got down on his knee and showed this ring.”       “I get it, sweetie. And you understand how I felt when Terrence proposed to me to become his wife.”       “I do understand.”       “And didn’t you guess about Edward’s plans?”       “No! I thought he would never propose to me or wouldn’t do it soon. And I got terribly excited when it happened. So much that I became speechless.” Natalia laughs shyly. “The poor Edward briefly thought I’d say, ‘no.’ I barely braced myself to say the wanted ‘yes’. Though, I was crying from happiness for a long time and almost fainted from excitement.”       “Aw, Natalia…” Raquelle shakes her head with a slight smile. “You can’t imagine how happy I am for you. I’m sure you’re gonna be very happy with Edward.”       “Thanks, Raquelle!” Natalia thanks happily. “Many thanks!”       Natalia takes Raquelle in an amicable hug with a wide smile on her face. After stepping back, the girl proudly shows her friend the engagement ring that her friend is delighted by. And while the fiancée gets the congratulations, Edward accepts them from Terrence, who does not hide that he is madly happy about the engagement.       “Edward, brother!” Terrence exclaims happily, takes Edward in a tight hug, and claps him on the back with a slight smile on his face. “Congrats! I’m so happy for you!”       “Thanks a lot, bro,” Edward thanks truly and steps back from Terrence. “A-a-a! Damn, I’m getting married! I can’t believe it!”       “It should’ve happened early or late. You should’ve realized that she was the girl you needed.”       “I’ve always known it. I just decided to wait for a while ‘till everybody calmed down, and my financial status got much better.”       “You did it right. I hope you thought about your decision well and wouldn’t regret it.”       “Never. I just realized it’s my time to marry. And I’m absolutely sure about what I wanna do.”       “I’m glad if this decision is well-planned.”       “But fuck!” Edward claps himself on the forehead. “How much I got nervous! I thought I’d become speechless when starting to speak and propose to marry.”       “I get it, bro, I get it,” Terrence smiles shyly. “I was also terribly excited when wishing to propose to Raquelle to marry.”       “Oh, I thought Natalia would say, ‘no’ ‘cause she didn’t say, ‘yes’ immediately. She later said she got too excited and couldn’t speak. She cried from happiness and couldn’t calm down for a long time.”       “You just got the girl super happy, and she thought she’d never get married. So, she was too emotional.”       “Anyway, I’m freaking happy that she agreed. I’m gonna marry the best girl in the world that I madly love soon. Who made me understand that it’s my time to marry and create my own family.”       “I’m really very happy, Edward.” Terrence claps Edward on the shoulders and takes him by them. “Natalia is a wonderful girl. That’s cool she’s gonna be my relative. I’ve never hidden that I like her so much.”       “There’s no reason not to love her.”       “Make her happy and don’t leave her. Remember that she needs you.”       “Never!” Edward promises confidently. “I’ll no longer make this mistake!”       “Congrats again, bro. You deserved to be happy like nobody else. After everything you had to experience.”       “Thanks a lot, Terrence. Thanks.”       Edward hugs Terrence again tightly with a slight smile on his face, clapping him on the back. Then MacClife, Sr., comes to Natalia, and Mr. MacClife, Jr., gets ready to accept the congratulations from Raquelle.       “Congrats, Edward,” Raquelle congratulates with a wide smile. “I’m really very happy for you and Natalia. And I’m glad you decided to do it.”       “I wanted to marry your friend a long time ago,” Edward confesses shyly. “But because of that terrible situation, I had to forget it. If we hadn’t broken up, I would’ve proposed to Natalia to marry literally after one week of the relationship. Because I already loved her too much.”       “I think that’s good it happened. If you had been engaged at the moment of your conflict, you would’ve had to cancel your engagement. And concluded it again.”       “I know.”       “Don’t be mad at me for saying it, but you did the right thing by deciding to marry Natalia now. Your relationship got much better, the trial of your uncle ended, and you were pronounced non-guilty and started to earn your money. No reason to delay it.”       “No hurts, Raquelle,” Edward replies with a slight smile. “I also think what happened was good for us. Although I’m ashamed of that conflict, I think it helped us understand that we couldn’t live without each other. Nobody would replace Natalia for me.”       “I’m glad to hear it.” Raquelle caresses Edward’s shoulder softly. “And I'm glad she’s gonna marry you. You’re a wonderful man and the perfect candidate to be her husband. I saw many boyfriends of hers, but I liked none of them. Maybe, I disliked you at first because of your suspicious behavior, but now I don’t wanna see anyone but you next to her.”       “I’m gonna do my best for her to have nobody else.”       “Just make her happy and keep taking care of her as you’ve always done it,” Raquelle advises, taking Edward’s hands. “And she won’t even think of exchanging you for someone else.”       “Sure.”       “And remember, Natalia needs a strong, confident, caring, and brave man that would tear anyone for her.”       “Don’t worry, honey, Natalia is gonna be very happy with me,” Edward replies confidently. “And I’ll do my best for her to feel safe.”       “I believe you, Edward,” Raquelle says softly with a slight smile. “Congrats on your engagement again! Don’t forget, I’ve always been for you and Natalia and wish you the best.”       “Thanks a lot, Raquelle,” Edward caresses Raquelle’s shoulders softly. “Thanks. You’re the best.”       “Glad to hear it, bro.”       “Same, sis.”       Raquelle and Edward share an amicable kiss on the cheek and take each other in a tight hug with slight smiles.       “Damn, Natalia!” Terrence exclaims happily. “I’m so happy for you and Edward! That’s so great that you decided to marry.”       “Ah, buddy, how happy I am!” Natalia smiles widely. “Everything happened when I lost hope of getting married. And here’s the miracle – your brother proposed to me.”       “It would’ve happened early or late, friend. Everything was coming to this result.”       “Hey, did you know about Edward’s wish to propose to me a long time ago?”       “Yes, it’s true. Edward confessed it on the way to Uncle’s home on the day of his arrest. He said he had already realized he wanted to marry. And he wanted to marry you.”       “My gosh…” Natalia smiles slightly.       “And don’t be mad at me, but I think you did the right thing by deciding to marry now. If you’d concluded the engagement much earlier and fought, you would’ve had to cancel it. Though, it would've been another reason for stress.”       “You’re right, Terrence,” Natalia nods. “I agree with you. I’m also happy we decided to marry now. Edward and I should’ve checked our relationship before doing it.”       “I asked Edward not to rush with a proposal. And… As I understand, he listened to me. Though, knowing him, this guy could easily propose to you to become his wife after your reconciliation.”       “I would’ve agreed anyway, ‘cause I know I love this man so much. And I’m sure I’m gonna get married once in my life. My marriage would be as strong as the marriage of my parents, who’ve been together for twenty-eight years and gonna celebrate their twenty-ninth anniversary this fall.”       “Edward would’ve agreed with you. He said he wanted to marry only once. And he doesn’t understand those, who get divorced several times. Although my brother seems to be an irresponsible idler, I’m sure he’ll be a wonderful husband.”       “I don’t doubt it.”       “Next to you, he’s growing up and becoming a man. You impact him very well. Thanks to your love for him, he’s become a different person. Not the one I knew a few months ago.”       “I know, Terrence,” Natalia smiles shyly. “And I know I can’t live without this man. He’s my everything. Without him, I can’t be happy… I didn’t feel as good with anyone else as I did with Edward. Your brother is an amazing man. Who I no longer wanna lose.”       “No, Natalia, you’ll never break,” Terrence says with a slight smile, taking Natalia’s hands softly. “Edward madly loves you and would do anything you’d ask him about. And he proved it by his actions that he’s done for your well-being. For you, he’d piss his fears off and stand by you.”       “And stay strong, brave, and happy, as our sweet Raquelle loves saying.”       “Yeah. Anyway, I congratulate you and Edward with all my heart! You deserve to be happy. May this marriage be the award for all the pain and suffering that every one of you experienced.”       “Thank you so much, Terrence,” Natalia thanks with a slight smile and caresses Terrence’s shoulder softly. “You’ve always been an amazing friend to me.”       “You look good with my brother by his side. You bring light and happiness even in the darkest corners. I’ll always be for your relationship and am happy to accept you into my family.”       “I’m glad you and I are gonna be relatives.”       “Now I can say it officially…” Terrence puts his hands aside. “Welcome to the MacClife family, friend. I mean… Sister-in-law…”       “Thanks, buddy… I mean, brother-in-law…”       Natalia and Terrence laugh shyly, share an amicable kiss on the cheek, and take each other in a tight hug, not hiding their wide smiles. And when they step away a few seconds later, Edward and Raquelle come to them.       “Congrats, you two, again,” Terrence says cheerfully with a wide smile. “I fully approve of your decision and hope it will give you happiness.”       “If I wasn’t sure about it, I would’ve hardly proposed to marry,” Edward replies confidently, hugging Natalia by the waist.       “And I wouldn’t have accepted it if I hadn’t wanted it,” Natalia adds.       “You would’ve had no choice!” Raquelle laughs shyly. “If Edward had called you with a finger, you would’ve gone to register your marriage, barely knowing him.”       “You say it like I was literally ready to attack this handsome guy when he stood in my way,” Natalia chuckles kindly.       “It’s partly true. Don’t be mad, darling, but I can’t be silent.”       “Why can’t I attack? If I hadn’t gotten this treasure in time, another girl would’ve put an eye on him. Though, I don’t want it.”       “I went ahead and took this blonde,” Edward says with his head proudly raised. “She’s my stunning beauty that everybody looks at. If I had missed a moment, someone to be quicker would’ve taken her.”       “Anyway, this story really must have a good end,” Terrence replies confidently. “And I’m gonna repeat that I’m glad it happened now.”       “What happens, happens for the best,” Raquelle says with a slight smile.       Silence settles in the air for a few seconds, during which everybody smiles shyly at each other and hugs their sweethearts.       “Hey, do your parents know you’ve decided to get married?” Terrence asks.       “Nope yet,” Natalia shakes her head. “But I’ll tell my parents about it tonight when they go home. Father and Mother were supposed to go to the meeting at four o’clock. And when they’re back, I’ll make them happy with the news about my engagement and show them my gorgeous ring.”       “My mother doesn’t know it yet,” Edward confesses. “But Father does.”       “Father knows?” Terrence rounds his eyes. “But how?”       “I just went to ‘The MacClife Shipping’ two weeks ago. I wanted to ask him about how he proposed to Mother to marry, but try not to betray myself.” Edward glances at his hands for a second. “But Father guessed everything immediately. At first, I didn’t wanna talk about it, but then I told him I wanted to propose to Natalia to marry, but I didn’t know how to do it.”       “So, has he told Mother nothing?”       “I asked him not to say anything. Until I do it. Of course, I had to wait for him to make a couple of calls, but then Father gave the order to make a cup of coffee, and we talked about everything.”       “Is he still working all day long?” Raquelle asks.       “Yeah, Father works much: examining the documents, calling someone, watching something, controlling the work of the staff members and those, who intern at the company. In short, he has much to do!”       “And doesn’t Mr. MacClife complain?”       “No, Father doesn’t complain and does what he should. He loves his business and gives his everything to it. His eyes literally gloss when he goes home. Of course, he doesn’t torture Mother and me by talking about his business, but he doesn’t hide that he’s happy to continue the business of Grandpa Manuel.”       “That’s great when a person loves their job,” Natalia smiles shyly. “When it gives them pleasure.”       “Hey, what did he tell you about his engagement with Mother if it’s not a secret?” Terrence asks.       “No, not a secret,” Edward shrugs. “As it turned out, Father proposed to marry spontaneously. I mean, he wanted to marry Mother, but he couldn’t find a good moment. And the situation of losing the house and the company made him doubt. He was afraid he wouldn’t be able to give Mother everything she wanted. Nevertheless, Father said his love for her was way stronger, and he bought a cheap ring for the last money”       “It’s amazing that Mother stayed with him, knowing the situation, and wasn’t afraid to live in poverty with Father because of that old bastard Michael.”       “She loved him and was ready to go to the end of the world with him. She even accepted the fact that she wouldn’t have a gorgeous ceremony and a big wedding dress and easily agreed with a very modest ceremony, for which they even had to ask Mr. Johnson to lend them some money.”       “As they say, a cottage is a castle for those in love,” Raquelle says thoughtfully. “Mrs. MacClife knew what she was doing, but she didn’t leave her beloved man and stayed by his side ‘till the end.”       “Yeah, and I understand her,” Natalia smiles slightly. “When you truly love someone, you don’t care if they’re poor or rich.”       “And knowing my parents’ story, I stopped being surprised that Mother had loved Father all her life and waited for him to come back to her,” Terrence confesses confidently. “She didn’t even think of looking at other men.”       “Hey, Edward, didn't you also plan to propose to Natalia to marry?” Raquelle asks. “Or did you have a plan?”       “No, I did have the plan to do it,” Edward shakes his head. “I knew where I wanted to propose to Natalia. Doing this in the desert place was very important to me. I would've been terribly nervous if lots of people had stared at me.”       “It’s definitely gonna be a reason to feel happy.”       “But it's kind of dumbfounded,” Natalia laughs shyly. “I still can’t believe it’s the truth. And stop thinking this happiness won't last long.”       “Don’t worry, Natalia, you’ll get used to it soon,” Raquelle replies with a slight smile. “Think it’s the beginning of a new, wonderful stage in your life: you’re gonna leave your parents’ home and live with your husband.”       “It doesn’t scare me. I’m afraid that Edward’s proposal might be a dream. That I’d wake up in the morning and realize I dreamed it, and nobody proposed to me to marry.”       “I completely understand you, sweetie. Because I couldn’t also believe I’d get married to Terrence for some time, and I pinched myself all the time to understand if that was a dream or reality.”       “And when it’s time for a wedding ceremony, the most important thing will be not to cry when a judge or priest asks us if we agree to become husband and wife.” Natalia rolls her eyes for a second. “And not to faint from excitement. I really can do that!”       “Don’t worry, dear!” Terrence laughs shyly. “In case of faints, we’re gonna have Ben, who will definitely take a bottle of ammonia. When one friend of his was gonna get married, he was shaking it in front of him and saying he was ready to give first aid at any time.”       “Wow,” Raquelle chuckles kindly.       “Hey, MacClife…” Natalia pronounces thoughtfully. “Where are those guys, who you communicated with when your affair with Raquelle just started? Cody and Joseph, I guess…”       “I don’t know, Natalia,” Terrence shakes his head. “I haven’t spoken to them for ages.”       “Do the girls know them?” Edward frowns slightly.       “Of course, they do. When Prescott, Freeman, and Parker met Natalia, Anna, and two friends of theirs, they started to pick them up.”        “Yes, yes, I know Parker picked up my fiancée,” Edward smiles slyly.       “Yeah, bro, if Blondie hadn’t gone to Mexico and lost contact with Parker, you would’ve gotten nothing.”       “I can’t even imagine what I would do without my sweetheart.”       With these words, Edward presses Natalia closely to himself, hugging her with both arms, while she shyly smiles. Silence settles in the air for a few seconds, after which Raquelle goes to the sofa and sits on it, and then the others do the same.       “Hey, guys, what are your opinions about what your wedding should be like?” Raquelle asks with a slight smile.       “Are you planning to fly to an island and conclude a marriage among palms and sands?” Terrence smiles mysteriously. “Put on something white… It’s your style, I think!”       “An idea about an island is good,” Edward replies thoughtfully. “But I think we’d better celebrate a wedding here, in New York. With our close friends, familiar people, and relatives.”       “Yeah, how could we play a wedding without inviting our close people?” Natalia wonders. “We don’t want someone to be mad at us. And we’re gonna share this happiness with all of you.”       “Hey, I forgot to say!” Edward points at Terrence and Raquelle sitting in front of him. “You two must come to my wedding. I wanna see you among the guests.”       “Huh, bro, do you think I won’t be there?” Terrence chuckles. “I would come to your wedding without an invitation! Terrence MacClife will not miss such an important event as the wedding of my younger brother. And he will surely give his toast.”       “And you’ll be praising yourself for half of the toast.”       “People should know who I am for you. May they know you’re proud to be my relative.”       “You’re gonna probably kill me for what I wanna suggest now,” Natalia assumes.       “Why would I do that?” Terrence wonders.       “What if we all get married on the same day?”       “The same day?” Raquelle, Edward and Terrence ask.       “Yup, so to say, to have a double wedding,” Natalia shrugs with a slight smile. “I think it would be cool!”       “Listen, I like your idea!” Raquelle smiles mysteriously. “What if we really have two weddings on the same day? Terrence and I haven’t picked up a date and haven’t even started to get ready for the wedding yet. And we were so busy that we sometimes forgot about our engagement.”       “So, let’s really get married all together on the same day?” Edward suggests cheerfully. “I wouldn’t personally mind it.”       “So, that’s a good idea!” Terrence smiles widely. “We’d be at each other’s wedding!”       “Wow, I thought you’d refuse!” Natalia confesses. “You’d say there may be only one star on such a wonderful day.”       “Indeed, bro, I also thought you’d mind it,” Edward confesses.       “C’mon, guys!” Terrence exclaims. “It’s gonna be an honor for me to share the happiness with my beloved bro and marry my beloved girl on the same day with him.”       “So, we decided, then?” Natalia asks. “We will get married on the same day?”       “But we’d have to agree about everything together,” Raquelle notices.       “We’ll do it! We aren’t strangers to each other!”       “Then let’s make our families and friends happy by telling them they can come to the double wedding,” Terrence suggests cheerfully.       “And let the girls know they’d have two chances to get a wedding bouquet.”       “And the men would have two chances to catch a garter!” Edward exclaims.       “I must confess that I somehow had a dream about me being at someone’s wedding and catching a wedding bouquet,” Natalia confesses shyly.       “Really?” Raquelle wonders, moving her eyes to Natalia.       “Yup, I was standing aside while some girls were literally fighting for it. But the bouquet magically flew into my hands, leaving no chance for the other girls.”       “Wow…” Edward smiles mysteriously.       “Listen, friend, it’s a sign!” Terrence exclaims. “Your dream kind of let know you’d get a proposal very soon.”       “Maybe…” Natalia slightly. “Besides, in my dream, I complained to Anna and Raquelle that I had nobody. There was no prince on a white horse in my way.”       “But the prince on a white horse, as you said, found you himself,” Raquelle notices cheerfully. “In reality.”       “Oh, yeah, he found the courage to sit down with Rochester, saying there were no free places at the café,” Terrence laughs shyly.       “Actually, there weren’t really places!” Edward protests. “And Natalia was one of those, who sat alone. I had a choice: sitting down with an old man with a newspaper, a man with a child, a boy at the age of sixteen, a severe, old woman, or the incredibly beautiful but sad blonde. I think the choice was clear.”       “Ah, then we got it!”       “It’s really my fate,” Natalia smiles innocently. “Fate brought your brother to me.”       “Sometimes dreams do come true,” Raquelle says confidently, twirling her earring.       “And sometimes the impossible is possible!” Terrence notices cheerfully. “Although I don’t believe in omens and dreams, I’ve gotta admit that there are cases when they come true.”       “And Edward went ahead of Daniel, who hasn’t proposed to Anna to marry, even if he’s talked about it many times.”       “Right, bro!” Terrence clicks his fingers. “You grew up for a wedding sooner than Perkins! I think Anna got sick of waiting for him to get down on his knee with a ring in his hands.”       “But Anna isn’t the one of those, who would annoy a man with a plea to marry her,” Raquelle notices with a slight smile.       “Yeah, she’s gonna wait for him to grow up,” Natalia adds confidently.       “I wonder how long he is going to delay a proposal,” Terrence wonders. “Would he do it? Thanks to Anna, Daniel’s house is always clean and has the smell of delicious food. What does he need? The girl is beautiful, kind, economical, and caring… She was born for family life!”       “He will do it, don’t worry!” Edward waves a hand. “Daniel can’t live without Anna and would also make us happy with the news about marrying her, early or late.”       “Hey, maybe, we do a triple wedding?” Raquelle suggests cheerfully. “Or wait for the moment when we’d be able to have a quarter one?”       “I think Daniel would mind it,” Natalia assumes. “He’d do something for the day of the wedding of Anna and him to be only theirs.”       “Yeah!” Edward laughs shyly. “I’m sure he’ll do a bad thing to my bro and me if our weddings were scheduled on the same day.”       “That’s why I advise you not to let it happen,” Terrence advises.       “Yeah, we don’t better mess up with that dude.”       “We’d better have fun at a gorgeous double wedding.”       “Yeah, the wedding of the MacClife brothers!” Raquelle notices with her head proudly raised.       “Your parents are gonna be so happy when they find out they’ll have to marry off both of their sons,” Natalia adds.       Everybody smiles shyly at each other and says nothing for two seconds. But then, the ring of the doorbell breaks this pause, and they move their eyes to the door.       “Oh, our friends have shown up!” Terrence exclaims.       “Let’s see how they’ll excuse themselves,” Raquelle smiles slightly.       Terrence gets up from the sofa with a quiet chuckle and goes to the hall door quickly. After opening it, he sees Daniel, Anna, Helene, and Peter having a wonderful mood.       “Hey!” Peter, Helene, Daniel, and Anna pronounce happily.       “Finally!” Terrence exclaims. “We started to think you had decided to leave us.”       “But as you see, we didn’t,” Daniel replies amicably. “Pete and I came and took our beauties.”       “You’d have no choice!”       Terrence hugs and shares a homie handshake with Daniel and Peter with a slight smile on his face. And then he hugs Anna and Helene and shares an amicable kiss on the cheek with them.       “Come in already,” Terrence invites into the house with a gesture, stepping back from the doorstep.       Helene and Anna enter the house first, and Peter and Daniel follow them. Then the friends go to the living room confidently, while Terrence locks the door. They see Edward, Raquelle, and Natalia, who get up from the sofa after seeing them and make happy whoops.       “You’ve shown up!” Natalia exclaims cheerfully.       “What people decided to please us with their pretense!” Edward says happily, raising his hands up.       “Hi to you, romantic,” Peter greets with a sly chuckle, pulling down a crème suit jacket with half-rolled sleeves that perfectly fits his dark blue jeans and his white t-shirt and fixing thin bandages on his wrists, on which there are only barely visible scars and a much brighter but skinned over one.       Edward greets Peter with a homie handshake and an amicable hug and then does the same towards Daniel, who proudly walks in black jeans, a gray t-shirt, and a black leather waistcoat with thorns on his shoulders and does not care about the mess in his hair. After this, MacClife, Jr., greets Anna and Helene with hugs and kisses on the cheek, and Natalia does the same toward Daniel and Peter and gets a couple of compliments from them about her appearance.       “Listen, you’re like day and night in these dresses,” Helene says with a slight smile after Anna and she greet Raquelle and Natalia.       “Aha, Raquelle is in a black dress, and Natalia is in a white one,” Anna adds thoughtfully. “Just like a bride.”       “You also decided to dress up,” Raquelle notices, looking at Anna’s tender pink above-knee dress that perfectly fits her shoes with heels of the same color, her long red wavy hair that falls off her shoulders and is beautifully pinned on the back with two thin strands.       “Yeah, girls, we’re all stunning today,” Natalia smiles widely, noticing how good Helene looks in her purple dress, the design of which reminds her of the blonde’s white one, and which her shoes with the high heels of the same color fit, and understanding that the straight, beautifully done hair looks very good on her.       “Yeah, we dressed up a little,” Helene smiles mysteriously, fixing her thin silver bracelet on her left hand.       “Our lads are gonna be super happy,” Anna replies confidently. “Perkins and Rose haven’t moved their eyes off us all this time.”       “Aha, when they saw us, they got overwhelmed.”       “Same about the MacClifes,” Raquelle laughs shyly. “They run after us like tails.”       “May they get tortured,” Natalia says with her head proudly raised. “Because they can stay alone with such beauties only tonight.”       All the girls laugh shyly, while the men are talking about what their sweethearts are wearing and not hiding that they are truly admired for their beauty.       “Listen, guys, we have a party today!” Daniel exclaims cheerfully. “All the girls are just beauties!”       “Yeah, they’re super gorgeous!” Terrence smiles mysteriously.       “I didn’t think they all would love to put on dresses and shoes with heels and get their hair done,” Peter says thoughtfully.       “Did they agree?” Edward frowns slightly. “Their birthdays aren’t coming soon.”       “Who knows. But the girls are stunning!”       “Listen, we must take these cuties somewhere,” Daniel says confidently. “So, they didn’t dress up like this for nothing.”       “Maybe, we go to a restaurant with them?” Peter looks at all the men. “I have a card with me.”       “M-m-m, it’s a good idea!” Terrence exclaims. “We can give as much money as we can and order a delicious dinner. Lobsters, shrimps, oysters… We could choose something from fish or chicken… And order a delicious dessert.”       “I’m already drooling,” Edward rolls his eyes with a wide smile.       “Then deal!” Daniel claps his hands. “Have some fun here and then go to an incredible restaurant. I have money with me. So, don’t worry, you won’t have to lend me anything. I can only go to my home to put on a jacket. To look much more elegant. Or I can just steal something from MacClife, Sr.’s clothes.”       “Wonderful!” Terrence exclaims. “If the girls agree, it’s gonna be cool.”       “Oh, yeah, when the case is about food, everything’s cool for you,” Peter laughs shyly, crossing his arms over his chest.       The men laugh shyly, and Terrence just rolls his eyes and fixes the collar of his shirt sharply.       “Okay, stop talking about food!” Terrence orders. “You better tell me the reason why two came here later than we agreed.”       “Erm, our girls are the ones to blame, buddy,” Peter replies confidently, stuttering for two seconds. “If not for them, Daniel and I would’ve come here much earlier than Edward and Natalia.”       “Ha, we did know every one of you would blame the girls and pretend that you didn’t have to do with it,” Edward laughs shyly, crossing his arms over his chest.       “But we aren’t really guilty!” Daniel protests with rounded eyes. “I was waiting for Anna to make herself beautiful and say she was ready to go for one hour. I did even eat a little, while she was trying on a dress, brushing her hair, and applying cosmetics.”       “Yes, yes!” Peter agrees. “I was waiting for Helene for as long as you did. She changed clothes several times and couldn’t decide what to put on. Seriously! I did even take a nap! And Mrs. Marshall eventually started to hurry her granddaughter up.”       “Exactly! If our beauties hadn’t been getting ready for too long, Peter and I would’ve been here two hours earlier. We were ready a long time ago. I should’ve only waited for the blond to come and gone here in his car.”       “Okay, we believe you,” Edward exhales sharply.       “I guess it’s spring, lads,” Terrence laughs shyly. “The girls wanna look more beautiful and dress up. Raquelle was standing in front of the mirror for the whole morning and tried on tons of dresses.”       “And Natalia spent a lot of time in front of the mirror.”       “So, buddy, did your gorgeous blonde also make you wait?” Peter chuckles.       “She did! When I went to her home, Natalia was still getting her hair done and doing makeup. I had time to drink coffee with her mother and talk to her. But when Mr. Rochester hurried her up, my beauty showed up one minute later, being dressed.”       “Oh, these girls…” Daniel sighs with a slight smile. “They’re ready to stand in front of the mirror and try on clothes for hours…”       “Okay, let them do it!” Terrence smiles widely. “We’d be happy with this beauty and be proud to have such beautiful girls.”       “Thanks to such stunning beauties, I’m starting to think more and more that I ended up in a paradise,” Edward laughs shyly. “Seriously! Where could ya meet such eternally beautiful beauties?”       “A truth is a truth,” Peter agrees with a slight smile.       The men laugh shyly, and then Daniel looks at what Edward is wearing and chuckles quietly.       “Hey, Edward, where did ya dress up like this?” Daniel asks, putting his hands on his hips. “Which honor did you finally start to look not like homeless?”       “Today is just a special day,” Edward smiles mysteriously and fixes the collar of his shirt with a proud look. “So, I dressed up a little.”       “Imagine, the kid almost forgot that we’d come together today,” Terrence chuckles. “He got so busy walking somewhere with his beauty that he didn’t think of the meeting.”       “You know, MacClife, looking at a beauty like Natalia, you’d unconsciously forget everything,” Peter replies confidently, putting his hands in the pockets of his suit jacket. “Especially if you look at her deep décolleté.”       “Oh, yay, she has a good décolleté,” Daniel smiles widely. “So, it’s not amazing. MacClife just stared at Rochester’s breasts for too long and forgot everything.”       “Don’t drool over too much when staring at them,” Edward smiles slyly. “Otherwise, your cuties, who also decided to make you happy with a deep décolleté, will have to dry off your mouths.”       “What can we do if our cuties love provoking us?” Terrence shrugs. “It’s hard to resist these hellcats.”       “Yeah…” Peter sighs with a slight smile. “They do love that…”       “C’mon, Edward, let’s be serious!” Daniel takes the word confidently. “What made you stop looking like a homeless one?”       “I did say, today is a special day,” Edward replies.       “Why?”       “You’ll know it soon. But I’m assuring you, that’s something really cool.”       “So, so…” Peter smiles slyly, rubbing his hands. “That’s interesting. C’mon, speak out, what happened here! Why do you have such a smug face?”       “Hey, did we miss something?” Daniel rounds his eyes.       “M-m-m, guys…” Terrence pronounces with a wide smile and hugs Edward, putting an arm around his neck. “You missed much… So much… But you still have a chance to know everything first.”       “Oh, shit… The MacClife brothers wanna do a bad thing again…”       “We haven’t even thought about it yet,” Edward replies with his head proudly raised. “But I have one wonderful piece of news that you’re gonna love.”       Daniel and Peter, frowning slightly, look at each other and set eyes on Edward and Terrence.       “Okay, sweet pair, tell us all your secrets now!” Daniel orders confidently. “Otherwise, I swear, Peter and I are gonna be torturing you cruelly and getting the information outta you by force.”       “C’mon, c’mon, your tongues got dry?” Peter jabs. “Speak out, what happened to you. I mean, what happened to Edward if he has such a smug face like he’s a cat that ate enough.”       “Wait, I want Anna and Helene to know it, as well,” Edward replies with a slight smile.       “Let’s call them, so my bro can share what I know with you,” Terrence suggests and glances at Raquelle, Anna, Helene, and Natalia standing aside. “Girls, come to us! Edward wanna tell us one piece of news!”       After looking at each other, Raquelle, Anna, Helene, and Natalia confidently come to their men, who cutely hug them around the shoulders or the waist.       “What’s the piece of news?” Anna asks with a slight smile.       “Very good,” Terrence smiles mysteriously.       “Well, judging your mysterious smile and Edward’s sly look, I think we’re gonna hear a nice piece of news,” Helene assumes confidently.       “You guessed, Helene,” Edward replies confidently and presses Natalia closely to himself, standing behind her and hugging her around the shoulders with both arms. “My beloved beauty and I would like to tell you something very good.”       “Really?” Anna rounds her eyes. “It’s about you and Natalia?”       “Yup.”       “C’mon, lovebirds!” Terrence exclaims, hugging Raquelle in the same way, in which Edward hugs Natalia. “Tell the guys what you told Raquelle and me.”       Anna, Daniel, Peter, and Helene being confused look at each other questioningly and move their eyes to Edward and Natalia.       “What did you tell them?” Daniel frowns slightly.       Natalia and Edward look at each other with a tender smile and a shy laugh and say nothing for two seconds before the girl takes the word, caressing the man’s arm, which he keeps around her neck:       “That Edward and I are engaged.”       “What?” Daniel, Anna, Helene, and Peter wonder loudly, rounding their eyes.       “Are you engaged?” Anna asks.       “Seriously, guys?” Helene wonders.       “Absolutely,” Natalia smiles shyly. “I’m getting married!”       “Wait…” Peter pronounces thoughtfully. “But when? When did you decide it? Why didn’t we know it before?”       “Because we got engaged today,” Edward says with a wide smile. “Before we came here, I had proposed to Natalia, and she said, ‘yes.’”       Anna, Helene, Daniel, and Peter look at Terrence and Raquelle, who kind of confirm it’s the truth with a slight nod.       “Oh, my gosh!” Helene brings her hands folded together to her mouth.       “Guys…” Anna closes her mouth with both hands.       “That’s a fantastic piece of news!” Daniel exclaims cheerfully.       “So, we are all gonna have fun at your wedding soon?” Peter asks happily.       “Sure, buddy,” Natalia smiles shyly and caresses Edward’s cheek tenderly, while he leans his chin on her shoulder. “This pretty boy and I are gonna get married soon.”       “Hooray!” Helene, Anna, Peter, and Daniel make a happy whoop.       While Natalia accepts congratulations from Daniel and Peter, who wish happiness to the girl and hug her by one, Anna and Helene congratulate Edward with all their hearts, ask him not to leave their friend and to make her happy, get a promise to do his best for the girl to be happy, and take him in an amicable hug with a slight smile on their faces. And then Anna runs to the soon-to-be-bride, and then Helene follows her.       “Natalia, friend!” Anna makes a happy whoop. “You’re getting married! Your dream has come true!”       “You can’t imagine how happy I am!” Natalia smiles widely. “I can’t believe I’m gonna get married. To the best man in the world!”       Meanwhile, Raquelle comes to Anna, Helene, and Natalia, and Terrence goes to Peter and Daniel, who are congratulating Edward.       “Hey, you and Raquelle are gonna be relatives!” Helene notices excitedly. “And Terrence, too!”       “I know,” Natalia replies. “My best friends are gonna be my sister-in-law and brother-in-law.”       “Gosh, who would’ve thought…” Anna shakes her head. “The school friends are gonna be sisters-in-law…”       “Ah, Anna, I couldn’t also think the girl that I had known since school times would become a part of my family,” Raquelle smiles slightly.       “Yeah, what a consequence!” Helene exclaims. “Just because Terrence has a brother, who charmed our sweet friend so much that it led to the engagement.”       “That’s awesome!” Anna smiles widely. “Natalia, I’m so happy for you!”       “You all must be at my wedding!” Natalia replies confidently. “No refusals are accepted! I want all my beloved girls to be by my side and support me on such a wonderful day.”       “You surprise us, Rochester!” Helene chuckles. “How could we miss the wedding of our best friend? And if you don’t mind, I’ll take Grandma with me. She’s gonna be very happy for you.”       “As well as my grandfather and aunt,” Raquelle adds with a slight smile.       “Invite everyone!” Natalia exclaims funnily. “I wanna share my happiness with all my close people.”       “We’ll surely come,” Anna promises confidently.       “My dream let me know that I’d have to wait for a proposal.”       “Your dream? What dream?”       “In which I caught a wedding bouquet at someone’s wedding.”       “What?” Helene wonders, moving her widely open eyes to Natalia. “You dreamed how you caught the bouquet?”       “Aha,” Natalia shrugs with a shy smile. “But I didn’t think it would really help me get married.”       “Oh, Jesus, my grandma Scarlett has always believed in this omen and waited for the wedding of those girls that catch bouquets. She’s absolutely sure this omen is right.”       “Right or not, it came true! I’m getting married! Edward proposed to me!”       “You deserve to be happy, sweetie,” Anna smiles widely, caressing Natalia’s shoulders. “Edward is a wonderful man. I don’t doubt you’d feel good with him.”       “Absolutely agree,” Helene agrees with a slight smile. “Edward is a wonderful partner for you. He’d make you happy, protect you, and never leave you. We all see how tenderly he treats you and how he growls at your offenders. That’s what the man, who truly loves the girl, should be.”       “I’m no longer his girlfriend, Helene, I’m his fiancée,” Natalia replies shyly. “And I’m gonna be his wife very soon. And I’ll give him to nobody.”       “Congratulations with all my heart,” Anna replies happily. “It’s so nice to see your eyes shine from happiness. To see a smile on your face. If this man gives you happiness, the girls and I are happy, too.”       “Thanks a lot, Anna. Thank you, sweetheart.”       Anna takes Natalia in her amicable hug with a wide, true smile and steps back from her a few seconds later.       “Natalia, I also wanna congratulate you on your engagement,” Helene says with a slight smile. “I’m very happy for you and think you found a good man that would make you happy, give you no reason to suffer, always protect you, and put you himself in danger if he had to.”       “Now I know this is my man,” Natalia replies confidently with a shy smile. “And after getting over all the difficulties along with Edward, I realized I’d no longer like to break up with this man. I want to live my life with him and know that there is nobody better than him.”       “I don’t doubt you’d also make him happy. We all see that Edward is attracted to you. How happy and smiling he looks when you’re near him.”       “I promise I shall keep making him feel happy.”       “I believe,” Helene smiles slightly. “Congrats on your engagement, friend. I’m really happy for you.”       “Many thanks, Helene. You’re very nice to me.”       After sharing a slight smile, Natalia and Helene take each other in an amicable hug, but step away a few seconds later.       “By the way, I must confess that Edward has incredible taste in jewelry,” Raquelle confesses. “He gifted you a magnificent ring. I’m delighted.”       “Really?” Anna wonders and glances at Natalia. “Show the ring! Please, please, Natalia, show!”       Natalia proudly shows her engagement ring to her friends, who are truly surprised by its beauty and decide that Edward chose a gorgeous piece of jewelry for his fiancée.       “Edward, bro!” Peter exclaims happily and claps Edward on the shoulders. “You did it! You decided to propose to Natalia to marry!”       “Yay, Edward, you’re awesome!” Daniel smiles widely and ruffles Edward’s hair a little. “An irresponsible moron at first sight is getting more responsible and mature.”       “But I’ve gotta admit that it was terrifying,” Edward confesses excitedly. “And I was thinking a lot about it before making this decision.”       “That the risk was worth it, and you’re gonna marry a gorgeous girl soon.”       “Yay, Natalia is a dolly!” Peter exclaims. “A stunning beauty, a good girl, and a soft and kind lady! The girls say she cooks incredibly! Just a perfect candidature!”       “I do choose only the best,” Edward says with pride. “I’m very fussy when choosing girls and have always chosen them closely.”       “Oh, yeah, you’re an aesthete,” Terrence laughs shyly, coming to the men. “My bro only gets a crush on the most beautiful girls.”       “My most important criterion is naturality. It sounds rude, but I can’t stand a girl, who has something fake: hair, lips, breasts… But Natalia is absolutely natural.”       “It’s hard to deny, though,” Peter says confidently.       “Hey, Terrence and Raquelle are gonna get lots of relatives,” Daniel notices happily. “On the Rochesters and the MacClifes.”       “Oh, yeah, Terrence and Raquelle are gonna get a sister-in-law,” Edward replies.       “And that’s really cool!” Terence exclaims. “I’m really happy Natalia will become my relative. I love that girl.”       “You know, I also like Rochester,” Peter replies confidently. “Amazing girl that would surely make Edward happy.”       “He couldn’t be much happier!” Daniel chuckles kindly. “He does always have a smug face!”       “A truth is a truth,” Terrence shrugs. “My little bro goes crazy over this golden-haired beauty.”       “Look, MacClife, don’t lose this cutie! You might not find another one like her, or someone to be much better. Natalia changed you for the best and gave you much more confidence. You’ve changed so much over the past few months!”       “No, guys, I don’t need another girl,” Edward shakes his head with a slight smile. “Only Natalia. And be sure, I will never leave her. I’ll no longer make that stupid mistake.”       “We believe you, buddy. And I congratulate you with all my heart. I hope your new relatives will love you, and your family will accept Natalia well.”       “I think our families have already accepted each other. My bro is delighted by Natalia, my sister-in-law rejoices, and our parents became friends a long time ago and would be happy with our marriage. Maybe, I only need to meet Natalia’s grandmother, but I think she’ll accept me, as well.”       “Anyway, congrats, man. You deserved to be happy.”       “Thanks a lot, Dan.”       Edward and Daniel share a homie handshake and take each other in a tight, amicable hug with smiles on their faces, clapping each other on the back.       “Accept my true congratulations, Edward,” Peter says amicably. “I don’t doubt that Natalia would make you happy and bring light and happiness to your life.”       “I don’t doubt it, buddy,” Edward thanks with a slight smile. “Although, Natalia has already brought as much light and happiness to my life as I never had in my whole life before. I was never as happy as I am now.”       “You deserve it. After what you had to experience, it’s time to feel real happiness.”       “May it happen.”       “I’m sure it would happen. Congrats, dude.”       “Thanks, Peter.”       Edward and Peter take each other in a tight, amicable hug with a slight smile, clapping each other on the back several times.       “Listen, it happens that we came together for a reason,” Daniel notices cheerfully.       “So, that’s why it’s time to go to a restaurant and have an incredible dinner,” Terrence replies confidently. “We don’t have to choose a super gorgeous one. We can find something simple. A place where there is delicious food, and where we could, for example, dance along with live music.”       “We kind of agreed to go,” Peter recalls. “And since we heard about Edward and Natalia’s engagement, we must get out somewhere.”       “And yeah, I almost forgot!” Edward exclaims. “You three must be at my wedding! No refusals. As well as excuses. You got it?”       “Calm down, groom! Of course, we’ll attend your wedding. Late or not, but we can’t miss it.”       “And if you don’t invite us, we’ll come without an invitation,” Daniel says with a sly smile.       “No, no, everybody at this house is invited to my wedding,” Edward replies confidently. “And you, guys, will get a personal reminder. So, you don’t forget about such an important day to me.”       “Don’t worry, bro, it’s gonna be wonderful,” Peter promises.       Silence settles in the air for two seconds, after which the men pay attention to the shy laugh of the girls, who are looking at Natalia’s ring with admiration.       “Hey, Edward, where did you buy the ring for the engagement?” Daniel asks thoughtfully, frowning slightly. “Or did someone buy it for you?”       “No, no, I bought the ring,” Edward laughs shyly. “I was looking for something good for a long time. And I was worried that the ring size would be wrong. Though, I was told they’d replace it without problems.”       “Okay…”       “Yeah…” Peter frowns slightly, moving his eyes to Daniel. “Perkins… Why do you ask where Edward bought the ring?”       “Yes, Perkins!” Terrence exclaims and smiles slyly. “Did you also get ready to make us happy with the engagement with your red-haired cutie, Anna?”       “Actually, I was just curious,” Daniel replies quietly. “What if I need it in the future.”       “Oh, we do know why you need it!” Peter waves a hand. “People don’t ask how to find a store where you could buy a ring for an engagement without a reason.”       “What if I just want to gift some jewelry to Anna? On her birthday, let’s assume! It’s gonna happen in July. So, it’s time to think of a gift.”       “Oh, yeah, a necklace and earrings! Say honestly, I’m looking for a ring for an engagement! Don’t find any excuses!”       “Calm down, Rose, I ain’t gonna propose now. But when it happens, Anna and I will surely tell you that.”       “Well, I think it’s time to think of the wedding,” Edward says thoughtfully. “You won’t live together, being unmarried ‘till the end of your days.”       “Of course, no, Edward. It will surely happen early or late.”       “Think quicker,” Terrence replies with a laugh. “While you’re thinking, Peter might go ahead of you. Edward already went ahead of you, even if we waited for his engagement less than yours.”       “Ah, Terrence, what kind of engagement!” Peter smiles shyly. “Helene and I have been dating for a few months. No talk about the wedding yet. But I don’t exclude that it will happen one beautiful day.”       “Huh, my brother could’ve gotten married much earlier!” Edward chuckles. “He wanted to propose to Raquelle to marry, literally on the day when they met. He was conquered by her strong slap in his insolent face.”       “C’mon, you would’ve done the same if not for your conflict with Natalia,” Terrence crosses his arms over his chest. “You fell in love with her so much that you would’ve gotten married to her after two months of the affair.”       “You two didn’t waste time, but the blond and I prefer waiting and thinking better,” Daniel replies confidently.       “Okay, do it,” Edward says quietly. “But remember, we’re impatiently waiting for some nice news.”       “You’ll get it, MacClife. Don’t worry.”       Silence settles in the air for two seconds, during which the men just smile shyly at each other and sometimes throw a look at the girls, who are funnily talking about something with wide smiles on their faces.       “So, but now let’s celebrate Natalia and Edward’s engagement,” Peter suggests cheerfully.       “Not only that,” Terrence adds confidently. “Let’s also celebrate the fact that we finished recording our album and are gonna release our first single soon.”       “Right!” Daniel clicks his fingers. “We haven’t celebrated it yet!”       “Then let’s celebrate everything!” Edward exclaims cheerfully.       “I can’t personally wait for the photoshoot for commercials,” Peter confesses. “I do really wanna try on expensive clothes from famous brands…”       “Yes, yes, me too! I don’t know how expensive clothes differ from low-costed ones, but I’d like to try on just something.”       “We’re also gonna act in our first music video,” Terrence recalls with a slight smile.       “A-a-a, shit!” Daniel makes a quiet whoop. “I can’t wait to start doing all of that! When does it all start? I can’t wait anymore!”       “The photoshoot is scheduled for the next week, and the shooting of the music video will start the week after the next week.”       “Long, the fuck…”       “Hey, guys, when will we tell the girls that we wanna film them in our music video?” Edward asks with a mysterious smile.       “Oh, let’s ask them about it right now!”       “Exactly!” Terrence exclaims. “The sooner they know it, the more time they will have to get ready.”       “Erm…” Peter stutters, biting his lip slightly, and watching the girls looking at Natalia’s ring with admiration. “Maybe, we do it later? The girls can’t stop looking at Natalia’s ring.”       “Huh, could a ring be better than their beloved men?” Daniel chuckles with his head proudly raised. “When we show up, they will pay attention to us.”       “Let’s check it out?” Edward suggests. “Break into their personal space and stop the interesting talk of the girls!”       After laughing together, the men confidently go to their girls, who are too busy talking about Natalia’s ring and her upcoming wedding with Edward. But they stop the talk when they feel how their sweethearts come to them from behind and hug them around the shoulders or waist.       “So, sweet girls, did you like the fiancée’s ring?” Daniel asks with a sly smile, rubbing his cheek against Anna’s one.       “It’s magnificent!” Anna expresses delight with a wide smile.       “Just incredible!” Helene adds with admiration. “Probably, the most beautiful one of those I’ve ever seen.”       “You look at this, guys,” Natalia smiles mysteriously and shyly shows the ring on her left hand to the men. “What do you think?”       “Wow!” Peter smiles slightly. “It’s really beautiful!”       “Speechless!” Daniel admires. “As it turned out, Edward has wonderful taste!”       “Aha, he hit the bullseye after the first attempt,” Terrence says confidently. “Knowing that this man never saw jewelry and bought them before.”       “You just should take what you want your girl to wear,” Edward smiles mysteriously, leaning on Natalia’s shoulder with his chin.       “Anyway, you know what kind of jewelry you should choose for your girlfriend,” Daniel notices and falls into silence for a second, rounding his eyes. “Oops, sorry! I wanted to say, ‘your fiancée.’”       “Yeah, we’ll have to get used to the fact that Edward is gonna be a fiancé, and Natalia is gonna be a fiancée for some time,” Raquelle says with a slight smile.       “And then we’ll have to get used to them becoming husband and wife,” Anna adds shyly.       “Listen, the first MacClife hasn’t gotten married yet, but the second one is gonna get married, too,” Peter adds.       “Yes, guys, of course, that’s cool you’re letting us have much more fun,” Daniel adds. “But c’mon…”       “Ah, yeah, we forgot to tell you something else,” Raquelle smiles mysteriously.       “Yes, gang, Raquelle and I talked to these lovebirds,” Terrence adds, embracing Raquelle from behind by the waist.       “And we decided to have our weddings on the same day,” Edward says confidently.       “The same day?” Helene, Peter, Anna, and Daniel wonder.       “You wanna have a double wedding?” Helene rounds her eyes.       “Why not?” Raquelle smiles shyly. “Since Terrence and I haven’t even started to get ready for our wedding, why we can’t use a chance to get married on the same day as these lovebirds. To share happiness with my best friend.”       “To share happiness with my beloved bro,” Terrence adds.       “Did you agree to do it so easily?” Anna wonders, crossing her arms over her chest. “Huh, Terrence?”       “Yup, weren’t you fretting and fuming that you lost a chance to be the only star at your wedding?” Peter wonders.       “I lost nothing,” Terrence shrugs. “Edward and I are gonna be grooms, and Raquelle and Natalia are gonna be brides.”       “Yeah, I never thought you’d agree with it,” Daniel confesses. “Agree to get married on the same day as your brother, whom you mock much more.”       “I am his brother.” Terrence smiles innocently. “A brother can do anything.”       “Anyway, I know he loves me,” Edward smiles slyly. “Very, very much.”       “A truth is a truth.” Terrence hugs Edward around the shoulders and shares a short, wide smile with him. “My best friend forever.”       “And mine! My best friend ever.”       “Aw…” the others get tender feelings.       “So, as you decided to have a double wedding, we don’t mind it,” Helene says with a slight smile.       “But we’re begging you, don’t kill each other while agreeing on everything,” Daniel says.       “We still need you,” Peter adds.       “Don’t worry, our caring lads, it’s gonna be okay,” Raquelle replies confidently. “And our wedding is gonna be unforgettable.”       “We will do our best,” Natalia promises.       “We will come!” Anna exclaims. “Our word!”       During a short silence, everybody shares a slight smile, and the men press their sweethearts to themselves and hug them tightly.       “Hey, guys, we wanted to tell our girls something,” Edward recalls cheerfully.       “Right!” Terrence exclaims. “Girls, we’d like to offer you something you’re gonna like.”       “Oh, no…” Raquelle moans tiredly. “You planned a bad thing again.”       “Hey, I wanna say that I ain’t gonna be a part of your stupid jokes,” Anna says loudly and confidently, raising her index finger.       “Especially me!” Natalia exclaims. “I’m gonna have a wedding! I’ll get ready for it! Don’t hope that I'll waste my time on you!”       “Have fun on your own,” Helene adds.       “Quiet, sweet girls!” Edward says confidently. “What we wanna suggest doesn’t have to do with our fun.”       “Gosh, we do know well that if you plan something, it might lead to some bad consequences,” Raquelle replies.       “Exactly!” Helene agrees. “We’ve made sure that when you come together, you all start to go crazy many times.”       “Okay, guys, let’s not delay it,” Daniel chuckles kindly. “The girls started to think we’d love to do a bad thing.”       “Raquelle, Natalia, Anna, Helene…” Terrence takes the word confidently. “You know that the guys and I are gonna release our first single from the recorded album. The first single in our band’s career. And we’re gonna have a shooting of the music video for it in a couple of weeks.”       “The team that is gonna film it and we have some ideas about what it’s supposed to be like,” Daniel adds. “Not all the details have been discussed, but there’s a certain picture.”       “There will be a couple of moments when we’ll have to play love with girls,” Edward continues. “We could find some actresses, but the director, who's going to film the music video, asked us if our sweethearts could play with us in love scenes. The guys and I liked this idea. And we are sure nobody would do it much better than you.”       “Yes, sweet girls,” Peter smiles slightly. “Edward, Daniel, Terrence, and I want to invite you all to act in our first music video. No need to pretend to be someone else. We will all be ourselves. We’d have to show nothing by force.”       “I’m gonna specify that you’ll get enough money for a shooting,” Terrence adds. “It’s a full job. If you do it well, you’ll be able to please yourself with a purchase or just save the earned money just in case.”       “So what, beauties?” Edward asks. “What do you think?”       Raquelle, Anna, Natalia, and Helene look at each other with slight smiles and a gloss in their eyes, definitely getting interested in the men’s suggestion.       “I personally want it so badly,” Raquelle says confidently. “For me, it would be an honor to act in your music video.”       “The suggestion is very seductive,” Natalia confesses thoughtfully. “But since you’re inviting us, I will have the pleasure to act, as well. I’m interested in trying.”       “Although I have no experience in acting, I won’t refuse to become a part of your music video,” Helene says shyly. “I don’t know what it would lead to, but let’s try.”       “The girls and I will do our best not to disappoint you,” Anna promises confidently. “We’re gonna work hard and do anything we’ll be told.”       “So, do you agree?” Terrence smiles shyly.       “Yes,” Raquelle, Natalia, Helene, and Anna pronounce with wide smiles.       “Great!” Edward clicks the fingers of his hands. “I did tell you they’d agree!”       “Well, I didn’t doubt Raquelle would agree,” Terrence replies confidently, hugging Raquelle by the waist. “I’m sure she’ll do what she needs to do very well.”       “But I wasn’t sure about Helene…” Peter confesses thoughtfully. “She has no interest in these things and has a stronger love for the sciences.”       “C’mon!” Helene wonders with a slight smile. “I’ll act in the music video with pleasure! It’s always good to try something new.”       “Listen, handsome guys, how could you actually think we’d reject this chance?” Natalia resents. “Do you think we will refuse just because all of us expect Cameron don't have experience in acting?”       “Well, I did know you’d love to try,” Edward replies with a slight smile, pressing Natalia closely to himself.       “And I was sure Anna would love to try something new,” Daniel confesses shyly, while his arms are wrapped around Anna’s waist. “Moreover, it’s gonna be a little easier for my beauty ‘cause, as you know, she has a theatrical education.”       “Okay, decided!” Raquelle jabs loudly. “We are ready to start acting at any time! Just let us know. I need to correct my schedule and ask my managers for free days for shootings of the music video.”       “Don’t worry, beauties,” Terrence says confidently. “You’ll have time to get ready for shootings ‘cause they will start in two weeks. And the next week, the guys and I will have the photoshoot.”       “Remember, we want the music video to be positive and give people a good impression,” Daniel adds. “If you get yourself ready, we’ll get a wonderful result.”       “Don’t worry, guys, the girls and I will do everything for you to love the final result,” Helene promises with a slight smile. “Do our best for the start of your career to be much more than just good.”       “We believe in you, girls,” Peter says confidently, holding Helene by the shoulders from behind. “Don’t betray us.”       “We will not,” Natalia, Raquelle, Anna, and Helene promise shyly.       “So, friends, as we agreed on everything, I’m suggesting we celebrate all of it by going to a small restaurant,” Terrence suggests confidently.       “Yes, girls, you’re all so beautiful that it would be a sin not to take you out and show everyone how lucky we are,” Edward says with his head proudly raised.       “Just in case, we didn’t agree to dress up,” Raquelle replies confidently. “But I really love the idea of a restaurant.”       “Well, as the guys are inviting us, refusing would be a sin,” Anna smiles mysteriously.       “We can drink a little bit of champagne and go to have dinner in a good place in two or three hours,” Terrence suggests.       “A little bit,” Peter raises his index finger. “I drive as well as your brother. I saw his car in front of the house.”       “Just a couple of sips to say some toasts.”       “Then call one of the servants,” Anna says amicably. “May they bring glasses and a bottle of champagne.”       “We’re home alone. Violetta and Christiana have a free day, and Blair went on a date with our charming Benjamin Parker.”       “She’ll be back late ‘cause Ben will go to her home after the date to spend time with her brother,” Raquelle adds.       “Oh, as I understand, Parker doesn’t have free time,” Daniel laughs shyly. “He works at the alcohol store, goes on dates with Blair, or spends time with that little boy.”       “Oh, yeah, busy dude!” Terrence chuckles kindly.       “Hey, Ben asked us to give his greeting to you and said he’d stay to have fun with us if he was able to do,” Natalia says shyly.       “We’d be glad,” Anna smiles slightly. “We’d have fun with Ben.”       “Oh, yeah, he’d go crazy along with these handsome guys,” Helene laughs shyly.       “Wait, if Christopher and Kevin join them, it’s gonna be a catastrophe,” Raquelle chuckles kindly.       While the girls laugh shyly, the men look at each other, and Terrence steps back from everybody, saying:       “Okay, guys, I’ll be back now. I’m gonna take glasses and a bottle of champagne. One of what I have.”       “I hope it’s semisweet?” Peter asks.       “Sure! I prefer only this type!”       While Terrence goes to the kitchen for champagne and glasses, Raquelle follows him some time later, and the others go to different sides of the living room.       “Why did you tell me nothing about going to film the girls in a music video?” Anna asks with a slight smile.       “The guys and I just agreed to ask you about it when you’d be all together,” Daniel explains quietly.       “Weren’t you allowed to hint?”       “We thought it was supposed to be a nice surprise for you. And something tells me you really liked it.”       “I don’t know what about the girls, but I’m touched,” Anna smiles widely. “I didn’t expect to get the invitation to act in the music video.”       “Since the director suggested we get our beauties involved in it, why not.”       “I love trying something new. Moreover, I have the theatrical education that could finally be necessary for me.”       “Wonderful then. The most important thing is not to be excited. And to do what you’re told.”       “Do you think I could do it?”       “Undoubtedly, my beauty,” Daniel says softly, hugging Anna by the waist with both arms. “You’re my beautiful and good girl. An incredibly talented girl that makes me proud of her.”       “Daniel…” Anna smiles widely.       “Don’t worry. Raquelle will teach you, Natalia, and Helene something for two weeks.”       “While Terrence will give lessons to you, Edward, and Peter? He’s got a rich experience in shootings!”       “Maybe, you, too, girls. He’ll give some advice to all of us as a professional of his business.”       “I think we’ve got nothing to fear with such talented people.”       “Don’t worry, sweetie.” Daniel puts his hand on Anna’s cheek and caresses it tenderly. “You should just relax and get pleasure.”       “I’m gonna try. I promise.”       “The guys and I should get a perfect result for the public. Our career depends on it. If the start is good, it will get much better, and we’ll start conquering the music world.”       “You’ve already reached a lot,” Anna replies confidently with a slight smile. “You, three guys performing covers and publishing videos on the Internet, got the admiration by yourself.”       “Now there are four of us, not three. The band that finally found its last element and became what we wanted to be.”       “And you’re about to release your first single and album and will have a worldwide tour soon. You worked at the studio hard for a few months and recorded your first songs.”       “I know,” Daniel smiles shyly and caresses Anna’s head tenderly. “We wouldn't have gotten all of that without the support of each other and our wonderful girls. You’re our mascots that give us luck. We owe each other for this success. All this time, the guys and I supported and helped each other. We truly believed in our luck and worked hard to get some results. And of course, we kept moving on thanks to our beloved girls, who encouraged us not to give up, no matter how hard it was.”       “Don’t worry, sweetheart.” Anna puts her arms around Daniel’s waist, looking at him with a tender smile. “And say it to the men. The girls and I will always be by your side. Every one of you is eternally loved. And… We eternally love those, who shamelessly stole our hearts.”       “Someone doesn’t mind that I have her heart in my hands,” Daniel smiles mysteriously and fixes Anna’s hair slightly.       “If these hands belong to the best man in the world, I don’t mind it.”       “Wonderful then.” Daniel runs his hands through Anna’s hair and lets his fingers through the red strands. “I will be the only one to have it. I’ll let nobody take it.”       “You don’t have competitors,” Anna replies confidently. “Even potential ones.”       “I like this answer. Otherwise, I would get nervous.”       “Make sure I don’t get nervous and jealous. You know well that I won’t give you to any other girl.”       “Don’t be jealous, Anna, you don’t have to.” Daniel comes closer to Anna and runs the tip of his nose over her cheek, while she smiles shyly with closed eyes and holds his hands. “I wanna see you happy. I wanna see your smile and know you feel good with me.”       “I do feel good.” Anna runs the tip of her nose over Daniel’s cheek and brings her face to his ear to whisper something. “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”       “I can say the same about you.”       Anna smiles much wider and looks into Daniel’s piercing brown eyes for a few seconds. After this, she grabs the man’s face and softly touches his lips with her lips, getting him involved in a tender, continuous kiss. To which he answers with pleasure, putting his hands on her hips and pressing her closer to himself.       “So, did you doubt if I agreed to act?” Helene asks with a sly smile, clenching her hands into fists and putting them on Peter’s chest.       “I didn’t really think you’d agree to act so easily,” Peter replies shyly, holding Helene by the waist with both arms. “You’ve always liked chemistry, biology, and something like that. You’re so far from the acting and music world. You don't even read and follow the news about the show business.”       “Still, I don’t mind trying something new. Yes, I love sciences, chemistry, and biology, and that’s what my job is connected to. But I’m always for trying something different.”       “And I’m very glad you agreed to film.”       “And I’m gonna give my everything.”       “I believe, sweetie,” Peter smiles slightly. “Honestly, I was a little nervous because the script of the music video got love scenes. I was afraid I wouldn’t get on well with another, unfamiliar girl.”       “You’re starting to make me jealous.”       “Don’t be, Helene, please. You’ve got no reason.”       “I’m shaking from the thought that another girl would be hugging and kissing you. Even if it wasn’t real.”       “You know well that I love only you.” Peter, softly grabbing Helene’s face, kisses her cutely on the forehead. “I need nobody but you.”       “I’d like to believe you.”       “You’re not jealous of your friends and me. So, don’t be jealous of others.”       “Because my friends have those, who own their hearts,” Helene replies thoughtfully. “And single girls could easily put an eye on such a handsome guy that everyone has a crush on.”       “So, are you jealous of Jessica and me?”       “I’m not in the case of Jessica,” Helene smiles shyly. “Because I know you wouldn't look at her as a girl.”       “I wouldn't look at others, ‘cause my heart is taken.”       “Peter…”       “Ah, Helene…” Peter runs his hands through Helene’s hair and gets his finger through her soft, straight hair. “I want you to remember that you’re worried for nothing. Do you really think I’ll leave the girl, who saved me from death and breathed into me?”       “Well, I dunno what’s happening in your mind…” Helene smiles mysteriously, caressing Peter’s head. “Maybe, you planned something…”       “What a silly girl you are… It won’t happen. And the guys will kill me if I do such a stupid thing by breaking up with you. They do adore you and still thank you for the care, thanks to which I managed to survive and start my life over again.”       “And wouldn’t you really think of leaving me?”       “I’d do anything to prove it. Let you know that I’d only be with the one, who is the reason why I’m here and spending time with the people, who replace my family. That I’ve never had.”       “No, Peter, you have a family.” Helene starts holding Peter by the nape of his neck with one hand and runs another through his wheat-blond soft hair on the top of his head, caressing tenderly the skin of his head with her fingertips. “You’re like a brother to the men and the girls. And for me, you’re a beloved man that I don’t wanna lose anymore.”       “You will not lose me, honey,” Peter promises confidently, running his hands slowly over Helene’s back. “I won’t make this stupid mistake and will always be with the one, who changed my life for the best. And helped me understand that it’s time to start a new stage that would give me many good things and make me forget what happened to me before.”       “Don’t think of what happened before,” Helene says softly, caressing Peter’s cheek. “For me, you’ll always be a wonderful and eternally kind man with a crystal-clean soul and a pure heart. I want you to keep moving on and reach for your dreams, despite any barriers.”       “Thanks to my personal mascot, which gave me luck and inspiration, I shall surely do it.” Peter runs the back of his hand slowly over Helene’s cheek, looking at her with a tender smile. “For such a beauty, I’d move a mountain.”       “And now you’re surely surrounded by good people. Who wouldn’t leave you at a hard time.”       “I know. So, I can confidently say I feel happy now. And I got a good lesson. You should love a clean soul, not eternal beauty. You can improve your appearance, dress up, do makeup, and get your hair done as much as you want. But if your heart is poisoned with jealousy and evil, no cosmetics can heal it immediately.”       “You’re right. A bad person would never be trustworthy to a good one, and a good person would never get along with a bad one. But two good people and two bad people would get on very well.”       “And I’m madly lucky in this case. I am lucky that my girlfriend is very beautiful, smart, kind, and loyal. Now I’m madly happy, and I don’t doubt that nobody would deceive me and shower me with mud.”       “It will happen, sweetie,” Helene says softly, caressing Peter’s cheek tenderly. “You deserved to be happy and have everything you want, like nobody else. And such a wonderful man like you must get a very generous award.”       “And I have the one,” Peter softly grabs Helene’s head with both hands, brings his face to her face, and sets his confident look in her hazel eyes. “I promise I’ll protect this award from all bad things.”       “I wouldn’t be afraid to trust a man like you.” Helene rubs the tip of her nose against Peter’s nose cutely and kisses him on the cheek softly. “I don’t doubt that I’d feel absolutely safe with him by my side.”       “I’d tear anyone to dare to hurt you,” Peter says with a slight smile in a lower, velvety voice, and leaves a short kiss on Helene’s lips. “Anyone…”       Helene looks at Peter for two seconds with a wider smile on her face. Then she puts her hand on his back and gets him involved in a tender, continuous kiss, to which he answers with great pleasure. The blond holds the girl’s face in his hands for some time, but then he hugs her by the waist tightly and holds her by the back, over which he runs his hands slowly. Sometimes the lovers break the kiss, look into each other’s eyes full of gloss and fire with a tender smile, and keep kissing, not paying attention to what’s happening around them.       “Today’s a day of nice surprises,” Natalia notices with a slight smile, putting her arms around Edward’s neck and running her fingers through his soft, rebellious hair. “The proposal to marry, the trip to your house, and the suggestion to act in the music video of your band…”       “Yeah, everything happened on the same day,” Edward shrugs, keeping his arms around Natalia’s waist and holding her by the back with his hands.       “By the way, it’s so nice to me that you invited me to act in the music video.”       “The music video should be positive and touching. Of course, I’ll do my best for the result to be perfect if I have to do something hard. But since we got the suggestion to act in the music video with our girls, not using it would be a sin.”       “And I’d be really jealous of you and another girl if you had to play a love scene with her.”       “Come on, my beauty…” Edward fixes Natalia’s hair carefully and wraps a strand of her golden hair around his finger. “Don’t be jealous of me. I don’t care about other girls.”       “I know, sweetheart. And I’ll try to take it easy, ‘cause it’s your job.”       “Yes, it’s just an act. I wouldn’t fall in love with an actress after a couple of love scenes.”       “Even if she’s very beautiful?”       “There couldn’t be someone more beautiful than you. I already have the one I’m gonna marry at the nearest time. With the hope that my wedding would be first and last.”       “I want the same,” Natalia says shyly. “I want the family that my parents have. Who’ve been married for almost twenty years.”       “I truly hope you and I will live much longer. Until death.”       “Well, we can save the talk about wedding trouble for later, ‘cause we’re gonna have the shootings in the music video. And I’m gonna be waiting for it with great impatience.”       “I'm sure you’re gonna love this process.”       “Don’t dare to doubt your words, Edward MacClife. If you say it, it will happen.”       “You’re gonna do a few things: getting pleasure, filming with me, and earning your first money to buy something.”       “I’ll act in the music video for pleasure, not money. To spend time with my beloved man. You’re gonna have much work soon, and we’d have a little time to meet.”       “Don’t worry, sweetheart, I’ll find time for you.” Edward puts his hand on Natalia’s cheek, caresses it tenderly, making her smile widely, and takes one of her earrings. “I do need to get the positive energy to keep working well. You’re the only one to be able to give it to me.”       “You may not doubt me, my lion,” Natalia says in a soft, low voice, holding Edward by the nape of his neck that she tenderly caresses with her fingertips and puts another hand on his cheek and caresses it softly. “After a long day, you’re gonna be in good hands. I’ll listen to you, caress you and feed you…”       “Even if you’re silent, I’ll feel good,” Edward replies in the same low, velvet voice and kisses Natalia cutely on the forehead and the tip of her nose. “The important thing is that you’re by my side. I don’t need anything more.”       “With great pleasure.”       Natalia looks into Edward’s eyes with a shy, true smile for two seconds, caressing his face tenderly with both hands. And then the girl brings her face to the man’s face confidently so that the points of their noses contact slightly. That’s why the lovers laugh shyly. Two more seconds later, she touches the man’s lips with her lips softly and tenderly, stays in this position for a few moments, and steps back slowly, looking into the eyes of her fiancé again. After hesitating a little and sharing a wide smile with his fiancée, MacClife, Jr., leaves a couple of short kisses on her lip and gets her involved in a more continuous one, putting his hand on the back of the blonde’s head and holding her by the back with a free hand.       Some time later, Terrence returns to the living room, holding a bottle of champagne and a few glasses, and Raquelle follows him, helping to carry the others.       “Yeah, when someone starts flirting, everybody does it, too,” Terrence chuckles, opening the bottle of cold champagne. “I feel that Edward was right when he said the love epidemic started.”       “That’s awesome,” Raquelle smiles slightly, putting all the glasses on the coffee table. “Seeing those people kissing and flirting is way better than hearing them sorting out the relationship and shouting that they wanna go on different sides.”       “I agree. But I didn’t mean I had something against the fact that they’re busy with each other. Vice versa, I’m very happy for the guys. That’s great everybody found someone they feel happy with.”       “Yeah, thank God, everything is fine now.”       “It definitely gives me great relief.”       “I think we’re gonna have a lot of fun at the shooting of the music video.”       “I’d make it indispensable. Because the first music video of the guys and I must be perfect and as positive as possible.”       “I’ll personally do my best for it,” Raquelle promises confidently, putting on all the glasses and starting to twirl her earring covered with brilliants. “Moreover, it’s gonna be super easy for me ‘cause I have experience.”       “I won’t even dare to think of doubting you.” Terrence puts the unopen bottle of champagne on the table and presses Raquelle to himself, putting his arms around her waist, while she puts her hands on his shoulders. “My cutie is gonna be an imitable addition to the music video.”       “That’s great I got another chance to work with you. And I hope we’ll have many chances in the future. I really like being your workmate. And if the director tells me to slap you in the face a couple of times, I’ll do it with pleasure.”       “Same, my love,” Terrence replies with a slight smile. “I was happy when the director suggested we get the girls of the guys and me involved. And now I’m much happier ‘cause you agreed to become a part of this process.”       “You dared to think I’d refuse?”       “No, I did know you’d agree.” Terrence caresses Raquelle’s head tenderly. “Because you can’t say, ‘no’ to such a gorgeous man like me.”       “Ah, MacClife…” Raquelle sighs with a slight smile. “Can at least one talk of yours happen without praising yourself to the skies?”       “Sorry, baby, but I can’t be silent about what’s clear.”       “Calm down, I agreed to act not because of this. But because I’m interested in it, and I would be honored to be a part of this project.”       “Okay, you can say nothing. I know you’re actually ready to do anything for me. And you become bad just to tease me.”       “Think what you want. Anyway, I agreed to work with you and promised to give my everything. The girls and I will not disappoint you and the guys.”       “I know you’d rock on,” Terrence replies in a quiet, low voice, kisses Raquelle on the cheek tenderly, and brings his face to her ear, which he barely touches with his lips. “Do your best for everybody on the set to get hot… As hot as it is in our room when you show what a hot chick you can be…”       “Aw, my filthy male…” Raquelle growls playfully. “Ar-r-r…”       Raquelle looks into Terrence’s eyes for two seconds before she presses herself much closer to him and rubs her cheek against his cheek, making him smile shyly and feel something nice and warm spreading all over his body. Two seconds later, the man runs the tip of his nose over her cheek and kisses it tenderly. Then she gives him the same soft, shy kiss on the lips, holding his face in her hands. Raquelle wants to step away from Terrence, but he runs his hand through her hair and hugs her around the shoulders with a free arm, getting her involved in another tender, more continuous kiss. However, a few seconds later, the young people decide to step away and fill the glasses with cold champagne. MacClife, Sr., quickly opens the bottle and adds some drink to every single glass that his fiancée brings to him. At this moment, Edward and Natalia come to the table first, hugging each other, and then Daniel and Anna and Peter, and Helene join them.       “So, friends?” Daniel asks. “I believe we can say a couple of toasts?”       “As you see, yes,” Terrence replies amicably.       “Take the glasses, guys,” Raquelle says with a slight smile, holding a glass of champagne.       The others reach for the table, take one glass, go aside, and come together in a circle. Now every single is hugging their sweethearts: the men hug their girls by the waist with one arm or put it around their necks, and the ladies put a hand on the masculine shoulder or just hold them by the back.       “So, friends, it’s time to raise our glasses,” Terrence suggests with his head proudly raised.       “First, let’s raise our glasses in honor of Edward and Natalia’s engagement,” Daniel suggests confidently. “Although we congratulated you, I’d like to congratulate you two again and wish you luck. Every day, I’m making more sure that you must be together and are made for each other. And I’m becoming a more loyal fan of your cute couple.”       “Thank you,” Edward and Natalia thank with slight smiles.       “Your way to this decision was hard, but you got over all the difficulties,” Peter says amicably. “We hope that everything will be fine for you and wish you to solve any misunderstandings quickly and harmlessly.”       “When we look at us, we wanna smile,” Terrence says with a slight smile. “You make us happy even at the hardest times. You’re our shots of the sun. And we want you to always stay happy and keep giving your wonderful mood to everybody.”       “You’ve always been one of the couples that I truly admire,” Raquelle smiles shyly. “I wish you only the best with all my heart. And may the gloss in your eyes never fade away.”       “I understood you looked very cute when I saw you together for the first time,” Anna confesses. “You’re like two pieces of the heart that should be connected. And I want it to never be broken. I want you to keep making us happy with your smiles.”       “I hope you’ll play a wedding live together for the whole life,” Helene says with a slight smile. “I believe you’d do your best for your marriage to become first, last, and very strong. You, guys, are a very beautiful couple, and I truly admire you. Congrats, you two. You deserve to be happy.”       Edward and Natalia share a slight smile, and then the man hugs his fiancée tighter and looks at everybody when starting to speak:       “Thank you all so much. Many thanks for your friendship and support. And all the words you just said. I’m madly lucky to know such wonderful people like you and be a part of your company. And of course, I am grateful I got such a wonderful girl in my life, who changed my life for the best.”       “Yeah, thank you so much for not leaving us in hard situations,” Natalia adds with a slight smile. “After what happened, I made much more sure about how it’s important to love and appreciate those, who would do anything for you and would be ready to sacrifice something for your best. I am eternally grateful to have such incredible friends and the amazing man, with whom I felt truly beloved and absolutely protected, probably for the first time in my life.”       Everybody raises their glasses with slight smiles on their faces, but does not rush to drink some cold champagne because Peter takes a word:       “And I’m also suggesting we drink for the success that ‘Against The System’ has reached. For the upcoming release of the single, for the finish of recording the album, for the tour that we’re gonna go on one beautiful day…”       “Let’s also drink for our work on the music video to have no problems and be interesting and funny,” Daniel suggests confidently. “May our together work be very good. Without conflicts and misunderstandings.”       “For making our dreams come true, even if they seem unreal,” Edward says with a slight smile.       “For appreciating what we have,” Terrence adds. “For learning from our mistakes, staying strong for our beloved people, and never leaving them in trouble.”       “For sharing our problems with our close people, befriending those, who proved their loyalty, and being with those, who are ready to protect us and make us feel happy, strong, beloved, and desired,” Natalia smiles shyly.       “For none of us leaving their close person in trouble, despite all the fears and the thought that you could do nothing,” Raquelle says.       “For believing that we could find a solution for any situation,” Helene says quietly.       “For having no problems in our lives,” Anna adds. “For calm, well-being, and luck in everything…”       “Guys, let’s leave the bad things in the past and drink for our incredible future,” Terrence suggests cheerfully. “You shouldn’t get stuck in that when so much interesting is waiting for us in the future.”       “For us!” Natalia, Helene, Raquelle, Anna, Daniel, Terrence, Peter, and Edward make a happy whoop.       Everybody raises their glasses, clicks on every single one slightly, and drinks a little bit of cold champagne that they like.       “Oh, good champagne!” Daniel notices cheerfully. “Cold… That’s what we need!”       “You could give me any sort, and I’d see no difference ‘cause I don’t know anything about alcohol,” Helene laughs shyly.       “But you can easily differ between champagne, cognac, vodka, and whiskey,” Edward replies confidently. “I’ve tasted much and know what is what.”       “I wonder, how?” Terrence chuckles kindly. “You used to be a pauper without money in your pockets!”       “Now I can let myself get anything.”       Terrence says nothing and just chuckles quietly, drinking champagne from his glass along with the others. Silence settles in the air for two seconds, after which Peter glances at one of the sofas, on which two guitar cases are placed.       “Hey, guy, am I the only one, who just notices two guitar cases on the sofa?” Peter frowns slightly.       “Actually, I noticed them immediately,” Anna replies thoughtfully.       “I brought them here in case we wanted to play something,” Terrence shrugs.       “So, would you play something right now?” Raquelle suggests. “And in two hours, we’ll go somewhere to have a delicious dinner.”       “That’s bad there is no drum set or a cajon here,” Peter says thoughtfully, stroking his chin. “We could rock on to the fullest.”       “But there are two guitars, four men, who can play it, the table, hands, and the laps,” Helene replies confidently.       “Right!” Daniel clicks his fingers. “One could play guitar, and another would beat the rhythm on the laps, the hands, or the table.”       “Let’s have a hangout of friends with songs?” Natalia suggests with a slight smile.       “Why not?” Edward wonders. “Sing one or two songs.”       “Oh, great idea!” Daniel approves and looks at all the girls. “Beauties, the lads and I need your help. You should sing with us.”       “I don’t doubt we’re gonna have a good choir,” Peter assumes with a mysterious smile.       “Let’s see,” Terrence suggests. “We’re all alone in the house and would bother nobody.”       After putting the glasses of champagne aside, everybody goes to where the sofas and armchairs are placed and starts sitting down, trying to take a place next to a sweetheart. And because the guitars are placed on the sofa, on which Edward and Natalia are sitting, the man grabs one of the cases.       “So, guys, who’s gonna join me?” Edward asks cheerfully.       “Did someone say you should’ve played?” Terrence chuckles. “I didn’t personally choose you!”       “If the guitar is placed near me, I’ll play first. And if you fear no competition with me, grab a guitar and show me how you can play.”       “Oh, maybe, Peter plays for us first?” Raquelle suggests. “We haven’t almost heard his guitar play.”       “Yes, Pete, play for us, please,” Anna says with a slight smile.       “How can I refuse such sweet beauties like you, girls?” Peter throws his hands up.       Edward gives Peter a second case that the blond takes and opens, getting a guitar, which is made of light lacquered wood and has not been used yet.       “Wow, what a beauty!” Peter pronounces with admiration, looking at the guitar with a wide smile on his face. “It seems like it’s never been played.”       “It’s true,” Terrence confirms. “I’ve had it for ages, but I keep it as a reserved one.”       Peter looks at the guitar for some time and starts tuning it on, fixing all the strings and checking the sound of every single one. While he and Edward are getting ready to play, the others try to choose a song to sing. All this time, the men hug their girls with one or two arms, and the ladies press themselves to them as closely as possible, hold them under an arm, or put their heads on their shoulders, into which they may snuggle their noses. And one or two minutes later, Edward and Peter let everybody know they are ready to play.       “So, we’re ready…” Edward says thoughtfully. “What are we gonna play?”       “We won’t have time to play everything we suggested,” Anna notices.       “Put it to a vote?” Natalia suggests.       “I know which song I’d like to play,” Peter says thoughtfully.       “Okay,” Daniel throws his hands up. “Let’s follow you then. Start to play, and we will join you.”       “Sure?”       “Yup, c’mon.”       Peter comfortably places the guitar in front of himself and starts plucking the strings quietly and striking some chords, looking at everybody and watching their reaction. Seeing that they like the melody, the man starts playing much more confidently and sings the first verse after a short intro. At some moment, Daniel wants to join him, but Helene does it earlier, starting to sing along with the blond shyly. A little later, Edward catches the wave, playing guitar along with Rose and starting to play a second part of the first verse along with Natalia. The friends start to sing the chorus together, and Terrence and Daniel start helping Edward and Peter, beating the rhythm on their laps and the tables confidently.       The oldest of the MacClife brothers shows his skills in singing a solo, while Raquelle sings along with him shyly, holding him under his arm with a tender smile. Daniel and Anna surprise their friends nicely with their joint singing. Because the girl got the vocal lessons, she does not sing worse than the men, having a soft, perfectly clean voice. And Peter does not get confused, showing his friends how masterfully he can play the guitar for the first time.       After all of them sing one line, Edward and Peter quickly pluck all the strings, and Daniel sharply claps on the table with his hands. Then the girls start applauding quietly, while the men just smile shyly.       “Wow, that was incredible!” Edward shows delight. “We could really be a great choir.”       “Yes, girls, you did it so well!” Peter encourages with a slight smile. “I didn’t know you all sang so well. I mean, I only knew that Anna got vocal lessons and could sing incredibly.”       “Well, I think my singing is good for hangouts with friends,” Helene says thoughtfully.       “Aha, or for taking a bath or shower,” Raquelle jokes shyly.       “Pete is absolutely right, girls, you really sing incredibly,” Daniel says confidently and hugs Anna around the shoulders, while she puts her head on his shoulder. “And I know about Anna’s talents well ‘cause we often sing together. But you three surprised us nicely.”       “Oh, c’mon, it’s just singing!” Natalia waves a hand. “We are too far from you, guys, who are gonna be real superstars soon.”       “Don’t be shy, beauties,” Edward says confidently and runs the back of his hand over Natalia’s cheek. “You’re incredibly beautiful and talented, literally in everything. And soon, you’re gonna show yourself as wonderful actresses.”       “That’s right!” Daniel agrees. “Our girls are very versatile.”       “Okay, let’s change the subject,” Raquelle changes the subject with a blush on her face, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. “Talk about how brilliantly Peter plays guitar.”       “Oh, yeah!” Anna exclaims. “Peter, you rock on!”       “Aha, you don’t play guitar worse than the drums,” Natalia says confidently.       “My man is talented at everything,” Helene says with pride, taking Peter smiling cutely under an arm. “He learned everything by himself. Nobody helped him.”       “C’mon, nobody worked with the lads, but they don’t play worse than other guitarists,” Peter finds excuses shyly.       “Yeah, but we play one instrument, and you play three,” Daniel notices. “To learn to play guitar, drums, and cajon by yourself, you're supposed to have a great talent.”       “Exactly!” Raquelle exclaims. “It’s hard to learn to play one instrument, but three…”       “Trust me, I should still learn,” Peter replies. “I can’t even say my drum play is super perfect.”       “Well, all of us should learn many things,” Edward shrugs. “My play is far from perfection. We’re getting vocals lessons and lessons in playing our instruments for the reason.”       “It’s okay, guys, we can do this,” Daniel says confidently. “And we will do our best to become the best versions of us.”       “I was waiting for this moment for too long and have no right to lose it,” Terrence replies.       “The impossible is impossible, guys!” Anna exclaims.       “We can do this if you supported us,” Peter looks at all the girls.       “We’ll be your biggest inspiration and source of strength,” Natalia promises confidently.       Edward, Terrence, Peter, and Daniel look at Natalia, Raquelle, Helene, and Anna and share a look with each other, being as determined as they have never been before. The men know that they can reach for anything they dream about. And that despite any difficulties, they will stay strong, brave, and happy.

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THE END OF BOOK THREE