Chapter 996 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“Don’t worry about us. We will resolve things when we will,” Desmond assured her.

“Please, Desmond…”

“Don’t let it bother you, Celsie. This is not your fault, and it is not for you to fix. Evelyn needs to learn, and I know best how to teach her. I think I’ve let her have her way for too long,” Desmond said, and Celsie sighed.

“Alright. I will give the phone back to Benne now. Goodnight,” Celsie said as she returned the phone to Benne.

Benne said goodnight to his father, and after he ended the call, he looked at Celsie with a slightly raised brow, “Are you done planning with the girls already, or did you change your mind?”

“Your mom called, so I had to resolve things with her. I wanted to ask you and your dad to forgive her,” Celsie said, and Benne looked at her with serious eyes.

“Did she apologize?” He asked, and Celsie nodded.

“Yes, she did. I won’t be here pleading on her behalf if she didn’t,” Celsie assured him.

“Have you forgiven her?” Benne asked, and Celsie gave him a nod which made him sigh.

“I have forgiven her, and you should forgive her. I believe everyone has gotten the message and will think twice before interfering in our relationship from now on. They must know now that even if you don’t do anything about it, I won’t sit back and tolerate it,” Celsie said as she leaned down and kissed his cheek.

“Alright. I’ve heard you. If you’re okay, then I’m fine too,” Benne said, and Celsie smiled.

“I should get back to gathering the girls now. You can meet us in the Den,” Celsie said before walking away.

After picking up her pen and journal, Celsie returned to Jade’s bedroom and knocked on the door softly, and once Jade opened it Celsie smiled at her hopefully, “I was hoping we could go ahead with our plan for tonight? Candace is leaving by weekend, and since she is here already, we shouldn’t waste the opportunity,” Celsie said and Jade nodded in agreement.

“I don’t mind. But do you think Sonia would want to? She didn’t look too pleased earlier,” Jade said, remembering her brief altercation with Sonia.

“Sure, she will. This is for her after all. I will get the others. You can wait at the Den,” Celsie said and Jade shrugged.

“Alright. See you downstairs in a bit,” Jade said before shutting the door as Celsie went to get Candace.

Candace, who lay on her bed fuming as she wondered what Matt was up to at the moment, looked to the door when she heard the knock. Even though she wasn’t pleased with Matt’s decision to come over here tonight, a part of her wished it was Matt who was at the door.

Maybe if he apologized for showing up the way he did, they could make up and who knows what else could happen?

She went to open the door and tried not to show her disappointment when she saw Celsie standing outside her door.

“Hey,” Candace greeted with a surprised smile.

“I guess I wasn’t the one you were expecting, right?” Celsie asked with a small smile not missing the disappointment in Candace’s eyes.

“You weren’t, but doesn’t mean I’m not pleased to see you. Are you alright now? Come in,” Candace said as she held open the door for Celsie thinking that maybe Celsie needed someone to talk to.

After Celsie walked in, she shut the door behind her, “I’m okay. I came to inform you that we will all be meeting in the Den to go ahead with the wedding plans. We can’t miss such an opportunity when you came over tonight for it,” Celsie said and Candace raised a brow.

“That’s nice, but are you sure you’re okay with planning a wedding after what happened earlier?” Candace asked and Celsie smiled.

“I resolved things with Jade already. We shouldn’t let such minor misunderstandings ruin our plans. Tonight is about Sonia not me, so please go down to the Den. I will get Sonia and join you there,” Celsie said as she headed for the door.

“Alright then. I will be down in a jiffy,” Candace promised, and Celsie walked away, heading to Sonia and Bryan’s bedroom.

“Sony?” Celsie called as she knocked on the door and Sonia opened the door almost immediately.

“What’s wrong? You want to come in?” Sonia asked with a frown, wondering if Celsie had fought with Benne.

“What could be wrong?” Celsie asked with a smile and then looked past Sonia into the bedroom.

“Is Bryan not inside?” She asked, wondering why Sonia was asking her to come in.

Sonia shook her head, “He is probably downstairs with Matt. Why are you here? Did you fight with Benne? Did he overhear all I said?” Sonia asked with concern and Celsie smiled as she walked into the bedroom.

“Of course, he didn’t. Benne isn’t the type to eavesdrop. I’m sure he opened the door the moment he got there. Anyway, I came to get you so we go down to the Den…”

“What for?” Sonia asked in confusion.

“We have a wedding to plan, remember? Jade and Candace will be there waiting,” Celsie said, and Sonia beamed her a smile.

“Really? I didn’t think we would make wedding plans after….”

“It’s your wedding, Sony. There is no way I would let my issues get in the way of our plans,” Celsie assured her, and Sonia hugged her.

“Thank you. Although I’m surprised Jade agreed to come down for it. I thought she would be sulking or mad,” Sonia said as she pulled back.

“I thought she might be too, but I was surprised when she apologized to me,” Celsie said and Sonia smiled.

“That’s nice. I guess Benne scolded her,” Sonia said and Celsie shrugged.

“Maybe. Let’s get going. We don’t want to keep them waiting,” Celsie said, and they headed for the door.

They both walked out of the room to see Candace walking out of her room, so they all walked together.

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