12 Finally: P'Mali

Faye/ Aashna’s POV

Today is the day or shall I say tonight will be the night wherein my four years of tutoring and coaching will be put to test in a huge public gathering of people belonging to a high profile society.

Calm and relaxed, that’s how I’m feeling at this very moment. I’ve been preparing for this kind of event for the last four years of my hiatus from Thailand.

How to interact with people from different walks of life, controlling my emotions under certain circumstances,  my expertise in speaking Spanish and Hindi and many other things that could very well associate me to my twin sister, Aashna.

Anntonia made me wear this all black tuxedo for women paired with a dark shiny stiletto . She said it will give me a sophisticated and distinctive look and made me stand out from the crowd. My long hair was styled by Pammy into a simple messy bun and then gives my face a clean and natural make-up look. She also applied a neutral red  undertone color on my lips.

My companion for the event, Anntonia was clothed in a long off-shoulder and alluring black dress, paired also with a high heeled foot wear. She opted also for a natural look make-up and had her hair on a high pony-tail.

Anntonia: “Pssst, wifey!.” she called me.

Faye/ Aashna: “Huh!.” I looked at her like a confused cute little kid.

Anntonia: “We two could pass as a couple mafia boss.”

That’s when we heard a loud snortlle at the back. “And what do you make of me?”, Michelle asked as she entered the room.

Anntonia: “Oh honey, we’ll make a good looking trouple.”

Me and Michelle: “Whaaat???.”, we said simultaneously while looking wide eyed at Anntonia.

Anntonia: “Relax, geez, I was only kidding.” she said while moving closer to Michelle as she gave her a sweet, short peck on the lips.

After our little chitchat in the room, we’re finally (me, Anntonia, Michelle with Mario) heading to the hotel where the event will be held.

Rafa was happy to stay with her Aunt Pammy and Carlo. They really do get along well. Pammy is just happy as well to look after her little munchkin, as she calls Rafa and play with him and Carlo some Helldivers 2, a new PS5 game.

We slowly made our way to the venue using my 2025 Audi Q6. Anntonia and I were seated at the back while Michelle sat in front together with our autoist, Mario.

While we were peacefully wheeling on the highway, I couldn’t help myself but to reminisce of the memories back in the days when team 9Starstudios was busy of the promotions and fan meets both in and out of the country.

Sleep was the only luxury that we ever needed. Oh how fast the time flies. Here I am back in my home country again, this time as a business owner and is about to strike a deal with one of the successful companies in Thailand.

I am also looking forward to seeing Yoko at this event. Pam told me that the GL power 3: FreenBecky, EngLot and LingOrm will be present at the occasion, of course Yoko will be with them as well.

I’m certain that Yoko had blossomed into a very beautiful young woman, with many admirers lining up on her, or maybe she already has a family with Big. I don’t know, I intentionally stopped receiving information about her from Pam, for as long as I know that she’s doing well in life, I’m fine with that. I also don’t have any social media account. Everything goes through Anntonia since we’re always together (Anntonia told me that she made me a private Instagram account just in case, with only 6 followers and 6 following respectively– (Herself, Michelle, Rafa, Carlo, Mario and Pammy – I have no interest in knowing it’s username or password, I communicate with Pam using Rafa’s account).

My phone is only used for games, especially when I'm bored playing the waiting gane, during meetings, events etc. etc... Everything else goes through Anntonia cause we're always together anyway. Except at night when she’s sharing a room with Michelle, if you know what I mean (winky winky wink).

Well, for a young boy Rafa has an Instagram, Weibo, RedNote and X account. He's an expert in that department. A very intellectual young kid. Always thinks before posting something.

As our vehicle came to a stop and we all got out of the car, a large, spacious, convention center welcomed our sights as we stepped inside the venue.

All the VVIP guests which include us, were lead into the intimate banquet hall. Some of the most distinguished guests include the closest of family members, their business partners and investors and some of the countries high ranking diplomats.

I told Anntonia to get a table closest to the corner to avoid attracting any unwanted attention towards us.

So here we are (Anntonia, Michelle and me) seated at the very far end of the hall. I even invited Mario to come inside with us, but he just insisted to be hanging around with some of the guests chauffeur.

The festivities went on for hours, with many guests congratulating the couple of the 25th Wedding Anniversary,  until I heard my name being called on stage.

“Tonight you will witness a commercial fusion of two internationally acclaimed companies: The Sethachon Co., Ltd. and ASI Holdings Incorporated. Ladies and Gentlemen, distinguest guests please give a round of applause for the Chief Executive Officer of ASI Holdings Incorporated, Miss Aashna Adani.”

Everyone stood up and gave me  curious looks, with some of them whispering among themselves. I slowly stood up and gave both Anntonia and Michelle a short and brief hug.

Anntonia whispered something in my ear. “We’ve been preparing for this wifey, I know you got this.” as she gave me a quick kiss on my checks and wiped the lipstick mark before I go to the front to give my short speech.

Faye/ Aashna:  “Buenas noches a todos.  Esta noche me gustaría felicitar a esta amorosa pareja por su aniversario de bodas.  Esta noche no es el momento de hablar de negocios.  Esta noche se trata de la celebración del amor y la felicidad.  Saludos a todos y que tengáis una buena noche.” (Good evening everyone. Tonight I would like to congratulate the very loving couple on their wedding anniversary. Tonight is not the time to talk about business. Tonight is about the celebration of true love and happiness. So cheers to everyone and may you have a lovely evening.)

After my brief speech, I bowed down to everyone and gave them my curtsy before walking off the stage. As I was making my way back to our table, a very familiar figure caught my eye. There she was, a drop-dead gorgeous looking Yoko, sitting with the most famous GL actresses in Thailand.

I averted my glimpse quickly and tried to focus on Anntonia as I was nearing our table. Both Michelle and Anntonia stood up and gave me a pat on my back. We remained sited for the remainder of the festivities and talked among ourselves.

I never attempted to look the other direction where I knew Yoko was seated. I just gave my attention to Anntonia and Michelle.

At one point, Orm’s parents came to us and had a little chit-chat.

It was getting late now, and I told Anntonia that it’s time for us to go, so she approached the celebrant’s table and said their goodbyes, with the former telling the couple that a business meeting will be arranged very soon for the formality of our business deals.

As we were living, I told  Mich and wifey to go to the car first because I had to use the powder room to take a wuss. As I finished taking a pee and was about to go out of the powder room when I suddenly bumped into someone and I was started by the impact of it.

“Oh, I’m sorry….” lo and behold, there was Yoko, in her very conservative, slight off shoulder navy blue dress, staring at me astounded.

“Estás bien?  Por favor, discúlpeme señorita, tengo algo de prisa.” (are you all right? Please excuse me miss, I'm kind of in a hurry.) I told her as I bowed my body slightly as a sign of respect. And I took my exit quickly and off I went to our car to make our way home.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE:

For the nth time, again thank you very much guys for taking your time in reading my story.

Be safe always.