After date

I plopped myself on the bed as soon as we enter our room. It's nice but I'm too tired. I used too much energy today. Ayden also sat on the bed, with all of the shopping bags. He started to do a shopping haul next to me now. I sat up and retied my hair into a bun. I want to see what he bought too from the lavender farm.

"Look, baby, cute right?" he shows me a cotton apron with a lavender design. Yes, you are cute. The apron is cute too. He jumped out of the bed and put it on. Help, this man getting cute and cuter day by day, his cuteness killing me now.

I let out a small laughed as he had a small run to the dressing mirror in the room. The apron is cute, but he looks stunning now.

I looked down and took out more stuff from the bag. He bought three boxes of lavender candles, one box of lavender reed diffusers. I glanced at him for a moment as he sat down on the bed again.

He even bought lavender and raspberry jam, and even bath petals.

"How do you use this?" I asked him, passing him his bath petals. He took it, and read the instruction behind the box. Haha, I'm too lazy to read, he hummed as if he understands something.

"Like a bath bomb, I guess. Should we give it a try?" He looked at me, and I nodded. "Be right back." he jumped out of the bed and went to the bathroom, and I grabbed the other shopping bag, the one from the clothing store and took out the clothes we bought. Ayden bought an oversize white tee, with black and red plaid pants as his pyjamas, and a black t-shirt for tomorrow morning. I took it out and put it on the bed so he can wear it soon. But he never wears a shirt when he's sleeping though.

Then I took out his Calvin Klein boxer and put it above the pant and went to the closet to hang his new black shirt.

I went back to the bed and took out mine, Ayden told me to buy this white nightdress, lucky it's a long sleeve. Imagine if he asked me to pick the sultry one? I'm dead.

My hands took out one white silk shirt that Ayden picked for me, with a red skirt, with a ribbon. I think I can tie the ribbon on the collar or maybe use it to tie my hair. I went to the wardrobe again, and hang my outfit for tomorrow. And I put my underwear bag inside it too.

"Princess?" I turned my head toward the voice, his folding his sleeves past his forearms, unbuttoned few buttons, showing off his sexy foreams. Tch! Show off.

"Tub is ready. Why don't you go a take a bath first, princess, and we will go out for dinner later. Let's eat fish and chips. There is some famous restaurant here, do you want to try it?" he said, looked at me with a smile. I walked closer and give him a hug. He even prepared me a tub, he deserves a hug.

He patted my head softly and rested his chin on top of my head. I breathe his scent. He used a different perfume today, but I like this too. It's smell so good, now that I think, he bought another perfume too, along with some of our toiletries like toothbrush and toothpaste.

"What's wrong?"

"Thank you…"

"Hmm? For what? What's wrong?" he pushed me a little to see my face. I smiled at him, showing the biggest smile and cupped his face, standing on my toes and kiss him. It's just a smooch though. He looked at me dumbfounded, staring deep into my eyes.

"I love you, Ayden," I said and he still looks so confused. I let him go and grabbed my new foaming bath, shampoo and conditioner, scrub and lotion that I just bought just now, and went to a bathroom.

"Fish and Chips, huh. It sounds great, I will be right back." I locked the bathroom door through instinct and I can hear it make a little sound which means he did hold the knob but he didn't try to open the door at all. Did he want to say something? Sorry, I slammed the door on your face, baby.

I glanced at myself through the mirror, and slowly take off the bandaid from my neck. The wound still looks fresh. For some reason, chill caught my nerves and I shuddered from remembering what happened that night. I shook my head lightly. That's just a dream.

'Is it?'

I frowned at my inner thought.

'Sleep tight, I will be right back.'

I flinched and looked down. What was that? When did I hear that before? Ayden? No, it's different.

I turned myself and get out of the bathroom, I'm too scared to take a bath by myself, but I was surprised with Ayden standing in front of the bathroom door, with a hand hanging in the air. He looked at me with wide eyes, and hide his hand behind his back, smiling awkwardly.

"I...I just...haha, I just…" I hugged him tightly, trying to calm down. I could hear his heartbeat getting faster and that's calm me down. I took a deep breath. It's just a nightmare.

"Baby? What's wrong?"

"I'm scared…" I said, weakly.

"Ah, I...if you scare because you think I might do something to you, I won't! Um, do you want me to get out from this room?" I looked up and he looked panic. Why he's panicking?

"I wasn't trying to peek! I swear! I just...uhh, oh, yeah, I just trying to give you this." he shows a bath petals box, one flower is already gone, which I believe he already put inside the tub. Ah...that's why his hand was hanging, he tries to peek at me, huh? And he sounds like he was panic.

I squinted my eyes at him. Which make him uneasy, he keeps looking around. He let out a nervous laughed. I tighten my hands around his waist and snuggled on his chest.

"Princess?" he called me, "What's wrong?" he asked. He tries to push me away, but I tighten my hands around his waist even more.

"I'm scared." Not anymore. I feel safe now. How funny.

"Why? Because of me? Should I get out?" I felt his hands dropped on my shoulders. "Hm? Should I wait outside?"

"No...I remembered that night, the dream...nightmare…" I looked up, searching for his beautiful eyes. he looked a little bit concern, and he hugged me back, patting my back softly.

"I'm here, it's okay, do you want some water? Hmm? I'm here, I will protect you. It's okay." he keeps patting me, and I liked it.

I patted him back and looked up. I gave him a sheepishly smile.

"Feeling better now?"

"Hmm…"

"Don't lock the door, okay. I won't try anything funny…" he paused before he smirked by himself. Then shook his head lightly. "Yeah, I won't do anything so don't lock the door. If you remember that thing again, just call me okay? It's alright, I'll be here, waiting for you and protecting you."

"You will stay here until I finish?" I asked him again, I sounded so...weird, I almost slapped my self.

"Yes. I will. Have I ever broken any promise before?"

"You did, two days ago, you said you wanted to cook lunch but you broke the promise." There's more, I can list them all.

"Ah…blame Jade for that." He said, rubbing his neck. "Sorry baby."

"I should take a bath, right."

"Yeah, we need to eat fish and chips. It's quite popular so we need to hurry."

"Okay, I'll be right, no peeking!" I said, turning myself again to the bathroom.

I could hear him laughing behind the door. I took off my clothes, brushed my teeth. I forgot about the makeup remover so I just washed my face with a bar of soap, and went under the shower first, I washed my body, scrubbed it, and shampooed my hair, put on a conditioner and raised it off. I smell like walking lavender now, before I soaked myself inside the warm bathtub. My whole tense muscles feel relieved.

It feels so good, I almost sleep. I think I do snooze off from the world. I gasped when my head almost falls backwards, I realised that Ayden probably waiting. So I quickly get out of the tub and dry myself before putting on the bathrobe.

When I got out, Ayden was doing a sit up in the middle of the room, facing the huge window. I walked closer and crouched next to him. He lied down and looked at me, breathing hard.

"You smell like lavender," he said, with a laugh.

"I'm a walking lavender now," I said nonchalantly and he laughed at my lame joke. It's feel good when someone laughed at your joke, you know. My eyes slowly looked down to his well-defined abs, that covered with glimmering sweat.

"Like it?" he asked, suddenly sat up and turned himself in front of me, leaning his face closer to me. He is flexing his body right now.

"I like it," I said, staring at his grey eyes, slowly looking down again.

"Can I kiss you, princess?" he asked, still breathing heavily.

"Aren't we supposed to go out and have dinner? What if the famous restaurant you said ran out of fish?"

"One kiss." He said, looking down at my lips.

"You need to take a shower, baby," I said, slowly. My tongue almost twists around, it's hard to call him that. And he hissed at me, with a little smirk.

"Is that a no?" I smiled.

"It is."

"Fair enough." And he smiled wider, and his lips met mine. Softly, he bites into my lower lips, sucking it and his thumb slowly opens my lips so he can make an entrance. He swirled his tongue around, dominating the kiss, which made me close my eyes, tight. It was soft and gentle but soon after, it got a little fierce, as he let out a groan, cupping my face and tilted it a little. I gasped in between kissing.

I tapped his shoulder, sending a signal for him to stop or I will die because of lacking some air.

He let me go, and I opened my teary eyes, panting for some air.

"Did I scare you? I'm sorry." He said, rubbing my shoulder softly, and pulled me into a hug.

You didn't scare me but almost killed me, dude. Of course, I didn't say it out loud.

"You should dry your hair properly, you might get a cold if you don't. There's a hairdryer on the vanity, dry your hair okay. And put on some clothes. Cover yourself with a blanket if you get cold, you can turn off the AC if you want to. I will be right back, I'll just take a quick shower and we will go get our dinner, okay?"

He looked at me with a faint smile. I nodded and hugged him one more time.

"Be quick! I'm hungry." I said, finally letting him go.

"Haha, princess, I'm all sweaty and you hugged me?" He laughed and that made me realise it. Ah! I just showered. But let me tell you, he still smells like his perfume, even though he's sweating. It does mix up with his masculine scent, but it's not bad.

And he looked hot with sweat...shit! Call me a pervert for that!

"I will be right back, okay?"

And he stood up and went to the bathroom. I quickly stood up and put on my clothes before he got out of the bathroom.

And within a minute, I was fully dressed. I hung up my bathrobe and walked to the vanity table and dried my hair. It's going to take a while to blow dry my hair since it's too long.

After three minutes, I was still drying my hair and Ayden came out from the bathroom, glancing at me before he averted his eyes, grabbed his clothes and went back to the bathroom.

I frowned my eyes as he did that.

Oh, now that I think about it, he did a sit-up when I came out from the bathroom. And he did say that he would do some exercise when he was feeling down and upset.

I looked at myself when I'm thinking about it. Is there anything that makes him upset?

And he averted my eyes.

Huh?

"Princess?" I flinched and glanced at him through the mirror. I turned off the hairdryer and looked around to see him.

"Are you upset with me? Did I do something wrong?" I blurt bluntly.

"Hm?" he looked at me with confusion and now I'm confused too.

"Am I upset with you? No! Of course not, why do you ask me that?" he said.

"Uh...I...you told me that you work out when you're feeling down, and you worked out just now." He kneels in front of me, frowning as he thinks. But soon after, his expression softened and he let out a laugh. And thus, he blushed.

"Oh...I'm just thinking about killing some time while waiting for you, that's all. I can work out and do some light exercises too to kill some time so don't worry about that, princess." he laughed, flicking my forehead. I whined and he rubbed my forehead with his thumb softly. He looked at me deeply and suddenly turned red. Oh, that's all.

He stood up all of sudden, grabbed the hairdryer, pushed my shoulder to face the mirror and turned on the hairdryer, blowing my hair until it dried.

I almost fall asleep because it felt so nice but before I could do so, he turned off the dryer and said, "Done!"

I gasped, I almost fall asleep again. I wiped my mouth, did I drool? I could hear him laughing but all I think right now is fish and chips.