Chapter 5 A little Argument

'fuck!" Kyle muttered under his breath. He quickly stood up and went towards them. I just sat there unsure of what to say or do.

"Uncle..." he said while hugging the old man. He then hugged the woman and escorted her to her seat.

"Is she correct by what she said?" The woman asked him but he ignored her question and glared at the lady.

"This is Ashley, my wife," Kyle told them.

"Oh that's nice, I never knew you had a girlfriend or something. How long have you been together?" The woman asked.

"Like six months back" he replied, returning to his seat beside me.

"But the news says otherwise, " the man replied. I guess Kyle wasn't expecting it to be on the internet yet or for his uncle to have seen it yet.

"I just wanted it to seem more believable. But the honest answer Is six months"

"So how come we never knew about her, that you were dating the baker girl" the Young lady said, I guess she wanted to remind the older ones of what she said earlier. Just then the door opened again and a guy I recognized very well from the bakery came in. Derek...

Derek is one of our best and frequent customers. He always stopped by every morning while jogging to grab coffee and while returning from work every evening, he'd stop by again to get doughnuts. I could call him a friend because everytime I served him myself, he always make small talk with me and he's among the few reach guys that comes to the cafe and don't make lustful approaches towards me. He's very friendly and jovial and charming too.

He smiled as soon as he sighted me, I actually thought he'd pretend we don't know each other but I was wrong.

"Ashely, nice to see you huh?" He even came over to my side and gave me a brief hug.

"Derek, how are you doing?" I greeted back as I sat down back from the hug. Everyone else was kind of surprised for sure.

"Ok, formal introductions" Kyle said. " This is my Uncle, Bon Patrick"

"You can call me Uncle too" Bob said without looking up from his phone.

"His wife, Aunt Kathy and their daughter, Linda" Kathy smiled and Linda just kept giving me the smug look she's been throwing me since. "Their son, Derek" he smiled again.

"There's Uncle Harry too and his two daughters, Sara and Lyla. Bug I guess they'd be coming late" he concluded. "As usual" Linda added.sge seemed to be a spoiled brat because that's how she behaves and look.

"So Ashley, is it true you manage The miller's cafe?" Bob asked

"More like own sir" I replied before Kyle could. "Oh that's interesting " Bob replied. "Is that the only thing you do or...?"

"Yes. I'm always at the bakery all day"

"Nice" he said.

" The bakes there are super nice, the doughnuts which of course is everyone's favorite. But I'm a fan of the chops" Aunt Kathy said and I have to admit, I got a little bit relieved because I thought they wouldn't like me at all.

I smiled in response.

"So which college did you attend and what course?" Bob asked again.

I didn't know if to answer that,I looked at Kyle abd luckily he replied immediately.

"Ashley graduated from University of California, here in Los Angeles and majored in Business administration". Oh my God! Okay. I smiled at the family as they all looked at me.

Derek raised an eyebrow at me, then I remembered he knows I never attended college a d I my stopped at highschool level. I looked away and focused on the varieties of food in my front.

"That's good. But then, you decided to be a baker u stead?" Bob asked and I just smiled again

"Can we start eating already, I'm starving" Derek said as he motioned to a butler so start dishing the foods.

"Uncle, I guess a meeting would hold tomorrow then" Kyle asked.

"I don't think so Kyle, we'll have to observe a few things first"

"Ok"

We started eating and the rest joined us later as they said. Only Kathy, Derek and one if the other two girls were involving me in conversations about random things. Throughout the dinner, Kyle was showing some little a ts like asking if I'd eat this kr not, or asking if I was good or try to make small talks. I got irritated actually but I just had to act along.

Dinner was finally over and we were all departing.

"Ashley, I'd love to see you maybe tomorrow. Over tea?" Derek said and hugged me briefly. I didn't bother to look at Kyle's face, I nodded in agreement. "Alright, bye"

I saw Amelia waiting below the stairs of the east wing and I smiled at her immediately I saw her. I left Kyle's side and quickly went I over to her

"How did it go ma'am" she asked

" It went well. I'm glad it's over"

"You didn't tell me you know one if my family" I heard Kyle say beside me.

"Honestly, I was expecting a thank you for the act I put up there" I replied dragging Amelia by her arm and up the stairs.

"Wait, I'm still speaking to you" . I still didn't stop and continued heading upstairs.

"Ashley" Kyle growled behind us and I felt Amelia being scared already and she stopped. I stared at her unbelievably and left her there and went up to my room. I guess Kyle wasn't used to people defying his orders and he was clearly annoyed. He followed behind of course but when I got to my room, I locked the door from inside before he could enter. I was very sure I've pissed the hell out if him. I stayed behind the door and noticed he hesitated a little before I hear uis footsteps leaving.

I sighed and proceed to undress and go to bed straight. It's been a long and dreadful day already.