His Drama Queen novel Chapter 40

"No, not at all." My dad answered casually as he straightened his tie. "He's a busy man, meu amor."

"I know, but he could have at least cleared his schedule for Nicole." my mom huffed out.

I took a deep breath before I spoke up again. "Mom, it is fine. Go take a seat, the fashion show will start in a couple of minutes."

After my parents walked away to find their seats, Rose came up to me. She looked stunning in a red cashmere dress and louboutin heels. If it wasn't because of the wrinkles on her face, one would still think she is in her late forties or so.

"Have you seen, Ethan?" She asked as she stopped in front of me. "You look absolutely beautiful." she gushed as she spun me around. "Hot even."

I laughed. "Thank you." I answered, smiling. "And as for Ethan, he is not coming."

"What?" She stared bewildered at me. "You invited him didn't you?"

"Yeah." I said quietly, hoping she would not interrogate me any further.

"I thought you guys were doing great."

"Well I may have said some things today that uhm might have hurt him?" My answer came out more as a question. But it wasn't a question, it was a statement. He did got hurt by what I said.

"Oh goodness. Nicole." Rose pinched the bridge of her nose. She looked at me with pity in her eyes. "What did you say to him? I hope you can fix it after the fashion show."

"We are on a break." I blurted out. There was no reason to hide this from her. Might as well just spill it right her, right now

"You suggested that?" she asked, knitting her eyebrows in confusion.

"Yeah."

"Why would you do that?" Rose wailed and gave me a playful slap on my shoulder. "Why Nicole, you two look so great and I already had the wedding planned in the back of my head and---,"

"I--oh, the fashion show is about to start. I have to go backstage to the models." I hurriedly walked away from Rose and her rambling. She will eventually know the truth, Ethan will tell her. And talking about fixing it. I don't even know if it's a possibility anymore.

I will just leave it up to fate.

Backstage was a disaster. Models, makeup artists, seamstresses were running from one side to the other.

"Miss Vargas, you're finally here. How do you tie this strap? I have tried so many ways, but the model looks funnily in it." She pushed a blonde haired girl towards me who looked totally uncomfortable in the dress. Poor girl.

I let out a deep sigh and untied the dress. I carefully then tied it again, following the steps I wrote down in my sketch book. "There. Does it feel right now?" I asked her as I spun her around to face me.

After dinner they went to their hotel and I returned home. I was exhausted last night and fell asleep on the couch in the living room.

Today my parents are going back to Brazil and I am going to accompany them for a small well deserved vacation. After everything I went through, I totally needed it.

I packed my stuff, which was not a lot, and dressed up in comfortable traveling clothes which consisted of pink leggings and a white T-shirt. I put my hair into a bun and slipped on my shoes before heading outside. As always I was late and my mom had called me twice to hurry up.

I was supposed to hail a cab, but because I was late my mom send her driver to pick me up.

Minutes later the driver of my parents arrived and he brought me to the airport. Thank goodness my mom booked the plane ticket this time. We were traveling business class instead of economy. There's nothing wrong with traveling economy class, but I am so used to travel in style that it is hard to settle for less.

When I arrived at the airport my parents already waited for me. I hated public airport, it was always so busy and people were basically pushing each other out of the way.

"Well...well look who we have here." A familiar voice said behind me.

I turned around to face the person and my eyes widened in surprise. "Hayden."

The entire flight Hayden managed to make me laugh. For a moment I forgot all my worries. He was, just like me, going back to Brazil for a small vacation.