Million Dollar Bride

Chapter 8: Landing

                                      I'm woken up by a fight attendant before landing asking me to return to my seat.I lazily did so not bothering to place my heels back on and walking back to my seat bare footed. Xavier looks at my feet and shots me a questioning look but soon enough returns his attention to the window. I buckle in and place my hands under my legs yawing and stretch my neck from sided to side. I look at Xavier once again to find him already staring at me an unreadable expression on his face. He shakes his head and turn back to the window deep in thought. 

Once the plane lands our things are moved into a car that I had picked up and brought out. Xavier moves to the drivers side but I step in front of him. He tries to move to the drivers side again but I simply stop him by placing myself in front of him once more almost touching his chest. I look up at him through my sunglasses and shake my head. ''You don't have a licence here,'' A flash of realization crosses his face before leaving again. He curses under his breath and looks around searching for someone before looking at me again. ''Then who is going to drive us?,'' I make a show of pointing around us before turning my hand and pointing to myself. ''Me,''He looks surprised as I pull my wallet out showing him my South Korean licence.  I pull my wallet back once he's gotten a good look and move to the drivers side waiting for him to get in. 

We're on the road and moving to our Hotel in complete silence I turn on the radio and move to the foreign music once in a while humming along. I can feel Xavier's eyes on me throughout the entire ride but choose to ignore him. After an hour long drive we finally make it to the hotel and I move to grab my suite case only to be beaten by Xavier who's already halfway to the entrance pulling our suite cases behind him. I turn to the man beside him and hand him my keys shooting him a small smile that he returns. Slightly jogging I enter the lobby and instantly spot Xavier standing by the receptionist his stance is rigged and he's leaning over the desk slightly. When I get closer I notice the woman looks flush trying to use body language to get her point across. I slip in next to Xavier and grab her attention. She looks even more flustered now and looks around. I smile slightly to myself and bow grabbing her attention. I introduce myself in Korean and watch her visibly relax a composed smile taking over her features. I hand her my licence and and she quickly looks me up in the system. The process is quick as she hands me my room key giving me the floor and room number. We exchange goodbyes and I link my arm through Xavier's pulling him to elevator. The elevator opens as soon as we reach it ,an elderly couple gets out and we get in after them. As the doors close I can see the photographers I had seen I arrived at the airport entering the hotel. I can't help but smirk already feeling confident in my plan. 

 I almost pull my arm out of Xavier's but stop and look up ,sure enough there's a camera. I stay put and instead lean my head against his shoulder. He stiffens and tries to move away but I simply hold onto him pulling him closer . ''What are you doing?,'' his voice is airy and squeaky. I can't help laughing slightly unsure as to why his reaction was so awkward. The doors open and I pull him out and look around the hallways but don't spot a camera out here. Nodding I let go of him and walk forward. Once we reach our suite I finally decide to answer his question. ''There were cameras in the elevator , and in the off chance that they get that footage I need to make sure that we don't look distant.'' I turn towards him as the door open motioning for him to enter. He does so and I fallow after him closing the door. ''Next time however,'' I continue while moving to our room.''I'll ask for your permission before hand.'' He nods and looks around the suite. We hand our own small kitchen ,living room and a small pool outside. Inside our room there was a walk in closet and two bathrooms.  One with a shower and bath  and the other just a toilet and sink. 

Moving to the walk in closet I place my suitcase down and stare at it unwilling to open it and arrange my cloths. ''Where am I sleeping ?'', Xavier asks. I walk to the entrance of the closet and peek out to see him looking around the room with his suite case by his side. ''We're sharing a room.'' There's no response as I walk back finally deciding to just take out what I need and leave the rest to arrange later. I pull out a pair of shorts and a black T-shirt to change into. Walking out I spot a still Xavier rooted at the entrance of the bedroom. I simply raise any eyebrow at his strange behavior and continue to the bathroom to change. I shut it behind me and change quickly excited to go out. I pull my lose hair into a ponytail and collect my cloths from the ground and grab my sunglasses from the counter. I open the bathroom door to get out only to run into Xavier's chest. Cursing I rub my forehead and finally look up at the man in front of me who looks uncomfortable to say the least. '' Are we sharing a bed as well?,'' I nod slowly in return unsure as to why this was bothering him. An unexpected blush crept on to his cheeks and I  finally realized what he was thinking and burst out laughing. He avoided eye contact and scratched the back of his head. I walked around him still laughing and placed my cloths in the closet.   

''We aren't going to have sex Xavier . It's just sleeping.'' I assured him. I grabbed a pair of shoes from my carry on and slipped them on. Xavier stilled looked embarrassed when I walked out and grabbed my phone. I sighed putting on my sunglasses. ''I couldn't get a different rooms because they were already booked so a one bedroom suite was all I could get for us,'' I explained hoping that he would understand. ''If your uncomfortable I can rent another room on this floor,'' He shook his head and finally looked at me.''It's fine ..I just..'', He ran a hand through his short hair pulling it slightly before relaxing once again.'', ..I've never really slept with a woman..well not just slept.'' I nodded trying to understand him but not being able to. Sex was something that I never had to give much of  thought to and I had shared a bed with other men before to sleep so that in itself was not weird to me. I began walking out more tan ready to finally go out. ''Where are you going?'', I turned back to look at Xavier and couldn't help but grin. He look taken aback but the thought of having time to relax by the beach made me feel excited.''I'm going to go out by the beach just a block from here.'' I noticed the tier look in his eyes and quickly reassured him that I could go alone.''The photographers will probably start taking pictures tomorrow as well since they did arrive at the same time as us. Sine they maybe jet lag so you can just stay back and rest as well.'' He seemed to hesitate but nodded none the less. I smiled in response and left him looking dazed in the room feeling more than ready to play on the beach.