Chapter 14

The day passed with me and Ethan spending almost the entire day with each other. He would occasionally come in my office with lame reasons like, 'oh! This is your office I thought it was mine. I need to remembery my way.'  I find it rather cute how he always tries to be with me.

We both left early today. We both were strolling hand in hand in the nearby park. People were having fun, children were running around, couples were kissing, walking hand in hand like us. It felt good to be with Ethan. We were an actual couple. I have always felt the lack of normalcy in my life but with Ethan everything seemed almost perfect.

We sat on the nearby bench and watched the sunset. I was so lost in my thoughts that I almost missed what Ethan said.

"Wanna go for dinner? "

"I was thinking that maybe we could spend some time at my place, order something for dinner and watch movies or simply talk." My volume decreased with every word I spoke,somehow thinking that he might not like the idea of spending the rest of the evening with me at home .His expression was as if I spoke some alien language that he didn't comprehend.

"Whatever you like, baby." He said with smile.

We went to my house and I ordered a large pizza for me and he ordered 'chiterlings'. I have never heard that name before. We were both sitting in my living room and discussing our favorite food.

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"What's wrong in having a pizza for dinner?" I asked stuffing the first bite of pizza slice in my mouth.

"You should eat something healthy."

Ethan spoke.

"Like something chiter... Whatever.It has a weird name I hope it tastes good or I am not sharing any of my pizza. I like my pizza very much and no one dares stop me from eating pizza and I don't share it with anyone."I tried to say in a serious voice. He rolled his eyes.

"Just because it has a weird name doesn't mean it will taste weird."

Ethan opened his box of food to find some weird looking thing. I served it for him on his plate. He took a bite of his food and made some weird faces.

"Oh God! This tastes like shit. " He said.

That's it I couldn't contain my laughter and I burst out laughing. He looked at me in annoyance.

"Why are you laughing?"

As my laughter died I spoke," I mean who orders food without knowing what it tastes like. What did you say'Just because it has a weird name doesn't mean that it will taste weird'. "I mimicked his earlier words.

" Alright you were right okay? " He said accepting his defeat.

I felt bad though beacuse I couldn't let him eat that so we ended up sharing my pizza.After we finished eating he spoke," You said you liked your pizza very much and don't share it with anyone." He spoke raising his eyebrows.

"I like you more than I like pizza." I spoke genuinely.

He smiled, his eyes held a different kind of emotion in them. Our gazes locked, none of us seemed to speak anything. We just sat there in silence. Our peaceful moment was interrupted by Ethan's phone ringing. He answered his phone. His response was mainly 'hmmm' , 'okay'.

After some time when it was getting late he left not before giving me a long lingering kiss on my lips. I waved him a goodbye and he left.

I took a nice long shower and changed into my comfortable pj's and hopped onto the bed.

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The following days passed extremely well with Ethan. We spent almost every evening together going to park and beaches for a nice walk. Most of the times he would come at my place, especially on weekends. We were having fun. I couldn't have asked for a better life. I had never been this happy before. We have kept our relationship a little secret. We didn't want to be a gossip topic of the office and moreover having any kind of office relationship is against the rules. I told Alex about us and she is very happy with our relationship.

Ethan is a very good boyfriend. He is usually very busy but he somehow manages to spend quality time with me. He is always sweet and very attentive towards me.

I was sitting in my office and my phone rang. The caller ID showed my dad's name. It had been many days since dad had called me. I immediately answered.

"Hey dad! "

"Hey honey! You didn't tell me that you left your previous job and joined the Monroe Group.Everything is okay? "

"Dad it just skipped my mind and The Monroe Group is a good company to work with. I love working here. And about telling you, well you didn't call me for I don't know how long." I said a little frustrated.

"I'm sorry honey. You need to understand that I am often very busy. Anyways I called you to talk about something else."

"About what? "

"Tonight we are having a family dinner. Everyone is coming so please come this time." He said in a pleading tone.

"No dad. You know I don't come to this family thing. Your family won't like it." I said in a serious tone stretching the word family.

"Come on,you are a part of the family, for how long are you going to stay away from them. And you don't have to worry about anyone liking anything. I am your dad and I am inviting you."

"Dad please I don't belong to that family. They are your family and we are not having that discussion again. So sorry but I can't."

"Okay fine but if you change your mind, do come. Your dad will be always waiting for you. " He said in a loving kind of way.

"That won't happen dad. Anyways I have got to go. Bye. Love you."

"Bye. Love you too honey."

And then he hung up. I felt bad for rejecting him but he knows that I never attend the family things. Still he keeps on calling me. I don't like to refuse him but I simply cannot stand his family.So no.

My mood instantly turned sour thinking about them. I decided to take a break from work and go to Ethan. He would make me feel better. I stepped out of my office and was about to go towards Ethan's office when his door opened and I saw the person whom I never expected to see walk out.He saw me and walked towards me.

"Hello Erica. " Caleb said.

" Hi."I spoke in a soft tone.

"What are you doing here? "

" I work here. " His eyes widened.

"Nice to see you. If you are free we can go for a coffee."

"Sure." Just when the words slipped from my mouth I instantly regretted it. I was supposed to go to Ethan to make myself feel better.I guess no turning back now.

We both went to the ground floor and walked to the nearby café.

"So how are you doing? "

"I am good." I said uncomfortably.

"I didn't know you worked for Ethan." He said.

"Its just been Three months.Even I didn't expect you to be here."

"Some business you know."

"Yeah I know. "

An awkward moment passed before he took a deep breath and spoke.

" Why don't you come visit us Erica? Its been forever since we talked last. I know you hate us but what happened was neither your mistake nor ours." He spoke.

"Try explaining that to your mother. She has always blamed me for every wrong thing in her life." I said angrily.

"You can't blame her right."

"If that's all you were going to say then I don't think we are going to agree on anything. It is better if I leave." I said and was about to leave when he caught my wrist and stopped me.

"Okay fine, we won't talk about it. Please sit. "

Sighing I sat on my seat and talked about other things our life.

"How's your wife?"I asked while sipping my coffee.

"She's good."

We talked for a while and then got up to leave. Caleb insisted on paying for my coffee so I let him and then we went our separate ways.

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