"It's because of Brian and Adrian, and of course I have to deal with my father who wants me to study business overseas." Yes, it's true! He even has the same tone and voice as Hunter and he even mentioned Brian and Adrian. I closed my eyes tightly, not wanting to look up.
Why you don't want to see his face? My mind suddenly spoke to me. What am I going to do? Stare at him and force me to forget about Hunter then make myself fall for him? Duh!
"I hope Lia would look at me, I missed her already." My mind went blank. The way he enunciated my nickname was so damn making me goosebumps. He sounds like Hunter!
This time, I didn't fight and look up and my eyes meets his eyes. The eyes I've been longing to see. Those green eyes that would spark whenever I look at them, the green eyes that would show love and affection only to me. My nose getting runny as I felt my eyes get wet. I missed him!
I did not waste any second and stands up to go to him. He also did the same and accept my hug. I buried my face to his neck as I sob. He chuckled but I know, he's also getting teary. "I miss you so much,"
"I miss you too," I respond in between my sob.
He broke the hug and look me in the eye. He examines my face as I only stare only into his eyes. I miss those green eyes. I miss the hug, the warmth he'd given me whenever we both hug each other. Lastly, his eyes fall to my lips and quickly cover my lips with his. My tears fall as I close my eyes, wrapping my hands around his neck to deepen the kiss. I miss this feeling. I think the wait is worth it. My mind still not processing what's been going on, I just keep on doing the thing my body wants. He broke the kiss and stares at my eyes and give me a peck.
Someone clears their throat making us look at Father. I blush and look down, realizing what I just have done in front of my father. He looks away from us and looks on the other way still an unreadable look. "I-I'm... We're sorry dad.." I left Hunter's arms and went beside dad but he neglect my touch.
"Not when you touch other guys, Lia."
"It was just a kiss!"
"Yeah," He answered sarcastically. He straightens his position and looks at Hunter. I pouted at the way he talk to me. "I see you guys have a relationship before?"
"Hmm, yes we are but we didn't start from good, we started from becoming an enemy," I respond. I smirk at Hunter.
"Enemies?" His mother asks. I look at her in shock and nodded my head, recovered.
"Aunty?!" I cover my mouth and run towards her. I hug her and giggle. "It's been a decade since we both see each other." I broke the hug and stare at her with my eyes widen.
"I miss you too, Lia. Since then I have heard many things about you until now. Hunter loves you. Even Adrian and Brian, they both talked about how you got hurt when their father came to his house." There's a glimpse of worried in her eyes and tone.
"Hurt? By your husband?" Dad asks. Aunty nodded. I feel dad's stare at me and I look at him with a smile on my face. "Are you okay, Lia? What happened that day?"
"I'm okay, dad. Uncle just thought I am Hunter's girlfriend—" I look at Hunter and let a heavy sighed. "Make the long story short, someone tries to look like me from my school, and Uncle mistook me like her." Dad looks at Hunter and to aunty. "I'm okay now Dad. That girl is just jealous because I and Hunter are school mates and he used to pour me his attention all the time. He's famous on our campus so he had many fangirls but all his attention was just some so they got jealous." I look at Hunter while scoffing. "He didn't even try to save me from all his fangirl, instead, he even bully me." He looks at me while his eyes widen.
"Yah! Didn't you hear the news spread after Melanie hurt you in the cafeteria? I told them no one can hurt you unless it was me. You little." He grits his teeth. "You should try to observe the place where you are. The news posted in the social media of the school and our GC and even plastered on the announcement board, how come you didn't see? Oh, I know!" He flicked his fingers. "You nearly nerd back then, all focused only in books."
"Heh! At least, I am studying very hard and even made myself famous to the principal, not because of my looks but because of my expensive mind," I mocked him.
Before he could answer, Aunty spoke, "Okay, can we stop now? You, Hunter, did a mistake. Why would you tell your schoolmates to not hurt her but hurt her instead? Before you should tell anyone what to do, you should be their role model." I nodded my head dramatically as I went beside my father.
"That's correct, aunty! Scold him for his mistake." Dad slightly tap my legs, I chuckled and stop. Hunter slightly glared at me.
"Also, Lia, you should be aware of your surroundings. You should be aware of your surroundings now because you're your father's inheritor of your company, it is so much responsibility. People can tell many things bad to do when you do great just to let you down. So be aware of that. When you also go outside, be aware, many people are crazy roaming around the city." I nodded my head with a smile.
"I am busy aiming my goal in life that I can't even notice I am not aware of my surrounding."
"It's good. Hunter doesn't have any rivals way back then." Aunty look at her son with a sweet smile while his son sat there, pouting.
"I had one, Mom," he said. He did not look away from me and crosses his arms while still pouting. Aunt's smile slowly faded and look at him confused. "The books." His mom and my dad laughed at his response. "It is very getting her attention away from her books that it makes me do something bad just for her to go to me and give me a small attention."
"You attention seeker. So you eat my only sandwich to get my attention you didn't know I am starving to death that day?!" Dad and Aunt look at Hunter with their stern look, Hunter gulps and answer, trying to cover up his fears.
"I eat your sandwich but didn't I buy you food? You even buy almost the food in the cafeteria, isn't it still enough?"
"You didn't buy me a truck of ice cream and the cookie's factory."
"You're abusing, you know?" I roll my eyes at him.
"You're eating junk food, Lia?" Dad asks. I chuckled nervously.
"No—"
"Yes, Uncle. She has a lot of stuck in her house. She can finish a big cup of ice cream and two-pack of cookies." I glared at him.
"Yeah, I am not! Look at me, still fit. If I finish that big cup of ice cream and two packs of cookies then I should've been obese right now."
"Fit my ass, you had a belly."
"Want me to show you?" I held the hem of my clothing, trying to scare him. I don't have any intention of lifting it.
"Show me after the marriage. You should work out before marrying me, I don't want a fat wife." I pot and look at Dad who was just chuckling.
"Dad, what is he even doing here? It's making me want to throw him somewhere where he can't go back anymore." I hold his bicep and shake it a little. "Don't tell me I am fat because when we're attending classes, I am fat but now, I became fit. Don't you dare call me fat anymore?"
"Lia, you know, after you call him Monkey, he can't stop himself from telling me about you. Like, he wanted his soon-to-be wife to call him Monkey and he's planning in proposing at you but of course, his father is a villain in Hunter's happiness." There was a painful yet hateful look in her eyes.
"Oww, he should ask me before his flight and explain to me everything and I would accept him. Hiss! But at least it tests our feelings for each other." I smile cheekily.
"You both are meant to be,"
"My brother and cousin tell me the same but I doubt his and my feelings because we just met years ago and meet again."
"That strength of faith, making them both paired together but the both of them don't want to accept each other but are now affectionate to each other. That faith's strength holds," Dad comments. I mentally facepalm my face.
Then I just resize something, "You said, we will meet my future husband? Where are they?" I ask, turning my head to Dad.
"Yeah," Hunter called. "Do you know me?" I look at him with my eyes already fall to his eyes, perfectly.
"Of course, you're Hunter," I responded.
"Where am I?" My brows furrowed at his question. Why is he asking so many questions?
"In front of us."
"That answers your question," he said, coolly. He leans in his back to the couch back. It took me a second to process the word he just said. My mouth widen as my eyes did also. I look at Dad.
"Dad?" I look at him with my brows furrowing. "What's the meaning of this? What does he mean?" I am happy but I am still not letting those emotions out. I want to get enlighten first before jumping to his arms. "He'll be my spouse?!" Dad nodded his head. My surroundings seemed to stop and I felt like I am becoming deaf. My heart keeps on beating as it is the only audible to me.
"AHHHH!" I couldn't help it anymore. I stand up and went to him as I hug him tightly. "Can't you believe it?" He stands up as I feel my feet left the ground. He lifts me and turns me around. I keep on shrieking.
I am happy, my feelings can't be described. I was beyond happy right now. I left my hand around his neck and see his eyes smiling while those green eyes I fell for were looking at me. I hold his cheeks as I stared at his eyes and smile at him with my eyes before leaning in, giving him a long kiss. We both pulled away and stare at each other while smiling.
"I love you," I whisper.
"I love you more." He gives me a peck on the lips before putting me down and we both embrace each other as we both face my father and his mom. "I won't break your daughter's heart, Dad." Hunter went to dad as they both had a handshake. Dad stands up and they had a friendly hug without dad breaking their hand holding each other.
"I trust you," dad said. As they both pulled away, there's a smile on his smile but something seemed still not good. He was just not very happy about the thought. His smile is not forced yet a little sad. I sighed before looking at his mom and went to her and sat beside her.
"Mommy," I said. I hug her as she giggles.
"I've been dying to hear you calling me mommy. Your parents didn't fail to raise you very well." She caressed the back of my head as I buried my head in her chest.
"They surely, mom. I am proud of them, but also I am proud of dad. He went through a lot without anyone beside him. I should've been with him with those dark days of him but I am in our hometown, happy."
"It wasn't your fault. If we can point on someone who faulted this, then that someone is your mother. She did a lot of scars on your father's heart." I smiled at her. I want to meet my mother too, I want to face her.
We all eat breakfast together. Of course, because we're engaged, Dad and his mother keep on bridging on us but they said they have to stop since they saw us kissing a while ago. As I made my way to my chair, Hunter came and sat next to me which Dad smiles.
Dad asks Hunter many things about our future. Of course, he answers very carefully and even asks me if I agree with him and I answer him honestly. And yeah, we both agreed on having our own house, well, of course, we will be married soon, so we have to stay and act like a married couple. And on the first list, we have to have our own house.
"So, what are we going to do to our house in Madrid heights?" I ask Hunter, we're in the living room. We just finished eating breakfast. Dad and mother, I call Hunter's mother a mother because we're engaged and soon to tied a knot so. They were in the backyard, probably talking about something important we don't have to know.
"Just stays like that, if we have a child, of course, we will turn the lots name to them, if we had 2 Childs. Well, I know we will have 5 kids, then that's good." I laughed.
"You're an advance thinker huh? I am not a pig, you little dumb. I might break myself if we had 5 kids." He chuckled and lift my hands before kissing the back of my palm. "How about Melanie? Did you talk to her?" His expression changed. "Why? Seems like something bad happened."
"She went to my house and you know, she knew about us. She knew I still love you and threatens me she will hurt you if I did not stay away from you and continue the engagement."
"Does the engaging true?"
"No, when I saw you living here and became my neighborhood, I confess to her I still love you and I want you to get jealous so you would come to me and pull me away from her and claim me as yours but unfortunately, you didn't." He gulps in disappointment. "Then the thought of faking a proposal came across my mind. She knew it was fake, I ask her if she can do it as a plan and she agrees."
"Maybe to you, it was all plan, and fake, but to her it's true." I turn my body to face him, still in a sitting position. "I'm getting jealous now, you know why?" He looks at me, with curiosity. "Because you properly propose to her, even if it's a plan or fake, it's one of the most moments girls want to happened once in their life, to get proposed by their love ones." My face falls into a sad one.
I can't help but compare myself to Melanie. She is lucky even if it's fake, at least, she feels special since Hunter proposes to her, by himself. God knows how much I want to feel and witness myself being proposed by the person I love the most, Hunter. But I guess I am asking too much now, Hunter's attention and love are enough.
I should be happy since I am tying a knot with him for the next 2 months but I still can't forget the image of Hunter kneeling in front of Melanie with a ring. I want to feel it too.
I am now in my study room, Dad gave me his half study room since I choose to study business here than overseas, and luckily, he agreed. Hunter and I have our own time texting each other despite our tight schedule. Today is his first day being CEO of their company, and this is my first day of studying business.
I have a little acknowledge about business. It's not been hard for me to learn about it because I am helping mom selling in our hometown, it's never been a bother to me some of the topics in the business. And about what I learned in my course.
My phone rings. I check who it is and smiles as I answered it. "Hello, wifey," he said in a very sweet voice. I smile and shrug my shoulder. He had never talked to me like that before, all he did was being sarcastic so I did it to him also. I never thought I would get to hear him and can see him being all sweet, clingy to me though I hope to see him like that to me when we were still studying. "How are you? Is my wife just smiling right now?"
"I'm fine! I just finished my first business lecture. Who wouldn't smile when their love was this sweet?" I heard him giggle on the other line. "How about you there? How are you? Did you found your secretary hot?"
"No one is hot than my wife," he answered. I sneer.
"Such a liar. You said I am fat and you don't want fat."
"I said it to tease you and I win. you're cute when you're annoyed. Want me to come there and make you believe me?" I shook my head at the thought of us doing dirty things. I can stay in a relationship without doing it. I just want a light relationship without any dirty things.
"No, you can just come here to have dinner. Don't you dare think of doing something I don't want?"
"You know, even if you don't want to do it, if you only see me shirtless, you will get—"
"Still no. We might talk about how many kids we want, but not now. we still have our responsibility to think about. If we made it now while we still have many things to settle, we get busy and lessen our attention to our kids. Think before doing it, Hunter. Do you want your kids to grow without our attention?"
"Of course, no," he answered, quickly.
"Then go back to your work. How's your first day?" I ask and there's a little silence in the other line, I can imaging him pouting there, already.
"I have so many files dad left for me to do. I regret taking it. I should've continued the thing I just started and make it my lifetime job," he whine.
"I can go there and help you,"
"No, you should've spent your time with your dad. We can see each other at night right?" I sighed and nodded as if he could see me. I hummed in response.
"What's your job again?"
"Opp! Nothing," he answered. He stays silent first before speaking, "Your brother will held a party tomorrow right?"
"It's not a party, just a little event, he will propose to his girlfriend. I don't want to come, I hate him."
"Why? I just heard you guys talk on the phone when we're together, you both seem fine."
"I waited for many years waiting for Ayden to ask Shane to be his girlfriend and I thought he still loves her but when he came back, I just found out he has a girlfriend and soon-to-be wife."
"Is Donkey sulking at her brother?"
"Yep!" I shriek. "They waited for us to sail and I waited for them to sail but they ended up falling with a different person instead of each other while us, we already sail."
"Really? Because they did many things to make us sail and I think you just waited for them to sail."
"Yeah yeah, I won't come tomorrow. If you ever come, tell them I want to take some break.."
"No way. Do you think I would come there without you? Then what they would say to me?"
I laugh, "They'll think you were cheating."
"Yah! I'm not, okay? They would tell me I'm coming to an event without my wife. It's rude you know? The couple should go together."
"Yeah yeah, are we a couple?"
"What do you think?" He answers with a question also. He sounds like teasing me. I giggles and rolled my body to the queen-sized bed. Letting a small sound from my mouth as I can't help the thrilling I am feeling right now.
"Lira, the dinner is ready." Someone knock and said. I let a sigh.
"Coming!!" I shout back. "You want me to go there for a dinner? Or no?"
"You don't have to. I'll come there tomorrow, I still needed to finish these pile documents so I can be free for weeks next week. we can go somewhere." I hummed in response. "Don't worry about me, go and eat your dinner with your father."
"You too. You have also, go eat dinner before you continue doing your paper works."
"Hmm, noted milady." Right after that, I squeak again. The other line became quiet and of course me too. I bite my nails waiting for him to talk but I think he also got his tongue stuck inside his mouth and doesn't want to talk.
"Uhmm-" I was about to say goodbye.
"I love you,"
I love you... I love you... I love you.
!!!!!!!!!
"I love you too." We bid our goodbyes then ended the call, my cheeks still burning at the sudden confession he did a while ago. I know he's a little flirty and clingy but I did not expect him to say those 3 words to me. I... Even if we love each other. I want to hear it but I am not expecting him to say it to me anymore. He might say it already, but those words always affect me when it comes from him.
I went downstairs, my cheeks still burning and I felt like my stress vanished. I chuckled every time, the words he just said keep on ringing in my head that is hard for me to go back in reality and focus on the things I am currently doing right now.
"What happened that makes my daughter happy like this?" Dad asks, chopping the meat on his plate.
I smile. "Hunter said I love you to me, dad!"
"Wow! That's good! Well, if I didn't hear him say those, I would spank him." I pouted at him as he chuckled. "Just kidding. I know he would say that anytime for you to keeps on falling for him." I lift the edge of my lips. "Couples should flirt to each other even if they were old so the love won't fade. Age doesn't matter in flirting."
Even if he doesn't say those, I keep on falling for him every move he makes, just seeing his face makes my heart beats fast for him. The way he makes fun of me, I love it even though I am a little annoyed because I always get his attention.
"How's your day, dad?" I ask while looking at him. He stop from his eating and look at me with his tired eyes but smiling face.
"I'm okay, don't worry about me." He smiles at me but I think it is not his wide smile. His smile makes so many thoughts came. Like, is something bothering him? Why isn't he taking it with me? Why did I feel like he's distancing himself from me after announcing who's my spouse is? I shook my head and sighed.
Before going to sleep, I and Hunter had a video call. We talked about his first project that will be held next month. He teased and flirt with me for a minute and of course, I played back. There, he watches me fall asleep while he's signing papers.
The next morning, I get up and lazily went to the bathroom to do my morning routine. After that, I went to my dad's office, of course, I knocked on the door and waited for him to answer and when he answered, I went inside. He stops at typing at his laptop and signing papers and looks at me. "Good morning," he said. I went to him and hug him and kiss his head.
"Morning, dad." He looks at me from top to toe.
"You're going outside?"
"Yes, dad. My brother will propose to his girlfriend and he invited me. You can go with me, dad? Hunter will also be there." Dad hurriedly shook his head.
"You can go alone, don't forget to go there with a bodyguard," Dad responds. I nodded, I don't want to refuse anything. He's worried about me because he knows that I am not aware of my surroundings. Even if there's Hunter with me, it is still safe because Dad knows he's completely a CEO now, which means he's busy, he can get a phone call from his secretary and all.
I went outside to see Hunter's car was already there. I look at it, confused. Why isn't he going inside the house? The door in the driveway open, and Hunter came out from it. "Oh? I thought you were still getting, ready?"
"Sorry for making you wait, I went to talk to dad." He nodded and walk to me. He engulfs my waist and smiles sweetly before kissing my forehead.
"I just arrived and parked, no need to apologize." I nodded and smiles also. He opens the passenger door. Before I could fully go inside his car, my eyes fall to the back car just behind his car. I saw a three-man inside the car and nodded.
To be continued.