My Best Friend's Brother | ✔

Chapter 41

Ariel's POV

"Hello! Your loving daughter is home!" I shout to no one in particular as I enter my first home, Adam's being my second.

My mother comes out of the kitchen with a cloth on her hands, wiping her wet palms. She smiles when she sees me, dropping the cloth on the counter.

"Well hello, stranger." She teases. "Thought for a moment that you moved out on us." She continues, with a playful glint in her bright green eyes.

I roll my eyes playfully. "I've only been gone for two days, not two years." I retort as I plop down on the couch.

Adam just dropped me off after I decided that I better go home. After our little thing with Landon, Adam's been happy about the situation, especially since he just got back a friend.

My mom finds the seat next to me and she rests an elbow above the chair, positioning her body to face me.

"Oh! I almost forgot." She remembers. "Lily forgot to invite you to one of her annual charity events that she's holding next Sunday. She called shortly after you left their house." She finishes.

I raise a confused eyebrow. Adam's mother has never invited me to any of the events that she holds.

I decide to voice my thoughts, "She's never invited me to one before."

A sinister smile appears on her lips, "That was before Adam and you were an item." She states matter of factly.

I'm even more confused now, if even possible.

"What does that have to do with anything? Especially with me getting an invite to her previous ones." I question.

My mother just rolls her eyes, "My sweet sweet foolish little girl." My mother coos as she pats my head.

"Tell me." I whine as I remove her hand.

"Isn't it obvious, Ariel?" She laughs. "They're lots of eligible young men who attend Lily's events. Handsome too, if I might add. Why would we risk inviting you when you were single? For our ship to sink like The Titanic? No thank you." She finishes, leaving my mouth agape.

"You mean- she was-" I start and stop foolishly.

"Yes, Ariel. Lily and I wanted you to get together for years!" She dramatically yells. "But both of you were just so stubborn and wouldn't admit your feelings for each other." She ends.

I'm sure my mouth is open so wide that I'm catching flies.

"Lemme get this straight." I start. "You both assumed that we would get together and you were right?" I ask.

"I don't assume, Ariel. It'll just make an ass out of you and me." She says in all seriousness. "I just predicted the future."

"So what did our fathers think?" I begin to become serious on that topic.

"Well, they wanted it to happen but they never thought it would." She explains. "David just wanted Adam to get over his rebel ways and Tony, your father, just thought that Adam would treat you right." She concludes.

"Us mothers knew though. Call it... mothers intuition." She says before getting up and exiting from the living room.

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"So how's it between you and Liam?" I ask Libby as we walk towards the cafeteria.

"It's great!" She says enthusiastically. "I mean, it's cool I guess." She plays it off, realising that she was a bit too chirpy.

I laugh at this and she playfully nudges me.

In all seriousness I ask, "Did you two... you know..." I trail off, asking the question that I've been wondering.