Love with strings detached

Chapter 51

"Are you talking about the date you went?" I ask, placing my glass down and sitting back on Theo's lap.

"Yeah, and you know, I just realise how awkward first dates are at a restaurant," he says, taking a sip of his drink.

I turn and look at Theo as he suddenly feels very stiff and tense. His hand lays limply over my thighs as he avoids eye contact. His tongue seems to be gliding and poking the inside of his chin. The first time I saw him do that was when he got angry at me so, does that mean he's angry all of a sudden?

"Are you okay?" I lean closer to him and whisper against his ear.

"Yeah," he says, looking at Caleb.

"You don't seem okay," I say, placing my hand over his, getting no reaction out of him.

"Well, I am fine," he says a bit harshly, glancing at me quickly.

"Yeah, it's awkward cause you have no choice but to look at each other, you have no sufficient privacy as people are sitting around you and you're eating in front of someone," Caleb says animatedly.

"Yeah, and you have no room to move, you are literally stuck in that sit," Miles says.

I try to focus on what they're talking about but I feel awkward right now sitting on Theo's lap cause it feels like he doesn't want me to be sitting on him anymore.

"You guys, I'm feeling a bit tired so, we'll be leaving," Theo says out of the blue.

"Oh, okay, sure," Thomas says, looking at us with furrowed eyebrows.

Theo stands up, making me stand up as well with no warning and grabs his phone off the table.

"I'll wait for you in the car," he says to me before turning to leave.

"Wait Theo," I call out to him but he just keeps walking.

"Um, is everything okay between you two?" Amelia asks, looking weirdly at me.

"When we came everything was fine," I say, looking towards the exit door.

"Well, now you don't seem fine," Caleb says, making me glare at him as if I don't know that.

"Yeah, I don't know what messed up his mood, anyway I'm going to go guys, goodnight," I say giving them a half-hearted smile as I pick up my bag.

"Text me afterwards," Caleb says.

"I will," I say as I rush outside and in Theo's car.

"Are you going to tell me what got you in a sour mood?" I ask him, looking at him as he turns on the engine.

"Had a nice chat at the bar?" He says, glancing at me before focusing his eyes on the road ahead.

"I wouldn't call a couple of sentences chat but yeah it was chill," I say, not seeing the issue with me talking to another guy in a friendly manner.

"Nice and the drink?" He says, shaking his head.

"I don't get what the issue is. Have you heard what was being said?" I ask, running my hand through my hair.

"You accepted another drink from a guy while I'm sitting like two tables away like a fucking idiot," he says sternly.

"It wasn't like that though, and you avoiding my question makes it clear to me that you don't know what I said to him," I say, raising my voice a bit as he parks the car and yanks his door open.

"And don't even think about running away like last time. We'll go up to your room and we'll solve this," I say, walking in front of him.

The whole way up neither of us talks, waiting to have the privacy of his room.

"I don't appreciate you entertaining another guy," it's the first thing he says to me once we get inside.

"How was I entertaining him?" I say, my voice coming out at a slightly higher pitch.

"By accepting his drink and being all smiles and laughs," he says, raising his voice as well, pacing around his room.

"Firstly, do you want to ask me what was said before jumping to conclusions?" I ask, crossing my arms over my chest as he takes a seat in front of me on the bed.

"Okay, what did you tell him?" He asks, giving me a tight lip smile, lacing his fingers together.

"He offer me a drink and I told him that I will accept it only if he doesn't have a problem with me drinking it with you, my date," I say, watching him bite his lip and run his hand through his hair.

I can see the internal battle happening in his head cause he realizes that he overreacted but he's still bothered.

"What, you have nothing to say now?" I say scoffing.

"Do you not trust me?" I ask once I've seen that he wasn't going to say anything.

"I do trust you," he says.

"Really? Cause it didn't seem like it two seconds ago," I say.

"Is nothing to do with you," he says, leaning back on his elbows.

"Okay, let's say I believe you on that. If it's not trust fuelling your jealousy then what is it?" I ask, slowly walking towards him until I'm standing between his open legs. 

"I have this fear that suddenly something will happen and I will lose you," he says, sitting straight again placing his arms around my hips.

"You're going to need to let go of this fear Theo, or else we'll keep having arguments like this," I say, placing my hands on his shoulders.

"I know, I'll work on it," he says looking at me.

"And you can't overreact every time something happens between us. First, you storm off, now you jump to conclusions without asking first, what's going to be next?" I say, shrugging.

"Nothing, I promise I'll work on myself," he says, looking at me.

"You almost broke your other promise to me today, you know that? I'll say the way you left was almost like storming off," I say sternly.

"I know, I'm sorry...I just don't know yet how to control my negative emotions well," he says, squeezing my hips.

"We'll have to find a way for you to control them because I don't like your jealousy, Theo. I love you and I'm with you because you're the one I want," I say, grasping his cheeks in the palms of my hands.

"I know you do," he says, smiling softly.

I lean down and kiss him as his hands tighten their grip on me, pulling me even closer to his body. I hope this is the last argument we'll have about this issue.

A/N

Theo almost screwed up again.

Where do you think is the best place to have a first date with someone?

Do you agree with Caleb that first dates at restaurants are awkward?

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and stay tuned for the next one as it's a steamy one with Theo spilling some words...❤️🔥👀

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All the love - M ❤️