Me of Tomorrow

Re-date

Let's go on a date. I'll pick you up at 8.

xoxo, Ax

Look at this kid go. He didn't even have the decency to ask me if I'm free today. What if I had work to take home or schedule with my friends? What if all I wanted to do was to be one with my bed the whole day? 

No, I'm joking. I actually like his spontaneity; not knowing when he'll suddenly pop-up or ask me to go on an unplanned trip to the nearest convenience store to eat ice cream. Axon has made it his primary task as my boyfriend to take care of me and that includes making sure that he's able to see me at least once a day. He's been consistent with it that I find it hard to imagine how hard it'll be for me if he by chance needs to go on a trip. I'll surely be sad and miss him.

Now I don't know what came to him to suddenly ask me out on a date. By how things have gone during our first one, I just figured he doesn't want anything close to it happening again anymore. He's also obviously not the 'let's go out on a date' type of guy so hopefully he's not forcing himself just to satisfy my whims because if that's it then that'll be devastating for me. 

"Aren't you supposed to ask someone on a date the day before?" I ask Ty who's lazily coping up the other side of the couch I am currently sprawled in. He looks at me atop his head as he scrunches his nose at the smell of the wasabi chips he is eating. "Did Axon ask you out on date?" I nod. "Yeah, just now." He forces himself up and scoots to me. "But it's 4pm." I nod again. "My point exactly."

"What an idiot." Peter mutters as he enter the family room with a bowl of cheese popcorn on hand which Ty excitedly skips to and take with his own hands. "You should give him a lesson and tell him no." I shake my head at him while reaching for a handful of popcorn from Ty. "Stop it. He's trying hard, I guess. Besides, after I broke down during our first date? I wasn't expecting him to ask me out again anymore." Peter roll his eyes and sits at the leather stool beside the sofa. "What time will you be leaving?"

"8."

Ty shoots up from his sit spilling some of the popcorn. "Oh no, we should prepare fast! Come on baby boy let's get you shining. Babe, come on, move your butt you'll be the assistant." I look at Peter and laugh at how reluctant he is to follow us but he knows not to reject his husband so he did anyway. "Come on father number 2. I need your help preparing for my date." And that earned me another eye roll.

I don't how he did it but we almost wasn't able to finish preparing on time. With four hours on hand  you would think it's more than enough for a guy to prepare for his date but heck no. Ty made me change countless times, styled my hair again and again and put make-up on me as if I'm a pop star. It was exhausting but I don't have it in me to tell him to stop. You see, if you are to meet the adorable, little Ty you'd never want to say no to him. By all means you'd want to grant him every wish and command he makes. Peter is a sucker for them and so as I. So when he said we should prepare I should've already expected it's not going to be easy. 

The work paid off tho. I look nice in the casual shirt and sexy jeans he lent me. I don't even think I ever looked this good. Fashion's way out of my game so it wouldn't be surprising if I ended up wearing my regular band shirt on the date matched with my straight-cut denim pants. 

Axon gives me a bouquet of sunflower which apparently means adoration and loyalty, befitting a once-upon-a-time player named Axon. "You look nice." I mutter shyly to him trying to stop myself from drooling over his tight-fitting inside shirt. "Thanks. I did my best. You look beautiful." 

"Stop." I can't help but giggle then grimace at myself.

"You are beautiful. Always have been." 

"You're such a player." He chuckles at me but doesn't deny it

We let a comfortable silence fall between us. I reach for the car's stereo and let the night time ballad play its wonders.

After almost an hour of drive, we arrive at a beautiful restaurant facing the beach area. "I never went to this part of the town." He reaches for my left hand and clasps his fingers in between mine. "I figured. My father taught me of this place. He asked me to bring my mom here so he can surprise her when they had a misunderstanding. Apparently, this is where they first met." I let him walk me towards the terrace of the restaurant on our reserved seat romantically lit only by lamps and table candles. He doesn't wait for the servers to give the menu but instead asks me to trust him and orders for the two of us. "Tell me more, about your family. I want to hear them."

He gives me a small appreciative smile and once again reaches for my hands on the table. "It was funny how they met. My father's family owned this place. He was living at Greensville City that time but he got sent here by grandfather during the summer to make him work. He hated the idea but did it anyways. One day he was at the cashier when he saw Mom with some guy who he said looked like a beaten down Ricky Martin. The guy was rude to Mom, saying degrading things and embarrassing her in front of the people. My dad came to the rescue and actually beaten down the guy. They had to send him to the station and contact grandfather. He almost got grounded but thanks to Mom they had everything cleared out. They started seeing each other after that." 

"Your dad sounds like a wonderful person."

He smiles looking in a distance as if his dad was there. "He is. He'll definitely adore you and claim you to be his son." 

It made me feel warm inside, the thought of meeting his parents and with the fact that he wants me to meet them. If only my parents were here to meet him as well, they'd like him as well like I do. "I can't wait to meet him." 

"That's something I want to talk about."

"Hm?"

"I want to bring you tomorrow to our house, to meet my family." 

"Oh." Oh, that came sooner than expected. 

"You don't want to?" I look at Axon admiring at how cute he is looking so worried.

I push all the negative scenarios flashing through my mind. It's now or never. Axon will be there. I can trust Axon in this, no matter what. "I'd love to."

The rest of the date went on peacefully with us sharing more little stories about ourselves. He wanted me to meet one of his friends as well sometime within this month and I am nothing but grateful that I'm finally getting to know more about him. I tell him about family, about Ty and Peter and things I've experienced through out the years. But I don't tell Axon about him; about the failed love I wanted nothing to bury. I've been in denial about it, sometimes forgetting that it actually happened. I was so happy these past few days that I thought I finally left it behind but talking to Axon, feeling myself move on dragged me back to the thought of him. 

But I leave any more painful memories for later. Axon is what i important right now. This date is what matters. Later, I can cry. 

Axon brings me to his house after the date, somewhere we seem to always end up at everytime we're together if we're not at Ty's house. The air is hot. By some incubus magic, I can feel both of us getting drowned by the sexual tension. We've been naughty countless times, touching and feeling each other but we never went beyond that. "I'm not fragile." I whisper to him as I breath hardly on his chest after a make-out session by his flat's entrance. It was like a switch turned on inside him when pulls my legs up and wraps it to his torsos and attack me with deeper kisses. 

"You're fucking insatiable." He carries me to his room and throws me to the bed. Like a dominant wolf circling his mate, he maneuvers on top me removing every piece of clothing on my body and biting my neck to claim me as his. "You're so beautiful." It was painful yet pleasurable, hot and exhilarating. 

He literally takes my breath away. All I want is for this day to never end, for us to be i n each other's arms forever.