A Kiss Of Love

13

Kiran

"Okay, listen," I heard Rose say, though barely even acknowledged her. I had just woken up a second ago, from her waking me, mind you. I couldn't even open my eyes properly, and she expected me to hear her out?

I was still mad at her from her stupid comment yesterday. I can take a joke, but saying she'd want an escort to fuck her if I didn't, that was too much.

I stretched on the bed, finally managed to open my eyes only to be met with Rose's. Her head hovered right over mine, somehow scaring the shit out of me.

"Hello?"

"Hi?"

"Good, you're awake." Only when she sat back up straight did I notice that she was straddling me, her hands on my stomach to keep herself steady.

I sat up, slightly pushing her a little bit further away, just so she wouldn't sit on my dick.

"So, as I was saying..." Rose raked a hand through my hair, pushing a few strands that had gotten too long back. "I need you to get me pregnant. Right now."

"Come again." Was I stuck in some alternate reality? Because Rose did not just ask me what I thought she did.

"I went shopping with Molly, and she brought my niece. I've never met Ava before because Molly lives really far away with her husband and I never found time to visit. Anyway, that's not important. I met Ava today, and she's is so fucking cute! She was all giggly and kept offering me to try her food, which was gross. The food was gross, not her offering. But damn, Kiran. I want one of those so badly. So please..."

I slid a hand down my face, still unsure if this was a bad dream or Rose actually talking to me.

"I know, I'd be pregnant for some time first, but that's alright. But if you got me pregnant today, I'd give birth around May next year. Wouldn't that be such a beautiful month to be born in? Okay, there's a huge chance I wouldn't get pregnant right away, still."

"It's a month like any other," I said. Truthfully, I only understood half the stuff she just threw at me.

She cupped my face with her hands, looking into my eyes while she forced me to look into hers. "You promised, Kiran."

"No, I said I'd take your virginity if you woke up this morning and decided you still wanted it." And technically, our contract said we'd only have to try after we got married. We were still a few days away from that.

"Well, I do still want it."

I shrugged. "Took my words back the second you said you'd get a male escort, sorry."

Like Rose weighted nothing, I lifted her off me, sat her down beside me and got off the bed.

"You can't seriously be mad about that still, Kiran. It was a joke."

"Quite the funny one, too." I walked towards the en-suite bathroom to get away from this conversation, but I could hear her follow me.

I wasn't even sure why what she said bugged me so much. I've said my fair share of stupid jokes in my life before, and I wasn't mad she said it. I was angry at myself for it affecting me the way it did.

There was this strange sting in my chest when I thought about Rose with some other man, letting him touch what's mine. I said I didn't like sharing, and that included Rose, too. I wasn't going to fucking share her with anyone. And I also hated myself for feeling that way about her.

She was my friend way before I learned we were supposed to get married. Long before that. I had never had any intentions of getting involved with her in any other way than the friendship we had. And yet here she was, my fiancée, a couple of days away from being my wife.