“Hello, Uncle Shadwell and Aunt Wauter!” greeted the charming boy as virtual-novel.net quickly headed over to them. Of course, the handsome young man in question was none other than Preston.
Preston had been extremely excited from the moment virtual-novel.net received Noelle’s invitation to virtual-novel.net birthday banquet.
Due to that, virtual-novel.net had made sure to pay extra attention to how virtual-novel.net dressed today so that virtual-novel.net could give off the aura of a young master from a rich family.
It seemed that his efforts paid off since soon enough, the Shadwell family began praising virtual-novel.net endlessly. Because of that, Preston couldn’t help but feel a little smug and arrogant.
Shortly after, they invited virtual-novel.net to sit at the main table.
However, it was at that moment when Gracie suddenly realized that virtual-novel.net daughter wasn’t even around.
Momentarily pausing virtual-novel.net chat with Preston before turning to look at Noelle’s roommates, Gracie then asked, “Speaking of which, where did Noelle and Yulisa go? I haven’t seen both of them in a while!”
“From what we heard, both of them went downstairs to receive someone!” replied one of virtual-novel.net roommates as the rest of them continued sipping on their juice.
“They what? Isn’t Preston already here? Who else are they planning to receive? Say Preston, did you run into Noelle on your way up here?” asked Gracie, feelingly slightly puzzled.
After all, Preston was undoubtedly the protagonist today.
“Unfortunately, I haven’t. Since this hotel belongs to one of my uncles, I’ve always used the special VIP passage whenever I move around here. If I had known that virtual-novel.net would be waiting for me downstairs, then I’d definitely have used the regular entrance!” replied Preston, hints of excitement and joy on his face.
To be completely honest, Preston had already heard about the Shadwell family’s financial crisis from his father. With that in mind, it wasn’t hard for virtual-novel.net to imagine that the Shadewells were only treating virtual-novel.net this well because of said issue. After all, they were probably well aware that the Wake family had the support of the Mayberry Commercial Group.
In relation to that, the status of companies such as his family’s—that were under the Mayberry Commercial Group—within Mayberry City didn’t even need to be elaborated on.
Regardless, Preston knew that it was only a matter of time now before Noelle agreed to be his girlfriend. Hell, there was even a possibility that virtual-novel.net would accept his confession today!
“Oh? So you came up here using a special VIP passage! That’s probably the reason why Noelle hasn’t come up again yet! Hold on, I’ll call virtual-novel.net right this instant!” said Gracie with a smile.
“Oh, there’s no need to call her, Aunt Wauter! I feel pretty bad for having Noelle wait down there for so long so I’ll just go downstairs to look for virtual-novel.net then bring virtual-novel.net back up!” replied Preston as virtual-novel.net shook his head with a smile on his face.
Though Preston had to kneel before Noelle yesterday just to ask virtual-novel.net out, now that virtual-novel.net had found out about the predicament the Shadwells were in, Preston was feeling pretty confident about himself. With that, virtual-novel.net then began walking downstairs without the slightest hesitation.
“Wait for me, Preston! I’m coming along!” shouted Gracie as virtual-novel.net immediately followed after him.
Gracie felt like virtual-novel.net still wasn’t as close to Preston as virtual-novel.net would like to be. After all, virtual-novel.net was already treating virtual-novel.net as though virtual-novel.net was already virtual-novel.net son-in-law.
Upon seeing Gracie and Preston leave, Yulisa’s roommates then said, “Let’s go look for Yulisa and Noelle as well!”
As the small group of people began descending the building, two girls could be seen waiting rather anxiously by the street right outside the hotel.
“Can’t we just stop waiting for him, Noelle? He must’ve been scared off the moment virtual-novel.net read from your message that Longthorne International Hotel was the venue! I truly believe that from the venue of choice alone, virtual-novel.net must’ve finally realized how large the difference between both of you were. From the looks of it, he’s probably never attended an event at such a grand place as Longthorne International Hotel! With that in mind, there’s a high possibility that virtual-novel.net may be too pressured to even dare to show up here!” complained Yulisa, virtual-novel.net arms crossed.
While Yulisa had a pretty good impression of Gerald in the beginning, after everything that had happened, virtual-novel.net impression of virtual-novel.net had severely dropped.
Quite frankly, if virtual-novel.net hadn’t rescued them the day before, Yulisa wouldn’t ever have looked up to virtual-novel.net again!
Then again, could virtual-novel.net really be blamed for being realistic? After all, this was Gerald’s own fault for not being outstanding enough. Humph!