CHAPTER 7
After dinner Chevonne said goodnight to Ashton,
his mother, his father and Spencer saying she was tired after their long flight from the states. Chevonne said she was going to take a shower and then go straight to bed but she really wanted to call her mother and let her know what was going on before Alice called her to talk about her engagement to Ashton.
During dinner Alice asked about her family, Chevonne told her about her mother, her father and her brother Martin.
Alice insisted that Chevonne give her, her mother's phone number so they could discuss plans for the wedding (Chevonne had never met such a determined person in her life, the woman seemed determined to make her part of their family).
Chevonne tried to tell her she wanted to talk to her mother and explain how things happened so fast between her and Ashton. But Alice was determined to talk to her mother.
Chevonne gave her, her parents home phone number and explained that since her parents were away on a cruise that Alice wouldn't be able to talk them until they returned. But always thinking Alice asked if her mother had a mobile phone.
Speaking before she thought Chevonne automatically answered that she did. Alice pushed the pen and piece of paper with her parents home number on it towards Chevonne and asked her to write down her mother's mobile number.
Chevonne wrote the number down. Before she wrote the number down she got Alice to promise not to call until next week to give Chevonne time to talk to her parents, especially her mother.
Chevonne planned on calling her mother that night to tell her the truth about what was happening with her and Ashton. But the thought of how disappointed her mother would be with her she pushed that idea out of her mind.
She decided she easing her mother into the idea of her and Ashton being together and the idea of them getting married would be a better way to go.
Having come up with a plan she could live with Chevonne went to her purse to get her cell phone only to discover that she'd left it downstairs. Now she couldn't call her mother. She decided the call could wait until tomorrow.
Chevonne changed her mind about taking a shower and opted for a bubble bath instead to calm her nerves.
Ashton came up to bed two hours after Chevonne did hoping he would find her asleep so he could slip into bed unnoticed. He didn't want to argue with Chevonne about them sleeping in the same bed.
They had come with a plan that would've allow Ashton to sleep in his old bedroom. He was going to sleep in his old bedroom by making his parents think that he and Chevonne had an argument and she had locked him out of the guest bedroom.
But he couldn't sleep in his old bedroom because Spencer had decided to spend the night instead of going home to his flat and was sleeping in there.
Ashton could've slept in the guesthouse (which he suggested to Spencer that he use. Spencer turned it down saying it would create needless work for the house staff) but he didn't like the thought of Spencer being in the house with Chevonne without him being there.
Spencer offered to let Ashton sleep in his old room and he would sleep in the guest bedroom with Chevonne, but Ashton wasn't going to allow that. He knocked on the door and flinched a little when he heard Chevonne answer "come in."
He slowly opened the door to see Chevonne lying on the bed on top of the covers wearing a pair of shorts and a shirt that exposed her mid section. Ashton's eyes slowly drifted over her body as the scent of coco butter once again filled his nostrils.
Because of the way Chevonne normally dressed he always pictured her wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt to bed. He never dreamed she would wear something so sexy and tempting.
Her long brown legs seemed to go on forever, they looked so soft, smooth and sexy causing the desire to reach out and touch them to find out if they were as soft as they looked to rise up in him.
"Yes," Chevonne said after he stood by the door staring at her and not saying anything for almost a minute.
"I'm going to have to sleep in here tonight," Ashton said preparing himself for Chevonne's reaction.
"Okay," Chevonne said.
"Excuse me?" Ashton said surprised when she didn't get angry with him or start shouting like he expected.
"Okay," Chevonne said. "You can sleep in here."
Ashton breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on his face.
"Thank you," he said making his way towards the bed. "I didn't expect you to be so understanding."
"Hey, you have to sleep somewhere and I figured that Spencer might be staying when he stayed so late," Chevonne said.
Ashton went over to the dresser and took out the things he would need to dress for bed. He went into the bathroom and took a shower.
When he came out twenty minutes later and found the top mattress lying on the floor and the box spring made up for someone to sleep on.
Chevonne was lying on the top mattress, her back propped up against three pillows, reading a book. He went over and gently kicked her foot with his foot. Chevonne looked up at him.
"Yes," she said.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because I'm not sleeping in the same bed with you," Chevonne said.
"Because you don't think you can keep your hands off me," Ashton said teasing her.
"Please," Chevonne said homegirl style throwing in a neck twist, "you wish."
"You could've waited," Ashton said, "I would've helped you."
"It wasn't a problem," Chevonne said.
"Why did you choose to sleep on the floor?"
"The top mattress is way more comfortable than the box spring."
Ashton climbed up onto the box spring.
"You're right," he said as he laid down and the springs pressed into his body. "Goodnight," he said to Chevonne after he managed to find a comfortable position.
"Goodnight," Chevonne replied back.
"Are you still angry with me?" Ashton asked after being silent for a few minutes.
"No," Chevonne said, "I'm more surprised than angry."
"Why surprised?"
"You didn't strike me as the type of person that needed to seek anyone's approval when you wanted to do something."
"I don't normally."
"Why now?"
"I love Katrina," Ashton said. "I want to spend my life with her and I want my parents to love her too. I thought this might be a way to accomplish that."
"Do your parents have a problem with black people?" Chevonne asked.
"No."
"Then why me?"
"To shock my parents," Ashton said feeling the pressure of shame laying on his heart.
"To show them you could've done worse than Katrina?" Chevonne asked swallowing the sob that almost escaped her mouth.
"Chevonne, I'm so sorry."
"Why did you think your parents would have to be shocked into accepting Katrina by bringing a black person to meet them if they don't have a problem with black people?" Chevonne asked ignoring Ashton's apology.
