Ava

"Where we going?"

"Long drive." I rolled my eyes before taking a bite of my sandwich. Brad is driving us to where I don't know.

He is looking hot today, he wore a red hoodie with black jeans and vans. I wore a light brown hoodie with black jeans and vans.

Vincent and Valerie aren't there, yesterday night they went somewhere and didn't return. When mumma saw Brad waiting for me in the morning she has this huge smile on her face which said I'm in trouble when I return home.

I know what's going on in her head. I declined everything and told her it's a normal outing. When she asked Brad where he is taking me and so many questions he awkwardly told her that she could also join us. My mum laughingly declined saying she doesn't wanna tag in when we are going for a date.

He brought me my favourite breakfast like a good boy.

"I didn't see Vincent, he didn't answer my calls," Brad said.

"Oh, he and Valerie went out last night. For a long drive, I guess."

"Hmm..."

"Why did you call him though?"

"I called him to inform that I'm taking you out all day."

"You have to inform him?"

"He is my best friend and you are his sister. I have to inform so that he doesn't complain about it later."

"Oh."

I watched the cars and vehicles on the road as we drove. The dried leaves are fallen on the road making it seem like brown paths.

"Why are we here?" I ask him as I see the known roads and places. This part of the city is kind of isolated, it's in the city but people never constructed anything here. So the whole place is isolated.

I don't understand why we are here. Brad halted the car and I unbuckled my seatbelt. I tried to open my side of the door but I couldn't because he locked it. Brad got down and opened my door taking me by surprise.

He took my hand in his and started walking towards a bunch of people standing afar.

"Who they are? What are we doing here?"

"You see the land, I bought it," he stated simply and my jaw dropped.

"What? You bought this whole part?" I asked in a crazy tone.

"Half of it. I couldn't afford for the whole thing. Maybe in future, I will buy the rest of it."

"What? Are you crazy? What you gonna do with this much land?"

He turned his head to me with a playful smile. "Land is asset Ava, you can construct many things and you can use for so many things." I rolled my eyes.

"Okay tell me what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to construct a martial arts house. Boxing, taekwondo, karate and all types of martial arts are taught here. Mainly I will be taking homeless kids and Provide them with a better future. After this construction, I will leave the boxing ring."

When he explained that my heart melted like chocolate. Brad is a great man, he didn't have a good childhood and no-one to call as his people before when he didn't meet Vincent.

I stopped walking and he looked down at me with a questioning look. Lifting myself up I wrapped my arms around him, hugging him taking him by surprise. I kissed his cheek before pulling away.

"Let's go," I say seeing his warm face. He didn't say anything but wrapped his hand around mine.

We wandered to five engineers who were standing. They were looking at me and Brad. They must be stunned seeing me with Brad.

"Good morning Mr MacCarthy and ma'am," the head one greeted.

"Good morning." I greeted back while Brad just said morning.

"Sir here are the best designs you asked for. " They showed us the designs laying on the table.

Brad presses his hand on my back encouraging me to look at them. I was confused but he leaned down to whisper in my ear.

"Tell me which one you like. If you don't like anything it's okay but tell me." I nodded my head as I was at a loss of words.

I went through the designs carefully. They designed really good, I picked out five from all those. I showed those five to Brad. The engineers left us as Brad told them to give us time.

"So you are providing a living area apart of training area?"

"I can't leave my students on roads to sleep. It's safe for them to live in the same place. That's why I bought this land, it would be spacious for training and living."

"You are going to take girls and boys. Not only boys but also girls are also needed to be trained to fight." I tell him as he concentrates on the drawings.

"As you say. We will take in more number of girls then."

"Really?" I ask him in wonder.

"Yes babe, what do you think of this?" he showed me the design four.

"So where you going to live?" I asked him.

"We going to live in our own home."

"Ah?" he didn't respond and called the engineers back. Did I hear him correctly?

Brad told them some new additions and meters. They made some changes in the design while I said my thoughts. We then met the interior designer who will be doing the interior design of the whole place.

So the construction and interior designing will be taking fourteen months or more. Brad doesn't want to hurry things as well. He wants that place to be perfect and no harm should happen after the construction.

I felt happy as we met the people relating to the construction of the place. It's like Brad wants me to be a part of it and I'm happy to be a part of this. I know this whole thing means a lot to Brad. It's his dream to construct one and give a new life to homeless kids.

I'm proud of Brad MacCarthy. Hopefully, he is mine in the near future I guess.

"There is a Mexican restaurant. We will have our lunch there," he said and I nodded my head. Soft music was playing in the car while I looked out of the window. We reached the place in fifteen minutes.

Brad held my hand in his while we walked to the restaurant from the parking area. People started recognising Brad and pulled their phones out to record or to click pictures.

"Brad don't you think we dressed too simple?" I tell him as I see people who are here to eat wore classy dresses.

"It doesn't matter, we are here to eat and I don't have any problem with your dressing."

"Private lounge." Brad tells the reception lady.

"This way sir." another man showed us the way to the private lounge.

Brad pulled the chair for me and took the seat before me. The man left us to give some time for deciding.

"I don't have much idea about this. You chose but I don't want it to be spicy." I tell him.

"Sir, are you ready to order?" the waiter asked.

"For starters chicken tacos, meatballs. Main course bring us Mexican chicken and rice. Dessert fried ice cream." Brad ordered and the man wrote down.

"Sir for drinks?" Brad turned to me.

"I don't drink and shall I order red wine for you?" he asked me.

"No, I don't drink." I told him.

"So you are staying here?" I asked him.

"No, I need to travel back. I'm here to meet you and for the land matters."

"Oh, you are back because you thought I'm dating Felix?" I laughed as he glared. So it's true then...

"When you are in Las Vegas, do they cook food or outside food?" I asked him.

"I stay in hotel-condo, they provide food from restaurants. Outside food mostly."

"It's not healthy, I know that you can cook. Why don't you cook?"

"After training and matches, my body becomes sore and I'm tired. I can't cook after training." I understand it must be really hard for him.

"You are staying with your parents?" he asked me.

"I'm planning to buy an apartment next year. I'm saving money to buy a place for me but these prices are reaching the sky. It's not that easy to find a good place situated in a good neighbourhood in my budget." I explained to him.

"What kind of place you want?" he asked me. I thought for a while. I don't want a mansion and all.

"A spacious house with two storeys, a garden and a small pool maybe. I ain't interested in huge mansions, a place where it's spacious and homey at the same time is important for me."

"Nice."

"How much time it will take from your apartment to the construction site?" I asked him.

"Twenty minutes and from your parent's house it's about two hours." Our food came and I smiled hugely seeing tacos.

"I remember you love tacos."

"Yeah! I used to ask Vincent to bring them but as usual, we used to forget. The strange thing is someone used to put tacos on my nightstand." I say taking the bite of tacos.

He chuckled and then it clicked me. He used to stand with Vincent whenever I used to ask vincent to bring.

"Wait... Wait... Are you the one who used to keep those tacos there?"

He didn't say anything and continued eating his Taco. It's definitely him...

Brad and I spoke about many things while eating, it's good and I feel happy when Brad talks. He started saying and talking with me when we became close.

"We will come here again for that tasty food." I tell him once we reached his apartment.

Nothing changed in the apartment, it was the same when I last time came here.

"You didn't come here?" I asked Brad as I sat on the sofa.

"I came here twice when I returned from Vegas." he says sitting beside me.

"I'm tired." I made myself comfortable and closed my eyes. I felt him remove my shoes.

"You don't have to do." I murmured as I felt my eyes heavy.

I didn't hear what he said but he started messaging my feet which felt so good and amazing. I fell asleep with my feet on his lap and him massaging them...