He did not know he was holding his breath until she spoke. Her voice quavered and her lips trembled. Her eyes had turned red from all the crying.
'Okay?. You are telling me that everything is okay. Did you not see where the car was heading to?. We were close to our deaths. We were close to our ends, Freddie'. Her lips continued to quiver more and Fred did not hesitate to hug Diva. He could feel the wetness of her tears on his shirt, but he hugged her still.
He was less reluctant to embrace her, probably because of the acceptance she gave to him when she called him by his pet name. Diva was finally accepting him!.
'I know, Diva. I know'. He had somehow scrambled the words to suit her emotions. He was now scolding himself in his head for not knowing the right words to use. How does him knowing help the situation?.
He felt Diva struggling for her release in his arms. She was not really a hugger. It was mostly her parents that initiated the hugs she got in the past, mostly her mother, to be rightly said. The only times he saw her father hug her was when her mother was absent to comfort her during the times of her childhood nightmares. From the eyes of an onlooker, one could see those times where the toughest for her father. That could be where Diva got her reluctancy to hug. From her father.
He released her from his hug but replaced his hands on her face, cupping her cheeks as he looked into her eyes. A car sped past them, leaving the environment with the sound of it's revved engine. 'Let's drive to a more quieter place and then we can park to talk. This place is tight and noisy'. He suggested to her and she nodded in agreement.
Getting up hastily, he closed the door and rushed to his side before Diva would change her mind.
He won't deny, no he won't. He won't lie about it either. Since they left the restaurant, he had seen lots of improvement on Diva's impression of him. She had willingly shove her hand into his, hooking their elbows as they left the restaurant, as she would do when they younger. She did so regardless of the uproaring gossip that took place inside the restaurant. Well, it was handled but he couldn't believe she would be fast.
She had given him her most welcoming smile when he offered to hold the door for her to enter the car. That was the first time he felt he had held his breath longer than he should. That smile that showed her white set of teeth. He would kill any man that make the smile go away. The person, human or not, that trades it with sadness.
Diva had laughed at a joke he did not hear when it was said. A laugh that shook his being and made him yearn for it. A laugh that took his attention from the road to her. A laugh that brought them to where they were now. A laugh that almost ended in sighing and mourning, but due to his sharp mind, turned into sadness and weeping. He refused to believe that it was the end of the laugh for him.
Not to forget that she had called him by his pet name, Freddie.Yes, that was how she called him in the past and he called her Diva, the name her mother acquainted her with, but called on rare occasions.
He had chosen to call her Diva, the day his uncle and his wife presented her names to him, Princess Sophia Diva Conrad. The people of her kingdom knew her by only one name, Princess Sophia, but he was amongst the few people who got to know her pet name. He had fallen in love with 'Diva' since the day he heard it. Sophia never seated well on his tongue.
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Diva thought that they were going to die. If only she knew that she and Fred were amongst the main characters and they would not die, even at the end of the story.
Who noticed that Fred could not stop thinking about Diva calling him Freddie?. Oh my, I love the way the story is going. Can't wait for them to get along and fight the enemies.
Spoiler alert: Diva and her father have alot of enemies.