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"Present" , She thought to herself "who might it be?"

Grant again. He never fails to surprise Natalie, even though she could be unreasonable at times, Natalie contemplated. Little did she know that Natalie being completely real in front of Grant, and not a version of her with filters was what Grant admired the most. Grant had been in the entertainment industry for quite some time and had seen a lot of fake friends come and go, hence being with Natalie being himself around her made him satiated, he felt content. Even though she hardly ever gave him a chance to express his true feelings, he was gratified with his unrequited love.

Natalie being utterly rude earlier to Grant, decided to go to the kitchen and start preparing his favorite pudding. She could always win him over , even if she didn't try to,  for the only thing Grant wanted and he knew could never have was her. Hence he stated beside her helped her cope with circumstances she couldn't have survived alone. Had it not been for him she would still be wandering in her delusions, dealing with her nemesis.

"He'd surely be happy when he would see this." she said relieved once she was done she sat down on her couch thinking.
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'How was I up all night?' she thought.

'I remember how we were awake that night it was nothing like the last night it was different.'

****FLASHBACK****

Natalie's POV

"We were preparing for the A- listers for Marriage ." "Marriage? Whose marriage?" Harry inquired.

"My cousins." I stated .

"So why were you awake?"

"Huh?"

Niall interrupts, "Hey there's a camp this summer you....." then holding Naomi properly so that she doesn't fall down, Naomi was totally asleep and was in no mood of waking up. "ummm... you guys interested."

"Hey , that seems like a good....."

I interrupt Harry, " Not happening I've got my brother's marriage this summer, so not happening." "You've got a brother?" Niall inquired.

"Yes, but its not his wedding, its my cousin brother Anthony's wedding."

"WHAT exactly happened last night?" Harry questioned.

*******LAST NIGHT*******

"Natalie give me a page we need to prepare list for the people who need to be invited for Anthony's wedding."

"But mom ......" BELL RINGS

"NAOMMMMMIIIIII!!!!! Whose at the door?" I screamed uncharacteristically.

Naomi who was totally comfortable in the position she was sitting in, wherein she was resting on the single sofa with her head on one handle of the sofa and her legs on the other and her right hand touching the ground and left hand playing with her hair. She got down on her hand and then crawled two steps forward and finally got up.

"Yeah, I'm checking." she cried.

As we heard her opening the door not even a fraction of second had passed when we heard her scream.

"OH MY GAAAAAAWWDDDDD. BHAIIIIIIIIII."

"BHAI?" I ran towards the door. To my surprise it was my brother Noah . Naomi had already climbed on Bhai.
Bhai is Noah Peter's .

Bhai works at Rennissance , LONDON.

Bhai has followed dad's footsteps he's a chef. Bhai is the eldest.

Bhai is the best brother in the world.

"Noah you here so early??" Aunt Grace inquired.

Aunt Grace , was staying with us for that week as we had her son Anthony engagement in the weekend.

Putting Naomi down, and giving a big smile , he looked at aunt and said with utmost respect as he always does.

"Aunt I'm here just for a week, I'll be leaving the day after the engagement."

"Whyyy bhai?" Naomi complained.

"Don't you want me to comeback for the wedding?"

"You'll be here for the wedding!!!!Bhai will be here for the wedding! Yaayy." Naomi squeaked as she realised it was almost 10 in the night.

"Maaaa......" Bhai called out to maa.

When she heard Bhai call out to her, she couldn't stop the flow of tears from her eyes.
"Mom , I missed you!!!"

"Me too. Didn't you eat anything there. Look how thin you've become."

"Mom.... workload you know...."

"Girls take your Bhai's luggage and come down all three of you. We'll prepare the list together."

"List? The people to be invited?"

"Yep." Naomi commented. Swinging her head.

"Yeah. Now keep your bag upstairs, freshen up and come down.:"

It was already 11 pm when we sat down writing the list. I was given the job of writing down the names of the people so I took up a paper and a pen and sat down to write the names.

The names began.

Counting up the total number of members in our own family, we had around 75 people. Leaving them we had to invite our third cousin's , writing down their names the total number of people came up to 320. Then came the people of our colony, the whole colony was invited, therefore the total ended up at 520. It was already 1:30 am when mom suggested whether we wanted to invite our friends.
We already had 11 Pammi aunty's 25 Raju mama's 30 beji's from India.

I was in no state to write a single name more and was about to say 'Not required' when I heard Naomi scream

"Of course you didn't keep us waiting here for 2 and half hours not to enter the names of our friends in the list."

"Naomi, shhh its okay." Both bhai and myself said in unison.

"Natalie write down Harry and Niall's name." Naomi commanded.

"Harry.... Niall..... the ones who came for lunch the last day. Wasn't he supposed to come over to do the project?" Mom inquired.

"Yeah he will tomorrow!" I replied.

" A boy at our place? That too Natalie's friend. Miracle!" Bhai murmured in Naomi's ear when both started laughing.

"I can hear both of you." I stated.

"Noah, wont you invite any of your friends?" Aunt questioned.

"Not many, just one."

******back at school******
"That's how we never slept last night."

I was staring at Harry's face. "Its okay Natalie shit happens." He looks me in the eyes and wide grin spreads on his face, he grasps my left hand with his left one. His grip getting tighter with every giggle.
"I know."

A/N: Hey guys hope you are enjoying, thank you to Sharonbose14 for the cover art.