Amelia’s POV
2 WEEKS LATER
Today is the day. My competition. To say I am nervous would be an understatement. I’m having sweaty palms and cold feet. Ash and I have been practicing a lot the last 2 weeks. Without break. We can do this. I kept repeating this to myself.
That’s not the only thing. Damien said he has a surprise for me. I don’t know what is it. I hope is not bad or I’m gonna whoop his ass.
Damien and I have become very close these days. He has just return back to his work. No matter how many times we tell him to rest at home he wouldn’t listen to any of us. Stubborn man.
Also my graduation is tomorrow. I’m so excited.
Ash is sitting beside me as we do some stretches before going. We were at the backstage as we listen to the host talking. He was going to introduce the chief guest.
“Now we call upon our Chief Guest Mr Mariano.” When he said my eyes were almost bulge out. The claps were heard as I saw Damien coming up to the stage. His eyes darted to the backstage.
Searching. And finally they met mine. When he saw me, he chuckled. He used his hand to signal me to close my mouth.
I realized that my mouth was wide open. Immediately, I closed them. I looked at Ash to see that he was not shocked at all.
“Were you in on this?” I asked surprised. “Well kinda. My Job was to make sure you don’t come to know about it.” he said as he scratched his neck in nervousness.
I looked back and forth between my friend and husband and sighed as I chuckled. These two, I swear to god.
Damien gave a small speech as he ended as everyone started clapping. Once he was done with the speech, he walked pass us to go down. As he walked pass us he winked at me and mouth ‘I love you.’
To which, I mouthed ‘I love you too’ he chuckled as he left. Soon the first dancers were called upon the stage.
After quite some time, it was our turn.
We can do this.
I kept repeating to myself as we went to the stage. As we stepped into the stage we heard people cheering and clapping.
But my eyes went straight to the men who was sitting in the front seat. He gave me a full blown grin which boost my confidence.
And the song began. We danced.
Once we were done, people cheered, clapped and screamed our names. I was so happy. We did it. We quickly ran to the backstage.
I screamed as we went to the backstage. “We did it, Ash!” I yelled. He chuckled at me. “Yes we did” he said.
There were two more pairs as we waited patiently.
Soon everyone were done. We were called upon the stage as the judge were coming to a decision. And finally they did.
I anticipated for the decision. They started by the 3rd followed by the 2nd. My breathing became rigid as we weren’t in either.
“And the winner is….” the host dragged on. “Amelia and Ash.” I was astonished and surprised. We actually won. I was so shocked that I didn’t realize they were calling.
Guess who is giving out the award. Damien. Ash was the first one to go. He shook his hands and congratulated him.
Followed by me. He shook my hands, “Well done baby. I’m so proud of you.” He whispered into my ears. I blushed as he said that. “T-Thank you.” I said as I blushed. All the participants, the host and the chief guest took a group photos.
Soon everything was over. Some of the girls came and took photo with Damien. I was ok with it. He is technically a celebrity. But what I was not ok with was that they were flirting with him.
Usually things like this doesn’t get to me. But now, I don’t know why, I was infuriated. Why?
Its called jealously you dumb.
My subconscious told me. Me? Jealous. Pft. No way.
“…..”
Ok fine I was jealous. Urgh. Don’t they know that he is married. Like it was the top 1 hot news when it happen. This went on for almost half an hour.
Finally we were walking to his car to go back home. I was silent while he was gushing of how proud and happy he was.
But I kept thinking back where the girls were flirting with him. I didn’t know when we got into his car and he started driving. He was still talking without realising that I was moody.
It was evening already. The sun has set down while the moon rose. After some time I guess he realised that I was giving him the silent treatment.
“Baby, is something wrong?” he asked with worry. But I didn’t respond. “Baby?” he asked again. But nope. He put his hand on my forehead to see if I was sick. That almost melt my heart. Almost.
He sighed as he pulled over. That is when I realized that there was no car passing by. He turn to face me.
“Baby, did I do something wrong?” he asked again. Sighing he took my chin to face him. “If I did something wrong tell me. Yell at me. Hit me. But don’t give me the silent treatment. Its killing me.” he said as he looked at scared.
That did it. I throw myself at him and hugged him. He hugged me back tightly. So tight that I can barely breathe.
After embracing each other after sometime, we pulled away from each other. He took my chin and made me look at him.
“Tell me what happen please.” he asked. I sighed. “Back there, the girls were…” I trailed off. He arched his eyebrows.
“They were flirting with you.” I said. He was silent for few seconds before bursting out loud. He kept laughing while I glared at him. He put his hands up in defence.
“Not funny” I said as I hit his arm. “Ok, ok.” he said before going into another fits of laugh. “Is my wife jealous?” he said as he mimicked a cute voice while pinching my cheeks. “Oh shush.” I said as I swatted his hands away before blushing.
He quickly grabbed my waist, lifted me up and made me sit in his lap. I squealed at the sudden move. He placed his palm against my cheeks.
“No matter how many girls flirt with me, no one can match up to you. I mean in the entire room you were the most gorgeous woman.” he said honestly. Man, this guy can really make me blush.
“FYI, the only woman I was looking at was you. I did not even look at any other girl’s face.” he said as he placed his forehead against mine.
We sat there in each other embrace. Everything was just perfect.