BXBX NOVEL Chapter 309 - They Are Engaged! (1)
Next morning, Aiden was drowsily nudging Sarah to wake up. "Baby, wake up... handle your phone..."
Sarah moaned in protest. "What?"
"Don\'t you hear your phone?" He covered his head with a pillow. "Silence it, if you are going to ignore it."
"I need the alarm... let me check." Sarah saw that it\'s her app for notifying her when there are media posts about her or her sisters. \'Now what?\' She opened to see the details and saw that it\'s because of Jeff. \'Oh, I added him to the list for notifications when they got photographed last time...\' She turned to Aiden. "Your brother is in the news again."
"Is it because of yesterday?" Aiden was waking up, thinking that someone connected Jeff with yesterday\'s incident related to Greg. Sarah also got serious and started going through social media posts which are talking about Jeff. After few minutes, she concluded. "There is nothing about bodyguards being attacked or a crazed surgeon... but there is a lot of speculation about future Mrs. Jeffrey White."
Aiden yawned, "Then it does not matter... come back to bed... and silence those notifications..."
Sarah agreed and went back to bed. But she was awake already and just laid next to Aiden, watching him sleep. \'Mrs. Jeffrey White... Did they got photographed again?... Mrs. Jeffrey White...\' Sarah wondered. \'How did JoAnna shift from mystery woman to Mrs. Jeffrey White?\'
She reached for her phone and went through social media posts again, trying to figure out where the rumors started from. Not long after, she found an article in one LA magazine. Article described that Mr. White had dinner in a Chinese restaurant with a mystery woman who was photographed last week with him in Malibu... some guesses and gossips to fill up the space, and then the main piece: Mr. White confirmed that woman is his future wife. They quoted him. Sarah checked few more links and found that number of other magazines published the similar information. Not everything was exactly the same, but part where Jeff confirmed that the woman with him is his future wife was consistent across different magazines. This looked to be more than just a gossip, so Sarah got out of the bed and called JoAnna.
It took some time for her to pick up.
JoAnna answered drowsily, it was obvious that Sarah woke her up.
"Hello, is this Mrs. Jeffrey White?" Sarah spoke in official tone.
JoAnna was startled awake. "How do you know?"
"You are kidding me!" Sarah exclaimed, and then quickly composed herself. "Hmm... everyone knows. Social media is buzzing. Last night Jeff told reporters that you are his future wife. This is not only in gossip magazines, it\'s in business publications as well."
"Oh..."
"Well, congratulations!", Sarah practically screamed.
"Thanks." JoAnna\'s voice was quiet. She was not comfortable with this, yet.
"I suggest that you call Sophia, mom and dad and tell them... it will be better than if they find out from newspapers."
"Yes. Thanks." JoAnna hanged up.
Sarah hopped on the bed and woke up Aiden.
"Now what?" He complained. He just slept off, and she is waking him up again.
Sarah beamed. "You officially have a future sister-in-law!"
Aiden\'s look was blank. He was obviously confused.
"Jeff and Anna got engaged!" She bounced on the bed.
"No way..." Aiden could not believe it.
Sarah enthusiastically nodded. "Call him if you don\'t believe me. I just got off the phone with JoAnna."
Aiden paused before asking, "How long are they together?"
"Does it matter?"
He was suspicious. "You are unusually supportive..."
"Even if I had any doubts about Jeff, they all disappeared yesterday."
"All it takes is one bashing, and you change your mind?" Aiden laughed.
"Don\'t make it sound so simple!" Sarah exclaimed and threatened to hit him with a pillow. "I saw that he really cares about her. I\'m confident that he will do anything he can to make her happy."
Sarah\'s phone was ringing. She saw it\'s JoAnna.
"Yes, Mrs. Jeffrey White?", Sarah grinned.
"Don\'t call me that... it\'s weird. And you sound like you are mocking me.", JoAnna pouted.
Sarah laughed, "OK. OK... I correct myself to future-Mrs.-Jeffrey-White, better? Why did you call?"
"You don\'t need to come and give me company today... Jeff will work from home. I will let you know when the anesthetic is ready. You can count on picking it up after work."
"Sounds good. Say hi to your future hubby from me." Sarah was happy that she gets to tease her sister.
"You know that soon I will be able to throw all these jokes back at you?"
"Hehehe, but you can\'t do it now!" Sarah hanged up while still giggling.
"Jeff will work from home today.", she told Aiden.
Aiden acknowledged that information without showing much enthusiasm.
Sarah was very excited. "I can\'t wait... I guess we will plan a wedding soon!"
"You are enjoying this." He observed.
"Of course. Weddings are one of the all-happy gatherings. There will be presents, and dancing and everyone dresses up nicely and is in good spirits. I didn\'t have chances to attend weddings, so I\'m very excited." She hummed a song and happily went into the bathroom.
Aiden remembered that Sarah never had close friends, so it\'s expected that she didn\'t have chance to attend such events. As for her family, from paternal side, there does not seem to be many relatives, while from maternal side, they are not in touch.
Aiden thought about that for some time, and then his thoughts shifted to Jeff and JoAnna. What is Jeff thinking? They are together only few weeks. How can he be confident that he is doing the right thing? On the other side, Jeff is already 28 years old. Maybe because he is older, he knows those things. Aiden can\'t help but think about him and Sarah. He loves her, and can\'t imagine being away from her... but marriage? He never thought about it.. Aiden started panicking, what if Sarah starts thinking about it? What if she starts disliking him because they are together for so much longer than Jeff and JoAnna, but he didn\'t propose to her? \'Damnit Jeff!\' He cursed his brother internally for putting this pressure on him.