Living With The Boss

Chapter 20

Jess POV

Daniel and I had been discussing moving in together for two weeks now and my only concern is the temptation that comes with living together. I honestly always thought of sex as a deed done between the married and I'm certain that Daniel has other views on it. I wanted to discuss this point with him and as the work day comes to an end on this windy evening, I can feel my nerves rising. It is as though I've never had the sex talk with a guy before. But if I am honest, I never have, and his reaction is what I'm most afraid of. Maybe I should have told him what to expect before we started dating but it's a bit too late to think about that now.

I also don't know what I'm going to do about college and I don't know if Daniel even knows that I plan to go to college and if I go then what is to become of our relationship, I was planning on going to a college that is not too far from home so that I'm not too far from mom and Jared. I feel like I'm overthinking this but it's just something that I do.

Daniel and I were now seated in a restaurant that his grandfather owns.
"Good evening Mr. Cooper, I'm Zach and I'll be your waiter this evening. Are you ready to order?" our waiter said, he had shoulder length hair, high cheekbones and a lene figure. "I would like the steak and roasted potatoes, babe, what would you like?" Daniel asked but emphasized the word 'babe'. "I'll have the same as you please." I said. I didn't even look at my menu to know what meals they had, my minds a bit preoccupied.

The waiter took our drink orders as well, all the while avoiding looking at me and then excused himself. "So, are you okay? You seem distracted." Daniel asked me after the waiter had left. "I'm fine, I just have a lot on my mind. How are you?" "I'm okay, what's on your mind? Is it what you wanted to talk to me about?" I nodded before looking around to see if anyone could hear our conversation, "yes it is, I have concerns with moving in with you and I feel that we should discuss it before we decide on taking our relationship to the next level." I was actually surprised at how well I framed my words considering that my heart felt as though I could spit it out. "Well what are these concerns? Shouldn't they be few considering that we have lived together before?" He asked looking at me intently, as though I was a puzzle that he was trying to figure out. "Well, it different from when we were just roommates, now we dating and I'm sure you expect certain things in our relationship and I just want to make sure that you know what I'm offering in our relationship, also I wanted to go to college next year, I was only working to help my mom with the expenses and tuition fees."

Now that I think about it, it is probably not a good idea to move in together, I mean there is just three months left of this year and then I'm off to college, moving in with him and then moving back out and into a dome is just a waste of my energy. Not saying that his not worth it, I'm just saying that I might as well just wait until I have to move to the domes to move some of my things in with him, that is if he wants me to visit him when I have a break.

Our food had been brought to us and Daniel waited for the waiter to leave before speaking again. "So you planning on moving into a dormitory or are you planning on living in the apartment?" He asked while eating. "I was planning on living in a dome at the college, it saves me from having to travel as well as buy me time to study more." I replied after I swallowed some steak "So you got it all sorted, don't you?" he said, sounding accusing while he put some more food in his mouth. "Please don't be like that, I planned this before I met you and I did tell your granddad when he interviewed me that I wasn't planning on working there permanently." I said and reached out for his hand, which he moved away and cut his potato into bits. "I honestly don't care whether you told him or not, you should have told me. You and I are in a relationship and this is something that you tell the guy you in a relationship with. Why didn't you tell me this the night I asked you to move In with me?" What he said made sense and I honestly don't know why I waited so long to tell him. "I don't know, I didn't think it would matter since I planned on going to an in-state college, so that I wouldn't be to far from mom and Jarred and I never planned on having a relationship before going to college." I felt like I was explaining it all wrong and he looked as though he was having an internal argument with himself. "This is just because I asked you to move in with me, isn't it? I was to honest with how I felt and that scared you, didn't it? Well then I'll just leave you to sort your fears out while I process that fact that the only girl I've been serious about doesn't seem to feel the same since she kept her lives plans a secret from me." He said while putting his knife and fork down on his now empty plate. "It's not that I'm not serious about you. I just got carried away with the stream of our relationship that I haven't had the right moment to tell you." I explained as best as I could. "I have literally involved you in every plan that I have for my life. I even embarrassed myself by telling you that I'd like to marry you some day. Only to now find out how foolish I was not to consider that you wouldn't feel the same." He said and before I could respond, he started speaking again. "I think I should leave, I am really trying so hard not to get worked up and am hanging by a thread here, so before I make an even bigger fool of myself, I think it's best if I took you home now." He said and stood up while placing some dollar bills on the table.
I nodded and stood up, suddenly feeling an overwhelming urge to cry.

I have never been in a relationship and so have never had an argument with the guy that I was dating but this felt terrible, I hated having Daniel this mad at me.

We got in his car and drove to my apartment in utter silence. Not even the radio was on and I could feel the anger radiating off of Daniel whom sat beside me clenching his hands on the steering wheel every few minutes.

We got to my apartment and I wanted to apologize for not telling him and ruining our dinner but I thought against it and just got out of the car while mumbling a 'good night' to Daniel. He drove off as soon as I entered the apartment building and I felt a few tears leave my eyes as I remembered the calm but raging look that he had in his eyes when he described how foolish he was to get ahead of himself. I went to take a shower as soon as I entered the apartment, thinking that it would make me feel better.

When I got out of the shower, I changed into my pajamas and sat in the main room, watching an episode of 'good behavior' when I phone rang and without checking the caller id, I picked it up. "hello" I said. "Hey girl, do you want to have a new experience with me tonight?" it was Sam. "I'm not feeling to peachy right now Sam." I spoke honestly. "you never even asked what that experience would be." She replied, sounding like she would start nagging me soon. "fine, what is it then?" I asked, knowing that no is never no when it comes to Sam. "I wanted to go clubbing to see how it is, I just want to go for the dancing, Matt said he'll go with me but I want to share this experience with you, and since in preggo, I won't be able to go when I start showing or when the baby is here. And the doctor said that I could start showing anytime soon and I really don't want to look like a fat bear when I go clubbing for the first and last time in my life, so please Jess. Do this for me." She ranted and I knew this was her way of getting me to join her. " Sure, maybe it might help lighten up my mood to." I said while sighing. "great! Wear something hot or we'll have a problem getting in, also have your id with you and be ready in a half an hour." She said before cutting the call, not even giving me time to respond. I looked at the time on my phone and saw that it was half pass eight, so I put the tv off and went to pick out my clothing.

I put on a black leather tights, grey top, leather jackey and my boot heel, yes, I own leather.
Jessicas outfit:

I applied some makeup and then heard a knock on the door. I went to open it. "HEY! Don't you look hot." Sam said while hugging me and kissing my cheek. "I'll just grab my things and we can leave." I told her as I ran back to my room to grab my id, phone and bag. "Matt is waiting in the car, he said Kyle would meet us there so that his not stuck with two cheeks who can't shut up." Sam told me when I return with everything I needed. I locked up and we went to the annoying Matt. I got in the car while reaching to the front seat and slapping Matt behind the head. "You said that Sam and I talk to much?" I said faking being mad at him. "Hey, I would never say such a thing. You know I can't get enough of hearing your high pitched giggles." He said fringing innocence. I laughed at him and Sam put on the radio. Our song came on called "oath" and we both screamed before we started singing it.

We got to the club and saw Kyle waiting at the door for us. We greeted him and then entered the club after showing the guy at the door our id's. Sam dragged me to the dance floor and we started dancing. Matt went to find himself a drink and Kyle probably went to get some chick to dance with him.

We have been dancing for some time until Sam started complaining about her sudden need to pee. So we went to the bathroom. I was surprised to see that the line was not too long and as we came out I had a sudden urge to look up at the top floor of the club. As I did my heart froze for a beat. There stood Daniel with some girl hanging from his neck, she looked as though she was kissing his neck. He didn't even push her off of him but rather looked as though he was enjoying himself. I got so upset that I just wanted to leave but Sam had other ideas and took her pregnant self-upstairs, I saw her talking to a bouncer looking guy and he nodded before going to call Daniel, leaving Sam standing in front of a red rope that restrained her from entering. Daniel came to the rope and looked surprised to see her.

Before he opened his mouth to say anything, she slapped him and then pointed to me while shouting at him, but the music was to loud for me to hear anything. He looked at me and paled slightly and then Sam just walked back down the stairs and towards a frozen to the spot me. She grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the club.