It was already a month since Eve got married to Phil and as usual, she would have breakfast with the rest of the Brooks every morning, including that day. All of them were chatting with each other but Mike and Amanda weren't there since he and his daughter have their own house so it was just Eve, Phil, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks and Chaleen.
"Summer's almost here and I was thinking to have a vacation, maybe to Miami. So what do you guys think about that?", Mr. Brooks suddenly raised the topic about vacation.
Mrs. Brooks smiled at her husband of over 30 years, agreed with his suggestion, "I think that would be great, sweetie. We can bring the whole family with us too"
"That would be fun, dad! I can search for a new pet there for my new additions!", Chaleen added.
Meanwhile, Phil shook his head to his family before saying, "Sorry, dad but I've already plan a vacation to Colorado and I'll bring Eve along since, well, we both never actually have a honeymoon?"
When she heard him, Eve's heart literally dropped. Was this man has gone insane? He planned a honeymoon for them? She looked at Phil, trying to gain assurance and that was when Phil looked back at her, as if he knew what she was thinking.
He held her hand, "Sorry, babe! I didn't tell you about this! It's just that I want to make it to you as a surprise, I hope you're not mad!"
"How will Eve is going to get mad? Every woman will be happy if their husband give them surprises! Right, Eve?", Mrs. Brooks asked, only to receive a mere nod from her.
Mr. Brooks added, "Well if that's the case, I'll just bring your mom, sister, brother and Ames then!"
Eve looked down at her plate and stopped touching her food. Chaleen, who realised her sister in law's behaviour, asked her, "Sis, are you okay? You looked so down today? You don't like Colorado?", she turned to her brother, "Phil, why are you choosing Colorado? Can't you pick a more romantic place to have honeymoon?"
Before she could bashed her brother, Eve cut her off, "No, it's not that, Chal! I'll go with Phil. I'll support whatever he decide!", she lied.
Phil smiled widely to hear her. Seeing that stupid smile on his face, Eve felt the need to get away from the table and go to her room as soon as possible. She couldn't believe Phil would use her like that. She felt betrayed. She could only hope this marriage would end as soon as possible.
"Sorry, guys. I need to go to the room. I'm feeling unwell now", she stated before walking away.
Phil glanced at Eve walking to the stairs. He wondered was she mad with his plan? He shrugged and decided to finish up his meal before following her.
After for about 5 minutes later, Phil went to his room. He opened the door and closed it back before his gaze set upon a crying Eve on the bed, sitting all curled up in a ball.
When Eve saw Phil entered their room, she ran to him and started to launch series of punches to his chest, upset of what he just did. Instead of ducking away from her attack, he just let her did it.
"You're always like this, Phil! You always made decisions that involves me without discussing with me!", she asked him in a whispery tone since she could hardly yell with everyone outside. Well at least Phil was relieved that she could control herself now.
"You know what could happen in this 'honeymoon'? We can lose control and prone to do anything we shouldn't do, you know that?", she continued.
Phil stopped her by grabbing her shoulders and looked her in the eyes, "Eve, listen to me! Listen first to what I have to say!"
"What's there to hear about? You want break another condition? First, we can't move out! Now, you want me to please your need?", she constantly shook her head and looking down, didn't want to make an eye contact with him.
"Eve! I didn't even know that things will turn out like this! If I knew dad was against us moving out, I'll never married you in the first place", he bluntly spoke, as if she was the one that begged him to get married.
Eve released Phil's hands from her shoulders, taking a few steps back, "So that's what you think? When I said no to your deal, you were so pleading to me. Now, when you're able to convince me to get involved in your scheme, you're saying all of this? You wanna know something? Today is exactly the day that I learnt that there's an ungrateful person like you in this world. I was so stupid to agree with your contract!"
Phil looked down in guilt. Eve was right. He didn't know why did he become like this. So easy to feel guilty. Back before he met Eve, he didn't even care about anyone else's feelings. He was so confident that he would do what the contract says but whenever there's Eve, he lost control. Several times he tried to stay sane but Eve had this something that made him attracted to her. Her voice, her scent, her attitude, her everything.
His thought however, was knocked off his mind when he was shoved by Eve.
"I'm so mad at you and you took this time to daydream?"
"I'm sorry, Eve", he whispered.
She snorted. She doubted that apology was sincere. Tons of 'sorry' he had said to her, including that night when she heard what he said about her at Daniel's house. She tried to stay mad at him but everytime her eyes met that intoxicating orbs, she let herself lost. Ever since the beginning, his eyes was her weakness. Because of them, she said 'yes'! She nodded with whatever he said. She was confused by it.
She barely knew him and comparing him with Zack it was supposed to be Zack that could control her since they've been together at the orphanage since they were kid. He was in love with her but she rejected him. Maybe it was because she would one day meet her one true love and just maybe that man was the one she called 'husband' all this while. However, she brushed off that thought, thinking it was impossible. She knew where she stood in his eyes.
"Now, would you listen to why I made this plan? Once you heard what I have to say, then you can say anything you want to say, okay?"
"Huh? What's okay?", Eve asked, dumbfounded.
Phil in return, chuckled. "You're mad at me for daydreaming and now you're the one that do that? Maybe you shouldn't stare at me that long, you might be hypnotized by this handsome man!", he proclaimed, causing Eve to suddenly blushed.
"As I was saying, Eve, I've been thinking about this since the day dad said no to your moving idea and I thought this can help you to relax your mind from facing my family everyday ever since we got married. I know they were annoying at times with their constant questionnaires, so I just thought you need this vacation"
Eve processed what he was saying until he spoke again, "So are you in?". He looked in her eyes and again, the effect started t work up. She nodded slowly.
Phil clasped his hands together, grinning, "Good. Do you have any other things to say?"
"Do we have to stay at the same room too?"
"What else? Of course we'll stay in the same room? Imagine if mom and dad knew about this, you want the both of us to be dead meat?"
Eve swallowed the lump in her throat from her crying earlier and at the same time she got really nervous.
"Don't worry! It's going to be just like here. You take the bed, I'll take the couch!", he said, like he was reading her mind.
Suddenly, Eve was stuck with guilt. Since they got married, never once Phil ever slept on a bed anymore.
"Is it okay with you? I mean you always sleep on the couch", she asked him softly.
"Does that mean you're letting me to sleep on the bed with you?", Phil asked, his face suddenly flashing her a dirty smile.
She quickly bulged her eyes and shook her head vigorously, causing Phil to laugh at her. He stepped forward and petted her head. "I was just kidding. By the way, I just want to say thank you for helping me. If it wasn't for you, I might turned insane by Kelly already"
"I was in need for money that time", she quickly replied, trying to ignore the soft tone he used towards her.
"In two weeks, we'll fly off to Paris and then you can have the time you need for three weeks!", Phil told her.
Eve furrowed her eyebrows, "Paris? I thought you said Colorado?"
"Chaleen's right. I need a more romantic place. Besides, I don't want my family to suddenly appear in front of our hotel room making a surprise and decided to join in with us. You know what they're capable of, right?", he asked, causing her to let out a laugh. "And Daniel told me that you've told Brie that you really want to go to Paris one day so I just made that day come!"
When Phil finished, Eve couldn't contain herself from being excited. Ever since she was in her teenage years, she had been dreaming to go to Paris and to have her dream came true, it made her to suddenly jump in Phil's arms and kissed his cheek.
"Thank you, Phil! Thank you so much!", she happily screamed before she realised what she was doing. She let go herself of Phil and he let out a cough to make things not awkward but failed.
"I need to go the bathroom!", Eve lied, knowing that she didn't have any other alternative to avoid him after the stunt she pulled.
While Eve was mentally cursing herself in the bathroom and regretting what happened, Phil was in the room, sitting on the couch, smiling to himself as his hand was rubbing his cheek where Eve planted a kiss.
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