Chapter 1:
After a long trip my father and I had finally arrived at the Nightray estate. I was wearing a light blue dress with a butterfly pattern on it, I wore my hair in a high neat ponytail.
One of the servants walked us in and told us to have a seat in the living room. Which was rather large. I started to look around at the walls. There was what looked like a family portrait. My guess was the man sitting in the middle was Duke Nightray and around him was probably his children. Knocking me out of my thoughts a deep voice rang in the room. "Hello Sir Villeneuve. It's a pleasure to finally meet you." I looked up and saw my father standing up shaking hands with a man with black hair. I presumed that he was Duke Nightray. I stood up as well.
"The pleasure is mine." my father responded.
"Is this lovely young lady your daughter?" Duke Nightray asked.
"Yes, this is my daughter Renee."
"It's a pleasure." I said a little shyly.
"Alright let's go into the dining room for dinner."
We followed Duke Nightray into the dining room and saw four guys and one girl seated at the table.
"Please take a seat."
There were two seats available, one was at the end of the table while the other was next to it on the side. Of course my father took the one on the end while I sat in the one on the side. In front of me was a boy with blue eyes and beige hair, he was dressed neatly but held a scowl on his face. Beside me was the one girl who had black hair and smiled at me every now and then.
"Let me introduce you to my children, on my right is my oldest son Fred, and my only daughter Vanessa, to my left is my second eldest Claude, then Ernest, and the youngest is Elliot." Duke Nightray said.
After all the introductions we began to eat the heavenly food in front of us. There were pastries, doughnuts, buns, rolls, baked bread and then the meat, chicken, pork, turkey and goose. Everything looked perfect and tasted just as good as expected. After everyone finished eating there was an eerie tension in the room that is until Duke Nightray broke the silence.
"I believe it's time that we talk about what we came to speak about. Claude, Ernest, and Fred, you may leave." They got up and left the room leaving Me, Elliot, Vanessa my father and their father. It was silent until my father spoke up.
"We came to talk about the agreement I made with Duke Nightray." he said looking at me.
"Renee, you and my son Elliot are to be betrothed." Duke Nightray announced.
Elliot looked about as shocked as I did. He looked at his father in disbelief. I felt betrayed by my father.
"Excuse me." I said getting up and walking out into the hall. I sat down against the wall and sighed trying to calm myself down. I heard the door open and saw that it was my father.
"Renee, we weren't done discussing things in there." he said.
"I DON'T CARE! You told me you'd never do this to me!" I yelled.
"I…just want the best for you Renee. Everything I do is for you." he said pulling me into a hug. "Now come on and wipe your tears. We're gonna head back in."
"Fine…but I'm not happy." I got up and followed my father back into the dining room. I sat down in my previous seat with a light blush going across my face. I tried my best not to look up at Elliot.
"I just finished talking to Elliot that you will be living with us from now on." Duke Nightray noted.
I looked up at Elliot and he seemed to have a very annoyed expression on his face. I looked at Vanessa and she smiled politely at me. I then looked at my father and he gave me an apologetic look.
"That is all. Vanessa why don't you show her to her room?"
"Yes Father." She got up and lead me out the door with a smile on her face.
"Hey, I'm sure you and Elly will get along." she said.
"Elly?" I questioned.
"Oh sorry, that's Elliot's nickname. Though he doesn't like it when people outside the family call him this."
"Oh…" I said blushing a little.
"Aw, your so cute! I'm going to love having a little sister." she said happily.
"Th…thank you." my face became redder because of the compliment.
"Well here we are!" she opened the door revealing a white room. In it was a rather large bed with red bedding on it, there was a desk in the corner that looked like it could be for work, on the other side of my room was a closet and a small desk and chair with a makeup mirror on it. The windows were covered with thin red curtains, and there was a door leading outside to the balcony.
"Wow…" I said in astonishment.
"Elly's room is two rooms down to the left. If you stand out on the balcony you'll be able to his balcony." Vanessa stated.
"Thank you Vanessa." I said with a small smile.
"You're welcome. Oh and feel free to explore. Just remember to knock before entering the rooms." she chuckled.
With that she left the room and closed the door, leaving me alone.
I sighed and sat on the bed thinking over what had happened tonight. And what Elliot was gonna be like. Soon there was a knock on my door.
"C…come in." I stuttered.
Elliot walked in making me feel uneasy. He had the same annoyed look on his face. Maybe his face was stuck like that. Or he's angry.
"You know, I don't like this engagement thing either, but you don't see me crying and whining over it. So get your act together and grow up!" he yelled and walked away slamming the door behind him.
I can't believe he said that! AND I DID NOT CRY! I guess it's nice to know that I'm getting married to a complete and utter jerk!