Stand By Me Darling
Chapter 55: Disturbance In Heart

Chapter 55: Disturbance In Heart

"Didn’t we sleep together last night?" Talia feigned ignorance and asked him as her head landed on his firm chest as he hugged her waist.

"You know I didn’t mean a slumber party... Iris... Let’s do it..." he grinded his waist against hers and all Talia could feel was something tickling her nose.

His chest hair?

She looked to see him wearing just a tank top and boxers.

What is this guy thinking?

She didn’t know why but her fingers went on by itself and played with those small curly hair on his chest. There weren’t a lot but somehow that made a weird sensation in her stomach. She herself didn’t know she was into chest hair. This was the first time she was seeing him this bare chested. And that thought made her blush a little.

Realising him still grinding himself on her and now his little willy down there already excited, she came out of her reverie and pushed him away.

"Didn’t know you had blood fetish!" she curled her lips.

Oh, right! Her periods!

Arthur could only sigh internally.

"No, I don’t!" he refused her allegations.

He just forgot, alright!

Talia on the other hand, wanted to keep her eyes off him but she couldn’t control her eyes and they lecherously traced over his partly exposed body.

The first thing she noted was his black boxer since there was some bright writing on it.

" World’s Greatest"

And below the writing was a picture of a rooster and that looked in a weird shape since his’ was already...

"Pfff!"

Talia couldn’t hold back her laughter and laughed out loud. She laughed till her eyes were filled with tears and her stomach hurt.

She pulled the dining chair and sat on it and took a look at him as a whole. His white tank top that was loose, still couldn’t hide his toned body and his well-defined biceps were out open.

"Do you like what you see?" he puffed up his chest, flexed out his biceps and even made his pecs pump to his whistle.

Everything he did made her laugh more and she banged the table, "Stop!" she shouted and still she couldn’t stop her laughing herself and even banged her forehead on the table accidentally.

That was the best laugh she had in years.

"See...now we are in a level playing field. You wore slips to tease me and now I’m dressing sexier than you!"

He made a pose like a contestant of Mr. Olympia and that made her fall into another bout of laughing.

"Yes, Fred! Your hairy arms and legs, your curled chest hair... You’re so sexy, I want to take a chunk out of you," she made a bite gesture and ended up laughing again.

Arthur saw her face red with all the laughing and even her lips had gone red. With the gesture she made, she looked like a demon of lust making him want to pounce on her.

Even the most celibate monk will fall for her allure much less a red blooded man like him.

But he was a little annoyed by her laughing at him like he was a court jester entertaining her while he tried to seduce her with his body.

’Why doesn’t she fall for my perfect body? Ah, right! It should be because of her periods.’

But he was pretty happy that he could make her laugh this much anyway. He has never seen her laugh this much before.

"Stop making me laugh! My stomach hurts!" she rubbed her face to calm herself down and walked to the kitchen to have some water.

"Do you think I should wax? I heard it would be painful and guys do it too... I mean... How much could it hurt, right? Should I try it?"

Talia who was drinking from the bottle imagined him all polished out from his neck down.

"Pfff"

*Cough*cough*cough*

Water came out of her nose and she ended up coughing and he ran to her side and patted her back.

" Can’t you be careful? " he asked worried.

This woman can die drinking water. How pitiful is she?

"Can you stop trying to kill me, please?"

She tried to push him away and her finger accidentally pulled his shirt and that’s where she saw the purple ink on his chest.

A tattoo?

"What’s this?" she pulled down the collar, "You have a tattoo?"

Her eyes got widened and her hands froze over the big iris tattoo on his chest. It looked a bit girly and gaudy and Arthur was surprised to see her tearing up.

Is she touched? Thank goodness I decided to get it even though I don’t like tattoos.

"Why did you do that?"

She started crying and Arthur was perplexed.

’So she doesn’t like it? It seems like she was more shocked about me getting the tattoo. But Cyrus was covered in tattoos. And each time he got a new tattoo he’d show it to her and she’d be excited to see it. Why doesn’t she like me getting a tattoo then?’

And that’s when he remembered what she used to say.

"You are not Cyrus!"

Back then whenever he tried to imitate Cyrus, she’d say that. A lot of things she liked when Cyrus did it but wouldn’t like it if he did it.

Back then he thought that it was because she thinks less of him... But it shouldn’t be the case right.?

Something like permanently adding something to your body... She wouldn’t mind if a friend or family do it but it would be different if her boyfriend did it and her opinions would change. There is the difference.

Yes, she loves me! That means we share everything including our bodies. Both of us will have at least a little say in each others bodies.

Why didn’t I realise that? Thankfully this is only a temporary tattoo!

"Iris... Iris... Don’t cry! This is only a temporary one. It will go away in a month or two. I’m sorry... Don’t cry," he patted her head and he felt pretty bad. It seems like he is making her cry more often than making her happy.

"Temporary one?" she looked at him and her crying stopped but it seemed like she’d shoot fire from her eyes and reduce him to ashes.

"Fred,you idiot! Colouring your hair, getting a temporary tattoo... Are you here to make me hate you or make me fall for you?" she stomped to the bedroom and shut the door with a bang.

’Ah, Iris! Didn’t you say there is noway you’d be together with me? Now what are you saying.? That I have a chance?’

Arthur didn’t know what to think. He didn’t know what she wanted. He stood pondering for sometime but then decided to live for today.

Today she is mine!

"Iris! You said you’ll be mine today. Why are you locking yourself in the room? Come on! Get out!" he knocked the door in a gleeful voice.

Talia who wasn’t really angry only when she locked herself inside her room realised that she has no right over his body. Leaning on the door, she placed her hand on her chest as she wondered,

’Why do I care if he has one tattoo or a hundred and what colour he dyes his hair? It’s not like I’m going to marry him... Right? Right?’

That’s when she heard the knock and his voice calling her to come out and she decided to keep her promise.

"Where do you want to go?" she asked opening the door and he pursed his lips as he went to a deep thought.

"Must we really go out? Can’t we stay in and do something?" he asked raising his eyebrows.

Talia rolled her eyes, "You know I’m on my..."

"Like watch a movie or something in our laptop? What do you say?" he asked his eyes bright.

Arthur felt like going out might be dangerous for her because of the reports he received and so he opted to stay inside.

Talia thought about it. She’d prefer to stay in rather than going out and so she was pretty welcoming to his suggestion.

"What kind of movie?" she asked picking up her laptop and sat on the couch.

"Rom-com?" he asked as a question. He preferred action and thriller genre but seeing her reaction to even the mention of weapons, he knew it won’t be a good idea to watch those movies.

"Really?",she crunched up her face, " Are you going to ruin a good romance movie, like you ruined ’Titanic’ for me? No way!"

The one time she watched a romance movie with him, he was commenting stupidly in her ears ruining that movie for her.

"Let’s watch a horror movie. Or...Are you still scared to watch a horror movie?" she wriggled her eyebrows like a caterpillar making him shiver.

This girl will never get scared of horror movies while he’d suffer from tremors for a week during nights and will see ghosts in every corner! No way!

"Iris! I thought through it and reflected... That movie, You know if I were him, I would have..."

"No! You do not! You are just scared to watch a horror movie! Scaredy-cat... " she poked fun at him.

"I’m not!" he pouted. "What do you think of me? I’m a grown up man! I don’t get scared of some ghost in a movie!"

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