CHAPTER 89

Fire In The Car

The atmosphere in the car turned blissful as Alexa's face was flushed with excitement after what Maurice said. She never knew he could propose a date for her, and that he could be that thoughtful.

"Hmmm..about that.." Alexa was saying, but Maurice's voice broke into her thoughts.

"Why are you thinking so much? Don't you want to go?" Maurice asked, his voice sharp, and Alexa rolled her eyes wondering why the man was so unromantic.

She was trying to get the man to be on edge by thinking for a long time, but it looked like she wasn't going to be able to do that since Maurice was impatient and needed an answer.

"Yes, I would love to go," Alexa beamed, and the man smiled at her biting her lips like she was a puppy, but his smile froze when he remembered the tiny details.

He could still remember Alexa's mother's sarcastic words when he entered the ward and there was no way he was not inquiring about that.

"So your mom was talking about your friends coming to see you..is that true?" Maurice asked, and Alexa's eyes widened in shock hearing that.

She was surprised that the man could still ask that question and she was sure that if she lied about it, he was not going to believe her so she wondered what she should say.

"Ahhh ahhh," Alexa let out a dry laugh as she looked at Maurice, but the man's face was so stoic that she later stopped laughing and decided to come clean.

"About that…it's just that my friends decided to come to greet my mom and they all chose today to do that," Alexa says, and Maurice nods his head in understanding, and Alexa smiles thinking the man already understood her.

"So you mean all your male friends decide to come to greet your mother on the same day? Wow, that's strange," Maurice says, and Alexa avoids Maurice's eyes.

She didn't reply to him even after Maurice refers to her saying that her words were strange. It was obvious that the man did not believe her.

The whole car fell into awkward silence and this time around Alexa was not anxious to make the car lively.

She just wanted to bury herself in the uncomfortable silence. She preferred it that way.

"About this weekend's date, can you invite your friend Selina with you?" Maurice asked awkwardly remembering his deal with Benson, and he watched Alexa look at him weirdly.

'Yeah, I also know that it's weird but there is nothing I can do. My friend wanted to meet her. Maurice screamed inwardly while his face was smiling.

"What! Should I invite Selina over? But why is that?" Alexa asked, because she was sure that the man was not fond of Selina or she could remember so what was the issue all about.

"My friend would love to be your friend's acquaintance so I decided to set up a date so that they will get to know each other," Maurice says, and Alexa was surprised to hear that.

She is going on a date because her husband set her friend and his friend up, is she supposed to be all jumpy about that?

'So you mean I am about to have a romantic dinner date with my husband because he is trying to play cupid?' Alexa scoffs inwardly.

Mauroce could see that Alexa's mood gas went haywire so he decided to confirm her answer yet again.

"So what did you say about going on that date this weekend?" Maurice asked again, and Alexa sighed.

"I think I should be honored that the mighty Maurice Heather deemed it fit to think of asking me out on a date then why am I going to say no?" Alexa asked, and Maurice wondered why her voice sounded harsher than earlier.

He doesn't have a clue that telling Alexa that she was going on a date because she was friends with Selina was going to get on her nerves.

She really doesn't have an idea.

"What should I wear..I have to fit into the theme of the date, right? Should I ask Selina to tell me what she is going to wear that day?" Alexa asked, and Maurice started to feel that her words were getting ridiculous.

He doesn't know why he felt like he must have done something terrible or just said something terrible because the woman was just hungry for his flesh.

He was sure that if he asked her if she was hungry at the time she was going to ask if she had the right to be hungry.

'But why is she mad, anyways?' Maurice pondered, but he decided not to get on the girl's nerves. She was more of a wounded lion at the time.

Maurice felt suffocated on his way home with Alexa throwing different obvious glares at him, and he only got relieved when their car drove into the house

Alexa and Maurice got home to find Penelope and Benedicta laughing together in the living room like best friends, and Alexa was surprised.

She wondered why they were laughing and discussing with each other like they were not enemies in the first place.

'Why are they laughing so hard when they went for each other's head in the morning?' Alexa wondered, but she decided to leave them and go to her room because she was so tired after the day's activities and she needed rest.

"Oh, you are back!" Alexa heard, looking at Penelope who was running towards her with a smile and she wondered what was going on.

'What crazy thing is this evil girl planning now?' Alexa thought but Maurice's thought was no different.

He looked at the two girls that were looking at him, and Alexa wondered what she did to warrant their attention.

"So about what you said cousin.. we have decided who is the best person to stay," Benedicta says, and Maurice smiled and could already guess their answers.

'I bet no one is going' he smirked inwardly, and it was just as he thought.

"We decided to stay!" They both chorused and Alexa wondered if they had lost it.

'What! Did they decide to stay? Are they crazy?' she wondered.

"And this brought us low…please Alexa let us stay here," Penelope begged, folding her hands together and Alexa wondered if they had lost it.

"What?" Alexa asked, looking at the two and she wondered what they were up to.

"It's just like you heard cousin-in-law, please let us both stay here and help you," Benedicta says, Alexa was dumbfounded.

'Why are they begging me to let them stay?'