Chapter 7

I dedicate this chapter to a book I love soo freaking much, but it looks as if the author is never coming back to finish it. Although it's nowhere near being finished I fell in love with the 15 chapters it does have. Tall Dark and...Hairy? by Cocolittle Jack and Jill are just so precious. lol

You're like a fake diamond, sparklin when the lights are on

But when the night time comes, and all the lights go off

You turn off with them

Where do you go when the lights turn low boy?

Artist: Lana Del Rey

Song: Fake Diamonds

"What you want may not be what you deserve, but as humans we are built to want what we cant have. It makes us go for it harder."-Sage Aroem

Sage’s Pov.

“Can I get through one awkward moment without you romanticizing it?” I asked Zac through close eyes.

“Nope, no can do little one. Now that you’re here I will continue to bother you with it. What else happen?”

“Well my little brother’s birthday is next weekend, and then the Colton’s annual dinner party or something like that is next week.”

“Oh, that haha” Zac laughed putting his hands behind his head and leaning back so that he was lying on the couch. “Well this will be interesting this year. These things are really boring, don’t worry. But Blaze’s family isn’t the easiest to get along with.”

“Yeah, like I couldn’t tell just from being around Blaze.”

“Oh no, I don’t mean like Blaze, difficult. I mean that they are very uhm bratty, snotty, that kind of difficult.”

“Oh, hey uhm, can I ask you a question Zac?”

“Sure, is it about Blaze?” He whispered with a huge smiled.

I rolled my eyes but nodded anyway. “Why does he address his mom and dad so formally? Never a mom or dad, but always mother and father?”

Zac sighed and ran a hand through his honey blonde hair “Sorry, little one but it’s not my place to say.”

I nodded and respected that. Zac got up and mumbled something about sleep and dragged himself to the middle room, which I assumed was his. I got up fixing the pillows that Zac so kindly messed up and walked to what I guessed was my room. It was nice, beautiful, any girl would love it. But it wasn’t better than my room at the mansion.

I saw my drawer open and an unmentionable(underwear) dripping from the drawer. My eyes shot open wide in shock, which probably was the reason why Blaze looked so embarrassed coming out of this room. For some reason it gave me an embarrassing feeling too. I stuffed it back into the drawer and headed over to the bed that was just calling my name.

Once I was comfortable, I fell into a deep sleep, dreaming of a boy with electric green eyes.

I woke up to the face of Blaze, which wasn’t bad to wake up to everyday.

“Sage, get up.”

“Why?” I asked turning around in the bed, my back facing him, not because I wanted to, because trust me no matter how much I’ll deny it on the outside, Blaze was a good-looking guy and if this was normal circumstances, I’d probably stare at him.

“Well uhm, we,” he stumbled around for the right words. “Zac and I want breakfast, and its 12:00 pm and you’re still sleep,” he mumbled quietly.

“I’ll make you breakfast Blaze,” I rolled out of bed quickly, standing up only to almost fall back down from a head rush, and dizziness. Luckily Blaze caught me, and balanced me off, I merely thanked him and walked into my in suite bathroom.

Once I freshened up I walked out to the kitchen where both boys were seated at the bar. I got out the ingredients for waffles. Once I was finished making the waffles, I got out some orange juice and poured glasses for us all.

There was a knock at the door, and I looked at Blaze curiously. Who could be coming over at this time? Zac got up from his seat opening the door, revealing a man that looked like an older wore out version of Blaze.

“Son,” Blaze’s dad greeted, and I swallowed the waffle I was eating.

“Father,” replied with all signs of emotion wiped from his pretty face. I didn’t like to see him this way.

“Aren’t you going to introduce me to the girl, who will be helping you, run my company?” He asked tapping foot impatiently.

Blaze got up and walked over to me, wrapping an arm around my waist and bringing me towards his father. For some strange reason, a simple gesture as just wrapping his arm around me gave me familiar tingles like when he kissed me just not as strong, it was a dull spark but it was still there, and it was enough to give me butterflies. But I’m going to blame it on the fact that I was nervous that I was meeting his father, and lying to a multi-millionaire.

“Father, this is my fiancé Sage, Sage this is my father.” Blaze introduced through gritted teeth. Most people wouldn’t have noticed but I did, because I was good at studying people, that Blaze had an ounce of hate in voice. Did he hate his father? Or did he hate lying to him?

His father shook my hand, which was firm like my daddy taught me.

“I’ll see you two at the family dinner. Oh I see you cook, mind if I have some?”

I was going to reply with a yes, not wanting to be rude, but that’s not possible for Blaze I guess.

“Yes, we do mind” His father’s brown eyes, which Blaze didn’t inherit, seemed to turn into slits glaring at Blaze.

“Hmm, fine I’ll see you later son, Zachary, and it was lovely meeting you Ginger.”

“Uh, it’s Sage.” I was use to people thinking it was funny to mix my name up with different spices. It was annoying but I lived with it. I had dark brown hair so I knew that the spice thing had to be it.

“Oh, yes Sage.”

Once he left it was nothing but an awkward silence, none of making a move to utter a word. But Zac broke the silence.

“Well if that wasn’t tense. And I hate it when people call me Zachary! It’s Zac, just Zac.”

Blaze pushed his full plate of waffles away from himself, got out of his chair and walked to his room. I sighed.

“Maybe you should talk to him,” I told Zac.

“Nah, it’s better if you just let him be by himself. Messing with him is a quick way for him to snap at you. Well I’m going to take these to go, I have to go babysit my nieces. He should be out in a couple of hours.”

He went back into his room for about 20 minutes coming out fully changed and before leaving out the door, he couldn’t help but say, “Oh and don’t end up on the floor with Blaze, I don’t think your heart could take it, you’ll love it too much.” He told me with a wink; it was enough for me to try to chuck a pillow at his head which missed. I laughed, and walked to my room.

After two hours I was worrying about Blaze, what he could possibly be in there doing, I wanted to know what was wrong. I wanted to help him, it was like instinct. I don’t care what Zac said I‘m going in there.

I took a deep breath and walked up to Blaze door to knock, but I lost the courage and chickened out. Blaze opened the door as I was backing away, and looked at me curiously.

“Uhm, well you see I was coming to uhm check on you, because you’ve been in there for a while, and I wanted to know if you were okay.”

His eyes soften, and the green orbs of his seemed to light up in a glow. “Yeah, I’m fine. Uh come in Sage, we can watch a movie or something.” This would be the first actual time that I’ve been alone with Blaze in a date-like setting. The office doesn’t count because we were working, and the Ben & Jerry’s didn’t count because my little brother was there, oh and the dinner every day didn’t count because Zac was always with us.

“Uh, yeah sure” I stuttered, “I’ll go make some pop corn and you grab the pop?”

“Yeah,” his face twitched up, and that caused me to smile because I almost got him to smile at me.

Once we were back in his room, I looked for a place to sit, Blaze was already settled onto his bed, and I was about to make a seat for myself on the floor.

“What are you doing?”

“Uhm about to sit, what else?”

“Come on Sage, were both humans, you can sit on the bed with me.”

I said nothing but got onto the bed with him, not sitting close enough to touch, but close enough to were I was aware of my movements. My heart was beating fast, and my palms started to sweat. I swear I need to just calm down it’s not like he’s going to kiss me again. We’re just watching a movie, it’s not like it’s a date. I need to stop over-thinking things.

He put in the movie The Sitter, and I was actually surprised he seemed too serious to like comedies, but obviously there’s a lot I don’t know about this mysterious guy named Blaze.

There were some parts of the movie that I just couldn’t keep myself from laughing. I looked over at Blaze and saw him struggling to keep from laughing.

I put my hand on his leg, and watched as his gaze traveled from the TV, to my hand, up my arm to my face. “Blaze you can laugh, I promise I won’t tell anyone.” I told him with a small smile.

Something flashed in his along the lines of happiness? Trust? I don’t know, but I do know something flashed in those bright seas of green, he calls eyes.

“Yeah I know Sage,” he said his face twitching up.

We went back to watching the movie and when a funny part came up and I was rolling on the bed clutching my stomach, Blaze looked at me once and couldn’t contain his laughter. He laughed so hard he was gasping for air. I could help but feel happy that I helped make him laugh.

His eyes lit up and I promise the green almost seemed like they glowed in the dark room. The soft glow of the TV illuminated his face, and made his face seem like utter happiness was pouring out of him. Then we heard a knock on his door and we both jumped up and ran to the door, which made Blaze trip on my feet in the process, knocking us both on the floor Blaze on top of me.

The door opened and Zac looked down at us with a huge smile. “When I left I had no idea I would catch you two in this position. And Sage didnt I warn you about this earlier?”

“It’s not like that, it was an accident,” Blaze said getting up, and dusting himself off after helping me up.

He kept smiling anyway, “Okay I believe you, but hey I heard laughter. We must be watching Blaze’s favorite movie, The Sitter.”

I smiled and nodded my head sitting back down in my spot on the bed. To be honest I was disappointed that Zac showed up, because Blaze and I were having a good time. It felt like a real relationship if that was possible. I’m getting ahead of myself, I don’t like Blaze, and he definitely doesn’t like me.

But his laguhter, and his electric green eyes were still buzzing in my mind, even though I didn’t get him to just smile, it was still on my to-do list. And I will accomplish it before my time with Blaze is over.

After the movie ended, Zac was passed out in his room snoring, yes we could hear it through the walls. And Blaze walked me to my door, which was only a room down. I leaned against the door and he stood in front of me.

He scratched the back of his head and said “Thanks Sage, for watching the movie with me.”

I simply smiled and nodded, not knowing what else to say. Before closing my door I could have sworn I heard him say “Sweet Dreams beautiful.” But then again, my imagination has been running out of control lately.

I'm like a child, who belongs to nobody

So I wear you like my clothes, hold you close to my body

Because you hurt so good

But you feel so bad honey

I just want you to want me, want you to want me

Artist: Lana Del Rey

Song: Fake Diamonds