'We only see half of people, half of the world, half of ourselves.'
The next morning, it feels like a little heavenly paradise of mine, I wake up in an empty bed and I want to panic that maybe Kai left but then I think about it we'll when am fully awake, why would he? I realize am being unreasonable.
I get out of the bed make my way to the bathroom brush my teeth and spray some water in my face before I walk out on the hunt for Kai.
The living room is empty and I know he couldn't be in any other room so it leaves me with an option of looking outside.
The house is so big, you would miss the person if they didn't want you to find them but I know am not about to play hide and seek with him.
I hear the sound of waves in the background somewhere at the back of the house and I follow it and I find myself amused by what I see.
Kai set a sports mat on the grass and he is stretching in what looks like yoga to me.
It's a pleasant view of the morning.
He is dressed from the lower part only leaving his upper for my eyes.
I lean on a wall beside me and just stare at my sexy old boyfriend.
'Wait, I realize I don't even know his age and at what age difference that is in between us.'
I stand there and watch him stretch and it's when he does a pose of moving his head down in between his legs straightening his back that he catches sight of me staring.
He smiles at me from that position before he changes and looks at me upwardly.
He reaches down and clicks something on his phone and the sound of the wave stops sounding around.
He walks to me sweating from the stretch with a towel on his shoulder looking like the sexiest man that he is.
"Well, don't make me stop you because I was enjoying myself too," I say and he lets out a chuckle.
I can see his chest muscles flex at his laugh.
"For how long were you watching?" he asks when reaches where am at.
"Not enough to satisfy my eyes." He shakes his head.
"I don't know if it's just me but I think you keep getting naughtier every day." I smile at him.
"Oh, you haven't seen anything don't complain yet."
"Really?" I nod my head.
But he shakes his head before he says with a smile on his lips.
"Am all in for whatever you want." He says and I keep smiling as I push myself from the wall and get closer to him.
"If you are in for whatever I want then keep on your stretching and give me some show baby." He chuckles before he leans in and kisses me.
"Your wish is my command, your highness." He says and he pulls away and walks back to the sports mat and continues doing his thing while I stand there and watch.
He finishes and we walk back together to take a shower, we change in our clothes before we have breakfast together.
I remind him about going back to visit the gorilla but I find out he made plans to do it right after breakfast, so after breakfast, we head in the car with the same driver and tour guide of yesterday again.
I remember the age difference thing and turn to Kai.
"How old are you Kai?" He turns to look at me, looking surprised by my question but I just smile at him trying to tell him it's not something big.
"I will be twenty-eight next year." He says and I nod my head realizing he is older than me by a decade.
I turn to him and say.
"I will be eighteen to next year, third, march."
"I know."
"You knew?" I asked surprised that he knew my age or maybe the time I was born.
"What did you know before? The age or the time I was born?" I asked to cure my curiosity because I couldn't help it that he knew.
"Both."
"What?" I ask not believing it. "How did you know? But wait I don't want to know because it doesn't matter anyway, so when were you born?"
"16th, December."
"Sir, we have arrived." The driver says but I ignore him as I keep my attention on Kai and to what he just said.
"Sixteenth, December as in twelve days from now?" I ask and he nods.
"Oh my God, why haven't you told me? Weren't you never going to tell me?" I ask and he looks at me before he shrugs.
"It's no big deal." I roll my eyes because I can't believe his birthday is just in twelve days and he didn't think of telling me and he is acting like it's perfectly normal.
He shakes me a little before saying to me. "Don't stress over it much because really, I don't celebrate them anymore." He says trying to lighten my mood back up which I know he can tell that now I don't care about anything anymore.
'Yeah well, that was before you had a girlfriend that is all over the place with birthdays.'
I don't say anything, I just nod my head and we get out of the car and make our way to the mountain.
We visit the gorillas and this time we get to learn much about them that we dicing learn about them than we did yesterday but am still amazed by their rare being.
Sadly, they are endangered animals and one mistake to where they live and they would vanish from our world.
They are only found in a few countries in Africa and I realize it's a huge responsibility these countries that still preserve them take in taking care of them to try and keep them in our world than probably we on the outside realize and appreciate.
The gorillas are such beautiful creatures and it would be such a shame if they were to disappear because they have a very similar way of living to that of humans which I doubt it's what made me feel so connected to them.
Leaving this time isn't that hard because we spent most of the day there and we leave at three in the afternoon when we've arrived early in the morning.
We don't get to make a stop at the villa, we fly back into the city and I first drive Kai home because I was the own who drove him when we came.
I park at the entrance of his hotel and turn to him.
"Thank you for coming with me this weekend and allowing me to have such a best night and morning with you," I say and he smiles.
"Please don't thank me for anything because I also had a very extravagant amazing time with darling." He says and I smile feeling the butterflies in the pit of my stomach at his words.
"You know how to say good things to me," I say to him and he shakes his head before saying. "Don't think it's just me trying to sway you with only empty words because I mean every single word I say to you." I nod my head because I have never understood why I trust him and without a second thought ever.
He nods his head too before saying. "Good."
"So what are you going to do?"
"Am heading to the office to fill in for both our absences."
"Should I come too?" I ask feeling hopeful because it would be great to be granted another time with him.
I look at him with a glittering spark in my eyes but he chuckles before saying.
"Not in your wildest dreams baby, you, you go home and rest, spend time when your family and try to fit some studying in there." He says and my face falls instantly.
'Another gloomy week without him.' But I know he is right because we start the end-of-term exams tomorrow which I know I am prepared for because I have been going for it the past week like the maniac student that they made me be.
"Don't feel bad, well I will give you something after the examination week to cheer you up." He says and I feel excited again.
"Next weekend it is?" I ask and he nods.
"Better not be swaying me with empty words like you just said for yourself," I say and he chuckles.
"Never, darling." I smile and we both lean in to kiss before he says.
"Drive home safely." He says and I nod.
"Well, don't try to be a workaholic just because I am not there." He nods.
We lean in for one more kiss before we pull back and he brings my forehead close to his lips and lays a sweet lingering kiss on my forehead.
"Take care, baby, I will miss you." He says but one thing he isn't realizing it's how hard he is making it for me to leave by keeping all this sappy with me.
"I will miss you too so much. Now get out before I change my mind and go up there with you." He smiles before he kisses me one last time peck kiss on the lips as gets out of the car.
He stands there and I wave to him bye but he tells me to drive first before he walks inside and I do because watching him leave and not being able to follow him would break me much more than going first.
'God, fuck school, fuck exams.'
I feel bummed as I drive away but as I am getting closer to our estate, I remember Leila's message that I ignored.
I reach for my phone and open it and I instantly frown at it when I read what it is.
'Alarming infos girl,'
'Your twin sis is here looking for you,'
'Told her you went early to solve an work-related issue with your boss but she ain't taking it well.'
As she said it, I felt an alarming alert in my head after reading the text.
I park the car to the side and call her. She answers it on a few rings.
"Hello, sneaky ass bitch." She says and I roll my eyes at her name.
"Leila, what was sav doing there?" I ask because I didn't even know she knew where they lived.
She is not friends with Leila or Lucas, so that's the alarming part.
What was she doing there if she wasn't friends with neither of them?
"She came with Lucas' ex this morning and then she started bombarding us with unlimited questing about your whereabouts like she knew you didn't sleep the night at our place but speaking of that, with whom and where did you spend the night?" I smile at that because I know she is not going to believe me when I tell her plus I would love to see her face in person so I know it's not something I would like to say on the phone.
"That's the tea of another time, back to sav. Why do you say that it's like she knew I didn't sleep the night there."
"I don't know she kept saying we were hiding for your cover and keeping your sneaking side hidden, I don't know she kept saying crazy stuff about you. Look I don't know your sister well but is your sister fine? Or she have some psychic issues?" She asks and I frown.
"None of I know of," I say because I don't think there is something wrong with Savannah.
"Well, check her out. I don't know why I got that vibe from her when she was at our place but anyway babe, gotta bounce am in the middle of a model shot taking a break and it's over but don't think I've forgotten about the teas."
"See you, Leila." She kisses me on the phone before we hang up.
I put my car back on the move and I don't know why I feel shifted with her words.
Lucas told me to look out for my sister and I shrugged him off now his sister and if there is something that I know about Leila. It's how of an observant person she is.
It's rare for something to pass in her eyes without her catching it and her saying that about my sister fills me up with a big doubt that I haven't had over her.
Guess I am going to start looking for any suspicious signs myself.
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