Chapter XV ۞ Thays ۞ Part IV

"I'M THE 1ST SON, BORN IN THE 1ST DAY OF October, at 1 am precisely, on a Sunday which happens to be the 1st day of the week as well. My name starts with the 1st letter of the alphabet, and I was always the top 1 in school and college. When I was in the basketball team both in school and in college," he has the height for it, "I was jersey number 1. When I was 11 years old, I met my best friend. When I was 21 years old, my first project came through on the new year, 1st day of the 1st month of the year. And I also broke up with my ex on a new year, at 1 am," Aaron chuckled when he saw my face as I sat down.

"Are you joking?"

"No. It's all true. That's why I'm laughing. It's a weird coincidence."

I got up and sat on his right side, than I showed him the small tattoo on my wrist, "I also have a tattoo of my lucky number, and I got it a year ago, also on 7th of July. It's a 007, both because of the movies, and because of the number-tattoos style from Stranger Things."

Aaron passed his thumb over it softly and I pressed my lips together, trying not to show how his touch affected me. "You remember the day you moved here?"

"7th of January. Four years ago," I gasped, realizing one more coincidence, and the fact that that came to his mind. "And it was around 1 pm when I… poured my drink on you accidentally."

He frowned, "I still don't think that was accidental. And you had to do that on my favorite suit, ugh."

I put some distance between us again, "Believe it or not, it was absolutely accidental. Although you make me angry for not doing that on purpose."

And he had the decency to look offended, "Stay away of my suits. Especially with your weird drinks."

"Your time to say the trivial stuff."

"You know my favorite song." I arched my eyebrows confused. "You have it as your ringtone for when people call you. It's been years since that one is my favorite."

I widened my eyes, "Are you serious?"

"Mm-hm. Not many people here know that song, I was quite surprised when I first heard you using as your ringtone. And I can hear it from my apartment, because of how loud you are."

"Vai á merda, you are light years louder than me."

"Absolutely not. The difference is that I live upstairs and you can hear the noise from me walking around. I'm not loud," and he said that in a very loud voice.

"Yes, you are."

Aaron rolled his eyes, "Anyways. My favorite color is black. I like sunflowers," he has a favorite flower? "My favorite scent is cinnamon and wood after rain. If I were to chose one more favorite song, it would be Teeth by 5 Seconds of Summer. Band, group, singers: Chase Atlantic, Little Mix, Dua Lipa, and Bruno Mars."

"What's your favorite from Chase?"

"Swim. Yours?"

"Slow Down."

A nod, "Now, books." Yes, I'm personally curious about that, since I didn't take him by the reader type. "My ultimate favorite is Dune, which you mentioned before. But there some others that I love almost just as much. Pretty much all of Agatha Christie books, Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco, Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence, and most of Stephen King's book too."

"Epic fiction, sci-fi, mystery, dark fantasy, a middle grade fantasy, and horror. More versatile than me, I can't read horror. It's definitely not for me."

"And what about horror movies?"

"I get scared easily, so, no."

He giggled amused, "I'm a sucker for horror movies since I was a kid." That made me glare at him as if he was an alien. "For real. Me and my brothers love it."

"That's too bad, because I really can't watch it."

"That'll be amusing," what does he mean by that? "I'm still quite shocked that you play videogames. And good ones at that."

"Aaron, I have 6 brothers. There's no way I wouldn't play videogames when I grew up with them. I only don't like online games, but my brothers do."

A nod, "Me neither. My favorites are Devil May Cry, Elden Ring, Tomb Raider, Nioh, Doom, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Infamous, and Spiderman."

I frowned, "Quite a bit of horror games. I also like Tomb and Spider, though. Oh, and the Devil May Cry 5 too."

"I told you I like horror. And the DMC 5 is the best, indeed. The graphics are the most beautiful in it too. Now animation, movie, tv show. Ratatouille and Aladdin. Star Wars and Scream. American Horror Story and The 100."

"Horror isn't for me, so I've never ever tried watching Scream, or AHS. But I like the others. I used to love the 100 when it first aired, the books are also good."

"They are," then he extended his hand to me. "Give me your phone, you need to have my number on it." Oh? Damn we were almost forgetting such an important point.

I got up, took it from the island in the kitchen, got back to his side and unlocked it. "Here."

"A moon wallpaper?"

"I like the moon," I held my hair and turned my back to him, showing him my back. "I even have all the moon phases here, look."

"It's really a gorgeous tattoo," before he could touch it, I put my hair down. "Anyways, I'll save my name as Darling. Got it?"

Disgusting. "Hm."

"With three hearts," he mumbled while adding the emojis on his contact name. "Now it's more believable." Then he took his phone, went to the message he sent to himself on my number, and saved it under Sweetheart with three hearts. "Okay, now let's be over with the trivial stuff. My favorite anime and manga is One Piece as I told you before. The kdrama I like is called Island, and the webtoon I enjoy the most is Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint."

Finally, I was getting tired already. "I'm low key surprised that you not only watch Korean dramas as you read webtoons. And good ones at that. I like Island, although is scary, I watched because of the Idol-turned-actor who plays priest Yohan, who I'm a fan of."

"What a fangirl. Confronting her fear of scary things for the handsome actor," he mocked and I rolled my eyes hard.

"Okay, now that trivial time is over," I got up, "you should leave. My head is really aching because of you," it's a lie, but whatever.

"Fine. I'll go. But I'll comeback tomorrow. We have to go out and take pictures around the city. They will definitely ask for pics, and we'll need some if we'll be lying about being in this relationship for around 5 months."

I closed my eyes, and sighed, "How annoying. I was planning on staying here and reading the whole week, but you just destroyed my plans. Tudo bem. If we need pictures, we'll take some. Now fuck off, your perfect face is annoying me."

He grinned, "You think I have a perfect face?"

"I think you are condescending and doesn't need anyone to remind you of your physical charms. It doesn't matter what I think. Now, vaza," I pushed him to the door, taking advantage to touch his back muscles again. "Shoo."

"Wait, tell me about my physical charms." He stopped me by turning around and holding my forearms. "What are my physical charms?"

I gave him a deadly glare, "Don't cross the line, Aaron. I'm really about to burst of annoyance, so, por Deus, leave. I won't tell you any merda."

"Boring," the avatar complained, finally leaving.