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Diego's POV

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"What's going on?" I asked as I stepped foot inside the room. The girls were in an intense discussion because I could sense the heaviness in the air and also, Adrian was sniffing. She was backing me from the angle she sat but I could tell somehow that she had been crying. Again.

Moving in, dropped my little pack on Kara's table and eyed Adrian as she hurried into the ensuite and out of my view.

What was wrong with her? She'd been sending me flirty messages barely two hours ago, acting naughty and I was enjoying it even though it distracted me at the office. And even though I shouldn't entertain her flirts because we're 'just friends'.

"Kara." I pecked Kara's forehead and frowned, looking around Kara's beautifully decorated room as if this was the first time I would be here. "What happened?"

I didn't like seeing Adrian in that state. What will I do with you, Adrian?

"She got a bit emotional." Kara sniffed and dug into the polythene bag, picking a wrap of chocolate and hastily unwrapping it before tossing it whole into her mouth.

She moaned, making me quirk a confused brow.

"Then why were you crying?" I asked her. She didn't look all that emotional anymore and she was now moaning to the sight of chocolate.

Girls...

"I am emotional when she is. She's my best friend after all."

I nodded. Kara understood Adrian the most. I was eager to get to that stage too, where I would even know what she was thinking or what she wanted to say when we're conversing.

I tapped my knee in impatience, already eager to see her. To talk to her.

"Can I go in to uh...see her?" I asked Kara, who looked at me with incredulous eyes.

"In my ensuite?" Her tone bid no argument.

"Fine. When she gets out. Where's mom anyway? She's not downstairs."

"She went to see a friend. He sells honey." Kara smiled. Her beautiful smile prompted mine and I wondered if my mom had a crush. Her husband died a few years back and she was still in her late forties. She could as well get together with someone.

"Crush?" I raised a brow and smiled at the thought of my mom making out with someone. I quickly struck it out, feeling ridiculous and weird at the image of it.

"No. Haha, not!" Kara sputtered.

We both chuckled and silence befell us once more. I couldn't take the silence any longer. I needed to see my baby this instance.

"Adrian?" I got up and moved further into Kara's large room, and towards the ensuite. "I'm coming in."

"What happened to waiting for her to come out?" Kara asked but I ignored her and went in without knocking.

My lips parted as I saw Adrian sitting on the toilet seat with her elbows resting on her knees and her head in her palms. She was sniffing every two seconds.

"Adrian?"

She looked up and sniffed. Then scrambled to her feet and started fiddling with her fingers. She looked like a little shy girl, my little girl. So cute.

"How are you?" I asked gently and wondered if I should move closer to her. You never know how a girl's mind works sometimes. Though, Adrian had never told me to give her space or leave her alone.

She shrugged.

"I'm fine." She wiped her cheeks and played with her bottom lip, tugging at it with her teeth.

"Why were you crying?" I eyed her. I took off two buttons from my shirt and rolled up the sleeves, noticing she stared at me in fascination while I carried out this act of mine. I wouldn't be going back to work today anymore. No way.

"I was just thinking. About life. My past, my present and my uncertain future." She stated and tried to sound uncaring. But I knew she wasn't as nonchalant as she tried to act, because she'd been crying.

I walked towards her and wrapped my arms around her lower back, eliminating the little distance between us. She dug her face into my chest and sobbed.

"I'm sorry. All I do is cry in your arms like some damsel in distress. I'm such a wuss." She sobbed.

"No no. You're not a wuss baby, I promise you. You're just hurting and you'll be alright." I assured her and she looked up at me with her tear streaked face.

Digging my hand inside my pocket to retrieve my handkerchief, I wiped her face with and carried her in my arms. She chuckled and held my shoulders as I carried her up to the small counter in Kara's bathroom. Then her arms went around my waist.

My eyes darted around the spacious bathroom. This place was like a mini jacuzzi. Stephano really liked Kara and was taking so much care of her. Beyond that thick exterior of his, there was a beating heart that longed for my twin sister.

Even though I sometimes felt like he was spoiling and babying her, not making her know some basic things a girl of her age should naturally know, he still loved her a lot. And that made me happy.

"Have you eaten?"

"Yes. I had some pancakes after I called you this morning."

I pecked her forehead. "That's my girl. But...it's past four now. You should've had lunch already." I made a move to help her down but she shook her head, her arms still curled around my waist to prevent me from moving.

Her face was close to mine and I had to move back a bit. I didn't trust Adrian not to kiss me right now and I wasn't in a state to refuse her if she did.

"Let's go feed that stomach." I told her when she eyed my lips, clearing her throat as she looked up into my eyes once again.

"Why are you avoiding me?" She asked with sad eyes.

"What? No I'm not avoiding you Adrian. I just-"

"You are, Diego. You don't allow sleepovers anymore, we don't talk like we used to. Why? Is it still because of Declan? I already apologized Diego. Please stop pushing me away."

I heaved a sigh. "What do you want me to do Adrian? I ask you to be mine and you tell me to give you time. Now I'm giving you time and you're asking me why I'm not doing the things we used to do. I don't want to be friends with you, because best friends don't wish they can fuck each other silly and you know I want to do more than holding hands with you, respectfully so. Best friends don't kiss. So I'm only doing what you want. But if you can stop denying yourself what you deserve, then you'll be mine. That's what I want, Adrian. I want you to be my girlfriend. Officially."

"Really?" She asked with wide eyes as if I hadn't told her before.

I stared at her in incredulity. "Of course. I love you. Will you be my girlfriend? I want to take care of you. We'll still be best friends babe, but you're getting the whole of me, body, emotions and all. I'm the package that comes with our friendship." I smirked and waited for her response.

"I would like to be your girlfriend, Diego." She said shyly and quickly dug her face into my neck, breathing softly as she hugged me.

"That's my girl."

She giggled as I hugged her.

When I tried to pull her head from my neck, she refused. She even whined.

"What?" I laughed softly as she reluctantly pulled her face away. "It's not like this is your first time or whatever."

Her cheeks went red and my own eyes widened.

"Th-this is your first time being in a relationship?"

She slapped my shoulder playfully as her cheeks colored into an even redder shade. "Stop it." She whined.

"But seriously Adriana, is this your first relationship?" I asked slowly and played with her exposed, creamy thighs. She was wearing a faded blue dress shirt. Typical of my girl.

"Yes." She murmured and bit her lower lip. But how could that be? She was with Lucas and Kara told me they'd been together for about two years or so before he died.

"What about-"

"Lucas? We didn't start with dating. It was purely sex...and we would've maybe dated if not for..." Her smile turned sad.

I wrapped my arms around her again and patted her back.

"It's okay. I'm here now."

"Thank you." She smiled.

"Let's go feed that stomach now." I chuckled and wrapped an arm around her waist.

She stopped just as I carried her down the counter, then pressed me against the wall, licking her lower lip. I cackled at the sight of her smaller frame trying to be dominating.

"What?" I laughed.

"Kiss me. Please." She requested with a fluttering of her brows and the animalistic side of me reared its head. I leaned in and kissed her hungrily, groaning when she tugged at my hair softly while our tongues danced in a loving synchrony.

She didn't have to ask. I was hers already.

"Let's get out of here before I bend you over the counter, babe." I growled in her ear, feeling my pants begin to tighten in a suffocating manner but Adrian pulled me lower by the collar and kissed me from my chin down to my neck, nipping, sucking and biting. She did this stuff with my earlobe that nearly drove me insane.

I turned us so I was pressing her against the wall and connected our lips once more. Kissing her was getting so addictive and I didn't want to stop.

My right hand which had been caressing her waist went into her pantie to feel her. She moaned sultrily into my mouth and tried to clamp her legs but I pinched her thigh as a warning and she parted her thighs for me.

"Diego..anh..." She panted.

She moaned again when I gently tugged at her lower lip with my teeth, making me chuckle. I traced my right thumb over her slit inside her panty and she shuddered against me.

"You're so hard baby, you're poking me." I groaned when I felt her nipples biting into the shirt, almost cutting through it as they hardened. Taking my hand out of her panty, I leaned in to take out a few buttons and pecked one nipple, smirking when she arched her back at my delicious assaults.

My lips left her nipple to connect back to her lips, something she was grateful for because her hands held my head in place and we instantly got lost in our own sweet adventures.

"Oh goodness, what the hell?" Kara suddenly gasped behind me, sounding like a distressed being. Like she'd seen a ghost. 

Adrian tried to break off instantly but I held her in place and shielded her from Kara's view.

"Get out Diego. Just five minutes with her and you're trying to get into my best friend's pants!" Kara scolded me but I didn't pay her any mind. Adrian wasn't even wearing pants so what pants was I trying to get into?

Adrian hid her face in my shirt, pulling me closer to her. I just chuckled and pecked her on the forehead.

"Get out." Kara snapped at me. 

"Whatever." I stole a glance at Kara who looked flustered. "I'll be waiting...so don't take long. Okay?" I told my girl who was equally as red as a beetroot. Goodness, she looked flushed but breathtaking with her slightly rosy cheeks.

At least now she'd added up a little and was better than how she was earlier this year when she was so lean and pale looking.

She looked up at me with a dreamy expression and licked her lower lip, nodding.

"That's my girl." I pecked her on the lips and found out the peck led to a deeper miss, till I was drowning in her one more time. Kissing her was so addictive, I didn't want to stop.

We heard Kara gasp and I rolled my eyes. "Are least you're getting some from Stephano. Leave us alone." I grumbled and finally took a step back before striding out.

Since my mom wasn't at home, I went to Adrian's room and made myself comfortable there, waiting for my girl to saunter in and pay for getting me out of work so early.

I smirked.

She was now officially my girlfriend, no games.

I couldn't wait to see her.