Chapter 167 - Cuteness everywhere

That night, Lena could not fall asleep at all. Her mind kept wandering all over the place. When she talked to her therapist, Lena told her that she knew what love is. Lena originally thought that her response to Kris was more of a sexual desire rather than love.

But she realized that she must have liked him before to even considered a sexual fantasy with him. The hard part is not confessing, but making sure your confession would be a success. How in the world, will she make Kris like her?!

If she needed to teach him how to hug, cry, and cook... then does she need to teach him how to love too?

Lena screamed into her pillow. 'It's fine Lena... you spent years chasing your first love, you can chase another man... Just not too long this time.'

Lena turned sideways and looked out the window. Kris would definitely be a harder man to chase. He has very little experience with women. He has many moments of up and down.

And if Lena even wanted to chase him, now was not a good time to add more emotional turmoil for him. Both of them have to take care of their revenge. Kris was going through his own demons. His emotional wellbeing was experiencing too much at the moment to deal with a girl chasing him.

Lena yawned and closed her eyes. It's alright, she just needed to show him how to love slowly.

Lena got two more hours of sleep before her alarmed woke her woke. She put an early alarm so she could go to the store to pick up the ingredients. Lena knew that she had to get lots of them because they were sure to make a lot of fail cakes.

It took her longer than she had estimated to got to the store and get the items. It was 9 a.m by the time she got back to the apartment. She realized then that Kris probably did not have proper baking utensils. She parked her car and called him.

The phone picked up but there was no immediate response. Lena could hear some slight noises so she knew Kris was there.

"Good Morning!" Lena spoke.

Kris opened his eyes. He had just woken up from the call and did not register anything. But a sweet good morning definitely was all he needed to be wide awake. He cleared his throat and spoke softly.

"Hi." He did not want to sound like he just woke up. Kris did not know why, but he knocked out completely last night. He was usually a light sleeper.

"..." Lena could tell that his voice sounded grumpy. "Did you just wake up?"

"No!" Kris raised his voice but it cracked halfway through. "...Yeah..."

"Be ready in 30. Change of plans. We will meet at my place instead."

"..." Kris was thinking about how lovely that sound. If they were dating, would he hear that more often? Meeting her at her place.. that brought angels to his heart.

"Kris? You do remember that we are baking a cake right? And you were going to buy the tickets?"

"Yeah, I am up. See you in 30."

Lena hung up the call and got out of the car. She went to grab a cart to put her items in it. The cart was like hotel carts for residents to use so they can easily carry bigger items between the floors.

After the call ended, Kris quickly got up to ready himself. Although he already took a shower yesterday night, he took another one this morning. He had to smell fresh.

He brushed his teeth and made sure his hair was top notch. He wore a navy blue fashion collared shirt and a cotton-linen casual pant. Kris picked up his phone and made a call.

"Hello?"

"Collin, I need you to buy me two tickets to a 3-day cruise vacation."

"Are you going on vacation?"

"With for my mom." Kris replied. "Have it for the following Thursday to Saturday so she would be home to attend the Women's Fashion show on Sunday."

"Alright."

"And... don't pick something too far from here. She does not like long traveling."

"Will do."

Kris hung up the phone. He put on his shoes, grabbed his wallet and phone, and went down to Lena's apartment. He knocked on her door and she looked at the peephole to see who it was. Her eyes screamed and her heart cried...

'Why is he dressed so cute! Too much sweetness in the morning for me!' Lena was deciding to leave him outside so she doesn't pounce on the young man once he walked in. She mustered up her courage, slowly locked her heart and threw the key on the ground... just for now.

She opened the door and put on her usual morning smile. Kris looked at Lena and she was wearing a high waisted denim short with a plain nude t-shirt tucked in it. But, what really caught his eyes was her two low ponytails. She never did her hair like that before.

He touched his nose and turned around. "Be right back.. I forgot my phone." Her overload of cuteness everywhere was too much for him.

He speed-walked to the elevator as Lena watched the crazy man leave. 'He's holding his phone...in his hand...' Lena was going to tell him but he abruptly left.

Lena left the door unlocked because she knew he will be back soon once he figured out that he had his cellphone with him all along. She must have woken up too fast and he did not fully wake up. She went back to the kitchen and prepared the ingredients.

Lena put on a simple pink apron and took out the measuring utensils. She heard a knock on the door.

"It's not locked!" She yelled.

Kris walked in and she was EVEN MORE CUTE than before. How can one have such powers?!

Lena looked up to him and sarcastically spoke. "So... you found your phone?" She laughed.

Kris went shy. SHE KNEW! How embarrassing... she knew he was holding his cellphone all along and did not tell him. She was an evil... evil and cute woman.

Kris rubbed his neck. "Yeah... Didn't get much sleep." He lied.

"Oh? I didn't too." Lena walked up to him and handed his apron to him. He grabbed it. Thankfully it was just something normal, a blue apron.

"Are you tired? You can go nap and we can do this later... baking can't be that hard right?" Kris didn't know she did not sleep well.

Lena shrugged. "Naw... I am good." How can she sleep after seeing him wearing an apron...

In her mind, her devil Lena was running to grab the key to her locked heart while the angel Lena was pulling the devil Lena from doing that. Fresh love was so hard...