Not Your Typical Billionaire

First Date

The blaring noise from my alarm pulled me out of the deep slumber I was enjoying, I reached over to turn it off. I sighed turning over to see Ezra’s back face me, he’s been sleeping here for a week now and I think he likes it. I think because since our little appearance in paper, he hasn’t been able to continue living a semi normal life. The press follows him everywhere, probably the main reason why he been avoiding me in public so that he doesn’t drag me into this. I let out a yawn before sitting up in my spot, well my new spot I normally sleep in the middle with Lysander at my feet but with Ezra stay with us. Let’s just say Ezra is back in the dog house with Lysander, I turned to see if he was still sleep.

I climbed out of bed slowly so I don’t wake him up, he didn’t cover over until 3 hours ago. I know he’s exhausted; I smiled walking into my bathroom. I need to get ready for breakfast; quickly taking a shower, brushing my teeth. I walked out of my bathroom in a towel to see Ezra now facing myside of the bed still sleeping. I walked into my closet I moisturize my skin before slipping on a flirty lime green lace romper, I untwisted my hair before slipping on my diamond stud earrings. I slipped on my favorite black stilettos; I walked out my closet to see a bouquet of lilies on my side of the bed.

Ezra was walking up the stairs with two mugs and a tray full of breakfast sandwiches from that coffee shop he loves so much. When did he get all of this I saw him when he came in there was nothing in his hands. How did he sneak in that tray? He smiled at me holding the tray out for me, I smiled looking at the time, wait a minute did he change my clock back? Its saying I’m an hour early for work, I let out a loud sigh. Hs sat the tray on the bed as he sat next to it; I walked up to him raising my eyebrows.

“Don’t be mad, but I wanted to surprise you. Since we’re both so busy all of the time, I wanted to do a mini date here. Before you go to work, a little hot herbal tea with some breakfast you don’t have to cook. I swear on our next mini date I’ll cook for you.” He said I smiled rolling my eyes as I walked over to him. I sat next to him grabbing the tea, he handed me a breakfast sandwich as he took a sip of his coffee.

“You just got here, why are you drinking coffee?” I asked

“It’s actually warm blood, it helps me sleep.” He said as he unwrap a sandwich for himself. I smiled shaking my head slightly; I looked down at my hot breakfast sandwich as I unwrap my sandwich. I took a bite of the sandwich sitting my tea down on the tray. “I have them deliver it, I asked for it at this so you would be getting out of the shower.” He said

“That explains why they are fresh, but you know I have tomorrow night off”—   

“I have to be at the hospital tomorrow and I don’t want to make plans and I can’t make it.” he said shaking his head. That’s why he wants to do it right now, I smile taking a sip of my tea.

“Why not just wait until my vacation in a month?” I asked

“Wait… you have a vacation next month?” He asked I nod my head it’s on the calendar.” I said pointing to the calendar over by the stairs. “I have a vacation next month.” He said

“Well Alice wants to go to their house in the mountains for Christmas.” I said

“Why aren’t you going with them?” he asked

“Elena, plus they know what is going on right now, so for me to not travel is fine.” I said finishing my sandwich; I turned to see I still have a little over 30 minutes left before I go to work.

 “Right… well we’re definitely going to have beautiful vacation together. Let’s go”—

“Ezra did you miss everything I just said? What about El and Ly? Plus it’s about time I start preparing the spell.” He let out a long sigh. “I don’t want to be a buzzkill but I can’t just pack up and leave for a month.” I said

“I’m not asking for a month long vacation just a weekend somewhere.” He said he grabbed his cup before taking a sip. “So you have a month off? How did you manage that?”

“Alice wants to spend a month there they’ll actually be there for all most of December and half of January. So they’ll be back about a week before my birthday.” I said damn it I let that slip out but not when it is. Just the month, maybe he didn’t hear that or noticed that.

“Your birthday is in January? When? I didn’t know it was so close.” He said I’m an i***t, I shook my head slightly.

“Promise me you won’t do anything.” I said pointing my finger at him, I don’t celebrate my birthday. Hell, I even made Daniel promise to never tell Alice when my birthday was so she could never through me a party. I even have it so El doesn’t know my birthday; I stopped celebrating it so long ago that I have to look it up to remember it. I only remember the month because I always remember snow when I would get a pass from those people. Plus I have my birth certificate somewhere close. 

“I want to take you on a little date.” He said

“No, promise me you won’t throw me a party, take me out, help throw me a party, nothing! Treat it like another day.”

“But it’s not another day; it was the day you were born.” He said

“I’m not telling you then,” I said before standing up from the bed, “It’s time for me to go anyways.

“Wait if they return a week before your birthday day that makes you an Aquarius and it’s the last week of January.” He said before standing up from the bed.

“Ezra I appreciate that you care but”—

“Let me spoil you one of these day… You’re my girlfriend and want to treat you like the queen you are.” He said cutting me off I sighed before shaking my head,

“I need to go,” I said before grabbing my tea, “I promise we’ll finish this later.” I said he shrugged his shoulders before grabbing the tray. “Don’t be mad I just have always hated my birthday and I don’t see a reason to celebrate it.” I said

“I’m not mad I just want you to trust me for once.” He said

“I do trust you… I just don’t know how to be comfortable around anyone.” I said

“I understand…” he said before walking past me to the stairs. “Have a great day at work.” I shook my head before heading downstairs behind him.

“What are you going to do with your day off?” I asked he turned to me smiling before.

“Probably go do some work for a little bit and go home for a few things.” He said

“Do you want me to bring dinner home?” I asked

“No, I’ll probably stop on my way back.” He said I nodding my head, I understand that he’s mad at me. He has every right to be mad but it’s nothing against him, I just fear someone knowing any information about me.

“Hey…” I called out to him before he reached the kitchen; he turned to me setting the tray on the counter. “I’ll be home for lunch.” I said he smiled

“Okay,” he said shaking his head, “I’ll see you for lunch. I’m going to finish getting some sleep.” He said before nodding, I headed out of the house. I walked towards the mansion, maybe I should just tell him but it just makes me uncomfortable. We’ll talk at lunch, I’m sure he’ll be okay with everything once I hopefully clear this all up.  I reached the kitchen letting out a deep sigh; this is going to be rough.

“Please understand where I was coming from.” I mumbled to myself as I washed my hands.

“Who are you talking to?” I turned to see Jacob walking into the kitchen, “Look I’m sorry about what I did and said. I was an i***t and I shouldn’t have done it.” He said walking up to me, I’ve been watching you and I see everything about this whole thing has made you uncomfortable. I shouldn’t have gotten drunk and showed the pictures off. I didn’t that this would be a problem but now I see that I made not only you uncomfortable but Ezra. If I could go back and change anything I would”—

“I wouldn’t, even though he’s unhappy about not being able to take me out in public anymore or not being able go to work or his house. He’s been spending so much time with me and we’re getting closer. I can’t thank you enough but you should be apologizing to him not me, he’s been the most effected by all of this.” I said Jacob nodded his head before holding out a white 6 inch cake with the words ‘I’m sorry’ on it in purple writing. I smiled looking up at him, before taking the cake.

“I didn’t make it I can’t cook to save my life but I did buy it.” He said as I placed the cake on the counter. “Listen maybe I can come over for dinner tonight to apologize to him.” He said

“You can come over for lunch, Alice will working so hopefully he’ll be up for the day.” I said

“Well okay, thank you.” He said smiling softly; he turned to leave the room. I smiled shaking my head as I turned to the cake. I hope its chocolate, that’s my favorite cake to eat.

Finally a time when not having to do lunch is helpful, I normal just prepare a lot of different emergency foods. Sometimes I will take a nap or just play with Ly before having to take a break. I noticed Ezra sitting on the porch tossing a stick for Ly to catch; I smiled walking up to him. He looked up at me smiling softly as he noticed the cake in my hands, I told Jacob to come by in a minute just to give a heads up. He stood up tossing the stick into the forest; Ly turned his head to look at Ezra before walk towards where the stick went. I giggled patting him on the head as he walked passed me, my poor baby, I’ll get him back for you.

“Hi, I brought a cake and a lunch guest.” I said he titled his head to the side. “Listen Jacob wants to come over and apologize.” I said

“No thank you,” he said before walking into the house. I sighed following him into the house; I left the door cracked so Ly could come inside.

“Ezra please, he’s sorry and he”—

“He ruined my cover and almost got you involved, it’s bad enough that he did it but then he didn’t even come clean about it and apologize he waited until now.” He said cutting me off, he shook his head before turning to face me. “He wants to fix everything he messed up, because no one will trust him.” He said I placed the cake on the counter before placing my hands on my hips.

“Will you do it for me?” I asked he smiled shaking his head. “Will you do it for something in return?” he slowly walked up to me wrapping his arms around my waist.

“Dreya…what could you give me that would make me forgive that man?”  He asked

“Well men always”

“What do I want?” he asked cutting me off. He has always wanted me to trust him a bit more; maybe he wants me to believe I can trust him. “Tell me what I want from you to forgive him.” He said

“The 28th,” I said he rapidly blinked before shaking his head; maybe he’s confused as to what that means. “My birthday is January 28th.” I said

“That’s not what I want.” He said well crap I don’t know then, what can I do?

“How about a date? A real first date with all of that gushy communication and stuff.” I said

“Stuff?” he asked

“Yeah you know hand holding, kissing, dinner, I let you pay, we go to some ‘surprise’ place. You date things from the movies.” He placed a kiss on my forehead, he started to chuckle under his breath. “So it that a yes?” I asked

“No to the date but I’ll hear him out. But when the time comes no if or buts about my request, do we have a deal?” He asked he doesn’t want to go on a date; he doesn’t care for information from me. What exactly does he want from me? Is it s*x? I’m not sleeping with him anytime soon. I didn’t think that was an option but mean I could always just break up with him if he pressures me.

“Deal,” I said as the door opened I turned to see the Jacob walking into my house. “Welcome, we were just starting lunch.” I said pulling away from Ezra, I headed into the kitchen. “Jacob why don’t you just relax while Ezra and I whip up lunch.” I said as he just walked over to Ezra. Ezra just turned his back to Jacob walking over to me; Jacob just sat on the couch looking over at us. “Please be nice, just talk to him and I’ll make lunch.” I said Ezra rolled his eyes before shaking his head. “Do it or I’ll leave, locking to 2 in here.” I said he looked at Jacob before turning back to me. Don’t make this a difficult decision, just go hear him out and say I forgive you. Just stop this macho man attitude, we’ll find away around the media and all of that.

“Fine,” He said before leaving my kitchen I smiled as I started to wash some vegetables. I watched as Ezra stood across from Jacob with his arms crossed over his chest. “So what brings you here?” He asked Jacob looked at me I motion for them to talk before he turned to Ezra.

“Mr. Valentine I’m so sorry about exposing you. I wish I didn’t but I got really drunk and showed it to someone I thought was just nobody. If I could go back and change what I have done I would. I can’t express how truly sorry I am, I wish I could not get s**t face drunk and start gloating about knowing you.” Jacob said

“So I guess I’m supposed to forgive you, I used to be able to love a normal life but now I can’t go and home. I can’t work at the hospital without having the paparazzi faking being sick to get my attention away from my actual sick people. I have doctors and scientists at my company not wanting to come in because they’re scared of the paparazzi. The female who work under me are being accused of sleeping with me if they stay to work on a project. You not only ruined my life but my colleagues, my employees and you ruin any chance I’ve had to take Dreya on a proper date.” Ezra said slowly raising his voice. “You can’t change any of that and it’s sad that you believe and have tricked Dreya into believing that saying sorry is going to change all of the damage you have done. I won’t help feed that stupid fantasy; it’s just really freaking stupid. I can’t forgive you but I did hear you out.” Ezra said

“Well I completely understand, I wish I could convince you but I understand 100%. You both warned me and I was stupid. I didn’t expect you to; I wanted to just apologize for everything since it was completely unfair what I did to you.” Jacob said standing up from his seat, I sighed as I threw the vegetables into a hot skillet. The sound of the door closing before a hand landed on my hip.

“Why couldn’t you just place nice?” I asked pulling away from him; he let out a groan before smacking his forehead. “He just wanted to apologize for everything. He is sorry; you could have just lied and made him feel better.” I said turning to slice the chicken breast into strips. He dumped the cooked vegetables into a clean bowl before putting the skillet back over the fire.

“I didn’t want to believe that someone whom, that same night threaten me, like to get drunk and gloat to people about what? Knowing me, trust me, he doesn’t know anything about me besides my name and that I like you.” He said taking the strips before throwing them into the skillet; he just chuckled allowing the chicken to cook.

“He understands what he did wrong and has accepted his mistakes. Grab my tomato sauce out of the freezer.” I said

“I’ll forgive him I just need time, you want how many cubes?” he asked pulling out my frozen tomato sauce. I looked up at him smiling softly as he dumped 2 in the skillet already.

“6 should do it, but first deglaze my pan with some white wine.” I said he turned to me wide eyed. “Quickly before they melt.” I said he turned to the counter grabbing the bottle of white wine. He poured a little in the pan creating a large smoke cloud; he jumped back holding the bottle close. “That’s normal don’t be so jumpy.” I said taking the wine bottle from him. I deglazed the pan quickly before throwing the remaining 4 cubes in the pan.

“You’re a natural at this.” He said

“I learned to cook before I learnt how to bake. I cooked for a few years and then I learned to bake. I had to learn to take care of El, I couldn’t just bring home cold food every day, so learned to cook and bake so she would have a semi normal life.” I said

“You take care of everyone but yourself.” He said

“Hey I take a hot bubble bath every night to self care.” I said he chuckled softly. “I take care of myself.” He smiled before dumping the vegetables into the pan.