My Head or My Heart?

Chapter 20

The night went by in a blur of making love and cuddling. The next morning while laying in Luca's arms his phone went off playing that dreadful ringtone that let's us know it's his office needing him. We thought we would have another day together but it never goes as planned. It sounds selfish but I was glad to have some time to myself. As excited as I am, I have no idea how this is going to flow at work. I stare at the beautiful ring on my finger and I feel so many emotions. Happy being at the top but there is some dread because Nico is going to find out that I not only have a boyfriend and I'd had one this whole time but he actually proposed, and I said yes. I said yes after all that happened between us. 

I'm so fucked up.

"I'm sorry baby, I thought we'd have an extra day together. But we are definitely having dinner tonight. You pick the place and we'll go." He said after kissing my temple. 

I sighed, "it's fine babe, work always calls when things are going great." I said sarcastically and he chuckled at my saltiness. 

His phone started to ring a ringtone I had never heard before.

"Hey dad!!" My ears perked up to this because I haven't met his dad yet and I'm actually kind of nervous at the eventual meeting. I stared at him while he talked and saw how happy he was. It made me smile.

"Yea dad tonight would be great, let me run it by the Mrs." Did he honestly  call me the 'Mrs.', he's such a loser. I thought to myself. I wonder what he wanted us to do tonight though. "Hey dad did you want to say hey really quick?" I paused and moved to the edge of the bed waiting for the phone to be passed to me, psyching myself up for this convo. 

"Yea, no, I understand that dad. Meeting in person would be best, I'm with you." I actually sighed a sigh of relief before what he said actually clicked. By the time I had calmed down from this realization Luca was off the phone smiling like a 5 year old who just got some ice cream.

"Babeeee..." He sung as he walked up to me. I looked up at him from my seat on the bed and raised a questioning brow at him. "My dad wants us to come over for dinner tonight in light of our engagement so he can meet you. He's totally excited." His smile was so contagious I found myself smiling in spite of my dread of the whole situation. 

"Of course babe, we can go meet your dad tonight." I tried to sound reassuring but failed miserably.

"Jaya, what's going on?" he crouched down in front of me and took my hand in his. "Do you not want to meet my dad?" He looked so wounded at the thought of this. 

I shook my head vigorously, "no no, Luca that's not it. I'm just nervous. Normally I wouldn't give a shit but this is your dad we're talking about here. I hope he likes me, ugh!" I flopped back on the bed with my arm over my eyes.

And the Oscar goes to... Jaya's overdramatic ass, my conscious scolded me.

"Jaya, baby, he's going to love you just like I do, well not like I do but you know what I mean," he chuckled. "You're amazing, which is why you're going to be my amazing wife." He smiled so big at his own words that I felt a sense of calmness. 

"You're the best Luca," I said as I sat up and stared into his eyes. He grabbed my cheeks and caressed them and leaned in for a small but sensual kiss. He stood to finish getting ready and headed out. I laid there for a while just staring at nothing lost in thoughts that weren't exactly coherent. My phone pinged alerting me of a text message.

SARAJ: Hey girl, you busy? I wanna go to lunch and I'm not going alone so even if you are busy I don't give a damn. You're going.

ME: Rude as usual, but actually Luca got called in so I'm just chilling. Come get me because I'm not driving anywhere.