THE EXTREME REVEAL
Maria woke up the next morning feeling a little bit out of mood. Probably because of the event that had occurred the previous day or because it was another day for her to get her ass out of bed to work even though she wasn’t feeling like it.
Today was one of the days where she had countless of thoughts in her head. Thoughts that fight their way in unannounced.
She sat up in bed, yawning profusely like a hungry cub. She stretched repeatedly, digging her hands into her messy hair to itch it in a quite frustrated manner.
She had no plans of doing anything otherwise than going to work but as she stopped by her dressing mirror, she saw the business card that was given by to her by Genevieve. She needed to visit the art gallery today to make her pick.
Her mind did a double check on a few things, one of which was her parents and siblings. She was going to go over to visit them soon. She needed to. They were the main motivation behind all of her hard work and seeing them more comfortable was one of her daily prayers
She knew how she had started and that, she was not willing to forget. It was the main inspiration towards her zeal.
“We do not get to choose the kind of family we are born into yet some of us still had to struggle through life” this words rang through her head several. An evident of how imbalance life can be and in its stance, it sucks!
When her mind juggled back to how this could be related to Reid. How he got whatever he wanted with less or no struggle for it, her mind went back to the words he said the previous day.
“I might not be worthy to have you but I choose to be selfish to try. Would you be my girlfriend, Maria?”
How could she be his girlfriend just like that? and join the list of things he could get easily.
She could not remember ever seeing him other than a friend and when he possibly developed such feelings towards her were all new to her.
She finally managed to brush all other thoughts off her mind as she went to the bathroom.
She brushed her teeth and did her usual flossing before taking her clothes off to have her bath.
She shrugged a bit as the cold shower water sprawled all over her naked body. She shut her eyes, taking in the serene feeling that came with the cold bath.
She took her favourite and usual shampoo to wash her hair, letting the shaping water drip down her body to the wet floor.
She shut her eyes again, enjoying every bit of the bath.
She finally got done and opened her eyes, only to be greeted by a view of her worst nightmare. A view that drew her out of her little haven.
A spider. A freaking spider.
She screamed out loud and it seems like her scream was drawing the insect nearer to her. She rushed out without switching the shower off as she hurried to grab a towel and off, she ran out of the bathroom.
She was still in her little trauma when her a heavy bang sounded on her door. She jerked from her present state as she tiptoed to towards the door, holding her towel tightly against her chest.
The door sounded heavily again, causing her to jerk as she tiptoed to the door.
She got to the door, breathing out heavily before yanking the door open. It gave a way for Reid to pushed the door in as he walked directly inside wherever in search of the reason for her scream.
“I heard your noise,” Reid said as he turned to look over at her with a worried look obvious on his face.
“It was… it was a spider,” Maria manage to speak as she pointed towards her bathroom.
Reid rushed over to the bathroom and saw no spider at the corner where she had initially seen it.
He searched well, walking into the shower with Maria, intently on his tracks, holding his right arm.
“There it is,” he said as he got an object to kill the insect.
As he turned around to get rid of it, Maria held him tightly out of fear almost causing him to slip and fall but he caught his balance in time.
The shower dripped down his body, only then did she realize that he was shirtless.
She didn’t look much into his skin as she withdrew her eyes instantly to his face and in that time, she switched the shower off.
He cleared his throat as he walked out of the shower. From his hair down to his feet, he was dripping like a water God.
“Thank you,” Maria muttered, looking away from him before walking out of the bathroom and Reid followed behind.
“It’s fine. I heard your scream so I hurried over. I’ll get going now,” The tension between them had grown to the climax which was not only because of the previous event but because they were both halves naked with Maria in just a towel and Reid in just a pair of pants.
The tension was making Maria’s eye turn as the awareness was rising by the tick of the clock. She was getting late for work, in fact.
Her little prayer every morning was to not bump into Reid on her way out but here he is, shirtless, with dripping water from her shower and looking like Hercules.
He turned to leave and unexpectedly, he turned back to face her but in the process, he bumped into her, causing her towel to fall to the ground, exposing her whole.
She froze with her mouth wide open as well as Reid except that his eyes didn’t freeze with him.
He unintentionally fed his eyes. He couldn’t make out words to say neither could he keep his eyes off her high titties nor could she move and cover herself.
A few seconds passed with the two in this position and impulsively, almost too sudden for the two to comprehend, she hurriedly bent to pick her towel up and before Reid could apologise, her hand landed heavily on his cheek.
“You pervert!” she yelled angrily, holding on to her towel extremely tightly.
Dumbfounded, Reid held his cheek, opening and closing his mouth to make out words to say. An apology or any words to say to her by he couldn’t.
“You’re going to result to this perverted act because I refused to go out with you? You are a bloody perverted-billionaire!” she yelled angrily and could feel her blood boil in her veins.
Still, he couldn’t say any words but only to stand before her with an embarrassed and stunned stare.
“Get the hell out of here!” she yelled, still angry.
“I…” he managed to commence but he was interrupted by her heavily angry voice that seems not to subside over time.
“I do not want to hear a word from you. Get the hell out,” she repeated.
He turned around with the remaining ride left in him as he walked out of her place.
Her cheeks were flushed and she sank into the bed, holding her towel tightly with her armpits as she rested her whole face in her palm.
“Fuck! Fuck!! Fuck!!!” she repeated.
She wasn’t sure what more was making her feel so uneasy at the time. Either the fact that she just slapped Reid Martakis or the fact that the same Reid Martakis that she had declined yesterday saw her butt-naked today.
She sighed heavily before raising her head from her palm and over to her bedside where she saw how late she was already.
Reluctantly, with a low spirit, she stood from the bed to dress up and try to forget the extreme encounter.
In a few minutes, she was already fully dressed in high-waist beige suit pants and a tan suit jacket that stopped below her belly button. She complemented the look with a brown shoulder bag and a brown two-inches sandal heel. She managed to play a little with the neutral colour by accentuating the look with white glasses. She folded her hair neatly and tightly in a sleek back ponytail that she held in its place with a hair clip.
She did a very light makeup before checking herself in the mirror and nodded in approval, leaving behind her the early morning spider disaster which metamorphosed into her body reveal.
She managed a smile on her fine lips before using her cologne. She said her little prayer.
“May I not run into Reid Martakis! Not today, not ever,”
As she walked toward the door, a knock sounded and her heart did a little somersault in its place causing an inner sweat to fuse out of her pores as she thought it was Reid.
She breathed out before opening the door.
“Hello, Maria,” Kyros said with a broad smile on his face.