A Step Closer to Love

“What is with him?” Arabella asked feigning ignorance. She knew she would have been able to get out of letting out her relationship with Kieran to her sister if it were not a video call because her face would give her away but she was willing to try how far she could push her luck.

“So why is your face about to break out into a smile? A happy one at that?” Seraphina narrowed her eyes. “Is that make-up on your face?”

“Because I am so happy to see and hear from you and I thought I should try to make up now,” she said.

“I video call you frequently, I know you love me but it’s creepy to hear you say that and I know that you are not telling the truth right now”

“Are you calling me a liar?”

“Digressing from the actual point? Making useless excuses? ” Seraphina raised two fingers to the camera as I’d she was counting.

“What are you counting?”

“Points that would let me know if you are dating him already”

“Seraphina” Arabella let out in a flustered tone.

“Arabella” Seraphina mimicked her with a teasing smile on her lips.

A knock on her door made her eyes divert to the door. “I have to get this” Arabella motioned to the door with her head.

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“Can you hold and not let out a word?” Arabella asked. She did not want to get off the call because her sister would call her right back.

“Sure you can trust me” Seraphina made an okay sign with her hand.

Arabella stood up and went to the door. She cleared her throat and rubbed her hand on her dress as if to clear off any crease before pulling the door to itself.

“You are taking quite a long time” Kieran said leaning to the door frame. His hair fell to his face and Arabella had to swallow the knot that formed in her throat to control herself.

If her sister was not on the phone she would have pulled him through the door and kissed him senselessly.

“My sister called so we were catching up” Arabella said instead of all the words that were swimming in his head.

“Hello Kieran,” Seraphina said from the phone. Arabella wondered why she had trusted her sister. She was not one to be trusted after she had proved time and time again that she could not help one out.

“Want to say hello?” Arabella asked. Seraphina had already let herself out so there was no harm in them meeting and talking.

“Sure,” Kieran said stretching his hands for the phone, she placed the phone in his hands their hands grazing for a split second. She felt the burning sensation in her hands as she recoiled and waited for them to talk.

Arabella could not be more jealous of Seraphina. She had always been so smooth with talking with others, she and Kieran spike like they had been old friends.

“Goodbye then” Kieran said handing the phone to Arabella.

“And I will talk to you later,” Seraphina said with a wink before cutting off the call.

“I am sorry you had to talk with my sister” Arabella apologized. “She is like a social butterfly”

“It’s fine, I would have had to speak with them anyways, it’s good that I have gotten this out of the way”

“Are you going to talk to all my family members?”

“If I have to, I am ready to” Kieran said with a smug expression on his face.

“All of them? I have a really large family back at home” Arabella teased.

“I can talk to them all” Kieran sounded confident.

Arabella laughed because she knew what a turmoil her entire family was. Her grandmother would be elated to hear that she had a boyfriend, the problem was her aunties and cousins, they would be having a field day teasing and giving them a hard time.

“I am not sure you want that,” Arabella said dismissively.

“It’s not about what I want is it?” he asked like he was seeking some kind of validation. “It’s about what I have to do,” he said.

She nodded her head to give him the satisfaction he seemed to want at that time. “Anything that floats your boat,” she said.

He cleared his throat blinking rapidly. He was bout to open his mouth to say something to clear up the silence. “Let’s go have breakfast,” Arabella said before he could say anything. She turned and went to take her bag from the bed.

“If we have breakfast now we would be late for work so you can have it on your way. I have packed it up for you” he said waving a bag in the air. She wondered why she had not noticed it before.

“That’s so thoughtful of you” she was surprised by him at each interval. It was like he somehow found a way to amaze her. He was beating all of the stereotypes she had of him.

“Let’s go” he said taking her hand and leading her down. They got to the car and began to drive away. She had her breakfast as they made their way to work.

As they got into the parking lot there was an unfamiliar car in it. They thought not much of it, they might have had a new client so they thought not much of it.

“Where have you been? Where did you keep your phone?” Ryder asked as they got into the office.

“Why?” Kieran asked trying to get into the office proper.

“Errmm, it’s… it’s” Ryder stammered and he was not the kind to stammer or stutter. Kieran knew right away that something was up.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s Kimberly”

“Kimberly?” Kieran let out in confusion.

“She is here”

“She is here?” Kieran echoed.

“Aurora called her” Ryder confessed. Aurora had told her of the plan that she had. She was in touch with Kimberly as her best friend and knew that she had always regretted leaving Kieran. Now that Kieran had a girlfriend and Kimberly broke up she knew she had to make the matchmaking of the century.

“Hello”