?THE ROMANTIC
CEO ?
{ un-der the rain of love…}
By melody.
Chapter 21.
Vixen was laying on Amy’s bed, with Amy next to him while she laid on his che-st still sobbing.
He stretched out his arm towards the small center table and tugged out a sash of tissue before ru-b-bing her w-et cheeks.
” It’s okay, Amy. You’ve been crying for an hour, your lids must be painful now.” He said, looking at her dearly.
Amy sniffed her nose and just threw her hands around him, hugging him ti-ght. Her face was inside his che-st.
” I know you are really sad about everything that happened. But fate has a reason for bringing us together again.” He said.
” i believe fate brou-ght us together to make my life more miserable, vixen. Everything was getting better, until something else pop up, ruining everything.” She said, staring up at him.
Vixen inhaled sharply, patting her head.
” You deserve to know to truth, Amy. I’m sure now that you do, you’d be able to identify the one who truly loves you most.” He said, turning to look at her face.
” I’m sure this was the truth Xan was hiding from me yesterday. Now i un-derstand why he was scared to tell me.”
” He wasn’t scared, Amy. He just didn’t want you to figure out so that you could remain with him. He’s such a hurtful person and he’s the reason behind everything, love.”
Amy shakes her head, coughing as she cried the more.
” i already promised to stand by him, love him, and be with him un-der every circu-mstances. Even un-der the truth. I made a vow to him, vix. Just as how you made a vow to me. You know it can never be broken so easily.” She said, looking up at him with fleek w-et lashes.
Vixen turned sideway, cu-pping her cheeks with one of his palm.
” Vows are not God. You can break them if you want, okay?. It’s just up to you, Amy” He said.
She sniffed again with a tissue and turned sideways to stare up at the roof.
” I had always wish to see your full face, Amy. Now that i can, i think you look more beautiful than ever after i realised you were Alicia.” He teased.
Amy turned to steal a glance at him, smiling just a little. A smile that never reached her eyes.
” We both changed so much during the years.” She said.
” Yeah, truly. But there’s something that still keeps me confused, baby.” He said and drew closer to her, wrapping her around him. ” How did you get your voice back?”
Amy blinked and slowly returned her gaze to the roof, as her face slowly turned horrible. She sniffed again as tears welled up in her eyes.
” It’s a long painful story, tho. The only thing i could remember is that i was told by my doctor that i could still talk since i wasn’t born dumb.”
” So?. Did you went throu-gha surgery or something?”
Her tears fell proudly after she heard him.
” Maybe. I was left between life and death after the surgery.” she said as her chin folded up.
Vixen sighed and buried his head on her che-st.
” You’ve truly pa-ssed throu-ghalot, Amy. And coming to think of the problems you faced after arriving here too. It’s just too much for you. I wish i could have carry the cross with you”
” You could have been dead by now.” she teased and vixen filled the room with his hilarious laugh.
He leaned up, making her to stay beneath him.
” I know it’s all okay. All is for the best. Your voice truly sounds nicer than any girl in the world, okay?”
” Okay.” She nodded her head as she felt loved.
He leaned closer to ki-ss her but she held his che-st, stopping him.
” My mouth is really dry and sour. I need to go get some water.” She said
” Sure. I’ll be here waiting.” He said, leaning his hands behind his head.
She sprang up from bed and watched her from behind as she left.
…
LA KITCHEN.
Xan was leaning up in the kitchen table, sipping throu-gha hot coffee as he searched throu-ghhis phone screen.
Amy hopped into the kitchen and stopped on her tracks the moment she saw him.
She lowered her gaze and began to step away towards the refrigerator.
” Good morning.” She said almost in a whisper as she walked past him.
” Hey, Amy.” Xan said and dropped his cu-p of coffee on the table as he approached her.
He stopped as he watched her lean to get a mug from the cabinet.
” I was actually waiting for you to finally come out of your room. It seems you had slept till your fill last night.” He said.
Amy curled her li-ps into her mouth as she stretched out her mug un-der the dispenser and get some water.
” So?. Does your head still hurt?” He asked, leaning on the table to stare at her.
Amy totally ignored his presence as she picked out her mug and took out a sip.
She placed the mug un-der the dispenser and waited to sprew more cold drink.
” Amy?..” He looked at her, utterly confused about her new behaviour this early hours of the day.
She picked out her mug and began to step away.
He leaned away from the table as he watched her step away hastily.
” Amy. Amy. Wait…please…” He chased her, running towards her front to block her pa-ssage.
Amy quickly staggered to a stop, still lowering her gaze to avoid staring at his eyes.
” What’s wrong?. What’s the problem?” He asked, his voice calm and daring.
She raised her red swollen eyes and stared daggers at him and that was when xan realised what the problem was.
He walked closer to her, holding up her cheeks as he stared at her eyes.
” Your eyes. Did someone hurt your eyes. W..who hurt you. Tell me. Is it vixen? Mn?.” He probbed, squinting his eyes as he watched her in pain.
She took his hands and dropped it down from her face.
” I’m so disappointed in you, xan. Why didn’t you tell me the truth before i realised myself?”
” The truth?” He looked at her with his eyes widely open.
” Do you think i don’t know that I’m Alicia. Do you think i don’t know you were that heartless man who almost killed me during my childhood days. Do you think?!” She yelled, bi-ting her lower li-p in pain.
Xan eyes wide-ned for a while. The next thing that came into his mind was that his brother must have told her everything.
” Just let me be!” She pushed him away by his che-st and began to step away.
” Amy. No…wait.” He stopped her by his wrist, spinning her around and letting her little gown go round in the air.
” I know this is very ha-rd to explain that why i was scared of telling you last night. I knew that you would take my past to judge my present, Amy. But believe me..I’m changed now. I’m very sorry” He said, holding up her palm.
Amy shaked her heads, chuckling sarcastically.
” You mean you are changed now?. You are sorry?. I should accept you happily with after what you did to me. Do you know you made my childhood days very painful?” She asked, her eyes welling up.
Xan su-cked his breath, staring at the floor.
” If i could erase any part of my life, Amy, i would erase my childhood days. I know i had hurt alot of people. I had caused lots of problems for my family. I was so miserable, Amy. I didn’t realise it until you slumped infront of me that very day.”
” So?.”
” I’m have amend my mistakes Amy. I’m not the same xan you knew as a little girl. I’m more like a repented sinner, never going back to start anew” He said, gulping down sour.
Amy turned around and began to head towards the door. He stopped her again for the third time.
” Please Amy. Please believe me. How else do you want me to explain it, like a professor?. A teacher?. I’m ready to make you un-derstand that I’m sorry.”
” You can go feel sorry for yourself, xan. I’m not coming back to you ever again. Go love yourself and make yourself un-derstand.” She yelled, and stepped forward.
” Amy..” he held her palm.
She spilled all the drinks on his face and body and xan stepped back, feeling shock to his ribs.
His arms were halfway in the air, his face was pale still recovering from the shock he just received.
She looked at him for a while and sneered angrily.
” If you try to stop me again, this mug will be the next to land on your manhood. I’m sure that will teach you to have some sense.” She said and xan immediately pulled her closer, grabbing her li-ps instantly.
His heads remained stiff as he ki-ss ed her li-p as if he wanted her to feel how pained he felt.
His li-ps did things to her entire body and Amy felt her toes stumbling. She closed her eyes, just letting him do the whole thing.
He nibb-led on her lower li-p and su-cked them pa-ssionately. Amy ti-ghtened her eyes, waiting for the extreme.
Xan pulled his li-p dee-per, ki-ss ing her whole mouth and su-cking on them and Amy felt herself finally rise and come down to earth.
He held her captive, not wanting to let go until Amy finally had enough.
She slowly pulled away from him.
She stared at his eyes in complete emptiness. That ki-ss …it made her tongue disappear.
She had started to see body reach the sky of fantasy.
Why does she have to hate him sometimes and love him more than she hates him.
Xan sighed, still hugging her wai-st ti-ght to his w-et body. He wasn’t ready to let her go and make him feel useless.
He pec-ked her forehead.
” Remember the vows you made to me last night. You said you would stand by me even till the very end. Didn’t you?” He asked, looking at her intently.
Amy looked away immediately. She had already cancelled the vow physically but in her heart, the vow had only starting to mould there.
She pulled his hands away from his wai-st and returned her toes to the ground.
” I do not wish to fulfill the vows again.” She said, ru-b-bing her arms nervously.
” It’s okay, Amy. But i don’t want you to loose you, okay?. Vixen has done enough in making my life miserable. If you let go of me just for him, i…i might not actually survive” He said.
” I truly…truly love you from the de-eperest part of my heart, Amy. I have chosen to treat you differently. If only you could un-derstand the right words i mean.” He said, inhaling sharply as he looked down at her.
Amy pouted her li-ps as she stared up at him. She walked towards him and stood at his front until there was no inch left among their bodies.
” I’m very confuse, Xan. I…i..don’t know who to choose and who not to. I feel like you both are inncocent.”
He held her shoulder, leaning to her height.
” Remember what i said to you. Who does you heart seeks for?” He asked.
Amy stared at him for a while and stared at the door that just bursted open.
It was vixen. She quickly stepped away from xan fearfully.
” There’s no confusion in love, Amy. You fail to un-derstand the technique” Vixen’s voice rang out as he stepped towards them.
‘So he had been there hearing our conversation, even the ki-ss part.’ Amy thought childishly.
Vixen stopped and turned her around, making her face him.
” Amy. There is still time for you to make amends. I know this might sound really childish but, You need to choose between whom you love more.” He said.
” Who i love more?” She asked, turning to stare at xan who was behind her.
Vixen pulled her chin to turn back at him.
” Is it me, your childhood love. The man who fulfilled your vows truly. The man who never fell in love until fate made his part for us. The man who protected you against bully and gave you courage. The man who gave you your first ki-ss and loved you till the very end?” He asked, forming a smile
Amy returned the smile back at him, her head began to replay those past moments with him.
Then vixen turned to stare at xan.
” Or Is it xan, your bully in highschool, The man who almost killed you. The man who didn’t apologise until today. The man who claims he’s change but will do more than this later on.” He asked.
Amy blinked as she turned to stare at xan. She found him shutting his eyes ti-ght as he sighed.
” Vixen. What the heck are you saying?” He asked, opening his eyes as he turned to look at him.
” I’m just saying the true fact. There’s nothing great to speak about you.” Vixen shrugged his arm.
Xan turned to Amy and held her shoulders firmly.
” Amy. I’m not the same guy you knew as a bully back in highschool and it’s not a must you fall back in love with the person who gave you a first ki-ss . Who does your heart seeks for, that what’s matters most” He asked.
She looked at him with wide eyes, just wandering her balls at him nervously.
Her mind was beating fas-ter when xan was around her, speaking directly at her with his eyes pinned on her pupils.
Right now, she could feel her adrenaline run high as they lean so close to each other.
” I..i…” she looked away, staring at vixen who was leaning somewhere else on the table.
He seemed not to be concerned, fully aware that she would choose him after all he had said.
Amy sighed, pouting her li-ps as she looked away from him as well
” I…i..love…vixen.” she said, as tears ran down her eyes like gold lining.
Vixen sighed, closing his eyes with gladness as he stared at the roof.
That word alone had awaken his spirit life.
Xan stared at her so shockingly as if he couldn’t believe his ears.
He wished he could remote back to the past and replay what she said.
” Vixen?. You choose…vixen?” He whispered as he stared at her.
She swallowed, looking away from his face.
” I’m not done yet.” She said and xan pressurised face melted immediately.
Vixen looked down at her, utterly speechless as xan was before.
” I love vixen. But i also love xan too. But i don’t want any of you.” She said.
The two men stared at eachother for a while, then back at her.
” What do you mean?” Vixen asked, coming closer to them.
” I’m confuse because i love both of you. I can’t leave you over another. I can’t love one over someone else. So I’ve decided to let go and return home just to make things better.”
” Return home?. No. Y..you can’t leave. Not now…” Xan said, holding up her wrist.
” Please don’t stop me, xan. No one should stop me please. You guys said i should make my choice. This is my choice, To leave.” She said, pulling xan wrist away.
” You guys have a side story to back up the incident that makes you evil towards me. I’m sure if i had choosen, xan. Vixen might start up another endless war. And if i had choosen vixen, xan might make everything possible to end our friendship. You two are just devils and angels at the same time. I prefer going back home and living a normal life until the right time comes.” She said.
She walked to vixen and cu-p-ped his cheek.
” Vixen. You did alot for me. I’m happy that we met again but I’m sorry i….”
” It’s okay. I will…un-derstand.” He said, looking like a drentched kitten.
” Thank you.” Amy smiled and placed a short fast ki-ss on his li-p.
She stepped towards xan and stopped infront of him.
” I love you to xan. But I’m sure there are other girls you could love more than me. Thank you for confessing your feelings.” She said
Xan grabbed her in, hugging her ti-ght.
” Please don’t leave yet, Amy. Not when I’ve decided to accept love…i might break down..” he whispered.
” This is my choice. I’m sorry.” She said and let go of him.
Xan sighed pocketing his arm. She stared at both brothers for a while before running up to her room.
The two men stood there, unable to determine what next to do again.
……
LATER THAT DAY.
Xan and vixen were in the dining room, having their lunch.
Vixen was heavily piling himself on his meal because he had been busy fighting with guns and taking revenge.
Now, all he wanted to do was eat and regain his strength.
Xan, on the otherside, was lost in his own realm of drastic world.
Vixen stopped and stared at him.
” Xan. Xan!.” He ended up tapping the table to get his attention.
Xan shaked his heads in realisation and looked at him.
” I’m sorry. I…i….what were you telling me again?” He asked, looking confused.
” What are you busy thinking of?. Look at the cereals in your plate, they are melting.” Vixen said.
Xan stared at it and pushed it aside before folding up his arm.
” I lost my appetite already.” He said.
” Second time in a roll?. Do you want to be compared to a stick?” He asked.
Xan sighed, dropping his head.
” You don’t un-derstand.” He said
” I un-derstand that’s it Amy. I feel sad too but i just don’t know how to express my sadness physically. de-eper down, i really wish she could stay.” Vixen said.
Vixen ru-bs his head affectionately and pushed his chair closer.
” She’s gone now. We both feel hurt but that doesn’t mean the end of our life right?”
” Yeah. you’re right” Xan smiled, and give him a notch on his fist.
Vixen picked out some cereals from his plate and dropped it in his.
” Eat this. Gain some strength so we could run upstairs and go fight cobo” he said.
Xan laughed, nodding his head.
” You know i always win you in that game.” Xan said.
Vixen held his chin.
” Yeah. Last time, i think i lost the bone inbetween my legs.”
” And one of your teeth too.” Xan said.
” Yeah. Thanks alot for reminding me.” Vixen sneered angrily.
Xan chuckled and continued on his meal.
” Remember we skipped office today.” Xan said.
” Na. We could resume fully next week. You know, until we recover from our breakup feeling.” He said and they both ended up laughing.
They stopped and looked back at eachother with an appeasing sigh.
” I missed this old days, vixen. Don’t you think it feels much better we behave like this from now on.” Xan asked, sm-irking.
” Gross. I actually loved part we used to exchange dark glances and have revenge all day.” He said.
Xan continued back on his food without saying any more word again.
Vixen punched his arm playfully.
” My serious big brother” he chuckled.
TBC.
What do you have to say amazing readers???
Are Xan and vixen are finally moving along
Did Amy made a right choice?. Note- there’s a reason she made that choice.
Let’s watch out.