Recap:
I walked away from the table and told Jude about mom and the pillow cover that she made for me. I left out the part where I bawled my eyes out. I was about to hang up hen Wade come up from behind.
“Natasha I have something important to tell you”
“What’s wrong Wade?” I asked looking at his serious expression.
“I need to tell you something”
“What is it?”
“Natasha I think I am falling for you”
Natasha’s P. O. V
I stared at Wade with my mouth open. He couldn’t be serious. “You can’t be serious!” I said, my conversation with Jude already forgotten.
“Oh, but I am”
“But Wade, when? How? This just does nit make ay sense!”
“It makes perfect sense Natasha, we both have lost a parent, we both value love and both of us are the kind of people who would marry for love and both of us are capable of loving our better half more than ourselves”
“Wade I-”
“Shhh don’t, don’t knock it off till you’ve tried it!” Wade walked towards me and leant close, his mouth was near my ear. My heartbeats accelerated as he moved his face in frnt of mine, one hand encased my hand and he took my cell phone and disconnected.
“Haha” he guffawed, “that will give him something to think about!”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that if you so completely bought the story of me falling for you then so has Jude!”
I hit him on his chest and said, “Don’t you scare me like that ever again!” He just laughed.
“Oh hey remember to take your jacket from me”
“huh speaking of which, what was Jude’s reaction to that?”
I tried to imitate Jude, ‘I’ll buy you one” and both of us collapsed laughing. We quickly finished our lunch and then Wade looked at me his eyes shining mischievously.
“Lets go”
“Where?”
“I am buying you a jacket”
“What? No!”
“Yes”
“No!”
“Er Natasha yes we are going to so don’t argue”
We started walking to a mall that was close by. I was sulking a little, both these cousins were so annoying! They both wanted to get their way all the time and what was more annoying was that they usually got it.
“You look cute when you pout”
“I am not pouting!”
“Yes you are”
“Argh! Look we can just go to my old place and pick my jacket. We don’t need to buy a new one!” “Nope the
old jacket won’t do the trick like the new one would!” “What do you mean?” “What I mean is I am going to
have soooooooo much fun when I see Jude’s reaction to your new jacket!” “Oh you are so immature” but I
couldn’t help smiling too. “Ok so what do you like here?” We were standing in a United Colors of Benetton
store and so far I didn’t see anything I liked. “Nothing”
“Oh my God you are so fussy!” said Wade wiping his brow dramatically, I glared at him and he smiled back.
“Ok ok, let’s get out of here, where do you want to go?”
“If you had listened to me from first Wade by now we would’ve bought my jacket and been out of here in no time!”
“Oh alright let’s go to Zara”
I smirked and got out of the shop and headed towards Zara. I saw a lovely fawn colored jacket and fell in love with it immediately. I picked it up and tried it on.
“That looks good”
“I know right. Ok lets go, found what I was looking for”
“Huh? You mean you aren’t going to try like another 15 jackets and eventually pick up the one you saw first?” asked Wade in mock horror. I started laughing and said, “No, when I see something I like that’s it. I don’t second guess every decision I take!”
“Oh Natasha please marry me! Please, please, please, please!”
“Wade shut up!”
I looked around blushing, quiet a few people were staring at us. I was really embarrassed!
“Marry him!” yelled a girl who was standing near us. “Say yes or I’ll ask him out!”
A group of teenage girls giggled and looked at Wade appreciatively.
Ok I may not be marrying Wade but I sure as hell wasn’t going to let those girls ogle at him or ask him out. Wade was however in the mood to make life more difficult for me. He went down on his knee and held out the jacket to me and said, “Marry me”
“Wade get up!”
“Say yes!” chorused a lot of people most of them girls. Some of them gave me the ‘are you insane?!’ look. I rolled my eyes and decided to play along, “Of course I will marry you!”
Wade got up as a lot of people cheered us on and bowed as if he had just performed on a show. As we got out of the store I smacked him on his head.
“Ow! What was that for?”
“For embarrassing me like that”
“Oh come on they all thought I was adorable and that you should totally marry me!”
“And why should I marry you?”
“cause I would keep you really happy and you and I would make the most gorgeous babies in the world!”
“Wade!”
“What? It is true”
As we walked to his car I found myself imagining a life with Wade. We got into the car and I thought what if? What would life be with Wade. He was cute, adorable and he absolutely would make an adoring husband. He loved and respected his mother and he would keep his wife on a pedestal. I found myself smiling as I thought about how lucky his wife would be.
“Earth to Tasha”
“Sorry I spaced out”
“I know, were you thinking of making babies with me?”
He laughed as I blushed and said, “No!”
‘Oh well its too much fun hassling you”
“Jerk”
“Ah now you’re hurting me” he placed a hand on his heart.
“Dramatist” I muttered rolling my eyes.
“Oh did I mention that I would be staying for dinner?”
“No you did not”
“Well I just did!”
“That’s cool. What do you want to eat?”
“What has Mrs. Bower cooked?”
“Oh I asked her not to cook anything today because I figured since I was doing nothing I would cook”
“oooooohhhh” said Wade smiling like an imp.
“uh I don’t like the look you have in your eyes Wade”
“It will be so much fun when Jude comes in and finds us both cooking
together. Which reminds me, he hasn’t called back has he?”
“Nope” I said dejectedly, “don’t you think we have annoyed him enough for the day?”
“Has he confessed his love for you?”
“What? No!”
“Then nope, its not enough”
I sighed and resigned myself to Wade’s schemes. I hope it just does not backfire on me.
“So what do you wanna eat?”
“I was thinking lets have a three course meal, we’ll have garlic bread and garlic mushroom for starters with grilled chicken, chicken curry and rice and for desert we will buy vanilla ice cream and make chocolate mousse. How does that sound?”
Wade stared at me open mouthed “Please marry me” he pleaded and I laughed. Oh God I was going to have to put up with a lot of please marry me.
“Do we have everything we need at home?”
“Yeah almost, we just have to buy the ice cream and chocolate and fresh cream. Yep. That’s about it.”
“Ok lets get started. We stopped at a dairy and bought what we needed and headed home. I entered the living room and kicked of my shoes and as usual placed them on the shoe rack. Wade kicked off his shoes and I groaned internally. He was like Jude in so many ways and yet he was so different! I quietly placed his shoe on the shoe rack as he kept the ice cream in the freezer.
“Ok where do we begin”
“Oh you don’t have to actually help Wade I will do it on my own”
“Nope I am going to help and then Jude will walk in on us all angry and jealous”
“Oh God” I said placing my head in my hands
“Oh come on Tasha and Wadey’s day of funnnnnn” he said imitating.
Janet from F. R. I. E. N. D. S. I laughed at that and started ordering around. Wade took off his T shirt and I gulped. Oh God I thought as I glanced away why on earth do the boys of this family have to be so freaking gorgeous!
“Wh-why aren’t you wearing your T shirt?” I asked
“What and get it dirty while cooking? No thanks I’d like to cook like this unless-” he grinned mischievously at me, “unless its difficult for you to concentrate on cooking, after all the food has to be perfect!”
I gasped at his audacity and threw a tomato at his head. “Wear your t shirt or Jude might jump to conclusions!”
“What conclusions?”
“Well you know that we were er we were doing the hanky panky!” I said borrowing Sean’s words.
“Boy you and Sean should take classes together. Its called-”
“Oh k I know what its called lets not go there.”
“Alright” laughed Wade.
“So err wear your t shirt I will get you an apron”
“Ok! I got my 15 seconds of fame, I saw you perving on me by the way”
“I wasn’t!” I said blushing
“Yeah keep saying that”
I opened a cabinet and found two aprons. I handed one to Wade and took one for myself. The one on Wade’s said ‘kiss the cook’ while mine was a plain blue one.
“Yeah that’s not corny at all’ said Wade pointing to his apron as I giggled and blew him a kiss which he pretended to catch. “Ok Wade I need you to chop onions, garlic and puree the tomatoes” “At your service ma’am!” he said clicking his heels and mock saluting me.
I tied my hair up in a knot and got started. I had a lot to get ready before Jude got home.
Jude’s P. O. V
I was sitting at my desk and the team that had been assigned to me was discussing our project while I could only think of what Wade had told Natasha. He had fallen for her? Seriously? She was so not his type! Yes she is, said that super annoying voice in my head. Wade had always fallen for sensitive and sensible girls unlike Jude. Jude went or used to go only for looks until he had met Stephanie not that it meant Stephanie was not beautiful, she was gorgeous. I couldn’t concentrate on anything! I had wanted to call Natasha back as soon as she had disconnected my call but I had controlled the impulse. After all what right did I have over her? Well she has to be careful, we have a contract, a non verbal but binding contract. If she’s seen around with Wade tongues were gonna wag and it would create unnecessary complications and we didn’t what that right? Right. That’s all it was I told myself smiling in relief.
“Sir? Do you think that’s ok?”