The Lover Boy Within

CHAPTER NINE

"Hey babe we have landed", Giannis said to Nora as the woke up from sleep and gradually released herself from the cuddle. They had been on the chartered flight back to Milwaukee a week after staying at the house in Phoenix. He had insisted they go back together to spend more time around each other and caused Nora to give Devin more excuses as to why she wasn't back home. Luckily he was preoccupied with his new flame after the former didn't last and was extremely preoccupied to worry.

The Greek native was more than willing to let things work out between them even though he was unsure if it was necessary to ask her out. His countenance towards her had changed more so his attitude and she noticed but did not want to get her hopes up. Nora opened her eyes to see him looking at her with a wide smile on his face before he stole a quick kiss and they prepared to leave the plane. Both of them were dressed in joggers and hoodies completely looking sport like but Nora needed no one telling her to mask her face. She assumed Giannis would still want to stay away in public and wore sunglasses equally pulling her hoodie and a small face covering.

"Thank you for flying with us", one of the air hostesses said to them as they began leaving the aircraft.

"You're welcome", he replied with a smile while Nora nodded. She walked directly behind him as he held on tightly to her hands taking her by surprise.

They still had a long way to go before passing local immigration but on the priority line. Giannis seemed comfortable as he walked through but Nora made a mental note to avoid the prying eyes so no one will notice her and was lucky there were minimal people at the airport. This alone made it easy to navigate to the car park where his driver was parked and waiting without being noticed by anyone.

"Home sweet home", the basketballer exclaimed as he stepped into his house with Nora following closely behind him. She rolled in her luggage and walked in with him before taking a right turn in an attempt to head to the guest room.

"Where are you heading to miss, what are you thinking in that head of yours", he asked as he placed his arms in his pocket and looked at her smiling.

Nora was confused. She had stayed in Giannis house on many occasions in the over three year period they had been hooking up but always slept in one of the spare rooms on the ground floor. In fact she had never climbed the staircase in his house because he stated it from the beginning that she was not allowed there and he won't invite her in. Now here she was not overstepping her boundaries but being questioning for it.

"Are you forgetting that I've never been to your room nor stayed there, everything we have done has been in your guest room, why would you expect me to walk up to your room with my stuff?", she asked as her hands were now places akimbo while she waited for an explanation.

"Let's just say I've been missing out on us sleeping in the same room and I want to correct that now", he replied lackadaisically hoping it's stopped her from probing him further.

"You can stay in that room with me Giannis it's your house, why does it have to be your personal room", she asked wanting him to shed more light on their current situation.

"Stop over thinking things Nora..!!!, I don't know how to put it but I just feel it's the right thing to do, don't question me more on this please, from now on every time you come over you stay in my room, it will make things easier for us, just say yes and no more questions so we can head up", he playfully asked as he got jitters from the thought of stating his true intentions.

"Fine let's go then", she replied and internally wondered how she was going to respond to calls from her cousin with Giannis in the room and without him suspecting she was with someone. He on the other hand didn't care about being seen with Nora at the airport and it worried her because she didn't want Devin finding out about him from the internet. She needed to start devising ways in her head how she was going to bring it to his attention without it causing issues between them before she ran out of time.