I'm Not Daria
Mario's not my girlfriend!

..........

Samantha's show is just days away. Needless to say, he was very nervous. I can't imagine a beautiful and confident woman like her who carries herself gracefully being so nervous for her first show.

He was brilliant in his art and surely everyone would love it, but no matter how much effort he put in to convince her, he still considered himself a lousy designer.

We were all scheduled to fly to Paris the next day. Daralyn's family also invited Anna and if they didn't want to, I would definitely ask them to take her. There's no way I'd go to Paris with them for a whole week without my best friend.

Everyone I know here will be at the event, Anna, Mr. David and Mrs Daralyn, Liam, and I will be boarding Mr. David's private plane to Paris. Samantha insisted that she and Jessica would come with us because she was too nervous to fly alone. Another reason he claimed was because it made him feel confident, which was truly shocking and unbelievable. Maybe because I was the only person he ever showed me his plans.

Her husband Ardhika was unable to attend a few days before the show due to work schedule, but she will take a flight the day before the show and fly back after the show ends. Nathalie has some photoshoots and modeling contracts to sign, so she will be coming along with Ardhika.

Luna and bella were also on board, but most of all, Pritta would also be on a private plane with us.

Devan will fly there with his family. We'll go there a few days before for fun. The girls decided to shop for a while because none of them had ever shopped in Paris for more than a year, there might also be plans for sightseeing, which these girls have done. They go there often and still want to do it again now.

...

I was in the kitchen with Mario. She was cooking together with the other cooks and I was just chatting with her, not too keen on cooking by myself.

Once we had a fight over food. It was he who started by gripping my cheek with his flour-stained hand. I screamed and jumped from the kitchen I was sitting in comfortably. In return, I spilled a little juice on his shirt. He started chasing me around the kitchen with flour in his hand

I lunged forward to escape when I saw he was ready to attack and that was when I hit someone hard. I looked up, and it turned out to be Devan.

I laughed out loud seeing her face filled with flour, even exposed to her beautiful hair. I turned towards Mario and he looked like he was going to wet his bed in fear.

"I-I'm sorry," said Mario and ran back to the kitchen.

Devan stood still with an angry face. If he didn't look like a cute snowman now, perhaps he would have been frightened by his burning gaze.

"Stop laughing." she exclaimed, grabbed my shoulder and pushed me slightly away from her. It was then that I realized that I was almost stuck to his chest before he decided to put some distance between us.

"I can't. You look too funny."

He was wearing a nice blue business suit, so maybe he would go to work

He said nothing and walked away. Suddenly remembering that I had to talk to him, I ran after him.

"Wait, Devan." But he didn't stop. Just like last night, he ignored me

"Wait, I have to tell you something." grabbed his arm and turned his body to face me

"Whatis that? Hurry up, I don't have time" she said coldly, leaving me shocked by her reply

"I-I just want to thank you for the gifts. I love that dress and that necklace, and I like Daisy better. It was one of the best gifts I have ever received. Thanku".

A small smile formed on her lips, reflecting my smile. "Daisy"?

I shrugged my shoulders. "I gave him a name."

To my surprise, his hand grabbed my cheek and cupped it. His thumb rubbed my cheek gently. "Clean this flour from you." Her other hand started rubbing the flour on my other cheek. I grabbed his hand and lowered it from my face.

"Okay, I can do it myself. After all, you're the one who needs cleaning more than I am right now"

"Alright," she said, cleaning her hair right on my face.

"Hey!" I said as I felt four small spots on my face.

"Now you also need to be cleaned like me."

"Silent. Are you going somewhere?"

"Oh".

He sighed. "I think I'm gonna be late because of your Ratatouille boyfriend."

"Hey! His name is Mario, he's not a rat and neither is he my girlfriend!"

"Suppit. Just tell that stupid cook that if this happens again, he should start looking for a new job."

"Mario's not stupid, she's a very talented chef. And you're not the owner of this place, so you can't determine who works here and who gets fired". I crossed my arms around my chest and looked at him with judgment.

"Trust me, I can."

"But you won't fire him!" I said while pointing a threatening finger at his nose.

"I told you if he did something like this again, I'd fire him."

"No, you can't even fire him."

Suddenly he stepped too close to me that I didn't like. "Why do you care?"

"Of course I care. He's a very good friend."

"true." He said with cynicism

.........

"Yes God. Is this for me?" my question, dumbfounded

Ms. Daralyn just showed me to a room half full of gifts wrapped in colorful gift paper.

"Yes, I know this a little bit more than you used to get on your birthday and that's because not many people know that you're back."

"Oh, still this is quite a lot".

"Yes, you want to open your present now?"

I shrugged my shoulders "Sure. There's nothing to do anyway."

All afternoon and a little evening was spent opening my presents. I was very tired in the end, although the fun would be very tiring

I got a lot of presents. Most are designer dresses or branded bags. I also got a lot of stiletto shoes and about four bikes and six cars. I can't believe it. Who gives a bicycle or a car a gift on someone's birthday? These people must be very rich if they spend so much money on such expensive gifts.even I don't interact much with most of them!

It was very difficult to hide my shock, or rather the shock of finding all those gifts with Anna. In my life at home, not even a hundredth of a prize has come here, even though it's technically not for me.

After we were done with it, it was almost dinner time. Luna and Bella were invited to dinner and stay the night so we could all fly to Paris the next morning. Sam and Jess and Liam have been driving straight here from the party that night and they will be flying with us.

We and the other girls had fun after dinner. We talked about a lot of things, doing feminine things like using nail polish, watching movies in a marathon, walk around in pajamas in a wardrobe and then dance around like crazy in the middle, then do a pillow fight with each other and make sure that my target is not near Luna because sometimes she can be very scary.

Eventually the fun ended after Mrs Daralyn told us to stop because we had to rest.

Everyone left my room for my guest room, except for Samantha and Jess who occupied Sam's old bedroom in the mansion. Liam angrily walks towards the guest room as his old bedroom is now occupied by Devan.

Before leaving Bella stopped and winked at me. "You're so much fun. Anna is so lucky to have you as her best friend."

I was beaming at him. "Thank you, Daria and Luna are so lucky to have you."

"Of course they are. I'm amazing! He said, turn his hair around and do a superhero pose and get out of my room.

I chuckled at her adorable silliness before closing the door and climbing onto the bed to close my eyes.