My Best Friend's Cousin

CHAPTER 12: Vacation.....

•ZEKE•

        Faye and I have been an actual couple now for almost a month and I haven't as happy as I have been with her.

        For the first time, I fall asleep with the most beautiful woman in the world and wake up with her in my arms still.

        We haven't had sex yet and this would be the first relationship I've had where I didn't sleep with the girl right away. I gotta say, it's pretty nice.

         I recently gave Faye her own credit card and everyday give her some money to buy whatever she wants and everyday, I still find the money on the dresser, untouched, as the credit card also.

        For the credit card, I look at it daily to make sure that for one, it isn't hacked into and most importantly to make sure she has enough but again, she hasn't touched it.

        She's been working really hard at the restaurant and everyone loves her there and thinks she has been the best thing that ever happened to that place.

        Tonight, though I have been getting to know her more and more, I really wanted to get to know her and about her parents. Were they alive? Dead? So I decided to take her to one of my favorite restaurants.

        After Lucy helped her get dressed and looking like the sexy woman she is, we went to the restaurant with me driving us.

         Once we arrived, we were greeted by a hostess and escorted to a secluded area towards the back of the restaurant and the lights were dimmed perfectly so that it was more intimate.

         Then a waiter came over to take our order and brought us some wine as well.

         As we sat there, I noticed her looking around the place.

         "Do you like it?" I asked.

        "It's a beautiful place." She smiles.

        "It's one of my favorites." I replied.

        "So how was your day?" She asks.

        "It was okay. Not as good as it could've been with you." I wink and smile at her, causing her to blush.

         "I missed you too." She smiles.

        Then before an awkward moment of silence could happen, our waiter brought us our food, and after leaving we dug right in. I tried some of hers and she tried some of mine.

         After a few moments, I didn't want to ruin the moment but I couldn't help but ask.

        "Baby?" I asked her.

        "Mhm?" She says with her mouth closed as she chews her food.

        "If you don't mind me asking, what are your parents like?" I ask, though now I regret it right away as I soon see her stop eating, swallow the last of the food in her mouth and then grab her glass of wine.

         "Why do you ask?" She asks me before drinking all the wine in her glass.

         "Because I want to know you, my love. And I might want to meet them someday." I tell her.

        She looks down at her plate for a moment, takes in a deep breath and then begins to talk.

        "Honestly, I don't know where they or how they are. I haven't seen them since they kicked me out when I was sixteen." She says.

        "They kicked you out?" I asked curiously.

        "Yeah. It was no big deal. Things happened and things were said and done thag never could be erased or taken back and neither one wanted to apologize. So I left. I was working and made decent money so I was able to move myself from sleeping on the streets to being able to afford a cheap hotel. Then after high school, I finally had enough money and my diploma, to leave. So I did. And frankly I could care less about my parents." She says as she pours herself more wine and fills up her glass almost full and starts gulping it down quickly while I sit there in shock.

        "Baby, I'm so sorry." I tell her.

        "It's okay. In fact, I haven't really thought about them." She says.

        "I won't bring it up again." I assure her with a smile as I take hold of her hand.

        "Thank you." She smiles.

        I could tell just how bad it was making her feel as she talked about them and as pissed off as I was in wanting to know why they would kick her out and also what the hell they did to her so I can track them down and kill them, I wasn't going to make her tell me. All I cared about at the moment was making her smile.

         "Faye?" I asked.

         "Yes?" She smiles at me.

         "Do you wanna leave tomorrow and go with me for a week to a private lake house I own? And that way we can go and have some alone time without any distractions. I can have Evan take care of things for me and if there's an emergency he can message me. Otherwise, no distractions." I suggest.

          The smile on her face was the smile I had waited to look for and I have never taken any girl to my lake house before, so she'd be the first.

          "Really?" She asks me.

          "Yeah. I think it will be a lot of fun and we'd finally have some alone time together." I tell her.

          "I would love that." Shs says.

          "Great. I'm glad baby." I tell her.

          We finish our meal and then head home and we cuddle as we watch a movie before falling asleep in each other's arms.

           I swear, I have no idea how I got so lucky with her. She's definitely the only girl who has never been with me for my money.

          As much as I admire and respect her independence, I still would love to have her let me take care of her. Not just emotionally or physically eventually, but also financially.

          Don't get me wrong neither with the being physical with her yet, cause I respect her wishes and as hard as it has been to resist, I just love being around her. I wanna make sure I don't fuck this up.

Next chapter will be posted soon! :)