VALERIE

Chapter 14: Cherishing Cheshire

  Copyright © zylgnagnaba 2013

We arrived in Cheshire near evening, riding a blue Cadillac. We pull up to the driveway of Robin Twist’s, Harry’s mom’s fiancé’s residence. Two people immediately go out of the house to welcome our arrival. Harry goes out of the car first, then opens up the door for me. A stunning lady wearing a floral dress and wide smile on her face quickly comes up to us as I step out of the car, and then excitedly hugs Harry right away.

“Oh my god, look at you!” She says after pulling out from the hug with Harry. “You’ve grown so much. How long has it been?” She states enthusiastically while fighting back little tears in her eyes.

“I missed you too, Mom.” Harry chuckles and kissed her on the cheek. Of course, if it isn’t the beautiful Anne Cox, then who else? She’s really pretty and sexy for a mom her age. I can’t even tell how old she really is. I stand there beside Harry, waiting to be noticed. I kept acting cool but at the back of my mind, I keep telling myself Just kill me now! The pressure is on and all I want is to get on with it.

From Harry, she drags her look at me. Shocks! What am I supposed to do? I can’t even move my hands and feet. So I just pull out one timid smile at her. To my surprise, she smiles back. No, she grins at me, a really wide and sweet grin at me.

“And you must be Valerie.” She says and grabs both my hands. Her soft hands made the trembling and pounding in my chest gradually disappear. Her look, more like a grateful stare, makes my heart melt. “I’m Anne, Harry’s mom. I’ve heard so many things about you.” She smiles and rubs the back of my hand with her palm tenderly.

“Geez. I hope not the bad ones.” I cringe and bite my lower lip.

She chuckles and says, “You really are so funny. That’s one thing people told me about you.” She then let go of my hands and entwined her shoulder with the tall and good-looking guy beside her, her fiancé I suppose. “This is Robin, my groom.” The tone of her voice as she introduces him to me obviously shows her pride, happiness and love that she feels about him. How romantic!

“Good Evening. I’m Valerie. Nice to meet you, Sir!” I shake hands with him.

“Nice to meet you too. Just call me Robin.” He smiles and nods.

“Harry?” A brunette girl yells outside the door of the house. She runs towards Harry and hugs him tightly. “Gosh, tiger. I missed you.” She says while ruffling his hair.

“Whatever. Just don’t mess with my hair.” he murmurs while stroking his hair with the intent to fix it.

“What’s the difference? It’s always a mess.” She giggles and nudges Harry’s shoulder. At her statement, I laugh a bit because I just couldn’t agree with her more.

Harry then grabs my waist and lean in closer to me. “Gemma, this is Valerie, my girlfriend.” He introduces me to her. “Val, this is Gemma, my lovely sister.” I can feel that Harry really loves his sister. Aside from the grin in his face that couldn’t be worn off, he added an adjective ‘lovely’ when he introduced her to me. He could’ve at least told her that I am beautiful, nice, or generous. Whatever!

“You two are really gorgeous.” I commended Anne and Gemma. “What happened to Harry?” I goofed off and both of them laughed.

“Trust me, Valerie. I don’t know.” Gemma chuckles.

“Come on, let’s all get inside.” Anne persuades and ushers me inside the house. Robin took the car key from Harry to get all our stuffs from the trunk. Harry goes to help him while Anne, Gemma and I walk ahead to get inside the house.