Whatever It Takes

Chapter 3 - Just The Two of Us

March 6th in Sakhir, Bahrain.
Mia's POV:

I slowly woke up, rubbing my eyes and making eye contact with Charles instantly who was already awake, staring at me. "Good morning." I said with a tired voice.

He laid there and smiled at me, nothing else but smile.

"What should we do today? We're both off duty." I whispered to him as I fetched his hand and started stroking it.

He grinned and looked at me. "I don't know, maybe we should just lay here all day?" He grabbed my waist and tickled me.

"Stop! Charles!" I shouted at the same time as I laughed, trying to get him to stop him, but he wouldn't listen.

After teasing me a while, he eventually stopped and now I was currently on top of him. "This is more like it." He smiled and I laid my hands on his neck.

"Seriously, we need to do something today. We can't just lay here all day? Can we?" I rolled back down on my side but Charles pushed me in once again.

"We can, and we will." He said smiling and getting comfortable with his arms around me.

I laughed but got eye contact with him again. "We're just going to do nothing?" I asked and he nodded, closing his eyes resting again.

Charles made the lock on me again and I had to laugh. "I'm not going to leave you Charles. I'm not going anywhere." I giggled as he hold on tight.

"I can't risk loosing you to another man!" He said serious and kissed my cheek. I blushed and decided to give up.

We ended up laying in bed for awhile at least until 1pm and that's when I got a call.

I was about to stretch my arm out to fetch my phone but Charles was holding on too tight so I couldn't reach it.

"Let it ring! It's probably nothing important." He sighed, but I could barely see the screen on my phone and it was my father calling.

I quickly panicked and rushed out of his arms to answer the call. Charles looked at me weird and wondered what was so important.

"Hey Mia! Why aren't you picking up when I'm calling you?!" He said angrily and I noticed he had been calling me multiple times.

I had to come up with an excuse, he could never know I was in bed cuddling with my brothers rival.. "Yeah, I'm sorry, I was in the shower.." I thought of quickly.

"Be faster next time! Me and max are at the airport. Are you joining us?!" He asked mad.

"I'll be home tomorrow evening, uhm Christian wanted to talk with me today.." I made up.

The lies I was telling now was insane but I had to come up with a good excuse not to come with them. I mean, a little white lie never hurt anybody?

He hung up and Charles looked at me with a questionable face trying to understand.

"It was my dad. He got mad that I hadn't answered his calls and I had to come up with an excuse not to come with them home today. I just need a day off, to do nothing." I complained to him. But instead of getting angry at me, he understood. No one has ever understood.. It was a weird feeling..

He gave me a gentle kiss on my nose and I smiled. "I get it, sometimes it's too much." He said and put his shoulder around me.

"So we are alone tonight.." I said looking down on my fingers, smiling to myself.

"Let's go somewhere. In the city. Explore. Before we're back here." I smirked at him and he agreed.

We got dressed and then we walked around for hours exploring Bahrain. A truly beautiful country.