Ch. 18 Otw to Rehearsal

'Siah?! When did he get here?!' I thought in shock.

"What did you do to her?! What happened while I was gone?!" Siah turned to me. "Did he do anything to you?? Are you hurt?!"

"N-no..." I replied quietly.

He dropped Martinus, and walked over to me. "Are you sure? Nothing's wrong?"

"Y-yes..." I answered.

"Ok then." he kissed me on the forehead, and turned back to Martinus, "You're very lucky she said nothing happened while I was gone. Otherwise there would have been trouble. 😡"

I blushed profusely at the kiss on my forehead, and then got up, walked over to Siah, smiled and said, "Si, everything's fine here. You need not worry about me so much. Nothing bad's gonna happen to me. 😊"

He covered his cheeks and looked away again and said, "O-ok."

I walked him back to his room, pulled up his covers for him, turned off the lights and told him to sleep.

Before I walked out if the room, he called, "Ilianna!"

I turned and smiled. "Yeah?"

"If you need me just call me."

"Ok 😊. "

I left the door cracked, and went down stairs. I checked the time.

'OH CRAP!! IT'S 5:01!! MARTINUS'S REHEARSAL!! 😱' I remembered as I checked my watch.

I rushed downstairs, and said, "Martinus!! Your rehearsal!! You gotta go now!!"

Martinus looked startled, "Rehearsal??! Crap, I forgot!!"

I grabbed his coat and threw it to him from the coat rack.

He said, "Aren't you coming?!"

I said, "It's YOUR rehearsal! Why would I go?!"

"Because I need an audience!!" he answered.

"Ok, fine!! But I need to put on regular clothes first!! " I said remembering I was still in my school clothes. (well, my skirt, and the shirt and sweater were Siah's.

I zoomed upstairs to my room, grabbed a pink llama wool turtleneck sweater, a pair of dark blue jeans, and my white low-top Converses.

I grabbed a hairbrush, and planned to take it with me in Martinus's car to brush my hair on the way there.

Where ever 'there' is, I have no idea.

I sprinted back downstairs, and accidentally, ran past Martinus.

I backed up a couple feet and said to him, "C'mon 'tinus!!"

He smirked at how I said his name.

He grabbed my hand and rushed out the door.

Outside was a limo, yes, I'm just as shocked as you are.

We jumped in the back, and Martinus told the driver to go.

I got my hairbrush out, and started brushing my VERY tangled hair.

"Ouch! ....Oww!! (X﹏X)" came every couple of minutes. This went on for about 15 minutes.

Evidently, Martinus had had enough of my pain.

He took my hairbrush from my hand, and slowly brushed my hair starting at the bottom.

He was so gentle and sweet, that I blushed all the way to my ears and part of my neck.

He must've seen how much I was blushing, because he leaned in to my left ear and breathed, "You're so cute to blush because of me😘. " and then licked my ear.

I blushed and hid my face. 'Not again!! 😳😳 This is second time he's licked my ear! What is he?! A cat?! It feels really good though...' Although I was halfway mad, I could've set fire to everything in that car, using only my blushing face.

"Aw. You're sweet! Y'know that?! 😆" he said pulling back from my ear and continuing brushing my hair. "By the way, what was that nickname you used for me earlier?! Tinus, was it? 😏"

I buried my face in my hands, I was SO embarrassed to call him the nickname I use in my IG posts about him.

"Well is it? 😏" he questioned.

"Y-yes." I said reluctantly.

He whispered close into my right ear, "You're gonna call me that from now on, ok? 😏😏"

I had no choice but to say, "Su-sure....but why??" I had to ask.

"Because, " he said, breathing on the left side of my neck. "I've always wanted someone to call me that before."

He sounded a little embarrassed at this last part.

I smirked and thought, 'It's time for some more payback 😈'

I turned around and held the left side of his face gently with my right hand and said, "You're such a sweet person, Tantalizing Tinus. 😏😊"

He held the hand I used to touch his face, blushed and then leaned in close and gave me a 10 second long kiss.

I blushed more than anyone in human history!!

"Uh....erm....Tinus.... 😳😳😳" I stuttered.

"Shh, you're the first person to ever call me that ☺." he said as he gave me a hug.

Why was I still starstruck? Because that

was my first kiss.

"T-Tinus? "

"Yeah? "

"Tha-that...was..."

"What?"

"That was my first ki-kiss. " I said looking down at my feet.

"Really? I'm obliged to be the first one. 😁" he said. "But I'm sorry about that. I had to restrain myself all those other times, but today, I couldn't help but kiss you. I understand that you're probably upset about it 😔. "

"N-no, it's fine."

"Huh?" Siah said surprised.

"I'm upset that my first kiss wasn't given by my boyfriend, but it doesn't count if we aren't bf and gf 😃!! "

Martinus's face darkened, "Right...we're not bf and gf...."

I paid no attention to his gloomy face and was in a cheerful mood for the next 15 minutes of the ride until it started to rain.

"Rain?? In the fall??" I said to myself.

Rain usually makes me sleepy, and today it made feel EXTREMELY drowsy. I tried to sit up straight, but I couldn't keep my eyes open and then I drifted off to a deep sleep.