I was climbing up the stairs when "Darren" I heard my mother called.

I went down the few steps ,that I had claimed and walked into the living room where my father and mother were sitting.

"Good evening " I greeted them,smiling. "Come sit here" my mother said patting the space beside her on the sofa.

I went and sat down beside her not before unbuttoning my suit.

"How was work?" She asked caressing my face and hair.

"Are you tired? Do you need something to eat? I can ask the cook to make you something " she went on looking at my face and running her hand on its expanses.

"No . No it's fine ma, Chris is coming over later . We can order pizza" I said assuring her,the leaning back and closing my eyes.

"All that unhealthy stuff is going to make you slow" she said . Always being the one to hate these stuff.

"Mom" I whined and she gave me a look.

"Did you meet Hayley?" My dad asked speaking for the first time I came in.

I quickly sat up . My tiredness seemed to be fading a little bit at the mention.

"I did" I said excited.

She made me excited.

"And how is she?" He asked both of them moving further to listen.

"She is amazing!" I acclaimed .

"I'm pretty sure you will love her when you meet her. She is so beautiful. "

"Is she how Carla described her?" My mother asked.

"She is so much more then what she said ,ma"

Darren's parent seemed to be pleased with the situation . Carla,Hayley's aunt, used to gush over her since Hayley's childhood. With the way she described her Darren's mother could not help but fall in love with her and now , now she could not wait to bring her in this house like a daughter-in-law.

"When are you going to bring her home? We want to meet her too" dad said looking at my mom and smiling.

The door bell rang . "Soon" I said getting up and walking towards the door.

I opened it to find Christopher standing there whistling.

"Hey man" he said bumping my shoulder and walking in.

"Aunty " he yelled quickly walking towards her and squishing her.

"Christopher" she hugged him back quickly ,tightly and then slightly swatted his hand.

"You never hugged me like that" I said faking a pout and jutting my hip out.

"Why do you think you have a father for?" She asked.
I sighed playfully and beckoned Chris to follow me.

We both reached my room that was too big for one person.

"Man work was hard" he whined plopping down on the bean bag.

"What is your work?" I asked

"You don't know how hard we chefs have to work Darren . Be a chef for a day you will know" he said glaring at me . I always taunted him on his work but he would slide it off.

Chris and I go way back. We have known each other from our diaper days.
His mom ,aunt Carla and my mom were the best of friends and that ,passed on to us.

Even though Chris father ran a business like my father does , he never seemed to have any interest in taking the company further. He had his elder brother for that. Chris was more into food. Anything from tasting to eating to making , he loved all of it.

"Pepperoni or pineapples?" He asked holding the phone to his ear.

"Plain cheese" I said my desired topping and looked at him in a way.

He placed our orders and put down his phone.

"I hate you" I said looking at him as he sat down.

"Who puts pineapples on their pizza?" I asked taking out the folder from the coats pocket.

I went up to the chest of draws that sat opposite to my bed and opened the bottom most drawer.

"Says the one to collects pictures of his crush and is completely obsessed with her as well" he said.

I took out the pictures from the folder looking at them and smiling. I flipped through them looking at the ones I took of her in her apartment.

"I'm not obsessed. Just a little crazy in love"

"A little?" He asked chuckling.

"It is not a little when you trashed the whole room after knowing that she had a boyfriend " when he said that I happened to stop at a picture that was taken at the parking lot of the restaurant that the both of them went to.

My blood boiled as I crumbled up the piece of paper and clenched my hand.

"Darren!" Chris exclaimed coming closer and taking the picture out of my hand.

I closed my eyes and take a deep breath in and exhaled .

"Come sit" he said taking the pictures from my hand and putting them in the drawer. He then proceeded to drag me towards my bed and forced me to sit on it after closing it.

"Chill" he said patting my back.

We sat there for a while as I tried to even out my breathing.

I turned to look towards Chris and he seemed deep in thought.

"What are you thinking?" I asked .

"Nothing" he said shifting his body on the bed and facing me "what would you do if I ever - let's say" he puts a finger on his chin tapping it as if thinking of something. "Ever said that I love Hayley and that I want to marry her ?" He smiled at the end.

I glared at him as she just looked at me and laughed out loud.

"I'm kidding" he chuckled placing one of his hands on my shoulder and pointing the other at my face.

"Your face" he wheezed  "god" he fanned his face.

Oh how I would love to punch his teeth in.

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Guess who's exams finished and can now start writing and drawing???
It's me.

I'm so glad I'm done with these exams.

Anyways I hope you liked this chapter even this *pinches fingers* much.

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