"HER FAVORITE ARE RED ROSES AND black orchids, mom."
She seemed proud of me, "Good choice. And Aaron, son, as I know you always do that, send me the pictures you took with Thays today while buying the clothes. I want to see you together on some of them." And just like that, she hang up on our face.
Sigh, "She's impossible."
"Well, she's hardworking. That's for sure. And you really always takes pictures like that?"
A nod. "Always. Even when I'm buying with my mom, I always take pictures of her and of us together. She likes to collect them, and so do I."
"You have a thing for photography then?!"
"Kind of, yes. I did a course in my free time while I was in Yale. I'm quite good at it," I exclaimed with a proud grin.
"I'm always the photographer in my families gatherings, seems like we have one more thing in common. Although my dad is also amazing at it. He'll probably like that in you."
I felt my face hot. "While we are talking about your family… did you talk with your other siblings yesterday? Why didn't you tell me?" I made her get up and turned her around, still with my hands on her waist. "What did you say?"
She turned crimson red, "They were just mad that I didn't tell them before, same thing that happened with your brothers," Thays played with my hair and I felt my body hot again. "And I told them that we were already hooking up in secret when they were here in the midsummer."
"Well, that fits our storyline. Since we said it all started in May."
"Yes," she gulped and avoided my eyes.
"Did they ask anything… else?" I held her chin making her look at me and her face got even redder. What is she hiding?
"Nothing you need to know."
"So, they did?!" I glared at her suspiciously.
"And you don't need to know about it!"
I grinned mischievously, "So, it was the naughty kind of question. Let me guess, was it your sisters who asked?"
She gulped and stared at my cheeks instead of my eyes. "No. Now stop being so annoying," then she pushed me away. "Where shall we go now?"
"It was a sex question!" I locked her in my arms again, grinning and insisting on it just because she clearly didn't want to speak about it. "What did you say?"
"Stop, Aaron. Let's not go there."
"Talking about sex isn't the same as doing it, Thays. So, it's not like we'll be breaking our rule," I arched my eyebrows. "Tell me. I'm curious. What did you tell them?"
Pushing me again, she held her bag, and began to take half of the YSL packages, "Nothing. You don't need to worry. And if that was the case, I wouldn't have said anything that might degrade you!"
"So, you didn't say I was a bottom, right?"
She gasped, "No sex talk, Aaron. Don't insist. Now let's go. Where are we going now?"
Still grinning, I took the rest of her things with one hand, while pausing the other on the end of her back, feeling the warmness of her skin crossing the fabric of the dress. "Prada!"
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We had a short trip to my car three times to put the things we brought there, and I made sure to pay for all the other things. But before I took her to lunch in a Italian restaurant, there was one more place I wanted to take her in the mall. And thankfully, she was still energetic and not annoyed by the amount of clothes she tried it on. Oh, and we already bought the tooth brushes to leave in each others apartments.
"Where now?" She asked, already comfortable with my hand in her waist. Which is good, it has to look as natural as possible, since I'll constantly hold her like this.
"We are almost there," I grinned.
When we arrived in front of Victoria's Secret, she glared at me, wide eyes and flushed cheeks again. "You can't be serious!"
"Oh, sweetheart, but I am. Don't worry, I wont ask to see you on them this time," I winked flirty she shot me daggers in her eyes. "Come," I held her hand and guided her inside. "Let's buy as much lingerie for you as we can. Some sexy robes and sensual pajamas too. We never know. Knowing my mom, she might try to spy on us at night, just to make sure that we aren't pretending anything."
She gasped, "You can't be serious."
"I am. Mom may look cute, but she's a controlling freak. She even track me, my brothers, and my dad's phone. She's crazy, Thays. You noticed her manipulation skills yesterday. She may act all cute, but she must be definitely suspecting us, since she doesn't stand the idea of staying clueless about something in our lives for such a long time such as 5 months."
Thays closed her eyes for a second and turned to me, staring up in my eyes, "You have any idea of how you are complicating my life, Aaron?" But her tone wasn't aggressive as usual. "What's going to be next? Is she going to check the trash too? To see if there are condoms there just to make sure that we are having sex or not?"
"I wouldn't doubt that!" She gave me a death look and I grinned. "My mom is a troublemaker, Thays. You have to be aware of that. That's why I told you we have to be the most comfortable around each other as possible. She'll analyze out every move."
"And I thought mamãe was troublesome."
"We have to make it seem as real as possible. Mom will sniff the smallest lie if she notice something weird. That's how she is. And that's why I didn't want to go, because she would stay on my toes to find a girlfriend, and doubt that I'm over Nicole just because I haven't dated since her!"
At the mention of my ex, she clenched her jaw, "And why didn't you? Why didn't you just find a real girlfriend?"
"Why didn't you?"
"What?"
"You haven't dated since your broke up with your ex, have you?" She seemed uncomfortable. "I like my single life. And after all of that trouble I didn't think I would ready to go through such a pain in the ass again."
Sigh, "I'm sorry, but your mother is insufferable, Aaron. If she does everything you said, it means she's quite toxic. That's not good. Neither for you, and especially not for her mental health."
And she's changing the subject again. "I know. She took that from my grandma." Sigh, "So, please, sweetheart," I caressed her hair and she blushed again. "Let me buy you those lingerie."
"Maldito man-whore" she cursed under her breath. "Fine. Don't make me make it 15 per day."
"Even if you do that, it'll be worthy. And I'll probably still owe you. You have no idea of how much you are helping me on this, Thays."
"I think I have an idea," then she turned around, pushing me away again, but letting me keep a hand on her waist. I'm starting to think she's liking my touch. "Miss," she called one of the attendants, "can you help me out?"
The tall girl with chocolate skin came closer smiling to her, "Of course, I can, ma'am. What do you want? Panties? Bras? Pajamas?" Than she side-eyes, my hand on her waist, and back to her. "Lingerie?" Oh, she knows what she's doing.
"A bit of everything," I exclaimed, knowing that Thays was too embarrassed about being here with me buying those.
The woman analyzed Thays's body from head to toe very slowly, and even I felt weird by that. "You must be a 40D cup, right?" Damn, she can tell just by looking?
"Yes," she said more firmly than I thought.
Am I the only one embarrassed by it? And damn, I knew she had big boobies, but 36D cup? That's a lot. A lot. They are bigger than my hands.