'We walk to Starbucks looking like an aesthetic couple that we are.'
"Kai, wow," I say smiling feeling an exciting rush run down me when I see people skating in the playground. "Wow, I can not wait to get the shoes," I say giggling excitedly.
"But how come skating turned out to be an appointment with a doctor?"
"Would you have come if I told you we were coming here?" I nod. "Of course," I say smiling.
"I just said I was not getting out of bed because I didn't want to shower."
"Samantha," Kai calls laughing, I turn to wink at him and also taking note of how much I love my man's laugh because it's so beautiful.
"You are unbelievable."
"So I have been told," I say winking at him again.
He walks to the cashier and gets us skating shoes and then brings me my set and changes into his.
"You know how to skate right?" I smile challengingly.
"Challenge me," I say and then leave my shoes to him before I take off to court and skate my way around with other people. Kai does not take long before he comes to me, I turn and look at him skating my way.
"Skate to me, baby. Stake."
"Come on slide your away on over," I say singing him the little verse in Bruno Mars's song.
He gets to me and then sneaks his arms around my waist.
"You are crazy my love." I hold my hands up to his cheek and bring his lips closer to mine. "Yes, I am crazy in love with you my love," I say back to him before I plant a sweet kiss on his lips.
We pull away, I offer him a smile. "Let's have fun baby," I say taking hold of his hand and leading him to the middle of the court.
We move with me in his arms and then we face one another and kiss, we play pushing the other on the floor, I smile when Kai trips and falls on his ass not once but more times.
I love the time we spend there so much. We do stupid dancing as we skate, we have a lot of fun it's so perfect.
"I can not believe we have not been doing something like this for so long?" I say to Kai as we are making our way out to the parking lot. Kai has his arm on my shoulder and when I ask that he pulls me closer to him and kisses my head. "I know darling."
"Where is our next stop?" I ask again once we are in the car. "Wait," I say remembering something.
"Isn't today Sunday? We forgot we were hosting your family tonight." I say feeling horrified with myself for forgetting.
I turn to look at Kai feeling horrified. "Kai, your mother will be so mad at us." Am here feeling like am mostly having a panic attack but my man looks so composed.
"Kai."
"Uhm?" He pulls me closer to him while he leans on the boot of the car. He sneaks his hand down on my butt's jean pockets. "Kai," I say feeling shy but when I turn to look around we are the ones in the parking lot only.
I look back at him but he moves closer and sucks on the spot below my cleavage making me move my hands and rest them behind his head. I close my eyes and just get lost in the feeling of having his lips on my skin. It makes my skin burn which on a daily basis makes me ask myself if his lips do this to me what will the actual activity feel like?
"You do not have to worry about my mom." I raise his head up to my eyes level. "Why do you say that?"
"Because I do not want her in my house like she pleases." I hate not knowing what happened between him and his mother but I don't push it nor do I ask about it. I have to wait for him.
"So what did you do? Are they not coming?" He shakes his head and pulls my forehead closer to his lips. "No, I talked to her and told her I did not want I…" he pauses and pulls back to look at me.
"I did not choose for you what you did not want right?" I smile at him shaking my head. "Kai, Amy is your family and the way you handle her is not my business. Am going to trust that you know better when it comes to them and let you handle them."
"So you do not mind that I took that decision without discussing it with you." I chuckle when he says that because it really does amuse me.
"We are not married, geez is that how married life is supposed to be like? Always on the other's toes? Strict and so overbearing?" I ask smiling and I relax in his arms when he grins. He was so tense when it came to his mother.
"I don't know, we both haven't been married before so I guess there is no one to give us the answer we both want." I giggle before saying. "But you are supposed to be the older here and the wiser right?"
"No," he says shaking his head but he is grinning. "We are supposed to be equal and wise together." I pull his head forward. "Okay, Mr smart Pants am hungry, can we go eat?" I try to walk out of his arms but he keeps me locked in them as he has his hands in the back pocket of my Jean pants I am wearing.
"First answer me, darling, am sorry I took the liberty of choosing for you when I should have discussed it with you first?" He says and I look at him wondering why he is making it a big deal when I do not mind. "I promise I will be better next time and talk everything with you first."
"First I don't mind but because you want me to mind it, I say I forgive you and next time better talk it over with me. Happy?" I ask him and he chuckles before nodding his head.
"Yes, am happy." I smile at him and then we meet halfway as we both lean to kiss.
We pull away and this time when I move out of his hold he lets me. "Let's go eat now, am craving a milkshake and something along the lines."
"There is a Starbucks nearby, we should find something along the line there." I laugh. "Yeah, we should let's go."
We walk to the car but before we get in I have an idea. "Is it nearby, should we walk?"
"You want to walk?" I nod my head biting on my lower lip. "Yes, hand in hand." I watch him feeling wary that he will find my idea ridiculous but he nods his head and closes the driver's door that he had opened before saying.
"Let's go." I smile cheerfully. "You do not mind?"
"Why would I? Let's go." I do a small jumping happy dance, I don't know why it makes me so happy.
I walk to him and we meet in the middle. I put my arm around his waist while he puts his over my shoulder. We walk to Starbucks looking like the aesthetic couple that we are.
It happens to be a twenty something minutes to get to it but I do not mind at all.
I make an order of a peppermint iced smoothie while Kai orders an iced coffee, we make orders for wrap-ups and sandwiches.
While they are making our orders, I take pictures and then I pull Kai on too. One is selfies and the others are front camera photos.
Kai pays and takes our orders. I reach for my drink before they pack it. "Can we go eat back in the car?" He looks at me and nods his head.
He takes his drink in one hand too with the packages of food in the other.
We walk out of Starbucks and walk back to our car.
"Why do you love taking pictures of so many things?" I turn to smile at Kai when I register his question. "I mean why don't you?" I shot back at him making him shrug. "I don't know, I don't see a use of it."
I stop walking feeling shocked and unbelievable about the man I am dating. "Kai, you are unbelievable in this world." I take a sip of my drink. "You do not find use in taking pictures, I mean how do you keep your memories?" He shrugs again.
"In my head."
"What if you forget them."
"My loss then." He says making me shake my head at how uncaring he is about.
I fall back at his walking pace. "Well, for me it started when people started following me for being the diplomat's daughter, then the diplomat's twin kids, then Savannah's twin sister. My sister was an influencer when she was even still young. My mother started managing her account at just five years but then I also grew up and found some comfort in my followers. You know you find some of them inspiring and lovely while the others are just haters out there to criticize you and probably make you feel the same way as they do about their life." I turn to look at him to find him interested in my story so I carry on.
"But I ignored the haters and just found peace in the lovable ones, I shared them with everything that I did but I loved taking pictures because I loved it when someone would say like, hey you were so happy here what was happening, hey tell us how you took those, tell us where you get this or that so, etc. I love going deep into every picture or how each had a story. Like the ones in Starbucks, that's me and my boyfriend chilling and buying food together. You know they are pictures to define and explain our pasts to our future."
"That's…. That's so deep Samantha, I guess I have not looked at it like that." I smile at him.
"How have you looked at it?"
"Pointless." I chuckle at how flat he says it. "Well from now put some thought on it."
"Will do for sure." I turn to tease him. "Promise?" He nods his head.
"Let's pink promise it?" I say raising my hand and fingers out for him. I have a smile on my face but he looks embarrassed bringing his big hand to mine.
We twist our last fingers together then touches our thumbs up.
"We kiss on it," I say and I move my head to our touched hands, he also mimics my doing and then both of us leans and kisses the back of our thumbs. We pull back and I smile. "Good," I say turning to take a sip of my drink again but then I think of a way to tease him again.
"But to know you got it. Take pictures of me." He chuckles. "I have pictures of you."
"Add more."
"Okay."
I smile cheerfully before I walk a step ahead of him and pose for him. I do a lot of cute, sex, happy every pose that comes to my mind for him.
"We will choose the ones to add to our Instagram account." He nods his head. "Okay."
We walk back to our car and have dinner there before Kai drives us home and calls it a night.
It's the next morning that I get to dwell on what a perfect weekend I just had. I can not believe Kai had all those surprises for me. I loved them so much.
"Why are you grinning now and then? Since when is mathematics funny?" I look at Tiffany feeling terrified that she noticed. "Oh, it's nothing," I say shaking my head. She shakes her head too but she is smiling.
"Oh, that's not a nothing smile. It's like Trenton proposed?"
"What?" I gulp blinking at her not believing she would just say that. "Proposed?"
"Why are you surprised like that?" She asks making me just shake my head unbelievably. "You guys already live like fiancés or more like married people. Why would saying Kai proposed make you so surprised when you already have it?" I look at her and say nothing.
I mean do I? Do I already have it?
Would Kai propose to me? Or am I getting ahead of myself?
But aren't you anyway living like fiancés or married people? Oh my! Does Kai see me as his wife? Does he want to get married even? But do I?
Before I can feel my head explode with questions Tiffany just fills in my head my phone rings beside my books. I look at her worriedly and apologetically because no phone is allowed during our studying hours.
"Sorry, I will just decline and put it on focus," I say reaching for it knowing whoever it could be will just wait but I stop when I realize it's Yarrow.
I look back at Tiffany passing her another apologetic smile. "One second only." I don't wait for her reply but because she is smiling at me, I take it as a yes.
"Yarrow, hello."
"Sam, sav got lost." I frown in misunderstanding.
"What?"
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