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C H A P T E R 34

"You know before Charlotte met you she didn't even like McDonald's." Jake complained. "Now I have to wake up at 3am because of someone's cravings."

"Ncoww that's cute, and he goes out and gets it ?" I said looking at Charlotte and she chuckled, nodding.

"The one that operates 24 hours is thirty minutes away." He said folding his arms. "You think that's cute ?"

"Would you stop complaining, it was only three times." Charlotte rolled her eyes eating the fries on the table.

The four of us were at McDonald's eating lunch. Kenny excused himself ten minutes ago to take a call so I've been listening to these two bicker and fight for the past ten minutes. They are cute to look at, they don't fight over serious issues, they just really enjoy annoying each other.

I watched through the glass as Kenny hung up the phone and walked inside the restaurant. "We should get going now." He said to me as soon as he reached our table.

I nodded as I got up, cleaned our stuff and threw it in the trash can. I got back to our table and we said our goodbyes to Jake and Charlotte. They said they would stay a little longer so they were not leaving. I wanted to stay too, but I didn't want to question Kenny, especially not in public. The call seemed to be important. I'll ask him why he decided that we should leave earlier than we planned to when we're alone.

"I'm driving." I said when we got to his car in the parking lot. He handed me the keys and I opened the drivers side and got in.

"So are you going to tell me why we suddenly had to leave ?" I asked him starting the car after he got in.

"Yeah I'm sorry about that." He put his hand on thigh as I kept driving. "I need to leave for the weekend."

"What ?" I turned to him. "Why ?"

"Work." He sighed.

"Today's Friday. Kenny you're telling me, you're leaving today, for the whole weekend, and I get to know about it now ?"

I only have him for five days before my mission ends. Five days before the clock hits three months. And I get to have him for two days in those five days ? I was supposed to spend as much time as I possibly could with him in this last week. This will be over in a week. Us will be over in a week. I will loose him in a week. My mission will be over, and so will my time with him.

He chuckled. "I didn't tell you that."

"Then what are you saying Kenny ?" I asked him impatiently. I don't even know what's there to laugh about. Him leaving me shouldn't be funny to him. I feel like my whole world is falling apart, I need him close to me. It's so stupid how you'd let your happiness depend on one person and when that person leaves, he takes your happiness along with him. It's so embarrassing how I've grown so dependent to his touch that I feel miserable for even thinking about his absence.

"I'm saying you have three choices." He smiled at me. "1) you let me go for the weekend to do my job and come back. 2) tell me to stay and I won't go. I'll send someone else. 3) you come with me."

I pulled the car to the side of the road and stopped it. Maybe I misheard him. "So you're allowing me to make a choice for you ? If I told you to stay you'd stay?"

"That's what I said." He chuckled.

"Do you wanna go?" I asked him seriously.

"Well honestly, yes." He looked me in the eyes. "But I'd prefer option 2 or 3 a lot better. A weekend without you feels like a very long time."

"Well I think option 3 is the best. You get to do your work and do me. It's like killing two birds with one stone." I chuckled.

"I hoped you'd choose it too." He smiled. "A weekend in the Maldives with you sounds perfect."