Contract Marriage starring Love and Revenge
Chapter 146. Side Story 10: Alan’s only condition

Chapter 146: 146. Side Story 10: Alan’s only condition

"S_so why did you call me?" Janey asked. Her fingers were starting to wander around her shit aimlessly and her toes were coiling and uncoiling the longer they spoke on the phone.

"You asked for my number then ran off. Didn’t you expect I’d call you after that?" Alan asks and Janey shakes her head without saying anything.

Not even in her wildest dream could she have imagined that he would be the one to call her first. "Y_you have no idea how shocked I was when I found out you were the one calling."

She heard something like a soft chuckle, it wasn’t loud but she knew she heard right. She wondered what about what she just said made him laugh but decided to keep that question to herself and ask a different question instead.

"Uhm, d_did you, did you eat the cookies?" She was curious. She wanted to know if he found them delicious or not. She was sure of her baking skills but still, she was very nervous. His taste in food could be different, so maybe he might not like her cookies and—

"I haven’t." simple words. But those small simple words felt as though he punched a hole into her heart. Her fingers that were playing with her bed covers paused and her toes straightened. Her eyes dropped to her feet and her knees curled back up again.

"A_ah, I_ I see. Y_you must also find the chocolate coating terrible." Now she was starting to think maybe she had inconvenienced him by giving it to him in the first place. Maybe he was just being polite by accepting it. "I_ I’m sorry. You can just throw them out and—"

"I saw your letter." He interrupts her words, "So I wanted to ask you about it before I touched them."

"A_ask me what?"

"What made you think I’d throw them out in the first place?" Janey’s eyes blinked at that question. She didn’t understand.

"I_ I, uhm—"

"Why would I accept it from you and then throw them out without trying them? What made you think I’d do that? Have you been seeing me as that kind of asshole this whole time?"

Janey instantly sat up straight and both her hands were holding up her phone next to her ear now as she desperately tried to make things clear.

"No! No, I_ the thing is that my little brother told me earlier this morning that you wouldn’t like the cookies because of the chocolate coating. He called it chit. That you wouldn’t want to try it just by looking at them. And I know my cookies taste good, and I felt you’d love them if only you tried them but after what he said, I was scared you’d actually not even try them so I sent the letter. How could I think you’re an asshole? I really didn’t think that way, please believe me."

Janey practically rapped those words without breathing. Even after rapping the words she had to say she still held her breath and waited for his response anxiously.

On the other end of the phone, Alan had a palm over his mouth, and his phone was held at arms length away from him as he laughed into his palm. She was so freaking adorable!

"H_Hello?" Janey finally breathed. "A_Alan? A_are you still th_there?" She stuttered, tears almost coming to her eyes as she waited for his response but nothing was coming. She pulled her phone from her ear and checked to see if the call was still ongoing... It was.

"Hello? Are you th—"

"I’m here Janey. And I want to tell you, your brother might need to get his head scanned because he has to be out of his mind to think I’ll throw away a gift from you."

He indirectly just called her brother mental and yet she wasn’t bothered by that fact. Rather, her fingers were once again playing with her bed covers and her toes were coiling and uncoiling. Not just her toes, her entire body was moving like a worm on her bed as those words sent sweet ticklish sensations throughout her body.

"The only problem I have is that you got hurt while making these and I think it’s unfair to eat them." He says and she immediately screams...

"Eat them!!" then she realizes she just screamed and she clears her throat, tucks some stray hair behind her ears and reverts to a meek tone, "Eat them. If you don’t eat them, t_then it means my effort was for nothing. But if you eat them and enjoy them, then I would feel really good." She explains as sweetly as she can.

"Then I’ll eat them under one condition so promise me one thing."

"W_what?"

"That you’d be more careful from now on. If you ever hurt yourself while baking anything again, I won’t even look at it next time."

Janey wondered if he realized what he was saying. Was he saying, "Are you saying you’re expecting me to bake something for you again?" She asks.

"Well, was this supposed to be the first and last time?"

"No!! No, I’ll bake anything you want whenever you want." She says in excitement.

"And?" He drawls.

"And I won’t hurt myself. I promise. I’ll make sure I’m super careful."

"Good girl." He says and for some reason, those words made her happy. Extremely happy.

"So you’ll eat the cookies, right?" she asks just to confirm.

"Do you want me to make a video of myself eating them?"

"N_no, that won’t be necessary." She blushes and covers her eyes with her palm.

"I won’t throw them out. I’ll make sure I eat every last one no matter how bad they turn out to be."

Janey gasped at those words, "Oh but I promise they taste excellent. Everyone says so. Even my insufferable brother, not minding what he said he always stuffs himself with my cookies. I promise it’s the best and—" She passed and this time she could hear him laughing on the other end of the phone and she realized, "You were just teasing me again, weren’t you?"

"I can’t help it. You fall for it every time."

"You’re so mean." She pouts but with a rosy cheek.

"And you’re so easily flustered."

"No. I_ I usually am not. It’s just..." She paused with her bottom lip held between her teeth, "it’s because it’s you." She said. There was no point trying to conceal it, her actions gave her away every time, so maybe she should just confess it. It was safer to do it over the phone than face to face.

"I don’t get flustered easily. And I’m not always so shy and timid I’m sure you must have grasped that based on how I responded to your call when I didn’t realize it was you. So it’s because it’s you that’s why I act this way even when I don’t intend to. Because I like you." She professed with her eyes still covered with her palm.

"So it’s your fault I’m like this." Now she was getting even more embarrassed. She couldn’t continue the call any longer. "I_I think my momma’s calling me. G_goodnight. Bye. S_see you next week." She says in a hurry and ends the call.

Now she’s asking herself. "Because I like you?!!! Seriously! Janey! Why did you go and blurt that out like that?" She’s punching her head and hand into her pillow while also holding her sheets between her teeth.

"What have I done?! What if he’s the kind of guy who doesn’t like girls who confess their feelings first?" She was asking herself and now she was regretting. That impulsive decision!

"Why Janey, why?!!"

"Zee Janey, Zee." Says her brother who suddenly pops his head into her room and a flying pillow from Janey towards the door sends him running back to wherever he was coming from.

But then, "Don’t try so hard, he is far above your level." He popped his head into her room and spoke again and this time Janey’s rage was overflowing from coupled with the embarrassment she felt from confessing her feelings to him just now.

"Why you little rat!!" She jumped down from her bed and he bolted, she was going to chase after him this time but then her phone beeps and she paused.

She walked back to her phone and picked it up. It was a message notification from Alan.

She clicked on it and closed her eyes before it opened. She was trying to calm herself before reading whatever he sent.

After taking deep breaths, she opened her eyes and as she did, her lips curled into a beautiful big grin as she looked at what he had sent.

And image.

A piece of her cookie in his hand, held between his teeth.

And it came with the text... "Good night. Sweet dreams..."

She clicked on the image. It didn’t show his full face. Just from the top of his lips. She zoomed into the picture and muttered to herself, "You have beautiful lips. I wish they’d kiss me just once."

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