Twenty questions and naughtiness

(Olivia’s POV)

(SweetBrew Café)

“So, this, this is your surprise?”

“You don’t like it?”

“I must say that I am surprised. Seeing you, I thought you’d go for someplace fancier but you picked this place, why?”

“Well, you are right, I could have done that but I was also considering the fact that you may or may not like it and I had to gamble on it. So, tell me, do you like it?”

“Yeah, I do; I do like it. Thank you for bringing me here. It has been a while I came here,”

“I’m glad you like it,”

“Okay, let’s talk basically about anything; just random stuffs,”

“Okay… you lead the way,”

“Okay, let us play a game of twenty questions; you know what that is, right?”

“Of course I do, kind of,”

“It is a game where we ask each other a question to get to know each other but in a fun way,”

“Okay, I am down with it. Shoot,”

“Okay, I already know your name; how old are you?”

“I am 26 years old, you?”

“I am 25 years old,”

“Which college did you attend?”

“I attended a community college and you already know that because it is in my resume. What about you?”

“Sheraton University”

“What is your favorite color?”

“My favorite color is Ocean Blue; to me, it screams peace,”

“Okay, that is cool; mine is Lilac. It screams calm to me,”

(Author’s POV)

The game went on for a while with Denzel and Olivia each enjoying each other’s company. Denzel and Olivia got to know each other a little better. To Denzel, he wanted to know more about her so he’ll know if he could trust her enough to reveal his secret and also know if she actually liked him the way he was and to Olivia, she just wanted to figure out who he really was and know if she was to give her heart to him but first, she was going into this with her brain first before her heart.

After being in the café for some hours, Denzel took her left hand in his and held it in place for some seconds while caressing it with his thumbs and staring at her. He looked at her intensely before saying,

“You know, I have been with several ladies before, not exactly dated them,”

“Why, why didn’t you date them?”

“Because they didn’t meet my standard and they complained about my ‘financial capability’,”

“Oh, sorry, I guess?”

“There is no need to apologize. It has been a long while since I last went on a date. I have a surprise for you,”

“What is it?”

“Take my hand and let’s go,”

Denzel took Olivia’s hand and led her outside the café to his car were he drove off to the edge of a forest. To Olivia’s surprise, after some steps forward into the forest, she found a lake surrounded with pretty flowers. Before them she was about asking Denzel why he brought her to a forest but now that she had seen the lake, she couldn’t ask him that question anymore.

“Wow, this is beautiful,” Olivia said, staring at the water and wondering if Denzel will call her childish if she attempted to dip her feet in the water. Seeing it was a little bit dark, the water should be cold.

“Yeah, it is. This is one of my few secret spots. I come here when I want to think and it surprisingly calms my nerves a whole lot,” Denzel didn’t know why he brought her here but he figured she would like it.

“You have a secret spot too, why would you have that? You seem too sophisticated for that” Olivia said, giggling while she nudged him towards the direction of the water.

“Don’t be deceived into thinking that. Come,” Denzel went forward, took out his sneakers, folded his trousers to his knee point, sat down at the bank of the lake and dipped his feet into the water.

Seeing Denzel’s action, Olivia followed suit. She was thankful that she wore a gown that would give her the freedom to do anything. Dipping her feet into the water, sure enough it was cold but it was relaxing.

“This honestly is a wonderful scene that I would enjoy coming to everyday. You know, I had everything planned out for my life when I was a little girl. I had the ‘brightest dreams’ a child could have. Things played out well until I was done with high school. My dad got laid off from work and my mum couldn’t keep the house running with incomes from her bakery shop. My kid brother had just gotten into senior high school then. It was hard coping with everything so I had to take decisions without my parents knowing about it. I secretly got a job at Club X as a stripper and a call girl too just so I could get money into college. To cut the long story short, I earned some money, saw myself through college and saw my brother through high school too, paid some bills at home although I am still doing that. Thanks to Olivia, she found me that damn early morning and decided to help me after that by telling the boss to hire me. Now, I have a way more better paying job, my brother is in college now, I am planning on saving some more money to move my parents to a better apartment and also get a better looking café for my mum were she can bake and sell her baking stuffs and the rest of the other stuffs needed to make a café run effectively,” Olivia said, wiping tears from her face and tried to laugh the pain away but she failed horribly because Denzel could see through her façade.

“Wow, that is…uhh, that must have been tough on you. Come here,” Denzel pulled Olivia closer to her and gave her a hug that made Olivia cry more because to her, she wasn’t deserving of Denzel. “Well, telling me this doesn’t make me like you any lesser. You are brave, you are beautiful, and you are worth more than diamonds. Taking such bold steps at a young age just to achieve your dreams and see your family through; you are definitely one of a kind and I won’t take that for granted. I don’t want to rush this but can’t wait either. We both know that the feeling is mutual but I would like it if you accepted to be girlfriend,” Denzel plans were to love her recklessly. He was sad that he wasn’t there to protect her when all those men used her body but then again, he didn’t know her then. He took her face in his palm and place light kisses on her face making Olivia’s stomach to flutter.

“I would like that too, very much,” Olivia said, smiling through her tears.

“When is your birthday?” Denzel suddenly asked and it got Olivia wondering why he needed it.

“October 16th?”

“Okay then. I will keep that in mind,”

Sitting in comfortable silence, none of them said a word but the atmosphere wasn’t tensed, it was peaceful; a kind of peace that made one reflect on his or her past and thinking about the future too. It was getting late and they both needed to get home. Denzel turned to look at Olivia and saw her leaning on him, dozing off. He chuckled and patted her head lightly to wake her up.

“Let’s go home,” and the only response he got from her was a ‘hmmmm’.

Denzel thought that she was very tired because as soon as she got into his car, she immediately fell asleep and didn’t move her body or anything. Confused on whose house to go to, he finally decided on taking her to his house where he could watch over her.

On getting home, getting her out of the car wasn’t a huge task as he was well built. He took her to his bed and laid her on it. Carefully removing the sneakers she wore so as not to wake her up and kept it at a spot on his shoe rack, covered her with a duvet, and finally tugged some strands of her hair away from her face and putting it behind her ear. Taking a final look at her, he left for the kitchen.

(Denzel’s POV)

After taking a final look at her before heading for the kitchen to get a late night snack which was just a bowl of cereal, a pack of milk and a bottle of water, all stacked in a tray, I went back upstairs; to my room and found her, cozying up to the warmth from the bed.

I smiled at the action and took a seat at the far end corner of the room and ate my cereal noiselessly so I wouldn’t wake her up. I ate in silence and watched her sleep peacefully. My mind ran wild with thoughts as I wondered what could have become of her if Phoenix didn’t find her that fateful morning and decided to help her afterwards. What if I had seen her at Club X, would I still have liked her?

All these thought ran through my mind and I decided to keep to myself by quickly taking a cold bath and rejoining her in bed after a few minutes. Deciding if I should spoon her or cuddle her or probably just leave her be in peace, I decided to do the former which was to spoon her.

Hopefully, she doesn’t wake up and punch me in the face but what could I say in defense, that I liked the warmth oozing out of her body or what?

Tsk, such a lame ass excuse. Whatever the case may be, she definitely wasn’t going to kill me.

(Olivia’s POV)

The scent oozing out of my bed sheet was different, it smelled different but who cares, I loved it. Somewhere inside of me, I was conscious but if felt like my actions weren’t taken by me and I just found myself smiling involuntarily. I inhaled the scent of the bed sheet and giggled. Hmmmm, my pillow, it was somehow a bit hard and not like the soft fluffy pillow I always liked hugging but that didn’t change a thing; I was going to snuggling this pillow until it begged me to stop.

Ah, this was the dream, sleeping like a baby without a care in the world! And with that thought, I swapped positions and quickly laid on top of the pillow case with a victory smug on my face but wait, was this pillow becoming hard by the second or I was just over thinking things?

I sleepily touched the pillow just to be sure that I wasn’t wrong and damn, I wasn’t wrong; this pillow was as hard as a rock. This was getting weird. I opened my sleepy eyes and was immediately blinded by the sunlight streaming into the room. I hissed in irritation.

Who the hell opened the curtains!! I stood up and closed the curtains to stop the sunlight from streaming in. turning around to get back to bed, I saw something like a figure sitting up straight and looking at me. Shaking my head just to be sure that I wasn’t going crazy this early in the morning, I looked at the spot again and there the person sat, still staring at me in amusement—Denzel!

I shrieked and fell down, crawling backwards until my back touched the wall. What the hell was he doing here?

“What the hell are you doing here? How did you get into my house?” I said, pointing an accusing finger at him. He chuckled.

“You know that you amuse me right? You are beautiful and also adorable,” He just kept on chuckling.

“That doesn’t answer my question,” I said, blushing and trying to cover my flaming cheeks with my hair.

“Well, you are in my house and in my room and not too long ago, you were lying on my bed, trying to squeeze the life out of me as though I was some pillow. Is that how much you love your pillows?” he said, his eyes glistening with amusement and admiration. When he said that, I immediately wished the ground would open up and swallow me whole.

Still trying to overcome the sudden blush, he brought out his phone and showed me pictures of myself and videos of me when I was obviously sleep walking!

Oh no, I am dead and he won’t let this go for a long time, what on earth have I gotten myself into!