ARTEMIS

"Do we have to add the icing ?", Anna asked as she licked the icing of her fingers.

She looked at Dylan and couldn't help but laugh. His face was covered in icing and the more he grinned the more he looked like a kid.

"What's so funny ?", he asked her as he tried to wipe his face but ended up spreading the icing.

"You just look funny with all the icing on your face ", Anna said smiling.

"Am glad my misery makes you laugh. Why don't you want the icing on the cake ?", he asked her and stopped adding the icing on the cake.

"I just don't like icing on the cake if anything people should just eat it that way ", she said chuckling.

"That's so weird it won't be cake anymore ", Dylan said scrunching his face in disgust.

"Are you hearing yourself right now, I want to eat cake not three kilograms of icing am sorry ", Anna said rising her hands in defense

"Okay I get your point now what else don't you like ?", he asked her as he put a candle on top of the cake and lit it up.

"I don't eat tomatoes on like my buggers, I find them to be disgusting I just don't know why ", she said smiling.

"Am trying to understand you but you're making it very hard for me. You're just weird that's what you are ", Dylan chuckled softly as he looked at her eyes full of adoration.

Seeing her smile made his heart big and all he ever wanted was for her to stay like that. He wanted her to smile all the time and be happy so that she would stop thinking about the things that made her sad.

"What don't you eat ?", she asked him.

"I don't eat seafood ", he said with a smile on his face as if it was something to be proud of.

"And you say am the weird one how funny is that? How can you not eat seafood are you even normal?",

"Yeah I think it just smells really bad ",said Dylan shrugging his shoulders.

"It doesn't maybe you just ate at a bad place ", Anna said.

"I feel like you're going to tell me that if you cook it for me am going to like it ", Dylan said chuckling.

"You would that's the only thing that I can cook perfectly ", she said laughing wondering what kind of girl she was.

"Blow the candle and make a wish, cause that's never going to happen ",he said as he pulled her closer to the cake and she giggled .

How could someone be so perfect ? He could t see any flaw with her . All he wanted was for her to fall in love with him .

That was the only wish he had bad to bad he couldn't make it . He wanted to be the one to hold her when things went wrong . He was always going to be there for her when she needed a shoulder to cry on .

As she looked up at him after blowing the candle she was smiling like a little kid . He wanted to know so bad what her wish had been .

"Can you tell me what your wish was ?",he asked her and she burst out laughing .

"You're gonna think it's stupid .",she said as she took the knife and cut a piece of the cake .

"Just tell me I don't think your wish is going to be stupid .",he said smiling at her.

How could she not see the way he was looking at her ? He looked at her as if she was the best thing that he had ever laid his eyes on her .

"That I try and make friends this coming year ",she said smiling .

"You had one wish and you decided to make that ?",he asked her pure shock on his face .

"See I told you you're going to think it was stupid ",she said but she had lied . That was not the wish that she had made .

Had it been stupid of her to wish for a soft lover ? Alk she had asked was for someone that was going to hold her amd not think about hurting her .

She wanted to have a lover who was at arms length . Who was always gonna be there for her . She couldn't tell Dylan though . It would put her at his mercy .

She was scared .

Scared that she felt something greater for him that she didn't even know . She was going to be another name in the list of people that he would hurt .

She didn't think that a man could just live a woman wholly and not break her heart . It had never happened to her before .

As long as she hadn't experienced it then it wasn't true . She could t expect her life to be like that of a function movie or a story .

She k ew Vincenzo loved her maybe he just didn't know how to show emotions ,she convinced herself .

Why did love make people stupid ?

"I don't think it's stupid am just shocked that's the only thing you had in mind ",said Dylan as he tasted the cake and moaned in satisfaction.

"It wasn't the only thing I had in mind but that was the only thing I could change . Just because you want something doesn't mean that it's going I be there when you're ready to take it ",Anna said as she cut more cake .

"It's really good ,who taught you how to make it ?",she asked him and fir a second she saw sadness behind his eyes .

"My girlfriend or was my girlfriend before she passed away ",he said with a small smile .

Anna couldn't believe how she had always made everything about herself and never for once asked about Dylan's life .

She had been so focused on the things that she wanted and forgot that he was a person. He was someone who had a life separate from the one she was a part of .

"Am sorry I never knew ",Anna said as she followed Dylan to the living room with the cake on her hands .

"It's okay I never talk about her ",Dylan said as he sat down and Anna sat beside her .

She wanted to ask him what had happened to her but figured if wasn't in her place to ask .

His face was fixated on something to watch and she already knew that it was a topic that he did not 2nat to talk about .

"Do you mind telling me something about her ?",she asked despite the signs that he didn't want to talk about her .

"Before she passed away I found out she had been dating someone else . I was angry at her when I found out when I found out that she had passed away ",Dylan said chuckling .

"I really loved her,her name was Artemis like the goddess ",he said and the sadness was back .