48 : Broths, Cheesecakes and Pamperings

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By sleepytinker__

CHAPTER 48

VIVIANA QUINN

I was helping Mum with a few old photo frames in her room and she was telling me about Xavier's childhood. 

I came across a picture of Xavier and another kid. He was taller than Xavier. 

“Mum.” I called while observing the picture. 

“Yeah.”

“Who is he?” I asked, pointing at the other boy with Xavier. 

A sad smile plastered on her lips “Xavier's brother.”

What!? Xavier has a brother. 

“Xavier has a brother?”

She nodded, taking the frame from me she stared at it. “My son, Nathan. He was 4 years older than Xavier and the sweetest kid.”

In the whole sentence one word caught my ears. 

Was. Why was? 

“Where is he now?” I asked. 

“He is dead.”

“W-What? H-How?”

A drop of year fell from her eyes. “H-He…” She stopped, then wiping her tears she said “A-Accident. He met with an accident.” Suddenly she started keeping the frames back in the box. 

“It's been years, Viv, let's not bring that up.”

Something's fishy. If Xavier had a brother why does he tell everyone that he is a single child? Is it because they don't wanna bring up the topic of Nathan? 

Or is it something else?

It's nothing. Stop being Sherlock Viv. 

I looked outside due to some noise and it was the sound of rain pouring. I smiled. 

Maybe she will feel better. 

“Let's go outside.” I said getting up from the floor. 

“It's raining, Viv.” 

I held her hand “C'mon, let's go.”

She stood up and I almost ran with her downstairs. Xavier, Mr. Quinn, Gd… all of them were in the living room talking and when I ran with Mum, they stared as if I was crazy

“Your wife is mad.” Mum shouted to Xavier as she was forced to run with me. 

I laughed. 

I opened the door and we went out in the rain. 

“Viv, what are you doing?” Mr. Quinn shouted, getting up from his seat. 

Mum held my hands tightly “Jesus! It's so cold.”

“It's so good!” I shouted back to her. 

She opened her arms and closed her eyes with her face up in the sky. I smiled, seeing her smiling. She looked genuinely happy. 

“You are crazy.” She said, still holding herself in the same position. 

“But you love it!” I shouted back.

A few minutes later Mr. Quinn joined us. Mum hugged him, hiding her face on his chest.

“Both of you are out of your mind. But I agree this is fun.”

“She forced me, I didn’t want to come here.”

I laughed and twirled. I was dancing as if I was taking a shower. She came to me and hugged me “You know, you’re the best daughter.”

“Well, I know that.” She kissed my cheek.

My gaze landed on Xavier. He stood at the door, leaning against it with his hands crossed over his chest, staring at us… not to forget with a smile.

I don’t know how long we danced in the rain but we had to stop when Xavier approached us with two umbrellas. He handed one umbrella to Mr. Quinn and with the other one he came to me. He held it for me, covering both of us with it. 

“That’s it for today, you’ll fall sick.”

“C’mon Viv, let’s go inside.” Mum said.

I nodded and ran inside, ignoring Xavier and his umbrella. A maid handed us the towels and I started wiping my hair with it.

“It’s so cold.” I was shivering.

“Who asked you to get wet?” Mum scolded.

I bit my lips, making an innocent face “But it was fun.”

“Jesus! This kid!”

I giggled.

Mr. Quinn added “How cruel of you woman, cursing the girl who made you laugh?”

“See! You enjoyed yourself.”

“And now who’s struggling? Do you have clothes to change?”

Oh fuck! Clothes… that too is something, right? And Xavier will kick me out of the car if I sit on it with these drenched clothes.

“It’s okay, Mum. I’ll take her to my room, she can change.” Xavier said.

No chance I am not coming anywhere with you.

“No. No. Mum, you can g-” Before I could complete my sentence, Xavier marched towards me… looking annoyed af which made me shut my mouth. He wrapped the towel around me and picked me up in his arms.

“Mum, can you ask one of the maids to send a cup of hot chocolate to my room?”

Both Mum and Mr. Quinn was trying hard to control their laughter because it was visible to everyone that I had been ignoring him.

“Yeah, I’ll send it.” Mum answered.

And Xavier very angrily carried me upstairs to his room. I was silent. As we entered his room, he headed for the washroom. 

“Take a shower, I'll give you my clothes.” Saying he left the washroom.

I took a shower like a good girl and covered myself with a towel. I popped my head out of the door, he was sitting on the bed. 

“Xavier.” I called him. 

Getting up from the bed, he passed me a tee and his sweatpants. I wore it and came out. He raised his gaze from the phone but my concentration was at the exit. 

“Mum will be sending hot chocolate in a few minutes, sit down.”

“No, it's fine. I'll help her.” I was almost running towards the door but he was quick enough to stop me from leaving the room. He held my arm and shit… he looked so mad. 

“What the fuck is your problem? You are avoiding me as if I am some disease.”

“Let go of me, Xavier.”

 “No Viviana, I won't. Can't you see I am dying to talk to you.”

“I don't want to see it.” I tried to leave again but he stopped me. 

“It was not me Viviana! I didn't know Trevor was the same guy who Gd has hired to go after you. I didn't know he was Anya's boyfriend.”

I rolled my eyes “Stop hurting me and stop lying to me.”

“I am not lying to you. I have protected you from every unknown person since the day Gd hired someone to play with your feelings.”

“Did you ask him not to do it? You didn't. Why? Because you wanted to hurt me.”

“I had two choices Viviana… first I'll play love with you then I'll break your heart. Second, someone else will play love with you and break your heart.” He held both my arms, pulling me closer to himself “And I chose the second option because I didn't want to see hate in these eyes for myself and since that day I had been trying so hard to protect you from every guy you talk to… but I guess whatever I do, I can never make you like me.”

“Well when I loved you like crazy, you were the one who pushed me away. And even when we met after 6 years, I tried to make us work again, Xavier but guess what again you pushed me away for some revenge that has got the utmost priority in your life. And no matter how hard I try I can never be your priority but you want to be my first priority. How is this fair?”

Our gaze was glued to each other. Whatever I said is true. I have always tried to make us work but every time it was him who stopped us from being anything more than friends with benefits or enemies with benefits. 

“I have literally given you my everything and in return I wanted a small place in your heart which again you couldn't give me.”

He was going to reply but a voice interrupted us. 

“Sir, hot chocolate.” It was a maid. 

His hold loosened on my arms and with his eye still on me, Xavier ordered her “Keep it and leave.”

“You have no answers, Xavier.”

I got myself out of his hold and took the hot chocolate cup from the maid, leaving the room. 

While returning, the whole car ride was silent. None of us uttered a single word. Usually when I am mad, he tries to make it up by just talking about random stuff because in Xavier Quinn's dictionary the word ‘sorry’ doesn't exist. 

For some reason pain was all I could feel. My whole body was aching. I couldn't sleep and since for the last 3 days I have been sleeping in the other room, Xavier had no clue of my struggle.

I tried to stand up from the bed to head to the washroom but I failed. Again I tried and failed. After struggling for five to six times, finally I was able to stand. I was making my way towards the washroom but suddenly I fell down to the floor and with me a bottle of water too landed on the floor. 

I didn't even have the strength to shout and call Xavier. But he I guess heard the noise and barged inside the room. 

“Viv-” He paused as he saw me on the floor. Instantly he kneeled to the floor in front of me “What happened?”

My eyes were closing. I couldn't keep them open however hard I tried. 

“Viviana?” He called me again. 

“I-I a-am not able to stay awake.” Came as a whisper. He held me in his arms. 

“Fuck! You have a temperature.” He picked me up in his arms and carried me to the bed. 

Laying me down on the bed, he placed a hand on my forehead. 

“I-I f-feel weak.” I muttered with a lot of difficulty. 

“It's okay baby, I am here. I'll inform the doctor.” He called someone, I rested my head on his chest as he held me in his arms. 

“He'll be here in a few minutes.” He whispered in my ears. 

“I'm sleepy.” I was shivering. 

A few minutes later, the doctor arrived. He did my checkup and instructed Xavier to fetch a few medicines for me. He said that it was a normal fever. Xavier instructed someone to get the medicines while he was trying to lower my body temperature with a cloth dipped in water. 

“It's cold.” My voice was almost inaudible. 

“Please sleep, it's gonna be okay.” He tried to make me feel better. Slowly I drifted off to sleep. 

The next day, he woke me up, made me have some food and gave me the medicines. The whole day he didn't go to work and the whole day I was sleeping. I was too tired to even get up from the bed. 

Time to time he would wake me up, make me have the food and medicines then again I would fall asleep. 

In the evening, he woke me up and said “I have prepared a broth for you, have it you'll feel better.”

“I don't wanna eat. Go away.” I murmured in my sleep. 

Well when I am sick, I have different levels of mood swings. 

“Get up Viviana, it's tasty.”

“No. It's bad. I know it.”

“How about you have this once and if you do not like it I'll prepare you something good.”

“Noooo. I want ice cream.” I whined, sitting up on the bed. 

“Of course, you have a fever and you want an ice cream.”

“You're mean. You're bad. I don't want bad food.”

“It tastes good.” He blew on it and extended the spoon towards me. I took a spoonful in my mouth and… it's actually good. 

“You like it?” He asked. 

I nodded. 

Giving me a smile, he took a seat on the bed beside me and started feeding me. 

“I want something good.”

“Isn't this good?” He questioned. 

“For dessert. Something sweet.”

He nodded “I'll prepare the dessert then.” He was very gently making me eat, and from time to time he was wiping the corner of my mouth with a cloth. 

Finally when he was done feeding me. He gave me my medicines and asked me to wait for him for 30 minutes, so he can prepare the dessert for me. 

Getting bored of lying on the bed, I stood up with a lot of difficulty and walked slowly towards the kitchen. There he was preparing something. The moment he saw me he came running to me. 

“Didn't I ask you not to move?”

“I was bored.” I replied. 

He picked me up in his arms and walked us to the kitchen. Making me sit on the kitchen counter, he continued preparing something. 

“What are you baking?” I asked. 

“I don't know if you are gonna like this or not, but I like it… blueberry cheesecake.”

“I don't like cheesecakes.”

He stopped “You don't?”

I shook my head. 

“Christ! How can I be so dumb? I didn't even think that people may not like cheesecakes.”

I smiled. He was actually disappointed. 

“I'm gonna make you s-”

“It's fine. Make me love them.”

“What?”

“Make me love cheesecakes.”

“You will try?”

“I can.”

Again like a kid he got all excited. “I'll bake it so good that you'll be a fan.”

I chuckled. 

Well I am still weak. Again I wanna go to my room and sleep.

After a lot of hardwork he successfully prepared the cheesecake and a good thing about his cooking… he is very neat in his work and he does everything with perfection. 

He gave me a slice “Taste it.” And damn the nervousness I could feel in him. It was clearly visible. 

I was about to take a bite when he stopped me. 

“Not like that.” Cutting a small piece, he put the blueberry on the top and asked me to take a bite of the whole thing. 

I did and damn it actually tasted good. 

“Please tell me I could make you like cheesecakes?”

“How's the taste?”

I laughed at his nervousness. 

“This is so good!” I exclaimed. 

“Really?” he questioned but there was a shine in his eyes. 

I nodded. 

“Yes!” He yelled as if he had won a trophy. 

I had a few more bites of the cake but since I am sick I was not able to eat much. Again he picked me up in his arms and carried me to our room. 

Lying me down, he placed a kiss on my forehead “Goodnight, Sunshine.”

I held his hand “Thank you for taking care of me.”

He smiled “You don't have to thank me. You have given me a reason to live so I am being selfish here as well.”

“W-What? I can't understand.”

“You are my reason to live, Viviana. There are a thousand reasons to survive but there are a very few reasons to live. And I am living now, you are my only reason to live, so yeah I was just taking care of the person who makes me happy.”

He took my hand and placed it on his chest. “You don't need a small piece of my heart, you own my heart and even I didn’t realize when it happened.”

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That's it for today.
Next update : Day after tomorrow.

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