One In A Million

Chapter 20

16/09/2014

Another boring day at work. Only a very few of clients came to the shop, and some just had a look around and bought nothing. Economical crisis was destroying everything, that including small shops and business. What a miserable world we were living in. A world that was constantly evoluting, but not always in the good way. Damn, how I was missing the 90's eventhough that I was yet a girl of about 10 old years, then arrived the Britney, Christina Aguilera, N'Sync era, probably the best years ever of my life. I was missing those times so much, where all was so simple and livable. All that I was conscious was that things weren't what they used to be. Only what has kept me motivated and focused on my work was my plans for my night. It was the Champions League game, and Dortmund would play against Arsenal. A tough game in perspective. Considering that Marco wouldn't play, he had decided to gather his brothers Robin, Marcel, but also captain Mats that was injured also, and his fiancée Cathy. Deep in my heart, I wished that this night would be an easy one, with no tensions or frictions among each others, specially Marcel.

As I had safely closed the door shop, I rushed to the bus stop, and waited about five minutes for a bus that dropped me off to Phönix See park. Again a five minutes of walk and I was at Marco's superb house. When I arrived it was already six past ten. Marco walked to me and we exchanged little kisses, gosh he was so good at this. None of his friends yet arrived, so I quickly rushed myself to the kitchen, and start to get busy to prepare the diner. We would be a total of six people around the diner table, and from what Marco told me, Mats Hummels was always a greedy boy when every form of cooked pasta was on the diner menu. Counting this and the three other dinosaurs boys, I would have to prepare an average of three large beef lasagnas, meaning more time of preparation. During the preparation, Marco came to the kitchen several times, to check if I was not going crazy with all the food I had to prepare. Of course that I wasn't, The more food I had to prepare the happier I was. Cooking was one of my favorite hobby, so I wasn't encountering any problem. And the fact I was more familiar to Marco's kitchen, knowing in which cupboards the ingredients were kept, were making things easier. I had to tell Marco so many times to return to the living room and to keep on playing his Fifa or another video game to relax himself. He was so curious to know what was my secret for my lasagna to be so special, and also wanted to help me. But It wasn't the best time for him. He might wasn't using his crutches anymore, but his foot was still hurting, and his doctor had told him the longer rest he would give to that foot, the quicker he would be healed. Each time I had told him "Marco, get back to your PS4" his reply was "Yes mommy." and kissed my cheek. What a childish dumb idiot. I stopped counting the laughter he did to me. He was my stupid cutie. I spent about fifty minutes at the kitchen preparing the lasagna. They were ready to be put into the oven, but I would do that just twenty minutes before we decide to eat. All being prepared, fhe table, the drinks and snacks, I had a quick shower and put on clean clothes, an short denim overall, a green oversized cropped top and my green pastel ballerina shoes, the ones I preferred the most. And yeah, it was the very first time that I had a shower at Marco's huge and personal bathroom. It was so awkward to be naked in this huge room where Marco was daily undressed as well. Not that I was shy, but it was similar to this feeling, it was all in my head, I just had to interpret it in a different way. Fresher and clean, I was ready to join Marco in the living room, but Marcel had already arrived, and immediately the atmosphere went heavier.

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After we had dinner, Cathy had helped me to put all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, and serve the boys the moelleux au chocolat I did earlier. We had some interesting conversations, and I learned to know more about her. I constantly reminded what Lisa told about her, that under her floozy princess appearance, she was a good person, but just has chosen to the wrong person to be friend and hang out. Her only problem in my opinion was that she was a little too much curious, continuously asking me personal question and I was dating among the boys. Of course I chuckled at her question "So who is the one you're dating among these boys." Gosh, what an uncomfortable situation for me, I had felt a hotness in my cheeks. Marco and I came to this agreement, that none should know for us, and I totally approved that idea. So in order to keep our relation secret to Mats and Cathy, I and Robin played the couple. OMG, it was such a weird but so damn funny situation at the same time. During dinner, we sat next to each at the table and grabbed our hands, behaving as a normal couple. But from time to time, I had noticed that Marco quickly glanced at us, with a pouting face, and the situation was even more uneasy. At this moment, I wished I had run to him and sat on his laps and just wrap my arms around his neck, while kissing his lips and cheeks, something that I would never get tired of.