Chapter 144 - Chapter: I will marry this boy!

At Elle's hideout, she was busy checking and scanning the doc.u.ment file regarding her parents' case. She decided to drop by her place before coming to the hospital.

She was staring at the picture of one of the murder victims. That person was her 25 years old nanny, Marites.

Placed beside that picture, was another picture of a man who would be the next target of Elle. This time, she would avenge the death of her nanny.

Elle gritted her teeth while staring at the picture of the lifeless body of her nanny. She was fuming in rage.

Her nanny was s*xually assaulted first by those thugs before they killed her.

Since Elle was the only child, she never got to have elder brothers and sisters or even younger siblings. Marites was like an elder sister to her.

Marites was the one taking care of her when her Dad and Mom were at work. She had a closed relationship with her since she was five years old.

Marites was supposed to get married to her long-time boyfriend after three months if that tragedy never happened.

She should have been happily married, had a family of her own and children she would have taken care of.

Elle slammed her eyes shut and hummed the pain as she reminisced one of her conversations with Marites.

"Our dear little miss, are you sure you want to be my flower girl during my wedding?" Marites asked the young Elle.

The young Elle nodded vehemently as her response. "Yes, sister Tes. I want to throw flowers while you are walking in the aisle. And I want to be part of your wedding."

"You consider me as your little sister, right?" Marites just smiled at her sweetly. 

"Alright... don't worry my dearest little sister. I already put your name in the invitation card."

"Really? I wanna see it!" Excitement could be seen in the eyes of young Elle.

Then Marites showed her the invitation card. Elle was so happy at that moment.

"It's beautiful. I like the design. Did you make it personally?" She asked her curiously.

"Yes, I want to be hands-on in the preparation for my wedding. Besides, this is a very special day for girls like us." Marites replied to her.

"In the future, I will also make my own wedding invitation." Elle blurted out while smiling gleefully as if she was imagining her own wedding.

Marites pinched her cute nose before saying "You must choose your groom first before making an invitation. How can you make it without a groom."

"Yeah, That makes sense. Then I should start finding now." Elle smiled playfully.

"Hey... hey... you are too young for that." Suddenly Elle and Marites heard a man's voice from behind.

That person was Cedrick, her father. "Dad" Elle immediately threw herself at her father to give him a hug.

Then Elle noticed the mail envelope in his hand. "What is that Dad?" she asked him while pointing her index finger at the white envelope.

"Oh, this one. It is a letter from your Uncle Ray1  my best friend." 

Because of her curiosity as a kid, she asked her father to open the mail and read the letter with them.

Since it was the request of his princess, he could not refuse her. They opened the envelope together.

"Dad I noticed you and Uncle Ray are using an antics. You could have sent messages through email why do it with paper and pencil?"

"Haha, Okay, I will tell him that next time. It just that sending a letter from time to time became our friendship tradition."

Cedrick explained to Elle the reason why they bothered to send letters with each other.

They read the letter. The first message was asking Cedrick how he was doing, asking about work, family and other stuff.

He also invited Cedrick for a reunion together with their family members. Along with the letter, he also sent a pocket-size picture of a boy.

It was a young boy at around 13 to 15 years old, clothed loosely in a white T-shirt and baggy grey trousers. He had a black hooded jacket tied around his waist.

What caught young Elle's attention was his bright charming smile matched with his dark brown eyes.

He was a good-looking young boy and certainly if he grew up, girls would become crazy over him.

The young Elle smiled sweetly while staring at that picture. "Dad who is that?" she asked him, her expression showed her interest to that boy.

Marites was giving Elle a meaningful glance. She was just silently observing on the side the father and daughter's interaction.

"He is your uncle Ray's son, He is the Rick1, the boy I told you about."

"Your Uncle Ray always talk to me about his son and how proud he was to have a son like him. You will see him during our reunion."

"Really Dad? I will be able to see him? What is the date of our reunion date with Uncle Ray's family?" She asked him enthusiastically.

Cedrick burst into peals of laughter as he saw the excitement in Elle's face.

"We will still set the date of that reunion. I will inform you after we finalize the date."

"Dad, Sister Marites, I think I already found my groom," Elle said to them happily.

Marites and Cedrick looked at her confusedly.

"Dad, I want to marry this boy! When I grow up, I will marry this boy." Elle said to them confidently and with conviction while she was staring intently at the picture in her hands.

Marites and Cedrick were both dumbfounded and rendered speechless. They were just looking at young Elle, feeling amused.

'Oh no, my princess is already thinking and planning to get married at her young age.'

'Well if the man she will choose is her uncle Ray's son then I have no objection with that.'

And just like that Cedrick gave his blessings to his little princess to marry his best friend's son in the future. Ray is shortcut for Raymond.Cedrick used to call Raymond ,Ray rather than Raymond.Erick's nickname when he was young. Raymond and Sarah used to call him that 'my/our Rick boy' as one of their endearment to their son.