TENDER ASSAULT

CHAPTER IV

TAMINA's POV

I reach for my phone in my simple Coach bag and check what time is it. It's past fifteen minutes after 10. I just got out from the arrival area. I pull my huge black luggage as I walk towards the exit door.

I fix my loose pony tail with my other hand and look down at my attire. I'm wearing a satin midi skirt with side split along with a white shirt that i tucked under it. And my worn out  denim jacket which is my favorite. And just a white sneakers to keep it simple and of course to make it easier for me to walk.

I mean who likes wearing heels?

The only thing that I don't like on what I'm wearing right now is the side slit in my skirt. It shows my leg upto the middle of my thigh. I don't wear clothes like this before but with all the dresses Mama Elizabeth made me choose earlier this is the only thing that looked a little decent for me.

If only I have chosen my attire in my old wardrobe this is not the clothes I'm gonna be wearing right now, but remembering what mama Elizabeth said earlier this morning.

"You're only 25 Tami. You must dress like the beautiful young woman that you are." She said insisting me to wear the dress she had in her hand.

I look at the pretty but a bit reaveling dress that she's holding in front of me. I swallowed looking at it. That will show a lot of skin and I'm traveling on an airplane.

"But papa would be shock to see me wearing these clothes Ma, he knows that I'm not this type of girl." I answered still not reaching the dress from her grasp.

"On the contrary, he told me to help you dress like a proper woman, an elegent young woman to be exact. Your father is getting worried that y'know you'll be an old maid with the way you live your life right now. Your very young Tamina let loose!"

"But how about Ruan? What will he say if he sees me again wearing all of these things?"

Oh that too. What if he will say that I act like a new city girl who just want to catch an attention.

It made me got worried more.

Something warm glinted in my stepmother's eyes before she answered me.

"Why, of course, he'll be proud of you Tami!" she said with a glee in her voice

"W-what? And why would he?" I am flabbergasted.

"I'm sure he'll be very proud of you that he has a very beautiful stepsister."

I doubted it. In the very first place Ruan doesn't treat me as a sibling. Eventhough i have longed to have a brother or sister I still didn't had the chance to have that because Ruan wouldn't let me be close to him. He has that wall build just for me I guess.

Now that I think about it again I'm nervous to see him. Ruan still remained a disturbing stranger eventhough we have seen each other through those past occasions for the past two years.

And I still have this crazy feeling when he's around. I always feel nervous. Everytime I catch him staring at me i feel a lot of tension in my whole being.

And now I agreed to live with him. What if I get to discover why I have this alien feeling that I get from this man now that we will be living with each other?  This is not a good idea.

Why didn't I thought about all these things when I'm still in LA? Why now that I'm already in the soil of New York City!

And besides maybe Ruan Moretti is just teasing me. Being a bachelor in a city like this, maybe he thinks I'm just a simple goody two shoes gal from LA. Maybe he thinks of me as a weirdo. An old fashioned girl.