Finding My Second Swan

Chapter 12

CHAPTER TWELVE

Later that day...
Sarah called back, telling me to start bright and early on Monday morning. Yet not before warning me, telling me if I start slacking? I'm out on my arse, which is fair enough. I was a bit of a dick to the clients but as I say I was a mess back then. I'll still sketch though. I kinda love doing that. So I've asked my aunt Mars if I can come in still. You know now and again just to earn that bit extra cash. As my mother always says, every little helps.
Speaking of my mother. She's been on my case to go visit her, so I thought I best do it soon. You know, to maybe bring Darcy and Luca along with me. My mother will probably have a heart attack when I bring Luca, in. She'd probably freak out, thinking I've got a secret kid.

A couple of days pass and trying to get my life back on track. I pretty much have but there's one more thing I need to do. I need to make it complete I need to ask Darcy Quinton something. I need to ask if she'll give me a chance to make a go of whatever we've got going on.
So the question was... how do I convince her I'm ready to move on with her and Luca, by my side?

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DARCY:
I'm just serving a customer when the door of the café opens. And who should walk in looking all handsome while making my insides dance?

"Nathan..."
Oh god, that didn't sound desperate at all woman. He's grinning at me looking at me like he wants to eat me. Oh boy, calm Darcy, just calm down. Oh God, but he just looks so yummy. He's stood there patiently waiting for me to finish serving. Then I see him twitch his leg. Is he nervous about something, but what? Oh, what if he's decided? What if he's decided he doesn't want me? Oh shit, he's come to tell me he doesn't want this.

"Darcy!"
My eyes snap up to look at him he's in front of me now. He's waving his hand in front of my face grinning away. That's a good sign though, right?
"Huh," was all I said while making myself look like a complete Wazzick. Yeah, I'd stolen that one from Mars. I almost laughed my head off this morning when she'd called Isaac it. It came after he pissed her off with a double booking.

"Where did you go?" He asked, and I end up turning a shade of red.
"Oh, nowhere special."
I'm biting my lip now only because he's reaching up and moving a stray lock of hair from my eyes.
"Well, I hope I was in there somewhere. I'd hate to think that I'm not in there I hope I'm in there. I mean, am I? Am I in there?"

Oh my lord, is he panicking? He really wants to be in here? Just knowing he's freaking a little made me grin. I lean forward over the counter. I'm moving closer to him. I'm telling him he's been in there since the moment he'd barged his way in here. He smiled, and that's not all that happens though. Oh no, he also blushes.

"Oh, my... now would you look at that? My chimp is blushing. Well, I must say, it's a very sexy look on you."
His eyes go wide when I call him my chimp but then he blushes again when I mention the sexy part.
"I'd prefer the title of King Kong, thanks very much."
Yeah, I'm creased laughing now.
"Okay, you big ape tell me, what brings you in here? Aren't you meant to be barred from entering this establishment?"
I've moved a little closer, and my lips are almost touching his.
"Yeah, well, I figured it lifted since my new girlfriend works here."

Oh, fuck! He didn't, did he? Did he just say? We're both smiling now. I'm so close to him that all I can see are his eyes sparkling with mischief.

"Oh, is that so?" I ask, and he breathlessly tells me, yes and I graze his lips with my own. I'm just about to make contact when the café door suddenly opens.

"Well, now would you look at that... Naty-boy has finally found a chick. Well, it's about fucking time. Hallelujah, someone please pass me a fucking cupcake. I want to smash the fucker in his face."