Chapter 178

He's looking at me like there was a sun shining directly from my face, and he was a moth drawn to the light. He's looking at me with that uncertain gaze of his again, that gaze that seems set on unsettling me and making me feel insecure all it's own.

"You know it's really rude to stare at people like that?" I say my voice taking something of a jovial tone so he doesn't feel offended. I actually see his cheeks flush with something of a red tinge as he hurriedly looks away. I am so amused and pleased by this that I simply start laughing and giggling excitedly.

"You are blushing......?". At the mention of the question he simply starts blushing more furiously and I truly laugh at this. I laugh so heartily that I forget the bowl of ice cream in front of me, the bowl of ice cream that i had been anticipating so eagerly ever since I had gotten here.

Who would have ever thought Clay could actually blush, with his tall muscular legs and long arms, and the perfectly fitted form of his body, and that hard handsome face, who would have thought he could actually laugh talk less of blushing.

"Stop torturing the poor boy" Oakley says and I give her a salute, like she hadn't also teased me enough.

When we were still younger, she had the bad habit of making me blush unnecessarily, even if we were just a few inches close to any boy I liked, she would start making these little jokes, jokes that only the both of us understood and which would make me erupt into such a furious blush that I felt my face glowing hot all over. I had felt my face would explode one of these times, and it was all thanks to her, allthanks to her and her incessant teasing.

She accepts my salute with something of pride in her eyes and I know she remembers, she remembers all our childhood days and how much fun we had during those times.

"I'm really happy you're here" I say squeezing her hand, and she gives me a self-satisfied smile.

"If I wasn't here you'd simply be dead, ahhh, what would you do without me anyways?". I smacked her hand at her snide remark and she hisses in pain. I smile contentedly happy at having achieved my aim and focus on the bowl of ice cream.

It has started melting a bit but yet it hasn't melted to that point that I would consider it unworthy of enjoying anymore. I dip my spoon in it and I took my first scoop, it was simply delicious, it was so delicious that I forgot everyone else around me and I simply started moaning as I took bite after bite, as I took scoop after scoop. I simply let the taste dissolve on my tongue and I let out a satisfied sigh after each scoop.

I didn't realise I had finished the whole ice cream bowl when a surprised and amused laugh floats into my ears.