Repay me.
Repay me.
"You were oogling me" Mia said with her eyes on the tart as she took in the sight. She had never imagined Leo as the type that baked.
Leo was relieved she didn't sound annoyed as he had expected.
"I was." He admitted. He was not one to lie about things he did.
"And that's because of what you wore. Jesus! How can you dress like that when you know I'm inside the house?" He scolded her.
He was glad she had hurried out of the kitchen to go change after she noticed the way he was staring. Now, she wore a tshirt and a longer short but parts of her thigh was still exposed.
"I don't like to dress much around the house. Heat makes me uncomfortable and sometimes, I have rashes." She explained. "But..I thought you said I was your younger sister." She asked with a pout.
The thought of having Leo as a brother had delighted her a bit since she had always thought of what it was like to have a brother. It was the reason she was now free with him plus she believed guys gave the best advise. The things she told him, she had never been able to tell anyone before. Even James and Mira had never seen her in her lowest point but he had.
Leo sighed. "Mia.. it's easier said than done. Please dress well and cover up properly. I am a guy for goodness sake." He said in a really low voice. "But you do dress well to school or when you go out." He reminded her.
"It's because I do not have a choice and it's only for a few hours. After which I hurry home to pull it all off"
Leo avoided her eye contact when she said the last part.
Had he made a big mistake returning to the country now?
Ever since he met her, he had been encountering one challenge or the other. It was either trying to get her to leave his house, or trying to save her, or quarreling with her and now, he was facing a really difficult situation.
He wasn't the type to usually hold back. When he was attracted to a girl, he went straight for her. But he couldn't with Mia and he didn't know why.
Maybe because it would look like he was trying to take advantage of her.
But after his dream, he couldn't stop having dirty images float about his head.
"Earlier... were you aroused when you saw me?" She asked while looking at his eyes.
"What?" Leo choked on his pie when he heard her question.
"I am just curious. I really want to know what I need to do to get a guy to be attracted to me." She explained.
Leo blinked at her a couple of times before he gulped down half glass of his juice.
If only she knew he was aroused at that moment. He thanked the tables for helping him conceal it. He cleared his throat and tried to act like everything was okay when he looked at her.
Mia was staring right at him. He wondered why she wasn't embarrassed asking him that kind of question.
"When you say attraction, do you mean sexually?" He asked curiously.
"I don't know... it's just..." Mia paused to think and took a small bite from the pie she hadn't touched at all.
The taste suddenly reminded her of her mother and her mood changed immensely.
"What is it? You do not like it?" Leo asked when he saw her contorted brows.
Mia shook her head slowly. "It's nice... very nice.." She said sadly before sipping from her glass of orange juice.
"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked again when he noticed she still looked sad. He really prayed she wasn't in the process of switching to the other 'Mia'.
Mia closed her eyes for a few seconds and when she opened it again, she smiled.
"I'm going to a party on Friday night" She informed him.
"Party? What kind of party?" He asked curiously. He was really relieved to see she was not brooding.
"It's being organised by one of the contestant for the students' council president— Benjamin Stark. It's going to be my first time attending a party so I'm a bit nervous." She confessed.
"Benjamin?" He raised a brow as he questioned.
"Yes..." Mia nodded.
Leo remembered she had called him Benjamin twice.
The first time was when he gave her a CPR. The second time was when he was looking after her the night she was sick..
"You like Benjamin?" He asked curiously. Startling Mia.
"How.... did you know?" She looked at him with wide eyes and flushed cheeks.
Leo frowned. So she had really been seeing him as her crush whenever she was unconscious and he was helping her out? Who the hell was that guy anyway?
"Oh.. I just guessed since you mentioned it's your first time attending a party you must like him to agree to go." He lied, not wanting to disclose anything else.
"Please.. do not tell anyone about it." Mia pleaded.
"Who was I supposed to tell? I don't sit down to gossip people." He said with irritation evident in his tone.
Mia probably didn't take note of it or maybe she did but she chose to ignore it and went on to say, "Mira especially. She won't let me be if she knows about it."
"I won't tell Mira...." He promised.
Mia narrowed her eyes to look at him and he wondered why she was staring at him with such intensity.
"What's wrong? I already said I won't tell."
Mia shook her head. "It's something else. Can I ask for a favour?"
"You're already living in my house and eating the bread I baked. What other favour could you possibly ask for." He asked with a short laugh.
"I know right? Sorry about —"
"It's fine. What's the favour?" He interrupted.
Mia's lips formed a straight line. She avoided his eye contact and looked at her now empty plate.
"For the party on Friday night, I was told that there was going to be game where you have to kiss the person you liked the most in the building."
His brows knitted as he looked at her with rapt attention, wondering where she was heading to with all of these.
"I...." Mia paused. She didn't know how to explain it to him.
Leo noticed her cheeks were flushed and was really curious now.
"Yes?" He pressed.
"I plan to kiss Benjamin." She blurted out before biting her lower lip in embarrassment.
"Oh....." Was the only thing Leo could say. His tongue was tied.
"But..."
"But?"
"I don't know how to." She said in a low voice.
Leo looked at her in surprise and amusement.
"You don't know how to?" He asked in disbelief.
"I don't know how to."
"You've never kissed someone before?" He asked with interest. It was totally unbelievable.
Mia was embarrassed but she decided to play it cool.
"You stole my first kiss" She said with a glare.
It took him a minute to understand what she meant and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
No wonder she had been so pissed that day.
"I didn't kiss you. I was only saving your life." He explained in amusement.
"Well, it's all in the past." She said with a shrug of indifference.
"So what was the favour you needed?"
"Since you stole my first kiss, why don't you repay me?" She asked while looking directly at him now.
"You just said it was all in the past besides, I saved your life remember?" He tried to reason it with her properly.
"So... you want me to repay you? How?" He asked when he saw her looking at him with a pout.
"The thing is.... I..." Mia cleared her throat and looked down. She didn't want to meet his gaze.
"Can I practice how to kiss with you?" She blurted out.
Leo's eyes widened and his jaw dropped!