. My hand reached out from under the quilt and lazily felt around for the cellphone that was disturbing my sleep. I couldn’t remember how many times Klaus and I went at it that night and all I remember was being so tired that I couldn’t even move a limb and even when he was cleaning me, I couldn’t help but fall asleep.
Once I caught the phone, my hand vanished under the quilt with the bright light from the screen illuminating my soft features and my eyes screamed at the bright light and I squinted them to check who it was that was calling so many times.
Couldn’t people just learn that once you don’t pick a call maybe you are busy and you would return it once you have the time?
There were more than a dozen missed calls since the previous night till today and most of them were from unknown numbers. I didn’t look through anything and just muted the ringtone but when I swiped down to lock the screen so that I can continue catching my zees, I saw a message notification.
From a glimpse, I caught the words baby and sorry and you are still the woman I love and such shit. I raised a brow before placing the cellphone back on the side table.
I could tell that it was Tony from that text and I had a sudden nauseous feeling and I suddenly felt like hugging Klaus. I wanted to give him a warm big hug.
I dragged my lethargic body off the bed to the bathroom, fixed my messy hair a little bit and held it atop my head on a ponytail and put on his slippers.
Klaus had helped me take a bath early this morning when we stopped fucking and so all I had to do was put on his slippers and go to his office where I knew he was.
But he wasn’t in the office but I saw him when I entered the living room as he concentrated on something in the open area kitchen.
Klaus was standing in front of the microwave with a tablet in his hand. His expression was sullen as he seriously read the instructions.
Give this man a legal document and he would be able to decipher it in a matter of minutes but anything to do with cooking was like trying to teach programming to a toddler. The only things he knew how to cook were coffee and scrambled eggs and from the look of it, he didn’t even know how to use a microwave.
I snuck up on him and slid my arms around his waist with my head resting on his back.
Klaus turned his head backwards as much as he could and asked, “were you that impatient that you had to come here to hunt for food?” While placing his hand on mine that was wound around his waist.
His smile was as radiant as the morning sun and it made the gloomy feeling go away.
If someone had told me a year ago that I would be dating and marrying Klaus, I wouldn’t have believed it. If it was a fortune teller I would have put them out of business by now because this man was my boyfriend’s BFF. It would have been like blasphemy to say the least. But here I was. Getting the warmth and the energy I needed from him. He was my save haven.
“Nope…. I just wanted to see you and hug you,” I said and that’s when my stomach growled making me remember that we hadn’t eaten anything last night.
“I also wanted to give you a big bear hug and tell you that I…,” he said and then stopped and my hands tightened around Klaus’ waist.
“You what?” I asked Klaus in a soft tone.
Negative thoughts were already looming over my head at this moment. I could only suppress them and squash down my insecurities.
This was my nature and I couldn’t easily get rid of it. I had been betrayed plenty of times by the people I loved and the worst being Tony that my mind couldn’t help but veer in that direction for some reason. I made it a priority to work on myself and not let these negative emotions affect my
sweetheart.
This man was incredibly hard to catch so why would I deliberately sabotage him when he was finally mine? So, I decided not to delve into the negative thoughts.
“I love you,” I whispered in a barely audible voice but because of Klaus’ especially good hearing, he heard it.
This was the first time I was saying it and my heart leapt out of my chest as a blush crept up my face all of a sudden.
He turned to look at me and his Adam’s apple bobbed just as he cleared his throat. “I love you too,” he said and I seemed a little nervous.
I was afraid he wouldn’t say it back and I was so nervous that my palms became clammy. I had to hold him well otherwise I could have fallen.
I loved him.
Yes I did and the realisation hit me so hard that I felt a sweet relief rush throughout my body.
“What are you doing?” Peeking on the tablet, I asked him but the screen suddenly turned black like he was hiding something.
“Ahem… nothing… just, just go to the bedroom. I have got this. I will bring food to you in a while,” he fumbled through his words hiding the tablet behind his back. But Mama didn’t raise a fool. It took me five seconds to realise what was going on.
My cheeks slightly puffed up suppressing a snicker. This man was trying to figure out how to operate the microwave.
I strongly believed that he even searched how long to heat each food item and what temperature is just right.
“Let me,” I said but Klaus refused.
He handed the tablet over instead and said, “you instruct and I will do it.”
I playfully swung his legs while saying, “turn it on at the button in the corner,” as the dim tablet suddenly lit up. It was an email with the subject urgent so I passed it to Klaus saying it’s your mother.
“Oh,” replied, taking it but just as he took it my cellphone also received a notification. It was my mother and strangely enough, it was also marked as urgent.
The moment we opened those e-mails the two of us froze on the spot. It was a full wedding plan with everything from the venue to the guest list even outfits.
“Fuck!” I swore realising something.
Their mums had met behind their backs and they were, obviously, not satisfied with the secret wedding we had had.
I looked at Klaus and he wasn’t as distraught as I was.
The secret wedding was my plan anyway. He wanted the whole world to know that I was his but I wasn’t yet ready.