With Or Without You (Completed)

Chapter 24

"No stop signs
Speed limit
Nobody's gonna slow me down
Like a wheel
Gonna spin it
Nobody's gonna mess me around
Hey, Satan
Payin' my dues
Playin' in a rockin' band
Hey, mamma
Look at me
I'm on the way to the promised land"  

Oliver drove down the road like a madman.

People had thought that he would be more cautious with driving after the crash he was in not so long ago, but clearly it was not the case by the way his car slid sometimes right and then left playfully.

"I'm on the highway to hell... highway to hell."

Highway to hell was blasting in the car and Oliver sang along with furious head banging.

Misha clung to his seat in the back. The poor guy's eyes were bulged open, it was hard to say - in shock or in fright.

The moment Oliver decided that it would be a splendid idea for Misha and him to go home together, Misha knew that he was in deep shit. But what his instincts failed to inform was that this deep shit could be this horribly deep. The whole time in the flight Oliver seemed like he was on drugs. He was talking all nonsense, asking Misha weird questions about his family and then he put his head on Misha's shoulder and slept away like a log. And no amount of pushing or whacking could get Oliver to change his position.

After the flight landed and Misha got his car from the airport parking, Oliver tricked him and was in the driver's seat in a blink of a eye. And Misha did what any normal man with dignity in this situation would have done, he refused to ride shotgun and got into the backseat with a scowl. But even that didn't seem to end well for him. Misha feared that this highway would really get them to hell, literally.

To make matters worse, Misha had to shout the directions as well. He was seriously considering a murder plan.

However, they were in one piece when the car pulled over.

Oliver jumped out of the car without wasting a second. "Misha!" He ran and yanked open the backdoor with a blinding grin. "What're you doing lying there like a corpse? Come out like a good boy now and introduce me to our... I mean your family." Oliver bit his tongue inside his mouth. He had to remember that they didn't know yet that they were going to be his in-laws. He howled a laughter in his mind. It gave him the feels of a secret mission!

Misha could not move, his bones shook seeing the man's excitement. His legs trembled from that hell of a car ride.

Now, seeing that Misha was not so eager to come out the car, Oliver grabbed him by the collar and dragged him out and towards the front doors of the Marques' household. He just couldn't wait to see his Elli behind those doors, he just couldn't wait launching his great mission of wooing her and her whole damn family.

Misha stood with a blank face and bird-nest hair, next to him Oliver blew on his palms and ran them over his silky manes looking at his reflection on the window just beside the door.

A charming smile on his face, Oliver raised his fist and knocked. And he knocked like he had never knocked before.

Daniel threw open the door with a somber face. He was in a cr*ppy mood since a while now. The most important of the many reasons for that was the issue going on with his little daughter Elli. No matter how much she denied, Daniel could see how much his princess was hurting. In his heart, which was by the way a very instinctive father's heart, he knew that it must be a boy related issue.