To Be Loved

Chapter 5

"Finally, you have grown some balls. Congratulations," I said while smirking at him. He shook his head in disbelief and squinted his eyes at her.

"Okay, I will stop joking around and be serious. What is your real intention with Sarah, Mr. Alex?" She was looking at him to detect the truth.

"I like her, Jasmine; I really have for a long time now. I have told her how I feel, but she has rejected me. My intentions are good. I want to marry her.'' I was speechless! I thought it was just a fling or admiration, but marriage! I never thought it would be this serious.

"I know you must be surprised, but I am serious about her and sincere about my feelings." I can feel the honesty in his words and some hesitation.

"I... I don't know what to say, Mr. Alex. It is not me that you should talk to about this or ask for her blessing. I know what you might be thinking; even if Sarah considers and treats me as a family member, in the end, I am not. I cannot give you my opinion on this or give you false hope either; besides, my blessing alone is not enough; this is not my place. It's her and both of your children, right?" I hope he can understand me.

He nodded his head in understanding, saying, "Stop with the formality, and I totally understand what you’re trying to say. That's why I want your advice. What should I do?"

"You should try to talk to Sarah first; tell her what you like about her. When have you developed such feelings towards her? Why should she trust you and accept spending the rest of her life with you? So basically, Uncle Alex, open up to her and make her see the true you; give her a reason to love you back. I hope we are on the same page here," he hummed in agreement.

"And what if she doesn't return my feelings?" I looked at him in amazement. This man knows nothing about women at all. How did his past wife tolerate his dumbness? Maybe she was an angel or blinded by love. Sigh. He would be dead in the first round. Wow, this would be an interesting thing to watch.

I adjusted my glasses and said, "Mr. Morris, I don't want to disappoint you or anything like that, but you will be crashed on Sarah's hand."

"What!! Why haven't I done anything yet?"

"Yet!! You haven't done anything yet! Oh, my lovely god, listen to me carefully, because I don't want to have a headache because of you two. Don’t say or do anything stupid, okay? She already likes you, and if..." He interrupted me; should I kill him right now?

"She likes me! But she never acted as if she did." I rested my chin on my hand and looked at him in disbelief. ‘Where should I hide his corpse—inside the wall or in the woods?’

"Jass, are you still with me?" I snapped out of my thoughts.

"Yeah, unfortunately, I am still here, and I wish I weren't," he says, giving me a questionable look.

He didn’t comment on her words; instead, he asked, "What were you thinking about?"

"Where should I hide your corpse?” Before he could interrupt her again, she warned him. “Don't you dare cut me off again! If you hadn't interrupted me from the beginning, you would have known why she didn't show her love or why she rejected you in the first place. Let me tell you this: If I were in her place, I wouldn't only reject you. I will hit you with anything in my hand, man." He looks like he was caught doing something bad.

"Who, in his right mind, would suddenly confess his love in the college hall? She was embarrassed and wouldn't stop complaining like a broken record about what you did, and we had a hard time calming her down." If there was a hole, he would love to hide in it.

"So, Uncle Alex First of all, you need to change the way you’re trying to gain her attention, because when I think about what you did, man, it gives me goosebumps. Don't smile. It hits me in a bad way. Second, don’t be persistent; women are like men if they find you annoying; that’s the end. But if she decides to give you a chance, there will be two options: one: she will give you a hard time to know your true intentions; two: she will play hard to get to understand your limits; and three: she will reject you because of your attitude and the way you choose to express your feelings. And with Sarah's personality, I would choose option three," I told him with a smug smile.

"You said there are only two options, but you said three," he scoffed and mumbled under his breath.

"So what? I don't care. I heard you, so watch what you say."

I sigh the longest sigh in my life. I feel like my life is reduced because of my frequent sighing today. "Uncle Alex, all you need to do to win her is show that you care about her and about what she likes. What makes her happy? Why should she trust you? Not to ask her randomly, out of nowhere, to go on a date without asking if she is okay with it or not. You need to make her notice you in a different way.”

“Like what?”

“I don’t know; maybe give her a rose, ask her to have dinner, and start talking about random things—how the food was, what both of you like or dislike—about your children. There are a lot of topics to talk about, but choose wisely, uncle." I gave him a reassuring smile, and he returned it.

"Now you know what you should do. How about you visit her with a bouquet of her favorite flowers? You know what type she likes, right?"

He playfully scowled at me and said, "Of course I know.".

"Woah, okay, mister, I need to go and visit her before picking up my babies. Bye-bye, Old Man." I rushed out before he could kill me.

I went to my office to grab my things and be on my way. I called an Uber to drive me to the hospital. When I reached there, I went directly to Sarah's room. I opened the door to find a heavily pregnant woman angrily and hungrily munching on a harmless apple, its juices going down on her chin.

I was silently laughing at her. She looked like she had been starving for ages; it was her first baby, and she looked like she was about to burn the whole world. I can't imagine what she would look like with her second baby. She would kill Danny, for sure.

And the wanted woman that I came to see was looking at her daughter in pure disgust. I couldn't hold back my laughter anymore. When they heard my laugh, both finally noticed me. Sarah gives me a warm, welcoming smile, and my pregnant bff of the year gives me a glare.

"Why were you laughing at me, you ugly orc?" Before I could reply, she was hit on the back of her head by my knight in shining armor.

"Mom, why did you hit me?" she whined.

"Stop cussing so loudly. We are in the hospital; that's the first thing. Secondly, stop speaking when your mouth is full of food, and you should thank God that she was only laughing at you. I was disgusted."

"Why!! What's wrong with me?"

"You don't know; look at yourself in the mirror, and you will know what's wrong. You are eating like a pig. What did the poor apple do to you?"

"So what? I don't fu**king care if you forget I am a pregnant woman who is eating for two beside me. I’m angry, so angry, and always hungry… Sob… do you think I wanted to be like this? My mother is disgusted with me like my husband, and my bff is laughing at... sob... me." I looked at Sarah and mouthed, 'What happened?' She mouthed back, 'Danny happened.' This i***t will never learn.

"Do I disgust you guys so badly?" We shake our heads in no.

"Then why were you laughing at me, and my mom is disgusted by looking at me?" and at this moment, we know we are doomed.