Chapter twenty two

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~"I may look like a potato but one day I'll turn into fries and you will all want me."~

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Natasha's Outfit for the airport. (ontop)

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Natasha's POV

"What?!" I asked more shocked than I sounded.

"Wow, when you react like that it's like I asked to marry your grandma," he said scratching the back of his head.

"Sorry I didn't want it to sound like that," I said clearing my throat.

We stayed quiet for a few minutes. I watch the minute hand go around once before I speak up again.

"Lorenzo, don't you think we are moving too fast? I mean a few months I was barely anything to you, nonexistent, and now you want me as your girlfriend?" I said, the last bit was more like a question to myself. "and with all that going on, my aunt is in hospital, Natalie's wedding preparation...."

"Natasha you are right I should have waited for the right time." He said.

But how long is he ready to wait?

"Listen, I'll give you an answer next week when I return from my mum's place," I said smiling.

"You are going to see your mum?" He asked eyes wide open.

"Yep maybe patch things up." I said.

"Hopefully everything works out." He said the put a waffle in his mouth. " When are you leaving?"

I check the ticket. "Today at 10 pm," I said.

"That gives you.. 5 hours." He said

"Oh, my word I haven't even started packing," I said getting up from the table.

"I'll help you." Lorenzo offers.

After cleaning the kitchen and putting the plates away we head to my room. I pull of the largest suitcase cause I'm planning to do some shopping when I'm there. I send Lorenzo around helping me pack things.

"Can you look if there are any spare toothbrushes in that drawer please?" I ask Lorenzo while looking for my laptop charger.

He suddenly freezes. "Are you OK?" I ask coming up towards him.

My face turns pink, I completely forgot that this drawer were for my lingerie and in front of us is my lace black bra. I slam the drawer shut cause Lorenzo looks mesmerized by it.

"I think you have helped enough here. You can wait downstairs while i finish up." I said feeling my face go red.

He just nods and turns towards the door. Gosh I don't want to know what going through his head right now.

I quickly finish the little things left and make sure my room is spotless cause i hate having to come home after a holiday and start doing house chores.

"Ok, I'm just going to put this in the car..." I was interrupted by my phone ringing.

"Hello? Yes. That's great, we will be there just now." When I ended the call my face was beaming.

"Who was that?" Lorenzo asked.

"The hospital, my aunts awake and we can go and visit." I said.

We got into the car and slowly the embarrassment of earlier slowly crept back into my mind, I felt my cheeks becoming hotter.

"Don't worry I won't remember any of it tomorrow morning" Lorenzo said smiling to himself.

Getting to the hospital we were escorted to room 57.

"Thank you," I said to the nurse before going inside.

"Hey, my too favorite people." My aunt beamed when she saw us.

"Hey, aunt. How's the leg?" I asked being as impatient as I was.

"Hi, Susan." Lorenzo pooped his greeting in and I had totally forgotten that he was in the room.

Susan, my aunt hopped a bit and wobbled a bit but got out of her hospital bed standing on one leg.

"Which leg did they amputate?" I questioned.

"I knew it! I'm glad I asked for this one, not the mechanical one." She rejoiced.

I looked carefully at her leg and only then did I see the difference. One of her legs was slightly paler than the other.

"WOW! I could hardly tell the difference." Lorenzo said. "But I think the mechanical one would have been better it would make you look kind of cyborg."

Susan rolled her eyes then sat back down. "Boy .  Anyways I have to take it off when I'm in the shower and avoid it getting wet because the mechanical one is underneath," she said the pulled the layer off the show us the mechanical leg, you know the one that we normally see.

"I'm so happy for you. Did they tell you where we must pay?" I asked helping her take the prosthetic leg off because she seemed to be in a lot of pain trying to show us the difference. 

Lorenzo cleared his throat. "I would be a bad gentleman if I allowed my ladies to see the paycheck." He said then dismissed himself.

"So are you guys now a thing?" Tantin asked as soon as he had left.

"You and your ears." I teased. "No, we aren't a thing yet."

"What?! Why?" she asked.

If this is how I reacted to the question I understand why Lorenzo felt bad.

"I'm not ready yet I think?" I said unsure of even my own answer. "And I still have a lot of things to understand and work through." 

"Are you sure that's the REAL reason?" Tantin asked.

I looked at the floor. Was this the real reason?

"Anyways since you still have a whole 6-8 weeks of total rest I guess I will delay the trip to mom. Maybe I will use this time to actually be by myself and work things out." 

"Oh man, I am sorry honey...I really did want to go with you." Tantin said. 

"No don't say that...you didn't do anything. Get some rest..I will be visiting you soon." I said giving her a kiss on the forehead. 

I exited the room silently after I had made sure she had fallen asleep. 

Exiting the room I find Lorenzo sitting in the lobby. 

"Hey," He said looking up at me. 

"Hey, um..thanks again for you know, everything," I said. 

"No problem. It's the least I can do." He said. "So what now?"

"Well, I'll need to call my mom and cancel..then maybe wait for Tantin to be in shape to travel again," I said looking at my phone. 

"Ok, and what will you be doing during that time?" He asked as we walked to the parking lot. 

Opening the car door I stopped and looked at him. 

"I still need to figure that part out," I said. This was the first time I was actually on my own. 

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Hey, guys so this is a revised chapter for those who have read this book before but if you haven't just keep going. Hope you enjoy it! 

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