Sia had kept her eyes on the screen, she could feel her eyes getting watery as a familiar feeling she hated lingered in her heart. She wanted to run away from there as she became even more restless that even Emiliano could sense that.
“Relax and have fun”he whispered and placed his hand on hers and Sia looked at him with watery eyes and the man warmly smiled at her. Emiliano knew how emotional she was at the moment because he did just what she had always wanted since she was in high school and all that he read in her diary.
Sia relaxed a bit and got back to watching. The movie was an old horror movie she used to watch with her friends, but most of the time her friends used to get scared and leave her to watch. It was a long time ago, and hence she never watched it since that night she had sneaked out of the house for the first time because her parents had gone in a business trip, and hence she decided to go and watch a movie however when she got there she felt out of place because the entire place was full of people all paired up, and she was there all alone, she felt alone that was why she left in the middle before the movie could finish (“dear diary from now on I will never go out to watch any movie unless with my future husband, even if he turns out to be a jerk”) she has written in her diary.
“No”sia gasped and buried her face on Emiliano’s chest because a frightening scene was playing where the monster in the story was brutally killing it prey and butchering every victim like meat.
“It’s okay”Emiliano whispered to her and Sia slowly moved away from him when she noticed what she did.
“S… sorry.”
“No need for that… here come”he murmured as he brought her close to his warm body and made her rest her head on his chest, Sia didn’t know how to react but as Emiliano suggested she wrapped her arms inside his jacket and hugged him so tight as her head tilted to the left, so she could watch the movie all curled up in his strong warm embrace. Emiliano wrapped his arms around her body and both sat in silence as they eyes fell on the screen, Sia relaxed and looked around only to see the rest of the people who came as couples hugging and for the first time she felt safe as the atmosphere became heavily romantic.
Time passed, and the entire place was quiet and only voices from the characters of the movie could be heard, Emiliano didn’t understand why his wife would enjoy watching such scary movies when she was utterly scared of thunder and lightning which was weird.
When the movie ended Emiliano finally glanced down at his wife only to find her with eyes closed indicating that she was fast asleep. It all would have been fine but here she was sleeping like a baby, he had to say when she slept she looked exactly like Diego so cute and peaceful.
“I guess this is happening again”he mumbled helplessly as he prepared to carry her out, Emiliano was surprised how she slept throughout the entire movie it was like his efforts of fulfilling her dreams was hopeless.
The drive home was not so bad as Emiliano drove home with a heavy heart, but he was happy about something he had the chance to hold her in his arms and Sia was comfortable with it. Soon they reached the mansion and immediately Emiliano got out and went to her side and once he opened the door he carried her out just as a few guards ran to him and took the car keys from him and Emiliano gave them up and focused on taking sia inside. She was sleeping so loudly that he felt jealous waking her up and once he pushed the front door open, he didn’t even bother to switch the lights as he headed straight upstairs to their room. Without Diego crying occasionally the house was quiet because even the helper were not around including Diego’s caretaker Lulu.
“Okay”Emiliano mumbled as he set his wife on the bed and moved to her feet to get rid of her shoes and with great care, he did and gently massaged her feet and moved up as he stared at her with a soft gaze. He wanted to bring colors in her life even if he had to sacrifice some things including his past he couldn’t seem to let go. When he found out that Sia was the little sister of the woman who hurt him in the past his heart was vengeful, and he wanted to make her suffer, that was why he married her. He thought she was just the same as her elder sister, spoiled rich girls who stepped on everything, but with every little time, he spent with Sia he saw the other side of her that she probably hid from the world. Sia was innocent and different from the women he had met before, she was kind with a pure heart. Yes, she fought with him even in little things, but he found all that cute and part of his life and the memories he had created with her in just a short while he wanted to cherish them and wanted to make more lovely moments.
“Goodnight”he whispered as he lowered down and planted a kiss on her forehead and turned to walk out of the room but suddenly a soft hand grabbed his hand and he stopped and looked back at Sia and found her staring at him with lazy drowsy eyes.
“Do you need anything?”he immediately sat beside her and Sia sat up carefully and shook her head in denial.
“Are you hungry?”he asked and again Sia shook her head.
“Feeling uncomfortable?”he started then something came to his mind “I see you can’t sleep without taking a bath right? So freshen up, and I’ll make something for you”he went on and said since the woman wasn’t saying anything and just as he was about to go Sia said something.
“Will you shower with me?”she choked out the words and Emiliano widened his eyes at her and the woman was serious about what she said.
“Huh?”he said in pure shock and sia adjusted in a better sitting position and nervously fiddled with her cold hands and said again.
“Well… I… it’s… please join me… in the shower”she stammered the words out and Emiliano was perplexed because she did realize what she was asking him to do and Sia knew what she wanted from him and this time she wasn’t backing down.