Now and Forever novel Chapter 43

"Listen here- I want those documents printed and- I don't care if it's Saturday tomorrow!" Alexander yelled into the phone.

How I wouldn't like to be the person on the other side of the phone call..

I knocked and pushed the door a little bit wider because it was already ajar.

"They better be here before." He said through gritted teeth then slammed the phone down and ran a hand through his hair, tugging at it in anger.

"Everything okay?" I asked with caution because boy did he look mad..

"Mm-hm." He grunted then proceeded to type something on his laptop- violently if I may add.

"Are you sure..?" I walked up to him slowly incase he decided to suddenly direct his anger to me.

"Mm-hm." He hummed in response and unbuttoned the third button of his shirt with one hand then continued typing.

Not gonna lie- that was hot..

"Okay, um well.. do you maybe want to come to bed? It getting pretty late." Oh who am I kidding, it's already late- I mean, 2 am??

You're probably wondering why I'm up at 2 am? That my friend, is a question you don't need to ask yourself each time I say I'm up at an odd hour because (drumroll please).. I'm hungry. Yes, I'm hungry. Pregnancy right? **cue eye roll**

"Sure- I'll come when I'm done." That's what you said 2 hours ago..

"Mm-hm, okay. Goodnight then, again." I muttered under my breath but luckily didn't get heard and left the room, closing the door behind me.

Welp, time to get something to eat..

"I can't believe it." I whispered to no one in particular.

"I cannot freakin' believe it!" I said a little louder and continued rummaging through the freezer for ice cream- vanilla to be specific.

"No no no no.." I slammed the door closed and slid down to the floor, my vision getting blurry with un shed tears.

I'm over exaggerating and I know it.

"Amelia?" Someone called but I didn't bother looking up because I knew who it was.

"What- why are you crying?" His sentence took another direction when I looked up and a tear had rolled down my cheek.

"There's.. there's no more ice cream." I said and burst into tears. You heard -more like read- that right, I cried- actual tears streaming down my face because there was no more ice cream.

My sudden outburst must have taken him by surprise because of the way he widened his eyes and took a step back.

"You're crying because there's no more ice cream?" He asked and I nodded then hugged my knees, tears still streaming down my face.

He raised an eyebrow and tilted his head to the side, probably wondering how something so small can make me cry.

You can either trust me on this one or not, but I swear to god it's the pregnancy hormones!

"Well then, let's go get some." He suggested.

"Re.. really?" I asked between a hiccup.

"Sure." He walked up to me and held out his hand for me to take.

"Okay!" I immediately stopped crying and placed my hand in his then got pulled up with ease.

"Well then what are you waiting for? let's go!" I pulled him out of the kitchen and up the stairs by his hand, my tears long forgotten.

I quickly threw on some dark grey sweatpants to replace my pink fluffy pajama pants, a matching hoodie over my tank top and wore my brown Ugg Boots.

The car ride to the closest grocery store to the house was at least a 20 minute drive and it was filled with silence- a comfortable silence at that.

"Wait- didn't you have work?" The memory of him being to busy to even answer my questions in sentences suddenly crossed my mind in the last few minutes of the drive.

"I did." He answered, eyes still on the road, one arm on the steering wheel and the other lightly drumming on the gear shift.

"And..?" I pushed because the answer I got wasn't enough.

"And.. I needed a little air and space." Not gonna lie, but I was surprised he even said that because a. Alexander never and I mean never needs 'space' or 'a little air' away from work and b. He's never explained himself to me.

So, is that a good thing? Or bad?

"You-"

"We're here." He cut me off and pulled into a parking spot the the engine of the car and buttoned up of his shirt, leaving the top two open.

Only now did I notice he was still in his work clothes- black slacks, dress shoes and white shirt which was surprisingly not wrinkled even after a long day of work.

He stepped out of the car and threw on his black trench coat- me doing the same with my fluffy winter jacket.

The walk to the grocery store was short but excruciatingly cold and I sighed in relief as soon as we entered.

"Vanilla.. vanilla.. vanilla- aha!" I mentally patted my self on the back and bent down to grab a tub of ice cream and put it in the basket Alexander had offered to hold.

"Is that enough?" He asked, examining the freezer filled with different flavors of ice cream.

"Ye- no, let me get another one- or two, do you think two is too much?" Here comes the indecisiveness..

"I.. I don't know?" Alexander said then looked back at me.

"I'm just gonna go with two.." I muttered and picked another two tubs of ice cream and put them in the basket.

"Is that all?" He asked when we started walking back to the cashier.

"Ye- oh wait!" I stopped abruptly, making Alexander walk straight into me- luckily nothing tragic happened like me tripping over nothing.

"What is it?" He asked in irritation.

"A spoon." I said then turned around to look at him.

"What do you need a spoon for? There's plenty back at home." He looked at me like I had finally lost my mind.

"That's why we're getting a plastic one." I explained in a 'duh' tone.

"You still haven't answered why you need the spoon."

"I can't exactly use anything else to eat my ice cream now can I?" I crossed my arms and raised my eyebrows.

"You can't wait till we get back?" He sighed and ran a hand down his face.

"No." I stated firmly then turned around and started looking for the aisle the plastic spoons are in.

***

"You're going back to work?"I asked and furrowed my eyebrows when I noticed Alexander opening the door to his study.

"I have something to finish up real quick."

"Okay.." I sighed, "goodnight I guess." I mumbled and turned around to walk away, Alexander going back into his study.

***

"GOOD MORNING SLEEPY HEADS!" Someone shouted and drew open the curtains- luckily the sun wasn't there due to the heavily falling snow outside.

"Get out.." Alexander groaned and pulled the covers over his head.

When did he come to bed?

"No! Now get up!" I finally pinpointed the voice to Audrey when she came into view.

"What are you doing here so early anyways?" I whined and sat up.

"Early? It's 10 am!"

"And?" I yawned out and tried to rub the sleep out of my eyes.

"And?! You have to wake up!" She exclaimed and pulled the covers off the bed, exposing a shirtless Alexander- correction, a very hot looking Alexander.

[Iv'e decided to give Alexander more tattoos if that okay! If not- please let me know!]4

"Audrey.." he groaned and put his hands over his eyes, making the tattoos on his chest and torso more visible.

He had a quote on his rib that I couldn't quite read because it wasn't in English- maybe Italian?- that was three lines long, he had another one of a flock of birds flying upwards in between his left peck and shoulder -they were 4 or 5 birds.

"Don't 'Audrey' me, now get up!"