I'm yours

Part 8

While Beth was working on her laptop and drinking coffee, someone knocked on her door. ‘A man can’t have his own peace even during holidays.’ She thought while dragging her body to the door. “Hey, Beth.” Ciel cheerfully said to her with a wide smile on his face. She really… didn’t know what to think. “Hey. You need something?” Beth quickly got to the point. “Actually, I was wondering if you’re free today.”, “And why would you wonder that?”, “You see, I’m bored and Sebs’ pretty busy himself with some shit and… I’m bored.” He sounded like a spoiled brat. “Okay. And you expect me to do what?”, “Take me somewhere.”, “Excuse me?” Beth asked and raised her brow. “Yeah, let’s go to the cinema or something.”, “Why would I do that?” she asked with an indifferent face. “To make me happy.” Ciel simply said and grinned. Beth was so close to slam the door right into his face. “Sorry, no can do.” Words were followed with a slight growling in her voice. “Aw, come on, please. Just for tonight. I’ll pay for food.”, “I have work to do.” Actually, she had 15 minutes or so to finish the program. “We won’t take long. Please. I’ll bother you if you don’t say yes.” ‘This sounds so familiar.’, “You mean more than you do now?”, “Yeah!” Oh, how Beth wished to face palm herself at the moment. “I’ll even kneel down for you.”, “Please don’t. How about this? Why don’t you go outside, find a girl, flirt here and there with her and take her to the cinema or somewhere else?”, “No, I might get a STD or something.”, “I said hang out, not sleep with her.”, “Doesn’t matter, I want to hang out with you.”, “Why?”, “You’re a lot more fun than anyone else.”, “You know me for a week.”, “That’s enough for me.”, “You’re way too trustworthy, you know?”, “I don’t care. Please go out with me.” Beth took a long sigh and thought for a moment. “Fine.”, “Really?”, “Yes. Give me half an hour.”, “I’ll be here. Thank you so much.” He said and quickly went to his brother’s apartment. ‘Idiot number 2.’

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“You look great.” Ciel complimented Beth. “I just changed clothes.”, “But you still look great.” Beth just sighed and quietly went into the elevator. “Have you checked which movies are playing?”, “I want to see Here comes the Devil.”, “Really? You won’t get scared?” Beth teasingly asked and smirked. “I hope not.”, ‘You got to be kidding me.’
All the way to cinema Ciel didn’t shut up. He was asking Beth all kinds of questions and she had to answer them. At some point she just wanted to turn around and go home, but she couldn’t leave him in the middle of the street. It was like she was babysitting a 7-year-old brat, only this one was 6 feet tall.
In the cinema, Beth bought them tickets while Ciel went to buy snacks and drinks. “I hope this will be enough.” He said when they sat down in their seats and Beth looked at the popcorns, chocolate bars and gummy bears along with coke and then at him. “You better eat all of that.” He suddenly said, smiling to her. “What do you mean? You don’t expect me to eat all of that, do you?” It wasn’t a problem at all to eat that, she just couldn’t eat everything he bought, she’s not that cruel. “Well, yeah. I ate at home.”, “So did I. And don’t argue with me.”, “Okay.”, ‘He really is like a child.’

The first 15 minutes of the movie went well, but after that… not quite. When the “scary scenes” started, Ciel twitched, spilled some of his coke, accidentally hit Beth once, almost yelped and there were popcorns everywhere around them. At one scene he even grabbed Beth’s hand and didn’t let go until it was over. When there were sex scenes, Beth noticed he squirmed in his seat, too often. ‘Jesus, help me.’

“Well, that was… fun.” Ciel said when they were on the street again. “I enjoyed the movie. You?”, “It was fine.” As if. If she had a gun, she would shot herself. Twice. “Are you hungry? I am. Let’s go to McDonald’s.” he quickly said and grabbed her hand and then pulled her to go faster.
“What do you want?”, “I’ll pay for my food, thank you.” Beth politely said. “But I said I…”, “I am going to pay for my food, you pay for yours. End of the story.” She shut him up with that. “Hnngh, fine.” He said and pouted.
“I see why you insisted on paying yourself.” Ciel said while staring at Beth’s plate full of food. “Can you even eat all of that?”, “I wouldn’t buy it if I couldn’t.” Beth said and started eating. Ciel could only look at her. “I’ve never met a girl that eats that much.”, “There’s always a first time.” Beth said with a mouthful of food, looking around the place.
“Beth?” she suddenly heard someone calling for her. “Is that you?” after she swallowed the piece of a burger, Beth turned to her right side where Emily was standing. “Oh, hey Em. What’s up?”, “Nothing much. You’re uh… with your friend?” Emily asked while looking at Ciel. And then a bright light bulb turned on in Beth’s head. “Yeah, this is my new friend, Ciel. Ciel, this is my friend from school Emily.”, “Nice to meet you.” Em quickly said and reached out her hand which Ciel gladly accepted. “Nice to meet you, too.” He said and smiled. “Do you mind if I join you?”, “Not at all, sit down.” Emily sat next to Ciel because there was no space next to Beth. But knowing Emily, Beth knew that she’d sit beside Ciel even if there was enough space next to her. Emily started her talking to Ciel and the poor guy had to answer her questions. Beth wasn’t listening, she was quietly eating her ice-cream.

“Beth, I think it’s time to go.”, “What? Already?” Beth tried to sound surprised. “Yeah, already?” Em asked, but she was serious about it. “Well, yeah. It’s pretty late.” Beth looked at her phone and indeed, it was late. She hasn’t noticed. “Ah, yes. I’m tired.”, “Too bad.” Em got into their conversation. “Why don’t you guys meet in the town one day? You’re both free, right?” Beth suggested. “I’d love that.”, “Y-yeah, sure.” Ciel stuttered and they exchanged their phone numbers. “I’ll call you.” Em said before they left.

“Oh my God, that woman is so boring. She won’t shut up.” Ciel complained to Beth when they got out. “Yeah, that’s Emily for you.” Beth innocently said. “I mean, only words I said were ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘maybe’ and ‘really’. As if I care about what she did yesterday.”, ‘You’re the same as her, idiot.’ Beth looked aside and sighed. “Should we get a taxi? You said you’re tired.”, “No need, I can walk. Unless you’re tired, too.”, “Please.” He simply said and continued walking with a smirk on his face. And then a second after, he started talking about irrelevant things. Again. ‘Someone, please, kill me.’

“I had a great time today.”, “Good, I’m glad you’re happy.” Beth said while unlocking her door. “When will our next date be? Tomorrow?”, “Listen,” Beth said after a long sigh, “I had fun, too, but, it was not a date, okay? You were bored and I entertained you, that’s all.”, ‘My God, that sounds so wrong.’, “Oh… well, thank you anyway.” Beth nodded and opened her door. “Beth?” Ciel said and she turned to him. “What?” He got closer to her and gave her a small kiss on her cheek. “Good night.” Ciel whispered and quickly went into his current home while Beth stood there like an idiot with an irritated expression on her face. ‘This kid, I swear…’

Ciel continued bothering Beth with an excuse he was bored. One day he came to her place and talked her into playing PS3. No one in her whole life didn’t say her name as much as Ciel in the past one week. For some inexplicable reason, she never said ‘no’ to his requests. Maybe she was bored, too. Or maybe it was something else. … Nah, she was definitely bored. Even the company she was working for gave her rest until school started. So her life was now… somehow empty. Nothing to study, nothing to do. “Luckily”, Ciel was there to complicate her life.
“What happened to spending time with your brother?” Beth suddenly asked while they played Diablo 3. “Huh? I don’t know, he’s quite busy.”, “Isn’t he always busy? Judging from your stories.”, “I guess he is. Well, he’s arguing with dad over work again, so, yeah, you could say he is busy.”, “Huh.”
“Are you hungry?” Beth asked 10 minutes later. “Yeah, a little.”, “I’ll cook something, then. Do you like sausages?”, “I love them.” Ciel continued playing the game while Beth peeled the potatoes and sliced them into fries and frizzled sausages. “Get your ass here, it’s done.” Beth called for Ciel and suddenly felt like she was his mother. ‘Wonderful feeling, really.’ She sarcastically thought. While Ciel sat at the table and started eating, Beth was frying more fries and meat. “It’s delicious.” She heard Ciel saying. “Okay, just eat, then.” Just when the last fry was out from the pan, someone rang on her door. Beth put the cruse with fries on the table and went to open the door. Since it was dark in the hall, she tripped over Ciel’s shoes. “God dammit Ciel. You and your shoes. I told you where to put them.” She scolded him while turning the light in the hall on and neatly putting his shoes next to hers. “Sorry.” He apologized, like he didn’t mean it. Beth finally opened the door and found Sebastian with a hand over his mouth, snickering. “I had a feeling it was you.” Beth told him. “And what’s so funny?” When Sebastian inhaled, his grin was still on his face. “Sorry, sorry. I came to pick Ciel up. Is he done playing?” he asked and started to laugh again. Seeing Sebastian laugh was pretty contagious, it passed over on Beth. “Ah, he’s just eating, but he was a good kid today.”, “I hear you, bastards.” Ciel’s voice got to them and they couldn’t help it; the situation was funny. “Come on in.” she invited him in and went straight to the kitchen to fry more food.

“So, did you have fun?”, “More than you, ass.”, “Ciel, we don’t use that kind of vocabulary at the table, I think we discussed about that already.” Sebastian talked to Ciel like he was some kind of baby. “I fucking hate you.” Beth listened to two brothers’ conversation and couldn’t resist, she had to laugh. When they were done eating, she brought them Coca-Cola and cleaned the table. “Who wants ice-cream?” Beth asked like a mother would. “Me!” Ciel quickly and happily said. Sebastian and Beth looked at each other and burst out laughing. “You really are like a child, oh my God.” Beth said while laughing and holding her stomach. “I really fucking hate you, guys.”