An Arranged Marriage - Episode 19

 

I slowly open the door, I pause before entering properly and turn, waving at him, he waves back, gesturing for me to go inside, he's got his back against his car, his legs crossed at the ankles, a hand in his pocket, his sleeve open at the neck and his hair messy.

The picture of manly arrogance.

I wave again and he dons another smile, waving me inside, waiting for me to enter the house.

I do so and I stop short at the girls seating in various positions in the sitting room.

"Tell me Aroofa, is this the walk of shame?" Aroos asks conversationally and I throw her the middle finger.

"Yes sister, I believe our sister is doing the walk of shame, in a man's clothes no less" Aroofa says, humour in her tune, I give her the middle finger too.

"It's not what it looks like" I say, limping to a chair.

"I'm sure it isn't" Anaya echos, her eyes on her laptop in front of her.

"Really.. It isn't"

She lifts her head, her eyes are light, the only indication that she is not judging me but teasing me.

"is there a better way to explain the fact that you are in a man's cloth in the middle of our sitting room and you have messy bed hair" Anaya asks.

"I have messy bed hair?"I ask.

"You have messy bed hair" Aroos confirms.

"Messy bed hair is a good look on you" Aroofa adds.

"It's not like that!" I say, my cheeks burning.

The three of them smirk simultaneously and I get goosebumps, they might as well be triplets.

"Anyway, what are you doing at home, shouldn't you all be in work?"

"I think she has lost all her sense" Aroos says conversationally..

"What? When did you loose it? Before he was done with you or after?" Aroofa asks and they hoot in laughter, the crones.

"What?!"

"It's Saturday dummy" Anaya says, her tone still light, it's a wonder, did hell freeze over while I was away?

"oh" I echo.

"Soooo...details!" Aroofa whisper yells.

"What details? Nothing happened" I say, resting back on the chair and lifting my foot to place it on the coffee table, I close my eyes , they pop open when I feel eyes on me.

"You are serious?" Aroofa whispers..

"She is serious" Aroos echos.

"Was something supposed to happen?" I ask.

"I don't know, you tell me, how did you end up wearing his sleeve over your dress, let me tell you though, the boyfriend look works for you" A compliment from Anaya, where are the alien ships?

"We danced in the rain, so I had to take off my dress and let it dry out"

"You danced in the rain?" Aroos says, her voice weirdly quiet. 

"You have to stop repeating everything I say" I reply.

"Only my sister will go out with a king and dance with him in the rain" Aroofa says and I roll my eyes..

But I can feel Anaya watching me so I turn my eyes to her.

"You danced?" She asks, that weird tone in Aroos's voice echoing in hers, Aroofa seems to get whatever vibe is being passed around because her mouth forms a little oh.

"I danced. . The way you guys are sounding is making look like a bad thing" I say, wearily.

"He gave you that?" Anaya asks softly and I frown.

"I don't.

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. I don't understand" I say, my eyes going between them.

"Nothing much" She says, her voice going back to normal. " Go and bath and do something about your hair, looks like someone spent a whole hour running their hand through it." She says, going back to her laptop, one look at the twins and it's obvious they've backed off.

Wierd, but I don't tell her she's correct, Kane spent an healthy amount of time stroking my hair this morning while we talked.

I just get up from my seat and make my way to the stairs.

I turn..

"Did papa show up?" I ask, they turn but its Anaya who answers.

"He knows he will die if he does, so he better doesn't" She says venomously, I don't have a reply to that so I just continue upstairs and straight to my room.

As soon as I get there my phone beeps in my hand.

'Roses or Lilies?' the text says and I frown because of the weird question, my eyes go to the contact name and it's says simply 'King'

He must have programmed his number in while I was sleeping.

'Tulips' I reply, I wait for his response but none comes so I slowly strip my clothes as I head to the bathroom.

As I wash my body i think about the events of the previous night, I enjoyed myself, that's a given.

From the food down to the part where we took turns swigging from the wine bottle. 

I enjoyed the part where we danced too, it's been so long since I last danced and he gave me that.

I stop scrubbing when the realization comes to me, the reason why Anaya and the twins were so surprised when I said I danced.

Since my leg became bad I stopped dancing, I threw out everything about dancing, I no longer watched musicals, ballet shows or played music, they tried once to get me to go to a musical but I got so depressed when I got back that they stopped forcing me to go.

They know how bad it was when I stopped dancing, they must have been surprised that I could talk about dancing with Kane King without the normal flash of pain accompanying it.

My goofy sisters, they care, even that Anaya that acts like she eats rock most of the time.

I get out of the bathroom after rinsing my hair and I wrap a towel around me.

I think back to the fact that I actually danced, albeit without music but I danced nonetheless and I achieved that with Kane King, I feel the pit of attraction in my stomach forging into something else but I don't give it a name, I let it slide.

As if in answer my phone beeps and I turn from my dressing table to get it from its position on the nightstand.

It's a text from King.

'They aren't as beautiful as you' the text says and in answer Aroofa squeals from downstairs.

"Anadia! , get out here! There's flowers for you! And it's your favorite! Tulips!" I frown, my face cracking into a smile

Where did he get tulips at this time of the year?

AN

Thank you for reading. 

Sorry for the late update. 

I had tons of work to do today, I'm just glad I'm done, how was your day today? 

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