I'll Never Let You Die

5 - Vanilla Ice Cream

My eyes slowly opened as the sun peered through the curtains. I stretched myself out in the empty circular bed. 

Wait circular? 

I sat up quickly looking around at the unfamiliar room. Something rushed towards me and placed it's hand on my shoulder. 

I calmed down once I noticed it was Augustus and my memories come back. I smiled at him to reassure him as he stared at me intently. 

"I'm fine Augustus. I just forgot where I was for a second." I say sheepishly. 

He nods and gets back to the same position as yesterday. I take that as a sign that I have to get up. I go to the bathroom and examine the clothes they had set out for me yesterday. There was a pair of black leather pants with a matching black long sleeve crop top. 

Seriously?? Out of all the most comfortable clothes in the world they could have possibly given me they give me leather. 

'They could have given you nothing' my inner self interjects. 

She was right. I quickly got changed and let my natural waves flow. I put on the same black heels I had on yesterday and walked out. 

"How do I look? Great? I know right," I tell Augusts. He didn't look at me and continued to stand. 

"What are we doing today again? I mean it's Saturday and John told me I was to be trained on the weekends but I don't know if it counts today too?" 

Still no response. Little by little I'm starting to detest this rule. Since I had no answer I decided to go home. I needed to catch up on some work. We left my room and went to John's office. I knocked on his door and heard a gruff come in. 

"Good morning" I say in a sing-song way. 

"Good morning Evangelica how may I help you?"  he smiled. 

"Well today is a weekend and I didn't know if I was supposed to start training already or.." 

"No not this weekend. You should go back home and get your rest. They cleared the whole apartment yesterday and found a couple of bugs but it should be good now." 

"Okay then see you next week" I say leaving his office walking out of the building with Augustus hot behind my trail. 

I didn't know if he would drive me back and I didn't want him to go through the extra trouble since you know, he was already protecting me so I decided to go walking. I remembered the path from yesterday which was only about ten minutes from my penthouse and there were a couple of shops nearby. I remembered that there were other security detail members other than Augustus and thought it would be a good idea to go shopping to make my guest bedrooms comfortable for them.  

"Augustus?" 

He looked down at my 5'2 self expectantly. 

"I thought we could do some shopping to make my guest bedrooms more comfortable for you and the rest of the security details" I explained. 

I saw a hint of shock peek through his face that was instantly replaced with his emotionless expression and he nodded.  

"By the way your name is beautiful but way too long so I'll just call you Auggie. Ok? Ok," I skipped a little and went into the first home store. I wanted to shop for him first since I already met him. Most of my decoration was girly so I wanted something a little more serious for him. 

"Welcome to Lily's Home Furnishing" one of the associates greeted. 

I smiled at her in acknowledgement and went to the men's area. Immediately an all black duvet with grey pillows caught my eye and I went directly towards it.