#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM_S2
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 6
Sometime later, Jeslyn tried to sit up but couldn’t. Her body was still shaking from it all. She wondered if this was how Vera felt.
Just then, the wall cracked open and Maverick walked in carrying a tray of food.
Jeslyn’s eyes couldn’t focus anywhere else except the dangling, something that was attention-grabbing.
“Why aren’t you wearing something?” She frowned slightly. What if someone saw him?
Her mind was muddled that she forgot there was no one but the two of them on this huge island.
“What’s the point?”
“What if someone saw you like thi–” she suddenly remembered no one else was here and her cheeks heated up.
“Why not tell the truth?”
“What truth?” She asked while shifting her eyes everywhere but her gaze kept returning to his length.
“Do you want more?”
“Hold on Maverick,” she swallowed. “I’m tired.”
Maverick placed the tray in front of her and sat on the edge of the bed.
“Mn,” he nodded.
Jeslyn sighed. He only brought her share. The toast had fried eggs and veggies. No cheese. She picked up a fork and knife, held the toast down with the fork, and cut a bite with the knife.
“Eat some,” she stretched her hand to Maverick.
Maverick didn’t tell her he detested that breakfast but because this was the first time she was feeding him, he opened his mouth and accepted the food.
“You also need strength to continue.” She said before focusing on her food while blaming her mouth in her heart.
They’ve only done it once and it felt like they’ve gone three rounds. Why was he so beastly?
Maverick had starved for three and half months, so it was understandable that he would want to go all out with the chance he has gotten.
After eating and resting, Jeslyn refused to go another round as her body still aches. So the couple decided to do other things. There’s more to life and marriage than s3x after all.
Maverick knew that he was walking on thin ice because Jeslyn would blow up again if she found out Vera was pregnant and that would determine if their relationship would stay. That’s why he had prepared to hook her so badly that she won’t be able to leave him no matter what.
Maverick didn’t care if he was using the wrong method in keeping his woman by his side. Provided he wasn’t abusing her, disrespecting her, and restricting her movement then he is fine. Also, her happiness matters too but certainly not the ‘I want a divorce or stay away from me, I’ll be happy if you do’ kind of thingy.
If their relationship ever gets to that point, Maverick wouldn’t know how crazy he would get, and being the antagonist to her ‘happiness’ won’t be far from him because he’s definitely not going to allow another man near her, never!
Maverick looked at her side profile as the both of them were heading to the shore. “What can make you h@ťě me?”
“Huh?” Jeslyn was thrown off by the sudden question. They were just talking about how well he cooks and he’s asking something totally irrelevant to the topic.
Maverick turned to her and held her shoulders– stopping her in place and also making her look at him. He lowered his height to her level and repeated the question while searching her eyes for lies;
“What would make you h@ťě me?”
“Ah, if you ki|| your own child? Restrict my freedom, get rid of my friends because you can, and also…” She smiled, then hugged him. “If you choose Vera or any other woman over me.”
Maverick was lost. Nothing she said mattered to him like the first. Before coming, he had asked Rex to get rid of Vera’s baby.
“What if I impregnated a girl and ki||ed the child?”
“Why would you ki|| the child?” She frowned.
“It’s a fetus, isn’t it? Not a child yet.”
“What are you saying? Breaking an egg that’s already forming a baby chick, isn’t that ki||ing the chick?” She looked at him with a frown.
“Mn.” He decided to let it go for now. He’ll just tell her everything after they leave here, or better still, no need for her to know. After all, the deed must have been done.
Maverick resumed walking with his hands in his pocket while Jeslyn walked behind him with a frown.
“Maverick, why did you ask that? Is someone pregnant for you?”
He didn’t turn around but he could tell she was already starting to get mad as her voice was hard and a little louder than usual.
He stopped and turned to look at her. As he pictured, she was already fuming, so he shook his head.
“No,”
“Then? Why the weird question?” She looked at him suspiciously. He was lying and she could feel it.
Her heart clenched in wait for a heartbreaking truth. If dared to affirm her suspicion and the person turned out to be Vera, she wasn’t going to forgive them both.
“…For your sake.”
Jeslyn stared dumbly at him for a while before understanding what he meant, then she burst out into a fit of loud laughter.
Seeing her like this gladdened Maverick’s heart but then…
“Hahahaha… you scared the hell out of me. I thought you wanted to tell me you got a woman pregnant.”
“You wouldn’t want it, right?”
“Is that a question? Of course, I would h@ťě you and that woman forever… especially if she’s Vera. Hmph!” She turned her face away in disgust.
“You don’t like her anymore?”
She said-eyed him. “It’s a woman’s thing.” She didn’t want to tell him she wasn’t comfortable with Vera living in the house anymore for fear that Maverick might treat her badly. After all, she is Valen’s biological mother and Valen is still unconscious. No one knows what he really feels for his mother.
Maverick didn’t say more knowing She was displaying jealousy. Vera is lucky that Jeslyn isn’t like him.
If Jeslyn had done the same thing he did with Vera, the guy would have long forgotten he once lived on earth.
“I want a Piggyback, my legs are aching.” Jeslyn only wanted to test him. She thought he would rather carry her bridal style than lower himself in front of her. Much to her amazement, he stopped walking and went down for her to get on his back.
This was too realistically unrealistic! She couldn’t believe that Maverick of all people would be this lovely towards his woman. Jeslyn was happy, so happy that her joy rubbed on Maverick and he set aside his worries for a while.
“Sugar plum, I’d be extremely happy to have our baby but not right now,” she kissed his head.
Maverick was dazed for a moment. Not because of what she said but because of what she called him– sugar plum. Little Rossa used to call him that because he gave her lots of sugar plums back then on the island.
Vera also called him that on that first night. Although he was heavily drvgged and wasn’t in his right senses, he knew he slept with a young lady. She was desperate, just like him and she called him Sugar plum several times throughout their ordeal.
However, when morning came, Vera was beside him, naked. He asked her to call him the name again but Vera couldn’t. She said she didn’t remember calling him that.
“Sugar plum?” He asked.
“Ah, that… I’ll call you that from now on.”
“Why?”
“Why not? They are sweet, and so are you.”
Maverick smiled. Rossa did say that too. ‘Why not? They are sweet, and so are you.’
“You are too… candy floss.”
Jeslyn laughed out loud after hearing that. “Really? Can Mr. Maverick say such things too? You’ll be laughed at if you call me pet names in front of your friends.”
“You like it?”
“Of course, they are sweet too… It means I’m sweet, right?”
“More.”
“Hahaha… You can’t go back on your words in the future.”
“Mn”
The two continued to make the atmosphere around them cozy until they got to the shore.
…
Lying under the shade as they watched the wave of the sea sweep back and font, Jeslyn’s mind drifted off and faint images flickered a few times in front of her eyes before they stopped.
The images appeared like when one was quickly sliding through their gallery while searching for a particular picture.
Like the memory her mind was searching for had been found, blurry images of a boy and girl holding hands appeared in front of her.
The two children were walking by the bank of the sea on an island. Jeslyn remembered that island to be the same island that disappeared.
“Sugar plum, we need to return, my mommy will soon be back. She’ll be mad if she doesn’t meet me on my bed.” The girl said.
Although she couldn’t see the girl clearly, Jeslyn could tell that was her.
“There’s still thirty minutes before your mom gets back. Let’s play a little.”
“Hmmm… ok, for only ten minutes.” She raised ten tiny little fingers.
“That’s fine,” the boy answered and they started walking again.
Before Jeslyn could fully understand what she was seeing, the boy spoke;
“Rossa”
“Mn?” The little girl answered and the boy pointed at Jeslyn’s direction.
Little Rossa looked in Jeslyn’s direction. However, at the next moment, Rossa started to fade away.
“No!”
“No!”
Both Jeslyn and the little boy screamed at once with their hands stretched out.
“No!”
Jeslyn jerked up from Maverick’s lap and looked around. Only Maverick was beside her.
“A nightmare?” She heard him ask.
She slowly nodded when she also just realized it was a nightmare. She smuggled into Maverick and hugged him tightly.
She was scared. She didn’t like the idea of the fading child. Even though she couldn’t see them clearly, she was sure the little boy was as hurt as she was.
“Maverick, you said there was only one girl child on the island, right?”
It took Maverick a few seconds to understand what she meant. “Mn,”
“Was that girl me?” She asked in all seriousness. This was way beyond coincidence and she wasn’t going to believe it was a coincidence anymore.
“Mn,” Maverick answered while brushing her long hair with his fingers.
“Wh– what name did I call you?”
“Sugar plum.”
Jeslyn’s head went from silence to buzzing. How was that possible?! How could she forget such things?! What is going on?!
“I – I don’t understand.”
“You are my Rossa,” he declared. Seeing confusion written all over her face, he wrapped her in an embrace and kissed the middle of her head. “Something must have happened to make you get selective memory loss. It happens, don’t be scared.”
Jeslyn nodded then shook her head. “I’m convinced this is deliberate.”
“Why?”
“Because… because I only seem to have forgotten all the important event in my life. I don’t remember meeting you on the island, I don’t remember what happened on my birthday and the two years after it. I don’t know anything. I feel there’s an important thing I’m missing in the space of those two years.”
Maverick remembered what Pink told him and asked; “have you ever seen weird dreams and hallucinations that looked real?”
Jeslyn nodded; “my eighteenth birthday.”
“What happened?” He asked with interest.
“I saw myself attending my eighteenth birthday with my friends from school. They forced me to drink and then took me to a room where a waitress brought me hangover soup. Before I could take it, I saw two men barge in and took us away.” She stopped talking because the other part was uncomfortable to tell.
“Go on, it’s just a dream.” He premed her hair, egging her on.
Jeslyn gained confidence from his words; ‘it’s just a dream’ and continued.
“The room I followed them to was dark and when the eighteen-year-old me was thrown to the bed, someone else seemed to be there and the person was a strong man. He groaned like a beast when the eighteen-year-old me touched him and he pinned… he pinned her to the bed and…ahem…” Jeslyn immediately turned to look at his face and saw him frowning. She hurriedly waved her hands and shook her head.
“Maverick, that wasn’t me, it wasn’t… I was only dreaming… Please believe me…” Jeslyn was scared that he would start seeing her in a different light and she didn’t want that.
“I believe you.” Maverick turned her around and made her sit in between his legs before he hugged her from behind. “Do you remember anything else?”
“Nothing I’m sure…just that she called the man sugar plum and he called her Candy floss.” Jeslyn frowned.