The Painter.

Aleah's POV

DAMMIT

I over slept again, it's three now I only have three hours to get ready.

I jump in the hot shower to wash clean. Having long hair is such a struggle when you're in such a hurry.

But after I'm finish I wrap a towel around my body & run back to my room.
Once I'm in the safety of my bedroom, I drop the towel to the ground & go to my drawers for my thong & bra. Both matching of course. My bra being a strapless since my dress is strapless.

After I'm done, I wrap a rope around my body & go sit in front of the mirror.

Time to put on my face.

It takes me fourtty five minutes to complete my makeup to the max , now it's time for my already dry hair.

But I still blow dry it. I plug in my straightener & curling wand & I begin.

After an hour if doing my long ass hair I'm finally satisfied. Now it's time for my outit.

I look at the time.

5:45pm

Mike should be here soon. I look at my Outfit & strip off my robe.

Mike's POV

I take Vic's nice car & fill it with gas so I don't have to worry about that later.

I'm now heading to the direction of Aleah's house, the houses over here aren't as big as my house so I'm not intimidated.

Then em my eyes spot the house address & I slow down at the front.

Its now or never.

I get out & walk up to the door, making sure my arm tattoos are covered, even though I couldn't do nothing about my piercings.

An older woman answers with a welcoming smile.

"Hello, you must be Mike." She says holding out her hand.

I shake it gently. "That's me & you are?" She laughs.

"Oh my I forgotten to introduce myself. I'm Brittany, Aleah's step-mom. Come in, I'm sure Ronnie will be pleased to meet you." She gestures me inside. Shutting the door.

I'm aware of all my surroundings then my eyes land on the older man sitting on the couch staring at me.

Its a bit uncomfortable but I man up, I wal over there with a genuine smile on my face.

"Hello Mr.Diamond, my name is Mike. Mike Fuentes."

He smiles. "Nice to meet you Mike, your father & I use to school back in the day." He chuckles, probably thinking if the 1940's or something.

"You have a beautiful house here. I seen that Camaro in your drive way. It must have a real throaty engine." I try to make conversation.

"That old thing? Do you want it? It's no use to me anymore." Is he serious.

"I can't possibly take it-" he cuts me off.

"No I insist Mike. You're a good guy. I like that, I trust you wih my daughter & to have her home by eleven." He says.

Get her home at 10:40pm I register that in my brain.

"Yes sir you can count on that." He smiles & pats my back lightly.

"Let me get you those keys." He gets up & sales towards the Garage.

He's actually giving me his Camaro!? This is awesome.

Before I could thank him that's when Aleah comes down. I look at her & check her out, moving slowly down her body.

She looked stunning. Absolutely appropriate for the place I'm going to take her.

She bits her lip & I go insane. She's one of them nervous lip biters hey?

i clear my throat. "You look amazing." Those three words slip from my mouth.

"You don't look so bad yourself." She winks & giggles.

Just before I could answer her dad walks in. He instantly hides the keys.

"You look amazing. But I see you forgot an earring." He says, she flushed & runs back upstairs laughing & saying 'oops'

When she's out of sight he chucks me the keys.

"Here take her in this." He smiles before leaving.

When Aleah comes downstairs she touched up her lip gloss & had the other earring on.

"Ready?" I ask. She nod & we leave.

When we first arrived at the restaurant her eye lit up & notice the waiter checking her out. So I grab her hand, which she squeezes & smiles at me with her perfect lips.

"For two." I tell the waiter with a smile, he steps aside to lead the way.

Once we are seated, we order our drinks & we talk about our background. Our drinks arrived & we ordered our food, sharing fries & two burgers.

"You're so beautiful Aleah." I tell her & she blushed.

"Thanks Mike, you're so handsome." She says as she rubs her foot against mine. Mischief sparkles in her eyes.

By then my palms were getting sweaty.

Or food finally arrived & we ate, made jokes & laughed about silly things.

Then we got full & I paid for our food, now we're just walking alone the beach watching the sunset.

"I love the way your hair flows in the wind." I accidentally tell her.

"Oh god Mike you're going to make me die by blushing too much." She said with her cheeks bright pink.


I stop to admire her perfectly formed face. I brush my finger along her cheek bone, while she slides her arms around my neck & leans in to kiss me.

I would've expected it to be passionate but I feel nothing, it's just kissing. No sparks. Nothing.

She pulls away & frowns.

"You feel nothing too?" I ask & she nods.

"Let's go to my house? I want to introduce you to my brother & my parents." I say.

"Yeah that'd be fun. Let's go." Oh I love his she's just willingly wants to do things.

I just wish I felt something though.

It takes us twenty minutes to get there & she's all excited about meeting my father & mother.

"Calm down or else you'll scare them." She stopped being jumpy & fidgety at once.

"Let's go inside."

She takes me hand & walks up to my front door. Waiting for me to open it.

"Mama! Papa! I'm home!" I shout.

Almost at once my am comes to greet me & her eyes & smile widens as she sees Aleah.

"Oh my god, you're just a the cutest little thing!" She gushes hugging Aleah.

When my father comes around the corner I'm surprised as Aleah yells.

"Victor! Haven't seen you in what a month!?"

"Why Aleah I didn't know you were dating Mike. I thought you would've hit it off with Vic after we were done painting."

Shit. This is Aleah Diamond.

"I never got his phone number. Mike didn't tell me who his parents were, he only mentioned his brother which I didn't know was Vic. I guess that topic never came up. I just met Mike at the mall yesterday actually." She explained it well.

I hear loud thuds of a bunch of Mexicans running down the stairs to see who I brought home.

Vc stops dead in his tracks, while Aleah's eyes lock with his.

"Hey Vic." She says with a nice small smile.

He didn't say anything just smile widely. Tony it really shy but he was able to introduce himself.

"I'm Tony Perry." he said proudly.

"I'm Aleah Diamond." Aleah said copying him.

"Hey only I could say that. Now shut up or I'll have to stab you with my light saber." She took out an actual light saber out of her purse.

"No you shut up young Padowan!" & it lights up blue.

"You'll never catch me!" Tony yells taking off.

"Hold this!" She tells throwing her purse at me & kicking off her heels.

"You can run but you can't hide!" She yells running after him.

Woah. Who packs a light saber with them?

I didn't realize my mother & father left while Tony & Aleah were talking.

Vic & Jaime's jaw was hanging open.

"What did I just witness? Tony finally has a Star Wars watching buddy!" Jaime yells.

Soon after Aleah's & Tonys little sword fight they instantly became best friends.

"You must come see my whole collection tomorrow Tone! Then we can watch Star Wars in 3D. It's boring living with people who only care about fashion." Tony smiles.

"Yeah!"

"Hey do you want to sleep over? My Father would let you too! We can share my bed since our guest room is filled other my step moms clothes."

I'm pretty sure we all glare at Tony because he gets nervous.

"Uh maybe another time."

"PLEASE I'M IN THE MOOD TO PLAY DRESS UP WITH MY JEDI SUITS & I'M IN NO MOOD TO PLAY IT ALONE!"

I knew at that moment Tony would agree.

He nods & she squeals. Finally turning to speak to me since the first time since she stepped into this house.

"Can you drive us to my house." I scoffed.

"Why doesn't Tony drive you?" She glared at me.

"Fine leave Vic's car there, see if I care. let's go Tony." She stands up holding Tony's hand as she pulls him away.

When they leave Jaime talks.

"I don't know who she thinks she is to ruin bro night but I don't like her."

Notes

This was a hell of a time to write. But it's worth it <3

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