Throughout the dinner Michelle avoided Lucas gaze and anytime her eyes met with his,his lips her always curled to a smirk making Michelle crimson.
Bowen was awfully quiet throughout the diner,making it seem as though he knew nothing of what was happening.
He was waiting for Michelle to mention their mother but she didn't making his hair stand at alert through the dinning.
After the dinner,Michelle summoned up the courage to face Bowen.
"Bowen...?",she called out shyly and his heart skipped a beat.
"I understand you kept it a secret from me in order to save me the psychological stress. I shouldn't have behaved the way I did....am sorry",she said looking down.
"It's okay",he said happily while hugging her.
"It was my fault anyways",he comforted.
"Let me go or you will break my ribs",she shouted and Bowen finally let go of her.
He kissed her goodbye and watched her leave,his heart beating erratically.
His gaze turn cold the moment she was out of sight.
He looked at Lucas meaningfully and said, "Don't you dare do what am thinking you want to do".
"I don't know what you are thinking so..",Lucas framed innocence.
Bowen just couldn't bear it and let him go.
Michelle ran to her room feeling like she had done something bad,Bowen mustn't find out about her and Lucas relationship.
After taking her shower she finally remembered she had to do something.
{Hi},she sent to John.
{Hi},he replied after some time.
{Am sorry Lucas took me away from you. I have wasted you time now},she replied and John was startled.
He concluded that Michelle didn't remember anything and played along.
{It's okay,anything for you},he replied.
{Okay then,good night},she replied and threw her phone away not waiting for a reply.
Now on her bed,Michelle couldn't help but think about Lucas and his kisses, making her blush so hard she looked like she was being chocked.
After many failed attempts to get it off her mind,Michelle fell asleep in her world of thought.
She woke up a bit late the following day so she couldn't eat breakfast before running off to school.
This time it was her,Lucas and Mark that was in the car not Bowen.
Lucas didn't say a word and behaved like last night was nothing making Michelle a bit vexed.
She was by now used to Mark's silent, he would only speak when spoken to if not it was like he was absent.
Michelle had no other choice than to sit silently,boiling with unleashed anger.
She had never been as excited to get to school as she was right now,finally she got to leave that nightmare.
She halved walk and halved ran to her class ignoring Lucas as he had ignored her.
To her surprise she met Jake in her sit, "What is the matter",she asked surprised.
"What? Can't your husband sit in your sit anymore",he said seriously and Michelle couldn't help but chuckle.
Jake always referred to himself as her husband ever since he played the role of her husband in a school play.
"Okay,dear husband anything I can do for you",she played along seeing that he was in a bad mood.
His lips curled into a small smile then before saying,"You have completely ignored me this term,like your husband had went extinct".
Michelle then realised that she had been so busy with her problems she forgot about others around her. Her gaze softened.
"Am sorry,do you have anything fun to do?",she asked trying to please him.
"Yeah",his eyes brightened up immediately.
"Their is a football tournament coming up,you can cheer for me while I play",he said with expectation that Michelle couldn't say no to him.
"Thanks",he said happily and gave her a bear hug.
"No problem,now my legs are killing m from standing this long",she said and Jake stood up for her.
They talked for a while then he left,only then did she realise that Grace and Beatrice were absent.
She had forgotten about her kidnapping so she didn't ask Lucas what he dud to her.
She decided to ask Lucas during the closing hours.
Closing came long enough and. Michelle ran to Lucas as curiosity has been eating through her the whole day.
She hadn't talked that Lucas said, "Am playing in the football tournament and you are cheering for me".
The blood drained from Michelle when she heard this, 'Wait what?'.