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The three of them followed the man.
The man took them to a special seat in front of the stage. "This seat has been specially reserved for you too, Mr Moore and Miss Cole," the man briefed.
Agnes was a bit surprised, why was there a special seat for them? She shoved that question out of her mind, when remembered how rich her boyfriend was.
"What about your friend Ethan?" she asked. "Why didn't they reserve a special seat for him too?" She inquired further.
Ethan smiled at her and said, "Clinton can find another seat for himself, you do not have to worry about him."
"I am not worried in any way but don't you think it would make us look like bad people, please I do not want all eyes staring on us, so let Clinton have a seat with us too, besides we are not here on a date," she tried reasoning to him..
"No Agnes, you do not have to worry about me," Clinton quickly rejected her act of kindness. "Besides I am here with a date so I can't join you both," he added.
Ethan spilled his drink in shock, when he heard Clinton's words, "did you just say you are here with a date?" He asked, trying very hard to hold back his laughter.
"You fool," Clinton called out in his head.
He used an eye sign to communicate with Ethan, which the both of them clearly understood.
Ethan stopped laughing and Agnes just felt strange about the whole drama happening. Clinton bade them goodbye and left for his own table.
The man who had directed them to the table, left too.
Ethan looked at Agnes and asked. "Are you shy?"
Whitney nodded. "No but I don't feel comfortable. This seat is too special. We are not the celebrants, yet we have been given the best seats. It looks kind of offensive, the celebrants should have this seat and not us."
"The celebrants already have their seats, so stop worrying over nothing," he said and pulled out a seat, then he gestured to her to come and sit down.
Agnes smiled wanly and sat down. Ethan sat down too, he stared at his girlfriend. He knew that she was still not comfortable instead she was pretending to be okay.
"Relax Agnes. The seats does not matter. What matters is the occassion," he said to her vaguely.
"Where are the celebrants?" She asked, piercing her eyes through the crowd.
"Hmm Agnes, why are you so determined to see them?" Ethan asked.
"Nothing, I just do not want other people to think that we are the celebrants." She replied to his question.
"You know what? Just relax, the host will soon call out the celebrant." He told her, in order to ease her inquisitivity.
"I heard that the celebrant is only one person." He added. Agnes smiled, "a lucky person he or she is," she muttered to herself. Inwardly she felt sad, today was also her birthday but she refused to tell her boyfriend about it.
The host climbed on the stage.
Agnes thought of the party as a regal one.
Immediately after the host climbed the stage, the press arrived. They were directing all the cameras and flashes on Ethan and Agnes.
Agnes searched the hall for the celebrant, thinking he or she was the cause of the major sensation, not aware that she was the main course.
The host held a microphone to his mouth.
"Hello everyone, welcome to this special party, we are all gathered here to celebrate the birthday of a special somebody amongst us. Before I announce who the special celebrant is, I would love it, if all the couples stepped into the dancing floor. Dj give us some music.
A slow music began to play.
Ethan stood up and went to Agnes, then he held out his hand and asked her, "will you dance with me?"
"I can't dance Ethan." Agnes told him sounding anxious.
"Do not worry, I will take the lead." He said to her in a convincing tone.
"Ethan please let us just skip the dance, besides there will be a lot of people dancing."
"We are not dancing because they are dancing, we are dancing because today is special and before you turn me down, say yes please."
"Alright I will dance with you," she said, placing her hand on his. Then she stood up, he took her to the dancing stage.
"Place your left hand on my shoulder Agnes," he directed.
She did as he told.
Ethan then wrapped his hand around her waist. "Move with me," he directed further.
Agnes began to move with him to the tune of the music.
The host clicked his microphone. "Okay as the dance continues, I will like to introduce us to the special celebrant. Today our special celebrant is celebrating an additional year in her life." He announced.
Agnes slowed down her moves. Something in her made her believe they were referring to her.
"Why did you slow down?" He asked, looking coyly at her.
"Tell me the truth, who is the celebrant?" She asked him in a suspicious tone..
"The celebrant is around, just be patient and you will see who it is," he said, still moving to the beat of the song. The host continued, "this special celebrant is non other than the woman that won the heart of our dearest billionaire, our most charming and most handsome, mr Ethan Moore."
Agnes froze on that spot, everybody turned to her and started clapping.
"Her name is Agnes Cole," the host finally declared. Agnes was speechless and a bit shocked.
"Please come up to the stage." The host called to her.
Ethan held her. She looked at him, using her eyes to ask him for an explanation.
"I will explain later, but for now just go to the stage, everyone is waiting." He advised.
Agnes obediently walked to the stage, as she stepped on to the highlight, people clapped and press photographers fired out camera shots at her.
"Hello Agnes," the host greeted.
"Hello," she greeted back amidst tears of..
"Please tell us how old you are today." The host inquired.
"I am twenty three years old." She answered back.
"How do you feel about this little surprise from your boyfriend?" He asked, this question got all the audience quiet.
"I am not so sure but I am excited and impressed. I feel like I am the luckiest woman on earth."
"Why do you feel lucky?"
"What can I say?" She paused. "I feel lucky because I have the best boyfriend ever. I am very sure that I never told him that today was my birthday but he found out about it through means which I do not know and instead of getting angry at me for not telling him, he threw a surprise party for me instead. Ever since I met Ethan, my life had drastically changed for the better and I just hope I can be the best girlfriend ever to him. I will remain forever indebted to you." She declared amidst tears of complete joy.
"No," Ethan said through his mic, as he walked up the stage, "you can never be indebted to me and do you know the reason why I said that?" He asked.
"That is because you own me Agnes, you changed my life too. Back then I used to be a heartless soul, always breaking the hearts of innocent girls but after having an encounter with you, I knew that you were the person meant for me. I had tried breaking you but your strength defeated me and I love you for it."
He came to her and knelt down on one knee, "miss Agnes Cole, please I want you to be the mother of my children, my missing rib, my life partner and.y soul mate, make me complete by accepting to be my wife," he proclaimed, all this were too much for an act.. "I promise to always stand by you, no matter the situation, just say yes and make me the happiest man in earth," he pleaded with soaked eyes.
The audience shouted to her, "say yes!"
"Say yes!"