Ordinaries And Stars

Chapter Ten

Sleep in her room? Okay, maybe he should try to think about this professionally. His employer is scared of the dark so she wants him to sleep in the same room as her. She didn't specifically say it was on the same bed.

"Where are you going now?" She asked again when he made to go out without responding.

"I'm going to take a shower in one of the rooms. I'll be back soon"

"Don't worry, you can just shower at my place"

"No please. I can't"

"Yes you can, I don't mind"

"But I mind"

"I'll increase your bonus"

"Alright, I'll just take my shower here. That would be more convenient" he said shamelessly the moment he heard bonus.

Ten minutes later, he was out of the shower and dressed in a white cotton shirt with matching shorts. So glad his mom added shorts, or he would have had to prance around in his boxers.

He walked to a corner of her room where he knew she kept a spare blanket for when Sheila slept over. She watched his lay it on the floor beside the bed, pick a pillow, fluff it an placed it on the laid blanket
Just as he was about to lie down, she asked for the third time that evening.

"What are you doing?"

"About to sleep"

"You are supposed to be hugging me to sleep. How can you do that when you're on the floor and I'm on the bed?" She asked with an eye roll.

"Princess, don't you have a boyfriend?" he asked after a while.

"You know I do"

"Well, I was thinking you didn't know you had one because of your request. How do you think he'd feel seeing his girl sleeping in another guy's arms?"

She was quite. She didn't think of that. In fact, she hadn't thought of Dave at all that evening and that wasn't normal.  But, wait a minute

"Were you being sarcastic right now?" She asked incredulously

"Me ,being sarcastic, never. I would never. How about this, I sleep on the floor but give you my arm on the bed so you'd hug it to sleep. That way, I wouldn't feel like I'm cheating with you" he tried to take her mind off the fact that he was being sarcastic.

"You have a girlfriend?"

"No I don't"

"So why would you feel like you are cheating?"

"Because you have a boyfriend" he had to control himself so he wouldn't raise his voice at her.

Okay, he may have a point. Sleeping in another guy's arms won't be necessarily fair to Dave.

"Okay, let's do as you say" she conceded.

And the next morning, he regretted suggesting that because his arm, shoulder and back were all aching by the time he woke up. Come to think of it, something woke him up. He turned his head to the door to see Sheila looking at them with a shocked expression on her face. He can just imagine what this looked like to her.

"Uhmm, hi Sheila" he said awkwardly as he tried to extract his arm from Pamela's hard grip. She was still fast asleep and didn't show any signs of waking up soon. After trying for half a day, he managed to remove his hand.

"What is going on here?" Sheila finally managed to ask.

"Can we talk in the kitchen? Let's not wake her up" Cody said and led Sheila to the kitchen, all the while thinking of how to spin the tale so Sheila would really think it was necessary for the guard to sleep in the same room with his charge. Female charge.

"Okay, so can you finally tell me what happened here?" Sheila asked as she sat down in one of the chairs around the dining table.

"A few days ago, someone broke into the house..."

"What? Did you call the police?"

How can we call the police when it was only her imagination? Anyways, please keep quite and allow him to talk. Cody thought when Sheila interrupted him.

"No, we didn't. Nothing was stolen so we choked it off as a fan who broke in. Anyways, you know yesterday was her mom's death anniversary and you know what always happens at the ceremony. So when we came back late yesterday, she wasn't in the right state of mind. She kept hallucinating and seeing her mom which made her think she actually killed her so I had to stay with her as her chief guard and make sure nothing happened to her" he finally concluded.

After thinking for a while, Sheila seemed to be convinced.

"So that explains it. Because Pamela might be a little rude and uncaring but she would never cheat on her boyfriend" she finally said .
A little rude? Really? You call that little?

"You think even if she'd cheat on her movie star boyfriend, she'd do so with me,a bodyguard?"

"You do have a point" she said after looking at him from top to down.

Cody: "..." You didn't have to rub it in. It was a rhetorical question.

"Prepare breakfast for me. I'm hungry".

Great. So now I'm even her best friend's personal chef.