New life

“So, why are you late?” l asked when Charlie stopped his Maserati (yeah, now it's a car... I always thought he has thousands of cars and bikes... l wish l could afford one, not the whole garage...).
“I'm sorry, Stef.” Charlie went to me. “Oh, my god! You're beautiful! You're... you're... l just have no words! Stefania, you look amazing today and l'm so glad to drive you to our official party!”

Charlie never uses my whole name. Just in some moments when he's proud of me, when he admires me, when he thinks that he's lucky to have me as bf. In these moments his eyes shine and envelope me with warmth, care and admiration, the smile, so cute and so sincere that l melt in front of it, appears. Charlie always wants to hug me in these moments and he does it. And l feel like l'm in good, strong hands of my bf that will be near me whenever happens.

But today, or it'll be correctly "tonight", he didn't do it. He was just staying in front of me, smiling and looking at me.

“Hey, why r u staring at me so? Do l have something wrong with my hair? Or dress? Oh my god! My face! Ink flowed!”
“No, no, no. Everything is alright. And l wasn't staring at you... l just... Never mind.” Charlie's eyes looked down and then up. “I have a present for you.”
“Charlie, um... You know l don...”
“I know, Stef, l know…” Charlie interrupted me and ran his hand through his hair. He was nervous. “I just thought that, um, today was the last day of the 11 form... So, um, l thought that it'll be good if you get some presents from me...”

Suddenly, a bouquet of flowers appeared in front of me. White roses. They. Are. Amazing! I always loved roses. These flowers are so beautiful and so gentle! The smell of roses just makes me insane! But... There's always some "but". It's the gift from Charlie. And l just can't take it. You may think l'm stupid: "Don't you see? This guy fell in love with you! He buys you some presents. He's so handsome, rich and smart! And who are you?! How dare can you deny him! If he wants, he can buy you presents! So, take it!" Blah-blah-blah. I heard it millions of times and still l didn't change my mind.

“Stef, you just can't say "no"…” Charlie's voice trembled. “Um, please, take them. They're just flowers. And l know you like them. Please…” He begged me.

How he said "they're just flowers" hit me. Charlie didn't want to make angry, so, he said that like it didn't matter to him. I looked him in the eyes. Blue, warm eyes were full of hidden pain that was buried in the depth of his soul, that will never come out, but that is so well seen sometimes in his eyes.

“Why did you think l wouldn't take them?” l asked smiling. “Kill me if l don't take roses! I love them, Charlie! Mmm, this smell... Mmm! Thank you, Charlie!”

I came towards him and hugged. Firstly, Charlie was shocked, but then he put his arms on my back pulling me closer to him. I made a step back and Charlie's hands felt from my back to my waist. We had so little space between us. I fell his breathing near my lips (we are almost the same height).

Oh, no! The whole my mind was screaming, shouting at me and warning me. But l`m standing there in the arms of my bf cursing everything on earth and myself in particular, because it wouldn't be such scene if l didn't take that bouquet! My legs were trembling and the thought "I'll fall" rushed thought my mind. Why am l so nervous? Why this second is like an hour? Why do l have some flying feeling in my stomach? Why?!

“Um…” Charlie put his hands off me. “I have another present for you. Shhh! Stop, let me speak.” Charlie saw l wanted to shout at him. “This present is from my dad and mom...”
“What?!”
“My parents thought that you deserve some present and said they don't accept "no".”
“It's always like this.” I mumbled.
“They'll be angry if you don't take it, you know.” Charlie gave me a treacherous smile.
“You just enjoy seeing myself in this situation!”
“Yeah! Your face is screaming like "No, 100% NO! But, l'm curious about this special present for me... What is it? I need to know..."

I stuck out my tongue. He knows very well what l'm thinking about every second. It's hard to argue with him on that point. So, l gave up. One more time. And it's two my fails in this l-don't-know-how-many-minutes.

“Okay.” I rolled my eyes like l made an exception for today.
“I knew you don't want to start a hurricane named "Why didn't you take our presents?"!” Charlie rushed to his car and picked something.

This something was a red box with black and white tapes. I opened the box and took a deep breath. Inside the box there was a necklace with a little brilliant.

“I can't take it! Brilliant is too much for me!”
“No, you can. You're just like a daughter for my parents. Please. Take it and they won't make you go with us in the summer.”
“Okay than. But still l fell uncomfortable to take this necklace...”
“Just don't think of it.”
“Easy to say...”

Charlie gently put the new present around my neck and took a look at his watches.

“Oh, f... We're late, Stef. We need to hurry up!” Charlie rushed to his car.
“Okay.” I stopped looking at the necklace that perfectly fitted my appearance and walked to Maserati. “I think if you make this "horse" run, we'll be late only for five minutes.”
“Maybe for two.” Charlie put his cool glasses on while he was smiling at me.

He pressed on the gas pedal, and the car suffered us off beating the speed mode.

Notes

1)I'm so sorry! I haven't been writing for about a week! Shame on me! But l decided to try as hard as l can to write more.

2) Also, as you maybe saw l'd posted photos of the characters. More than the half of them is viria's art (her art always makes me open my mouth and gaze at the pictures), Charlie is sexy Dilan O'brien and Stef is the ctchrysler's art (check his tumblr account!)

3)As always, sorry for my mistakes!

4)Hope, you enjoy my fanfic)))