Precious Pearl

Chapter 5

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Pearls p.o.v:

I left Mattias in the room with Ivy. There were a lot of naturally sharp objects in an office and Ivy was not afraid to use them. I walked with opal and Mattias' friend to the small kitchen, there was always really good pastries in the fridge. Unfortunately, someone beat me to it.

"Hey, I'm Lukas Rossi" he had a pretty smile too. His hair was ginger, it complemented his deep blue eyes. He held his hand out for me to shake.

"Hi I'm Pearl Valentine!" I went to shake his hand and like Mattias he kissed my hand. He smiled and winked at me as I felt my face heat up. It didn't give me tingles like Mattias's did, but it was charming. He offered me a pastry and I took it gently nibbling at it as Opal glared at Lukas. It was a while until Ivy and Mattias left the office and when they did Ivory wore a large smile and took a pastry from Lukas' plate.

I watched as Mattias walked up to me. He was wearing a navy-blue suit and no tie. His top buttons were un-done and he was smirking at me again as I looked him up and down. He stopped in front of me and dragged his eyes up and down my body before taking my pastry and taking a bite out of it.

"Hey, that was mine!" he smiled, I almost saw teeth. His smile was contagious it almost made me forget he stole my pastry. I took it back and continued eating it.

"What's mine is yours" he took a step closer so my back was pressed against the counter, his dark eyes were looking down on me "And what's yours is mine darling" He stayed close to me for a while, our bodies almost touching until he stepped back and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

I looked around nervously and noticed opal staring at us I couldn't tell what she was feeling as she looked away quickly and continued to talk to someone over the phone. I looked towards Ivy and saw her, and Lukas sat close to each other laughing, yay Ivy made a friend.

Mattias was still stood very close to me and I felt him tuck a piece of hair behind my ear. He made my body tingle everywhere he touched, it made me want to smile constantly.

"Do you have a phone darling?" I looked up at him as he spoke, I reached into my pocket passing him my phone. I didn't use it often as I didn't go out without ivory, Opal, or Jackson. Mattias held his hand out and I gave him my phone, it was unlocked because I kept forgetting the code. I couldn't see what he was doing but I didn't mind, I had noticed he had small dimples on his cheeks, I couldn't take my eyes of them. He put my phone back in my shirt pocket and I looked back at his eyes.

"My number is in your phone darling. Unfortunately, I have to go now but text me, okay?"

"Okay" I was sad he was leaving so soon I could always text him now.

He leaned down close to my ear so I could feel his breath on my ear, his hand was gently playing with my hair and he leaned forward to kiss my cheek. I closed my eyes as I felt the familiar tingles I got whenever he touched me.

"See you soon Pearl" Even the way he said my name made the butterfly's in my stomach go crazy.

"See you soon Mattias" he smiled down at me and turned around to leave with Lukas close behind him.

I looked up to see both of my sisters looking at me with raised eyebrows. I smiled softly and nibbled on my nail. It was an awkward silence until Ivy said in a sing song voice "Oooh Pearly's got a crush"

Just as I thought my cheeks had returned to a normal colour, they glowed red again. Mattias is just a friend, a friend who gives me butterfly's and looks at me like I am a juice box in a desert.

"Oooh Ivy's got a crush" I raised my eyebrows and looked towards Opal. Ivy had a crush. Who was it? Where did they meet? It was ivy's turn to go red and she looked down.

"At least we will get some soon, Opal" I scrunched my eyebrows up, get some what? Sometime Ivy made no sense.

Suddenly a pastry flew across the room hitting Ivy in the face. I gasped as I looked up at Opal who was armed with a plate of pastries. I pointed at Ivy innocently just as I felt a pastry hit the side of my face. I swung round and glared at Ivy, who had a mischievous glint in her eye. Soon I was armed with two pastries and it was a full-on pastry fight. Our laughter filled the kitchen and concerned employees watched as the two CEOs threw pastries at each other as I picked up strays and threw them in random directions. Soon we ran out of pastries and we were a mess of laughter and pastry crumbs. It looked like a pastry bomb hit the kitchen. We decided to call a truce. Opal had to work, and Ivy volunteered to take me home to get clean. Opal had mysteriously managed to dodge most of flying pastries probably because she was a captain of the dodgeball team in her high school.

We went to the garage to the car and Jackson drove us home. I couldn't help but think about Mattias, I was going to text him when we got back to the apartment. When we got back, I had a shower there were pastry crumbs everywhere. I used my coconut body wash and got changed into leggings and one of Opals hoodies I had stolen, it was one from a sports team she joined. I always wanted to be good at sports, but I was extremely clumsy when I was fifteen ivory made me join her netball team where I repeatedly fell over the ball. Even though netball was a game of the ball not touching the floor.

I sat on my bed and grabbed my phone. I opened my contacts and saw that he had added himself as yours truly. I smiled and began to type.

Pearl: hi, its pearl

I waited a few minutes and I saw the three dots appear.

Mattias: hi pearl, did ya miss me?

I smiled at the message I had missed him but maybe that was weird to admit. He was obviously joking.

Pearl: I'm good and you?

We continued to talk for a while he told me about his meeting and his night out with Lukas last night, he asked about my shopping trip and my make-shift office. Just as I thought the conversation ended, I saw the three dots again.

Mattias: Are you free tomorrow?

Pearl: yeah, I am

Mattias: Good, how's lunch at 12:30 tomorrow

I froze looking at the message, going out without my sisters was a big step, going out with someone I had only just met was a larger step and in a public place was a much bigger step. I felt safe with Mattias.

Pearl: :) 👍

I sent the simple message then threw the phone I aimed for the end of my bed, but my phone had other ideas and bounced off hitting the floor with a thud. I sat on the bed with my knees against my chest. I was going out. Alone. With mattias. Oh jeez.

What would Opal think? What would Ivory think? She seemed to hate Mattias. I couldn't focus on that, I had to find a way to sneak out tomorrow at lunch. It should be easy right? Opal and Ivy would go to work leaving me and Jackson in the apartment. I could bribe Jackson to let me out for a little while, right?