22: preparation

At night, Aria found it difficult to sleep. She kept on thinking about the special and long awaited event in front of her anxiously.

She'd closed her eyes, hoping to fall asleep but her mind wouldn't stop playing different scenarios about how the dinner the next day could unravel.

She tried to hope for the best.

He had told her the people to expect to see: his father, stepmother and two step brothers.

What if one of them didn't like her and they swore to make her marriage to him hell? She thought about how his father would react towards her. She imagined him as a wealthy grumpy old man with grey hairs and beard who peered at her from his glasses and wished the sophisticated Becky was the one standing next to his son.

The scattered thoughts that spilled into her were targeted at destroying her sanity yet she couldn't push them away. Helplessly she indulged them…She tried to remember the names of his step brother but nothing was coming to mind. From the way Robert talked about them