"Layla!" Kier called her name with threat.
"Oops" she nervously laughs " You only have water " this time she faked her laugh.
"Here, drink water" she gave me the water and I accepted it. "Hoping to cool your head" she's looking at Kier, while she said her last statement but the other one is busy drinking. His attention is no longer on us but on his friend.
He hadn’t eaten yet and alcohol immediately confronted it.
"Oh wait. I'll introduce you to crushie" he whispered to me.
"Bry! Baby!" She hugs his arm again, he’s busy talking to Ken for us to notice " I'm going to introduce you "he whispered" member of the family, wife that ugly Kier! "He sniffed in front of him.
I heard him chuckled.
He looked at Ken and I was amazed when I saw him, because I could only see him from the inside, plus he was busy talking to Ken.
"Hi. I'm Bryden, but you can call me Bry" he offered his hands but another hand shook hands there and we all looked at Ken "She's married, idiot!" He said while looking bad at the friend.
"Ay possessive!" Layla giggled.
Bryden chuckled.
I keep on staring him "Hey, don’t look at me to much someone might get jealous”
I looked in front of me and the two of us looked bad. He was already killing carnivores in the class of his looks.
While the one next to me was thrilled.
She's making fun of his cousin.
"Were you friends with Ken when you were in college?" I asked.
He seemed surprised when I asked "Hmm. Yeah" he didn't expect that i'll talk to him.
"Oh shit! Of course!" Layla interrupted, "Selena, wasn't she your crush when you were in college?" Layla, please not now, it's so embarrassing, the other table might hear her because of the volume of her voice
I bit my lower bit "u-u-uh" what should I say.
"Girl, you were still talking to Mia and me, back then. You said you couldn't get over him because you didn't see him and you didn't hear anything from her when you were in 2nd year college" I'm embarrassed
"Right, Bryden.” she realized something "O... M... to the, G" her eyes got bigger while giggling “He’s your crush!” she said loudly “Am I right?” I shyly nodded.
“Daughter that's not like that, gessh!” Kier's mom shouted when I threw the pimento in the sauce pan “that's not the proper way to put ingredients in the boiling water” she instructed me “do you want to sear, huh?” I lowered my gaze, is she mad? She invited me to prepare our lunch and I don't know a thing in the kitchen. Kier is the one who prepares my meal and is in charge of almost everything in the house.
“Mom, don't scold Shileyn, brother might hear you” Layla whispered. She's leaning in the counter comfortably while she’s eating the cheese
“Layla daughter, why did you deplete the cheese huh? I'll use them” mom said problematically “and I'm not scolding her! I'm teaching her” she rolled her eyes at Lyla “and can you please help us here? Instead of depleting the cheese?” she pleaded with sarcasm.
Layla put down the cheese container and she really deplete it. “My mommy doesn't let me get involved in the kitchen and I don't know how to cook,” she said while rolling her eyes. They’re calling their auntie mommy. This family has a strong bond and they're really close to each other.
Mom Kier put down the spatula and got the saffron. “That's why I am here teaching you how to cook,” she said slowly. She tasted the boiling water.
“I don't want to!” she stomped her feet “I'm not born to cook. I'm born to be beautiful and to be a model” she said and finding another container of cheese “I just saw it here” she whispered and kept on finding it. She loves cheese.
Kier's mom looked at her and her hands were now on her waist “no one will marry you you dont know nothing about household chores. You're a woman you should know on how to cook, you're going to serve your husband”
Layla cringe “heh! If he wants to be served, he must find his maid!” her face brightened “finally! “she looks happy as she found the other set of cheese and mom get it from her
“Mom!” Moms Kier used the cheese and Layla stomped her feet and she murmured “and you Shielyn how can you eat everyday where you don't know how to cook” shifted her attention on me and I lowered my gaze. I feel embarrassed. My mom never embarrassed me. “You must know how to cook. Kier is tired from work and you must cook something for him when he gets home. Surely he’s hungry” she put salt and blended it. A coffee is fine with him.
“Get the anchovies” she commands and my hands shake, what are the anchovies? What it looks like, I'm finding it and Layla helps me too. I looked at her and she's tasting the water again and she looks at me, she raises her eyebrow at me and I look away.
She doesn't like me. I bit my lower lip. I’m scared of her, don’t get me wrong she’s kind on me but I’m scared of her as she keeps on scolding us and she looks like Kier, they are scary even though they are just in the calm mood but their aura is scary,
“It's just in front of you, don't tell me you don’t what is this” she said in disbelief but Layla answered her “Mom what's that? We don't know any idea about that duh, and you're getting mad when we didn't find it” I'm nervous every time he commands because i don't know any single thing here
“Hay, this is the Saffron, the dried stigma of crocus flowers, this is essential to Spanish cooking, It's very expensive. I must teach two of you to cook” and she face the pot again
“Shielyn, does Kier cook?” she asks and me and my heart beats faster, she's asking again. She asked me calmly and softly but her aura makes me nervous.
Should I tell her the truth? I'm scared she will get mad at me if she finds out that Kier is doing the household chores, she’s a bit strict. She will scold me if I say that Kiers is preparing our meal and if I lied to her, she won’t believe me.
“Uhmm” I played my fingers
“Daughter, learn to cook. Kier is handling a corporation and it's not easy, it's tiring, how did you let him do the cooking?” she's scolding me “you're a woman. Come here often, I'll teach you in cooking and in household chores” her left hand is in her waist. She's not mad, she's encouraging me.
“Mom's brother Kier won’t let her do that!” Layla answered
She faces us “and why?” she raises her eyebrow on us
“Because I said so” our attention shifted to Kier who just entered the kitchen and opened the fridge “why are you scolding my wife, mom?” he asked calmly and poured water and looked at us “wife isn’t maid and it's not her responsibility” he drank water “I can get my chef whenever I want and stop meddling in our life, Mom” his face is just natural, he's not mad or irritated.
I looked at him, he just woke up and he was wearing a plain white t-shirt which suited him and a black pants, as usual his black hair is in the tidy. After we had breakfast, he drank coffee and rested for a while. He took a bath and he slept.
Layla giggled. She’s always giggling. There’s no need to get giggled by his words, he is a liar.
He stood beside and held my hand, his eyebrow furrowed when he saw the cut in my fingers ``mom, did you let her use the knives?!” his voice raises
“Kier, it's normal and don't raise your voice at me!” she warned him
“Layla, I told you to look over at her!” Layla flinch, he’s glaring Layla
“B-brother . I-I. hehe” she doesn't know what to say. I held his arm “it's my fault and this is just a small cut you don't need to shout at them” his face relaxed
“Mom? Why did you let her do the thing here?” he asked in frustration. Her mom raises her eyebrow “and why? She doesn’t know how to cook! I’m just teaching her!”
He sighed in disbelief “mom! that’s being stupid!” I held his arm to calm him, I don’t want his mom to hate me because of this and his shouting at her because of me. His mom might think bad about me and I don’t want that to happen. “A good wife doesn’t need to be a chef! That’s not the requirement! Women are different from each other! And stop the stigma! They don’t have to be good at household chores to be called a good wife!”
“K-ken” I called him
“You’re shouting at me? Because of this woman?!” she pointed at me.
“M-mommy” Layla tried to stop mom. She senses too that this is going further. She’s scared too.
“don’t point a finger at my wife” his voice is deep and every word is sending a warning, it gives shivers to my spine.
Kier is about to reply back “K-ken s-stop” I tried to stop him and he’s disrespecting his mom because of me. I want to cry right now; I don’t want them to fight because of me.
His mom put down her finger and held his son's cheek. “My god, son,'' she said with teary eyes “you’re really not my baby anymore.” Kier put her hand down
“stop babying me, I’m not a baby anymore” his eyebrow crease, his irritation, I know that tone of his voice.
He turns off the stove. We almost forgot about it.
He gets my finger and puts it on his mouth, I flinch. I didn’t expect that. Were just looking on each other eyes
“Kier, son, you're so overprotective” his mom said while giggling but my attention is just on his mouth, he sucks it “since you're here, continue what I'm cooking” she lively left this place.
He sucks my finger while intently looking at me, he twirls his tongue on my finger.
I fell back to my senses when I heard Layla's loudest giggles “Oh Em G!” I hurriedly took back my hand and I hid it in my back while Kier smirked.
“Get out of here” he is pointing at Layla, as he again uses the authorities’ tone.
“But can I have my cheese?” Layla did a puppy eye.
“hmmp” she glared at Kier because Ken threw the cheese on her face and it fell on the floor. He continued cooking and I’m just sitting on a chair and watching him.