I wake up to the worst headache ever. Oh God my head is throbbing so badly. As I open my eyes to the bright light it gets worse. Man! This isn't good. I sit up and see that not only did I sleep on the bed yesterday night I slept with Nathan!!! Oh my God! Why am I in the same bed with him? My legs were wrapped around his torso and my head on his arm. When I look down I find that I'm wearing his t shirt with no pants! I panic and push him away from me, waking him up.
"What the hell!" he whispers and rubs his eyes.
"Why the hell am I in the same bed with you?!" I yell, "And why am I wearing your clothes?! What the fuck happened last night?!" I say in one go, wthout giving him achance to answer.
"Shh!" he shushes me.
"Don't you dare shush me, Walsh!" I warn him.
"You know you are no less than a drunkard even when you are sober." he says and sits up on the bed.
"Still doesn't answer my damn question! Why the hell am I in your shirt?!" I was so angry at him for not telling me. Oh my God, why isn't he telling me! What happened last night?
"Let's just say you don't wanna know." he says and gets up from the bed.
"Why?" I ask, getting really worried. He looks at me but says nothing, "Nathan!" I say in a low voice, "Please!" I shut my eyes. Suddenly I hear laughing. I open my eyes to see Nathan sitting on the sofa and laughing really hard.
"What?" I ask in a cracking voice.
"Nothing happened!" he says between his laughs, "The only thing that could happen was that I would have killed myself if I had to tolerate you for another hour!"
"You!" I start throwing pillows at him, "You are the worst person of this world!" I yell as tears dwell up my eyes.
"Hey, hey," he catches the pillow, "Do you really think I would something like that to you or with you?"
"Not going to be a surprise if you did!" I say sarcastically.
"No, I won't! I don't have to." he shrugs, "Moreover, to get in bed with you is a punishment. Man, how much do you kick! Do you know I fell off the bed in the middle of the night?"
"Really?" I say in amusement, "That would be fun!"
"Ask the person who bumped his head at the coffee table!" I start laughing. Finally, I kicked his ass. I hear a knock on the door. David.
"Good morning, Mr Walsh!" David smiles at us. He starts laughing as he sees me. I gave him a not so amused look and he tries to control himself.
"Are we ready to leave?" he asks Nathan.
"It will take at least an hour for us to get ready." he replies.
"Sure, I'll work on the check out formalities."
"Call me if you need anything."
"Sure sir!" he says and leaves. I stand up from the bed and look at the mirror. God, I'm such a mess! I take a long refreshing shower and take a final look at my stuff. I take an aspirin to get rid of my headache. Agrhh!! It's so bad.
"Ready to go April?" David enters.
"Yeah," I say, "Carry out my bags please. David there is a question I have been meaning to ask since a long time."
"Yes, I know everything."
"How?" I ask in bewilderment.
"He told me obviously and I also know the reason why you married him. I don't know what you did is right or wrong but I will say this, he is one of the finest men you will ever meet in your life."
"I don't know..." I sigh, "I am having terrible headache. Let's leave so that I can get some rest."
"Sure." he picks up my bags and moves out. I leave the room behind him. Okay, bad idea. My head aches badly when exposed to sunlight. As I open the door of the room again I see Nathan shirtless standing in front of the mirror.
"What the hell!" he covers himself with his towel, "You have no respect for someone's privacy!"
"Oh come on! I'm not going to rape you, Walsh." I say and throw myself on the bed. "What did I drink yesterday?" I ask him massaging my forehead.
"Stars." he replied.
"Do I really look in the mood for it?"
"Excuse me, that's the truth! This is what you said when I asked you this question!" he says defensively.
"Argghh!" I groan and close my eyes.
We leave for the airport in half an hour. I sleep all the way. When we board the plane I take out another aspirin.
"How many of those have you taken?" David asks me.
"This is my second."
"You do realise that this is not a chocolate. Give that to me." he takes it away from me.
"David, my head is about to explode and you are responsible for it."
"April, just eat something you'll feel better." he climbs the stairs and moves to the first floor. I press a button and call the air hostess. But instead I get a treat! A very handsome airhost comes to take my order.
"How may I help you ma'am?" he asks in his deep voice. I don't have much time to answer his question because I'm busy drooling over his toned body.
"Ma'am?" he smiles at me.
"Yes," I finally say, "I would like something to eat."
"Sure, here is the menu."
"Umm, I think I would like a meatball sandwich."
"Alright, be right there." he grins and moves to the back. Oh God, height of handsomeness. He's a sight for sore eyes.
"Staring at his shirt isn't going to make it see through, Grey." Harry says to me.
"Shut up, I'm not a creep."
"You are married, though." he points out.
"Oh, so now I'm married to you?" I turn towards him, "All this time when you are insulting me, taunting me etc. etc. I'm not your wife and this one time I stare at a guy I'm suddenly your wife?!"
"That's actually not the point."
"Then, what is?" I snap.
"That he is my staff member. If you want to sleep with wait for me to fire him, I am not going to tolerate you sleeping around with my staff members." I feel nauseous, physically nauseous. What does he think? That I'll sleep with anyone? I get up from my seat and run towards the back of the plane. I empty my stomach in the tiny washroom. Ahh I feel much better. But I should have done this on Nathan's face, that would be much more refreshing.
I find the man making my sandwich. "Hello, ma'am. Are you okay?" he asks me.
"I'm fine, thank you. Is my sandwich ready?"
"It will be ready in 2 min."
"That's okay," I smile at him and stand beside him, "So, what's your name?"
"I'm Gabriel," he replies.
"Hi, I'm April!" I reach out for a handshake. He shakes my hand, smiling at me. I return the smile and look past him at the microwave and the sandwich inside it. It still has 3 minutes to go. Time for small talk.
"So how long have you been in Nathan's team?"
"I have just joined. It's been just a week." he shifts a little closer to me.
"Uh-huh!" I raise an eyebrow.
"May I say something?"
"Sure."
"You are really pretty!" he turns and gets my sandwich from the oven. My mouth waters as I see the sandwich.
"Hey?" he waves his hand in front of my eyes.
"Yeah." I look up at him, "Alright b-bye!" I quickly pick my sandwich and turn to leave. Food is my first and last love. I eat my sandwich which is heaven.
"You know," I say to Nathan as I chew my sandwich, "Handsome man can make good food."
"That's true." he agrees, "My mom says I make the best food ever."
"Really?" I say, "Then maybe men who are not so handsome can also cook."
"Excuse me?"
"What?"
"What did you just say?"
"Okayyyy," I just realised that he considers himself amongst the handsome boys, "I thought you knew..." I stop myself.
"I knew?"
"You know I thought you were the modest kind...of... You know."
"So, you think I'm not handsome?" he raises an eyebrow.
"Not really? I mean...."
"You know if this marriage wasn't arranged you could never have me."
"Well, I don't want to have you so it doesn't matter." I eat my sandwich in silence at last.
"So I'm not your type?" He starts again.
"Oh God! No, that's not what I meant."
"Then what do you mean?"
"I meant I won't be interested. In anybody." I try to study his expressions but they were too confusing. Without saying anything he looks away. After a while of staring out of the window my eyes become heavy and I drift off the sleep.
I wake up to two eyes staring at me. Those weren't Nathan's. I open my eyes properly and see Gabriel standing in front of me.
"Uh, hi," I say as I notice him.
"Hi!" he smiles.
"What are you doing?"
"Looking at you." he smirks, "You look peaceful while sleeping."
"Uh-huh." Okay I was attracted to him before but now I'm getting real uncomfortable. Why the hell was he watching me sleep? I look to my side but I don't find Nathan. The one time is not around!
"So," he sits on Nathan's seat. Is he even allowed to do so? "Tell me about you!" he continues.
"Nothing much," I say, "I think you should get up from Nathan's seat. He might not like it."
"Is that so?" he smirks, "I think I like to play with fire." Oh God, so cheesy. Ugh!
"Uh-huh," my eyes widen a little. I have never seen one of Nathan's staff so daring before. He is a boss who likes discipline in his employees. Gabriel doesn't know that yet, maybe because he is new.
"So, April," he starts and leans towards me, "What's up?"
"Huh?" I am quite nervous right now. Why has he changed all of a sudden? I'm not liking it at all.
"Just tell me something about you."
"Why?"
"So that I can get to know you, beautiful."
"Beautiful?" I say in surprise. His hand moves closer to my face and removes a starnd of hair from my face. I could have done that myself...so cheesy.
"What are you doing in my seat?" suddenly I hear a stern voice from behind Gabriel. Gabriel quickly turns and as soon as he sees Nathan he gets up.
"Mr W-Walsh," he stammers, "I-I was just t-telling April..."
"April?" He cuts him off, raising his eyebrows in an expression between surprise and amusement.
"I mean Mrs Walsh," he corrects himself.
"That's better," He says and sits beside me, "David!" he calls and David who was standing behind Nathan signals Gabriel to go.
I smile to myself. I was wrong. He is always there when I need him. Suddenly I experience a jerk and I snap out of my thoughts.
"What in the world you are doing?!" Nathan almost yells at me. Oh my God, I didn't even realise that I had wrapped my arms around his arm and I was leaning on him.
"I'm s-sorry." I say and quickly move away. What the hell is wrong with me?
"You should be!" he says in his authoritative voice and reads quietly.
Why did I do that? And why did he let me go so easy for it? He is not that bad after all. My subconscious says to me.
Oh, what do you know. I snap back. Don't judge so quickly you idiot! But I have to admit that I'm always safer with him than with anyone else...