Love Soaked In Rain

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝟏𝟒 || 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲

All competition final result will be published today.
I know we have done well in our performance, but still it makes me stressed about the result.
The result will be published in the evening. So we have planned  to have lunch on a restaurant, then will directly attend the prize giving ceremony.

As our plan, we are now in a famous restaurant. Though our hotel provides the rich meals, still we wanted to taste some different flavours. We have already ordered some korean and japanese items. It's been a long time, having the same quality dishes of America. We are chitchating, having fun with each other and talking about the predicted result.

I swear, this journey with them is the best memory of my whole life.

Arin says all of a sudden, she wants to know about our ages. As everyone describing their birth years and current ages, I wonder all of us have not same ages or near. Some of us are mostly seniors, some are juniors. But we used to call each other by actual names,not adding any "bro" or "sis".

" How's your, Emily? " Ivan asks me with a light smirk, that only I can figure out. He was busy with his phones,as usual.

"Twenty-one, this October ,yours?" I also counter his question.
"Hm.. Twenty-nine." He replies and my eyes widen.

Fuck, he is seriously eight years older than me? God! He is very senior.

"Seems like, you are my respective junior, eight years younger than me, aren’t you?" He chuckles.
He's teasing me, knowing the fact that I am already his girlfriend even if it's unofficial.

"I think Ivan is the most senior here, Emily is the 𝘫𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵. Haha, now don't argue to correct my grammar." Archie laughs.
"That's good. We can introduce our team as starts from Emily, ends with Ivan." Zoe is excited as she just suggests a best motto.

You're right, Zoe. This love starts from me and ends with Ivan. Because now he also loves me if I'm not wrong.

While chatting, our dishes are placing in front of our table. We start to eat as all of us were hungry. The age gap between him and mine is giving me pain as fuck. I don’t think, anything will lust between us forever.
Ughh!
But why would he love me? What do I have? 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.
I'm not even so beautiful to attract him. As his lifestyle, his standards and choices must be higher. I have nothing that will gain his love deeply. I'm so pissed off at this moment.  But the fact is he's already giving me attentions. I don’t know if he is serious or not, seems like he's flirting with me.

Emily, none will 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴 you and tells you 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘰, unless he's in love with you.

While having in a absent mind, I add the whole spicy seasonings pack in my ramyeon and ate it without even knowing. Completing half of the bowl, I understand what the hell I have just done. I'm dying in spiciness!
They notice the redness in my face and the tears falling from my eyes. All of them immediately stop eating and come forward to me to help me. They are making me drink water, helping me to get rid from this. But, but I can't see Ivan anywhere.  He is not here?

The situation here becomes soritical now . As I'm too unstable to see or say anything, suddenly I hear his voice. He's asking them to keep quiet. Then he makes me sit on my chair. He wipes my tears with a tissue. His face is enough close to mine, even I can feel him inhaling and exhaling. As he has done wiping my tears and sweats from my face. I freeze like a statue,when he kneels down on the floor,in front of me. He picks a delicious dessert,  maybe it's a cheesecake,  and then he feeds me. I shock as I realised we didn’t order any desserts, that means he was gone few minutes ago just to buy this dessert? The way he's feeding me, makes me feel like I am a five years old baby who doesn’t know how to eat. He shoves the last piece of the cake in my mouth. The spiciness is still roaming around,but reduces a lot. I'm feeling better than before.

"Are you fine? Should I bring another one?" He asks coldly. I nod as I don’t need another.

I'm fine, the dessert didn’t make me fine but the way he fed me did. He tucks the hair behind my ear that came across my stupid face. I blush,without any reason. His presence always left me blush.He then stands up and suggests us to finish our lunch. Meanwhile,  Laura was giving us side eye the whole time, can't accepting the fact that Ivan becomes close to me.

We are about to leave the restaurant. Ivan is paying the bill as we all handed him our own prices. He finishes paying the bill, receives the receipt. Most of them are gone from the restaurant a while ago. I wait for him, so that we can go together. But suddenly I notice  he's using his 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 card.

Wait, he has a black card!? My God! Is he a Millionaire?  Or a Billionaire? Well, as I said before. Everything is possible by him.

But what and why the hell he is paying with his black card?  He didn’t even order anything so expensive for his lunch.
As he finishes, he comes toward me, holds my hand while we move out from the restaurant. I ask him out of curiosity,
"Never mind. But you hadn’t ordered any expensive dish. Then why did you use your black card to pay?"

He laughs, as I just told him a funny joke.
"I just paid your bill, Tulip. As I didn’t have enough cash."
"Mine? But I had given you my-
"I know." He hands me the cash I had given him earlier to pay for my dishes. " Why would you pay yourself while I'm with you? Besides,  the cheesecake was quite expensive." He chuckles as if it's just a simple deal.

My jaw literally drops. He returns me the cash I had given him? He pays my dishes? The dessert he was fed me before was this expensive that he had to pay with his black card?

"Wait,wait!  what was the cost?" I ask him, my eyes are about to burst out from eyeballs. I'm hoping for a satisfying answer that won't make me disappointed.

"Not much, only 470 dollars."

I am dumbfounded. The only fucking piece of a cheesecake costs $470?  Is he joking with me? I had just spent $470 from his card?

"Ivan, are you serious? Who told you to buy that expensive dessert and pay for my dishes? Oh God!"
"Why are you so frustrated? I had bought it deliberately. "

He suddenly presses himself to me. I am just a half inch away from him. I'm moving back, then stop as I feel I am completely attached to the wall behind me. He presses himself more closer to me, closing the distance between us. He tilts his face down and leans to me gently to whisper into my ear properly. I squeeze my eyes instantly, he's making me nervous in this public place. Doesn’t he care about what other may think if they see us like this here?
He pins me againt the wall, pressing both of his elbows to the wall behind me to have a good support.

"𝘛𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘱, love is the most expensive and magical currency in the world. You know,  every moment I spend with you is more precious than anything, it feels like discovering a rare gem that makes me richer than any amount of cash ever could! You are the most expensive gem in my life. So you shouldn’t care about how much I spend for you. That's a trivial stuff, comparing to 𝘺𝘰𝘶."

My words have been stolen from my mouth, my eyes widn with disbelief. I never realized I have become this important in his life!  I still can't believe, he- he actually likes me! No, he actually 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 me. I actually make him to love me.

I won his heart.

I push him aside, I don’t want him to watch my redder cheeks. I'm blushing like a fool. He holds my hand again to go ahead to the venue. I can feel his genuine laughter bubbled up effortlessly.

And as soon as we reached to the venue, we had got the news.

We, unbelievably,  become the winner of the Hip-hop Dance Competition and the First Runners-up of Salsa Competition!

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