I'm so, so sorry for making you guys wait, I haven't abandon the fic and I hope I don't. I really hated to make you all wait but suddenly I lost inspiration and I just receive it back. I really don't know when I will be posting the next chapter so please be patient with me. This is chapter 10 charity ball hope you guys enjoy it and again sorry.
The only things that belong to me are: Adriana, Milena, Marc, Delia, Helena, Robert.
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The week went by fast. Kim was in Milena's place, she was getting her hair and makeup done there.
"Kim I'm so glad you came, did you have trouble finding the place?" Milena asked giving Kim a hug.
"Not at all." Kim replied. Kim came in the house and saw a little girl walking towards her shyly.
"Oh Kim this is my daughter Adriana." Milena said.
"Oh, hi Adriana." Kim said to the little girl "she is so beautiful! She looks just like you in miniature." She said looking at Milena.
"Adriana this is Uncle Toms girlfriend, don't you think she is pretty?" Kim blushed.
The girl only stared shyly at Kim.
"I have something for you." Kim opened a bag she was carrying and she pulled out a medium size teddy bear" Adriana smiled and took the bear and hugged it.
"Thanks!" she said excited. "Uncle Toms other girlfriends never even look at me."
"You know kids! Always honest right?" Milena said to Kim.
"Yeah" Kim didn't know what to make of the little girls comment.
"Do you want coffee? Maxime will be here in a minute." Milena offered.
"Sure" Milena prepared the coffee and waited a couple of minutes until Maxime arrived.
« Salut ma chérie comment ca va? » Maxime said to Milena.
"Hi Maxim is great to see you, how are you?" Milena asked him.
"Fabulous!" he exclaimed.
"Maxime I want you to meet Kim, my brothers girlfriend." Milena presented Kim to Maxim.
« Mon dieu qu'elle est belle! Toi t'es trop mignonne ma belle. » Maxime exclaimed.
"Thanks" Kim said blushing.
"You speak French?" He asked excited.
"Yeah I do. I lived in France for a couple of months." Kim replied.
"Now I love you even more, well I'm going to make you more beautiful than you already are! You know you don't look nothing like the other girls Tom used to date, you know what I mean, plastic and fake. You have a natural beauty and I love it! And you seem nice." Maxime said while doing her hair. When he was done with her she looked stunning, her hair was tied and curl to the side and her makeup was impeccable.
Milena told her to go change and she put on the emerald green dress. "Oh my god Kim you look so beautiful! My brother is going to die when he sees you."
Kim blushed "well I hope is not that extreme."
One hour later Tom arrived. "Uncle Tom!" Adriana screamed running towards him, he smiled at her and picked her up.
"Hey Adriana, how are you munchkin?" He asked the little girl.
"Your girlfriend is here! She is very pretty and nice, she smells great too and look what she gave me!" Adriana said giving Tom a big smiled.
Tom chuckled "She is, isn't she? I'm glad you liked her." if his little niece loved her she must be the one for him; she didn't even know the little girl and she had stolen Adriana's heart in a couple of hours. "Where is she anyways?"
"She's with mommy in her room."
"Can you go and tell them I'm here?" Tom asked.
"Yes!" he putted Adriana down and she run to her mother's room. After a couple of minutes she came back "mommy says you should watch TV because she is not ready yet and she doesn't want you to see Kim until she is ready."
"Ok, I don't think I have another choice" Tom replied.
An hour later Milena appeared, she was wearing a one shoulder long red dress "Sorry we made you wait Tom; wait till you see Kim you are going to die!"
"I almost die here waiting. Why does it take women an eternity to get ready?" Tom asked outraged.
"Well if you don't want a hobo next to you, that's the price you have to pay." Milena said.
"Where is Kim?" Tom asked looking for her.
"Maxime is retouching her makeup she'll be here in a minute." Milena said.
Kim appears a couple of minutes later leaving Tom breathless. "My god Kim you look amazingly beautiful, every single guy is going to envy me tonight."
Kim blushed "Oh come on don't exaggerate! Thanks anyway you are looking a little bit handsomer than you usually do which is always."
"We better leave right now we don't want to be too late, we don't want you to make a bad first impression." Milena said interrupting them.
"You are right, come on, Marc is waiting in the limo." Tom said.
They got in the limo and arrive at Zack's family mansion 40 minutes later. Tom took Kim's hand in his and made his way to the door. There were servants greeting guest with champagne at the front door. They all took a glass and walk in the house it was already full of people and Zack went to greet them.
"Tom! You made it!" Zack exclaimed.
"I always do." Tom said.
"Yeah usually an hour before the event is over. Milena I'm happy to see you, where is David?" Zack asked giving her a kiss.
"He had to work, you know how it is." She answered.
"Well at least you are here. Kim I haven't forgotten about you, look at you! You look amazing! Are you nervous?" he also gave Kim a kiss.
"Thanks and I'm very nervous." Kim said looking around nervously.
"Don't worry we are all here for you." Zack said reassuringly "Come on, I'm going to introduce you."
"Is it necessary?" Kim asked nervously.
"Yes, let's get this over with, you'll feel better later trust me and it has to be done, you and Tom are an item now." Zack said walking to a couple "Hi Mr. and Mrs. Huntington hope you are having a lovely evening."
"Tom Oliver! I haven't seen you in the longest time!" Mr. Huntington shook Toms hands.
"Hi Mr. Huntington, Mrs. Huntington" nodding to where she was standing "I will like you to meet my girlfriend this is Kimberly Hart." He said holding her back.
"Oh yes, finally we meet, I have seen a lot of you in the papers, I was very curious about this one Tom. I have never seen you before young lady, where has she been hiding?" Mr. Huntington asked looking at Tom.
"Oh Edward she hasn't been hiding she is not from our circle she belongs in another one." Mrs. Huntington said with a proud air.
"Well it was nice to see you again but we have other people to greet so if you excuse us." Tom said intertwining Kim's arms with his and walking away.
"Wow that wasn't nice." Kim said "she is not from our circle" Kim said imitating the woman "what circle does she mean? The assholes circle?"
"At least you are making jokes about it." Zack said.
"You know what? I can handle this, they are just idiots so let's hear what the others have to say, come on I want to know what this people is all about." Kim said.
They greeted a couple of more people that made the same kinds of comments that the first couple made, in the end Kim ended making fun of most of them, some were nice but the majority were hypocrites. Finally after going through most of them they found Toms parents.
"Tom, Milena!" Tom's dad exclaimed "and you are Kimberly and I'm so glad I finally get to meet you, Milena can't stop talking about you."
"It's a pleasure to meet you to sir." Kim said
"Please call me Robert and this is my wife Delia." Mr. Oliver said.
"It's a pleasure to meet you too Delia." Kim said.
"Mrs. Oliver to you, I can see you have no manners or tact." Delia said.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you." Kim apologized.
"Well too late for that, you are offending me by just being here, our friends must be making fun of us right now…" Mrs. Oliver said disdainfully.
"Delia! That's enough! She deserves to be respected!" Mr. Oliver reprimanded his wife "I can't believe you are making a scene right here!"
"This is not my fault it's your sons. Why did you bring her here? She doesn't belong here! Can't you see she is embarrassing us?" Delia said furious.
"I invited her Mrs. Oliver she is Tom's girlfriend after all." Zack answered.
"I can't believe you Zack." Delia said disgusted.
"Mother don't be ridiculous, you are embarrassing yourself" Milena said.
"I'm waiting for an apology Tom." Delia asked her son.
"Apology for what? bringing my girlfriend to the charity? She is invited and I already told you I don't care what you think or the others for that matter" Tom replied.
"You see what you are doing to my family?" Delia said looking at Kim "Is the first time my son talks to me like that!"
"Your son is 25! He can make his own decisions and you don't even know me, you are trying to control him that's why he's mad." Kim said standing up "and I'm not a shame of who I am, I'm a good person, so I don't care what you think about me and like Milena said you are only embarrassing yourself, you think I'm inferior because I'm not rich, well to me that's not important that doesn't make me less than you or anyone else here, it's just a difference."
"I like this girl, she is feisty!" Mr. Oliver said.
"Robert I can't believe you!" Delia said.
"Like I care what you think, she is right! Tom don't listen to your mother she's wrong and I'm glad you finally stop listening to her." Mr. Oliver said looking at Tom and then he turn to his wife "this girl next to the bunch of parasites you usually make him date, is amazing and I hope you can see that one day. Otherwise he'll end up with a trophy wife that only lives to spend his money. I just want him to be happy and he looks happy right now, I have never seen him happier. It was time you found happiness because you deserve it." He said looking at Tom again.
"Kimberly?" An old woman and an old man approach the group with a surprise look, they all turn to her.
"Mr. and Mrs. Hart!" Delia said interrupting her.
"Hi Delia, Robert I see you met our granddaughter." Mr. Hart said
"Your granddaughter?" Tom asked surprised "You mean Kim?" he look at Kim she was looking down.
"Kimberly what are you doing here? We haven't seen you in years!" Mrs. Hart said.
"I've been around." Kim said uncomfortably.
"I'm sorry Helena, but is this girl your granddaughter?" Delia asked now ashamed of having talk to Kim like that.
"Yes Delia, she is my granddaughter, she is my sons daughter. Now if you all excuse us we would like to talk to her privately, of course if she wants." Helena said looking at Kim.
"Sure, we can talk." Kim agreed it was the first time she saw her grandparents in years and she was curious, she wanted to know what they wanted to talk about.
"Zack can you take us somewhere where we can talk?" Mr. Hart asked.
"Yes come with me I'll take you to the study." Zack said and Mr., Mrs. Hart and Kim followed him. Leaving the Oliver's confused. Zack left the Harts in the study and left.
"So, what do you want to talk about?" Kim asked her grandparents.
"Kim we haven't seen you in years, you have no idea how sorry we are, we were stupid and our behavior was unacceptable, we thought we were doing what was best for your father but in the end we ended up hurting ourselves and your father and even you, we should have been there for you and we weren't." Mrs. Hart said.
"I guess I can accept your apology, I can see that you are really sorry." Kim said.
"We want to make it up to you. We would like to get to know you and make up for lost time." Mr. Hart said.
"Um, well sure I have been waiting all my life to get to know you." Kim said.
"If you don't mind me asking, are you going out with Tom Oliver?" Mr. Hart asked.
"Yeah he is my boyfriend." Kim answered.
"Well I'm really glad for you but judging by the way his mother was acting I suspect it's the same situation as you parents? I hope unlike us she doesn't try to get in your way, I'll have a word with her if you don't mind." Mrs. Hart said.
"It really is the same story; he's from a wealthy family, I'm the daughter of common people, I just think it's stupid, I mean I'm not with him because I want to run away with his money, I'm with him because I love him, to me he is everything and he adores me." Kim said
"I can see you really care about him, I will do everything in my power to help you, I don't want you to go through what we made your parents go through, we will make it up to you I promise." Mrs. Hart said.
"Thanks, well we should go back." Kim said.
"I'm glad you gave us some of your time to hear us Kimberly, we really are sorry about everything and we are so glad we have an opportunity to make it up to you."
"Well like I said don't worry about it anymore, this is a new beginning for all of us, mom and dad are going to be so happy when I tell them, dad really misses you." Kim said.
"Well let's go back; Tom must be missing you already." Mr. Hart said. He opened the door and they all walk out. Kim went to look for Tom while her grandparents stop to talk to another couple. While she was searching for him a blond blue eye tall guy stopped her.
"Hi, I'm Malcolm you are Toms date aren't you?" The blond guy said.
"Yeah, well I'm his girlfriend actually, I'm Kimberly but everyone calls me Kim, I'm looking for him, have you seen him?"
"Um no, so you are his girlfriend? How unusual I must say he is a really lucky guy." Malcolm asked.
"Unusual?" Kim asked a little annoy.
"Yeah, I mean I know Tom since forever and he usually dates women that are not quite like you, I'm not insulting you it's just you don't seem proud like the other ones. And I have seen you together in the tabloids, he seems pretty happy with you, that's something new for him." Malcolm said.
"Well thanks, I think, it was nice to meet you Malcolm but I'm going to look for Tom now." Kim said.
"Is not necessary, I'm here." Tom said from Kim's back "I see you met Malcolm."
"Hi Tom, how are you? I was just telling Kim how lucky you are to have her." Malcolm said.
"I already know that." Tom said with a straight face intertwining his arm with Kim's.
"No need to be defensive, I was giving you a compliment." Malcolm said
"Thanks but I know the intentions behind your compliments, now if you excuse us I need to talk to Kim." Tom said walking away with Kim.
"What was that about?" Kim asked.
"Malcolm is an idiot; he always wants what I have, so stay away from him." Tom answered "why didn't you tell me you are Mr. and Mrs. Hart granddaughter?"
"I didn't think it was important, besides I haven't seen them in years." Kim said.
"Why not?" Tom asked.
"Because when my father felt in love with my mother they disinherited him." Kim said.
"Are you for real? Mr. and Mrs. Hart did that? I can't believe it!" Tom said.
"Yeah well they wanted to apologize for everything they did and they want to make it all up to me, they want to spend more time with me." Kim said.
"That's good, I'm just shock." Tom said.
"My grandmother said she was going to have a talk with your mother about us." Kim said.
"I don't think my mother will be a problem anymore, I mean your status just changed for her when she discovered you are Mr. and Mrs. Hart granddaughter." Tom said.
"Well that sucks, just because of who my grandparents are? Your mom really is all about status, this is not the way I wanted to win her over. I wanted her to like me because of me not because of who I'm related to." Kim said.
"I prefer the same but my mother she is just like that, she would have never accepted you, she thinks too much of herself. I think we are lucky, now she won't try to separate us." Tom said.
"At least we won't have to go through what my parents went through." Kim said. They went to look for the others and found Zack, Jason and Adam talking in a corner.
"Hi guys!" Kim said.
"Kim!" they all screamed in unison.
"So are you having fun?" Jason asked Kim.
"Um, kind of." Kim replied
"Well we heard you are related to the Harts, now that really is a surprise." Jason said.
"Yeah shocking isn't it?" Kim said.
"It really is shocking, we have never even seen your father, I have heard stories about him, people always talk you know?" Adam said.
"What stories?" Kim asked.
"Oh you know, the Harts had a son and he was disinherited but we weren't even born back then so we grew up hearing the stories of how he fall in love with someone his parents disapprove of and now you suddenly appear and it turns out you are the daughter of the lost son." Zack said exaggerating.
"How poetic!" Jason said amuse.
"This is insane I mean really, really insane, I can't wait to see the tabloids tomorrow, because sweetheart this is going to be everywhere." Zack said holding Kim by the arms.
"It doesn't even matter and why do people care? It's just blood." Kim said annoy.
"You are my girlfriend after all; I just introduce you to almost everyone, now people are more curious as before."
"Yeah now you are not anymore that common girl they see in the tabloids every day, you are related to a duke and duchess you have royal blood sweetheart, that is big news in this world, you did a big upgrade and now to their eyes Tom is not just dating anyone, now you'll see how really hypocrite this society is, everyone will try to be your friend." Zack said.
"I think I prefer to be just the common girl, why did this have to happen today? I mean I'm glad I'm going to finally get to know them but I don't want people to use me just because of blood." Kim said.
"Don't worry Kim, is not that bad, you just have to learn to be careful and you have us to take care of you." Tom said.
"Tom, can I talk to you and Kim for a moment?" Mrs. Oliver said from behind them.
"Of course" he already knew what she was going to say. They separated from the others and went to a corner.
"Kim I just wanted to say that I'm very sorry by the way I treated you earlier, I didn't mean to offend you." Mrs. Oliver said.
"You wouldn't be apologizing if I wasn't the granddaughter of the Hart's." Kim said.
"Are you accusing me of being dishonest?" Mrs. Oliver said.
"Yes I am!" Kim said strongly.
"Dear I think you should reconsider your behavior, if someone apologizes to you, the correct thing to do is to accept it." Mrs. Oliver said.
"The right thing to do? You expect me to accept your apology after the way you treated me earlier? You are just apologizing because I'm a Hart, will you be apologizing to me if I wasn't?" Kim asked her fiercely.
Mrs. Oliver looked taken a back she couldn't believe this girl dare talk to her like that "I'm sorry Tom but it seems to me your girlfriend doesn't even have an ounce of class." Mrs. Oliver said.
"At least she has dignity." Tom said
"I'm going to look for your father." Mrs. Oliver said after knowing Tom wasn't going to defend her.
"I can't believe you talked to my mother like that." Tom said smiling.
"Yeah well I'm sorry but I couldn't help myself, she insulted me!" Kim said.
"I really don't mind, you stood up for yourself and I admire that, not everyone is brave enough to do that, I think no one else besides you have talk to her like that, she must be very piss right now." Tom said laughing.
"Is not funny, now she is really going to hate me, I really wanted her to like me but this is not the way I want it. It's fake!" Kim said mad.
"Don't worry about it, my father likes you and that is enough for me." Tom said.
"Can we go? I don't think I can be here a second longer." Kim said hoping he said yes.
"Sure, let me call the driver so he comes to pick us." Tom said. The say good bye to the others and walk to the front of the house to wait for the limo.
"I'm really sorry about tonight Kim." Tom said.
"Is not your fault I knew sooner or later this was going to happen but it really isn't easy." Kim said. Marc arrived with the limo and they both got in, Marc drove them to Kim's place.
"I'll be right back Marc, I'm just going to accompany Kim upstairs." Tom informed Marc.
"Ok Mr. Oliver I'll be waiting right here." Marc said.
"Bye Marc!" Kim wave good bye. Tom and she went up to the loft.
"So I guess I'll see you tomorrow then?" Tom asked hugging her
"Yeah of course do you want to have lunch with me?" Kim asked with her arms encircling his neck.
"Sure" he bent down and kiss her for a while they needed to catch their breath and separated. Tom was looking intensely at her eyes " I love you." he said "only you, I have never ever love someone before and is the greatest feeling in the world and I hope it last forever."
Kim smiled at him she gave him another kiss "I love you too" she said silently.
"You really do?" Tom asked whispering.
"I do" Kim whispered back.
"You have no idea how happy that makes me, probably the happiest man in the world right now." Tom said and kissed her again. "So I will let you go now and um see you tomorrow then."
"Ok bye." Kim said and Tom let her go she opened the door to the loft and went in, he went back to the car with a big smile.
The others were waiting in the living room for Kim when they saw her, they all started bombarding her with questions.
"So how was it?" Aisha asked.
"How did it go?" Rocky asked.
"Did everything went smoothly?" Trini asked.
"Are you ok?" Billy asked.
"Everything is fine, a couple of bumps in the road but everything is perfect, you guys don't have to worry, I'll tell you guys everything tomorrow, right now I'm tired so I'm going to take a quick shower and then go to sleep." She said leaving them all anxious.