the fate played

14 - hands and arms

Hailey Robinson

I woke up to see I overslept and I am to be at work in the next hour, although we were allowed an hour extra to be there due to yesterday's incident. But as I recall the events from yesterday, memories of Chris telling me- how his mother would like to have us at their place came flooding in front of my mind.

Also about how I ended up in my bed when I clearly remember I slept on the kitchen counter, that's when it strikes me.

Chris carried me all the way to my bed.

Shook, I check myself in mirror and regret the idea. I look like a tornado hit me. I decide to carry out my usual routine of some workout-shower, and after that I head to kitchen.

Marie was cleaning up in the living room while Chris about to leave the place when he takes a pause mid action when he catches my eyes on him. He takes a step towards me and we greet each other. "You should rest you were beyond exhausted last night", his voice just smooth and like a whisper.

Giving a small smile, "I slept well, thank you." He acknowledges with a uhh huhh sound, "well then I take my leave, see you later, Hailey." "yeah see you later, Chris", with that he heads towards the door, takes a glance and leaves after throwing a small nod in my direction.

Actually he was correct I was still tired, maybe I needed some more sleep, but anyways I head to the kitchen and start making some coffee. Marie walks in and we talk about something here and there for a while. I decide I should better get going and saying a bye to Marie I had to my work.

During the lunch break as I was about to head to the cafeteria, Nate stops me mid tracks, "Hey Hailey, how about we go out for lunch together somewhere else?" I was a bit hesitant, but also in need of some good food, so I gave in. Minutes later we were sitting in a café, Nate went to place our orders while I went to find our seats. We were sitting in front of each other, none of us speaking anything.

Nate clears his throat, "so umm, what about the ring?" I frowned a bit to his question and he points to my finger.

The ring.

Chris.

I compose myself quickly enough trying not to raise any sort of suspicion, "the ring, oh yes, umm actually I got engaged." His eyes got wide and there was some sort of horror in his expression, "out of all, you got engaged, seriously?" huhhh ! What does he takes me for !

"Nate what do you mean by that? and yes I am serious." He had his voice go down to some decibel, "I never thought you would be engaged so soon I mean yeah why would anyone say no to you but I thought you were single so yeah it's kinda surprising to find out." I gave 2-3 nods with my lips tightly clamped. He gets a call about our food being ready, so he goes to have it.

This is my first time telling someone about my engagement other than Lina. I don't even know how will I able to tackle the questions if he goes in with the details about this, especially about Chris. My heart was picking up its rate as the thoughts were running wild about introducing Chris as my fiancé.

It wasn't bothering me much but I felt my face heat up a bit at the thoughts of me and Chris going public. I mean he doesn't have any sort of bad reputation or anything like that and in fact doesn't even have mannerism like that, but what about me?

The process of questioning myself came to a pause when Nate got back with our food, and we started devouring it. Thank god I agreed to come here, the food was so soothing as I was way too close to have a foodgasm.

Nate gets back to his last point, "so who is the guy?" my mind wasn't paying enough attention so I gave a huhh sound to which he repeats, "your fiancé?" "ohh uhh that"-he shook his head into a yes to which I clear my throat and speak-"Chris Langford"