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Chapter 17: You Made The Golden Boy Speechless

"Jasper!"

"Jas?"

I called looking around the hallway, taking two-step at a time in the Fleming mansion that evening. The mansion was eerily quiet, and every time I shouted it echoed around the floor.

"Ja-"

"Where were you?" Jasper came out of our room pulling the sleeves of his shirt. I couldn't help but trail my eyes over his form. His hair were still damp-from shower, I guess- water drops from his head trailed down to his neck. He was wearing a casual blue t-shirt that stuck to his body like a second skin, displaying every defined muscle under it, paired with tight jeans.

And, he looked more than fuckable.

"Wh-why are you dressed up?" I stammered, my eyes frozen over him. If he noticed, he didn't comment on it. He motioned for me to go to the room and I looked at him confused.

"C'mon. We are getting late," He said, pushing me into our room. He made quick work of removing my jacket and started unbuttoning my shirt.

"Late for what?" I asked, making his hands still. His eyes snapped to mine in surprise, "What?"

"You forgot." Jasper shrugged, undoing my last button and helping me remove my shirt, "It's odd to see you forget something."

I rolled my eyes, slapping his hands away when they trailed down to my pants, "Just tell me what I forget."

"Shopping," Jasper hurried me into the bathroom, "We are already late. Knowing you, we won't be home until tomorrow 'cause you take, like, ten minutes to pick out a brand of freaking paper towels."

"Jas! I have to talk to you."

"Whatever it is, it can wait. Go take a shower," He pecked my lips, "Your clothes are on the bed. I'll be waiting downstairs."

"Jasper! We really have to talk!"

"Are you going break up with me?"

"What? no!" I hollered at him.

Is he crazy?

And how the hell did that word even come between us?

"Is it a life or death situation?"

I sighed, shook my head and muttered, "No."

"Then, it can wait."

With that, he walked out of the door.

Damn him and his looks that always shut me.

~

When I reached downstairs, showered and dressed up, Jasper was waiting on the couch, his legs bouncing. He was looking down at a piece of paper that looked like a list-the list mom gave us yesterday.

"Are you memorizing them?" I asked, rolling my eyes and jumping over the final step, walking to him.

Jasper looked up, playfully glaring at me, "C'mon. We are late."

"No one is taking attendance, Jas."

When we reached the garage, the air on Jasper's SUV's tire magically disappeared, making him sigh and turn to me pouting.

I rolled my eyes, making him whoop.

"You didn't do this on purpose, did you?" I asked, settling into the passenger seat of my Avendator, snapping the seatbelt.

"You really think I would hurt Julie," Jasper mock-gaped at me, hitting the 'start' button and turning on the car. I internally sighed at the sound.

"Knowing you? Maybe," I shrugged, looking out of the window as Jasper pulled out of the gates.

Twenty minutes later, Jasper parked effectlessly in the lot, smirking at me. I slapped him on the back of his head and snickered at his shocked face, getting off the car.

He got out a second or two later, rubbing his head, glaring at me he locked the door. I grinned at him, making him roll his eyes. He offered a hand for me to take, and I took it without a second thought.

Only when we reached near the door of the building, I froze, my eyes shifting to the people inside.

"Myl?"

"We can't do this, Jas," I hissed, hiding my face behind his shoulder from anyone inside.

"You think I didn't know," Jasper snapped, his hands moved to his back pocket.

He took the list from his wallet. Except, it was not one list, but two. He gave me one, keeping another to himself and looked directly at me, "Trust me, would ya?" He frowned, walking towards to the door.
I looked down at my now empty hand and sighed following him.

Jasper's plan for both of us to take a separate cart and the fill it with the items that are in the respective lists, turned out to be better than I expected. And if we stumbled into anyone we knew, we'd build up a story about meeting there only a few minutes ago.

We went back and forth through the aisles, buying everything from food items to bathroom cleaners, insect repellents to room fresheners and some apparels. I don't think mama had missed anything in the list. The cart Jasper had was already full, so he went around to get a new cart.

I was standing in the same aisle, looking at baby wears for more than twenty minutes waiting for him.

People walked past me giving me weird looks, wondering why a teenager was standing in the baby aisle, while some gave me a warm smile. And most of them of them were pregnant.

I am pretty sure all of them thought I knocked up someone.

"Where were you?" I asked Jasper when he walked back to me with a new cart, that was already filled with some items," What are those?"

Jasper grinned, showing it to me. I stilled, realising what it was.

"It's about time you start re-doing these," he said moving past me, I was still frozen in the place.

He had bought me three packs of 9"x9" origami sheets in different colours, a glue gun with some glue sticks, some adhesives, water colors and some other craft items.

Its been so long since I did anything remotely close to crafts. When I was still in the middle school, Jasper and I will spend most of the day doing crafts and art works. Some silly some with lots of works. The entire room will be filled with Its been so long since I did anything remotely close to crafts.

"Myl?"

"Um... Yeah, I am coming," I followed Jasper, my heart thundering with excitement and love.

It was four hours since we started shopping, it was getting late and we had to go pack our clothes, too, in order to move them to our new house tomorrow.

Jasper agreed to it, so we started looking for the most important items rather discussing on buying the particular item for 10minutes.

I moved to the next aisle looking for microwaveable boxes since that would help us in a huge way, but stopped in my tracks when I saw a familiar face.

"Abby!" I gasped in shock. She was there arranging some new stock in the aisle from a cart that is filled with goods of the same brand.

She turned around in surprise, and smiled, "Hi!"

"Hi!" I breathed, looking over her form once, "What are you doing here?"

She raised her eyebrows in amusement and tugged at the coat she was wearing, that clearly had the store's logo printed and her name labeled over it.

Talk about being dumb.

"I work here." She shrugged, arranging the items in the mid row of the shelve."What are you doing here?"

"Ohhhhh," she dragged her eyes over my cart beside me, rolling her eyes, "I didn't even notice."

"Haha, very funny."

Before she could respond, Jasper's voice came to us.

"Myl? Which coffee bean do you prefer," I snapped my head fast to him, but he wasn't looking at me, but to covers in his hand," Why the hell are there this many flavors in cof- "

Jasper stopped, his eyes widening in shock, moving from me to Abby. Within seconds, his hands moved to the AirPods he had in his ear.

Where did that came from?

"Myl? Myl you still there. Yeah, I asked which coffee bean you want?" he shouted as if he was taking with someone thought. My lips quirked up in amusement as he continued, "Oh yeah, where are you?"

He continued to talk, not meeting our eyes. I looked back at Abby, whose lips where pressed with suppressed laughter. She finished arranging the items and looked at me, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Hmm did you eat breakfast?... Uh, oh.... okay....when did you....uh, okay, no...Mom said.....okay."

Damn, is he acting for the IRAR awards?

"Jas?"

He ignored my call and took a product, from the aisle, looking down to it, "Myl? Are you sure this is what you want?... Okay, got it."

My eyes moved to the said product and widened in shock.

"Jasper!"

He finally turned back to me, and gasped in fake surprise, "Ah, My-um, Aeron! Aeron, what are you doing here? Bu-"

"Jasper?"

"I have to get going, its getting late. See you later? Not later...I meant, see you on monday...On Monday," he nodded with an uneasy smile and turned around, walking.

"JASPER!"

"Yes?"

"She knows." I stated as Abby moved to stand beside me.

"What?"

"She knows," I said once more, insisting and nodded at him. His eyes widened in realization and shock.

I sighed and started to explain.

"You really don't remember me do you?"

I turned around and scanned her up and down then her face and shook my head.

"My name is Abigail. Abigail Walter."

Walter

Where did I hear that before?

Before I could question her she answered, "My sister's name is Maria Walter."

Okay, I know that name.

I froze, my eyes widening in shock at the realization, as I matched Abby's face with the girl I had once known.

"And I went to middle school with you at Riverton."

I took a step back from her in shock.

"... Middle school with Jasper and I."

My whole body froze in shock as she smiled at me, but it was sad.

"I am sorry about your sister," she said.

"Me too," I breathed out in reflex- that I did all summer-, my brain couldn't comprehend any other sentences as they were frozen with me.

"My sister was devasted losing her best friend. She was happy to know that the Flemings are helping you," She said slowly.

I couldn't process my surroundings, my eyes and ears were too trained at her, only her watching every move. But her last words brought some reaction from me which she noticed and answered the unasked question.

"I was at the funeral."

She was?

"I just wanted to introduce myself," she smiled again," It was nice meeting you again. And don't worry, I won't tell anyone about you and Jasper."

She smiled once again and moved past me. I blinked once, twice, thrice but body finally responding to my brain.

"Why?" I asked turning around.

She stopped, turning around, her bag straps tight in her palms, "What?"

I walked slowly and stood a few feet before her, "Why?" I asked again, "Why won't you tell anyone?"

"Do you want me to tell anyone?" She questioned, and her eyes were laced with genuine confusion.

I shook my head slowly," No. But you-"

She stopped me, rasing her plam at me and smiled, "If you and Jasper are keeping it a secret, then it must be a valid one and I won't destroy it."

She continued," Maria always gushed about how the two of looked cute together and I also know how much you love each other. So if something is stopping you from declaring it to the world. Who am I to announce it?"

"Then why come talk to me?"

She looked at me as I was crazy.

"I told you, I just wanted to introduce myself to you. As your sisters' best friend's sister," She laughed at her own words, drawing a smile from me, "I wanted to tell you that I am here you if you need me."

She looked down at her phone and gasped, "God,I am late," she locked it, dropping into her bag, " I am late to work. I will see you later."

She ran out of her and I stood there for what felt it hours processing what had happened and walked to the parking lot and found it almost empty.

And I drove to the mansion.

Jasper looked at me and then Abby his mouth opening and closing. I look at her and whispered, " Congratulations, Abby"

"For what?"

"You made the Golden boy speechless. You are the third person to do so. Raiden ranks second. It's a big achievement," I declared, smiling at Jasper, whose mouth is still moving, but no words came out of it.

"Jas? You okay?"

He blinked and nodded, frowning, his eyes assessing Abby.

She rolled at her eyes and nodded to the product in Jasper's hand, "Do you want me check it out?"

Jasper nodded robotically.

"But, I don't think he needs it."

Jasper frowned, his eyes narrowing at her, "I know all his needs and he needs it."

My cheeks warmed at that, I internally faceplam at him, "I don't need that, Jas."

"Why? I am s-" he finally looked at the product, his eyes bulged out,he threw the item down, screaming and jumping away from it.

He screamed

Abby burst out laughing, with was infectious as I joined her a few seconds.

Jasper looked at me his lips quriking up, "You sure you don't want that?"

That brought out more laugh from Abby, while I glared at him.

If you didn't already guess, my darling husband had gotten me a box of tampons.

Tampons.

***

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