The Artist II- 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖘 𝕿𝖎𝖋𝖋𝖎𝖓

𝕿𝖊𝖓

"This should be the last one." Khadijha huffs and drops the box onto the ground.
I put my hands on my hips smiling and looking around our new apartment.
It obviously looks really empty right now but it has amazing big windows on the side of the apartment where the sun goes down.
"I think I'm going to head out are you okay on your own?" Khadijha asks me and I nod giving her a hug.
"Thank you for helping me I really appreciate it. You meeting up with Mads?" I ask her while we walk the hall down to the door. She nods and a dreamy look makes it's way onto her face.
"We're going to the movies and afterwards in a restaurant." I smile at her giddiness and chuckle when she almost runs into a wall.
I grab her wrist and open the door for her so she won't do anything stupid. Her cheeks grow red and I laugh.
"It's okay I get the feeling just make sure to drive safe and have fun!"
"See you." She waves at me and leaves the building.
I close the door behind her and do what I wanted to do the whole day.
I sprint towards the bedroom and let myself fall onto the mattress that's laying on the ground.
A happy sigh makes it's way out my mouth and I close my eyes in pure bliss.
I didn't know I could be any more happy after I bought the tattoo studio with Joaquin but turns out I can feel even better.
I hear keys jingle in the floor and a second later Hero opens the front door with a heavy sigh.
He lets his shoes drop heavily and lays his jacket and keys on the ground.
"Hello darling." He says but the soft undertone in his voice that I'm so familiar with is lacking.
"What's wrong baby?" He shrugs his shoulders and just stands there not meeting my eyes.
I sit up on the mattress concerned and pat the space beside me.
"Come here." He walks over to me and let's himself down beside me but to my surprise he turns his back to me.
I lay down my face towards his back.
"Hey you can tell me about it." I say softly but I don't get a response from him.
I place my hand on his shoulder but he shrugs it off and turns around to look at me.
"Stop being so damn soft okay?" He snaps and I'm taken aback at his tone.
"What the hell is going on?"

"I knew this would happen again. It's always like that please tell me it's wrong? Because I don't believe them but I'm concerned because you didn't tell me, fuck." He closes his eyes and I slide closer to him putting a hand on his cheek to calm him down.
"It's gonna be alright just tell me what you're talking about?" I say still not having a clue about what he's talking about.
"Did you meet up with Tom?"
Fuck. He wasn't supposed to know that.
My eyebrows scrunch in confusion because Tom promised me to not tell him.
"Did Tom tell you that?"
His eyes widen at my answer and he lays on his back my hands slipping from his face.
"So you did meet up with him."
"Yeah."
He doesn't say anything and I don't know why it's such a big deal.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He asks after some seconds.
"I..it was spontaneous." I say and mentally slap myself for this poor excuse.
I wrap an arm around his torso and lay my face against his neck.
"Do you trust me?" I try again.

"What kinda question is that?"

"Do you trust me?"

"Yeah I do." He sighs and wraps an arm around me as well.

"Then why are you letting, whoever told you that, get to you? We knew it's gonna be hard, that's just the way it's gonna be."

"I know but I'm scared of loosing you and sometimes I can't believe.." he trails of and I raise my face to look at him.
I nudge his shoulder with my chin so he keeps on going.
"I can't believe that I'm so lucky to be with you." His words let my heart squeeze tightly and I place a gentle kiss against his cheek.
"I'm here with you Hero. I moved in with you and I'm going to marry you. It's going to be the best day of my life, well one of the best days."
"Just one?"
"The best one was the day I met you. I love you how many times do I have to tell you?" I press and he lets out a more relieved sigh.
But I know I still didn't convince him.
Time to do the part I was dreading.
"You know the singer Sabrina Carpenter?"

"Isn't that the small blonde one who Tom is always talking about."

"Right. He needed my help with her and because I'm a girl I can help him better. That's why we met up. I would never, never in my life choose anyone over you. You're my soulmate." I say and he squeezes me against him his gorgeous eyes shining down at me.
"I am?"
"Yes you are."

"I guess you're my soulmate too." I grin at his answer and lean up to kiss him softly.
"Guess I'm lucky then." I say and Hero envelops me now fully into a hug.
"I'm sorry for being stupid."
"It's okay." Guilt creeps up at the back of my mind but I push it away.
"No it's not. We talked about this many times. To not let the media blind us."

"Yeah but it's okay as long as you believe me in the end."

"I do."

Hopefully he's still going to say it this convinced in a few weeks at the altar. I don't know if he's going to if he finds out about it.