Here's today's chapter! I'm gonna try to make this a daily thing but it may not work out very well when I get back to school next week BUT I'm still on Fall Break so AIN'T NOTHIN' STOPPIN' ME! xD Alright, let's roll! ;)
Gnomeo's P.O.V.
While Juliet was making the cookies, and making me starve for them by their intoxicating fragrance, I was wrapping up some presents for everyone. I finished most of them pretty quickly, but I was having some trouble with a few. I finally finished off Lord Redbrick's. Gosh, it sure was gonna be hard to please him. Luckily, Juliet helped me out. I really want him to like me. After all, I did kind of appear in his life so suddenly with his daughter. Either way, I hope he likes this. Now time to wrap Juliet's present.
"Hey, Gnomeo?" Juliet called from the kitchen.
"Yes, Jules?" I called back, hiding the present behind my back, just in-case.
"Do me a favor and grab my lucky mitts from the drawer." she instructed.
"Sure thing!" I informed her. Juliet could never work in the kitchen without her lucky mitts her mom used to make food with. I got up and grabbed the mitts and walked into the kitchen, with that mouth-watering smell of those fresh-baked cookies.
"Here you are." I said, handing off the mitts.
"Thanks, babe." she smiled, giving me a kiss on the cheek. I stood behind her for a moment.
"Hey, Juliet?" I asked her.
"Yes?" she replied, turning around to face me while putting her mitts on.
"Do you think your dad likes me?" I asked, a little nervous.
"Ah, Gnomeo," she groaned slightly, wrapping her arms around my neck, "You know that my dad is just a little stern and is gonna have some trouble adjusting to this, but that doesn't mean he won't learn to love you like a son." she assured me.
"I hope so. I don't want him to not trust me with you." I admitted.
"Don't worry about it. He'll see eventually what a good job you're doing taking care of me, and he'll accept you sooner or later." she promised. "But he'll never love you more than I do." she teased.
"No, he'll love me so much that he'll steal me from you." I joked.
"Ha, I doubt that." she giggled, pushing me gently away from her.
"So, where are the birds?" I asked, staring at the oven.
"Hm, they could've fallen off a cliff and are never coming back which means," she said, turning to face me, "No cookies for you." she teased.
"Aw, what a shame." I lied. She turned to take the cookies out of the oven.
"Don't touch, they're hot." she warned me. "Not like you can, anyways." she said, turning to me again, raising a brow. She knows me all too well. I snatched a cookie from the plate and held it in the air. They weren't that hot, but it was really warm. "Hey, put that down!" she cried, jumping for the cookie.
"Make me, red." I teased her.
"Seriously, I promised Featherstone I'd wait for him and Niagara before we ate any." she begged.
"You torture me, ya know?" I smirked at her.
"You're torturing me right now." she informed crossing her arms, slightly smiling.
"I thought clowns liked to get tortured." I teased.
"I'm NOT a clown!" she cried, slightly laughing.
"Please, you might as well put on white face-paint and wear big sneakers and you'll have the whole look down." I joked.
"What about the big red nose?" she raised a brow, smirking.
"Well, I think you've got that covered." I assured her, poking her nose, that lit up like a strawberry.
She giggled as she pushed me away. "Alright, fine. You can have just that one." she rolled her eyes and pointed to the cookie I was holding.
Without hesitation, I popped the cookie into my mouth. "Mmm, nothing tastes better than my wife's cooking." I said, enjoying the wonderful taste of this fresh-baked cookie.
"Like it?" she asked.
"It's delicious." I told her, smiling. She smiled back.
"Hey, maybe we should go lock up the greenhouse." she informed me. She was right, it was late, and we never locked up.
"Oh yeah, come on." I said, taking her by the hand. We headed outside and peaked inside the greenhouse. The flowers were blooming; everything was in place, green, and healthy. We walked over to the Cupid's Arrow Orchid. (Return from the movie! :D) We smiled at each other. It was doing great!
"It's still as beautiful as the night we found it." Juliet whispered.
"Yeah." I smiled. Then thunder broke out. It started raining up a storm! "Come on Jules, let's get inside!" I informed, taking her under my arm and leading her out of the greenhouse. I grabbed a coat with a hood on it and wrapped it around Juliet. We ran into the shed, the door slightly opened. Juliet peaked outside and watched in horror as it started to hail!
"Oh no, the greenhouse!" she cried, about to run outside. But I grabbed her hand and pulled her back.
"No, Juliet! It's too dangerous!" I yelled over the thunder.
"But the greenhouse! The garden! The lights! It's all gonna get ruined!" she cried.
"I don't care," I told her, putting a finger under her chin and lifted it so our eyes met. "I'd rather the greenhouse get smashed up than you." I finished, brushing my hand against her cheek. Her eyes filled up with tears, but she smiled. I cupped my hand under her chin and pulled her close as our lips met. We were so lost in each other that all the thunder and the hail breaking through the greenhouse all melted away from my mind.
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Juliet's P.O.V.
I woke up in my husband's arms. Instead of sleeping in bed, we sat on the floor and fell asleep. I got up and smiled down at him. Then I turned outside to see what happened last night. I saw Featherstone, Niagara and Shroom all sleeping under a large, roof-like wood that came out of the ground and curved over them. I looked over at the greenhouse. Most of the glass had shattered. I walked inside it, carefully. Glass was everywhere, some flowers were scattered. Then I found the Orchid.
Ooh, cliffhanger? Maybe ;) Sorry these are kinda short, I'm tired today sooo xD Alright, next chapter should be up tomorrow! Stay tuned! :D
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