BitterSweet

Chapter 28

"Niall" Hailee calls his attention, slowly moving her eyes from mine to him. "Would you be a dear and get me some chocolate cake?"

"Weren't you just in there?"

"I was but I forgot."

Shawn comes back out with a tiny little white bowl filled with cut fruit and a fork, just for me.

"Thank you." I tell him as he hands me the bowl and sits next to me again. I stab a piece of watermelon and pop it into my mouth, moaning as I enjoy the show of Hailee trying to get Niall to do the same for her except with cho... Oh shit! There is no chocolate cake.

"What's wrong?" Shawn asks me seeing my frown.

"Uh- nothing."

Shawn steals a couple pieces of strawberry from my bowl and puts them in his glass of lemonade then comes back to my bowl for a piece of watermelon. I playfully try to stab his finger this time with my fork that I'm using, being sure not to actually hurt him.

"If you're going to steal my fruit, you could've at least got us a bigger bowl so we could share."

"Don't worry, I'll get us more when we need it." He pops the watermelon piece into his mouth and chews it with a smile.

"I'm really wanting a piece of chocolate cake," Hailee is still desperately trying to get Niall to do something for her. "Mila made some and-"

"Oh, we didn't bring the cake." Shawn speaks up, stealing more fruit from me. He's eating more than me, but at least he said he would get us more when we run out.

"What?" Hailee asks turning her attention to us now.

I blush at the reason why we didn't bring the cake as we now have everyone's attention.

"Well, Shawn drove us here on his motorcycle so we couldn't." I explain the little white lie. We really did come on his motorcycle.

"Why didn't you bring it in your car?"

"Because Mila burned the cake." Shawn happily volunteers, throwing me under the damn bus. "We were busy."

And backing up. The rest of the night is filled with everyone taking a stab at me for burning food, even if I did set a timer for it but left my phone in the other room. Niall wanted to get details of how it was possible to be busy for so long that we ended up burning the cake. He knew damn well what we were doing. Apparently Karen did too because she hit him on the back of his head to keep him quiet. Of course I couldn't help but get my jab in when I mentioned, albeit discreetly, that Shawn has stamina unlike Niall.

Hailee never did get Niall to wait on her but she did apologize because Shawn did return to the kitchen for more fruit for us to share. She just assumed, which I learned you shouldn't do, that he was using me for sex. I'm glad I know now what kind of person Shawn really is, and to be honest, I'm glad he gave me the time of day after the way I thought about him.

I really had nothing to be nervous about with Shawn's parents. Manuel didn't really pay much attention to us, and Karen seemed to like me even more, now that I'm... whatever she thinks Shawn and I are doing. We didn't say anything to them about us or our relationship because it's complicated enough without explaining that we're serious but not serious.

We have work tomorrow morning so we didn't stay long. Shawn drove us home and I went straight to my room to grab my pajamas. We cleaned up our chocolate mess as best as we could after our shower but I'm glad we'll be sleeping in Shawn's room. I giggle seeing the tie still connected to my head board. After grabbing my pajamas, I change before walking into Shawn's room through the bathroom.