Inner Beauty

Chapter 10

Atticus POV

    I headed upstairs to my room to see if Maverik had woken up.

And as I thought, he was still sound asleep hugging the pillow I had left for him.

I sat down beside him and slowly ran my hand through his hair, that seemed to wake him up slowly.

With his words slurred from his sleep, 'Atty? What's going on?'

Aww my heart warmed up at the sound of him using my nice name, he sounded like a child as he slowly sat up rubbing his eyes.

'I made breakfast, I'll leave some toothpaste on a brush, so quickly come down.'

I patted his head and went into the bathroom to leave some toothpaste on the brush.

I headed downstairs to start preparing for breakfast.

I would have never imagined this kind of proximity when I started having a small crush on him, my feelings seem to just slowly grow out of hand but that's fine, I can control myself pretty well.

I'm just going to throw my shots using food, you can never go wrong with this method!

It was 10 am everyone had eaten their breakfast and as promised we continued watching the clown movie.

It was so much better to watch it in the morning than at night as the darkness of the night seems to add onto the spooky effect.

After we completed watching the movie, the guys left to use the gaming room, Korren and I were in the kitchen chopping up the veggies, I was planning on making curry and braised pork.

He had cut the veggies beautifully and was giving me company while I was cooking.

As I got to know him, he seemed like the kind of guy you would go back to to seek comfort and reassurance.

The only thing I could do is to cheer him on as I knew how dense Amell was.

It really would take him some time to notice things.

It is better if Amell started feeling things out on his own rather than insinuating something, it would make their relationship more stronger and long lasting.

I told him that it's up to Mell to understand such things and Korren appreciated my honesty.

I finished lunch and we both went to call the guys to eat.

Waylen came running out with Amell chasing him, I knew something was up, call it an intuition.

I gave a knowing glance at Amell and he gave me a shy smile.

Maverik seemed to notice it as well. Everyone sat for lunch and ate well. It was soon time for my training session so Way and I left first.

I told Mell that we will come back later around 7pm after our session finished.

Dylan seemed elated and had some news for us.

'Okay, guys unfortunately I will be away for 2 weeks, but my mentor is coming over from England to teach you. Just because I am not here doesn't mean you can play around, yes I am looking at you Waylen. Atticus, please treat the temporary teacher like how you treat me and dont be strangers with him as he was once your fathers' mentor.'

I looked surprised, the timing seemed perfect as our parents were coming next week and our dads always talked about their mentor as if he was some legendary god of war.

I gave him a nod and we started the session. Way seemed sleepy after the session as he was still getting used to the new workout regimen, so I drove us to Mell's.

I unbucked and carried the bags while leaving them on the kitchen top.

I went to Way's side and carefully picked him up.

He seemed to notice that I was carrying him so he wrapped his arms around my neck.

We entered the house, I asked Mell to help me take out the frozen chicken and defrost it before we left his house.

I carried Way to his room, removed his shoes and sock together with his shirt, brought a wet towel and wiped him down. I left after giving him a small peck on his forehead and I entered to his bathroom to take a shower.

After I quickly washed up, I went down to see Korren flirting with Mell and Maverik seemed amused by it.

Seems like the Odelle and Azul went back home, I was leaning against the door watching Korren throw his shots and Amell getting flustered asking him to stop.

Something is definitely going on between them, I turned to look at Maverik to see him already staring at me.

I gave him a smile and walked over to them.

Korren and Amell were in their own world and I started preparing some dinner, butter chicken curry with some garlic Naan.

Way had a particular love for Indian dishes when we were introduced to different cuisines by our parents, 'Where did you learn how to cook this good?'

I turned to Maverik, answering, 'Both Ways and my parents are gone all the time for work so they figured that it would be best if they sent a chef to teach us how to cook but Way was not that interested but I found it rather relaxing so I picked up a thing or two.'

Maverik asked me some small questions like 'What is your favorite Color?'

We turned this into 21 questions and I had to ask this question, 'Are you in a relationship with anyone currently?'

Maverik seemed taken aback but he answered, 'I haven't been in a relationship for a year now but there is someone I'm interested in.'

Oh.. Do I even have a chance?

'What is your one favorite feature of your crush?'

I looked surprised but I loved everything about him, 'Hmm thats a tough one, I love his eyes, I mean this is very cliche but I love how expressive his eyes are, They look very lovely.'

I said the whole thing while staring at him in the eyes, He broke my eye contact and started blushing.

'I love your eyes, They remind me of limes,' I chuckled.

Seems like I have to throw away all my contact lenses. We continued to chat as I started kneading the dough.

'Let me help you with that, I feel useless just sitting here.'

He got up from his seat and walked up to me, standing beside me.

I asked him to oil up his hands and to start going at it.

He still seemed confused as to how to knead the dough, ' Here, Put your hands like this and push using your body weight , if it sticks to you you should put more oil on your hands.'

I realized how close I was standing to him, I quickly moved away so I don't make him uncomfortable as he already has someone he likes.