The Key to Everything

Chapter 22

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chocolate pancakes

I could feel my eyes watering, a wet warm tear escaping my eyes fell down my cheek, Eros quickly wiped it away with his thumb. I looked into Eros's eyes and saw a hidden message, he didn't need to say it out loud because he knew his beautiful green eyes said it for him. "I love you." They said, "I love you too." Said mine.

We both sat there as time passed, eventually Eros got up, brushed his lips against my forehead and sat back on his seat, we talked for a while about random stuff and he even cracked some jokes. We finished up the snacks and we knew we both had to get some sleep or else we won't function in the morning.

I layed down on my bed feeling different, it wasn't a drastic change but it was present. I layed down on my bed which was next to Diana's and thought about the same words over and over until they were tattooed in her mind. Nobody will ever hurt you as long as I'm alive. Okay? I want- no I need you to understand that. I kept reminiscing those words over and over again, wondering if Eros actually meant any of it. Until my mind went blank and I fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, I woke up feeling better about my parents' situation. I should have been over it already, it has been over a year. But I just couldn't, I mean they are my parents even after everything they did to me. I couldn't just get over them, it felt wrong.

I got out of the bed and put these irksome thought in the 'do not open box' in my head. When I freshened up, I saw Eros flipping through the recipe book. I had completely forgotten about it. I had told Carl that I would help him make chocolate pancakes. I tied my hair into a messy bun and headed towards the kitchen.

"Hey, what are you doing?" I asked.

"Nothing really, I was hoping I could find a recipe that would be fun to try." he shrugged.

"How about we make chocolate pancakes. I had told Carl that I would help him make chocolate pancakes." I said turning to look for Carl, he was sitting with Diana near the fireplace talking about something we couldn't hear about. I opened my mouth to call him but as soon as I did Eros grabbed my hand and pulled me back.

"Don't call him, he is talking to Diana about something important." He said.

"Oh, OK."

I turned towards the kitchen and picked up the recipe book. I flipped through it till I found the chocolate pancake recipe. I checked all the cabinets till I found all the ingredients that were needed while Eros read further instructions.

Eros got a large bowl where I sifted all the dry ingredients while Eros prepared the wet mixture. After we finished the remaining steps and made the batter, Eros dipped his index finger into the batter and tasted it. My eyes fell unknowingly to his lips, I allowed myself to look at them for another second before I caught myself and looked back into his chartreuse eyes.

"How is it?" I asked, my unclear voice.

"It's the best thing I have ever had, it's not too sweet and it's not too bland either. It's perfect." He said.

I found myself walking towards the bowl and trying some for myself.

"You're right, it's perfect." I turned around and said, looking at him and he was standing behind me. That was when I realised how close we actually were, my hand fell down from my lips and his eyes followed. Eros put both of his hands on the cabinet, clearly trapping me. "What are you doing?" I asked, my voice shaky. His eyes fell to my lips as I spoke.

"That's for me to know and you to find out, sweetheart." He said smoothly, almost too smoothly.

"What do you mean?" I asked, my own eyes constantly falling to his beestung pink lips. He lowered his face until our lips were only centimetres away, I closed my eyes. As soon as his lips touched mine like a feather, electric currents released in my body and the cage of butterflies in my stomach opened.

"Oh, oh. Sorry." I heard someone behind Eros say. Eros moved away from me like the speed of light and turned around to meet Carl's surprised eyes or they were scared, I wasn't so sure.

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