"How did Zeke and Dr. Williams fit into your outrageous idea?",I questioned Gabby and Aurora in my room, after settling Zeke and Dr. Williams in the guest room.
It was a ten hours drive from the city to my hometown, so after lunch, my mom insisted they rest in the guest room, while Gabby and Aurora would be sharing my room.
"Did you know Dr. McDreamy was a cousin of Mr. Cute Williams?", Gabby sighed out loud in a dramatic manner and I could only roll my eyes at her.
"We thought you would need us to rescue you,so we roped in Zeke to drive us to your place, and he was more than willing to jump into the idea of playing the knight in shining armour",Aurora spoke in a no nonsense tone.
"But where does Dr. Williams fit into all of these?", I asked them, still wondering why on earth would someone as busy as Dr. Williams take the trouble to drive a ten hours journey to come over to help a damsel in distress, which I guessed they had assumed.
"Because he's Zeke's cousin",Gabby simply replied as if that was the answer to all my doubts. "And that explains everything right?",I simply rolled my eyes at her.
"On our way here, Zeke's car broke down. He said he was calling for back up and his back up was his cousin, Joshua. I didn't know he was your 'young,handsome' doctor",Aurora said, air quoting the words 'young and handsome'.
"They both have the same surname, and are equally tall and handsome, makes sense that they are cousins",Gabby gushed. We both gave her the eye roll at that.
There was a knock on our door and I went to open it, my mom called me and said,"Issy, would you be a darling to go run to the super market to buy some stuffs I need to cook for dinner tonight?". My mom was always about cooking food for us,starting from breakfast to lunch to dinner, she loved cooking and she never seemed to get tired of it, but I still wondered if she really loved it as much or just got habituated.
"Sure mom, just give me five minutes and I'll be good to go",I said."Here, this is the list I prepared, and take this money..",she offered but i just laughed and replied,"Mom, I think I can manage buying some essentials for the family", and she just beamed at me, apparently happy enough to be seeing her daughter take responsibilities, no matter how small they were.
When I entered my room, Gabby and Aurora were sprawled all over my bed,so I tried to make as less noise as possible to fetch my purse and head off for the super market.
Just as I reached the threshold of my front door, Dr. Williams, who was apparently not resting in the guest room, came and opened the door for me.
"Going somewhere?",he asked. "Dr. Williams, I see that you're not resting?And to answer to your question, I'm going over to the super market to buy some necessities", I smiled at him and added,"Please try and rest well? ".
He had a look of amusement and replied,"You seem very concerned about my rest? But I don't have the habit of sleeping in the afternoons, and I've been through worse,so not resting for a few hours is not a big deal".
"Well then, suit yourself, I'll be off then", I shrugged and was about to leave when he offered,"Let me drive you there. At least that way I'd not be here getting in your mom's way and I need to buy a few essentials myself as I wasn't clearly informed on what type of trip I was getting myself into".
I somehow felt like he was uncomfortable with being left alone with my mom. Zeke, Gabby and Aurora were apparently sleeping, and moreover, I had seen that he hadn't had any bag with him when he came to my home,so I obliged.
He opened the door of his Maybach for me and got in the driver's seat started driving as I gave him the directions to the market.
In order not to make him have too high expectations, I told him" Mind you,when I say super market, it ain't exactly like the ones in the city. Its just a bigger version of a grocery store, small but it meets our small town needs. I just hope you find whatever you need as well, and if you can't, then we can still find something for you to make do",I smiled apologetically at him. He looked at me, and smiled, and just like Zeke, he too had beautiful gray eyes but before I got drawn to them, I snapped myself right out of it. I didn't want to embarrass myself like I did with Zeke so I tried to look anywhere but his eyes.