Chapter 3 part b

Chapter Three (b)

               

 Mum dragged me to the dress shop early in the morning, and here I thought I could rest since I didn’t have to go to Uni. The engagement was a month from now and I still didn’t have my dress picked out. Everything else was up to them, and I clearly told them I didn’t want anything else yet they’ve gotten so many presents.

Robin’s mum came over a while later and they both picked out different dresses for me to try on. This would take forever. I wore a few dresses until they went with a long light pink strapless satin dress with diamonds embedded across the chest and a short over the knee white dress with a pretty pink ribbon around the waist. It showed too much cleavage but they just had to take it.

Next they took me to a shoe shop, and I got beige and white stilettos. Then came the jewelry, and then bags and clutches, make-up, perfume, accessories. We went to Robin’s house at 9. I was dead tired and just wanted to go home, but of course they wouldn’t let me.

Robin kept staring at me while everyone else was talking about the engagement. He pointed out the window and I nodded.

“Uhh…I’m going to walk around for a while,” I said.

“Robin, go with her,” his dad said.

So now we were walking outside in awkward silence until he decided to speak up. “You know we can stop all this…it’s still not too late.”

I stopped dead in my tracks and there was another awkward long silence. He leaned against a tree and crossed his arms against his chest. “You can think it over,” he said.

Why would I? I’ve already accepted. What would I tell his parents? I shook my head and he smiled for some reason. “No?”

“No Robin. I can’t.”

“Cause of grandpa?”

“Not only that, and stop smiling it’s creeping me out.”

“Smiling?”

“Then what are you doing? Making fun of me?”

“Yea.”

“What?”

“Cause you have this issue of thinking of others instead of yourself. You did the same thing back then.”

I leaned back against the tree beside him. “When are you talking about? I think I’m actually very selfish.”

“I wish you were,” I clearly heard that although he was muttering it.

“Robin?”

“Hmm…” he was silently looking at the night sky. He was definitely remembering something, but what? What’s he so upset about?

“Let’s go back. I need to get home.” He didn’t say anything so I was about to walk away when he caught my arm.

“Stay. Sleep over.”

I looked at him as if he’d just said something crazy. He snorted. “Don’t want to? Then forget it.” And he walked ahead of me.

Seriously, what’s gone into him? Could he be feeling lonely because of his grandfather’s death? I heard they were quite close. In the end I decided to stay over for some reason. Mum quickly left in case I changed my mind. I bet she wants to marry me off so badly now.

Of course I’d decided to stay after Robin had said goodnight and left to his room so he probably didn’t know I was here. I took the chance to scare him off a little. I went upstairs to his room and knocked twice at first.

“What?!” he shouted.

Looks like he’s in a bad mood. I slowly opened the door and walked in. He was standing at the far end near the mirror. He tensed in his place for a moment and I quickly went out and stood against the wall. Did he notice me?

“Mum?”

I could hear his footsteps coming closer. “Brea?” that would be his maid. “Anyone????”

I took a deep breath and turned and then we both screamed. I thought my heart would stop beating. I don’t know why but I was trying to get away without him seeing me.

“Clare?! What are you doing?”

“Uhh…I was…umm…scaring you,” I was grinning like an idiot.

“No, I mean what are you doing here?”

“I decided to … stay over,” I muttered.

“Stay over?” he burst out into a fit of laughter. I had this sudden urge to punch him. Is he making fun of me now? I turned and walked away. He followed after me until I got to the door then caught my arm and pulled me into a hug.

“Thanks…for being such a good girl,” he was mocking me, I could tell but he wasn’t in a bad mood anymore so I guess I’ll just go with it for now.

I pushed him away and walked back upstairs to his room. “Since I’m staying, I’ll look into your stuff. Even if I’m not doing it out of love I can’t let my husband cheat.”

“Ok…you’ll be sleeping here right?”

“Yea.”

“On my bed?”

“hmmm.”

“With me?”

“Yea.”

Apparently I was just answering randomly because I was in awe of all the books and picture albums in his shelf. Models of sport cars, beautiful models of houses.

“You said it.”

That’s when I snapped back to reality, my eyes wide open. “I said what?”

“That you’d sleep in my room on the same bed with me.”

“No I did not!”

“Yes you did!!”

I blushed and looked away. This guy always gives people wrong ideas. He laughed.

“Why don’t you shower and change? I’ll get you some clothes. But…you can’t sleep just yet.”

I gave him a puzzled look. “It’s 10: 45 you know. In fact I may fall asleep any time now.”

“No… If you want to sleep now then you have to sleep next to me.”

So, for the next 3 hours we were sitting in his room playing games.

Robin’s POV

 I did it. I asked her to stay playing games with me till morning. We were sitting side by side playing street fighter when she looked down her hair hanging around her face, blocking my view of her.

“Clare? Hey!!” I shook her gently until she groaned and slapped me in the face. I blinked and looked at her, surprised.

Then, I burst out into a fit of laughter. Her sleeping face was so cute. I wander if she did that on purpose. I carried her to my bed and lay her down carefully. I pulled the blanket over her and went back to my game.