"Life is short.

Don't count the seconds.

Enjoy the moments."

― David Cuschieri.

Chloe's POV.

Putting on Zach's t-shirt, I hear the door close before he walked back into our room, "Dinner is here," he says flashing a grin and places the tray of food on the TV cabinet.

"Smells amazing, whatever it is," I say before standing tiptoes to kiss him. His arms instantly wrap around my waist, "Damn, I love the lemon scent of the shower gel," I raise my eyebrows and bite down a laugh as he kisses my neck. If I'm not wrong, smelling it.

"What?" he asks me looking at my face and I burst out laughing, "Y-you did it like Snowy!" his surprised face makes me laugh harder until I found my eyes tearing up and steady myself in his arms. His grin is wide, causing me to pull him in to kiss as my palm rested on his naked chest.

"Hmm... stop pushing me to take you right now. I'm hungry and well, you were the one who woke up hungry," he says pulling back and kisses my forehead with a smile. Well, we slept through the day and that's rather expected after the whole travel but now I'm starving.

I get onto the bed while Zach, grabs the tray of food and settles down next to me, "So what fancy stuff did you order?" I ask him and he chuckles with a smile before taking off the lids.

"Well, biscuits and gravy, crab cakes and key lime pie," he says taking off the lids causing a smile to spread on my face, "Sounds delish," I clasp my hands before leaning forward to play something on the laptop.

"What do you want to watch?"

"I don't know, just select something," he says before making me shriek by smacking my butt, "What the hell?"

I play 'the killers' and glare at his smirking face before sitting back in place, "I'm sorry. Did that hurt?" I roll my eyes at his not so innocent face before taking the plate from his hands.

"Sugar,"

"Yeah, Zach?" I ask him before turning my head to look at him; his smiling face leans closer before planting a kiss on my lips. My lips curl into a smile against his, "This just feels perfect," he whispers against my lips before pulling back and kissing my temple.

"Our version of perfect," I say with a grin before we turned back to the food as my stomach growled. Literally, it did.

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"Chloe, where's my-" a grin decorates my face as I notice Zach stop dead in his tracks while I try zipping up my dress, "Wow,"

Is all he says before walking in, in his white shirt tucked into his black trousers, need I say, he looks hot, "Let me get that for you," his breath fanned my neck making me bite my lower lip as he pressed my back against his chest, "Like the dress?"

I ask him as he zipped up my grey floor-length satin dress, "Oh, I love you in it," his lips meet my bare neck making me smile, "I wish, we could just stay back,"

He mumbles against my skin, "It's your mom's birthday, so that's not really a choice," I point out, reaching for his face over my shoulder and caress his now clean shaved cheek, "I know,"

With a smile, he pulls back and turns me around to take in my whole look, "I've got one word- hot," a blush creeps up my cheeks as he pulls me closer by grabbing my waist. I stand tiptoes, kissing him while his fingers rubbed circles on my back.

"You were asking me something?" I remind him, before turning around with his arms still around my waist. I grab the lip-gloss from my pouch and apply it while he just observed every move of mine, "Zach?"

I nudge him with a smirk, "Yeah, Sugar?" within seconds, again his lips are back on my bare shoulder with only the thin strap of my dress in the way, "I hope dad doesn't fuck up today, I'm in no mood to tolerate his nonsense,"

Looking at him through the mirror, I notice his stressed-out face and turn around, "It's going to be alright and it's your mom's birthday, so he's less likely to pay attention to everyone else," I reason out, caressing his face.

"You and I, both know he's capable of ruining a perfectly good moment," I sigh as he rests his forehead against mine. They've never been on good terms especially because his dad did not respect his choices and almost every time they meet, there has to be something he says to ruin the day for Zach.

I almost jump as Zach's phone goes off, interrupting our moment and he groans, "That's probably Emmett. Do you know where my cufflinks are?"

He asks pulling back from me and getting his phone out of his pocket. I nod before rushing back into the main room where our bags are, leaving him to take care of the phone call. I grab the small box of his cufflinks from the open luggage and head back, brushing a hand through my set hair.

I almost trip on my dress and roll my eyes before lifting a section of the dress to walk further, "Oww!" I shriek as I clash into Zach's hard chest and lose my balance but well, like the perfect guy he is, he grabs me in time.

"I'm sorry," he mumbles brushing my bangs out of my face and I sigh with a smile, "Don't apologize silly," I say, steading myself and grabbing his hand to fix the cufflinks onto his sleeves.

"Emmett is here to pick us up. He apparently had to get out of the house for some fresh air," he shakes his head letting out a shaky breath, "Seems like the tonight already started off great,"

His sarcasm makes me roll my eyes as I get done with putting the cufflinks on his sleeves and look up to meet his gaze, "It's Emmett we're talking about, he gets frustrated easily,"

"What's up with your optimism?" he asks letting out a laugh, "Well one of us has to try to be optimistic or we're both going to ditch this party," I point out walking away to grab my high silver colored heels.

I could notice him rolling his eyes, looking at my heels, "Those are death traps and my opinion on them isn't going to change," giggling at his statement, I stand up before walking up to the mirror and checking out my look for one last time.

My bangs are perfectly in place with my wavy hair, draping over one side of my neck and my dress is draping my curves perfectly without being too revealing. I sigh before turning around to face Zach who's putting his black suit on, looking like a fucking model.

"You continue looking like that and I'll be invisible," I laugh before grabbing my purse and phone, "You can never be invisible, Sugar and I'd prefer just keeping this gorgeous sight to myself,"

"You're cute sometimes," I comment as we walked out with his hand resting on the small of my back, "Only sometimes?"

He gives me his best grin making me shake my head as he locked the door, "Fine, always."

"And you're adorable," I bite down a laugh as the doors of the elevator open to reveal an elderly couple. What's with all the compliments? We walk to the back of the elevator and stand with his arm wrapped protectively around my waist.

My eyes widen as he kisses the corner of my lips, "Zach!" I whisper shout making sure we didn't drag any attention, "What's wrong, sugar?" he murmurs making me close my eyes before he pecks my lips.

He kissing me, makes my lips curl into an inevitable smile as he pulled back and kisses my forehead. I sigh noticing the old couple still not bothered by us, "You'll be lucky if I won't drag you into one of the rooms at home and take you,"

My jaw drops as he whispers into my ear and I smack his arm causing him to give me a boyish grin instead of 'oww'. Rolling my eyes, ignoring my flushed face, we step out of the elevator and walk past the lobby.

"Hey, you guys!" Emmett's voice gets our attention as we step out and my eyes follow his black mustang in which he's sitting. Damn, that car that we hung out in quite a few times during high school.

The chilly air hits me sending a shiver down my spine and Zach's arms immediately wrap around me warming me up, "You should've worn a cardigan or something," he points out as we get closer to the car.

"I forgot to carry it along," I sigh but smile as soon as I see Emmett dressed up in his grey Armani, "I'm still mad at you for kneeing me but, come here," I giggle hugging him. I step back and he hugs Zach for a few seconds while they both share a quick talk.

"Let's go, it's eight already," he says rushing us into the car and Zach holds the door out for me, "Thank you,"

He shakes his head before leaving a quick kiss on my lips and closing the door, "Damn, I'm shipping you both now," Emmett says with a smirk making me roll my eyes.

"How have you been?"

"Well, pretty damn great apart from well you know, dad," he sighs as Zach got into the car next to him, "Let's get this over with,"

Zach says and Emmett starts driving with a nod. I look out, letting out a shaky breath as I calmed my nerves down staring at the starry sky. The beautiful sky reflecting my happiness set the smile on my face for the rest of the night.

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