Dangerous Love Affairs – Episode 15
DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIR
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“How’s Daxton managing with Colton’s death?” Henry asked me later that day
I shrugged my shoulders “nothing much that I know”
Henry looked straight into my eyes “have you ever been into his room?”
I wanted to say ‘No’ but on a second thought, I replied “yes”
“and you saw the whole Colton and C stuffs?”
I nodded
“It’s still there till today like they’re a pack of condom”
At first I didn’t understand what he meant but then it hit me and I laughed.
A pack of condom. Colton and Daxton, more like CD.
“He’s going to change or at least he’s going to try” I wasn’t even sure of it myself “but Geoffrey is taking things too far”
Henry sighed “I know”
“Daxton and I agreed to announce a break up when he leaves but he isn’t planning to leave soon”
“He’s not going to remain here.. He’s definitely going to leave”
“What about his wife? What if she comes and refuses to go?”
Henry chuckled “Pauline is worse than Geoffrey. She’s going to give you the whole daughter-in-law trouble.. She won’t let you bteathe” he laughed
“Henry this isn’t funny and you know it” I huffed loudly “you know what?”
“what?” he arched a brow
“I think you’re up to something”
Henry laughed and his bulky frame almost pushed me down “something like what? You think I’m playing love match here?”
“You’re trying to make Daxton and I fall in love”
“I can’t do that.. He’s the judge of that”
“Henry?!”
“Come on Chloe you’re not a teenager, you’re 20, a full grown woman. what are you scared of?”
“I’m not scared of anything”
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“I overhead your discussion with Daxton the other day about getting married”
Henry was saying “I wasn’t eavesdropping.. I was just listening”
I rolled my eyes “what difference does that make”
“a lot. The latter is polite”
“Henry be serious for once”
“I was wondering.. If you want to get married, and that’s exactly the same thing we want for Daxton, then….”
“Henry?!” I shouted “don’t you dare think of that”
“Why?”
“I can’t marry a gay”
Henry’s smile faded “so he’s going to remain single forever?”
I scoffed “I don’t care.. That wasn’t part of our agreement. Daxton hates me and I like him less”
“But he’s single and things can change between the two of you”
“No”
“What about Dexter?”
My cheeks got warm but I fought hard to hide the fact that I was blushing “still no” I knew it wasn’t true at all. If Dexter asked me to marry him, I wouldn’t hesitate to say yes
“Why? He’s a celebrity and jovial, he always makes you laugh”
“Henry?!” I pretended to be angry
“what about me? I’m still single”
“Henry?!” I got up and made to chase him and he ran out of my office, laughing like a kid.
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“… about what my dad said” Daxton told me during our drive home that day “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you”
“it’s okay.. It isn’t really important for the both of us” I said
Daxton glanced at me “I know.. But I should’ve told you”
“What are we going to do now? You mom can’t get involved”
“And if she does, she’ll never let you go”
“Why don’t we announce the break up before she arrives”
“And what do we tell my dad?”
“that we can’t continue. We’ve been having issues for months and decided to call it quits”
“He’ll want to settle whatever issue it is”
“Then what do we do?”
Daxton heaved a deep sigh “I don’t know.. We shouldn’t have started this in the first place”
“But it helped”
“It really did but you’re the one suffering for it. Giving you a status that isn’t true”
“I have an idea”
“What is it?”
“You’ll come up with a fake marriage proposal and I’ll say no then we break up”
Daxton stared at me for a while then faced the wheel “you’ll be smart when you’re older”
I laughed “So we’ll tell Henry about it”
“seems like you’ve been thinking of a way to get this over with”
“I have” I admitted “since I realize this isn’t what we both want. You don’t want me as much as I don’t want you and the Colton stuff has been settled”
Daxton’s countenance changed and I realized I had said too much. He didn’t say anything else until we got home. We entered our different rooms and Daxton slammed his door so hard that the mirrors in the house shuttered.
I had this guilty feeling about what I said earlier.
I shouldn’t have mentioned ‘Colton’.
I freshened up and walked out of my room. Daxton’s room door was left ajar. I tiptoed closer and took a peek, he wasn’t inside. I snuck in and looked at the room. There was something different, actually new about the room. More pictures of Colton. There was an inscription of ‘Colton’ that wasn’t there the last time I was in the room. I noticed a mirror carved in the shape of the letter ‘C’. Everything proved that Daxton wasn’t moving on at all. I sighed in frustration and returned to my room. There had got to be a way to act ‘Super Spy’ if possible, find a witch or whatever creature to compel Daxton to forget Colton.
I paced up and down in my room then an idea came into my head. Daxton stuffs his room with things about Colton cause he’s scared to forget him. If those things brings back memories of Colton, then without them he’ll definitely forget Colton. Daxton couldn’t possibly know the numbers of things he has of Colton so he wouldn’t know when they get missing.
Stealing them was the best way. Though it would take almost a year to completely wipe out everything concerning Colton. I picked my little satchel bag and snuck into Daxton’s room. He still hasn’t returned yet.
I grabbed a little Colton mirror and shoved it into the bag, then a printed T-shirt of Colton that was hanging on the wall. I didn’t want to take much to avoid raising suspicions. It’s one step at a time. I hurried back to my room and tossed them into my closet.
I heard footsteps in the corridor as Daxton’s entered his room and shut his door. He was still mad about what I said earlier.
After dinner that day, Daxton and I decided to see a movie. Not like we really cared about what people said about our fake relationship, I just suggested it cause I thought he needed some time out.
We stayed out late that night and got up really late the next morning. Daxton was in the kitchen when I entered his room the next morning. I stole some few ‘Colton’ stuffs again and hid them in my closet then joined him in the kitchen.
“Good morning” I greeted him
Daxton glanced at me then replied with a nod.
“what are you cooking?” I peeked into the pot
Daxton ignored me and walked out of the kitchen and I took over the cooking.
He walked in shortly, already dressed for work.
“you’ll meet me at the office” he said
“why didn’t you tell me to get ready”
“cause you’re cooking and I can’t wait”
“Daxton you were doing the cooking first”
“Henry will come pick you” Daxton stated and started out
“you don’t have to worry.. I’ll call Dexter” I said and he stopped on his track
“If you don’t want Henry to pick you then you can easily take a cab”
“you don’t have to worry.. I’ll just trek instead” I walked out of the kitchen and stayed in my room until I was sure he had left the I returned to the kitchen. When I was done cooking, I got ready for work and left without even having breakfast.
SBH
I walked out of the elevator and caught a glimpse of Tori, Zoe, and Miranda, running into a corner. I took in a deep breath and slowly walked to my office. In case anything happens, I was being extra careful. I got to my office door and— nothing.
I looked around and saw a hoodie from their clothe. One of them failed to hide well.
I smirked and tiptoed behind them.
“Gotcha!” when I dragged out the hoodie, a mop stick fell out with the head of a skeleton on it. I screamed and jumped and hugged a pillar. My scream was so loud that the staffs in my department all ran out. Tori and her friends were with them.
“what happened?” Pearl was the first to ask
“What’s that shit beside her?” Tori said in disgust “a scare crow wearing a hoodie?”
“who brings that to work? Ewwww!” that was Zoe
“Did you bring that to frighten us?” Pearl asked.
I couldn’t even say anything. I didn’t understand a thing. Someone put that to frighten me and not the other way round. Just before I could come up with a reply to defend myself, Daxton and Henry walked in.
“What’s going on here?” Henry asked
“she brought a scare crow to work to frighten everyone but ended up frightening herself” Tori said
Daxton looked from the staffs to me then to them again “to your offices now” he ordered and they scrambled away then he turned to me “what happened?”
“someone played a prank on me. The hoodie was hanging out like there was someone there but when I dragged it out, it was just this” I pointed to the mop stick
“You had to scream so loud because of this?” Daxton kicked the mop stick
“it looked like a skeleton” I said in self defense
“do you think we keep dead bodies here?” now that was Henry
“I wasn’t even thinking at that time” I yelled and heaved a sigh “I’ll be in my office” I walked into my office and slammed the door real hard at their face. Tori and her friends were behind everything.
I slouched into my chair and Henry walked in without knocking. “what do you want?”
“Just a few answers from you” Henry replied “if it’s about Daxton, then I’m not answering”
“It’s about Tori, Miranda and Zoe” he said then asked “are you having any difference with them?”
I scoffed “our only difference is Daxton”
“So it’s all about Daxton.. I thought as much”
“and they had to scare me with a mop stick scare crow”
“Look! You let yourself get scared, there’s nothing scary about that thing”
“I thought it was a skeleton”
“did a member of your family die here few years ago?”
I laughed “maybe a member to your race”
“What are you going to do about those girls?” Henry asked.
“I can’t do anything to them”
“you can’t let them torment you under the umbrella of your boyfriend’s company”
I picked a pen from my desk and threw at Henry but he ducked, laughing hysterically.
“You’re enjoying this aren’t you?”
Henry guffawed “of course I am”
“Wait until your whole plans get shattered”
“I know— Daxton told me” Henry stopped laughing “about the fake marriage proposal and you saying no.. What if it doesn’t work as planned?”
“How?”
“If you’re going to have a surprise proposal then his family members will join in the surprise and most of his friends and SBH staffs. With everyone shouting ‘say yes! Say yes! Say!’…” he demonstrated with his hands raised in the air “will you be able to say no?”
I didn’t think of that. Henry smirked and raised a brow.
“I’ll leave you and Daxton to think about that” he giggled and walked out whistling.
I was in bigger trouble than I thought. I talked to Daxton about it and he insisted it wasn’t a big deal to just say ‘no’. No one would be getting hurt. It wasn’t like I was really saying no to him.
I stopped thinking about it. Or I actually made myself believe I had stopped thinking about it and prepared for our surprise proposal. Daxton suggested we did it after our dinner with his mom. She wouldn’t be too heart broken since we came up with the idea of telling everyone that I wasn’t ready for marriage and Daxton wanted to settled down and can’t wait for me any longer. It wouldn’t be too difficult would it?
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“A fake marriage proposal?” Dexter yelled when I told him of our plan “that’s absurd”
“I know but we have to do it.. It’s the only way we can break up without much problems” I said
“and you says it’s going to work?”
“I do.. And Daxton believes it too”
Dexter chuckled “with my parents there, trust me it isn’t going to work”
“then what do you suggest we do?”
Dexter shrugged “I don’t know”
“I can’t continue with this. The proposal will work as long as I say no.. No one is going to force me”
“If you can say no” Dexter arched a brow
“why does everyone think I can’t say no?” I yelled in frustration
“cause we know what a surprise proposal is all about. With the nosy family and friends, who’s gonna let you say no with all the surprise they planned?”
I also didn’t think of that
“and my mom is gonna smack you or hit you with a grill spoon if you ruin her surprise” Dexter went on “I’m not in support of that”
“so I should continue with the fake dating?”
Dexter sighed and leaned forward “you know I don’t want you to continue with that” he placed his hand on mine “I get really jealous when someone calls you Daxton’s girl”
I felt butterflies in my stomach and my cheeks turned red. Was Dexter trying to say he loves me?
“don’t take it personal Chloe” my hopes got shattered “It’s doesn’t mean….”
“that there’s anything between us” I completed for him
Dexter shook his head “I wasn’t going to say that” he chuckled “you want to know what I wanted to say?”
Just a moment ago I was eager to know but I feared it wasn’t what I was thinking.
Maybe not the way I expected.
“No” I said instead
“you don’t want to know?”
My heart skipped a beat and I fought hard to hide my nervousness.
“Dexter?!”
He threw his head back and laughed. He was really enjoying the effect he was
having on me.
Poor me.
“Dexter stop it!”
“You’re naive aren’t you?”
“I’m just not….” I interrupted myself “I just want to go home”
Dexter’s smile faded “sure”
We walked to his car and he drove me home. I wasn’t in for talking. He kept stealing glances at me, making more nervous.
I sat there, playing on my fingers and wishing Dexter wasn’t there with me in the car. Whatever way I was feeling, I didn’t even want to think about it.
I moved to Salado to start a life of my own and work for my parents and not trying some stupid adventure.
We arrived at Daxton’s house and Dexter walked me to the door.
“Good night” I muttered and turned to go.
Dexter grabbed my hand “are you alright? Did I say anything wrong?” His eyes were peering into mine and I couldn’t even think straight.
“I’m just tired.. That’s all”
Dexter sighed “I’m sorry if I….”
“Dexter it’s not you” I wanted to add ‘it’s my feelings’
“Alright…” his grip loosened and he slowly let me go “good night”
I took a glance at him and went inside. Dexter didn’t leave immediately.
when I entered my room and looked out through the window, he was just sitting on his car bonnet and looking up at my window.
I pushed the curtains aside and opened the window.
“Dexter?!” I called even though I knew he wasn’t hearing me “I love you”
He smiled like he heard what I said then my phone beeped in my pocket and I checked it— a message from Dexter.
I heard you
I gasped and looked at him. His smile was broad. I suddenly wished the ground would open and swallow me.
My phone beeped again— another message.
I love you too
I looked at him and he was just entering his car. He waved at me and drove off. I should’ve been happy he felt the same way but I wasn’t happy at all. Why did I have to be the one to confess first?
I shut my window and sagged on the wall.
Dexter loves me too. I should be happy, but somehow— I WASN’T.
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TBC
