167 Getting Self-conscious

Pausing at the top of the staircase, Jennifer took a deep breathe. She sighed as she looked down at her dress.

'Am I looking good in this?' She wondered.

Although she had seen herself in the mirror and also knew that she was looking good, but she couldn't still stop wondering if she was lacking something.

She hadn't wore any makeup and was going to go down bare faced.

'Should I apply something? Maybe a red lip salve?'

Jennifer was shocked by her own thoughts.

'Why am I even thinking about this?!' She didn't know when it happened and she had now started feeling self-conscious.

She had stopped applying lipstick and had switched it with a lip salve, which she didn't use frequently.

Only if her lips would turn dry, she would use one and she mostly preferred a nude coloured one.

She would only apply a colourful one if she would go out for some function or party with her mother.

In all, she had turned into a tomboy. But today, she was unexpectedly having some second thoughts.

Feeling frustrated, she turned back to go inside her room. She would need some time to remove those nonsensical thoughts from her mind. But just as she turned, she heard Emmett's all time sexy and alluring voice, which sounded serious, "She will be the only woman in my life, Mom."

Though he hadn't spoken it out loudly, but with Jennifer's good hearing, she was able to make out the words he said.

Her heart began thumping loudly. Loud enough that she herself was able to hear it. His words seemed to have a great effect on her, without her knowing.

Keeping her right palm on her chest, where her heart was situated, she started to walk down the stairs, towards the couch the both were sitting.

Her feet automatically started to move, as she made her way downstairs. She didn't know if it was her curiosity or something else that made her change her decision of going back inside her room.

She hadn't heard the last word he had uttered, or she would have been shocked with the improvement he was having with her mother. Calling someone 'Mom' prior to marriage, was a statement made when the other person was sure about his or her life partner.

With light footsteps, she came to stand behind the man, who had his back facing her.

Looking ahead, she saw her mother smiling, then Mary's attention was drawn to her lovely daughter, who still had a look of shock on her face, which went unnoticed by Mary as she was in her own world of happiness.

"Oh God!! You are looking so beautiful. Come and sit here Jenny." Mary urged her as she walked to guide her daughter by her hand, making her seat on the couch opposite to the one on which Emmett was sitting.

Jennifer didn't know why she was feeling nervous, or was it self-consciousness??

Suddenly she had a weird thought, 'Why is this situation similar to the one where the woman meets the man for the first time for an arranged marriage meeting between the two??'

Face palming herself in her mind for thinking such a nonsensical thing, Jennifer took a quick peek at the man in front of her.

But she regretted doing that the next second, as her heartbeat which had calmed down a little few seconds ago, picked up its pace, after she saw him looking at her with a different emotion in his eyes.

What was it?

She couldn't comprehend, but all she could do now was to keep her neck down for the longest she could to hide the possible blush which was marked pink on her fair cheeks.

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Hearing a slight movement behind him, Emmett didn't have to look back to know who was standing behind him.

Who else it could be other than his girlfriend?!

And his speculation was right when he heard his mother-in-law's excited voice, "Oh God!! You are looking so beautiful. Come and sit here Jenny."

He didn't turn back to look at her, as it wasn't needed given that his mother-in-law made it easy for him, as she brought her daughter to sit in front of him.

The moment he looked at her, he was a little... stunned as well as mesmerized.

She looked so beautiful and ravishing that he had a sudden urge to kiss her senseless, but he couldn't do it now as his mother-in-law was sitting just beside his beautiful girlfriend.

His eyes darkened as he saw her blush after making an eye contact with him.

Mary who was still in her own world didn't realize the change in the atmosphere. Nudging Jennifer on her arm, she whispered in her ear, "Why aren't you talking? Are you feeling shy now, huh?"

"Mom, stop that."

"Should I serve the breakfast now? I don't think your dad will come home anytime soon."

"No mom. Let's wait for dad to come home, also I am not that hungry." She said as she took a peek again at the handsome man in front of her, who was still watching her.

Shifting her gaze from him, she continued to look down.

"Stupid girl, even if you are not hungry, he must have been. Remember you are his girlfriend and so from now on you will have to take care of his meal also...." Mary bent down and whispered in her ears, "...if you want your man to be always with you, all you have to do is to cook tasty food for him. Remember, a way to the man's heart is through his stomach."

Jennifer eyes widened as she looked at her mother.

She wanted to speak something, but Emmett beat her to it, "Don't worry mom, I am not hungry yet. We will eat lunch later."

Jerking her head in Emmett's direction, Jennifer stared at him with wide eyes and shocked face.

Were the both planning on giving her a heart attack with their shocking words.

First, her mother who was teasing her and now Emmett, who had just called her mother 'mom' so casually, as if he was her real son.

She suddenly felt as though she would end up getting bullied a lot by them in the future.

"Ohh! No problem then dear, please let me know if you feel hungry." Mary said to Emmett with a small smile.

"Okay mom." Emmett nodded in response.

Whereas Jennifer's mouth twitched as she couldn't speak what she wanted to. She could just look at the pair of shameless mother and her boyfriend.

"What are you daydreaming? Get up and take him to show our house, till the time I will cook food for us." Mary flicked on her daughter's forehead.

Jennifer felt embarrassed with her mom's actions, she whined in protest, "Ouch...Mom!!"

"What mom?! Get up fast, stop being lazy and take him to tour our house."

Knowing that she couldn't do anything to change her mother's mind, she nodded her head hesitantly.

Getting up, she forced a smile on her face as she turned to look at Emmett who was silent watching the conversation taking place between his mother-in-law and girlfriend.

"Let's go, I will show you our house."

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