100 Days With Mr Romero

It was a week before our wedding and we were done with sending out invitations, we didn’t invite much, since we had prepared sits for only fifty people, so it was just families and few friends. It was going to be an indoor wedding, because we wanted privacy.

Since Gideon was free for the day and I had taken leave from work because of my wedding, we had decided to go shopping. My cravings had gotten really weird lately and Gideon was getting tired of running to the supermarket just to get me almost about anything he didn’t have in his fridge.

I had given Gideon a list and sent him off, while I had take another list. I was getting random things, mostly snacks I’ve never heard of but looked really yummy. I had just grabbed a packet of some strange looking chocolate when a couple passed before me, any other day I wouldn’t care but seeing Ciara with a man who I was sure was Timothee or Thomas, whichever one was is real name got my attention.

Who was he to her?

He had his arms wrapped around her waist and she seemed really comfortable with it. It was probably not my business, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t going to approach, I want to hear what she had to say.

I hurried, pushing the shopping cart, I took a turn to where I had seen them enter and we had almost bumped into one another. “Ciara! Wow, what a coincidence!” I said in a really loud voice, a pleasant smile on my face. I could see the guy now, I recognized him, he is the same guy I saw her with at the bar.

“Emily?” She looked really alarmed. “What are you doing here?”

“Oh, Gideon and I came to get some-”

She didn’t even let me finish. “Gideon is here?” Like she noticed how suspicious her tone was, she cleared her throat. “I mean, what are you guys doing here?”

“We’ve come to buy stuff silly, what else do people do in supermarkets?” I shook my head and glanced to the young man beside him. “Hi, I’m Emily,” I said offering a handshake.

He smiled and accepted it. “Hi, I’m Silas.”

Exactly as I had suspected, this was someone else and not Timothee who was oversees on some ‘business trip’. “Nice to meet you,” I said. “I must leave now, I don’t want Gideon looking for me.” Speaking of the devil, I sighted Gideon approaching, Just few feet behind Ciara and her boyfriend-if that’s what he really is to her. “There he is.” At that point I had never seen someone’s face lose color faster than Ciara’s.

“Ciara? Emily? What’s going on?”

“Oh, I was grabbing some stuff when I ran into Ciara. Silas, this is my fiancé.” Silas gave a small wave.

“Uh G-Gideon,” She looked nervously at Silas, then back at Gideon. “This is my friend, Silas.”

“Excuse me, your friend?” Silas questioned. I bit my lips as I held back a laugh that struggled to escape, the drama before me was too good to be true. “You’re going to introduce me as a friend.”

“What’s wrong?” Gideon asked really confused. Silas didn’t say anything, just turned to walk away, with panic written in her eyes Ciara hurried to follow him. Gideon still looked really lost. “What just happened?” He asked.

“Let’s just go home, we will talk about it on the way.” I told Gideon everything on the way home while stuffing my face with chocolate. “You should have seen her reaction when she saw me, it looked like she was going to piss her pants, I wish she actually pissed her pants, that would have been really fun to watch. I would get it on video and share it to the whole world.”

Gideon laughed. “God, the woman I’m marrying is just evil, I love you.” My insides froze when I heard that, I know I heard right, Gideon had just said he loved me. I turned to look at him slowly and the look on his face made me know he realised what he had just said.

“You love me?”

“What?”

“You just said you loved me Gideon.”

He cleared his throat and kept on driving not looking at me. “I didn’t say I love you for you to say it back to me Emma, I said I loved you because I did and-”

“I love you too,” I said shutting him up. “And before you say anything, no, I didn’t say I love you because you said it to me first, I said I love you because I really do love you.” Gideon didn’t say anything, in fact I got no reaction from him. “Gideon did you hear what I just said, I said I…” I stopped when I noticed he was slowing down and moving into a parking space. “Gideon why are you parking the car.”

“Because I can’t kiss you while driving or we’ll probably end up having an accident,” he said. “Now, say it again.” he says after parking the car.

I pretended to look lost. “Say what again?” I had an idea what he wanted me to say, but I had to hear it from his lips.

“Tell me you love me again.”

I giggled, my heart beating with joy. “I love you Gideon, I love you, just as you love me.” His eyes slowly lowered to my lips, I smiled almost tearing up at the moment. We moved closer and closer to each other, till our lips were just inches apart and right before I could take in another breath, he claimed my lips. My heart pounded in my chest as my knees got weaker, if I was standing I would sure have lost it. I could only focus on how soft his lips felt against mine, how he invaded all my senses, the warm feeling of his breath was inviting, he drew me in closer, pulling back to lay a chaste kiss on my head. I wasn’t making a mistake, I was sure of it.