A NIGHT WITH HIM

Chapter 10: Let the best man win

Miguel woke up to the sweet aroma of omelette and bacon. He chooses to ignore it and turns to face his window.

After a few seconds,his nostrils have chosen to betray him and continue to keep perceiving the sweet aroma.

He stands up angrily and walks out of his room,approaching the kitchen. He could hear laughters from the kitchen and he stopped by the door to see Dylan and Mikayla laughing and cooking.

“Erm erm" he coughs

“Dude,stop doing that. You're not a ghost" Dylan says

“Good morning " Miguel says

“Good morning grumpy" Dylan replies

Mikayla concentrates on her cooking,ignoring him.

Miguel enters the kitchen and sits on the counter stool

“Good morning" he says to her again

Mikayla turns to look at her and then tries to carry the oil that she had set on the stove. She mistakenly drops it and it spills all over her hand.

Quickly,Miguel jumps and grabs her,holding her hand as she screams.

“What the heck is wrong with you?" He says

“You could have been really hurt" he continues, puling her to the sink and opening the tap on her hand. Mikayla whimpers and Miguel turns to look at her softly.

" Sorry Mikayla. Does it hurt?”Dylan asks

" Of course it does. Why are you asking her that type of question? Miguel says, angrily

“Stop shouting. I'm fine Dylan,Miguel is just fussing" Mikayla says

“I'm fussing, have you seen your hand?" Miguel says

“Nothing an ointment cannot heal" Mikayla argued

“I should go. I have to check on Lily and the baby" Dylan says

“Oh yess. Don't forget to do as I told you and come by for dinner later with Lily this time and no sneaking in" Mikayla says to him, smiling

“Sure. Are you sure you'll be okay?" Dylan asks

“Of course, Miguel has got it covered. Finally saw a chance to play doctor”Mikayla says ,laughing and Miguel glares at her.

Dylan exits the house and Miguel puts off the tap and carries Mikayla in his arms.

" What are you doing?”Mikayla asks

" What does it look like? I'm carrying my wife”Miguel answers,walking upstairs to her bedroom

" I know but I can walk by myself. My legs are not hurt”she argued

" One more word from you and I'll kiss you”Miguel threatened and Mikayla gasps

They got to her room and Miguel pushes the door open and walks in, placing her on her bed gently .

He opens the drawers and pulls out a first aid kit from it.

“How did that get there?" Mikayla asks

“I instructed Rosa to put it there. Speaking of Rosa,where is she?" Miguel asks

“She's always here everyday" he continues,opening a bandaid from the kit

“I asked her not to come today" Mikayla says

“And why is that?" Miguel asks

“Well,I wanted to make breakfast for you and Dylan" Mikayla says,whimpering as he applies the ointment on her hand.

" And look how that turned out" Miguel says,putting the bandaid on her hand

“I just wanted to do something nice,plus you were the one distracting me" Mikayla says

Miguel scoffs and places the first aid kit back into the drawer. He then sits beside her on her bed. Mikayla scoots a bit to give him space and they both sit in silence before Miguel says" I never got to ask if you liked your room”

" Yes I do. It's big”Mikayla says

" And?”Miguel asks

" And what?” Mikayla asks

" That's it? It's just big?”Miguel asks

" What else?” Mikayla asks

" Why are you being so difficult?”Miguel asks

" Why are you still in my room?”Mikayla asks

Miguel frowns at her and starts to respond when Mikayla's phone rings

She picks it up and answers the call

" Hi mum”she says

" Hii baby” her mum says from the receiving end

“Good morning. How are you?" Mikayla says

“Oh I'm good. How are you and Miguel?" Her mum asks

“He's fine. I'm okay too" Mikayla says,glances at Miguel

“Is he there? Can I talk to him?" Her mum asks and Mikayla looks at Miguel,debating if she should hand the phone to him or lie to her mum.

“Hello hello,can you hear me?”her mum asks

" Yes mum. I can hear you. He's here,let me pass the phone to him”Mikayla says,passing her phone to Miguel. He raises an eyebrow in question and she mutters" she wants to talk to you"

“Hello ma’am" he says

“Oh hi Miguel. Enough with the ma'am. How are you?”Mikayla's mum says

" I'm fine ma'am,sorry Alice. How are you too?”Miguel says

" Oh I'm well. Old age's been hitting me” Alice says, laughing

“Oh Alice. You're not old at all. You don't look a day older than 25" Miguel says and Mikayla rolls her eyes. He was flattering her mum and her mum would surely fall for it.

I mean,who wouldn't ?,she wondered

“Oh Miguel. Thank you. So,I was going to invite you and your wife for brunch. I'm sure you're available,the men are going fishing" Alice says

“Oh oh,I'm supposed to be meeting Mark and my dad at the office”Miguel says

" Miguel, it's Saturday. Live a little,I already told Mark that he's not going anywhere and I'm going to invite your dad. So I'll be expecting you and Mikayla by 12pm”Alice says,with a final tone

Miguel starts to argue but Mikayla shakes her head negatively.

“Okay Alice. We'll be there by 12pm." Miguel says and he could feel Alice smile through the phone

“Splendid. Would you tell me my daughter I sent my love? I have to go prepare now" Alice says

“I sure will" Miguel says, smirking

" Bye Alice” Miguel says,before ending the call.

" So it's official, we're going for brunch by 12pm”he says to Mikayla

" What? That's like in an hour's time. I don't have enough time to prepare”mikayla exclaims

“We could shower together and save time. That way ,you have enough time to do the rest of your things”Miguel says,smirking and moving close to her

" What are you doing ?” Mikayla says

" Oh nothing. Just a little something”Miguel says,before starting to tickle her.

Mikayla screams and starts to giggle,unable to say a word.

“Please stop" she manages to get out but miguke was not having any of it.

“Say please Miguel baby. I'm sorry for all my attitudes" Miguel says,smiling at her

“Please Miguel baby" Mikayla says,giggling

“Where's the rest of it?" Miguel says,still tickling her

“I'm sorry for all my attitudes" Mikayla says,still giggling hard

Miguel stops tickling her and Mikayla grabs a pillow and moves to hit him with it but Miguel sees it coming and avoids it pinning her two Shehands on the bed.

starts to laugh and Miguel joins in,until Mikayla realizes the position they were in and she coughs ,trying to remove her hands from his grip.

“Erm,you can let go of me now" she says to him

Miguel keeps staring at her and then her lips as he moves closer to her. Mikayla closes her eyes as his lips approaches hers. She holds her breath and waits for his lips to land on hers.

After a few seconds of waiting,she opens to see that he's no longer on her but at the door.

“Get dressed dear wife. We have a brunch to get to" he says before leaving her room. Mikayla groaned in frustration and covered her head with her pillow.

Miguel parks his car at the seafood restaurant that Alice had mentioned in a text.

He goes out of the car and walks to open the door for Mikayla but she beats him to it and comes out of the car before he could.

He pulls her by the waist and whispers in her ear “ Be a good girl and act like you like me"

Mikayla shivers and frowns,glaring at him. The walk into the restaurant and see Alice,Mark, Rob( Miguel's dad), Jane,Flynn (another of Mikayla's cousin and Eric ( Mikayla's childhood friend) seated in one corner of the restaurant.

Surprised to see Eric, Mikayla moves out of Miguel's grip and runs to hug Eric. Eric carries her and spins her around,before putting her down and kissing her on both cheeks.

Miguel stares at the display in front of him,wondering what was going on.

“Miguel Miguel. How are you?" Alice says,hugging him

" Hi Alice. I'm well”he says,hugging her back

He moves closer to where his dad and mark are seated and sits beside them,still staring angrily at Mikayla and Eric who are now sitting together and laughing.

“Ha,I see. Oh don't worry, that's Eric. There's nothing to be worried about” Jane says,sitting beside him

" I'm not worried”Miguel says

" Yeah sure. I see,I'm Jane”Jane says

" Oh I know. We met at the wedding" Miguel says

“Hi son " Miguel's father(Rob) says ,as soon as he was done with the conversation he was having with Mark

" Hi dad”Miguel says

Alice stands up and clears her throat to get everybody's attention. Eric and Mikayla stop talking and focus on her.

" Thank you all for coming. So today as per tradition , we're going to hunting our food. The men of course”she says, laughing

“What does she mean by that?" Miguel asks Jane

“Oh oh,every year,we come to this restaurant and then the guys fish for we ladies to eat. The guy that gets the biggest fish gets to kiss his partner. Eric was the winner for last year” Jane explains

“Of course he was. Let me guess,Mikayla was his partner" Miguel says,scoffing

“Oh yes. Lucas couldn't make it" Jane says

“Since everybody's married,we don't have to select partners this year” Alice says

" But Mikayla has always been my partner” Eric says, hugging Mikayla to his side

“But now she has a husband”Alice says,shaking her and Mikayla looks around to see Miguel glaring at Eric's hand on her.

“Let the games begin" Alice says

Miguel smirks and mutters “let the best man win",still looking at Mikayla.