ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Kathy Pov

I singsonged into the room, having the best time of my life despite the moron who couldn’t say no to his mom disturbing my life, but I was glad he didn’t tell her no, I have had so much about the Bahamas but never have I thought it would be this beautiful, I have always felt it was I overrated, how wrong I have been, the place is beautiful, from the airport way to our hotel in the Nassau Paradise, it was beautiful with tall trees and elegant buildings, the ocean right next to our hotel, the view, everything was just so heartwarming, I was so lost in the view, I wish I lived here, I would go sightseeing every day and I will take a bath in the ocean and sunbathe in the sun, it would be heavenly and I only had one week to enjoy it, I already made up my mind that I will come back here soon and spend at least one whole month.

“Hey, Katherine,”

He called when we entered the room, okay this looks better than a normal hotel room, it looked more like a mini apartment

“Yes, what is it?”

“Can we try and just coexist?”

I don’t understand him one beat, he keeps changing, and making me look like the bad person, he should just be strict and not have anything to do with me, he literally just called me a kid a few minutes ago now he wants to make peace, he should just pick a side, and stop confusing the hell out of me, I don’t fancy been made to feel guilty, I literally just felt insensitive at there, when he called me out and said I never listen.

“I am perfectly fine with how we are now though,”

I replied, looking around the spacious room with beautiful decorations and a perfect view of the ocean.

“I am not, I promise your dad I will take care of you, I don’t want to break that promise,”

Oh, this is what it is about? My dad?

“You don’t have to, I can take care of myself, you can just ignore me,”

“God, why are you so stubborn?”

There he goes again, I just left him standing there and went into the bedroom, compared to the hotel in Arizona, this one had a smaller bed, but it was still bigger than my bed at home, and there was only one, why didn’t he book a room with two beds, then I remembered his mom paid for these, thankfully no love flowers and candlelight this time, I still didn’t see how we will manage and stay in this bed together maybe he would sleep in another room because the sofa here was small, but his luggage was here, maybe he wanted me to settle down before he left but I went back into the sitting area and saw him taking off his clothes, leaving on only his shorts exposing his broad shoulders to my face, I took a step back, could he at least give a warning.

“Are we sharing the same room?”

I asked my mouth watering at the sight of his delicious looking abs, Louis had abs and a nice tanned body but it was nothing compared to this masterpiece in front of me, no not at all, if I thought Louis was hot, which he had been, not gonna deny that fact even if he turned out to be a scammer, but Cross was ten times hotter than Louis, in fact, they couldn’t be compared, I couldn’t take my eyes off, I am gonna get myself in trouble if I keep looking at those.

“Yes, we are, I see no point in going to different rooms when we can share,”

He said, picking up his own suitcase, and walking to the bedroom where I just came from, I followed behind him and watched him bring out the content to place them in the wardrobe.

“But I thought you said we won’t be sharing a room? Why would we sleep in the same room here and go back to New York and sleep in separate rooms?”

“About that, I changed my mind too, we are sharing a room and I am scrapping that off the contract.”

“What? You can’t do that, I don’t want to be in the same room as you, I could get in t…”

I paused.

“Get in what? Don’t worry, we stayed in the same room for two days and nothing happened, it won’t be different here,”

Yeah right, that’s what he thought, with this kind of body, he must be kidding, I swear I already want to touch and feel if those abs are as solid as they looked, I want to trace my hands over them and use my ton… “Stop it!!!” I screamed to myself inside my head, hoping he won’t catch me checking him out again

“Yes, there was a big sofa, and you slept there remember? This sofa looks so small, I won’t even fit not to talk of you,”

I said.

“We will share the bed,”

“Oh lordy,” the voice in my head said. I shushed it.

“Can’t you pick a side though?”

I said instead.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean choose if you wanna be okay with me or if you want me off your face because you keep switching and it is confusing me, one minute I am to mind my business, and the next minute you want us to coexist, I don’t know what you really want from me, we have been barely married for two days and it already feel like we can’t even decide where we stand.”

I replied, sitting down, I was massively tired even though I loved the trip but flying can be exhausting, and I was feeling jet lag.

“You know what, why don’t we rest today and we can continue this talk in the morning, I will leave if you want me to, but I will prefer if you don’t because I won’t want to leave you on your own,”

“Are you scared that I might run off?”

“No, I know you won’t but I don’t want to take any chances, I promise your dad and I want to keep that promise, I am tired so I will like to rest,”

He said moving out of the room to the bathroom area, I carried my luggage and emptied out the contents, and stuffed them in the empty wardrobe, he wants us to coexist, so I am going to give that to him, he didn’t act like how I thought he was or might it be I had misunderstood him? Ten years ago he hadn’t been this understanding, he had been one big asshole that left me on that dangerous road that night, despite how much I begged him to not leave me there, he had zoned off in his bike leaving me on my own, again, I was kind of at fault for going to a party when I was only thirteen and everyone there had been way older than me, but I was fully matured and looked almost the same as the girls who were at least five years older than me, I had wanted to have fun with the big boys and girls, but it had backfired when the cops had landed at the party, apparently, some of the boys there were using drugs, some were arrested according to what I heard the next day.

Cross had been there and had been the one to help me escape because if I had been arrested it would have been bad for both me, my parents and everyone at the party because I was underaged, but half way home we had a fight and one thing lead to the other he left me there in the middle of nowhere at eleven pm, I had begged and begged but he didn’t listen, I thought he would but he got a call that changed his mood from bad to worst and he had zoned off leaving me standing there, lost, I had walked for almost twenty minutes before a kind woman had come by and helped me home, after that night I hadn’t seen him again until we met at the hospital, I hated him since and when I found out he is the one I am marrying you could have imagined how I felt, I have legit reasons to hate him but maybe he changed, maybe he wasn’t the unreasonable teenager any more, maybe I could try and coexist with him like he suggested, there is no harm in trying and besides I need his help if I am going to be able to find Louis and make him pay, I know I won’t get my money back but at least, I can make him pay by exposing him so that another young lady won’t be fooled like I did.

“Why are you standing there and looking like you are lost?”

He asked swinging his fingers across my face, I snapped out of my thoughts.

“None of your business,”

I replied.

“Agreed,”

“Why are you being nice to me?”

I suddenly asked.

“I don’t understand? Am I being nice?”

“Yes you are, a lot of things doesn’t add up,”

“Like what?”

“Like you are so different from how I remember you, first of all, you are, I mean you accepted to marry me when I ran away and embarrassed our families.”

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He said.

“Of course I know but what is surprising is I wasn’t expecting to you accept me back so easily,”

“It wasn’t an easy decision though,”

“Yeah but it wasn’t what I expected either, and for me, it was easy, easier than begging my mom to forgive me and take me back,”

“What did you expect?”

“Well, you left me in the middle of nowhere when I was just thirteen so forgive me for thinking the worst of you, anything could have happened to me that night,”

“About that, I don’t have anything to say,”

He said moving away from me, his demo changed when I mentioned the night, I wanted to ask why he looked so wary bit I know he wouldn’t answer me so I sucked it up and went to take a bath when I came back he already ordered dinner, we ate in silence.

“I asked the attendant for extra pillows so you can make a barricade if you want,”

He revealed, I looked across the bed and indeed there were more pillows, I didn’t say anything to him and just went ahead and made a bridge with the pillows, as soon as I hit the bed, I fell asleep almost immediately…