End Game

Dollhouse

Lizzie's POV.

Since the dinner with my family valen has become very attached to them, she has been to the company a couple of times and helped with the creative stuff, we are very grateful for her help, it is quite lovely to see her working in this very different industry, she is very intelligent and knows what she is doing.

Since we arrived from our trip to Paris I have been a bit worried, every time I sleep with Valen she is having nightmares, she wakes up abruptly in the middle of the night agitated, sweating and crying. I've tried to get her to tell me what's wrong but she avoids the subject saying she's fine and it's just a nightmare. But she has spent every night like this, I know because I can see her tiredness in her eyes.

I know she is struggling with something she doesn't want to tell me and I don't want to push her to do it, I'm just worried about her I want to know what's wrong so I can help her.

All that aside, Valen and I are getting better every day, we've been going on dates in secret so the paparazzi and fans don't see us. We have decided to keep our relationship to ourselves and people close to us for now.

Some people have asked questions about us, neither of us confirms or denies anything and it's quite entertaining to see people's reaction to it, they've even made theories about us which is quite funny.

Right now I'm grocery shopping with Valen as my fridge is empty, so I need to buy a few things. Valen hates grocery shopping but she does it for me which is very sweet. Sometimes I laugh at her pouty face when we go through the aisles of the shop, she really hates doing this.

"Do you really have to come and buy everything? Why don't you send someone?" She says pouting.
"Yep, I want to make sure everything I buy is fresh."
"Ugh I wasn't born for this life."
"You are such a diva" I said laughing at her suffering.
"I literally started grocery shopping because of you, I've never done this before and I don't think I like it."
"So how do you carry food in your house?" I asked.
"Well my sisters do this all the time so I learned it, we make a list of what we eat and our chefs make a menu. They make a list of what needs to be bought and someone goes and buys it for us" she explained easily.
"That sounds boring" I said looking at the tomatoes.
"No it's not, this is boring" she laughs making me laugh.
"So which one should we buy? This one or this one?" I said showing her the tomatoes.
"Baby they are the same"
"Nope, this one is redder and this one has a while to go" I explained and she nodded. "See you are learning new things so it's not boring... now I don't wonder why you don't know how to cook"
"Hey I know how to cook, it's just that I don't like to do it."
"Yeah, I can tell love" we both laughed.

After we had done our grocery shopping we went back to my house, Valen helped me to put things in the fridge, another thing she didn't like to do but I guess she is used to it now because she is not complaining.

I love how this all feels so domestic, it gives me a peace in my heart to have her here with me doing these things. Watching her do these things makes me smile, she is so focused on putting the food in the fridge in an organized way. Her concentrated look makes me fall more and more in love with her. I'm glad I can be the one to get her used to doing normal, ordinary things and the fact that she's willing to do them for me warms my heart.

I know her life has been very different from mine so it's good to see her doing ordinary things and I know deep down inside she enjoys it.

After putting the food in the fridge, we decide to spend some time in the pool it's the perfect weather for a swim, right now I'm waiting for her in the pool while she changes her clothes, when she finally comes she makes her way over to me.