United Mafias

Comfort

Thoughts swarm my head as I go say my goodbyes to everyone, fighting back tears and reassuring myself as best as I can. Praying to God he won’t do anything as I literally just met him hours ago.

I lose it once I go up to my room, I start sobbing while holding my favorite teddy bear, that papa got me for my 5th birthday, close to my heart. I don’t even hear footsteps when I hear a voice saying “Hey, if you’re crying cause you’re worried I’m going to do anything, then you’re crying in vain. You’ll have your own room, I don’t have any control over you, you’ll go out whenever you want, it’s not like I’ll lock you inside, I don’t do that, please Camilla, I swear I’m not a perv.” I can see his eyes softening while he wipes away a tear that was bound to fall with a small smile.

“I’ll wait for you downstairs, take the time you need to collect your thoughts.” He says as he takes my suitcases while I’m still in the same position holding my teddy, not fully grasping what had just happened. Like a light switch, I come to my senses and follow him. He takes my teddy bear once we arrive downstairs. “I’ll give you guys a few minutes alone.” In the same soft tone and heads to the car. I hope this ends being good. “I’m going to miss you guys so much!” I say while sobbing and holding my arms out to all of them.

After the whole ordeal of saying goodbye to friends and family, I head to the car and wave goodbye for the last time, not knowing what the future holds for me. The whole drive to the airport passes by in a blur that I don’t even notice we’ve arrived, probably cause thinking about what will happen next.

He leads me to his private jet, an all black one on the inside, might I add. He may be a stranger but a very elegant stranger that has good taste. “The flight takes around 13 hours, so if you need to change, there’s a master room, and a mini fridge that has food and drinks, whatever you like.” He says while I slowly trail behind him. “I’m gonna make some calls, it might take a while but if you’re still awake we can watch a movie and get to know each other? I know we’re doing the whole thing backwards but at least we can make it less weird.”  He says and I appreciate his nice gesture.

“Yeah sure, I don’t mind, that would me nice. I just need to change.” I sincerely reply. I head to the master room as per the directions he’d given me and change into the comfiest thing I could find. I really want to snuggle, why? I don’t know. I ignore my thoughts and wore my favourite Berkley sweater with hot shorts and sneakers putting my hair up in a messy bun and head outside.

"Would you like something to drink?" He asks while leaning against the counter, wearing only his dress shirt and pants from before, minus the jacket, the difference was that the first two buttons were undone and the sleeves were rolled up.

“Yes, I want some hot cocoa, please.”

He just stares at me in amusement. “Really?”

“Yeah, it’s my comfort drink.” I say while crossing my arms and leaning on one leg. They say confidence is key, so maybe if I fake it all the nervousness inside me will disappear? Why the hell am I nervous?

The air is thick around us but he says nothing and turns around to make my drink. “you know how to make hot chocolate?” I ask, shocked. I thought he could only make alcoholic drinks, but to be fair, who can’t?

“This may sound shocking, but it’s my comfort drink too, now we have one thing in common.” He hands me my drink and with that, he heads to the other end of the plane and sets himself comfortable to start making some business calls. I finish my drink and find myself drifting off into deep sleep.

I feel his hand brushing a few strands of hair away from my face and covering me with a blanket. “Thank you.” I mumble while hugging the blanket closer to me, eyes closed, too tired to wake up.
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I know it's a very short chapter but I'm just preparing for the upcoming ones.🥰