Tell Me You Love Me [COMPLETED]

Chapter 4: Stepping In

Saturday February 29, 2020 - Tampa, Florida

Aesha POV

Having spent almost a full two hours cooking this meat sauce, making the garlic spread for this garlic bread, baking the garlic bread, setting the table, serving the wine, and starting the dessert, I'm finally on my last step of this Spaghetti Bolognese dinner: serving it.

With the two porcelain plates on our kitchen counter, I place equal amounts of the freshly cooked spaghetti on each plate, top them with the sauce, and add a slice of bread on the side. I take a clean dishrag and wipe the sides of the plate so that the presentation was spot on. I walk to our dining table, set the plates down, place the glasses of wine down with them, and step back to admire my work.

(A/N: This is NOT Spaghetti Bolognese. What Aesha prepares gives them more food than this steak dinner because more food, more happiness 😘)

I nod and look down at my watch for a quick time check.

9:57 PM

Perfect, my man should be here any minute and he'll see how much I appreciate him and love him and he'll see that I'll do anything for him...especially since I, the owner of my store, left work two hours early to pull this off. Going into the bathroom, I take a quick look at myself in the mirror to make sure I'm as put together as can be for my man.

Ruffling and shaking out my curls one last time, I smile at myself and hurriedly shuffle back out to the kitchen, take my seat at the table, and wait for bae to get home.

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11:00 PM

Okay, it's been a solid hour and bae still isn't here, haven't heard a word either. That's fine though, he probably just got caught up at the office, probably in another important late night business meeting; he has a lot of those recently. The food looks a little cool by now but that's alright; worse comes to worst, I'll just pop the plates in the microwave real quick and we'll be ready to grub...just as soon as he gets here.