Sweet Crazy Love Page 8

  Giggling at that, she followed the old woman into the house.

  "Where are Lilly and Raff" she asked after settling down on the kitchen chair. Nana had been baking and the kitchen smelled wonderful, of vanilla, chocolate and cinnamon.

  "They went for a school trip. They will be coming back tomorrow."

  "And Randy?"

  The grandmother shrugged her shoulders before handing her a glass of warm milk, "You know that boy works so much, he left early for the garage."

  Elsie nodded her head and received the small plate that nana handed to her. She just couldn't resist her homemade chocolate chip cookies.

  "So when are you going to find a woman for him?"

  Choking on her milk, she let out a fit of coughs and placed the glass on the table as the old woman reached out to pat her back with a smile that would have reviled any model. The old woman is relentless; she thought and received a napkin to wipe her mouth.

  "I am on it. Told Randy yesterday we had to change his appearance first. Have you seen his latest beard look, like a cave man?"

  Nana giggled with glee at that as Elsie joined in.

  "Hand me that cellophane paper dear" nana said. "I think these have cooled enough to be packaged" she said motioning to the cookies on the cooling rack.

  Elsie went on to place the cookies in packets of six and threes before closing them. They worked in that manner, chatting as nana reminisced over her youth. She was shocked that so much time had passed when she heard Randy's voice.

  "Afternoon nan, came to take a quick shower before going to my next job. Hey Elsie," he nodded at both of them before he continued on to his bedroom.

  Elsie had nearly drooled, even with a bit of grease here and there on the work suit he was a sight to behold.

  "Okay, pack these up in the boxes and put them in Randy's car. He will drop them at Mandy's kiosk so she sells them for me.” Elsie nodded and watched Nana leave the room before she took the empty small boxes and put the now packaged cookies in them. She took them to the taxi, sighing out of relief when the boot opened before she stowed the boxes and went for more. After she was done she sat back in the kitchen and drained the remaining milk that was now cold before looking for nana.

  Since she hadn't seen her in the living room, she wondered where nana must have disappeared to. Glancing at the watch on the wall, she knew Randy would have been done with the shower. They needed to talk. Nana hadn't minded her being in Randy's room at all since at times she had done her maths studies over at the place; her requirement was that the door was meant to be open all the time. They might have said they were the best of friends and Elsie had a boyfriend yet she didn't trust two growing children taking such a risk.

  Taping lightly on the door, she didn't wait for an answer but got in, and gasped when she noticed Randy's abs before they were covered by the polo shirt he had been donning on.

  He was wearing blue torn jeans and the black polo shirt was tightly stretched over his body, showing off his muscle. "Elsie what are you looking for, I could have been naked?" a raised brow speared her heart and had her panting before she shut the door tightly.

  "We have to talk."

  Randy was moving around the room still getting ready as he got a hair brush and brushed his short hair. "Can’t it wait until another time, I have to rush."

  "No it can't" she shook her head and steadily moved towards him.

  "What’s going on, you seem to be pissed at me."

  "What makes you think that?"

  Well the fact that he was frowning at her made her think that. He turned back and took a bottle of his cologne before spraying under his armpits and around his abs, having raised the shirt to do so. Elsie gulped. This was torture on its own and Randy appeared to be oblivious.

  "Talk" Randy glanced at her through the mirror. She had settled at the edge of the bed and was looking at him as if he was an alien of some sort. Taking in the short jumpsuit, he almost went and knelt down next to her and confessed his love, except his eyes locked on something on her finger, the ring. That made his frown deepen. Seeing she wasn't happy but rather seemed sad, he sighed and checked if all was in place before he turned and picked up her hands. "It’s pretty and I can imagine very expensive"

  "Wha-a-at-t" Elsie asked confused at what he was talking about. "The ring. Will Sean be comfortable in knowing that his fiancée was in my room and it’s a habit she has?"

  He dropped her hand and the bed dipped as he sat back to wear his socks and shoes.

  "About this," she nervously chuckled, "It took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting it. We had planned to get married when I was done with school but Sean felt that he couldn't wait any longer." "Okay.."

  Is that all he could say. What was wrong with Randy? There he was now standing up as if her decision didn't matter to him, not even a bit.

  "I am sorry" she whispered and stood up to leave the room only for him to grab her hand and turn her around to face him.

  He was still frowning and she resisted the urge to kiss it away.

  "What are you sorry for Elsie; we are nothing more than good friends." The way he said it, so dismissively while his face had shown another emotion, that he was mightily pissed. It wouldn't surprise her if he threw her out of his room and said worse things about her character and on how she had been leading him on before getting engaged instantly the moment her absentee boyfriend popped the question.

  "I mean" she gulped at the broad chest near her and looked up braving the frown, "I don't want you to get a wrong impression of me."

  "And what is that impression princess," he asked and changed his tone almost to a growl while she gulped a few breaths of air.

  "That I am tease."

  "Who said you were a tease," his brow furrowed before he leaned in and whispered, "do you know what a tease does Elsie, she dresses seductively, leads the person on with her cute plump lips that beckon for him to kiss her and then pushes him away as if he were nothing."

  He had shifted his hold and had drawn her to him by her waist while he spoke.

  Elsie’s heart thudded at a fast pace as she looked intrigued at the many emotions passing on Randy's face. From being angry now she saw desire instead and intent as he lowered his head and Elsie shut her eyes before she felt a slight brush of his warm lips on her.

  Finally the long awaited kiss. She trembled as he parted her lips with his tongue before sliding it in and invading her being. She trembled further and could feel her legs about to buckle at the intrusion and instantly opened up her mouth, relishing the kiss and tasting in the sweetness it offered.

  She moaned and could feel her back partly press against the wall while she clung to him and her hands ran over his strong arms. The kiss went on for a long time and his hands were at work also as he cradled her butt, groaning in the process, swiftly picked her up and wrapped her legs around his waist.

  He leaned in, pressing her against the wall before trailing his warms lips onto her neck and ear where he playfully nipped it making her squirm. This was wrong on all levels, she thought and at the fact that she was engaged to Sean and his engagement diamond ring sparkled and mocked her for being such a hussy and having her arms around Randy. Yet she couldn't resist the sensations that he was making her feel. It was as if she was feeling everything strongly and for the first time.

  A deep dull ache had settled between her thighs. It had been so long since she last felt that and with Randy she knew she could lose it if she didn't stop. She didn't want to be that girl again, who was led by her body instead of thinking about the consequences, hell she wasn't that thirteen year old anymore.

  What would Randy think about her if he knew that once upon a time she had experienced the thrills of lovemaking? No matter what her dad said, that she was good, she wasn't, she was a bad girl and Randy deserved better than her. Even Sean, except when she told him, he accepted her, history and all. Her hand slowly trailed to his cheek rubbing the prickly beard with her sensitive palm and they finally drew
apart from the long kiss as Randy let her go. Her feet hit the ground while they both tried to catch their breath at what had just happened.

  Elsie cleared her throat, she didn't want to look his way, suddenly feeling contrite over her actions before she whispered, "I should go" and walked away. Randy was about to stop her but thought much better and dropped his hand. After five minutes and he was thinking straight, having composed himself, he left the room and found his nana in the living room with a ball of wool and knitting pins.

  "What did you do this time that had Elsie run out from here like she was being chased?"

  She stared at him with a frown pasted on her face.

  "Nothing," he answered with a bite in his voice. He could hear her scoff at the lie but wasn't ready to confront his demons. Off course he was mighty pissed off with her. She didn't think about him and the fact that she could give them a chance before she agreed to the proposal.

  At the end she chose what she believed would give her what she wanted in life, stability.

  He could do that, give her that though it wouldn't be the same like to what she was used to. And to think he had almost made a fool out of himself the day before and shown her that he was interested in her and not as a friend. Hell, she was right, she was a tease. She had been goading him on to seduce her at the same time instantly forgot about it when her knight produced the diamond ring. What did that make him at the end of the day?

  One of the bleeps in her ten year old plan.

  Rita had mentioned it before, that Elsie had a plan on what she wanted, including the qualities of the man she wanted to marry her. He had to be loaded, a hard worker, family man, believer and so on. He wasn't loaded yet he had for a second thought that she might be in love with a man like him, who would love her with his being and provide for her as he had been doing for his family. He wouldn't be able to buy her designer clothes and send her to exotic places but he knew he could make her happy.

  Give her the home she never had but that he was blessed to have had with his parents before their passing. They had been happy and content; his father so in love with his wife and it could be seen even by their kids as they loved touching each other a lot, holding hands, taking long walks with the children to the beach, chasing them away while they had their candlelit dinners and laughter. There was always so much laughter in the house.

  "Did she mention to you that she is getting married?"

  His nana frowned before it changed into pity guessing what might have sent Elsie running. The way her grandson was scowling said it all. "What are you going to do about it?"

  "Nothing, she made her choice she will have to live by it."

  His grandmother sighed but didn't push.

  "The cookies are already in your car; don’t you want to eat something before you leave?"

  He shook his head, "I will grab something on the way" he advised before he reached out to her and kissed her on the forehead. "You take care,” she whispered while he straightened up, smiled sadly and walked out of the house.

  ***

  Elsie squeezed her legs together trying to stop the deep dull ache she was feeling in between her legs. Celibacy by all means was hard to muster, she thought and yet she had managed it. That had all been because she kept as far away from compromising situations as she possibly could. Sean wasn't the type to try to take liberties from her, he was far much of a gentleman and Randy was that too.

  Yet now she was in danger of causing Randy to be something else. She stroked her lips with her manicured thumb, grazing the tender skin still reliving what had just happened. She had pulled her car on the side after she left Randy's house in a daze. Her phone rang and she answered it without checking the caller I.D.

  Sean's deep voice resonated from the phone. "Hey love, am from talking to your parents we will be having dinner at seven at my family house, make sure you dress well like a soon to be wife," he advised.

  "Thanks Sean. See you at seven then." There was a slight pause from Sean before his voice drifted through again, "I was thinking we could meet up before that. It has been long since we had some quality time together."

  Elsie bit her tongue and stifled a sob. Sean sounded so happy while she was fighting against the confusion welling up in her. He wouldn't be with another woman, kiss her crazy like she had done with Randy and still expect to marry her. She thought on what Rita once told her, that she should give each man the chance to find a woman who would love them whole heartedly. She really was a tramp, she thought.

  "Its fine Sean, where can we meet?"

  He mentioned the spot before he hung up. Heaving a sigh after the call, she started the car and drove towards the place where she would meet him.

  Chapter Nine

  FOR THE next couple of weeks everything passed in a blur. She was busy with school, meeting up with Sean’s family and preparing for the engagement party. Sean’s young sister Serena was elated by the news while his mother as usual didn’t reveal her emotions. Grace Compton was a hard person to please and acted like her son was beyond reach and above reproach. How couldn’t she, since Sean was a good man and not at all like the Compton’s who didn’t value marriage but rather still remained the talk of the town because of their womanizing ways.

  She didn’t meet Randy in that time and he also appeared to not be interested in looking for her. They hadn’t even spoken over the phone after the kissing incidence. She was afraid if she called he would not answer so she didn’t put the effort. Besides Nana had mentioned that he barely came home, he had taken up another job at the station that meant his shifts were at night after he was done with his day job.

  “So when will I see you dear?” Nana had asked over the phone.

  “I am quite busy but soon,” she had sadly answered back. They was no turning back. With the preparations in hand, she couldn’t drop everything and announce to Sean that she loved Randy more. Theirs was a crazy sweet kind of love that made her want to scream at the top of lungs and leave everything behind. That she had rather prefer being a middle class woman, without the trust funds and the exotic trips as Randy would take her into those places in the comfort of their bedroom.

  If the kiss was an indicator to the joy she might derive from sex, then she knew the actual did will be out of the world. Today was her engagement party and she was rather chiding herself over the fact that she wasn’t happy but rather felt sad and wished someone would untangle the mess she had gotten herself into.

  Nita, Wendy and Marylyn were back home from school and the house was even noisier than before. Rita had also come for the engagement party but she could swear that her best friend wasn’t her usual chirpy self but looked rather forlorn as if she had lost her best friend. She wondered why but wasn’t ready to deal with someone’s issues when she on the other hand felt like she would abscond her party.

  “Can I come in,” Nita tapped on the door twice before she got into her room.

  “Looking beautiful Elsie,” she commented and settled down on the bed. “Thanks, I would give to have your body though.” Elsie giggled and watched her young sister roll her eyes through the mirror. “So no more clubbing for you, who will I go with?”

  “Wendy.”

  Nita grimaced, “Have you seen Wendy and the way she rolls her eyes at everything. For someone who wants to be a writer, she certainly knows how to deflate a person’s happy aura,” she motioned with her hands over her body and sat up properly when Wendy burst in and asked beneath her glasses, “Who deflates a person’s aura.”

  “You see what I mean; she could have made a wonderful headmistress at our school. Let me get ready and rival the bride to be,” she winked before she sauntered off from the room. Wendy hugged her and commented on her appearance before she left her also to get ready. Time was moving fast. She stared at herself in the mirror for one last time before she got up and went downstairs to wait for everyone else. She appeared to have finished first before everyone as the rest banged their doors in a rush, getting all set for the pa
rty. It was going to be a small affair with family and close friends. She was glad that all her uncles would be there and hoped that none of the family members would cause a scene. Drama appeared to be their norm.

  Chapter Ten

  AGGY WAS furiously eating the tidbits offered on the buffet while looking from one end of the room to the other.

  “What is going on Aggy?” Sophie asked with a raised brow and was shocked when her friend grabbed a glass of champagne and gulped it down in one go. For one meant to be celebrating her daughter’s engagement she was nervous.

  “Whoah, relax” Sophie advised and took the other glass from her hand that she was about to chuck down also.

  “Trouble is what is going on” Aggy whispered and ran her eyes to the other side of the hall again. Sophie followed her eyes to where they were focused and saw a tall young broad shouldered man dressed in a suit. His legs were partly parted while his hands were in both pockets and he was staring through hooded eyes at the couple ahead of him. Sophie looked at the young man again; his stance reminded her of Greg her husband and even Ethan and Dominic, she had seen that look before they did something scandalous and freaked out afterwards when they had done it, that look that boded more on ill than good.

  “Who is that?”

  “Trouble,” Aggy answered and gasped when the young man strode to the couple.

  “I should stop this.” Before she could walk towards her daughter, Ethan grabbed her hand and also Greg had moved towards them.

  “Don’t intervene,” he whispered in her ear while Greg appeared to be whispering something to his wife. “He will ruin her reputation,” Aggy snapped back.

  “No he won’t, let the kids sort their mess out Aggs,” he advised in his commanding voice. Everyone else around them seemed to be oblivious on a scandal that was about to happen. Sean’s parents were beaming chatting with the guests while Marg rolled her eyes at something Dominic might have said. He was being a nuisance as usual without his wife around.