EroticReverie

Giselle Galas - One week later

"another party." Rainer snickers as I walk up the steps with him to the large party underway at my parents place. I've barely been home this past week, avoiding my mother. If it wasn't for the love of my sister Fleur, I wouldn't even come. But here we are, celebrating with another engagement party. I roll my eyes as Rainer and I walk in the front door, it's so over the top, and not Fleur at all. The color scheme is dark, with rich purples and browns, with tacky ass gold. Not even the colors of her wedding, and not at all Fleur's personality. Fleur is Spring and Summer...not fall. But of course, this party isn't truly for Fleur, it's for my fucking mother to boast about how much she's able to spend.

My red hair has been re dyed, and is brighter now, and I'm wearing my favorite color, an emerald green strapless satin gown, that hits the floor, paired with matching heels. I was still keeping my relationship with Rainer between us. Even though we showed up together in his car, nobody notices, which I was counting on, because there's too much going on and too many people already here for anyone to have seen us arriving together. 

"God, can we just go hide out upstairs?" I mutter under my breath and Rainer hums. 

"Only if I can take your dress off." He leans down whispering so only I can hear. I turn my head at him narrowing my eyes at him. 

"Or I can fuck you against the wall outside like we did at my parents place" he winks and my toes curl in my heels.

I told Rainer all about what happened in the bridal shop, everything that I'd said, everything my mother had said. The fury on that mans beautiful face when I'd relayed the happenings of the morning to him, stole more of my heart. The way his jaw ticked, and his nostrils flared, the way he wrapped me in his arms and kissed me several times on my forehead and my cheeks. Every day since, he's been asking how I am , how I'm doing. While I try to push down how much my relationship with my mother bothers me, it's like he sees right through it, and I can't hide from him. It's scary. And ever since that day, showing up at his place, sobbing like a lunatic, for him to take me in his arms and take care of me. I've been falling in love with him more every second, and it surprisingly has nothing to do with his big dick or how well he uses it. 

"Down boy." I whisper and he smirks, his eyes going to my mouth. I know he wants to kiss me right now, and he knows I want him to as well. But he's repsecting my wishes of keeping this a secret, until i'm ready to unleash the annoying way in which my mother will try to insert herself into our relationship, just like she does with Fleur and Serene. 

Rainer told me he wanted to talk to my mother, which I shot down immediately. I told him no way in hell was I letting him defend me to her or having him get invovled and end up on her shit list. I told him before we came that I planned on talking to her, smoothing things out, because even though I didn't owe her any kind of apology, i'd bite the bullet for Fleur. She deserved to have a good time planning her wedding. Knowing me and my mother were on the outs currently, was stressing her out. So, since my mother had no idea how to be the bigger person, or realize how ridiculous she is, I'd stomach the cringe of apologizing for something that I didnt believe was wrong of me. 

"Fuck it." I mutter under my breath, and then look to Rainer. "Meet me upstairs." I say as I nod to the stairs and he smirks, cocking a brow.

"Shut up and go." I whisper and he grins. 

"Yes ma'am" he waggles his brows and I roll my eyes. 

"I'll be up in a minute." I say, not wanting to follow up up the main stairs, but i'd instead go through the house and take the back stairs up. 

I give polite smiles to the people I don't even know, little waves to the ones that I do, I get distracted for five minutes by one of my mothers colleagues who is talking my ear off about how splendind this party is, how wonderful my mothers home is, until i'm able to give myself a polite out.... and then I stop in the main room, my eyes scanning for my mother, but then my eyes stop on the wall. Immediately my stomach flips, my skin burns as it heats with embarrassment, my eyes watering as my emotions get the best of me. Because on the wall, the family portrait is gone. In its place is a portrait of my mother and father.....on one side...Serena's....on the other Fluer's....with me....nowhere in site. 

"Fucking bitch" I choke out the words quietly to myself as I fight back the tears. 

A delicate hand grabs my wrist. My eyes darting down and then up to my sister Serena.

"Giselle." Serena says softly, pity in her eyes. My lower lip fucking wobbles and I shake my head, taking my wrist from her hand. 

"It's fine." I say and then turn , my heart hammering , my eyes about to over flow.

"Well....look who decided to show herself." my mother is right there a smug fucking look on her face. She's fucking proud of herself. Proud that she visibly removed me from the wall as punishment for daring to speak up for myself to her. 

Fuck an apology.

Her eyes come to mine, and I will the fucking tears to go away, blinking once, slowly, letting them be swallowed back. 

"You've redecortated." I say with a fake smile. 

She blinks, acting as if she doesn't know what I'm talking about. Then looks over my head at the wall and smiles slowly. 

"Oh that....yes...well" she shrugs, sipping her champagne. "It's perfect, isn't it?" 

She's never been this fucking cruel. But i've also never called her out before, never told her she was a fucking bitch. 

"your sisters look beautiful, don't they?...I decided the family wall should be for those who make an effort to actually BE a part of this family." she says, sipping again. I say nothing, I just glare at her, my father coming up to her side. An apologetic look on his face, and he's fucking ashamed, but too far up my mothers surgically lifted ass to say a fucking thing about it. 

My mother looks me up and down, letting her lip curl slightly, judging my dress. 

"Go on. If you're going to say something, just fucking say it." I hiss. My mothers lip tightening at my language and lifts her nose into the air. 

"Fine." she says. "I was just wondering how if I allow you to stay in your sisters bridals party, how you might stand to lose a few pounds so you look more like Serena." my mother flutters her hand towards Serena.

"Mom" Serena gasps, as if we all havent heard comments from her about our bodies our entire lives.  My mother hated my body, always had. Where my sisters were naturally thin, I'd gotten my genes more from my fathers side, I had thicker thighs, wider hips. I had a body she hated, because I didnt look like I was starving. A body she hated because I was the only one of my sisters who DIDNT develop an eating disorder because of her growing up. 

"What?" my mother says pretending like she didnt just say something rude and offensive to her own daughter. "All I'm saying is, she'll ruin the wedding pictures if she's not careful about what she eats." 

"Mira, that's enough." My father huffs quietly. 

My mother just ignores him , staring me down as I just stand there and take it. 

"Much like she ruined the family portrait." My mothers says , blinking, nose going higher and looking to the wall. 

"The wall is much better now." she says matter of factly. 

"Mira" my father scowls. 

"Mom." Serena whispers. 

But she keeps going, my mother can't fucking help herself, because a week ago I wounded her ego, and opened my mouth to dare talk back to her, and call her exactly as she was being...a bitch. 

"I've tried your entire life Giselle...but you're nothing but an ungrateful brat." her mask slips as she hisses and sneers at me. 

"Always have been, always will be, and you disrespected me and this family for the last time. Until you get yourself together" she skims my body with her eyes. Tears filling mine as my mother berates me.  "Until you decide to work to look the part of a Galas..." she continues, my lips tightening to attempt to keep from trembling. " and, until you apologize to your sister for ruining her day last week, and apologize to me for being -"

"That's ENOUGH" a growl comes from behind me. The tears crash down at the sound of his voice, and I turn, looking to find Rainer, his eyes burning with rage as he glares at my mother, nostrils flaring. 

I can hear my mothers little stunned sqwauk. 

"I was talking to my daughter." My mother snips. 

Rainer looks down at me, that scowl softening. He grabs me, pulling me into his arms, cradling my head as I let the tears keep falling, my shoulders shaking as I fight crying out loud, even though several people have already taken notice of the scene. 

"No." Rainer says gruffly. " You were berating her, you were throwing insults , insults she's heard her whole life. You were punishing HER...for the way that YOU treat her. The way you've always treated her when she's done nothing but try to impress you, all she's guilty of is growing tired of her own mother caring more about an image than loving her own fucking daughters the way you're supposed to. She's fucking perfect. More perfect that you'll ever be. And you're done now. You're done 'talking' to her, you're done hurting her. You're fucking done." he says and I clutch myself to him even fucking tighter. 

I feel Rainer cradle the back of my head as he kisses the top. 

"Let's go baby" he mutters, gently turning me. 

"Are....are you two together?" My mother stammers. 

Rainer huffs at that , and so do I as tears streak down my face. People watching us depart, the music has stopped, everyone silent and watching. 

When we make it outside to the steps, Rainer takes my face in his hands. 

"I'm sorry, I know you didn't want me to interfere or say anything , I'm sorry Galas, but I just couldnt stand there and-"

"i love you" I cut him off, his mouth open, he blinks at me. 

"I love you." I repeat myself as tears stream down my face. 

Rainer kisses me hard, pulling me against him and I throw my arms around his neck. 

"I love you"I repeat again. 

"I love you too baby" he groans. "god, i fucking love you"