What if I could be Mrs Darcy?

3

I woke up to my alarm and opened my eyes quickly

"Crap I'm late" I opened my walk in closet and started looking for clothes as fast as I could

I heard my phone ringing and I picked it up thinking it was someone to wake me up. But it was John

"Hi" I heard his smooth voice on the other line

"Hi, can we talk later at school or something? I'm late"

"Liz it's a Saturday, what are you talking about?"

"It is?" I asked surprised. I went to my calendar and checked. It was Saturday "Okay then I'm late for something and I don't know what it is"

I ran downstairs and checked the post-its by the fridge

"Buy milk, no" I began reading all the things I had to do "Iron, no. Why do I have to do so many things?"

"Why don't you use your phone to remind you of them?"

"I'm old school I guess. Speaking of which, how do you have my phone?"

"Your in the WhatsApp group chat. I took it from there" he said casually "Hey I've got an idea. Why don't I go there to have breakfast and then we do whichever thing you need to do?"

"I don't have anything to offer you" I picked up an empty carton of milk and added "I have apples"

"I'll take care of breakfast. You just put the plates and stuff. Be there in ten" he said before hanging up

I found myself an angel I thought before running through all my house tidying up. I was usually the organised type, and when I was alone in the house everything went perfectly, but with the exams I had left everything on pause

I heard the bell ring while I was putting away clothes so I went to the door covered in them. I opened to see an impressed John looking at me worryingly

"My life is chaos" I pointed out

"I can see" he said shocked as he gave me a kiss in the chick

I liked very much he had taken that habit, but I knew that I had to hide the fact that I liked it for the wrong reasons. John was my friend and I didn't want to ruin everything because I was falling too fast for him

"What did you bring?" I asked excited trying to get rid of the mass of clothes I had on me

"Pancakes, and syrup" he looked at me seriously and added "You have a problem in your head" his seriousness turned into a laugh as he said "Come one leave the laundry or whatever that is and let's fill our stomachs"

We went to the kitchen and I had the first breakfast laughing and basically not alone with a cup of coffee in a long time.

John looked at my fridge full of reminders and read "Pick up the cat, urgent" then he said looking at me "Urgent is actually written in pink, capital letters and underlined"

I suddenly remembered "It's the 26" I started explaining as I run upstairs to get dressed with John following me closely "This animal person has this cat, you know like a kind of shelter. And I saw it and I really liked it, it was super cute. And it was a baby" I started to get my shirt off when I realised that he John was still in the room

"Can you give me a minute?"

"Oh yes sorry" he said as he realised he had been staring the whole time at me "I'll be at the other side of the door"

He closed the door but I caught a glimpse of a blush in his face. What a cutie

"So a cat, huh?" he asked from the outside "I might have known you like them. I mean your pijamas kind of gave it away"

I finally took my shirt off, which had indeed little kittens all over it and continued my story "As I was saying before. It was run over a car or something of the sort, and it lost it's tail and an ear. So probably nobody will want it"

It's very sad when people don't adopt animals when they don't meet the standard of animal beauty

"If they don't find a home for her they'll most probably sacrifice her. And I don't want that to happen. So they told me if nobody claims her as their own I could go today and pick her up if I was still interested"

I went out fully dressed and concluded "So I have to go and save my cat"

"Where's the shelter?"

"Next to the Burger up the hill" I said nervously

"And you're gonna walk all the way there?"

"I was thinking of going in my bike, but I couldn't bring her back then so yeah it's going to be a long walk"

"I'll drive you there"

"What?"

"I have a licence I'll drive you. You can't risk that someone gets her before you do"

"We can use my car" at his surprised face I added "Well it's not my car. It's my parent's. The point is we have a car"

"Great" We put our coats on and jumped in the car "Let's get rolling"

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When we got to the store the cat was still there

"I thought you were going to change your mind about her"

"No. I love cats"

"I can confirm that" echoed John and the he whispered "She's a crazy cat lady"

"John I heard that"

I filled out the form signing I was her rightful owner and we took her back home

"She looks so scared" I said petting her

"It must be the first time she's in a car poor thing"

We spent some time in silence while I petted her in my lap when she started purring

"You hear that? She's purring" I whispered excited

"You gonna give her a name?"

"I was thinking marmalade"

"Nice" he said fistbumping me "I thought you were just going to pick ginger or something even less original"

"No, she's sweet. Just like marmalade"

"You really care about animals don't you" he said looking into my eyes when we stopped on a red light

"I just treat them like everyone should be treated" I said trying to calm down as he looked at me with those honey eyes that made me melt

"Vegetarian?"

"No, couldn't pass without meat. I'm sorry I have limits"

We both laughed a bit and continued staring until I couldn't take it any more and looked away.

It's funny how a look from someone can make your heart beat faster