Will You Be My Date?

As soon as he got up, his eyes fell on the girl next to him who was sniffling like a child with tears flowing down her cheeks. 

"Sweetheart! Why are you crying?" Adam asked her as he cupped her face with his palms. "I am sorry."

Stella didn't reply to him but her tears kept on flowing out of her eyes.

"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you." Adam apologized to her as he wiped her tears away with his thumbs.

He wanted to punch himself in the face so badly at the moment. How could he make her cry like this?

"Stella? Talk to me please. Say something, anything at all. Scold me all you want, but just don't cry." He spoke up bringing her closer so that her head was now resting on his shoulder. He hugged her tightly. 

He patiently waited for her to stop crying as he rubbed her back trying to comfort her. Every now and then, he would ask her to stop crying.

After five minutes or so, Stella was able to gather her emotions together and stopped crying. "You are mean." She spoke up in a choked voice.

"Yes, I am mean. I am the big bad wolf." Adam agreed with her, his head bobbing. 

"How could you say I am leaving you alone here?" She asked him as she punched him lightly on his chest.

"I am sorry. I shouldn't have said that." Adam replied.

"It's just that I am not used to all of this Adam. I have never been in a relationship before. I never thought that I will be in a relationship with someone someday let alone staying at his place." She tried to explain her dilemma to him.

"I just don't know what to do." She continued after a while. "But no matter what, I don't want to make you sad. I don't like it. I like it when you smile." 

"I am not sad sweetheart. You can do whatever you want to. If you want to stay at your apartment, you can. I will just put some extra security measures there. It scares the living shit out of me whenever I think about what if you were there at that moment. I can't lose you too." Adam interrupted her.

"This place has always been just a place for me to stay after Dad left me. But since you are here, it feels like home to me. My home. With you gone, this place will be back to its old self. But if you want to go back, I won't stop you. You were right. I will get to see you everyday. We can go out together on weekends. I will get used to it." He continued, placing a soft peck on her forehead.

"No, you don't have to get used to it." Stella withdrew from his hug.

"I am not going anywhere. I am staying." She said cupping his face.

"W-What?" Adam looked at her with his eyes popping out of their sockets. "What did you just say?" He couldn't believe his ears.

"I am staying here, with you." Stella replied as a soft smile crept up on her lips.

"Say that again." 

"I am staying here Adam. I am not going back to my apartment." She replied as her smile grew wider.

Adam dragged her back into his arms, hugging her tightly. "You don't have any idea how happy it makes me." 

"I think I do." She replied as she patted his shoulder softly.

"You really aren't going anywhere." Adam asked her once more, he still couldn't believe that she had agreed to stay with him.

"Ask me one more time and I will change my decision." Stella couldn't help but roll her eyes at the child who was hugging her, even though he couldn't see it.

"I won't ask you again." Adam immediately replied.

"I forgot to tell you something." Adam spoke up after a while as they were having their coffee. "There this auction tomorrow, I have to attend tomorrow night." 

"Oh!" Stella nodded as she took a sip of her coffee.

"Will you be my date?" Adam asked her.

Stella looked at him with a baffled expression.

"I mean everyone is allowed to bring a plus one. So, I thought you could accompany me." Adam continued when he didn't hear a reply from her.

"Are you asking me to be your date for the event?" Stella asked him giving him a skeptical look.

"Yeah." Adam nodded.

"Sure." Stella replied giving him a soft smile. "You looked so scared as if I will turn you down."

"Auctions can be pretty boring. I only attend the ones which are for a charitable cause." Adam replied.

"Who did you take as your plus one in the past?" Stella asked him out of nowhere.

"I always go alone to such events. But not anymore." He replied ruffling her tied up hairs only to get a pout in return.