Summer had come, the cold of winter seemed to disappear when the change of season began on December. Many types of summer flowers bloomed in this hot weather, even a lot of people had already scheduled outdoor vacations on weekends.
Vacation!? The word felt very inappropriate when being presented to a man with big boss’s appearance, he was sitting in his director's chair arrogantly. The man was Skandar Alexander Hemingway. He was the heir of the Chagall Corporation, a large electronics company in Australia. He was too handsome apparently, but it was nothing when discussing his character in understanding and forgiving negligence. Skandar Hemingway was perfectionist so much by a hundred percent.
The mature man flipped his files of agreement with a chief of consigner, he had planned to do a contract review with his company this month. He had been doing this for thirty minutes ago, Skandar always did everything carefully. When he was finding unusual clues, he was getting excited. The Hemingway’s lips grinned upward. It was true that Skandar had just found something. Did they try to manipulate him?
Skandar pressed the telephone button on his desk. His new secretary did not immediately receive the call. The man snorted, this was the second call, and the call was not connected again. If the third call was not connected, he would send a warning letter to his staff, was there a secretary who treated her CEO like this? Skandar closed the receiver’s call roughly, it had a sound like it had just been slammed.
After that, the door opened and showed a girl who was dressed very minimally in a dark brown blazer, she came to run towards his desk. The girl who was lacking in dress material was her new secretary, Sakagawa Sana.
"I don’t ask you to come here, Ms. Sakagawa. I just call you." The CEO quipped her.
"I'm sorry, sir, I must inform you something, there is an important guest who is looking for you now." The girl seemed to apologize to him every second.
"I have told you, I will not accept any guests today." Said Skandar. The man opened his file again, he scratched a few check lists on his paper.
"But Mr. Hemingway. She will be angry." The Japanese girl whispered panicky. Was his secretary a Japanese girl? Yes, she was a Japanese girl. Skandar was hiring a girl from Japan as his new secretary.
"Who!? Who will scold me? Ask her coming tomorrow!" Skandar growled.
"Sir, she will rebuke me and Mr. Hemingway then…."
“Who is your boss now? Scolding me, who is she?”
Skandar thought, was there his office staff who knew if he was busy at this time? How much his time had been wasted, because of his stupid staff? It was not the day after yesterday, not that day. The day before yesterday was even worse than today. He got loss because of him. Thinking about it, Skandar wanted to pull his stupid branch manager’s tie again.
"I, I will scold you!"
A woman suddenly walked in, she brought a luxury maroon bag which symbolized how the woman's socialite was! Of course, the hand bag was a limited edition international bag from a well-known fashion brand, Hermes.
The woman had a rude gaze which was far from how gentle a woman was! The woman was giving glare to the girl whom forbade her to come into her son’s office.
"Go away! Close the door!" Said the woman who was responded by the girl obediently.
“Japanese girl, do you employ Japanese girl, dear? Expatriate workers income tax isn't cheap if you have known." His mom was very fussy, it was his mother's character! Skandar rolled his eyes lazily.
"Expatriate workers must know that personal income tax in this country is determined through a self-assessment scheme. Non-resident tax payers will only be liable to pay personal income tax for the income they earn here. So, it is not my obligation to pay their tax. Stop arranging small things like this, Mom!" Scolded Skandar.
"However, why can she not buy more material dress?" Skandar breathed heavily to hear how fussy his mommy was!
His mother would protest against another small things, it was fortunate that the woman had son whom was as patient as her son. Skandar was just patient for his parents, meanwhile he was so pathetic when it talked about his employees, and his level of work ethic almost even defeated the Japanese invaders.
Skandar stood up from his chair, and walked towards the guest chair at the side of his office. He invited his mommy to sit down too. The Hemingway woman followed her son and sat down on the soft chair. His Hermes bag was still on his lap.
"Where is your girlfriend dear son? Mom's been waiting for her since yesterday. "
Skandar would have sat on the one of other chairs if his mommy did not say his sacred word. The mature man tried to see on his office’s portrait, he was very sluggish to talk about it now. For three weeks, he was asked for those questions, such as "Where is your girlfriend? Your fiancée? Your future wife?" from almost all over side of his home. How loony it was, all of his family were insane!
“Last week I didn't introduce Mom to her. Mom have refused her. "
Skandar tried to remind his mother. The Hemingway man rested his feet for a while. He moved his gaze to the large windows on the tenth floor of his office. He wanted to escape himself from the very sensitive issue for him lately.
"Am I crazy to let my eldest son marrying the bitch?" Skandar’s mommy reproved her son.
“She's not a bitch, Mom, she's my friend. Mom has already known her family, right? "
“No, you will fail your grandfather's testament if you choose the girl. The largest bar company’s daughter in Victoria, Huh? Liquors are their all goods. Oh my God, this kid, is your brain bad to to judge good women?"
Narcissa Hemingway squeezed her beautiful forehead, at the age of nearly fifty-five, the woman still looked very beautiful in her age. There was no wonder, Skandar Alexander Hemingway had charming looking like that. But once more, you should never judge all members of the Hemingway family by their looks. Because both Skandar and his mother had same warning, very picky.
There was a testament from Skandar's grandfather that his grandson-in-law had to get married this month, this year. It was very easy at first, Narcissa Hemingway's son was the ideal son-in-law of all of citizen and socialite levels in Australia, wasn’t he? On the contrary hand, Skandar Hemingway was too stupid and dumb when it came to maximizing his youth. His son had not been even on date any decent women.
And last week, her smart and stupid son invited a girl who looked very bitch according to her appearance. There was no good girl who looked sexy and vulgar when they met their parents. Her mother-in-law, Skandar’s grandma, almost got a heart attack to look at her.
"Mom can assume Sana as my next fiancée after this." Skandar said casually.
"Who is Sana?" asked his mommy soon.
"My new secretary earlier." Skandar smirked on his mother.
“You are mischievous kid! Skandar Alexander Hemingway, do you want your name to be removed from our family line?" Her mother screamed frustrated.
Skandar, could his ear be just pulled little and be done? Her son did not seem to listen her words seriously, it caused Narcissa even being annoyed more. Watch out if his son still took a potty girl and claimed her as his future son-in-law. Mrs. Hemingway was still exasperated about her son's behaviour.
Narcissa rose from her chair, Skandar looked at her strangely. It was unusual for his mommy to leave quickly, he would usually get a lecture class from his Mommy. A class before she went home. Skandar raised his black eyebrows, he was shocked when he got his mother’s grin on purpose.
"There is dinner at our house tonight, come home on time!" Said his mother. "Mom has taken decision, I shall choose your fiancée, it’s final, and there is no interference."
"WHAATT? MOMM!" Skandar glared to her.
The man immediately crushed his face by his large palms. Especially when he saw his mother whom had left his office soon. It was fact that his mother was more terrifying than his grandfather's will.
The man felt like he wanted to scream loudly if he thought about his fate for next four hours.
Skandar is pissed off now!
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At the Canberra Private High School
Canberra, Australia
"Don't you want to try it, Charisa?" Said a short haired girl to the round-eyed girl who was listening a song from her cell phone.
"What should I try?" Charisa Zwetta Davis, the girl turned a questioning look.
Anna, the girl gave a piece of green paper to the Davis girl. They had been friends since Charisa met her on their first day of school.
Charisa read the paper, it was a paper that containing a singing audition from a second tier agency in Australia. The girl's eyes shifted from the top to the bottom of the paper section, the audition was directly under the big agency which was on the rise at recent period, the only boy band that was currently famous under the agency's name. Charisa’s Forehead contracted, she was like to take a conclusion.
"This agency was your father’s office, right, Anna?" Charisa asked, her eyes were still reading on the green paper.
Anna cleared her throat, a sign that she said yes to her friend. The girl did not know that her father was the direct director, which Charisa knew that her father was just an ordinary staff there. After all, she was happy as Charisa’s friend without the girl knowing her father's status. Anna Smith really appreciated people whom saw her as the usual Anna, and Charisa was included as one of those people.
"No, I don't want to, Anna."
"Why? Your voice is good, Char, didn't your brother allow you?" Asked Anna, she knew, since the girl's father died, her friend was taken care of by her brother.
"No... It's exhausting, sing and scream, it just makes me hungry." The long haired girl said innocently.
Anna immediately scratched her hair slowly, she was speechless. Anna almost forgot, if her friend was very slug in positive way. Charisa’s cheerful and honest characteristics were what Anna like towards hers.
After that, they were waiting to be picked up by their respective families. Charisa might be picked up by her sister-in-law, as she remembered that it had already past her brother's break time. Anna had been picked up by her personal driver, but Charisa had not been picked up by her sister in law yet. A white car had just appeared in front of her school fence. Charisa recognized it as her sister-in-law's car.
"Sista..." Charisa shouted, she immediately pulled her backpack and ran towards the white car.
"How’s your class, Char?" Her beautiful sister-in-law greeted her, Amanda.
"Fine, where are you going to, sista? Why do you make up so pretty like this?"
“Ohh, we're going to the boutique, Charisa. You must choose a new dress. "
“Dress for me? Will we have an event? "
"Yes, we have to hurry, we have no any time."
Charisa seemed as she was thinking about, what kind of party they were going to attend, so they had to buy a new dress at the boutique too. The round-eyed girl was silent when her sister-in-law was driving the car. Charisa opened her Line application, several her friends’ messages came in, the young girl laughed by her cute rabbit teeth.
"Sista, my biology score is bad anymore, it's very difficult. I may get a remedy. Do babies come out from stomach? If they do not from there, where does he come out of?" Charisa asked suddenly. The young girl saw her sister whom looked shocked and embarrassed at her.
"Ahh... Come out of-" Amanda Davis' voice hung, the woman was confused to answer her young sister-in-law's question, it sounded that she taught many biology issues for her which she even was not the biology teacher.
“Do you not really know, Charisa? You can open it again in the reproduction chapter. It explains which parts of the body are used as human reproductions, such as for making babies. Something of that kind." Amanda grimaced, she was really not good in explaining this matter.
"Making a baby? What is it made of? "
The young girl was still staring on Amanda who already looked at her by those round eyes. Amanda found difficult case when an innocent school girl as Charisa gave her a question while she was focused on driving. It was more difficult than when she took a driving test to get her first driving license.
"Read your biology book again, Charisa! I am driving now." Amanda avoided to discuss the matter by her stiff laugh.
"It sounds like biology is an important science." Charisa's little grunt.
God, Noah!
Were you kidding? Did you command your innocent sister to get married?
Last year, when her father-in-law died, Amanda Davis thought that her father-in-law's will was just nonsense if there was a testament of matchmaking in the current era of globalization. Moreover, the family of their prospective in-laws also did not discuss the testament anymore. It was until last month, they received news from the family, if the family was serious about their testament, and they would be discussing the clarity of the will. Hopefully they did not, Amanda prayed at that time. She already loved Charisa like her own younger sister. She could not bear it if Charisa got young marriage like that.
Amanda almost cursed on her husband this morning, Noah Davis, he was alike giving her heart attack at the morning. How could her husband suddenly told her if his sister was going to marry this month, like it or not, Charisa would be married off. Amanda wanted to hit her husband's head, what did Noah not know how difficult to teach his innocent sister to think a bit mature?
"Ahh, I should buy the latest edition of biology book for Charisa then!" Said Amanda suddenly.
Charisa was startled, she was disgusted to read biology books again!
