Chapter 5) Didn't expect them to come.

Michael's pov,

I stared at her closely as I tried to read her mind. She looked nervous. It was so obvious that I didn't need to break a sweat to find out about it.

Just when I thought that I might have taken things too far, or a bit far. Or just when I thought that she was not going to address me in the way I desperately wanted, I heard her say to me, “Baby”.

At first, I thought she was referring to Vincent whom I was carrying in my arm, but seeing how her face turned red, and how she tried to avoid my gaze, that said it all.

It was me she was referring to as ‘Baby’.

I was stunned, as I had initially thought I took things too far, enough for her to be angry at me.

Who knew I was just overthinking?

“I- I will be in the kitchen if you need me”.

I stopped thinking to myself and was brought back to reality upon hearing her hurried voice, before she quickly made me let go of her, and she left my side without turning back.

She didn't even spare me a single glance.

Though I didn't fail to see how red both her ears had become. “So cute”. I muttered, before I stopped staring and left the living room.

I went to the bedroom where I was supposed to stay, because to me, she was the boss, and I didn't want to disobey her.

Not yet.

Adira's pov,

I arrived in the kitchen and looked back, because I wanted to be sure that he had not followed me.

Upon confirming that, I sighed in relief.

“I thought my heart was going to explode”. I said, but after a second, two seconds and above passed, I came to a halt as I realized something. “Why am I so shy around him?”. I asked myself and tried to understand the logic behind it, as I did not quite understand the reason.

I have been missing him dearly for the past few months, to the point I usually dreamed about him.

But now that he was actually here with me, I did not understand why my heart was behaving the way it did.

“What if he thinks I have lost feelings for him?”. This question escaped my lips, even though it actually did not make sense to me, because, how could I say such a thing?

How could he ever think that I had lost my feelings for him?

I shook my head and tried to brush it off my mind.

“I should prepare something for him to eat. He must be hungry after the long trip back”. I said, even though he must have eaten while he was there on the plane.

I went ahead and opened the kitchen cabinet and took out a pot from it, before I went to the kitchen sink and switched the water on, with the pot in my hand below it as the water poured into it.

A few seconds passed.

I did not know exactly what happened, but as I stared at the pot, I saw that it was overflowing with water, making me understand that I must have been carried away.

With a heavy sigh, I switched off the water and left the pot there on the sink, without bothering to lift it.

“I can't concentrate like this. I should clear my mind so that I will stop thinking otherwise”. I said, before I left the kitchen and returned to the living room.

But after arriving there, I didn't see him. Meaning that he must have gone to his room.

“I guess I must go in there”. I said to myself and was ready to take the bold steps I used to be fond of making, but hearing my doorbell ring, made me halt on my tracks, as I instantly turned in the direction of the door.

“Who could that be?”.

I wondered and was a little bit suspicious, because only a few people knew me closely enough to know where I was living.

Still, I went ahead to the door, but did not open it just yet.

Not when I have not confirmed the identity of the person. I checked my door camera, and my eyes widened when I saw that it was my parents. Both of them had come

“What the?”. I panicked, because I had not expected them to come today, especially not by this time of the morning.

“What should I do?”. I asked myself and began to pace back and forth while at it.

‘I should just ignore them and make them think that I am not around. Yeah. That's what I must do’. I thought, before smiling.

But the second I heard a beeping sound, that smile automatically disappeared from my face and I halted.

My eyes widened in shock because I knew what a familiar beeping sound like that meant. It was the sound of someone putting in the passcode for my apartment!

Wait… have I forgotten that my parents knew the password combination for my apartment?! I slapped my forehead in pure disbelief.

“How could I forget such an important thing?”. I panicked more, and it got worse when he came up to me from nowhere.

‘What is this? Shouldn't he be in his bedroom? Then what is he doing here at such a wrong time?’. My mind was already going crazy.

“What are you doing here?”. I asked him quickly, with my voice sounding more like a whisper.

“He wouldn't stop crying after I left him alone on the floor, so I brought him to you”. He replied to me, before his eyebrows shifted, and he asked me, “Are you alright? You don't look alright to me. You are even sweating. Is there something wrong?”.

I didn't reply to him but grabbed his hand as there was not much time left.

Unfortunately, before I could make him return to the room, that was when the door to my apartment opened wide.

“Adira?”.

I froze as my mother called my name.