Date The Boss

5 - Embarrassing Moment

Aiden could not accept what Niara said earlier. Her impression of him was totally different from his true personality and he was determined to show her that if she would only give him a chance.

"It's my fault. Why do I always lose control and become a borderline maniac whenever I'm around her? Whenever I see her, I just want to grab her and kiss her. What do I do with myself? What kind of spell did she put me under?" He sighed as he talked to himself in the rear view mirror.

"Alright, Aiden. Time to get your act together and make everything right. If the Lord still pities you and gives you another chance, you better not mess it up or else she may never talk to you again. This is the only time you were ever interested in any woman, this is the only opportunity for you to be truly happy, don't ruin it." He told himself in the mirror.

"Go, Aiden. Fight! Get in there and grab your happiness with both hands but not literally or else she will definitely kick you in the balls." He said before getting a box of three long-stemmed yellow roses with a note that read "I'm sorry" from the passenger seat beside him.

Aiden braced himself as he marched to the entrance of the fast food restaurant, determined to prove himself to her. When he got to the door, he wondered why the usually chatty guard barely paid attention to him as he pushed the glass door. His eyes were set on whatever was transpiring on the counter.

When he got inside, he noticed how customers turned in the same direction, some even leaving their tables to get closer to the action and others even went as far as recording whatever it was with their camera phones.

"My god! Look at you. How low can you go?" An irritating voice of a woman echoed over the crowded yet weirdly silent store.

The woman was thin with disproportionately large breasts. She had long hair and a long face as she stood arrogantly in front of Niara while keeping a hand hooked around a guy's arm.

"Babe, please stop this. It's embarrassing." The guy whispered and attempted to pull the woman away.

The guy was around a couple of inches shorter than Aiden but still taller than the standard male. He was also fairly attractive with a mix of Asian and European features.

"Why, babe? Are you siding with your ex? Can't you see how desperate she is for attention? Just how bored are you with your life, your Majesty? Is everyone ignoring you now?" The annoying woman mocked.

Niara, though obviously agitated with her clenched jaw and tears that brimmed her eyes, tried to keep her composure. She took a deep breath and managed a tight smile.

"If you're not going to order, Jana, we have other customers to attend to." She told the woman in a shaky but still gentle and modulated voice then turned to the guy. "Xander, please."

"Babe, let's go." The guy, Xander, said and tugged on the woman's elbow.

"Why, Xander? Do you still do whatever your precious princess tells you to do? You still bow to her every word? What? Are you still f*****g inlove with this spoiled little rich girl?!" She yelled.

"That's not it, babe. I'm just saving you from more embarrassment." Xander tried to calm the hysterical woman down.

"Xander, Jana, please leave before I forget our friendship and make the guards drag you out of here." Mark, the branch manager and the guy who attempted to intercept on the day Aiden and Niara first met told them.

"Oh, Mark. You're here too? Psh! Of course, you will always stand behind this princess." She spat, pointing at Niara who kept her chin high although she looked very upset. "When will you realize that no matter what you do, this snobbish princess will never like you?"

"Jana, I don't know what you're still so angry about. I have long moved on from everything that happened. You should do the same." Niara smiled with a tight jaw.

"Hah! There you go. That's what you always do. Pretending to be unaffected and noble when you're actually desperately inlove with my boyfriend and keep trying to steal him from me." The woman, Jana, so embarrassingly continued.

"Good morning, my baby girl!" Aiden beamed from behind them, his voice resounding over the commotion.

Everyone turned to see the handsome Management Trainee in his red uniform holding a box of roses and widely smiling with his sparkling eyes set on only one person... Niara.

Niara looked at him in confusion at first but then quickly caught on with his act. "B-baby boy, you're here." She said awkwardly then smiled more easily when she saw him wiggle his eyebrows in approval.

Aiden strode past everyone without even sparing them a glance, not once peeling his gaze away from her, and went directly to Niara behind the counter. He handed the box to her and leaned to whisper in her ear. "For you, my baby girl."

This made Niara blush and her smile widened after reading the note. "Thank you." She answered.

"You're welcome. I will do anything to make my baby girl happy." He grinned and playfully pinched her nose.

The crowd that gathered earlier to watch the fight, started gushing and giggling after watching the beautiful couple's sweet exchange.

"Oh, what's going on here? Is something wrong?" Aiden asked as he turned to Jana and Xander who watched them with perplexed expressions and mouth agape. "Who are they?" He added as he looked at them intently with cold and silent warning in his eyes.

"Nothing's wrong, dude. They're leaving. Right?" Mark said with a raised eyebrow and his arms crossed over his chest.

"Yes." Xander answered and the two embarrassingly scurried away.

Niara sighed and touched his arm. Aiden turned to see her smiling at him sweetly and sincerely like the day they met. "Thank you." She whispered.

"Always welcome. Anytime." He smiled back and thanked his lucky stars for that second chance with her.