I Hope I Never Lose You

12

" Cole will you tell me where we are going ?"

" Lyra how many times do I have to tell you it is a surprise.  "

" Excuse me for being curious, but   I need to know to Iam safe. "

" Alright Iam not taking you to clubs, or murdered you. "

" Geez that's so reassuring. "

" Just ten more minutes. "

Taylor swift ' paper rings ' is played on the radio  and I sang along , cole looks at me amusely   but I avoid his eyes and just sang along.

Finally after ten minuts of singing  and laughing , Cole finally parks in front of a tall buliding.
Not knowing what to do I unclasp my seatbelt and step outside. I stood frozen  in front of the buidling but Cole takes my hand and leads me toward the building .

" Cole where are we ?"

" You sure do  ask a lot of question , come on."

We walk  inside and step in the elevator , he press 12th floor and just stares ahead.

Ding....
Cole  steps out and holds his hand out , I take his hands hesitantly and he leads me towards one of the apartment . He enters the passcode and leads me inside,  I look around the surrounding and  Iam amazed with what I see.
The apartment looks quite fancy and expensive , it  has huge couch in the living room . There is three bedrooms and a kitchen . The walls are painted white with grey carpet. It  is simple but looks calm.

My eyes takes in everything and my eyes widen when I saw a toddler playing behind the couches.

Oh my God !! Cole is here to show me his kids ?

I cover my mouth with both my palms and look at cole questioningly,
" Cole  you-you " I can't complete my sentences, he looks at me weirdly but he smiles when his eyes land on the toddler .

" Hey baby. " Cole says gaining the toddler attention . The baby on hearing cole voice crawls towards his feet. Cole bends down and scoops up the baby in his arms and  kisses all  over the face. If my mind is not so confuse right now I would be swooning  at the display..

" Cole how old is your baby? "

" what do you mean my baby?"

" You mean the baby is not yours?"  I ask and gestures towards the kid.

Cole laughs at me. " No No Lyra meet my nephew baby Grey. "

" OHh he's your nephew? ".  I blew a breath of relief when he says the baby is his nephew. PHEW .

" Hi baby " I cooed making weird faces .   Grey looks at me wide eye and starts wailing. Iam frozen in my spot when Cole starts soothing and rubbing grey back.  I look at cole apologetically but he just smile back.

  I felt flustered because all I do is make weird faces and makes a baby cry. I don't have a good experience with a baby and I don't know how to dealt with them. So much for impressing Cole,  I sign and went to make myself comfortable in the couch.

Cole is playing with the baby when a girl identical to Cole  with dark hair and grey eyes walked in.

She sees Cole and smiles widely,

" Cole I thought you were coming tomorrow. "

" Hey sis Where did you go leaving Grey alone ? "

"  Oh I was just doing laundry, he was asleep when I left him. "

I felt out of place sitting here, finally Cole sister saw and look towards Cole .  Cole calls me and I walk towards him hesitantly   , he looks at his sister and introduce us " Sis meet Lyra. "

His sister on hearing Cole smiles widely and extends her hand. " HI Lyra nice to meet you , call me Laurence. "

  I shake her hand and smile. " Nice to meet you too laurence. "

" Please make yourself comfortable ." Laurence tells me. She turns towards Cole . "You know Cole you could have call me If you were bringing your girlfriend tonight. I could have prepare dinner . "

My eyes widen at her statement , she thinks Iam cole girlfriend  I open my mouth to clarify but Cole beat me to It. " Adrian is not my girlfriend laur , she is my... uhh friend?.  " he replies like a question I just shrug my shoulders.

Laurence looks at us amusely ." Sure Sure".  She looks at grey and takes him in her arms.  "Let me feed grey, Lyra please make yourself comfortable ."

She left   Cole and I  standing to ourselves , I turn towards him and tease him " Uncle Cole is so sweet. " I cooed in my child voice .

" Shut up. " he says his face showing a tinge of red.

" Grey is cute but he doesn't  seem to like me."  I said honestly.

" Don't sweat over It , It's because he is not familiar with new faces and you look  scary with your weird faces, If I were grey I'll probably cry too. "

"  What's wrong with my face?"

" You look like chipmunk when you do that"

" oh shut up you like it. "  I wiggle my brows at him .

" Yeah Yeah sure, Pizza?? " He asked  me.

" Sure Iam hungry " I rub my stomach .

" Okay let me  give a call. "

" Cole  did you live here before ? "

" Yeah It's my apartment. "

" What I thought It was your sister? "

" No , my sister lives here temporary because her husband is in the army. "

" OHH..  You seem to adore Grey so much "

" Yeah ."

" Come on I'll show you around. " He leads  me towards one of the bedrooms and I walk in  , there were lots of photos of him when he was young " Cole you look so cute " I said examining the one where he seems to be 4 or five years old, just looking at  his young photos makes me smile widely .

There is this one where Lee and he were smiling widely at the camera , he looks so happy and carefree, i click  the photo in my phone  .

His bed were king size bed and his rooms were neat and smells fresh.
Just when I was about to ask him why he bought me here there was a knock on the door . Cole   looks at me " Come on  Adrain "

" Okay "

After he paid for the pizza we went towards the couch and began eating, Laurence came out and joins us.

Laurence is sweet and I feel comfortable around her . We talk and eat the last bit of it.

  We were sitting and watching movies when  a tiny chubby fingers grabs my leg I look down and saw Grey looking up at me with his cute doey eyes. I bend down and scoop him up and place him in my lap. I stick my tongue out and Grey smiles touching strands of my hair.  I said I dislike kids but Grey is beyond cute and I ready  love this kid.

Moreover It's Cole nephew , I look at cole and he is already staring at me , I gave him a smile and he winks back at me which is bad for my heart.

Tonight might not be a date but I  love tonight and Iam happy.