Meeting mom was the crown of the evening. After I virtually pulled my boyfriend from the room, I turned to him in worry.
"so Mat.....i may have not gone around, worriedly looking for you", I said to him.
His eyebrows rose and he turned longing eyes back into the direction of the room he'd just come out off.
"But that is why you should have called me", he said.
okay that is so true, I admitted to myself. But I had been so worried, I had literally forgotten that I owned a phone.
"Okay fine, but we have to go now. You won't be believe who I met today", I said, my voice changing from annoyed to excited.
He turned to me with suspicious eyes.
"Really?. Don't tell me..", he said and then paused.
I let out a soft laugh
"you'll find out soon enough", I whispered with a smirk.
The journey back home was mostly filled with him talking about his favourite boyband, PTX and his bias. I didn't even know who a bias was but I couldn't help the slight feeling of jealousy when he kept talking about one particular member. A person he referred to as JayGay.
And there was no doubt in my mind that it was the blonde one who had ripped his vest earlier. Even I won't lie and say he wasn't attractive. He had charisma and abs. Yes and that 'nevermind' tatoo on his midrib only added to his charm.
"Is he the one who had the nevermind tattoo on his left rib cage?", I asked
He shook his head, "that's Chimin", he did with literal stars in his eyes. My man was totally whipped.
"Well if we're talking about that boyband,then there's one member who caught my attention on the stage. His deep voice sent shudders right through my spine and then when I met him after that. Vhee, that was his name-"
I paused to catch a glimpse of Mat who had gone from extremely excited to silent. He had a slight frown on his features that made me want to burst into a laugh.
Was he seriously sulking right now?
"His face was so ethereal and his eyes, so big and full of wonder. Then they are his hands, so big and full of the assurance of security and safety. Oh and there is his cute smile, the smile that ended with a small smirk when I handed him his millionaire dog", I continued.
"Okay, great you met the most handsome member in the group, according to a poll by TZ Chandra. Now can we not talk about about PTX anymore?", he whispered in a somewhat jealous tone.
I smiled at him.
"How can we?. They literally filled an entire 90,000 plus capacity dome just now", I said while his nose flared.
Mat turned towards the window in annoyance and I smiled.
"Okay, okay fine. Let's not talk about PTX".He turned with a smile at me and kissed my forehead gently.
"I dont like you fangirling over other men".
I could have argued, made my point about him sending heart eyes to the Blondie but I didn't. I refused to act like the jealous girlfriend. I let him take the win.
Once we reached the apartment, I threw my earring in the grass and pretended to look for it.
"its really new, I can't believe I lost it", I said in feigned surprise. He turned worried eyes to me and insisted on helping me to look for it.
After a couple of minutes, I turned to him with fake concern
"its okay Mat you go in ahead, I'll just check one last time and if I don't find it, I'll let it go"
He nodded shortly.
"Don't stress about it, if you don't find it. We can always buy a new one any time okay".
I nodded even though I knew we could never buy a new one. it was a limited edition Channelle CC earring, that model hasn't been made in a long time. I began to regret my earlier actions. Perhaps I could have stuffed it into my bra or even my shoes but I just had to go and throw it into the grass. That was pretty unnecessary.
Finally, I gave up searching for it and decided to join the rest of the guests for Mat's party. I saw the lights flick on and then shouts emanate from the apartment.
Bingo, the surprise was a success.
After I entered the room, I was immediately engulfed in a big bear hug by Mat.
"Thank you so much. this was so amazing especially since I forgot that it was my death day", he ranted on. I smiled up at him and kissed him briefly on the lips to stop him from talking.
The party went on for hours and I was actually proud of Keys for putting everything together and also managing to hold things together even as the party began to turn wild. Guess afterlife people like to turn up.
Soon enough, people began to draw out and when the last guests left, I turned to Keys to mouth a thank you to him but he smiled and then raised his eyebrows ridiculously high.
I turned to Mat, who was unbelievably drunk and saw Keys smirk. That tiny kid did not just smirk right?.
Mat was super heavy to carry and when I asked Keys to help, he had immediately droped his disposable cup which contained fruit juice by the way and scrambled out almost in a hurry.
My eyes narrowed at his questionable behaviour before I had painstakingly dragged my drunk boyfriend to the bedroom. Even I was a little tipsy from taking a few drinks.
We tumbled together onto the bed. Early morning, I woke up feeling nauseated and I would have gone to the bathroom immediately if it wasn't for Mat's arm hooked securely around my neck.
The feeling of throwing up was becoming very unbearable as I tried to unwrap his arm from around my neck and then the unexpected thing happened.
The sudeen impulse and then me throwing up on him and the bed. Mat jerked awake and I instantly pretended to sleep. I was too embarrassed to look at him and I continued to feign sleep even when he gently carried me to the bathroom. I faked a snore when he turned the tap to warm and began to wash me up.
Such a sweet boyfriend.