Our Promise

Doctor Dominic

Recap:

After everything that just happened, my heart sunk a little after he whispered the final sentences that he has been waiting to tell me ever since he stepped into my house.

"By the way, I know that you are sick and there is no way of hiding that. Hope you got used to Dominic the CEO because now you are about to meet Doctor Dominic."

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I stared at him dumbfounded like he grew two heads. He was joking right? This is the what I have been dreading the moment he walked into my home.

"Doctor? Since when did you have such an essential title?" I snorted as I tried to raise an eyebrow at him.

Notice the key word 'try'. Ever since I was little I could never raise an eyebrow. Sure I could raise both but really who couldn't. I spent hours in my room constantly trying to move my facial features but I never seemed to be able to master this very important action. It was extremely tiresome.

One look at Dominic and I immediately knew that I failed yet again to raise my eyebrow. Big shocker there.

"Would it be more better if i said Dominic the CEO. Would that make you feel better because right now I don't know if you are hurt that I used the wrong title or if you are constipated because the look on your face is really weird right now." I laughed as I explain that I was trying and failing to raise my eyebrow.

"You honestly do not know how to raise your eyebrow?" he spoke to me as if he was talking to a kid that stole a lolly pop at a candy store.

"No... and anyways why do you care so much? It's not like raising an eyebrow can be helpful so why learn." I shrugged as I got the brown bag filled with expensive cookies and ripped it open.

"THAT is your argument? You think that raising eyebrows is not significant? For the second time today, I am quite hurt and pretty shocked at your stupidity Clara, no offense. It is actually quite useful and has helped me during my years. Picture sitting in a silent airplane and only hearing the engine as you fly higher and higher into the sky. You get the unfortunate luck of sitting beside one person who is totally interested in you and can't seem to stop talking so you do the rational thing that is necessary in this sort of situation. You may think that your life is over and that you will never shut this person up but I guarantee you with a single eyebrow raised toward them, they will shut up faster than you can say sorry handsome."

I look at him with amusement for a couple of seconds before bursting out with laughter. I probably sounded like a hyena but at this moment i could really care less.

"Did that really happen to you?" I coughed out as I got up from the chair and went over to the cupboard and to get myself a clear glass to fill up with refreshing water.

"No. I am the CEO of Wilmur Industries. I own a private jet. I would never be able to sit with random strangers. My parents would never let me live that mistake down for the rest of my life. Although it is true what I say about the eyebrow thing. Pity that you can't do this." he wiggled his eyebrows. I rolled my eyes as I drank the water.

I grabbed the bag of cookies and sat on the couch that i was supposed to sleep on.

How did this conversation go from being sick to wiggle ones eyebrows. This just goes to show how childish we both were.

"Back to the Doctor Dominic statement, did you eat anything?" he looked at me with concern as he pulled strands of hair behind my ear.

"No." My voice was much louder and clearer than before. Water really does the trick for clearing up someones throat although my throat still felt like knifes are piercing it from every direction.