Chapter-39

ᴅᴀʀʟɪɴ', ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ɪ ꜰᴇʟᴛ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ

ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ ᴡᴀɴᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴅɪᴅɴ'ᴛ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ɪ'ᴅ ꜰɪɴᴅ

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What do I wear? What do I wearrrrr?

"Hello darlin'." He said, hugging me from behind. Excuse my towel, it's about to fall off.

"Hello." I replied, leaning into his touch.

"Why aren't you ready yet?" He asked.

"I don't know what to wear!" I exclaimed.

"Can I help?" He asked. Bless him. "Yes please." I replied. He turned us away from the dresses I was standing infront of, not breaking the hug. He picked out a pair of blue skinny jeans and a cream colored, long sleeved tie-up blouse, then left the room to give me time to get ready.

"Chaseeee!" I called him once I wore my clothes.

"Yes?" He asked, poking his head inside. "Do I wear heels or shoes?" I asked.

"Whatever you feel more comfortable in." He replied, going back to whatever he was doing. I look at my options. I went with my white boots.

I am ready. I sang as I went only to remember I haven't done my make-up yet. Chase wasn't present in the room so I quickly put on a little and went out. I was walking down when I saw him walking upstairs at the same time with a sleeping Pico in his hands. When is he not sleeping?

"When did he sleep?" I asked.

"You're beautiful." He said, completely ignoring my question. I felt heat creeping up my cheeks.

"So are you." I replied.

"We were getting your flowers, he got tired walking back, so I gave him a ride." He said before his eyes widened a little. "Shit, flowers." He muttered before handing Pico to me and running out of the door, making me laugh. It's good to see him being so carefree sometimes.

I tucked Pico into his bed before walking downstairs again. This time he came with flowers in his hands. They were red carnations.

"Beautiful flowers for my beautiful girl." He said, handing them to me.

"Why, thankyou boo." I kissed his nose and danced to the kitchen. Why? Because I'm happy. Keeping the flowers safely, I turned just to find him standing behind me. I wrapped my hands around him, he pulled me closer by my waist.

"Are you ready to go?" He asked.

"Yeah."

He drove us to a restaurant, it looks really fancy from outside. "Wait here, the parking looks full. I'll park there and join you." He said, as he jumped out to open my door.

"Okay." I said, getting out. As he was looking for space to park, I saw an elderly couple sitting on the pavement across the road. Their clothes were torn from places and I don't think they were enough for the changing weather. I quickly crossed the road to give them some money.

"I hope this is enough for you to buy some warmer clothes, have you eaten yet?" I asked. A few bucks won't make me poor but they sure will fill their stomach for the night.

"God bless you child." The woman said, smiling gratefully.

"Dinner?" I asked again.

"We had earlier." The man said. "Thankyou so much." He said. I saw Chase walking out of the parking.

"I've to go." I said, rushing over to cross the road. It all happened really fast, I heard Chase yelling to stop at the same time I was pulled back as a car sped away really fast.

Well, fuck. There wasn't any car when I looked before walking. I swear.

"Are you fucking stupid?" I heard Chase say as he wrapped me in his arms. "Don't ever do that again." He said, tightening his hold.

"I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm sorry, I should've looked out." I said, not being able to look him in the eye.

He broke the hug but didn't remove his arm from my waist. "Thank you so much. I am-"

"Don't worry about it." The old man, who pulled me back and the one I gave money to replied.

"How do I repay you? Do you need any kind of help? Anything, I'll provide you." He said to the man.

"It's okay child. Your lady already gave us some money, it will be enough to spend a month." He replied.

"You..live here?" Chase asked.

"For now until someone complaints against us." He chuckled sadly.

"I can arrange an old age home for you guys, for tonight you can stay in the hotel across the road and you can have dinner in the restaurant downstairs anytime you want to. Take it as a form of thankyou from me. I'll forever be indebted to you for saving her life." He said. I'm..speechless.

"I really appreciate it but you don't have to take so much trouble-"

"Don't worry about it. I own the place, please. This will cause me no extra effort but give a peace of mind, accept it." He said. He owns it? How come I don't know? I'm his assistant for crying out loud.

"We don't know how to thank you-"

"You don't have to thank me, come. I'll get you situated." He said.

•••

After Richard and Bea, as we learned their names, settled in the hotel, I turned to Chase.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"I don't want to lose you." He cut me off. "You scared me Celeste, if that man wasn't there I could've lost you. I couldn't have saved you even if I tried, the car was so close to you." He said, pulling me into a hug again. I feel horrible making him feel like that. The car came out of nowhere.

"I promise I'll always double check. I'm so sorry I ruined our date." I said. Why me, god?

"Shut up." He said, kissing my forehead. "Let's get dinner..okay?" He asked.

"I don't want to eat in there, I don't want to spend our date between snobby rich people." I said.

"Okay, we can get Street food if you'd like? And I got tickets for the aquarium, it's totally fine if you don't want to go. We can-" He was rambling at this point. Is he nervous?

"I want to go. We can eat later." I said.

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Yeah, can we go now?" I asked. He nodded, walking us to the car.

A thousand pictures and a piggyback ride later, we were standing in front of the food stall, waiting for our burritos.

"That fish was huuuuge." I said, jumping on one leg to another.

"That was a shark." He said.

"Shark is a fish dumbo." I replied as the chef guy handed us the burritos. He paid the bill when we were halfway through eating as we started walking.

"Where are we going now?" I asked.

"Wherever you want." He said.

"You won't say no?" I asked.

"No." He said, I didn't mean to but I laughed at that.

"Can we buy toys for Pico?" I asked, taking a big bite from my delicious burrito.

"N- okay." He agreed.

"Yes, let's find a shop." I started looking around.

"Finish your food first." He said, how did he already finish? I can't eat anymore.

"I'm full. You want it?" I asked. He didn't reply but took it from my hands. "I found the shop!" I pointed as I finally found one after so much of looking around.

"Be careful." He said, changing places with me. Now he was on the traffic side of the road.

"Come fast!" I said, pulling him inside the shop. A little toy cat was sitting in front. It was really cute. There were several stuffed cat toys in there, Chase suggested buying one but instead of getting happy, I know Pico will get jealous and rip him apart.

We bought cute caps for him and there were really cute mittens and socks. "How's this?" Chase asked, pulling up a cat jacket.

"Where did you find it? It's so adorable!" I said, dropping the chew toy from my hand and taking the jacket from him.

"Take it." He said.

After buying a collar and the rest of the things we walked back to the car. I can't wait to show everything to my little Piccolo.

"Are we going home now?" I asked.

"After icecream?" He said.

"We're getting icecream too?" I asked. Hey god, can I date him in my next life too? Pretty please?

"Yeah, I googled." He replied making me laugh again. He's cute sometimes..okay all the time.

"I don't want icecream right now, we can have it at home. I'm tired." I replied. Getting ice-cream means going to another public place, going to another public place means seeing other people checking my boyfriend out, even though I'm well aware he got his eyes only on me I still don't like other women looking at him like some eye candy or secretly clicking pictures. Can't he be a little bit ugly?

"Okay." He said, putting his arm on the back of my headrest as he drove the car in reverse. Will I ever get over him doing this? I don't think so.

"I don't want to walk." I said as I picked up all the bags that had Pico's things. He looked at me, opening the door.

"Come out." He said, giving me his hand. With a groan, I got out, ready to walk but he picked me up in his arms. This is way better.

"I'll walk, you don't have to-"

"Shut up." He said. Okay, it's not like I was actually going to walk. I was just doing the formality. I rested my head on his shoulder. He's strong. I inched closer to his neck and kissed there.

"Don't do that." He said as he moved his neck away.

"Okay." I agreed, kissing again.

"I'll drop you." He warned.

"Will you?" I asked, pressing multiple kisses from his neck to his jaw.

"No." He sighed. I jumped down from his arms as we finally reached our floor. Dropping the bags on the table, I walked upstairs. "Wait." He said but I already reached.

I opened the door, all the lights were off but there was light on the balcony. I walked closer, sliding the glass door. Wow. A mattress was in the corner with a blanket fort and some pillows were settled, decorated with fairy lights.

"When did you even..?" I trailed off with my question as I knew he was behind me.

"Do you like it?" He asked.

"Like it? I love this!" I said, kicking off my shoes and lying down there.

"I had this done in the evening." He said, joining me.

"We can see the stars!" I exclaimed. Can this date get any better?

"That was the point love." He said softly. Did he..did he just? Give me a moment, I have to scream.

I look back at him, he has a soft smile on his face, his eyes twinkling from the lights.

"There's something left." He said.

"Still?" I asked wondering what more is left.

"Yeah, this." He said, cupping my face and pressing his lips on mine. I can't help but smile against his lips. How is it so easy to fall in love with him a little bit more everytime I look at him?

"You're the best thing to ever happen to me." He whispered against my lips.

"Right back at ya." I murmured, attaching our lips again.

The innocent kisses soon turned into a heavy makeout session, I found myself reaching for his shirt buttons. Pulling back, I looked at him for permission. I don't know if he's comfortable with me doing this or not. He opened the first button himself, I took that as a yes, opening the rest of them.

He discarded the shirt aside and pulled the knot of my top just as we heard something drop. He quickly clutched the top closer before snapping his head towards the sound.

I'm going to kill Caden. He's a dead man. Say bye to Caden.

"Caden you hickdead!" I yelled.

"She means dickhead." Chase corrected me.

"Right!"

He stands there with wide eyes and his hands in the air, his jaw hanging in the air. The moment our eyes met, he ran.

Chase cursed under his breath as he tied my top back and got up, giving me a hand. We went downstairs as he didn't bother putting a shirt on.

I was glaring at Caden who was sitting with the same expression he had five minutes ago. "Do you not know how to knock?" Chase asked.

"I called you both so many times. No one picked up the calls, I called your names too. You didn't hear." He defended himself. His voice wasn't full of life as it always was. He sounded sad but that wasn't my main focus. Hurting him was.

"What was so important?" He asked again.

"Don't look at me like that!" He said to me. Fuck off, I'm going to kill you with my eyes before killing with my hands. I was finally getting some! He just had to interrupt.

"I wasn't expecting my brother to have sex! He's my brother! I don't imagine him having sex!" He exaggerated. We weren't even close to having sex. Dickhead.

"Is it the right time to hit him?" I asked his brother.

"What's wrong?" Chase asked him.

"I think Rome and I broke up." He murmured, getting sad all over again.

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Have you ever left a story because of the main lead's name?😩 I don't know how many amazing stories I'm missing out on but I ain't reading about someone named *insert-whatever-name-you-hate*

Anyways, Hope y'all are doing good.

Byeee byeee!