The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Camille Buckley replied, [What? Didn't your dad just have a dinner party? Why another one so soon? I'm guessing you're not allowed to skip it this time? I'll go if you're going!]

[Yeah, my dad knows I was just making up excuses not to go last time, so he resorted to threatening me to go this time. Come with me. Otherwise, it'll be so awkward for me to go alone.] [The dinner party sounds more like a grand matchmaking event... I wish you all the best. Haha.]

Rita's frown deepened at her best friend's joke.

[I'm being serious. I'd rather cover a few more stories than to attend the dinner party tomorrow night. I'm going to be bored out of my mind by the guys there. They're so fake, too! I don't get why our parents are forcing us to get married so fast.]

Camille sent a hug emoji. [I don't get it either. Why is your dad in such a hurry to marry you off? You're only twenty years old, barely an adult yet!]

is. Karen kept on telling him who's and who's daughters are getting engaged or married, and then she'd point out I've never been in a relationship before. So of course my dad

Karen and Sadie to her

your stepmom is so concerned about your love life. She'd better worry more

family fortune might end up with her. Then again, what was wrong with that? Why should Sadie, who was not a

well.] Camille's comment on Karen and Sadie

didn't care much about these things before, but what's mine is mine. I'll never give

answer did she log off to rest. She would deal with whatever that might come her way. In any case,

party at 6 o'clock, and

up and glanced at it. "Another dinner party