Thorny kind of Love

Chapter 7

Ben’s POV

“I need to get done before Flynn shows up,” I tell myself as I’m heading out of the shower. I grab the towel off the holder and wrap it around my waist. I head out of the bathroom to see one of the cleaning staff bending over my bed, tugging off the sheets.
The figure looks familiar, as she turns around, I can hardly believe my eyes, it’s the same young lady from the restaurant. She stares at me, I leave her as her eyes wander across my body. I don’t feel one bit awkward, I, in turn, look at her gorgeous face, her eyes full of admiration I like how her mouthparts as her eyes wander down my waist.
I want to talk to her, but don’t know exactly what to say, so I end up asking her, “Do you need anything?" and before I know it, she closes her eyes with her hand, and answers with a quivering voice," I'm sorry, I thought no one was here, I'll come back when you have left." She backs out of the room, knocking her head against the door, I halfway run out of the room after her and call her to come back, but she runs without looking back.
Stupid me! Why couldn’t I have asked her something else, back home the girls would have said something flirtatious back in a situation like that and one thing would have left to another, but in this case, it looked like I scared the girl away, she most probably thinks I’m some creep. If I want to be able to talk to her, I will have to work on the way I say things, maybe girls here take offense to certain things and I don’t want her to think that I only want something from her.
I’ll be here for less than two weeks, we can at least be friendly towards one another, and at least that’s what I would like to offer her, of course, if she wants to be friends.
I finish dressing and make my way to find Flynn, we head to town and find the nearest bank, once we were done, Flynn takes me on a small tour of the town, it’s a beautiful place, he introduces me to some local farmers and we visit some wine cellars. To take in all the places we visited was too overwhelming for one day, I tell Flynn that I need more time to sightsee this amazing place.
“I wish I had the time to show you around, but you know the engagement party is coming up and Chantal demands my help and in Spring, we’re quite busy at the B&B, but perhaps Bell can show you around a bit, she is the only one of my employees that I allow taking guests on a tour, she knows this place by heart,” Flynn says. “That sounds great! Who’s Bell? I ask. He answers, “She is a local here in the town and she works for me, she’s a sweet girl, I’ll introduce her to you later.
I’m grateful for the opportunity as I don’t want to sightsee alone and stop and ask strangers for direction etc., so I’m glad that Flynn can arrange someone to guide me around. I see Koos as we turn into the parking lot, I make my way to him and hand him what I think was a R50, I’m still not sure what is the worth of Rands here in Cape Town, but whatever I game him, made him very happy, it was written all over his face.

Bell’s POV

I stop by the small tuck-shop on the street corner to buy airtime before I go home. Aunty Wilma stops me to ask how my dad is doing because she hasn’t seen him for some time, I quickly make up a story that he had spent a few days by my brother, and that he will be coming home tonight. My dad doesn’t want anyone knowing that he wasn’t well, he hated people to come and fuss over and feel sorry for him, my dad, and I are alike in that department, we don’t like people feeling sorry for us, and believe me Aunty Wilma can fuss.
Aunty Wilma is a small round woman with black but halfway gray hair, and black eyes, her eyes showing some yellow because of smoking, she celebrated her  about a 50th birthday last year. She’s a very sweet old lady and feels sorry for just about anything and anyone. I watched as her she smiles to hear that nothing is wrong. Answering all her questions about how my job is, she jumps to the next question……my love life, she lights a cigarette as if preparing herself for a love story. That was a topic I did not wish to discuss with her and I say that I have to go because my brother will be dropping my dad any minute and with that I walk as fast as I can towards my house.
When I get home my dad is in the kitchen making himself some tea, he doesn’t notice that I entered. “I’m glad to see somebody up and about.” I say with a happy tone. I tell him about Aunty Wilma, he laughs out loud, and says, “You remember how she tried to seduce me last year when we were invited to her 50th.” We both end up laughing remembering that, my dad literally had to dodge her the whole evening.
Preparing myself for the worst, I ask my dad what the doctor said, he makes me a cup of tea as well, and we head for the living room and sit down. There was an awkward silence for a few seconds and I prepare myself for bad news.
“Don’t look so worried Bell, the doctor said that the back pains are a ruptured disk, so he gave me a no steroidal anti-flammatory drug and scheduled me for self-care physical exercises at the clinic, I already took some off the medication and feel much better.” I breathe out a sound of relief, “I’m so happy dad, I don’t know what I would have done if anything had to happen to you,” I stand up and hug him, wiping my tears away. “I love you so much dad.” I whisper in his ear and kiss him on the cheek. “I love you too my sweetie.” He says.
As I am get into my bed, my phone’s message notification sounds.
Flynn- “Bell I need you to take one of our guests on a day tour of the town tomorrow please, don’t be late and dress comfortably.”
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Author's note:
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