Chapter 19: Shopping

Shopping

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"What are you doing?" He asked while I was silently following him from behind.

Starting today, I'd follow him everywhere he would go. It's for me to see where he had hidden my phone and it is also to make sure that he would accidentally misplace the phone after he leaves.

But as usual, it was not easy for me.

I have decided to follow him since yesterday. After he tricked me the other day, I was looking for him. Again. It made me so fed up when he was just sitting on the sofa while watching television. I asked him for my phone but he was playing dumb about it. He even finished all the cupcakes.

I don't want to trust everything he says ever again.

It's like I'm being a creep but I don't care. I don't even care what he thinks about me. About what I'm doing. 

I stayed silent as I followed him into the comfort room. I stopped at the doorway and looked at him. He smirked at me and asked with a sexy voice, "Oh? I thought you are coming in?"

"In your dreams." I shut the door between us and waited. When he left, I quickly got in and searched the room but there were no signs of my phone.  

With an annoyed face, I went out to follow him once again but he was gone. I ran down the stairs and sighed in relief when I saw him in the kitchen.

He is wearing a polo shirt with skinny jeans. His hair was combed back and he was holding a paper and a pen. He opened the refrigerator and peeked inside.

"You're going out?" I asked him. His head peeked above the ref and looked at me. 

He looks like he is going somewhere. I guess I was too preoccupied with my phone earlier that I didn't even notice his outfit. And damn, he looks smokin' hot with his hair. Wait. What am I even thinking?

"We are out of stocks." He closed the refrigerator and looked at the paper in his hand. 

"I'm coming with you!" He glanced my way again.

"No. You should stay here."

I frowned and crossed my arms like a little child. Why doesn't he want me to go with him? 

"I could help."

"No." 

Tsk. How stubborn of him. It's been a week since I have been staying in this hellhole and I probably forgot how the outside world had once looked like. That's why I want to go out. At least for a day. 

What should I do? I should make some excuses so that he'll allow me to come with him.

Aha!

"Ingredients." He looked at me curiously. 

"We don't have enough ingredients for your cupcakes. And if you are asking me to write it down, I won't unless it's okay for you that I won't bake them anymore." I crossed my arms. I smiled secretly when it worked. 

He looked hesitant while combing his hair backward with his hand. It didn't take long for him to look at me and raised his hands in defeat.

"Fine. Go get dressed." I smiled at him and went up the room.

What should I wear? I am now looking for clothes to wear but it's all dresses. Most dresses are for occasions and parties and we are just going to the supermarket. 

I searched again and found a light blue summer dress. This should do it. I wore this and paired it with the flat heels that ate bought for me. I tied my hair into a ponytail and hastily went down.

I saw him leaning on the door, his face annoyed. "I'm sorry that I kept you waiting. Everything that ate July bought for me were all dresses and I had a hard time picking for the right one to wear." I explained. The annoyed look on his face faded when his eyes rested on me, looking a bit dazed. 

He glanced at me from head to toe, his eyes scanning me slowly as if it's his first time seeing a woman wearing a dress. He looked away and said, "let's go." and left. How weird.

"Is there a speck of dirt on me?" I thought and looked at my dress as I followed him.

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"Wow," I said, bewildered as we parked in front of a huge mall. This was by far the largest mall that I have ever seen. There are a lot of cars parked and a lot of people coming in and out of it. This is great because all we need are probably in here and also, it's not very far from the mansion.

I was about to go out of the car when he stopped me from doing it. My eyebrows raised at him with curiosity but he stayed silent. Instead, he got out of the car, went to my side, and opened the door for me.

My eyes widen at his sudden behavior as I mutter a soft, "thank you" at him. His lips pursed into a thin line and just stared at me. I got out of the car and together, we walked towards the mall.

When we entered, a lot of unfavorable and favorable eyes were staring at us. They are mostly girls by the way. 

The looked at us with cheering smiles but mostly envy frowns. I also heard a lot of gossips like,

"Oh my goodness! He is so handsome."

"Ooh la la, I want to taste him so bad."

"I so love his eyes. Uhhh, shit. It's something to die for."

"Who's that girl beside him? Eww, she's not pretty."

"Don't tell me they're partners? Yuck, they don't look good with each other." 

I looked down. There are a lot more but I can't hear it clearly because they are saying it in whispers and the place is a bit noisy. 

He clearly has a lot of admirers and being with him isn't really a good idea to expect if I'm as beautiful as ate July then that'll make an exception. He even asked me to stay but I was being stubborn and now, I'm cowering beside him.

Maybe this is probably one of the reasons why he insisted me on staying at home.

I should have listened to him.