A Step Closer to Love

“Did you enjoy watching my parents have it at each other?” Kieran asked as Arabella slipped herself into the car.

Arabella stopped for a moment to process what he had just asked. She could not believe anyone would think such words not to talk of saying them out loud.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

“Why would you say such things? What do you take me for?” Arabella asked.

She felt insulted that he would think such things about her.

“Well you just seemed to sit down there and allow them bicker because of you without you doing anything about it,” Kieran said. “Close the door” he added addressing the ajar door.

Arabella gently closes the door and puts on her seat belt. She pats her hair down and sits well.

“Kieran I would just have to point this out. I have no gain in watching your parents fight. It makes me uncomfortable to think about and I hate watching it too” she said

The car fell silent. Arabella had woken up feeling good about the day. She was going to meet and even be with her favorite author of all time. It was good news and it was good enough to get any book lover into a good mood Kieran had successfully been able to ruin her mood in a few minutes.

“Are you always very rude? Why are you always very ride?” she said out when the silence went out of hand.

Kieran was yet to start the car and they were still in one place.

“I think it would be wise if I go by myself,” Arabella said unclicking her seat belt and opening the door. She got down from the car and began to walk toward the gate.

Kieran sat back inside the car as he watched her make her way to the gate. Why was he rude to her? Was it because he felt himself getting closer to her after their conversation yesterday and he felt the need to put her back in her place?

He started the car and went to block the gate so she could not pass. He came down from the car and went to stand in front of a fuming girl.

“Move your car or I would be late for work,” she said and eyed him up and down before adding “Sir”

“I am sorry. I acted out of place. I did not know what I was thinking when I said those words” Kieran said.

Arabella was taken aback. He looked like someone who would not apologize after offending you greatly but here he was apologizing.

“So enter into the car let’s go to work” he added.

“Why did you make that comment?”

“Can we just forget about it?” Kieran said. He felt uncomfortable talking about himself or his family to anyone.

“Are you just apologizing so that your mom won’t query you for allowing me to go to work all by myself?” Arabella asked. “If that’s the case. I would tell her myself the reason why I want to go to work by myself from now on” she added when she saw the expression on his face.

“Just get in for today we would resolve the issue after work,” Kieran said.

“You must think I am easy. I am not getting into your car so move it NOW”

“Just get into the car,” Kieran said sighing.

He was wrong and he knew that. He wanted to apologize but Arabella was not having it. He felt like he should turn back the hands of time and ensure to not make the statement.

Why would he speak in such a manner to her? She had been nothing but on her good behavior since she got here.

“I would not be entering into the car. I am so angry that I do not want to see you or be in the same space with you. So for my sanity please let me go by myself” Arabella said.

The words he said hurt her deeply that she felt like crying. Why then would she cry in front of him?

“Arabella please calm down. I already said I am sorry why are you being so difficult?”

It felt like he was adding fuel to the fire. She could not believe her ears. He was calling her difficult and she was not. She was just reacting to the words she heard that pained her deeply.

“Are you always this brazen?” Arabella asked.

“Brazen? What do you mean by that?”

“I’m being difficult? You spoke so rudely and I am reacting and you are saying I’m being difficult?” Arabella asked.

She closed her eyes and took deep breaths to steady her breathing. She felt she was losing it. Was it the same man that another woman was bullying her over? He was not one to have a massive crush. Since he had hurt her so badly then she was going to hurt him too.

“Maybe if you and your dad had been good to your mom they would not have such arguments frequently and I would not need to be blamed for their fights,” Arabella said.

Her words took Kieran by surprise. He had never thought he treated his mom badly. He treated her well. His father treated her well.

“What do you mean by that?” Kieran asked.

If she was accusing him then she better have a good explanation as to why she thinks his mom was poorly treated. Arabella looks at him and eyes him up and down.

Her next action shocks both herself and Kieran. She wanted to leap over the car to the other side but failed when her body laid over the car bonnet. Arabella felt pain surge through her leg.

“What have you just done?” Kieran asked going close to her.

Her goal was to jump over and get out the gate but it seems like her plan was not done properly as now she felt the same pain she felt when she broke her leg from being bullied by her mates.

“My leg,” she said slowly. “It hurts” she continued.

“Why won’t it hurt? It could be a sprain for all we know. Why did you do that?” he asked taking her leg that was in a weird position in his hand and massaging the length and breadth of it.

“How does this feel?”