“it’s his mum” I said to Christian.
He gestured for me to hand the phone over to him, I wondered what he was going to say when he answered the call, to my surprise Christian threw it on the group and stomped on it till it became nothing more than scattered bits of glass and broken plastic.
I looked up at him, eyes wide and lips parted, I was shocked. Christian stared at me, his face was completely still but his eyes held arousement.
“Staring at your mouth open like that is a turn on” he said to me turning around and walking to one of the cars parked outside as if he was trying to get away from me because his thoughts were too dirty for me to handle.
He held the passenger door open.
“Come on…” He said softly, I found my foot.
I got into the car and he shut the door, he got to the driver seat, through out the ride I reassured Christian that I hadn’t done it with David.
It hadn’t take much for this doubts to be melted away, he trusted me.
“I love you ” he said when we pulled up at my parent’s driveway.
“I love you ”
“You are going back home right?” I asked climbing down from his car.
“Yeah. I have a busy day tomorrow” he said.
I nodded and shut the door, I turned slightly to David’s house, the music had vanished and all the lights were out.
When I got to the house my mum was standing in the door staring at me intently, studying every inch of my face.
“What gives mum?” I asked her walking past her.
“This is getting to much” she said.
“What?” I asked her.
“Chris dropping you off, you know that man is a busy man, he has no time for you, he barely even has time for me or his brother, stop bothering him, if you needed a ride you should have taken your car”
I breathed out shakily trying to hold myself from talking back at her, I walked into the living room, my stepdad was sitting and watching some TV, he turned to look at me, his eyes lingered on mine till it was almost inappropriate.
“Oh my gosh, honey Chris is staying with us tonight” I heard my mum say, I turned to see Christian’s eyes staring daggers at my stepdad.
“What a pleasant surprise, we can drink and talk about anything till dawn, just like old times” my stepdad said shoving the remote away from his lap to stand up and give Christian a handshake.
Christian took his hand but his eyes were now on me
“I’m sorry but I have unfinished plans for tonight” Christian said in a low deep tone, I could hear him trying to hide teasing tone.
My mouth fell open and I clamped it shut.
“Alright, that’s fine. I have to be at work early tomorrow anyways” my stepdad said in disappointment.
“I’ll be going to bed now”
I turned away from them and went upstairs, I sat in my desk and opened my laptop. I checked to see if I have gotten contracted by anyone yet.
During my idle time, I had sent my resume to different casting directors and different modeling agencies to see if I could get a new job.
Some weeks ago, I had turned down all my offers and agencies because I wanted to focus on that movie, now I was crawling on my knees back to them.
No one contacted me except one company, it was unbelievable, it was as if I was dreaming, my eyes almost rolled out of my eyes. I never even sent my resume to them because I knew they wouldn’t take me, they focused on established and the most sought after models, they were the biggest modeling agency around the world.
I stood up and tried to steady my breathing but I was panicking.
“Arghh… !” I screamed at the top of my lungs.
*****
“When are you guys going to bed, didn’t you say you have an early presentation?” I asked my brother picking up the cup of scotch from the table and taking only a sip.
My brother turned to me, a small smile was on his face.
“We don’t go to bed early, you know that” he said turning back to look at the TV.
My hand clenched where it was on the table, I was itching to go up to Jenna’s room and cuddle with her in bed, she’s sleeping alone and I’m in the same house with her. As her biyfy, I need to be with her when we’re together, I ached to kiss her to sleep.
This secret relationship of a thing is slowly peeling my skin and one day I’ll break.
Suddenly, there was a loud shrill from upstairs, it was a scre from Jenna.
My protector instincts suddenly get the hold of me and before I can even blink I’m up the stairs.
And now I’m standing in front of her door, I turned the knob even when everything in me tells me to kick the door down at sight.
“Baby…” The word leaves my mouth, she’s standing in the center of her room, her face is pale and she’s trembling. I walk to her and hold her tight.
“Talk to me, what happened?” I asked her.
“Jenna what happened! We heard you scream ” my brother sagdi walking in with Elisa.
She started sobbing and I could feel my chest compressing, I want to take all her pain away, I want to get rid of anything that’s causing her to cry, I want to say a lot of things but I have to keep my mouth shut, in the eyes of her parents I have no rights.
To my surprise and relief she starts laughing, I pulled out of the hug just to get a good look at her.
“Check the email” she said pulling me over to her computer, forgetting that her parents were standing there.
“Come on Chris, look” she said bringing the laptop closer.
She had never really referred to me directly as Chris, I never knew it would be such a sexy nick name.
I wanted her to say it more, I fixed my attention on the email and suddenly, her mum and dad came to stand at my sides.
“Jenna, we hope this email finds you well. We are offering you a rare spot in our agency, we have reviewed your pictures, with your exquisite beauty and experience in the field we would love to have you onboard our team of revolutionary models. From Ancho” Elisa read everything out loud, I turned back to Jenna again and she was crying.
I stood up and went to her for hug, she took it immediately. If I had known that this job from Ancho would make her this happy, I would have bought the company a sooner.