Hey guys sorry I haven't updated in almost 2 weeks, but I have had a real though week since my grandma just died and the funeral was yesterday, but as always I wouldn't leave you guys hanging so here is another chapter!
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Chapter 7: New Home and Planning
Donald POV
Dating Lauren was like a dream, she was one of the best things that have happened to me since Lilly. They were both different, Lilly was quiet, adorable, smart, cute, amazing beat boxer, amazing kisser. Lauren was beautiful, smart, caring, amazing body—Woah Donald slow down. Why do I still think about Lilly and why the hell am I comparing them in my head? I need to stop. Lauren is my new beginning and this trip to San Diego will be perfect. Today was the day, San Diego here we come.
…End ….
Donald, Lauren, Galina, and a few other employees where boarding the plane towards Chicago and then Chicago to San Diego.
The flight attendant was now speaking and Donald looked over at Lauren right next to him.
"Are you alright?" Donald said holding her hand.
"Nervous, I've never been on a plane before"
"You'll be alright love" he said and kissed her.
It was almost a 3 hour flight. Lauren thankfully went to sleep on Donald's shoulder as he checked his Facebook, being in the business class has its perks. He hadn't gotten on it in a year. As he checked his news feed, he saw old friends and photos. Jesse and Beca were still enaged, Aubrey ended up with Unicycle after all, and NO—Wait.
'Lilly Onakurama has changed her relationship status from single to ENGAGED?'
WHAT?
Donald jerked up and almost hit Lauren, but thankfully she didn't wake up.
Lilly's engaged? To who? And why?
He now regretted getting on his FB just for curiosity. He knew he should've deleted Lilly since 3 years ago, but he never did and neither did she. He looked at the post again, it was only a day ago she changed it, maybe if he messaged her…? NOPE. Donald tried to let go. Lilly was his past, and Lauren is his present and happiness at the moment.
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Lilly POV
I was surprised when Erick proposed to me; it has been six months since we known each other but those six months have been a blessing to be by his side. Who knew love could change a person so much. He was violent, rude, mean, but above all I discovered he had a heart. A heart that was torn by the person who didn't deserve him, but now loved by the person he has now, me.
...End…
Lilly and Erick were spending time together on the terrace trying to plan their wedding. Lilly wanted something simple and Erick wanted it to be big.
"Erick, the new employees are here," Alan said.
"I'll leave you guys to work ok," Lilly said getting up.
"Ok, but meet me in my office in about an hour ok to keep planning" Erick said.
"Of course" said Lilly giving him a kiss.
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Donald arrived in Del Real farm with his employees by his side, they were greeted by Nana and she escorted them to the terrace where Alan and Erick were waiting.
"Hello Mr. Garcia, Im Donald Connor and these are my employees: Galina my secretary, Lauren my assistant, and my staff"
"Nice to meet you Mr. Connor," said Erick shaking all of the employees hands, "I have heard many things about you and your staff, I hope you like your stay in San Diego"
"Thank you Mr. Garcia"
"Oh and this is my lawyer, Alan, if you have any troubles please don't hesitate in calling him with anything you need"
Alan shook all the employees' hands.
Donald was escorted to another house next to the big house where he would be staying with his employees. The house would be his office and home.
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"This place is so beautiful" said Galina looking outside the window.
"It sure is" Lauren said.
"Come on ladies we have to pick rooms" Donald said.
The house was more of a hotel type; it was a three story building 'house.' The first floor was mainly the office part where Donald and his employees would be working. The second floor had 5 bedrooms, a terrace, 3 bathrooms, meeting rooms, and long hallways. Donald wanted Lauren to stay with him, but she refused. For now she would have her own bedroom, and maybe later on she would go into Donald's. Galina picked her room and started unpacking. The other staff picked the rooms that were left in both the second and third floors.
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"Don't you think it's a bit much?" Lilly said looking at the decorations for the wedding, "We just got engaged two days ago!"
"Lilly you deserve this and more" he said kissing her hand.
"Erick, I'm not that good at planning a wedding, I mean the decorations, the invitations, the guest list, the bachelorette party…"
"You think my future bride is going to plan? Hell no, that's why we have people love, you and I just get to pick what we want and let the others take care of it"
"If you say so" Lilly said and Erick gave her a small kiss.
For the next hours Lilly and Erick kept planning while laughing and enjoying each other's company. They had organized the location which was going to be in the court yard of the farm, and outdoor wedding with lots of flowers. Lilly imagined something like Bella's and Edward's wedding from Breaking Dawn. They wanted a photography engagement shoot for their invitations; the food would be made by Nana herself and the other kitchen employees. Erick wanted Lilly to go for a dress fitting in a couple of weeks, and other wedding details.
"Ok, I think that's enough for today what do you think?" Erick said.
"I believe your right!" she said giving him a kiss.
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"I'm so happy for Erick and Lilly!" said Alan in the kitchen with Nana and Rosie, "But don't you think it's a bit rushed?"
"Well Alan, they love each other, can't you see it?" Nana said.
"Erick has changed so much since Lilly got here, and honestly I can't wait for this wedding, Lilly's going to be my sister-in-law!" said Rosie
"Yes, Erick has changed a lot since Lilly got here, I should get credit for that!" said Alan laughing.
"Aside from the wedding, where are the new employees?" Rosie asked
"They are in the next big house getting settled in" Alan said.
"Great I can meet them now!" Rosie said leaving towards the house.
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"Well we are now settled in! Finally we can rest and maybe take a walk around this beautiful place!" said Galina
"It seems like everyone at the big house is busy" said Lauren looking out the window.
"Why?" said Galina
"Well there have been a lot of people coming in and out with boxes and white flowers and decorations for who knows what"
"Interesting"
"What's interesting?" said Donald coming down the stairs.
"That lots of people are busy in the big house" said Galina
"So? This is a farm, people should be busy"
KNOCK KNOCK
"I'll get it" said Lauren opening the door, "Um, Hello, come on in"
"Hello" said Donald and Galina
The person stared at Donald and smiled.
"Hi, my name is Rosie, I'm Erick' sister"
"Oh nice to meet you" said Lauren shaking her hand.
"Hi Miss Garcia I'm Galina"
"And I'm Donald" said Donald shaking Rosie's hand.
"So you're Mr. Connor, well my brother talks a lot about your businesses'"
"I hope that's a good thing" said Donald smiling.
"It is… um I just wanted to make sure you guys are settled in, but it looks like your fine"
"Yes thank you so much for having us!" said Galina
"No you guys deserve to be here and well welcome to Del Real farm! You guys are welcome to be around the place as long as you're finished with work, and you are welcomed anytime at the big house as long as you knock on doors! Also dinner will be served tonight on the terrace at 6 you are welcomed to come" said Rosie
"Oh if you don't mind Miss, we ordered a pizza" said Donald
"Please call me Rosie"
"I don't want to be rude to my boss sorry"
"No no, I understand that being Erick' sister I have to be called that, but Im better off with Rosie"
"Well thank you Rosie" said Donald
"Well I'm off since you guys are not coming to dinner which is fine of course, this is your home! I have to go before Erick has an attack, bye it was nice meeting all of you!" said Rosie shaking their hands and leaving.
"She's a sweetheart" said Galina, "Well I'll wait for the pizza in my room"
Lauren waited till Galina was out of sight.
"Ok she's my boss and I barely like her" said Lauren.
"Why?"
"Did you see the way she was looking at you? I mean she was probably flirting with you in her head"
"Lauren babe you need to relax, your my girl" said Donald wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Still…"
"Jealous?" Donald said chuckling.
"NO!"
"I think that's a yes" he said laughing and started to kiss her.
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Dinner was being served at the terrace when Rosie got there.
"You're late" said Erick
"Sorry, I was welcoming the new employees" said Rosie
"New employees?" said Lilly.
"Yep, me and Erick have a new team of marketers, they will be living in the guest house" said Alan
"That's great!"
"Aside from the new employees, Lilly me and you are going on a trip for a few months!" said Rosie clapping her hands excitedly.
"What?"
"Rosie really?" said Erick
"What? The future bride can't see the wedding plans arriving already! Plus I wanted to go to Paris to get her dress" said Rosie
"Whoa whoa… Paris? That's too much, I was planning on going to a bridal shop in Los Angeles" said Lilly
"No Lilly! Los Angeles? Please! I want to take you to Paris so you can get fitted and have a famous designer do it!"
Lilly was still taking all of that in.
"Lilly get used to it" said Alan chuckling.
"Erick…" Lilly said.
"Love you'll love it, I want you to have the best of the best" said Erick caressing her cheek.
"Yeah Lilly come one!" said Rosie
"Well ok, I'll go to Paris with you!" said Lilly.
"YES! I'm so excited!" said Rosie.
"You're not even the bride" said Lilly.
"But still!"
"When do we leave?" said Lilly
"Tomorrow" said Erick.
"What? No I—I don't even have nothing packed" said Lilly
"Nana did it for you" said Rosie
"So you two planned this without me?" said Lilly.
"Nope Alan had a say in it and bought the tickets" said Rosie
"Alan…I.."
"Lilly you're fine, its ok, like Erick said you deserve it, you're going to be the future Mrs. Garcia, and well the Garcia's have the best of the best" said Alan
Lilly was so surprised, she had never had the best of the best and well she couldn't even say no, because knowing Erick did this for her, she didn't even had the words to thank them. Lilly came from a family that didn't have a lot of fancy things, but with Erick she will be having everything.
"Uh, why is there a delivery guy here" said Alan looking from the terrace to the grounds of the guest house.
"Oh the new employees ordered pizza" said Rosie
"They didn't want to have dinner with us?" said Erick.
"No, when I invited them they said they had already ordered pizza, but tomorrow they will probably have dinner with you and Alan" said Rosie.
"We're not going to be here for dinner at that time?" said Lilly
"Nope we leave in the morning" said Rosie
"Well I guess I won't be meeting them till I get back, which is when?" said Lilly.
"About two months" said Alan.
"That much!"
"Yes love, the designer will probably take longer I mean, the fitting and then making the dress itself will be months" said Erick
"But can't I just go for the fitting then come back?" said Lilly
"Nope Lilly, you can't know what's going around the big house till a few days till the wedding" said Alan.
"But Erick we still have planning to do" said Lilly
"Which we'll be done by tomorrow morning before you leave with Rosie" said Erick.
"The wedding is in about 6 more months, we'll probably be in Paris for maybe 4 to 5 months, and the last month or weeks which ever we'll be in New York with your family and you'll bring them with you in time for the wedding" said Rosie
"Four to five months in Paris? What would we do in all that time?" said Lilly
"Well the fitting and designing, wedding details are coming from Paris too which we'll be shopping for, trust me you'll do a bit of planning over there with me" said Rosie
"I don't even speak French" said Lilly
"But I do!" said Rosie, "You'll learn and oh tomorrow we leave at 11!"
"Come on love, you should get some rest for tomorrow" said Erick guiding Lilly to her room.
Alan and Rosie both said their bye's and went to their rooms.
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The next morning
Lilly got up took a shower and went to Erick's office for more wedding planning.
"Good morning" said Lilly giving Erick a kiss.
"Good morning love" said Erick, "OK so here is what we have left, the cake, um the invite designs, and um we have our shoot today for our pictures before you leave"
"Ok, let's start with the cake, so if more than 300 people are going to be here then the cake needs to hold that much" said Lilly
"I like this one, what do you think?" said Erick pointing at a very tall fancy cake with a fountain.
"Perfect, I always wanted one of those"
"Great so cake, done. OK invitation designs, well let's see here"
Lilly and Erick looked over a dozen of different wedding invitation styles and decided on one. It was the regular invitation with the information and their pictures would be on the side, next was the banquet info and dace time, next was more pictures of them, and finally those would go into a glass box tied with a turquoise ribbon with two rings united.
"Now time for our shoot, you can meet me in the front yard with the photographer when you're ready" said Erick.
Lilly went to her room to change into a casual but cute dress that was a high low, next she curled the ends of her hair, and did her make up and went outside to meet the photographer. The photography was like any other engagement shoot, with kisses and hugs. Some shots included Erick giving Lilly a ride on his wheel chair and posing with him on the wheel chair doing either a kiss or a hug. Others were Lilly holding Erick's hand while walking with him on his wheel chair from the front and back. Other shots were them lying together under trees or the nearby ponds of the farm. The photographer congratulated them and said the photos will be ready in two weeks, and Erick will send them to Lilly while she was in Paris.
"Such a cute couple" said the photographer leaving.
Lilly and Erick went back to the big house; it was almost time for Lilly to leave with Rosie towards Paris. Erick sent employees to get Lilly's bags and Rosie's and load them in the car. Lilly and Erick were finally outside while the employees loaded the suitcases. Nana, Alan, and the other employees of the big house said their good byes to both Lilly and Rosie and left to give Lilly and Erick space.
"I'm going to miss you" said Lilly almost in tears hugging Erick.
"Please don't cry" said Erick wiping the tears off Lilly's face, "I hope that you know that I love you, and thanks to you, you've made me the man that I am today, what would I do without you"
"Mr. Garcia you've proved me wrong all these months by your side" said Lilly.
"Well future 'Mrs. Garcia' you're the one that said that you had the motivation to change me and that's exactly what you've done"
"I love you" said Lilly giving him another hug.
"I love you too, once you land call me and we'll video chat once you're in Paris, I don't care about the different time zones" said Erick
"That's perfect, well I love you, take care of yourself please"
"Of course" said Erick, and Lilly bent down to give him one of the sweetest kiss he had ever been given, she mounted the car and left.
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Donald was up and early working and getting things done, Lauren brought him his files and started to look them over. He had a few questions to ask Erick so he left towards the big house where he saw a slender curvy woman with Erick. He couldn't see her because she was facing Erick; all Donald could see was her back. She had long beautiful silky black hair that was curled at the ends, with a pink flowy high low dress. She bent down to give Erick a kiss that seemed to last forever and she mounted the car and left, leaving Erick all by himself. Donald didn't know that his boss had a girlfriend, but that long black silky hair did remind him of someone, he knew who, but didn't want to think of it.
"Mr. Garcia, hi, um I had a question about the files" said Donald
"Oh, yes, Alan said he would go over them with you" said Erick.
"Perfect… um are you ok sir, you seem a bit down"
"Well in a way yes"
"Was it because your girlfriend left?"
"Oh no she's my fiancée, she's leaving to Paris today with my sister to get fitted for her dress and won't be back in 4 to 5 months" said Erick
"Congratulations sir, I didn't know you were engaged" said Donald smiling
"Yeah well it happened just a few days ago and well the wedding is in six months"
"Sounds great! I'm hoping to get engaged soon too"
"Really Mr. Connor! Who's the lucky girl?"
"Lauren, my assistant, we are dating at the moment but hopefully if things turn out well, I might ask her to marry me"
"She must be something special then, my fiancée is the same, she's very special to me"
"They are all special, well I guess I'll meet with Alan in his office, excuse me sir, and once again congrats" said Donald
"Thank you"
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Yep there you have it! Again I need feedback! What do you guys think? Did you even imagine that this would happen? Well get ready cus thats not the end of it more surprises are to come! So I want to know you predicaments, its fun reading what you guys think is going to happen next! :) Will Donald and Lilly ever meet since they live in the same grounds? Will Lilly really marry Erick? or Will Donald ask Lauren to marry him soon? What do you guys think? Let me know!
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-Ali :)