Chapter Nineteen

Maya stretched and yawned as she gently woke up. She shut her eyes at the bright light for the first time before she managed to open it again. The day was bright and clear. The rain had passed. She tried to seat up and that's when she noticed a suit on her.

" I didn't bring any coat or whatsoever. My sweater was wet and I had to even take it off, so who owns this? " she kept wondering. He turned to Logan who was still asleep with his hands folded and resting in his chest.

" Will it really kill him if he just relaxes? " she mumbled. She sniffed the suit and it smelt just like Logan's perfume.

"... of course its his but.. but how did it get on me? I didn't take it and Logan... Logan couldn't have possibly put it on me on purpose... or could he? why? does he actually care about me? really? I'm confused but yet... strangely happy about it. " she saw herself sniffing the suit once more before she smiled to herself. She drew her face closer to Logan, she wanted to observe every feature on his face for no real reason at all and again... she knows that was strange. 'Anyway, better do it now than when he wakes up and get all cold and icy again' her subconscious mind told her. She stared at his face starting from his forehead.

" How can someone keep such a straight face even while asleep? " she wondered to herself in a whisper. His eyebrows looked a little bit scattered. It won't hurt to adjust them. She stretched her hand and slowly brought it towards his eyebrows then he immediately opened his eyes. She felt frozen at the moment with wide eyes.

" How will this look like to him? my face was just four inches away from his and my hand an inch away from his left eyebrow! Oh this is so embarrassing! " there was silence as if time has frozen up between them for about a second, before he quickly drew her hand away and turned her head away from him to finally look straight.

" O dear lord! I have to change the topic or maybe say something awkward to lighten the mood. " she bit her lower lip in regret to her action. She turned her head back to him and he was just sitting up and adjusting his sit back to normal.

" Thanks for your suit, it really made me warm. " she told him with a smile. Still with the same award winning straight, icy, emotionless face, he snatched the suit from her hand.

" I didn't put it on you "

" Really Logan? Are you going to deny it? Okay two can play that game. Fine, whatever you say Mr Logan... " he didn't let her finish her sentence as he tried starting the car and luckily it started.

" That was rude of him to cut me off like that. Well... at least we can head home and I can have a nice hot shower and not see his face so much again. He stepped on the gear but the car refused to move forward for some reason. He finally decided to check out what the problem was. He opened the door and just stared at the ground.

" What? What's wrong? " she asked him and as usual he ignored her. She decided to open her own seat the door and her jaw almost dropped down in surprise as to what she saw. The entire ground where the car was on has turned into a serious mud just overnight because of the rain. It was going to take a miracle to get them out of there.

" Get down! " he suddenly spoke.

" I'm sorry what? Did I just hear you say I should step into this mud? " she said with a raised eyebrow. He just stared blankly at her. Just then Maya thought she has won.

" Get down." he repeated again.

"Okay Logan, what is your problem today? Why do you want to do this to me... "

" Get off the car and push it from behind. " he raised his voice a bit.

" W- what.. wait, aren't you supposed to be the one to do that? You push and I'll drive... "

" Maya don't make me push you out of this car! I've got to be in the office and you're wasting my time. "

" Wasting your time? I can't push this car especially in this slippery mud. " she told him the honest truth.

" I won't have you drive my car so do as I say,! "

" But.. "

" If I loose this business deal then I assure you that your father will also loose his properties... starting with his company. " he finally showed his true colour. He finally showed that he was fury after all.

" He really doesn't have to blackmail me all the time with my dad. Logan knew very well that dad means so much to me and that I can gladly jump into a lake of fire for his sake and that's why he keeps using him". She stared hard and long at him.

" You're such a jerk! " she told him the bitter truth, staring right into his eyes before he turned to the mud. She gently put her feet into the liquid soil after taking off her sandals. The mud reached up to her ankle. She dragged her leg as she walked to the back of the car. It felt disgusting but fun in another way.

" Okay, try driving again! " she yelled to him as she took my position behind the car. He did start the car, and tried to drive out.

" Ahhh! " she screamed as she tried to dodge the mud the tyre sent backwards to her with her hands. Finally, Logan stopped and her face downwards was completely covered with yellow clay mud. She felt like crying at the moment. Her poor white singlet was soiled too. Logan came down from the car and saw her.

" Push harder. " was all he said after staring at her. He turned to go back into the car, but hell no he's not going.

" Push harder? " she exclaimed angrily at him which made him turn back to her.

" Oh! I'll push harder..." she told him as she bent and scooped quite a handful of mud into her hands.

" What are you doing? " he asked with furrowed eyebrows.

"... with you!" she completed her sentence as she threw the mud at his sky blue shirt. He gasped with wide eyes and seeing the huge stain on his shirt.

" Maya! " he yelled her name angrily.

" What... oh wait I'm sorry, let me get that for you. " she told him with a fake sorry face as she got closer and rubbed her hands on his shirt.

" Oh yes... that sure feels good, doesn't it? " she told him as she kept rubbing her muddy hands on his shirt.

" Stop! " he ordered as he took hold of her arm. She actually stopped and stared at him loathly in the eyes. He was angry, she knew he was. He bent and scooped mud into his hand and poured on her head. Okay that's it, she immediately used all of her might and pushed him. He would have survived but he lost his balance and fell right inside the mud with his back flat. She gasped as she laughed. She wasn't really planning for him to get so much mud on but now he actually has it on... It was fun and funny to her. He quickly sat up and drew her arm making her fall right into the mud as well. Well... that was going to be a mud fight or should I say mud bathe.