I Need You

34.His world

He is driving in a different direction. I don't know where he is taking me. From the time he told he is going to leave for some days, I have a bad feeling about that. I don't know why. I have been trying to put it away, but it keeps coming back.

He pulls infront of a big house. He types something and the doors open. There are many people here. They all get up from their places to greet him. Some bow to him, while some give him a shake hand. They are all shocked to see me here. And there isn't even a single woman here. I just give everyone an awkward smile. 

"This is Mia Blaine" Aaron says holding me by my waist. Everyone burst into whispers. The room turns silent for sometime. After that they all turn to me and smile. "So this is the girl, we are waiting to meet. Nice to meet you Miss. Blaine. You look like a model" a man from the crowd says shaking my hand. "I am singer" I say awkwardly shaking his hand. "No doubt that you look breathtaking sweetheart" he says holding my hand. Aaron clears his throat behind me. "By the way I am Tim Parker" he says shaking my hand for one last time and he settles in the chair before me. 

Aaron starts speaking something in a different language. I was trying to concentrate on what he is trying to speak or memorize something so that I can know which language he was speaking after we go home. But I lost track of words in between. I look around the room and everyone are seriously listening and nodding in between. When I look at Tim, he winks at me and moves his chair closer to me. 

"Which language is he speaking?" I whisper to him. "Mandarin" he says trying to concentrate on Aaron's speech. I sigh and look at Aaron. "See every year the language he speaks changes according to the person he is trying to shoot the words. So this time it is Xiao Fei sitting over there" he says pointing to a man far afar from us. "You are the first outsider he brought here" he whispers to me  "and the first person he cared soo much for. He never wanted your career to be in problem for involving in these activities" I know Aaron would be like this. "So that is why I thought you were a model and you look beautiful" he says winking at me. I think Aaron saw that, since he stopped speaking and looked at us.

I give him an awkward smile and stay in my place. This is the first time I am seeing a smile in everyone's face in this room. They all listen to Aaron. Most of them are elder than him, but he has the upper hand. They respect him. "Does everyone here know all the languages?" I ask Tim very slowly. He nods his head sideways. "Only he knows all the languages. We all just use live translators" and that's when I realize everyone in the room are actually using live translators. Why didn't I think about this. But by the time I take my phone out, he finishes speaking.

He drives me home this time. The eerie feeling keeps returning back. He takes me to a room in the basement. "The passwords to all the doors is your DOB" he says opening the door. I didn't think he would do that. "No one knows it. Only Stephen and Klaus know that. But Klaus would forget that everytime. He has undergone a trauma after someone killed his mother and he forgets things when he doesn't get daily updates about that" he says motioning me to get in.

I am dumbfounded when I enter the room. The room is full of guns. I look around the room and there are many guns. Like plenty. "This is the ammunition room. All the guns are loaded so be careful when you carry one from here" he says from behind me. 

"You can fight well, shoot well and can make the best and fast decisions. You are stronger than all the people I know and I have never seen you miss a shot. Damon is the best trainer and he has been my best trainee. With all the training you got, you are fit enough for my world. You would make a great leader" he says coming closer to me and holds me closer to him. 

Later he takes me to another room. "This room has all the information about my contacts and the heads of the continents and then the individual heads of each country. I mean the mafia heads." he says showing me all the files. "And this is the file of all the places I own" he says handing me another file. He owns plenty places. "Will you take me to all the places in this file" I ask him and he smiles to that. "Later" he says still smiling. "Promise" I say holding his face. "Yeah" he says kissing my forehead.

It's already evening. "I wanna have some ice-cream" he shakes his head sideways when I say that. "Please D" I ask with my puppy eyes. He can't say no to that. "Okay" he says with a sigh and gets up from the couch. He picks his car keys and walks me out. He stops infront of a parlor.

The parlor seems small and cute. The woman behind the counter looks old, maybe in her late fifties. "Finally you brought your girl here" she says ruffling his hair. They both seem close. He kisses her cheek and she turns to me "I am Julia. Nice to meet you Mia" she says hugging me from behind the counter. "I'll bring your ice-creams to your table, go and sit" she says motioning us to go and sit. "I know what you like so don't worry. A double chocolate scoop with waffle, choco chips and some sprinklers"  she says smiling. 

We both sit at the corner table. "Did you tell her?" no doubt he told Julia about my favorite ice-cream. He nods his head. Julia serves us our ice-cream "He always speaks about you Mia. And you are the only person he brought here. He never brings anyone here. After my husband died, I was feeling very lonely. So helped me come out of it. And I am happy with this parlor. I see young people enjoying themselves and I love them soo much" she whispers into my ear. later she leaves me alone with Aaron. He is busy enjoying his ice-cream.

I said I'll visit her often and Julia is happy to hear that. He drives me home and we both sat watching a movie. I don't what movie he chose. I was so busy seeing him and his smile in between. "Everyone were using translators right. It would have been easy for you to speak in English. Why did you chose mandarin?" I ask playing with his hair. "Speaking in their language is more effective in this business." he says looking at the screen. He has changed a lot and I love him even more now.

"I love you D" I say kissing his forehead. He is resting his head in my lap. He lifts his head up to kiss me. Soon our lips meet and it is more intense. Both of us don't want that to end. 

Later he falls asleep in my lap and I on the headrest.

There is no sign of him in the room when I woke up. Just then I hear the car sound.