“How about you young man would you like to win your beautiful girlfriend a stuff animal?” a man behind a booth ask Gabe as we walk by. I blush when he called me Gabe's girlfriend I would give anything for that to be true. “Why not” Gabe hands the man 2 dollars. “The point of the game is to shoot every bottle down before the time is up” the man says. Gabe leans down and starts shooting but misses every shot. “Better luck next time sunny” the man laughs. Gabe pulls out another 2 dollars and hand them to him. “Gabe come on let's just go” I say. “Muffin I have to defend our honor” he winks and I blush. He leans down spreads his legs and concentrate on the bottles. He starts shooting and this time he hits every bottle before the time was up. That was amazing he hit them all in the same spot. “Beginners luck” he smirks. “Beginner luck my as-” .
“Hey not in front of my lady” Gabe interrupts him. I giggle because he called me his lady. The man frowns “Alright what will it be?”. Before I can turn around and see the prize Gabe hold me in place “Close your eyes Muffin I'll pick one out for you” he says. It's only fair that he gets to pick it out after all he did win it for me. I close my eyes and waited impatiently.
“Hurry I'm dying here” I shift from one leg to another. I'm not good at waiting. “Okay open them now” he says. I pop my eyes open and he is holding the biggest gorilla stuff animal I ever seen. “Since you seem to watch a lot of monkey movies I thought this would suite you” he mocks me. I throw my self at him catching him of guard almost knocking us over “I love it!”. It's just the perfect gift I would of picked it out myself. “Glad to hear that, let's go home now” he grabs my hand and we walk towards the car. “Oh my god can we get some cotton candy?” I ask as we pass the stand. I love cotton candy I mean who doesn't? “Yea stay here I'll go buy it” he let's go of my hand leaving me feeling empty. I hug my ape and take one last look around the fair. I had so much fun today I hope I have many many more days like this and with Gabe on my side. Gabe walks back with a blue and pink cotton candy stick I reach for the blue cotton stick before he can hand me the pink. “Hey that one is mine” he pouts. “I like the blue one” I stuff it in my mouth. “Beside pink is more your color” I smile. He leans into me “You think?”. I nod holding my breath he parts his lips and licks them. Oh god is he going to kiss me? He close the distant and takes a bite of my cotton candy. “Hey” I push him back. I feel foolish thinking that he was going to kiss me. If he wanted to kiss me he would of done it while we were dancing that would have been the perfect moment. We walk to the car eating our cotton candy. “Thank you for today Gabe I really appreciated it” I thank him again. “No thank you I needed a distraction” he brings my hand to his mouth. The ride home was quite practically because I fall asleep. I was tired off all the excitement of today. “Muffin” I hear Gabe “we're here”.
He opens the door for me and helps me get out the car “Gabe the ape” I whisper. “Yeah that's me” he chuckles. “No my gorilla” I reach for my stuff animal. “You name him Gabe the ape?” he sounds amuse. “Yea” I nod as we go upstairs. “I hope Soso is feeling better” he says as I open the door. Damn it I totally forgot to let her know we were coming. “Sofy we're here” I call out making sure she hears me. Gabe walks over to her door and knocks “Soso?”. He turns the knob but it is lock “That's weird”. He knocks louder and I'm shitting in my pants. What if she isn't here? What am I going to say to Gabe? We are so busted. “Maybe she is sleeping” my voice comes out lower than what I attended it to. “Maybe” he frowns and his eyebrows shape into a V. He knocks even harder I'm afraid he is going to break the door down. He turns to walk away and Sophia opens the door “What the fuck? Some one better be fucking dying”. She has her rainbow blanket wrap around her from head to toe she actually looks sick. “Why did you take so long?” Gabe ask.
“Because I was fucking sleeping dickhead it's 12 in the morning” she gives me a help me look. “That's some deep sleep” he tilts his head trying to look inside the room. She moves to the side to block him from looking inside. “What the hell is up with all the question I took some pills for my cramps and they knock me out” she says annoyed. “Just asking” he grabs the gorilla and walks towards my room.
Sophia lets out a small breath “What the hell Jane you should of called or text to warn me” she quickly whisper. “I'm sorry I fall asleep but why did you take so long to open the door?” I take off my jacket because I feel like I'm burning. “I was doing something” she says nervously. I eyed her from head to toe “Are you naked?”. She wraps the blanket tighter “Shh!
Jake is still here so I need you to keep Gabe in your room and out the living room please”. I laugh “So you was doing Jake while Gabe was knocking?”. I laugh just picturing how freaked out they must have been when Gabe was knocking.
For the first time since I have known Sophia she blush “Shut the fuck up Jane”. I cover my mouth to hide my laughter. “I got to go” she turns around. “You little slut” I whisper as I walk away. “Thank you for the information I'll see you tomorrow at work” Gabe hangs up as I walk in. “Where do you work?” I take off my shoes and lay them by the door. “I have an office job” he shrug “is it me or did Sophia seemed a little off?”. Oh she was getting off alright I bite the inside of my lip trying to keep myself from laughing “Not at all you probably scare her with the way you were knocking like there was a whole SWAT team at her door”. He lets out a small laugh “Yeah I probably should go apologize”.
“No!” I snap “she drank some pills and probably fall asleep again. You wouldn't want to wake her up would you?”. I hope he says no. He smirks “You're right I shouldn't temp my luck by waking up the beast. We barley made out of there alive.”. I laugh “We?”. He grabs Gabe the Ape “Jr. and I”. I fake like my feelings are hurt “You left me behind to fight for my life?”.
“You were never in any danger it's the male that are in danger” he tease and I laugh. “You know how girls get with the whole PMS” I walk towards the closet. “Oh no not PMS,” he gasp “She got the Psycho Monster Syndrome we should rush her to the hospital right away”. I giggle “Psycho Monster Syndrome cleaver” I can't find my pajamas so I settle for a shirt. He walks in and grabs his sleeping cloths “I'm out to bed have a good night”. Think Jane think you need him to stay in here. “You can stay in here” it sounds more like a question than a statement. He looks at me with an arched eyebrow “Are you sure I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable”.
“Don't be silly just stay” I pout maybe that will convince him.
“I can't say no to that face” he pokes me lower lip. Bingo! He walks out of the closet and I stay inside to change. I change into a long white T-shirt that stops above my knees and my booty shorts. “That's strange I don't remember buying this shirt” I say as I look down at the shirt. “Maybe because that's my shirt and I was the one who bought it” Gabe smiles. He probably thinks I'm some stalker. First I begged him to sleep in here and now I'm wearing his shirt. “Sorry I'll take it off” I turn around. “No,” he snap “it looks better on you than on me”. I feel my cheeks burning up “I'm going to the bathroom”. Wait why did I inform him I was going to the bathroom? I shake my head and leave the room. I wash my face and brush my teeth twice just in case. Keep your self together you can do this I stare at my reflection. Don't think about the sex god waiting for you in the room. I shake me head trying to shake away my naughty thoughts. As soon as I walk inside the room Gabe walks out “Where are you going?” I ask. He frown “To the bathroom may I?”. I nod.
Great now I annoyed him this is going to be a fun night. Yay Jane! I get into bed and wait for Gabe to come back. Why am I so nervous it's not the first time I'm going to sleep with Gabe. I'm so going to kill Sophia tomorrow for this she owes me her life. Gabe walks in and jumps in the bed making me bounce. He reaches for me and I lay my head on his chest.
“Who is it?” he strokes my hair. “Who is who?” I try to hide the fact that I'm nervous. “Oh Muffin,” he lets out a small laugh “well first you ask me to sleep in here with you. Don't get me wrong I don't mind sleeping in your bed with you but it's weird that you ask and then the fact that you are playing with your chain tells me that you are trying to hiding something”. He tilts my head “Plus I know my sister pret y damn good to know she is up to something”. Busted! I can either keep going on with the lies or just tell him the truth.
“Is that obvious?” I bite down on my lip. “Yeah so who is it?” he nods. “Promise me you won't say nothing and you'll act like you don't know” I bring out my pinky finger. “I'm a man Jane I don't do pinky what ever it is” he gives me his serious face. “Well no pinky promise no secret” better for me. He looks at me and then back at my pink “Fine” he brings his pinky up to mines. “Good boy I mean man” I say in my deep voice. “Talk woman” he smirks. “Okay remember Jake?” he nods his head “Well it's him please don't mess this up for her I know you worry and you have every right to but she really really likes him”. He runs his head through his hair “What's wrong?” I frown. He starts to shake his leg “My sister always falls really fast but the problem is that no one is there to catch her. I'm always the one that have to put her back together when she falls apart”. I rest my chin on the back of my hand to stare at him “I'm pretty sure Jake likes her a lot”.
He tucks a strand of hair behind my ear “Yeah that's how it all start and then they realize that it wasn't something serious and they leave her and she gets all depress and starts-” he stops himself. “She what?” I ask. “Nothing” he smiles but it looks painful. “Don't you trust me?” my feelings are sort of hurt. “Of course I do you are one of the few people I trust” he says. Now I feel like an asshole because he trust me enough to let me in and I can't bring my self to tell him the truth about my past. “I promise I won't say anything”
I put out my pinky. He brings my pinky to his mouth and gives it a kiss “The last guy Sophia got involve with was messed up. He used drugs and drag her into that world,”
What? No way Sophia my roommate on drugs. That's something that I will never want to see. “I went to hell and back trying to keep her off and clean” I can hear how much it hurts him. “That's why you are overprotected” I whisper more to myself than to him finally understand his behavior.
“I just worry that she can have a relapse. I'm not sure I can go through that again”. I cup his face and stare into his eyes “You won't and if, and that is a big IF, it happens I will be right by your side you won't do it on your own I promise”.
“Thank you Muffin” he kiss the tip of my nose and my heart start to race. “My pleasure” I kiss the tip of his nose only because I'm to much of a coward to kiss his lips. I drop my head down on his chest and his heart beat matches mine.
Maybe he was freaking out that I was going to kiss him and make this awkward for us. I let out a small laugh remembering how much fun I had today. “What's funny?” he ask. “I had fun today thank you” I kiss his chest. “My pleasure we should make it a hobbit” he says. “Make what a hobbit?” I close my eyes enjoying his heartbeat. “Going out on the weekends” he runs his hand up and down my arm. More dates with Gabe just us two? Can I get an Amen please!
“Really you'll do that for me?” I'm shocked. “I sort of have to” he says and I look up at him “Why?”.
“Because that's part of my plan to make you smile and laugh more and a promise is a promise” he smirks. I feel like I'm going to cry he is such a sweetheart. Every one was right about him he is a great guy. “You're amazing you know that?” I lay back down. “Yeah I have been told” he is also cocky but I like it. “But you are pretty incredible yourself” he kiss the top of me head. “Night Gabe” I wrap my arm and leg around him like a snake. “Night Muffin” he strokes my hair until I fall asleep.