Pre Celebration

Alessandro POV

"So tell me Miss Rose, how was work for you today?" I ask as we sat down at the booth she always sat in by herself during her lunch hours.

She looked at me in shock the whole time we were here and I knew why. She was probably thinking I'm crazy because of how I knew where she sat during her lunch time and how I also knew which food she always ordered from the cafe we were in right now.

"It was okay" She replies with a awkward pause as I gave her a look making her sigh.

"Okay fine, I just finished a magazine shoot today and my manager was congratulating me for being on the front page of Vogue for the 5th time" She says quickly before starting to eat her chicken Alfredo.

"If she's congratulating you, why don't you look happy about it?"

"What's there to be happy about? I'm the front page of a magazine again, it's not as exciting as it was the first time"

"And why is that?"

"Because there's nothing special about my job as it is at your company. I don't get a raise, I don't celebrate employee of the month with a bunch of people in a office I'm close to, and I can't even celebrate it with anyone since I don't even have close friends except for my female cousins and my childhood best friend  because Brad thinks the other models that try to talk me are all skanks or whores"

Right when she ended her angry rant, I realized the real reason why she wasn't happy about her magazine shoot. Now I really know why she's always angry or stressed out when I see her, it's because her asshole of a fiancé is trying to control her when what she really needs is to be set free and show off that beautiful smile that always puts me in a trance when she shows it.

"If you didn't have friends to celebrate your big day with, you could've just called me. I'd be glad to celebrate your 5th time being the face of Vogue Magazine, I mean that is such a big deal especially for a young model such as yourself. I bet there's a lot of beautiful young women dying to be just like you when they're older" I reply as she looked at me with astonishment.

Her face looked like she was deep in thought, reeling in my every word. She was having a mental argument within herself to pick what words to say to me on both my offer and my compliment.

"Isn't it going to be weird to be celebrating something with your employees fiancé?" She asks as I rolled my eyes.

"Maybe if my employee had decided to celebrate this special day with his fiancé, it wouldn't be awkward for his boss to do it instead" I reply as she looked back at me speechless.

"It's almost time for me to head back to work, so I'll pick you up tonight at 8 so we can go celebrate your special day" I say noticing it was almost time for her lunch to be over.

"Oh shoot, yeah. Can you drop me off please? I took the bus earlier to drop off Brads food and my car is still at my work parking lot" She gasps while looking down at her phone seeing the time on it.

"Of course" I reply while helping her out of the booth before handing her black Versace clutch bag to her.

After we got into my Rolls Royce, I drove to Jezzabelle's work building to drop her off, but she was surprised when I walked her into the front desk of the building.

"You really didn't have to"

"What are friends for?"

I leaned down to plant a soft kiss against her face seeing her round smooth cheeks turn bright pink. I smirked to myself when her face turned red while noticing some of her coworkers were standing around watching us in shock.

"See you tonight at 8 my little rose"

Right when those words came out, her alluring doe brown eyes snapped up at me like a deer caught in headlights. Before she can say anything else, I walked off leaving her nosey coworkers whispering and waiting for me to walk out so they can ask a bajillion questions to the shocked beautiful rose in the room.

...

"Is that who I think it is?!"

I rolled my eyes while walking into my family home I haven't been to since, I don't even remember.

"Alessandro! My big baby boy!"

My mother shouts in happiness as I smiled while watching her small figure running up to me with open arms.

"Oh my gosh! You're so skinny. Come, let's get some food in that small belly of yours"

I laughed while watching her squeeze my torso suspiciously before dragging me into the dining room that had 4 of my siblings and father seated around the table.

"Alessandro!" My little sister and the baby of our family shouts running up to throw herself into my arms.

"Alexandra don't do that, your large body might give him a broken back with the way your jumping onto him" My younger brother snickers while fist pumping my dad from the side of the table.

"Boys! Behave!" My mother snaps while setting a plate on the table for me making my father and brother nod quickly at her demand.

"Alessandro baby, how have you been? I haven't seen you since Mother's Day and it's almost Christmas now"

My mother says as soon as I sat down beside her and started scooping food from the middle of the table onto my plate in front of me.

"Well obviously he's been busy with being the richest CEO in the country. Isn't that right Leonel?"

Of course my father still considers calling me by middle name since it was the only name he could give one of his sons. He had 6 kids with my mother and yet every first and middle name picked out for all 4 sons he had were named by my mother.

It was only I that was allowed the decision of being chosen a middle name that my father liked, and of course it had to be the Spanish version of his name since he was obsessed with keeping his Latin tradition running in our family. And if you're wondering, yes my fathers name is Lionel, but he gave me the middle name of Leonel which is literally the Spanish version of Lionel.

"Too busy if you ask me. Baby, you're almost 40 already and yet you come to my house with no woman and no children. And when I say women and children, I mean belonging together. I don't want any baby mama drama and I already told all of you guys that I do not want children unless the woman you bring the children with has a ring that you put on her finger first" She says looking at each of me and my siblings with a stern look.

"Why are you getting on my boy for? Instead of pestering my hard working son, why don't you pester the large meat head over here that loves to eat all the damn food in the house but can't even go out and buy his own. Why don't you go to your own house? I pay all the bills for nobody living there"

I snickered to myself seeing my oldest brother sitting beside my father rolling his eyes.

"You're literally 2 years away from being 40 years old. Why don't you go out and find a family of your own already? I both had you and married mom when I was 14 years younger than the age you are now"

"Actually, haven't you heard dad? My lovely oldest brother here has been seeing a beautiful red head for the past 5 years"

My older sister, Avery, says making everyone's eyes widened while turning towards the oldest of our siblings. He glared at my sister with a clenched jaw as she smirked back at him with a wink.

"Since you decided to bring up my girlfriend, why don't we bring up your secret boyfriend that you never mentioned, oh and worse of all he's a Shirley!"

Right when that last name was said, my father slammed his hand down angrily glaring at his two oldest children having a angry stare down between each other.

"When the fuck did this happen? And second of all, why the fuck is it still happening after you knew who his father was?!" My father shouts as my older sister avoided his angry stare.

"Lionel! Calm down or you'll have another heart attack!" My mother snaps while pointing her fork at him with a raised brow.

"Another? When the hell did that happen?" I ask realizing how much I've missed out on our previous little family dinners.

"Daddy had a heart attack last month because Archers dumbass over here was kidnapped by one of our enemies and almost ended up getting shot in the head for not releasing information about Dad" My little sister explains as my eyes turned to my younger brother Archer who was flicking her arm.

"Wow, I miss out a few monthly visits and all of a sudden Dad has a heart attack, Alejandro is dating his assistant, Avery is sneaking around with the one of our biggest rivals sons, and Archer was kidnapped and almost shot to death. Is there anything else I need to know before I end up having a heart attack right here at this table?" I announce while looking around the table seeing the guilty looks over everyone's face.

"Alexandras dating the boy next door! And he's apart of a biker gang in LA" Archer replies before the table was filled with angry shouting and bickering from everyone's side of the table.

I rolled my eyes while watching my family members yelling and arguing back and forth with each person they can find before I felt my phone buzzing in my pocket. I excused myself from the table, although nobody even noticed, just so I can see who's calling.

"Big brother! How's the family dinner? I heard there's gonna more secrets coming out than the ones that came out last family dinner"

Walking around the front yard of my family's large mansion estate, I shook my head at the voice of my twin brother laughing from the other side of the phone.

"Let me guess, you're in Italy now making your body count that you kept track of since high school higher now in a new country that you decide to visit so that you can avoid another family dinner?"

"Of course my less fun other half of myself would know everything about me. Maybe you'd be less stuck up and angry all the time if you followed in your twin bros footsteps. I mean, when was the last time you got laid? Probably, what? Ten years ago?"

I pulled my phone away from my ear knowing he was gonna laugh very loudly through the phone.

"My sex life is doing way better than yours, future face of the commercials for STDs. What we should talk about is why you're never around more than I am in this family now. What? You found a special Italian woman over there that's finally got you locked down?"

"Actually what I was gonna say is, did you find a special someone already since I felt something inside of me telling myself that you did. And you know what they say happens to twins in our family"

The blessing and curse of being a twin in the Anderson family. Everyone in our family, ancestors and new additions, knew about what our parents and grandparents call the 'special curse' on every twin siblings in our family.

It all started in the early 1900's, when our....well, I don't even remember how many greats there was but great something twin grandparents supposedly fought over the same woman and ended up both having twin sets of children with the same woman.

I forgot what the woman's name was that my grandfather told me it was, but my parents always said that because of what that woman did to our family, every set of twins in our family is now cursed into falling for the same person.

Good news is some of our ancestors that were twins ending up being fine with sharing and marrying the same significant other, seeing the alleged curse as more of a blessing. Bad news was that other ancestors and members in our family that were twins ending up fighting and never talking again over one being more possessive over the same love interest than the other and therefore ending up isolating themselves with that love interest very far away from the family leaving the other twin half in a miserable state which mentally leads themselves away from the family in the end.

Somehow I always thought that ancient story in our family was faker than Kim Kardashians body but it wasn't until the day I saw both my uncles Michael and Mitchell getting married to the same woman on the same day when I was 11 years old.

My parents never thought it would happen to me and Ace, even we didn't think it would be the same as well.

Our preferences in women were always different, there were more stuff Ace was into that I wasn't, and whenever it came to us both having a woman beside us, we were both overprotective about them and never even thought about sharing a girlfriend ever.

"Nope, I haven't found anyone special yet. Are you sure you weren't feeling a small heart attack? I mean I just heard that dad recently had a heart attack so maybe you felt what he felt?" I ask quickly trying to change the subject.

"Don't try to change the subject, you know what uncles Mitchell and Michael said about how they first found out about aunt Claire. They felt something through one another, and how did that happen? When uncle Michael first met aunt Claire while he was half way across the country, far from where uncle Mitchell was at the time. So I'll ask you again big brother, who's the little girl you're keeping from me and our family huh?"

Rolling my eyes at his words, I quickly looked down at my watch seeing the time.

"I'll call you later" I reply while ignoring his protest.

I texted my father to know that I was leaving before getting into my limo to drive me to the woman I've been wanting to take out for the past 5 years.

...

"You don't mind that I bring some people right?" She asks looking up at me with an adorable puppy face.

"Of course" I reply disappointedly while watching her 3 friends jumping into my limo excitedly.

"I was gonna call you to ask beforehand since they wouldn't stop nagging me about celebrating together with you after I told them who you were but I forgot I don't have your phone number because I-"

Before she could finish her random spew of words because of how nervous she was about letting her friends hang out with me and her tonight, I grabbed the black iphone in her hand and quickly put my number in her contacts.

"Now that you have my number, we can go to my club now"

"Your club?"

I gestured her to get into the limo as she follows with a clueless expression. Right when I got in after her, her loud friends quiet down while watching the two of us sit down beside each other.

"So....." Her red head friend says trailing off her word while wiggling her eyebrows at Jezzabelle.

"What's wrong with your eyebrows?" Jezzabelle asks back confused seeing all 3 of her female friends all wiggling their eyebrows together.

"Bitch! Are you not gonna introduce us to the sexy man next to you?!" Her brunette friend shouts with a wink as I watched the little Rose next to me turn a bright pink color after her cocky friend's outburst.

"Mr. Anderson, these 3 ladies are my closest friends from my childhood. Eva, Nikki, and Stephanie. And you guys already know my fiancé's boss" She says quickly gesturing to her friends sitting from left to right in front of us.

I already knew who the women in front of me were as soon as I sat down in the limo and faced them.

Eva Mendes, Fitness Model and social media influencer. One of the first females on the cover of Men's Health Magazine, because of her famous bodybuilding mother and father.

Nikki Emerson, full time Actress and part time TV show host. Famous for her leading roles in drama tv shows and romance movies. Not only was she known as one of the most beautiful leading actresses now a days, she is also one of the most popular actresses coming from famous acting parents.

Stephanie Wilson, full time Journalist and part time photographer. Both of her parents are very known movie producers which successfully helped her become a popular photographer and journalist in their  company.

"So Mister Anderson, we heard that you're currently on the market?" Nikki says with a wink towards Jezzabelle.

"Nikki! How about you stop being a nosey bitch and pass that expensive looking bottle right next to you so we can start partying for our girl Jezzabelle over here!"

Jezzabelle's shy expression turned into a happy one when her friend Eva decided to grab one of the champagne bottles on the side of the limo.

I watched as my little Rose gorgeous smile began to bloom when the champagne was being poured into a couple of glasses and passed around the limo.

"To Jezzabelle being the front page of Vogue Magazine for the 5th year in a row!" Nikki shouts as they all cheered while clinking glasses.

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