Loving Him

[Chapter 21]

'ZAIDEN!! YOU'RE BACK!!' I run over to Zaiden who's just now exiting his plane and I tackle him in a hug while he messes up my hair kissing my head and laughing. 'I might've broken something.' I hear Zaiden chuckle before I quickly shuffle up to my feet. 'Are you okay?? I didn't think I'd tackle you that hard I'm sorry!' 'I'm kidding don't worry I'm fine.' Zaiden gets up and hugs me again and I swing my arms around his neck making him bend down a bit so I can kiss him. '3 fucking weeks, Never fucking again are you leaving me alone for that long!' 'Kind of not my fault but Alright whatever you say, commander.' 'Do not call me that, That's sexist.' 'What?? What the fuck are you talking about?' 'It's sexist, I can't be a commander. I don't fit into that category of training.' 'Thats not Sexist Angel..' 'I stole a term, I couldn't think of one.' 'Because it's not a term... You're just not trained in that field.' 'Oh shush, Everybody has a brain fart sometimes.' 'Alright alright. Can we go home now? I miss my bed and my couch.. and my Tv and my cuddles and my desk-' 'Okay okay! Now you're making things up. Let's just go.' I take Zaidens hand and he follows me since someone else already took his things and I walk over to my car before Zaiden stops. 'C'mere, We can take my ride. I'll have someone else take your car.' 'What?? Why?' 'You.. don't want to see what a limousine looks like?' 'I-.. Excuse me.. Slow down.. you have.. you have what!?' 'My limo,' 'You have a LIMO!?' 'Yes I have a Limo that we almost never use so.. Why not? I figured you might like it so I arranged it.' 'You arranged your limo for me..??' 'Yeah.' 'I-..' I stare at him for a moment before he rolls his eyes taking my hand and walking me over to a Limo before he opens the door and I swear I feel my face go fire red before I get in looking around at it. 'You like it?' Zaiden scoots in beside me before shutting the door and wrapping an arm around me. 'I love it...' 'Don't get too used to it.. I don't like using it much.' 'That's okay but this is so cool!' I look over to one of the more forward seats before I notice a tv. 'YOU HAVE A TV IN YOUR LIMO!?' 'Yeah, Most limos have a Tv.' 'Can we have my 20th birthday in here??' 'I- I guess sure.' 'It's gonna be so cool!! I'll clean up after I promise.' 'I know don't worry, I can always help.' 'Nope, My birthday my mess.' 'And, I'll be joining you so, Its shared.' 'I..geez CAN YOU STOP BEING SO SWEET SO I CAN BE MAD AT YOU??' 'Mad at me for what??' 'I'll show you when we get home, Not the point!' 'I can't help it. I'm just.. Very in love.' 'So am I! Which.. it's a problem but also not..' Zaiden tilts his head confused and I roll my eyes before sitting on his lap to cuddle him. 'Oh, You just want cuddles huh?' 'Mhm.' 'Alright. I'm fine with that..' When we finally get home Freya and Lizzy are cuddling on the couch while Andrea is sitting on the floor watching a horror movie. 'Seriiusly you three??' 'Welcome home you two, Ash did you tell him yet??' 'No I have not. I'm about to.' I walk off to my and Zaiden's room before coming back with a small box handing it to Zaiden. 'What's this?' 'A coming home gift.. Probably.' 'Probably?' 'Yeah, Cus it may also make you want to leave.. instead.' 'What are you talking about I'd never-' 'just open the damn box you're flaring up my anxiety!!' 'Okay.. Okay..' Zaiden leans over on the kitchen counter and opens the box before he stares at it for a good while and he stands up right. 'Ash..' he looks up at me and I start hugging myself before Nora comes over putting s paw on my leg and I kneel down petting her. 'We should've been more careful, I know! And I wasn't sick The morning you left so I just figured I was healed until like.. a few days ago when I started getting sick again and..' Zaiden walks over to me pulling me into a hug and kissing my head. 'I-.. You're.. not mad..?' 'Why the fuck would I be mad?? I also kind of had a hand it to be fair.. Plus if anything.. I'm excited.' 'You are..?' 'Of course I am. I'm going to be a father.' 'AND I'M GONNA BE AN AUNT!' Lizzy points her arm up from the couch and Zaiden laughs at her before he pulls me back in again kissing my head again. 'What about your parents..??' I look up at Zaide who's thinking now but Lizzy pipes up again. 'Well they'd actually be fine with it since your both technically adults.' 'What Pip said.' Zaiden turns to me and I look up at him. 'Pip?? That's actually a really cute nickname.' 'Mhm.' 'Oh! Lila left her ciolin for you, She wanted you to have it since she feels like she won't do it justice..' 'Lila?' 'Oh! My friend that stayed over remember? We found her a small apartment and she's coming over a bit later to meet you.' 'Oh sure.' I wrap my arms around his neck again to kiss him and he messes up my hair. 'Lila doesn't know by the way..' 'Know..?' 'That I'm pregnant..' 'Is.. that a problem..?' 'No.. Just prepare to have your ears damaged..' 'Alright..' 'Also!' I walk off again before coming back and holding up a small bottle of nail polish. 'I just recently realized, I didn't even realize you painted your nails. Well I did but it didn't register.' Zaiden holds up his hands smiling. 'Yeah, I got a fresh coat on Shein, so that's like.. not really in use right now.' I gtab hus hand stating at it. 'That's so pretty!' 'It's like space, with stars.' I stare at them before looking back up at Zaiden. 'Can we please match our nails!? I really want to match our nails!' 'Sure, I don't see why not.' 'You know somebody here??' 'Oh! You don't have to worry about that, Zaiden can do it for you!' Lizzy pipes up from the couch again. 'Zaiden is there anything you fucking can't do?? I'm insecure right now.' 'Hm.. I can't get pregnant.' Zaiden starts laughing and I stare at him before punching him in the shoulder before he hugs me. 'Okay okay, I can't play Piano. I can actually only play guitar and Violin.' I mess up his hair before he takes my hand dragging me over to his room and sitting me down grabbing some of his nail tech supplies. 'Gimme your hand.' I give him my hand before he starts doing my nails and I watch before I look up and start staring at him while in my thoughts. It's nit until probably a good while later when he finishes my first hand and tries to snap me back to reality that he notices me staring. 'Other hand-' 'Sorry-' 'You okay? Am I too hot for you to handle up close?' 'Sh- Shut up!' I cover my face with my one hand before I put it back down looking at the nail polish. 'Oh my gods it's so pretty..' 'Well I can't give you ugly nails now can I?' 'I swear if you-' 'Ah, I'm not finished. I was going to say that.. Technically compared to you-' 'Shush. KEEP THAT THOUGHT.' 'Why?? Can't I compliment you??' 'No, Not while I'm having a Gay panic!' Zaiden starts laughing before he continues with my other hands I start to stare at him again. I start to look down at his arms and tattoos before I notice a few new scratches and claw marks on his forearms. 'Zade..' 'Hm?' 'Are those.. new..?' Zaiden looks up before I run my hand over the claw marks. 'I.. I wasn't really thinking about it.. Nora stopped me before it got too bad..' 'I'm not... I don't want to leave you like that where you can do this to yourself.. Please don't go anywhere without me again..' 'It just happens when people brings up my insecurities.. as long as I stay away from that..' 'Zaiden..' 'Angel, Look at me. I'll be fine. I Have Nora with me. I promise I'll be okay.' I sigh and Zaiden finally finishes my other hand before I stare at them and put them next to his and it's only now I realize how small my hands are compared to his. 'You'd make a great lid opener.' 'What-??' 'Your hands. They're so big..' 'Why does that make me a good lid Opener?' 'Because you could break the bottle with ease.' 'Not exactly.' Zaiden laughs kissing my hand before we hear the door and I hear Andrea yelling. 'Ash!! COME GET THE DOOR!' I roll my eyes before heading to the door and opening it while Lila Jump on me into a hug. 'Ash!! Where's Zaiden??' 'He's in his room-' Lila rushes past me before heading over to Zaidens room and I follow her. 'Oh my gods... You're even hotter than the pictures!!' Lila walks over to him taking his hand and looking him up and down. 'I-' Zaiden pulls his hand away crossing his arms. 'Please.. don't do that.. We don't even know eachother yet..' 'lila.. What'd I say about the touching?' 'Oh! I'm sorry, Touching is only for people you're in touch with.' 'Yep.' 'I'm Lila! It's nice to meet you Zaiden.' Lila starts to bow but I stop her. 'Lila you don't need to be so formal..' 'Sorry! I'm nervous...' Lila covers her face and I sigh hugging her. 'Alright, I know. You're just excited. We'll get your emotions under control eventually.' 'Okay..' 'I uhm. Actually also Have some news-' 'Oh! I didn't greet Andrea and her girlfriends!' She runs off looking really excited before eventually she comes back and stands in front of me again. 'What were we doing again..?' 'I wanted to tell you something.' 'Oh! Right! Go ahead.' 'So.. It turns out that I'm pregnant.' 'You're pregnant!? Oh my gids!! Can I buy them little outfits and little costumes and toys-!?' 'Lila- Lila! Calm down we don't even know if it's a boy or a girl yet.' '.. What if it's TWINS!?' 'Oh my gods please no... I do not want to start on a medium difficulty..' 'But It'd be so cute!!' 'Please.. No..' I hear Zaiden laughing before I notice him staring at the violin case. 'Is that Lila's Violin?' We both look over at it. 'Oh yeah, that's it.' Zaiden gets up walking over to the case taking it out and staring at it. 'It's really old.. where did you get it..?' 'My parents! Well.. Not my now parents, the ones who abandoned me.' 'Is that so?' 'My parents always said it was a really precious heirloom and to take good care of it but.. I can't even play so I figured you might have a better use for it.' Zaiden hands Lila the violin and she takes it hesitantly. 'Let me teach you instead then.' 'No no! I can't trouble you like that..' 'You won't trouble me at all. C'mon. We can give it a shot.' Zaiden leans over the bed grabbing his Violin case and going to take out the violin but when he opens the case it's empty. 'What the fuck.. Ash did you see where my violin is??' 'I put it away the last time I took it out.. ' 'What..?' I notice Zaiden's wolf ears go down before I walk over hugging him. 'Are you sure you put it back in the case??' 'I'm dead sure! I swear I did..' I suddenly hear Lila from behind us gasping. 'Lila?' I turn to see her having a scared looking face. 'You think it was the shadow??' 'Sh- Lila what do you mean?' 'While you were sleeping the other night something woke me up when I heard a noise so I sit up to check and there was a shadow figure by the foot of the bed.' 'I- did you see who it was..?' 'No.. I just saw a shadow.. But it might've just been a nightmare.' 'Lila.. Can you really not tell me anything else about the Shadow??' 'No.. Well.. He had a really deep voice.' 'What'd he say??' 'He just told me not to tell anybody, But.. Oops- I told.. Oh no I'm going to be in trouble..!' 'Lila.. You won't be in trouble. He can't do anything to you..' 'I do slightly remember him.. I think there was another shadow..? She called him Ethan I think.. No that can't be right..' 'Do you mean Eric??' 'Yeah! Yeah Eric!' 'Shit.. Eric..??' Zaiden put his hands on his head and I hug him. 'We'll get it back okay??' I watch Lila's face and she looks like she's trying to piece together a puzzle in her head while she's mumbling. 'No, it wasn't the shadow. Eric said he couldn't find it. I remember the other shadow asking and Eric said he can't find it.' 'So.. Eric doesn't have it then.. who does..?' 'I can't tell you.. I'm sorry.. That's really all I can remember..' 'It's okay.. Thanks for trying..' I start trying to think before Andrea walks in the room. 'Ash? Emily is at the door.' I sigh hugging Zaiden before heading over to the door and she holds up a violin case. 'What the-?' 'Somebody tried to steal this.' 'Emily how did you-' 'It was easy really,' 'Emily! Explain right now!' 'I had a radio hidden in my room, Don't ask for what, But I have a radio which I over-heard Eric, Apparently he was in you guys' room, So I made a distraction in the hallway before I ran over there and snuck in myself grabbing the violin case and swapping it with mine, which is empty, Only thing is, It's hard to see in the dark and I took their flashlights so they wouldn't know the difference, and Voila.' She holds up the Violin case again and I take it from her placing it down Gently and Going over to Hug her. 'Thank you! You're a fucking genius!' 'No superstitious. I've told you this before, No wonder you nearly had it stolen.' 'Oh hush.' Emily laughs before messing up my hair and walking off so I take the violin case back to Zaiden handing it to him. 'You found it??' Zaiden walks over taking it and opening it. 'Everything is still in here..' 'Yeah, Emily found it. Apparently Eric and someone else actually did break in and try to steal it but Emily was way fucking smarter somehow.' 'Thank the gods..' I walk over hugging Zaiden and Kissing his cheek before he hugs me back. 'Oh! Alice! The girl shadow's name was Alice.' 'That makes sense.. She has been in my room before.' 'Oh, Before those two came in something else also made a noise but I was too passed out to see anything.' 'Lila- It's okay- We know there's no need to further explain. We figured it out. You did good.' I walk over messing up her hair before she smiles up at me hugging me. 'Oh! Have I told you guys about Bell yet!?' 'Bell?' 'I found a stray kitty and took her in! Her name is Bell!' I look down at Nora who's currently comforting Zaiden and I look back over at Lila. 'Nope, You haven't.'