Claire did as he wanted her to and drank enough water to settle her food, then she looked at his face. He looked so innocent when sleeping and she just forgets everything he had done to her whenever she gets a piece of his good side and now, it was a piece of his cute face.
Claire sat down for a while taking pictures of his face and waiting for her system digestion to be complete before sleeping because she was feeling sleepy.
However, she edited the photo to a beautiful view at first glance before making it her wallpaper. "Stay here until I get another picture of you," she bit her lower lip and giggled silently to herself.
While pushing herself to sleep in bed with him, she recalled that she had books she still hadn't read and had been proclaiming to read. Now wasn't the time but when she leaves tomorrow, she was sure to read at least two.
Now, the girl's attention was on his face, she then touched his ear and began to stroke it gently. Studying him, she saw that he liked it so she didn't stop. "Heard you are getting discharged tomorrow, if only you could take me out on a date," she continuously stroked his ear. "The only time you took me out on a date was when you bet about me with your friends, It wasn't nice, you know. I was hurt and I knew you were aware that I was hurt but you seemed to feel good about hurting my feelings."
"You are mean," she opened her eyes wide as she was already dozing off, "you are nice to everyone, your friends and every other girl but you seem to just hate me...why? I'm beautiful too, I'm...a good girl why do you hate me?" She patted his cheek and widened her eyes to peer at him. "Because I love you too much and...you...you...I wish you'll just love me the same way and stop hurting me," her eyes tiredly staring at him and letting out tears before she fell asleep with his face in her small hand.
Corey opened his eyes not because it was daybreak but because he was urging to pee his eyes settled on her face which was only a breath away from his face.
This was the first time he had ever been so close to a girl and his heart was misbehaving, his uncle had always said that women were distractions. They make a man weak and once a man falls deeply in love with a woman, not mistakenly but willingly by letting the woman penetrate his life, he finds himself doing everything to please her and he would literally forget his ambition and goals to serve the woman he loved.
That explanation had made women look like pests in his eyes so he had always stayed away but now, now, he was getting married to this intimidating girl. Wasn't the visitor's bed useful last night? Why would she sleep in bed with him?
Still, he didn't remove his eyes from her face, he let his eyes study her more and lifted the strands of hair that fell over her nose. Absentmindedly, he took her hair and tucked it behind her ear just to look at her face more.
Just by feeling his touch on her ear, she flinched too hard, causing her to lose her balance on the bed and to savour that position, he wrapped her waist and in one move, he tugged her too close to him. After succeeding in keeping her balance, he looked up to resume staring at her only to see her eyes open.
The shock that held him was strong to the extent, his brain went numb on what to do. With his eyes wide open, he saw her fall off the bed and heard her groan in pain after the event. That was when he realized that he let go of her so she lost her balance.
Claire angrily stood up and glared at him to a point that tears began to drop from her eyes. And Corey maintained a look of no concern which anger her more and broke her heart. "I hate you!!" She cried out with a pink face__.
On Corey's side, he didn't know how to react because he didn't intend to hurt her, he was just too shocked and reacted before thinking and now she got him wrong. He desperately wanted to apologize to her but he reminded himself that he shouldn't bother himself about the girl, she was supposed to be his brother's wife and she liked that man and not him so he looked away and avoided her eyes that were weakening something inside his chest.
"You are always mean to me, why?" She hit his shoulder, causing him to lift and narrow his gaze at her.
"Wasn't bullying and ignoring and hating me enough?" She pushed him by his shoulder again and ignored the way he glared at her.
"Now you want to break me into two," Claire wiped her tears and pushed him again. This time, he flared up and pushed her with great force, causing her to fall on the visitor's bed.
"You've got some gut, girl!" He stood up fiercely at her and the look he gave her tore her into pieces, she wasn't scared of his attitude toward her, she was sad that he didn't even feel a bit-feeling for her. "You fell off the bed so shy blaming me?!" He suddenly acted as he was trained. If it was a man, he'd have punched his face despite him being a bit weak.
"You let me fall!!" She yelled back.
"Oh, you didn't want to fall, why sleep in my bed?!!"
"I...I..." She began to stammer. "What about you?!"
"Are you crazy or what? I know you see me refusing you but you keep pushing it. Must you beg for love?!! Do I have to spell it out for you? I don't love you, Claire! Stop getting on my nerves..." He went back to sit while dusting his shoulder. "Stop pushing it... because I didn't complain about your stupid gut doesn't mean I'm a nice person...told you to not test me but you went ahead." He paused because she suddenly stood up and set her things before storming off his sight. He followed her with his eyes until she closed the door.
"Well..." Corey looked at the ground to see the note he dropped for her last night. "You caused it, you shouldn't have pushed me by my shoulder, I'm not Donald or those boys you..." He shut up when he saw her handwriting on the sheet, she had beautiful handwriting just like her appearance. There, she wrote the correct spelling of the words he got wrong and he learned it. He wasn't a graduate like his brother, he only graduated from Junior high, which was the only school in the village. All he learnt in the village was how to farm and hunt for food, he also fetch water from the river with his neighbours who were mostly girls.
Absurdly, some of them showed him their nakedness expressing how much they loved him but he was a non-woman-liker.