You love Her

Michael POV:

"You should change your clothes, unless ..." I replied with a tad on anger.

She grinned and took a step closer. She leaned into me and placed her mouth close to my ears and whispered "Unless what?"

I didn't give her a chance to retract her words or her head, I held on to both. I stared at her eyes before locking my lips with her. She did more than just stop me, she kissed me back.

Warmth blossomed in my chest, sparks igniting as I leaned in close, lips brushing together, tentatively, for the first time.

The smell of her perfume, of the soft, peachy scent of her conditioner, was dizzying, butterflies dancing in my stomach. The warmth consumed me as she leaned into the kiss, her lips impossibly soft against her own.

I ran my fingers through her silky flaxen hair I've always wanted to touch. My hands slipped down the smooth curve of her sides to rest on her hips as I drew her in, I allowed them to drift to her thick thighs and lifted her up on the counter.

The three consecutive loud noise of plates breaking shocked the hell out of me, but it knock me back to my senses.

I quickly released her to look at the mess we made, her hands must have knocked the plates off when I lifted her.

"You can go ahead, I will clean it up" She replied

I could tell, She was very embarrassed.

"No. We made it together, we will clean it together."

"Don't worry, it isn't much."

I realized neither of us was wearing a shoe. She wanted to jump off the counter but I caught and placed her back right up.

"What are you doing" she said softly "We can't continue this"

"You aren't wearing a shoe, the shrad of ceramics will pierce your feet."

She look down to my feet "Neither are you"

"I am wearing a pair of socks"

"That can barely make any difference" She replied "it wouldn't stop it from piercing your foot"

I ignored her and scanned for a broom. I found one easily and made for it. I packed the shrad of plates and disposed them off in the trash can.

"Now you can get off" I replied

I stretched my hand to help her off, she stared at it for a brief moment, before holding it. One look at her and I was starting to feel the sexual tension again.

"You should go change your clothes while I finished up with dishes"

I knew there was no way the old woman wouldn't suspect something happened if she saw daughter looking like this.

"Okay"

I quickly finished up, with three plates broken, there wasn't much to do again. She came back out just in time, wearing another tshirt, this time a big black one. It was just as sultry at the first, but never mind I was leaving soon enough.

We headed back to the living room. I saw the two tables has been disabled and each has been set back to it's position.

"What took you so long, how long does it take to wash a couple of plates."

The old woman stared at her daughter in astonishment.

"What's with the new cloth" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh' the faucet was acting off and I was soaked"

"Again! I thought the plumber fixed it"

"Yes, I thought the same"

"We would have to call him again"

"I hope Mr. Angelo wasn't sprayed"

"No ma'am, I was lucky enough not to"

"It's getting really late, we have to hit the road. Thanks ma'am for having us for dinner"

"You are welcome boys"

"Mom, you may rest inside. I will see them off"

"Okay darling"

We trooped outside of the house leaving the older woman inside the house.

I stared at her and she caught my gaze. There was still so much to talk about, I felt my gut tightened. The tension was so visible, Cal saw through it very easily.

"I will head to the Car first" He said "it was lovely having us for dinner Miss Hardy"

"It was a pleasure" She replied with a smile.

Cal headed to the car. When I was sure he was out of earshot. I cleared my throat

"About earlier" We both said simultaneously, then we kept shut simultaneously, trying to offer the other the chance to go first, but we ended up creating an akward silence.

"You go first" I finally said

"About earlier"

"It was an accident" I interjected

"Agreed. It was very foolish very from my end for trying to tease you"

"And it was naive of me for succumbing to it, hopefully we can move on from it like it never happened" I said.

"Agreed" she replied

"Mike!" Cal called of a sudden "aren't you forgetting something"

I thought he meant I was taking too long.

"A minute more Cal"

"Not that, I mean you are forgetting something very important"

I felt like I was forgetting something, whatever I was forgetting was really important but I couldn't pick my brain of what it was exactly.

"I can't remember anything, tell me if you do."

"Mee and Yow" He said

"Mee and Yow" I said out loud. "I am dead"

"Who are they?"

"My siamese cats"

"You have Cats"

"Yeah two beautiful siasmese Cats"

"I love cats"

"Yeah, I know. I've seen the little figurines on your desk"

"But sadly I can't have them"

"I know your Mom is allergic to them, I overheard you telling Mabel" I said

"When? How?"

"You leave the intercom on more often than you realize"

Under the glow of the night light I could see her porcelain face turn pink.

"I apologize, I didn't mean to eavesdrop" I quickly added.

"Of course not, I was the one who was stupid enough to be careless with the intercom and ran my mouth carelessly"

"I could have warned you, you had the intercom on whenever you are talking"

"It would make it even more akward and I would feel terribly stupid if you did"

Yeah true, I rarely thought that when I decide to keep quiet and allowed her to run her mouth to me, rather the truth is I was intrigued and intrested in her personal life and wanted to know more.

There was a quick comfortable silence.

"May I come and have a look at them, would it akward"

"Not at all. You can come look at them Whenever you want. But It has to be during the weekend and instead of just coming over to see my cats only, we can take the chance to discuss the update about your father's case" I said.

"Oh' true, What about this Saturday"

"Saturday is perfect" I replied "I plan to make truffles and bake a cake, I hope you can make an exception on your diet on saturday"

"A day shouldn't hurt"

"Mike!" Cal again, this time louder.

"I've got to go, Saturday right"

"Yeah Saturday"

"Good night Aurora"

"Good night Mr. Angelo"

I jogged back to the car to meet the waiting Cal. I opened the door and slipped into the driver's seat.

"I can see you don't love her indeed" He said mockingly

"What are you waffling about" I replied.

"The Mike I know wouldn't spend a minute talking to anybody after spending a day in cell, You would have headed home to take your bath and sleep your comfy bed. yet you spent 2 hours with Aurora"

I cringed at the truth in his words.

"I came to check to see she was okay"

"O' shut up. If you truly were, we would not have spent more than five minutes. You even forgot about Mee and Yow, if not for them I can bet you would probably spend half an hour more with her."

"You weren't complaining when you were busy sinking your teeth in the waffles"

"Neither am I now, I am pointing what you failed to see"

"Which is?"

"You love Aurora"

"I can't see anything"

"Because you are blind"

"Just Shut up and drive Cal" I replied, I was tired of arguing.

He turned the ignition and drove.

"Are you worried about Mee and Yow"

"Yeah of course I am."

I was worried about what they would do to me on arrival but more worried what they would have done to the house in my absence. They were smart cats, I wasn't worried they would go hungry, they knew how to get to their food. I know how calm they are and its very unlikely they hurt themselves, but nonetheless I was a tad worried they might get hurt.