Natasha’s P. O. V
I woke once gain feeling a familiar weight across my waist. I smiled to myself as I glanced at Jude who was snoring like a freight train. He looked peaceful and serene. I lay there for a long time till I heard Mrs. Bower tinkering in the kitchen. I got up prying away Jude’s arm and tip toed out of the room. “Good morning!” I greeted Mrs. Bowers who dropped the pan in fright. “Oh miss Natasha you scared me!”
“I am sorry I didn’t mean to” I said smiling sheepishly.
“Where were you since 2 days?”
“Oh I was at my home”
“Oh ok. Well I don’t know if its my place to say this or not but Mr. Jude is like a son to me and I am bothered about him.”
“What happened?”
“Well” she began, “when you were gone that” at this point she had a look on her face as if she had bitten a lemon “tramp was here. I couldn’t life of me understand what she was doing here!”
Oh damn it! How could Jude be such an idiot! We were supposed to keep up a charade and now Mrs. Bower had seen him with her. I decided what to do then.
I stomped to Jude’s room and slammed the door hard. Jude yelped and sat up looking around in confusion.
“What’s wrong?”
I winked at him and yelled, “who was here when I was gone Jude?!”
He looked at me in confusion and was about to speak when I kept a hand on his mouth and whispered, “Mrs. Bowers”
His eyes widened and he smacked his head against my arm.
“She’s just a friend!” Yelled Jude loudly.
“Don’t lie to me Jude!”
“I am not”
I doubled over in laughter I was thoroughly enjoying our ‘fake’ fight. Then I decided to turn it up a notch. I walked outside the room and Jude followed.
I grabbed a vase and aimed it at him. He dodged and it clanged against the wall it was stainless steel.
“Don’t lie!” I yelledm
“Natasha you could’ve hurt me!”
“Too bad I didn’t”
“Thanks a lot” Jude muttered to Mrs. Bower who was red in the face.
“Sweetheart believe me I love you and only you!”
“Liar!”
I threw my show at him which hit him square in the chest. All the frustration I had inside me was surfacing.
“Natasha! Stop!”
“No you stop! What the hell were you thinking? Huh? That I won’t find out? That you can do what you like behind my back?”
“I didn’t do anything! I swear! I didn’t even touch her!”
I looked at him in surprise, and both Mrs bower and I replied together, “you didn’t?”
“No!”
“Really?”
“Yes Nats!”
“Ok but why was she here?”
“But why was she here?”
“Look can we not talk about it here?” asked Jude, he was really annoyed now. I stopped myself from smiling and said “Ok” and turned away sulking.
Suddenly, Jude grabbed me from behind and kissed me right there in front of Mrs. Bower, it was a harsh kiss at first, then it became more demanding and finally when I responded it turned into a soft passionate one.
He was nibbling on my lower lip when Mrs. Bower cleared her throat and we both jumped apart only just realizing we had an audience. I looked away my face flushed from embarrassment and passion, “Now do you believe me?” asked Jude smirking at me.
I couldn’t trust my voice so decided to just nod, after that we ate our breakfast in silence. I was still reeling from his kiss, there was an orchestra playing in my head. I smiled at my goofy metaphor and Jude said, “What are you smiling at?”
“Nothing! ” I replied quickly.
“Really now?”
“Yep”
Jude shrugged it off and then my phone beeped.
It was a text, “How long are you going to hide you bitch?”
I choked on my pancake and Jude rushed to thump my back as I coughed.
“Nats what is wrong?”
I showed him the text message as tears ran down my cheeks, after I had stopped coughing I shouted angrily, “who the hell is this?” “There’s only one way to find out” replied Jude.
“How?”
“You need to go back home, he has obviously been checking for you everyday”
“Yeah exactly, that’s why I shouldn’t go there!”
“No listen to me, go there tonight, Wade, Sean and I will be hiding outside your home. The moment this person comes knocking on your door we will accost him!”
“Ok what if he gets me before you guys can come there?”
“He won’t, besides you pack a neat punch”
I smiled as I remembered the first time that I had punched Jude, had it been a month already? It felt just like yesterday. I watched as Jude called Wade and Sean. Wade said he’d meet us at Jude’s after his office and Sean said he was coming over right away.
“You have to go to office too” I told Jude.
“I am taking an off!”
“No you are not!”
“What you need my protection” he said flexing his arms and I giggled, “Yeah Sean is coming over so you can go, you are not slacking off from work because of me”
Jude rolled his eyes but went to get dressed anyway. Mrs. Bowers quickly finished her work and left asking me to take care of myself. I went into the room and stopped, Jude stood there in his jeans deciding what shirt to wear.
“Do you think we convinced her?” I squeaked.
“Mrs. Bowers? Yeah, the kiss sealed the deal” he said winking at me.
“Ok” I said looking anywhere but at him.
“Nats?”
“Yeah?”
“Help me pick a shirt”
I quickly picked a brown shirt and handed it to him.
“Are you sure?” he said making a face.
“Yes”, God! Anything would look good on him.
He quickly wore the shirt and brushed his hair, before leaving he kissed me on my forehead and said, “Bye see you in the evening” I stood there at the door for several minutes touching my forehead and smiling. I went to the couch picked a cushion and yelled into it
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” I was so happy! Maybe Sean and Wade were right, Jude did like me after all.
The doorbell rang and in walked Stephanie.
“What are you doing here?”
She raised an eyebrow at me and said, “Watch your mouth, where is Jude?”
“He has gone to o- to pick his parents up”
“uhuh by when will he be back?”
“I don’t know”
“Well I guess I will just wait for him here then”
“No you cant!” God she was so infuriating!
“Why not?”
“When he comes back his parents will come back with him remember?”
“Oh well, I guess. Alright he wont answer my calls ask him to call me”
I raised my eyebrows in disbelief. Who the hell was she? Who said she could order me around?
“Do it yourself!”
“Listen you might think that you might’ve won yesterday but the fact is that you did not!”
“Oh is that so?”
“Yes, while he may be making googoo eyes at you he was in bed with me for the past two days so at the end of the day I am the one he desires!”
“God not only are you dumb you are delusional! See girls like you give blondes a bad name!”
She stared at me hissing, I didn’t know where all the confidence was coming from, on the inside I felt as if I had been hit in the gut with a sledge hammer.
Jude had just told me that he hadn’t even touched her and yet here stood Stephanie saying just the opposite.
“Well believe what you want honey” she said spitefully and left. As she was leaving Sean passed her. He bumped into her purposely sending her reeling because of her heels. She yelped and sat there cussing but Sean just walked away disdainfully not bothering to help her up.
He came inside and shut the door with a bang and started giggling, I couldn’t help it and started laughing along with him.
“So we have a ninja assignment today right?”
When I looked at him confusion he said, “We’re going to catch your stalker tonight!”
“Oh!”
“Yeah it’s a covert ninja assignment!”
“ohhhk” I said, dragging the word.
“SO Wade and I and Jude will be dressed all in black, its camouflage” he said throwing a backpack on the couch. I winced and immediately straightened it.
“Jude won’t agree”
“Oh watch me” he said winking and I smiled at him.
We settled down to watch re runs of friends.
“Are you mad at me nats?”
“Nope”
“Why are you so quiet?”
“Nervous”
“Don’t be we won’t let anything happen to you, right Sean?”
“D’accord”
Jude looked at him funnily and Sean sighed, “Agreed”