Chapter 35
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"What? Why?" I said giggling. Why would anyone want to be a teenager? Teenagers were so limited to certain things. We had to follow the rules of parents and everything else.
He stopped walking and looked at me and smile. I returned his smile. "Come up, tell me. Why would you want to be a teenager again?"
He remained silent for a few seconds then said, "So I can come back in time. This time I'd ask you out and then ask you to be my girlfriend. You would have said 'Yes'." I couldn't help but blush at his words.
"Why would I have said yes? Do you think you're that great?"
He smiled, "You would have said yes because you would have had no reason to say no."
He was right. If I was in High school and he asked me out I would have said yes because they were no work in the way. We would have just been two teenagers who liked each other.
I like Seth. I really do.
But I love my job.
"Come on, the dollar store will be closing soon." Talking or even thinking about having a relationship with Seth was off limits. It could never work.
"That's $274.93." the Indian lady behind the corner said.
I raised my brows and look up at Seth then laugh. We came in the dollar store to get Tortillas and cheese mix yet now we're at the cashier with the whole store on the counter. What's even worst is that the store close 4 minutes ago. The cashier wasn't happy at all.
"He's paying," I said pointing at Seth.
He shook his head and took out his wallet. As he placed his card in the machine he said, "Not even when I'm buying groceries my bill is this much."
"I think we got a little too excited." We brought five packs of Tortillas and three cheese dips, we also bought M&Ms, Snickers, tick-tocks, earphones, speakers, air fresheners, wipes and about six bags of Sour Heads. Yup, we bought a lot of things.
"I can't believe we're adults," Seth said as he removed his card from the machine and wait for the receipt.
"Me either."
The cashier offered us a forced smile, "Goodnight."
"We're so sorry we kept up your time. " I clasped my head, begging for forgiveness, "So sorry. Goodnight."
Seth and I managed to carry the 12 bags by ourselves. We laughed on the way back to my apartment.
"We don't need to go to the Dollar store anytime soon." I joke.
"Yeah, I next ten years sound great." I thought Seth would have being angry to have spent almost $300 on crap but he wasn't. He was so cool about it.
"By then they will call it $2-dollar store. The price of everything will be going up." Where will I be in the next ten years? The thought never crossed my mind. Will I be married with kids? Will I still be single? What about Seth? Where will he be in the next years? Probably married to a beautiful redhead and they'd have beautiful babies.
"Wow, ten years can pass so quickly." Seth reflects. "Next ten years I wanna be married with a kid or two."
Told-yah.
"What about you? What're your plans for the next ten years?" Seth asks but I didn't really know what to say.
"I don't know. I never thought about the distance future before. That's what my mother's there for." My mother was the one in the family that planned everything. She is the one that is worried about the relationship status of her children. She's the one who wants grandchildren before she reaches 60.
"What do you mean?"
"My mother is the planner in the family. I just live my life as I go. If I meet a man that I love, and he asked me to marry him then I will but for now, I'm just living if you know what I mean."
He nodded without saying anything and I thank god he didn't. I didn't want to talk about relationships.
We walked the rest of way in silence. We didn't even end up watching the movie since both of us were exhausted. We just place the bags in the kitchen then went straight to the bedroom to sleep.
But I didn't get much sleep because I kept thinking about my life in ten years.
I didn't want to be single in ten years, but I also don't want to mess up a great job because of man.
What should I do?
I woke up to loud music and the smell of fried bacon. I turned my head to empty space that Seth had occupy the night before. I slowly sat up and rubbed my eyes in the process. I let out a groan. I wasn't used to waking up with loud noises around me. I was used to small tiny barks of my pups.
I pushed my feet to the side of the bed and stand. I need to see what he was doing in my kitchen and why the hell he was making so much noise.
When I reached the hall I shouted, "What are you doing?"
Seth turned around and gave me a big smile before saying, "Isn't it obvious?"
I rolled my eyes. The only thing obvious is the loud music that was starting to give me a headache.
"I'm making you breakfast."
I nodded walking over to component set and shut the music off, "That was way too loud for my liking,"
"Then you turn it down not off."
I shrugged and started walking towards the kitchen where he was.
"I work better in noise." He stated.
"Well I sleep better in silence."
He shrugged and turns back to his pot. "Do you know what time it is?"
I shook my head.
"It's ten."
I looked at him shocked. There is no way I slept that long. I rushed back in my bedroom to look for my phone, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I went back to the kitchen, "Have you seen my phone?"
