Chapter-52

ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴍʏ ᴠɪᴄᴇ, ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴍʏ ᴍᴜsᴇ

ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴀ ɴɪɴᴇᴛᴇᴇɴᴛʜ ғʟᴏᴏʀ ᴠɪᴇᴡ

ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɴᴏʙᴏᴅʏ ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ

...

I can't see. I think I'm going to be blind for the rest of my life. I tried to touch my surroundings, it was moving, the thing I'm touching.

"Remove the eye mask Celeste." I heard the thing I was touching say. What a wonderful voice.

He removed the mask from my eyes and rolled his eyes. I was about to plan my life full of darkness and he ruined it.

(No offense to any blind person reading this. I don't mean to hurt ya feelings. 🥺🖐🏻)

"I don't want to leave you alone." I say to him.

"Don't go then." He said, not taking his eyes off the laptop.

"But I need new dresses! You know the old ones don't fit anymore. I need to stop eating so much and start actually working out." I sighed.

"Shut up. Buy other ones. You're perfectly fine."

"But-"

"Get out of the house love." He said, kissing me and getting up from the bed. I thought I was supposed to get out? Is he stupid?

He went to the closet and brought my purse and shoes. Wow, he's ready to kick me out.

"You know what-"

"Nope." He said as he pushed me out of the room.

"I am not-"

"Have fun." He smiled, closing the door on my face.

If he had any expectations that I'll get something for him, he should forget about it. He's not getting anything anymore.

I thought about roaming around the house or maybe taking a swim. Did I mention there's an indoor pool in here? I found it a few months back, it was embarassing because after living with him for so many months I didn't know he had a pool.

Dismissing the thought of swimming, I knocked on the door I was kicked out of a few seconds ago.

"Why are you still here?" He asked, opening the door.

"I need car keys idiot." I saw him going back and picking up a random car key and handing it to me. Is he expecting me to use my hearing senses and see which car's key is this?

"SUV." He said as if reading my mind and closed the door once again. How desperate is he to go back to work?

Reaching the parking, I got inside the car. The car also smells like him, I called Lydia. "Heylo."

"Celeste?" She asked.

"Yup, it's me. New number." I tell her.

"How are you?" She asked. We talked yesterday in the office? But..nevermind.

"Great. Are you free right now?" I asked.

"Oh..I..I am with my boyfriend." She whispered.

"Okay, why are we whispering?" I whispered back.

"I am meeting his mom." She whispered again.

"Oh have fun." I whispered. Wait..why am I whispering?

"I'm sorry Celeste but I gotta go." She said hurriedly. Is her boyfriend's mom chasing her? Funny scenario.

"Bye bye." I hang up the call.

The next person I called was Caden after connecting my phone with the bluetooth. "Hello Celly girlll." He sang loudly, I got scared because I didn't realise how high the volume was.

Lowering the volume first, I asked, "Where are you?"

"At home." He replied, confused. "If you're visiting, bring food." He said.

"I'm not. I was going to the mall, you want to join?" I asked.

"When have I ever declined that offer?" He asked, I heard the ruffling sounds. He's always ready to go.

"Don't bring Rome with you." I say.

"He's in spain." He replied. Spain? Tf?

"Why is he vacationing solo?" I asked, I was about to turn the wrong way. How do people multitask?

"His grandmother died." He replied.

"Not to be rude..but why the hell are you not with him?" I asked.

"I met her a couple of months back, old hag didn't like. Why would I go to her funeral?" He asked. "She had the audacity to ask him to breakup with me and called me ugly..see? She died." He said coolly. Okay. We need to stop talking about her.

"Are you ready yet?" I asked, changing the topic.

"What do you mean yet? I am always ready." He said..I could feel the frown.

"I'm about 2 minutes away from your place. Hurry up." I tell him.

"Are you kidding me? You just called me.." He said.

"I was on my way dumb. Lock up..I am waiting downstairs." I say, hanging up. I wasn't actually 2 minutes away. It will still take me five minutes to reach there but Caden is never on time.

I listened to songs while I waited for Caden. Why is he taking so much time? I clicked a selfie..okay a few selfies and sent them to Chase. He replied within seconds.

Sugar daddy💸🤰🏻

don't use phone while driving.

Me

I'm in the parking stoopid🙄

Sugar daddy💸🤰🏻

stupid*

Me

stoopid

stooopid

stoooopid.

Sugar daddy💸🤰🏻

Me

Sugar daddy💸🤰🏻

Me

Don't scare me like that...damn

Sugar daddy💸🤰🏻

They're about to fuck.

Me

Why are you still there?!

SPACE. GICE THEM SPACW

Sugar daddy💸🤰🏻

Me

Bye bye

Caden arrived

I kept the phone aside as Caden sat beside me. "Ugly." He said, giving me an once-over.

"Uglier." I replied, looking at him just like he looked at me.

"Can I drive?" He asked.

"No." He huffed, then disconnected my phone from the bluetooth. "Do you want to come back with me?" I asked.

"Are you going to leave me there?" He asked with a sad face.

"No idiot..I meant like back to Chase's place. You're staying alone anyways." I explained.

"That's your place too." He frowned. "And no, I'm flying to LA tonight." He tells me.

"Why are you with me right now then? What about-"

"Everything's done." He cut me off and went back to changing songs. I swear he's about to get punched if he kept on changing songs every minute.

15 minutes and 20 songs later, we finally reached the mall. I smacked the back of his head as soon as we got down.

"If my brother wasn't in love with you..I would've killed you long ago." He said, rubbing the spot where I had hit him. I flipped my braid, hitting him on the face.

"Stop talking, I have a salary to spend." I tell him.

"I'll help you." He rubbed his hands together before pulling me inside.

"I need so many things.." I told him the small list I prepared in my mind. "I am giving you the responsibility to not let me enter the shoe store. If I went in there, you'll have to pay my bill." I warn him because one thing I love the most after food is footwear.

"Okay ma'am." He salutes.

We spent the next couple of hours shopping for me. While paying the bill, I realised why Chase brought my purse for me, he switched my card with his. Idiot.

I was lying when I said I won't buy a thing for Chase because right now I was standing in men's section after buying some hoodies for Chase because all his shirts are tailored, while Caden left to answer a call.

Someone tapped on my shoulder. I turn around, leaving the shirt I was looking at.

"Beth." It was hard to recognise her. She looked really different, her face which I only saw with makeup had close to no makeup at all, her lip fillers were dissolved, her hair were in a dark shade of brown.

"Hi." She said..she seemed really nice at the moment.

"Hi?"

"How are you?" She asked me. What if it's her twin?

"Good? What are you doing here?" I asked, looking around to see if she was with someone.

She forwarded her hand to touch my hair but I moved out of her reach. "I don't like when people touch my hair." I tell her.

"How's Chase?" She asked, tilting her head. She's being nice but my hand is twitching, can I hit her?

"I don't know why you're asking but he's fine, now if you'll excuse me, I have somewhere to be." I said and walked away from her. Weird girl.

"Hey Cel." Caden came back. "What's wrong?" He asked, looking at my expression.

"I just met Beth, she looked different and she was being nice..it was weird." I tell him.

"Where is she?" He asked. I turned to point in her direction but seems like she left.

"She left. Anyways, let's go back home. I feel tired." I say.

"Okay." He said and out of nowhere, he pulled my cheek. I slapped his hand away.

"Don't pull my cheeks." I poked his forehead.

"They're chubby." He had the audacity to pull both my cheeks this time. My fists are chubby too, he wants a check?

"Pick up my bags and start walking already. My feet hurt I left the two bags I had in my hands on the floor and walked out of the shop.

"I'm going to tell this to Chase." He mumbled, following me with his hands full of shopping bags. I rolled my eyes at his drama.

"Do you wanna eat something?" He asked, looking at the cart of the guy selling hotdogs.

"I want homemade food." I tell him.

"As you wish." He said, keeping the bags inside the car and went to buy one for him.

I took a seat on the passenger seat because I was tired to drive. He came back five minutes later with a paper bag and one in his hand that he was eating.

"Where's mine?" I asked.

"Didn't you-"

"I want one now."

"I knew it." He rolled his eyes and handed me the paper bag.

"Thanks." I said, taking the hotdog out and devouring the thing. I didn't realise I was actually hungry.

Caden was about to touch the seat with his greasy hand. "Wipe your hands first." I threw a piece of kleenex at him. I know how much Chase loves his cars, he'll not stop for days if I ruined the clean car.

"Okay freak." He rolled his eyes again.

"Are you driving now or not?" I asked impatiently. I wanna lie down on my bed and look at my boyfriend.

"Calm down, I'm driving." He said, finally starting the car.

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