LILY


    “I’ll take you home”


    “As you please, ma’am,” he replied.


    In a few minutes, we got to his house and I helped him get inside. When we got inside, I asked him where his first aid kit was and he told me it was in his room, the drawer beside his bed. I went in and got the kit, had him sit so I could tend to his wounds.


    Before I could start anything, it started to rain very heavily. I panicked a bit when I thought I could be stuck in his house for the night.


    “Could sting though. Hope you’re not a cry baby,” I rummaged through the well packed kit for anything useful.


    “Try and see,” he chuckled. “Arghhh!” he groaned out of pain.


    “Sorry.”


    “Thanks.”


    I then took out the cotton wool, cut out a bit and disinfected it.


    “I rubbed it gently in the wound while he groaned. I cut out another bit of the cotton wool to clean the blood he had on his face.


    “Ouch!” Cayden groaned. “Careful.”


    “I’m being careful, Mr. Cayden,” I said sarcastically.


    “You’re using this opportunity to take out your anger on me, right?” he said jovially.


    “Should I?” I teased and we both giggled.


    While cleaning the wound, I noticed it was a cut, quite deep but not deep enough to causeplications. The cut must have been caused by Jarod’s ring when he threw punches earlier.


    “Uh-oh!” I eximed.


    “What?” I sensed a bit of anxiety in Cayden’s voice. He must have wondered what made me exim the way I did. Well, I eximed that way on purpose to give him quite the scare.


    “Shoot!” I eximed again, spiking Cayden’s curiosity and anxiety. “What happened?”  he asked again.


    “You sustained a cut. Looks like I’ll have to stitch it,” I said, carefully observing the injury.


    “Can you even do that?!” he eximed wide-eyed.


    “We’ll have to see.”


    I sat next to him and tapped myp gently, gesturing him toy on it. “C’mon,” I beckoned.


    “What?” he asked and I kept tapping myp. “I shouldy my head on your thighs?” he asked wide eyed,ying emphasis on ‘your thighs’.


    “If it feels so awkward, you can go to a nearby pharmacy or better still, go to the hospital and get yourself treated, Mr. Cayden!” I fired.


    “You really expect me to?” he whined.


    “Should we go to the hospital instead?” I wore a smug look.


    “Fine,” he agreed grudgingly after thinking about it briefly. Heid on his side on the couch and kept his head on myp, exposing the wound to me.


    I then took out the surgical suture from the kit and began stitching up the wound. I struggled to concentrate on what I was doing as I was easily distracted by his side view which was looking so handsome at the time. His jawline was perfectly curved and I couldn’t help but savor the view. I shrugged, shook off the unnecessary thoughts and focused on stitching his wound.


    “All done,” I said when I finished stitching the wound and cing a band-aid. He then sat up beside me.


    “How do you know how to do this?” he asked while I packed the kit.


    “I studied nursing for a while beforeing down to Nedford, Mister.” I took out the pain relief tablets from the kit and gave it to him, packed it up and kept it away.


    I walked to his dining and got water for him. “Here you go,” I gave him the water and urged him to take his medicine.


    “Thank you.” He took the medicine I gave him. “You studied nursing?” he asked.


    “Briefly.”


    “Wow, that’s nice.”


    “Yeah?”


    “Proves that I don’t even know much about you to start with,” he chuckled and I followed suit. “But why briefly though?” he asked again but I remained silent.


    “It’s okay if you do not wish to talk about it. I won’t inquire any further.”


    “No issues.”


    “But why do you badly need my help? And why did you call it a matter of life and death?” I asked mildly. “You could get anydy you want, you know?” I added.


    “You really want to know?” he asked, staring directly into my eyes.


    “I’m curious.”


    “You keep me going.”


    “Excuse you?” I scoffed.


    “Sounds weird, right? I know,” he chuckled. “I just want you around, and besides, you ruined two of my dates, remember?” he reminded me.


    “If you really do need apanion so bad for an important event…,” I paused and got his exclusive attention, as he stared at me keenly, “why don’t I y the part?” I concluded my statement and burst into a hystericughter almost immediately. He didn’t seem to understand really well why Iughed the way I did, so he just smiled, watching meugh my heart out.


    “Umm… that could actually…,” I cut him off.


    “I’ve been hooked up with ‘me’ that I actually ignored what I was supposed to do,” my tone was quite serious. “I want to apologize to you. I’m sorry for sabotaging your date ns thest time,” I apologized.


    “You?” Cayden seemed a bit shocked. “Why would you do that though? Did something happen?” he asked.


    “I sensed so much red gs from Anna that I thought to protect you from,” I exined and noticed he let out an archaic smile.


    “And?”


    “She said she hated children; I just couldn’t concur with her.”


    “Hated children?” he sounded a bit confusedText property ? N?vel(D)ra/ma.Org.


    “Yes!” I affirmed.


    “Can I see it?”


    “What?”


    “Your texts.”


    “Oh, sure!” I brought out my phone from my bag and showed him our messages. He read through them.


    “How could anyone hate kids? I mean, they’re so adorable, right?”


    “Of course, they are, Lily,” he giggled.


    “You’re not mad, right?”


    “Not at all,” he shook his head signifying a ‘no’.


    “Anyway, I’m sorry for what happened,” I said apologetically.


    “It’s okay, miss. Thank you for thinking about my interests,” he smiled warmly. “And thank you for this,” he pointed his banded wound.


    “You’re more than wee,” I smiled. “What did you do with the gifts Anna retuned?”


    “Guess.”


    “You didn’t pick it up, right?”


    “Bingo!” he eximed hysterically and we bothughed.