Chapter Two| Ava
"I can't believe that man paid you two hundred pounds in a day already. You're going to be rich by the end of the week." It's the following day and Charlie is driving me back to Kaden's.
"Charlie, stop. It was probably just because it was my first day." I reason as he pulls up outside his home.
"Real sorry baby girl, but I can't pick you up later." He turns to me and runs a hand through his brown hair.
Charlie is a really good looking guy, but his reputation of playing girls is off the scale. He tried to get with me a couple years ago, so I punched him in the face and then we became best friends.
"It's alright, don't worry." I smile at him.
He gets out of the car and opens the door for me. I laugh at him. "Hey, what's so funny?!" He grins at me.
"You don't need to open the door for me Charlie." I playfully roll my eyes. He throws his head back in laughter and then pulls me into a hug.
"See you tomorrow?" He raises his eyebrows at me.
"Yeah it's my day off already." I say.
"Okay, baby." He then looks up and his smile drops.
"Is that the man you're working for, cause he looks moody as fuck." Charlie asks and I look to the front door to see Kaden standing there with a scowl on his face.
"Y-Yeah, I better go." I give him a quick hug and walk over to Kaden. "Hi!" I smile brightly at him.
Kaden puts his hand on my lower back and leads me in the house while still staring at Charlie. Once he's shut the door he turns to face me.
"Is that your boyfriend?" He asks lowly.
"No that's my best friend, Charlie." I smile.
"He seems a bit touchy-feely just to be a friend." Kaden tilts his head.
"Yeah he's always like that." I awkwardly laugh. "Where's Lily?" I question, changing the subject.
"My princess is having breakfast in the kitchen, she's been asking about you since she woke up. You're all she talks about." He smirks.
"Oh really?! She's such a sweet girl." I smile brightly and make my way towards the kitchen to say hello to her.
"Hi, sweetie." I grin as I see Lily sitting in her Princess and the Frog pyjamas.
"Avey!" She yells and makes grabby hands for me. I pick her up and spin her around, she giggles loudly. "I missed you!" She mumbles in my neck.
"I missed you too." I stroke her hair. I turn around and jump a little when I see Kaden staring at us in admiration. Once he's seen me looking at him he quickly covers it up with a cough.
"Late minute but I'm working from home today but I would really appreciate it if you would stay to keep an eye on my little devil, while I work in my office." Kaden playfully scowls at Lily.
"Hey! I'm a princess!" She pouts.
"I know." He walks over to us and kisses her on the forehead. The close proximity makes my heart race fast.
What Lily does next shocks me.
She wraps one of her small arms around Kaden pulling him down slightly and then one arm around me and pulls us into a hug.
Oh shit
Oh fuck.
What do I do?!
I'm just a babysitter.
Shit, shit, shit.
This is awkward.
Then I remember.
"Hey Lily I got something for you on the way here actually." She quickly let's go off us, I look at Kaden and see his faintly red tinted cheeks.
"Really?! Thank you!" She squeals. I place her down and rummage through my bag.
Charlie needed to stop off at a petrol station, so I went into the shop to get some sweets and spotted a key ring with Princess Tiana on it.
I hand her the key ring and her face brightens up so much.
"Thank you so much, Avey. I love it." She jumps up in the air, clutching the key ring to her chest.
"Is that okay?" I look up at Kaden.
"You've made my princess very happy, Angel. Of course it's okay." He says. "Right so I'll be in my office if you need me." He gives a nod and then turns to walk out the kitchen.
"So, what do you want to do today?" I turn to Lily.
•••
"And I'm almost there!" I sing to Lily.
"I'm almost there!" She sings back.
We are in the kitchen baking cookies while listening to her favourite song.
Obviously a Princess Tiana song.
I place the cookies in the oven and clean up while Lily spins around in her green princess dress.
"Be careful, Lily." I lightly scold, not wanting her to hurt herself.
"Sorry." She whispers and stops spinning around.
"It's okay, sweetie. You want lunch?" She nods eagerly.
I make her and Kaden lunch. He hasn't been out of his office since this morning. I make my way to his office and gently knock on the door.
"Come in." I hear him say. I open the door and walk in.
"Erm... I made you lunch. You don't have to eat it if you don't want to, I just thought that you would be hungry because you haven't come out of your office for a few hours. Lily and I...."
"Angel." Kaden stops my rambling with a huge smile on his face. "God, you like to ramble, don't you?" He chuckles and then points to the chair in front of his desk.
I walk over and place the plate of pasta in front of him and then sit in the chair. I watch him take a bite.
"This is fucking delicious." He moans and I feel my pants dampen at the noise that came out of his mouth.
Someone save me.
"Thank you." I whisper, avoiding eye contact.
Can I be any more embarrassing?
When he doesn't say anything I look back at him and see he is leaning back on his chair just staring at me. His hair isn't in a man bun today and I can't help but want to run my hands through his hair.
"I was struggling to tie it up today." He says, grabbing my attention.
"Sorry?" I shake my head and make eye contact with him.
"My hair." He points. "Do you mind doing it for me?" He questions, pulling open a draw and handing me a hairband.
"Oh, sure." I slowly stand up and make my way behind him. He hands me the hairband and I gather his hair back gently and tie it into a bun. I ignore the small grunt that escapes his lips. "There, all done." He spins around in his chair, so now I'm standing in between his legs.
"Thank you, Angel." He looks up at me with his light blue eyes.
I smile and so does he.
"I should probably go and check on Lily and the cookies." I tuck a strand of hair behind my ear and begin to walk over to the door, however Kaden gently grabs hold of my hand.
"I...erm....you're...if you need anything, I'll be here." He stammers and then quickly goes back to looking through some papers.
"Okay." I nod and then leave his office.
•••
It's now nine at night and I should of gone home ages ago but Lily wanted me to stay and I couldn't say no to her.
But now I've got to walk home in the dark. I don't like to get taxis and Charlie's isn't available.
"Are you coming back tomorrow?" A tired Lily asks. Kaden is holding her because she is too tired to stand by herself.
"Not tomorrow, sweetie."
Her eyes start to water. "Y-You're not coming b-back." She whimpers.
"Yes Lily, I'm coming back. But tomorrow is my day off, so you get to spend the day with your daddy." I tickles her stomach and stroke her curly hair making her giggle.
"Okay but promise you're coming back." She holds out her little pinky.
"I promise." I wink, connecting my pinky with hers.
I open the front door. "Bye Kaden." I smile avoiding eye contact.
"Where's that boy?" He says sternly.
"He's....he's down the road." I nod and Kaden looks at me funny before nodding his head.
"Goodnight, Angel." I smile and then begin my walk home.
About ten minutes into my walk I see headlights behind me.
Oh shit.
A car slowly moves along side with me and I look to my right and my eyes widen when I see an angry Kaden.
"Get in the car, Ava." I don't think twice before I am jumping into the passenger seat. "You lied to me." He scolds whilst looking ahead.
"I didn't want to be a bother, Kaden." I say, looking out the window. I tell Kaden my address and then look behind me and smile when I see a sleeping Lily.
"Ava, anything could have happened to you! Why didn't you fucking tell me you had no way of getting home?" He whispers harshly, not wanting to wake Lily up.
"I didn't think telling you was that important, plus Lily needed to go to bed." I try and reason with him.
"You tell me next time, Ava. I don't want anything bad happening to you." He glances at me.
"I'm sorry." I look down at my hands.
"Don't worry about it, Angel." He reaches out to squeeze my hand.
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