I awoke once again to the sound of Chris’s alarm. I look at him to find him already looking down at me as he says, “Good morning, do you want to come with me to the gym today too?”
Moving to sit up, I could feel all of my muscles were sore from yesterday, but knowing that his parents and SG are still in the area, I decided that staying together was probably going to be the best idea. Stretching, I reply, “Good morning to you too, and of course I’m going with you. I don’t plan to leave you alone after how they showed up here yesterday.”
“Okay,” he says smiling. “I’ll get our coffee ready.”
Deciding to walk to the gym instead of taking the car, it took us a bit longer to get there than yesterday. To my surprise, the slow pace of our walk helped to stretch my sore muscles and by the time we arrived at the gym, I decided I would at least attempt to workout. Before long, I found myself enjoying working out.
Unfortunately just as I was finishing up a set, I noticed Shoe Gum walking into the gym. I continued to work on my next set and simply watched her to see what she would do. Looking over at Chris, I could see him watching me already but he didn’t seem to notice that she was here yet. Nodding my head in her direction, I watch his face as he looks over to see her searching the gym, likely in her search for him. First anger crosses his face and then he looks over to me with concern. Simply giving him a smile, I decided to continue my workout and keep an eye on her.
Turning to watch her, I can see the moment that she notices him as a sly smile fills her face. Sauntering over in our direction, it was clear that she had yet to see me as she made her way over to him. Looking back at where Chris was, I could see that he had put away his weights. Just as he had turned to face me, she stepped in front of him so that she was standing in between us. Finishing up the last of my sets, I decided to get up and walk over to the two of them.
“Why did you avoid me yesterday?” I could hear her asking Chris as I approached. “You humiliated me. And what did you tell your parents? They refused to even try to convince you to marry me.” she said with a pouty tone.
“I refuse to marry you and I don’t intend to ever even consider it. I would rather die alone than marry you and I believe I made it clear yesterday that I am not interested.” I could hear Chris speak with venom in his voice.
Walking around her I walk over to Chris and lean on him before saying, “Hey babe, have you finished up your workout?”
With a huge smile filling his face, he says, “Yeah, I wanted to do a bit more but I think I’d rather just go home now.” Grabbing my hand, we grab our stuff and walk out the front door.
As much as I hoped that she would have decided to leave the two of us alone, of course she didn’t take the hint and decided to follow us out of the building. We immediately quicken our pace and she hurriedly tries to keep up before running in front of us to block the sidewalk. “Wait! You can’t just leave me like this! I need to marry you! What is the problem now? Have you already fallen in love with her too?” Frantically turning to look at me she says, “What will it take for you to leave him? I can give you whatever you want.”
Immediately feeling fury fill my body, I look over at Chris to compose myself, but I can see that he looks withdrawn and the words she said and realized that this was bringing up bad memories for him. Taking a deep breath and a step closer to him, I look her in the eyes and say, “Nothing you offer could ever replace him. Now if you know what’s best for you, I suggest that you stop making a scene and let us leave. People are watching.” I added gesturing to all of the people on the street watching her and whispering.
Fortunately that seemed to be enough to get her to leave us alone for the moment and the two of us headed home in silence. As soon as we get into the door, I immediately lock it and pull him to the couch. “I know you’re not okay. You don’t have to pretend in front of me. But, I need you to know that I’m not going anywhere unless you want me to.” I say as I pull him in for a tight hug.
“Thank you,” he said, returning the hug. Staying like that for a while, I wait until he pulls away first and says, “We should probably get packing if we are headed to your parents in the morning. I know that we’ve finished cleaning, but we have a ton of packing to do.”
“If you’re not feeling up to it, you can relax. I don’t mind packing for the both of us.” I say, holding his hand.
“Nope, we’re packing together. Besides I could use a bit of a distraction, if you don’t mind.” he says. Heading into the bedroom, we both pull out our suitcases and open up the closet and dresser drawers. “You said we’re spending the day and night on Christmas Eve and then heading home late on Christmas right?” he asked as he watched me look through various outfits in my closet.
“Yeah, that’s the plan.” I reply as I pull out 5 different dresses to take a better look at them alongside the shoes and accessories that I planned to bring along with us.
“Is there a reason you are pulling out so many outfits then?” he asked as a smile made its way onto his face. “You look like you’re packing to be gone for a week rather than overnight.”
“I’m not bringing all of them with me.” I reply before continuing, “I need to see how they would look with the shoes and accessories I am bringing and then I need to make sure that nothing clashed with your outfits either and it’s always good to bring a backup.”
Laughing he says, “Do you want to plan out my outfits too then? That way, we could both be matching for all of our outfits.” Walking over to the closet, he pulls out a few pairs of pants. Grabbing jeans, khakis and black dress pants as well as a few shirts he lays them out on the bed. “Does this help you match stuff better?” he says as he drops a quick kiss on my forehead.
“Actually, it does.” I reply before sorting through the clothes. It didn't take long before I planned our travel outfits and then 2 outfits to give us a choice for Christmas day. We already had matching pajamas and sweaters so that simplified a few things. As I picked out outfits, he neatly packed everything into our suitcases.
“I’m so glad to be done with that,” he says, stretching as he finished putting the last of our stuff into our suitcases. Rolling them over to the wall by the door, he turns back to me just as I sit down on the bed.
“Normally I would give you a pep talk to deal with my family but after meeting your parents, I doubt mine will be any worse. And there is no need to figure out how to fake our relationship because we’ve already decided to date for real.” I say as I relax on the bed.
Coming over to join me in bed, he says, “We’ve got this, who knows it might actually be kind of fun.” Reaching over to pull me closer to him, he said, “I don’t mind getting a bit more practice to be a better boyfriend though.”
I couldn’t help but laugh at his teasing tone. I was a little worried about him after his parents and SG decided to visit us, but it seems that he is fine. Deciding to stay in bed for a bit, we simply enjoyed each other’s company for a few hours. Spending the rest of the evening relaxing, we made a quick dinner and played some video games together for a few hours before going to bed early in preparation for our trip tomorrow.
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