Chapter 36: Valentine's Day

Sunday: 14 February

"Happy valentines day", Travis whispers in my ears and I smile. It's aftermidnight and we trying to get his friends out of his place so we can go sleep.

"Did you say it?", Sarki asks.

"Yeap", Travis nods. "I said it", he keeps nodding and glancing at every second.

We leaning at the hood of his car and laughing at the fat guy, one of Travis friends that so sleepy but doesn't wanna go back home.

After laughing and chilling, his friends end up leaving and we decide to go to bed.

...

"Good morning",

My body is swore, I feel so tired like I'm hangover or something. "Good morning", I reply as I get up.

"Where you going?", he asks as I slide off the bed.

"To the bathroom obviously", I head to the bathroom then after I climb back on bed. By now I have accepted that he didn't buy me anything for valentines days, and I'm cool with that since I havent bought anything either.

"Are you hungry?", he asks and I nod. I'm surprised I don't have to push him around just to get him to make me something to eat.

"There's no bread, but I can go buy bread at the store while-",

Whatever he wants to say next, I'm not interested. "I'm coming with you",

"Well, I wanna go down at the machanic and check some parts I asked for my car", he says.

"In that case, I might as well go home then", I reply.

"No no you can't, it won't take long", he says. I don't know, usually when he says he won't take long, he takes long. I don't wanna be stuck here all day waiting for his return, him telling me excuses in the process.

"If you take long I'll lock up the house and go home, you'll get here and figure out how to unlock the door without the keys",

"I get it", he pulls me by my arm and places a kiss on my lips. "I'll be right back", he slides off bed and pulls on the first pants he comes across to.

"Are you sure you won't take long?", I ask. I can't really believe that he'll be back withing a few minutes. He always takes long when he goes out.

"Yes", he walks to me and place another kiss on my forehead, "I'll be back",

He heads out. I decide to get up and fix the bed, tidy the place up. Firstly I head to the kitchen and boil some water to make myself a cup of coffee. As the kettles sings I head to the livingroom and start picking up some stuff from the floor and all over the couches. Travis leaves everything everywhere. Just as the kettle stops, indicating that my water is smoking hot, I'm already in the kitchen with a cup in hand and my phone in the other hand.

"I knew he was gonna take long", I whisper to no one in particular as I roll my eyes, shaking my head in the process. I take my cup of coffee to the livingroom and get myself comfortable on the couch with my legs up. The fact that he's got no TV, makes the whole thing of being home alone suck. Now I'm supper bored and lazy to finish up tidying the place. So I light up my phone and scroll through it, veiwing all the valentine whatsapp statuses. They suck, nothing seems interesting. Freya's boyfriend called the manicure girl to peep Freya, now her nails are all over her status, which is something nice as a gift. Forrest sent me a Pic of flowers wishing me happy valentine. Travis posted a short video wishing everyone happy valentine, which is lame.

After my cup of coffee I get up to fix what I started, tidying up the place. As I take my cup to the kitchen I hear something move from the garage, it doesn't even scare me, I know it's Travis trying to scare me. So I open the door that separates the kitchen with the garage and Travis pops from behind the car screaming like a boogie man, if the boogie man ever screams.

"Thats not funny", I turn, heading to the bedroom with a blanket that I moved from the couch in the livingroom. Travis follows me, I don't have to turn around to see that since I can hear his footsteps and feel his presence. Just after tossing the blanket on the bed, I turn around meeting a huge chocolate colored teddy bear.

"Oh my gosh", I chip in excitement. "Oh wow", I cover my smile with my hands and jump up and down in excitement.

"I know it's not the best color but it was the only one left", he says, trying to cover the fact that the teddy is dark, chocolate color.

"It's okay", he hands me the teddy and I hug him. He's so soft. "I guess they all deserve to be loved", he smiles at me. I guess he likes the fact that I'm loving it.

"I'll call him Treasure", I say.

"That's a sweet name for her", he says.

"No no, it's a boy",

"Doesn't look like a boy", he frowns. I stare at him.

"What? There's no penis", he points straight at the middle of the teddy's legs. There's no penis but the gender can me anything I like.

"I don't care, but he's still my boy",

He rolls his eyes me then walks out of the bedroom to later come back with a gift bag. "Oh my, how many gifts do I get?", I ask with a huge smile on my face.

"Could have been as many as you want, but I guess this is it", he hands me the gift back and I'm forced to put the teddy down and check what's in the gift bag.

"Ain't you the sweetest?", I smile as I pull out a notebook. He knows how much I love writting, now here he is buying me a notebook.

"The one you're using has a few pages left", he says and it's the sweetest and thoughtful thing to do.

"Thank you", I place the notebook on the bed and pull out a box of chocolates. "Wow", I can't stop smiling, this guy is the best. You know Duncan always told me valentines day was made by a guy for his special valentino. So it's best to celebrate our own thing. In a way I did left that go, the only reason I didn't celebrate valentine was because I believed I don't need a specific date to tell the ones I love how much I love them, I can do that whenever I want to, when I feel like it.

"Thank you babe", I bury myself in his arms. "This was so thoughtful, I feel bad for not getting you anything", I hug him tighter.

"It's okay, you're the best valentine gift I could ever ask for", we pull out of the hug and he leans down to kiss me.

"Mmmh", I smile against his lips. "You're the sweetest",

"Oh yeah?", he picks me up and toss me on his bed. "I'm the sweetest huh?", he gets on bed, hovering above me then starts devouring my lips.

I'm up for it, I'm ready for him to love in on Velentino's day. I don't care why this day was labeled, all I care about is being loved the way I am now.

...

"Have you ever watched this one?", Travis asks as he plays a movie on his laptop. I'm not even paying attention, I know he's got old movies and I'm not interested in any of this.

"Nope", I glance at the laptop then focus back on my phone. My fashion dress up game is way more interesting than what he's playing. "Looks boring",

"You're not even watching, you don't even know the movie", he whines but I chuckle.

"I know it's boring", I continue with my game and pay him and his movie no attention.

"Alright", he nods. "What do you wanna watch?",

"Something romantic", I answer. Romantic movies are sometimes boring because most are predictable, but I'd still watch that rather than any action. But, I'd watch animated movies too if he ain't got any romance.

"Babe come on", he searches through his laptop for something he clearly doesn't have. "Why didn't you come with movies?",

"I would have if I had something to send all the movies too", I reply. "Look", I turn my phone screen to his face. "Isn't she dressed nicely?", I ask.

He rolls his eyes then shakes his head, "She's not that bad",

"Oh wow", I laugh. "Not that bad huh?", I keep dressing my character, not minding what he says about my style of fashion. Just as the game compares my style to another character and I actually win, I slightly jump on the couch celebrating my win.

"Let me try", he opens his hand for me to give him my phone. "I'm sure I could do better",

"Okay", I hand him my phone with a smile. He starts dressing up his character without following the instructions given and he ends up losing. "You're suppose to follow this", I show him what to do, what to look at and he listens. The next round he plays accordingly and he wins.

"See, I'm good with this", he smiles.

"What games do you have?", I ask. He hands me his phone but keeps playing my dress up game. I check his candy games of crushing some stuff and it actually bores me. Then I come across a car racing game.

"No, don't play that one", he warns.

"Why? I wanna play it", him telling me not to play it makes me wanna play it.

"You'll mess up my score, I've worked hard for it",

"I know how to play it", I insist, pressing  start on the game to play.

"You'll really mess up my score", he drops my phone on his lap then focus on what I'm doing. I ignore him while choosing the car I wanna drive. I press the garage option and change the color of my car. "Really? Now you're wasting all the money I made?",

"I'll make more money after winning my race", I reply, making him roll his eyes. I buy a few stuff and leave his game bank with little money. I start racing and horribly my car rolls over and I lose the game.

"What did I tell you?", he asks.

"I got distracted by the other guy", I point at his game. "I'll get a rematch and win",

"Okay", he chuckles then grabs my phone to continue with the dress up game. I keep racing and losing and on my third try I hand him the phone asking for him to ply my match. "You don't listen", he starts racing and wins. It looks so simple as he does it and I get excited to wanna play again.

"Let me try",

"No", he shakes his head. "Hell no",

"Please", I pout my lips.

"Okay", he hands me the phone then watch me play. Well, I keep losing.

My phone rings and it's my mum.

"When are you coming back home?", it's almost afternoon so I guess mum wants me to sleep home.

"I'll be there mum, relax", I reply.

"We'll be waiting", shes probably sitting with my dad that's more reason she says we. I guess I better go home, no more fun time.

"I have to go", I say glancing at Travis.

"Now?", he asks, sounding a bit disappointed.

"Yeap", I nod. "I'll be holding the rest of my stuff and you'll hold my Treasure",

"Nope", he shakes his head. "You'll have to leave your teddy here cause I ain't gonna carry him around, no way",

"Are you kidding me?", I frown while holding in a laugh. "You brought this teddy-",

"Yeah I sent my guys", he cuts in.

"Oh wow", I shake my head. "That's truly romantic",

"Yeap, I'm Mr romantic remember", he says and I just roll my eyes. I grab Treasure along with my gift bag and wait by the door.

"Are you coming or what?", I ask.

"So you'll hold the teddy?",

"Yeap, is there something wrong?", I twist from the position of facing the door, turning to him with attitude.

He laughs then gets up from the couch. "Alright",

After a few minutes of locking the house we head out. Along the way I keep struggling to hold Treasure properly and I almost drop him to the ground.

"Bring it here, I'll hold it", we half way through and I know it wasn't his plan to end up holding my teddy. But, Travis is a nice guy, he cares too much and he'd do anything I suppose, for us to be happy.

"Here, take it", just when we get to my house he doesn't waste anytime on holding the teddy longer.

"Aren't you gonna kiss him goodbye?", I ask, clearly making fun of him.

"No. You kiss him for me", he replies.

"But you're right here", I whine.

"No", he shakes his head.

After a few seconds of kissing him goodbye he leaves, heading back to his grand's.

Just when I walk in Kourtney shouts, as if he's frightened or something. "What's you deal?", I ask.

"That monster you're holding is my deal", he replies. "What's in that bag?", he grabs my gift bag from my hand and checks inside, pulling out my notebook and tossing it on the coffee table then pulls out my box of chocolates. "This looks delicious",

"Yeap, and it isn't yours", I pull out my hand to him. "Give it back",

"Okay", he stares at me like I'm a bomb or something, then slowly opens my box of chocolates as I stand watching him. "I'm just gonna take one", he says in slow motion and I can't help but roll my eyes.

"What is that?", Mum appears from behind me staring at my teddy.

"Mum come on", I cry. "This is Treasure, my new baby",

"Why is it so black?", she asks.

"It was the only one left mum, please don't look at it like that", I whine.

"I can't help it, that thing is scary", she says and Kourtney bursts in laughter.

I toss the teddy on the couch and storm out to my room. Not that I'm angry or anything, I just felt like doing that. Kourtney runs after me with my teddy in his hand. "Ey, keep this thing in your room and never let it out", he throws it on my bed and I laugh, making him laugh.