“Are you sleeping?”
“No,” he answered and began caressing her arm.
“Okay…” she said in a small voice.
“Want something?” he asked.
“Ask something”
“Go ahead then”
“So you guys built this place by yourselves?” she asked.
He let out a sigh then nod his head and spoke his answer.
“Not the entire park but just this place. We secured this space and built it to be like this… green is lively and calm that was why we wanted the theme to be green” he answered.
“Green is lively and calm?” she raised her head to look at him with her chin resting on his chest.
He looked down at her and rest his palm on her head before caressing it down and over and over again.
“Yes Love”
“Hmm…” was her reply.
“If plants are green it is then you know that they are in their best season of the year and I think they are calm because…” he paused for a while and looked away from her in thought before looking back at her and continuing.
“It’s calm” he concluded and she giggled then rest her head on his chest again.
“This is the only room you guys have here?”
“Yup, why?”
“Just wondering… you share the bed or take turns in sleeping on it?”
“We wrestle to stay on the bed.” He answered and she let out a short laugh.
“So whoever wins stays on the bed?”
“No, whoever… hold on, how do I say it?” he paused to think for a while then continued “Let me say it is whoever that loses stays on the bed,” he said.
What he just said was weird and made no sense but when she guesses when it comes to siblings, nothing is actually weird so she raised herself from laying on him so that she was sitting beside him as she looked at him in confusion and tried to understand how that made sense.
“Huh?” she expressed her confusion and he smiled then lifts his hand to caress her cheeks with the back of his hand.
“Do I make your heart beat fast? In a good way?” he asked and she felt her heart skip at his sudden question.
This was not a question she needed to ask herself because it is like her heart is there for him, when he moves, laughs, shows a part of him that is new even though some parts can be really annoying but he does make her heart beat fast and it was a good kind of fast… she loved it.
When she wasn’t saying anything, he spoke again.
“You make my heart beat too and…” he paused then looked at her cheeks that had turned pink already before holding her beautiful brown gaze and continuing with what he was saying.
“It has been long though but…” he stopped then broke eye contact and closed his eyes instead.
But what? She wanted to ask but didn’t know if she should ask or not.
Is he talking about his feelings? What he is feeling for her? Was it similar to what he felt for his previous partner? Did it matter so much to him? What he is feeling, is it different or just the same as before?
But have they reached that stage in this… thing they have? What exactly do they have? Now it is beginning to confuse her because she is so sure of what she feels about him even though she hasn’t said it out loud. Her actions said it all and she is more than ready to tell him how truly she feels but…
She wants to be sure what he feels for her is real and not just because they somehow got into the moment.
She can feel that what he said to her and his actions towards her when they came here for the vacation are real but she didn’t want to base her analysis on just what she thinks it is but what is actually the real thing.
It is confusing her and she needed him to tell her something, anything that would at least clear some things that aren’t clear to her.
Especially his relationship with Daniella. She knew there was more to him and Daniella’s relationship apart from them being ‘a longtime friend’ as he told her but she wants to hear those from his lips and not find out what the actual thing is from someone else.
She took her gaze away from staring at his face to look down at his chest for some seconds and when she looked up at him she saw that his eyes were already opened and he had a small smile on his face.
“It isn’t about who is stronger or who is the winner… all that mattered was if you wanted peace and if it’s peace you want then you will learn to live with each other no matter how different you and your fellow humans are,” he told her.
She frowned with confusion playing all over her face at what he was saying.
‘What is he saying?’ she asked herself.
After a moment of trying to figure it out, it clicked and she nod her head and then took her time to digest what he said moments ago.
“Most times we would actually wrestle… push… kick… throw punches at each other,” he said with a chuckle.
“So you will share the bed when you think peace is what you want?” she asked him.
“Yes, and he snores a tad bit loud so I end up kicking him off the bed”
“Rebellious baby brother” she teased and he glared playfully at her with his lips forming a pout she found cute.
“Did Cade whisper that to you or where did you get that?” he asked with his usual eye-roll.
‘The Dimitri eye-roll lash’ she giggled when the brand name popped in her head.
“No, you don’t like being called a baby brother?”
“I don’t like it, Cade usually calls me that even though I told him not to do so.”
“Okay… ‘baby brother'” she teased and he narrowed his eyes in her direction as he watched her laugh beautifully.
‘Did she get more beautiful today? Or is it every second?’ He asked himself.
He remembered how beautiful she looked earlier in the morning and now it is nearing evening time and she was looking more radiant than before.
It attracted him to her more than ever and he just wanted to look at her face forever and watch her every move and step even though it sounds creep-like.
He could be her ‘creep’ if she wanted it.
‘My wife’s creep is me’ he concluded in his mind and chuckled then adjusted the pillow behind him properly and half-lay on the pillow while his arm went over her shoulder and brought her closer to himself.
Her head rested on his chest with her hand caressing his chest and his arm that was over her shoulder then rested on her waist as he pulled her further to himself so they were so close.
“Why were you laughing?” she asked after a while and he kissed her hair.
“Oh, it’s my secret joke”
“Which involves me”
“Definitely”