"I see you, I see others and I want to see you more." ~ Pushpa Rana

^ I love this quote.

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After dinner, everyone leaves and heads to their rooms.

"It was nice meeting you Keziah. I hope to see you around here more." Titus walks out and goes into what looks like an office.

I follow Adah to the kitchen with some plates, "Would you like some help?"

"Sure dear, I'll wash and you dry."

For the next few minutes, we clean up in a companionable silence. I'm not completely sure where Abel went, but I'll find him later on.

"My son's lucky to have met you Keziah."

"Im lucky too, I haven't met someone like him before."

Adah smiles at me, "I'm not sure if he told you, but he hasn't always had the easiest time being adopted. People make comments especially as we are a very mixed family."

It makes me sad to think that people judge others like this in this time and age. Abel has been nothing but nice to me, so why do people overlook that but focus on where he comes from? Life's not fair I'm telling you.

"I think it's pretty cool; you're all very different people yet you're still a lovely family."

"You two will be great together you know. I have no idea what my son is waiting for. Maybe he needs a wake up slap."

I laugh with her at this but internally hope that Abel makes a move soon.

We finish washing up, so I excuse myself to go find Abel.

I head up the stairs intending to go to his room. As I walk past several doors, I spot Abel through a gap in a door. I'm about to walk in when I realise he's putting his siblings to bed.

"Tristan, stop messing around and get in bed!"

"I don't want tooooo!" Whines Tristan.

Abel sighs, "What if I sing you a song?"

"Okay!" Tristan jumps into bed and pulls the covers right over him.

Abel grabs a chair and pulls it in between Tatiana's and Tristan's bed.

I watch in admiration as he starts singing softly to both of them.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy, when skies are grey

You may not know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

He sings this in a much more gentle voice than I thought he was capable of. He repeats it until both of them are peacefully sleeping.

I watch as he kisses both of them on their foreheads before tucking the sheets around them tightly.

My heart melts as I look at him act in such a caring and loving way. It makes me fall even more for him.

Abel turns and walks this way. Once he spots me, he looks startled for a second before composing himself.

"Brown Eyes. Um how long have you been standing there for?"

"Long enough. Do you sing to them often?"

"Nah, only when they're being difficult. It gets them to sleep quicker."

"Well I think that's so nice of you. You sure love them a lot huh?"

Abel smiles tenderly, "I do, even if they can be extremely annoying at times."

"I know the feeling."

We head back up to his room, and I jump on his bed intending to simply relax. Obviously, Abel has other ideas.

"Hey, uh Keziah, do you want to go for a drive?"

For some strange reason, he seems nervous. This completely contradicts his usually confident personality.

Nevertheless, I decide to go with him knowing there's no harm.

I quickly put on my shoes and take my belongings with me since I'll be going home afterwards.

Before leaving, I head to the living room to say goodbye to Abel's parents.

"Bye Mr-uh Titus and Adah. Thanks for having me." It's going to take me a while before I remember to call them by their first names. It's kind of weird.

"You're leaving so soon?" Adah Asks me.

"Yeah, Abel wanted to take me for a drive somewhere I guess."

Adah and Titus share a knowing look,
"Well have fun dear! Remember, you're welcome here anytime."

I leave the living room and walk to the front door where Abel is waiting for me.
He's changed into some grey tracksuit bottoms and a snug fitting jumper.

As he turns around to walk outside, my eyes accidentally drop to his backside. And boy let me tell you what a good butt it is. There's just something about grey joggers or even grey trousers that does it for me.

Moving on-

"So where are we going?" I put on my seatbelt while Abel starts the car.

"You know the cliff I took you to a while back?" I nod at him, "Yeah there."

"Oh. Any particular reason?"

"I just thought it would be nice to spend some time with just us two."

"Okay." I whisper.

About 25 minutes later, we arrive at the cliff top and make our way closer to the edge.

As we sit down, a thick blanket is draped over my shoulders.

I look over to find Abel smiling warmly at me. "Don't want you getting sick now do we?"

"How so very thoughtful of you."

We both look over the illuminated town before Abel speaks up.

"Earlier, after we left the pool, you suddenly went quiet. What was wrong?"

I look at him in shock, surprised that he saw that. I thought I hid it well.

"You're surprised I noticed that aren't you?" He smiles softly at me, "I notice everything about you."

I start to bite my lip out of nerves and play with my hands.

"I haven't always been confident about how I look, like my um body. It's really easy to get caught up in the stereotypical view of what society and guys deem to be attractive and when I look at myself, I don't see anything desirable." I take a deep breath and hold back the tears threatening to fall. "And then when I see you looking like an absolute model, it just made me feel I don't know, unworthy."

Throughout my whole speech, I refused to look Abel in the eye. So, when I finally decide to look at him, all I see is anger.

Of course he's angry, there's no way he wanted to listen to my childish insecurities. At this point, there's no stopping the onslaught of tears that roll down my face.

"Keziah, look at me." His gruff tone is what makes me turn towards him.

His eyes have turned that stormy blue colour that's currently shining with such intense emotion.

"You have absolutely no reason to feel this way. I don't care about the stereotypical view of beauty because when I look at you, I see everything I want and more. And there is no way at all that you're unworthy and I hate that you think that. You're so amazing Keziah, and you need to understand that. To me, you're beautiful."

The next thing I know, Abel is cradling my face with his hands and kissing my tears away.

Each time his lips touch my face, he whispers different things to me.

"You're so gorgeous." Kiss.

"And funny." Kiss.

"And caring." Kiss.

He finally kisses all my tears away but that doesn't stop him. And who am I to object?

"You're so so feisty." He moves to my temple.

"I love it when you argue back at me." To my jaw.

"You look so adorably hot."

He drags his lips down my face onto my neck making me giggle slightly.

"And you're loving." He moves to my collarbone and nibbles.

"But violent." I hit him slightly making him laugh but hold me tighter.

"Do you understand," He wraps some of my hair around his fingers. "That I love your hair."

"And your laugh." He moves back to my collarbone making me giggle. "Even though it sounds funny."

"I absolutely love your body." He squeezes my hips. "Especially how it looks in my clothes."

He slowly moves down my shoulder and pushes the hoodie out of the way. "They make you look so sexy." My breath hitches at his statement. "Not that you need my clothes for that."

"You need to know," He moves back up my neck. "That I love how you have to stand on your tiptoes to hug me." He sucks on the exposed skin. "It's so very cute."

I run my hands through his hair and tug slightly at the curls.

I feel him smile against my neck, "I love it when you do that." He moves his lips back up to my jawline, to my cheeks and then to my ears. He bites the tip slightly making me moan out loud.

"The way you're affected by me when I do things like this." He kisses my temple and leaves trails to cheeks. "Your sounds, your responses, your touches."

He finally makes his way to my lips and brushes against them once before mashing them together. At this point, I'm completely floating on cloud 9; I can't form any coherent sentences. All I see and feel right now is Abel.

He places his forehead back on mine, his eyes dilated and hooded with desire. I reach out to touch his swollen lips, completely enthralled by him.

"And your lips Brown Eyes. I can't get enough. They're so soft." Kiss. "And sweet." Kiss. "And perfect for me."

He leans back to look at me straight in the eye, both of us still breathing heavily from what just occurred.

"But do you know what I love the most?" He cradles my face with both hands and looks over every feature on my face. "It's that you're you."

Right now, I'm filled with so much emotion that I might burst. I couldn't even put into words the way he makes me feel; the way I feel now. Never in a million years would I have thought that I'd be sitting here, listening to someone like him point out every single thing they love about me. It makes me so incredibly happy. But Abel obviously isn't done yet because what he says next surprises me but fills my heart with nothing but joy.

"I'm so lucky to have the chance to know you. I want you in my life and I want to be the one who makes you happiest."

Abel swallows deeply and licks his lips.

"Will you be my girlfriend?"

A tingling feeling spreads throughout my body. Is that what he really wants?

Abel looks conflicted and tugs on his hair out of what I presume to be nerves.

Finally, I throw my arms around his neck and hug him tightly. "Of course Abel." I lean back slightly but still keep a hold on him. "I was wondering when you were gonna ask me."

"Really? I was waiting until I thought it was a good time. And for you to be ready."

"Either way, I'm glad you asked."

Abel smiles down at me tenderly, "Me too Brown Eyes."

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A/N:
Yay finally! It took him long enough! What do you think?
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