"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
― Robert A.

Chloe's POV.

"Chloe Miller! Is that you?!" A grin makes its way onto my face as I see Zach's mom in her blue dress head towards me, "Happy birthday!" I say cheerfully as she pulled me into a hug.

"Thank you, sweetheart," I pull back to see Zach standing behind her with a boyish grin, "Happy birthday, mom!" he hugs her from behind making her laugh at her son's childish nature. He only shows that one thing some times and around very few people. Need is say, I've been lucky enough to see that side of him almost every day.

"Look who's finally got the time to meet his mum," she slaps his arm but with a smile never dropping from her face, "Sorry about that,"

He sighs kissing his mom's forehead making my heart melt at the sight, "And you!"

"Oww!" I squeal as his mom slaps my arm taking me by surprise and making Zach laugh, "Why the hell didn't I see you for so long?! I know this idiot screwed up but, I missed you too!"

"I'm sorry," I say before Zach pulled me into the hug too, "I messed up, it's not her fault mom," he says making me smile while Nancy, Zach's mom wraps her arms around me. Talk about a group hug.

"I missed the chaos you guys make together," she says sighing as we pulled back and Zach walks around behind me before wrapping his arms around my waist, "Mom,"

"We're together,"

"You guys have always been together, what are you-" she stops in realization making us both grin, "Finally!" she clasps her hands together with a happy giggle.

"Yup," Zach kisses my cheek making me blush, sure we've always been this touchy and that's probably why Nancy didn't notice anything different, "This is the best birthday gift!"

She squeals making me shake my head with a smile, "Zachary," All of us stiffen at the voice and Zach's hold around me only tightens, "Hey dad,"

Ben, Zach's dad walks down those fancy stairs covered in a carpet in all his arrogant glory, "Chloe?"

"Hello, Mr. Russell," I try giving him my best smile as he kisses his wife. Well, he loved her a lot and that was the only thing I admired him for. Zach kisses my neck before they notice and I try pushing him away in surprise but well the guy is strong so of course, I failed at it.

"Honey, do you know-" Nancy is cut off with someone walking in and I turn my head to see a model like woman, probably around my age, "This is Daphne Summers,"

Zach's dad introduces her as she walked towards us. Need I mention, she looks like a mean person, "Hello,"

"I don't like her. Mean alert!" Zach whispers in my ear and I bite down on a smile, "We'll leave you guys to talk. Chloe?" Zach's dad calls me and I raise an eyebrow before turning to face Daphne in confusion while Zach holds onto me like I'm his favorite teddy bear or something.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Zachary Russell's to be fiancé," my jaw drops and I turn around to face Zach with a raised eyebrow, just to meet his confused gaze, "Zach, I-I can't,"

Holding onto his suit, I burst into laughter, "Oh my god, Sugar," he looks at my face before laughing along. Holy shit, this is hilarious! I clutch onto my stomach trying to control my laugh while Zach wipes his tears of laughter away, "Both of you, behave!"

Ben's voice gets us laughing, even more, Zach pulls me against his chest to muffle my laughter while he tries biting down his own, "This is ridiculous!" Daphne follows and I hear her heels against the floor fade away.

"Chloe Miller, you are responsible for making him so stupid," finally controlling my laughter, I pull back and look at Zach's dad, "Sure Mr. Russell, but you do have to agree, that was a crazy thing to do,"

I point out and Zach rests his face on my should trying not to laugh out loud, "What a fucking pleasure to have you back, Chloe,"

"Oh, I wish I could say the same but that would be me lying," another laughter joins us and I snap my head to see Emmett. Ben storms off angrily leaving Nancy behind who joins in too, "Wow!"

"Ben that was ridiculous and let down you darn ego cause Chloe was right," she calls behind her husband before shaking her head with a smile, "Enough of that high school-ish drama, let's celebrate your birthday mom," Zach says finally steadying himself behind me.

"Damn it, Chloe, you were the only thing missing at home," Emmett says with a smirk. I giggle before we all followed into the living room. This house saw so much drama already. Zach's arm securely holds me close while Nancy led us into the decorated living room.

"It's just us today, no fancy guests," she says with a bright smile, she looks as if she never aged a day, "Oh thank god," Zach says, immediately removing his suit followed by Emmett doing the same making me shake my head with a giggle before taking a seat on the couch.

Ben has his reasons to hate me, I made Zach have fun, or at least we had the most fun whenever we were together since high school which was almost all the time. I've been here for countless holidays and pissed him off enough with my snarky comments.

"I'll be right back," Zach says before pecking my lips, taking me by surprise at how normally he did it in front of Nancy. I notice her grinning ear to ear with Emmett with her eyes set on me and oh well, I know she always wanted us together.

"So details, sweetheart. I missed a dose of both of you enough already and now I want to hear everything,"

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"Zach, stop it," I hiss before stuffing a piece of steak in my mouth. I bite my lower lip trying to stop the moan from escaping my lips while Zach's hand traces my inner thigh through the slit of the dress. Need I say, right under the table where everyone is having dinner. I glare at him while he continues eating with a mischievous smirk.

I let my left hand go under the tablecloth and grab Zach's hand from going any further but instead his fingers entwine with mine while his thumb goes over my heat. Covering my moan with a cough, I grab the glass of water before chugging it down while trying to release my hand from his, "Are you okay, Sugar?"

Narrowing my eyes at him, I look around to see everyone engaged in each others conversation and Emmett busy in his phone and sigh, "You better stop that,"

My jaw drops as his fingers rub over my heat, I stuff the last bite of the steak trying to bite down my moan, "I'm done, I need to use the restroom," I say through my teeth just enough for Zach to hear and finally release my hand and slap his away.

I flash Nancy a smile and rush out of the dining area towards the familiar hallway. Pushing the door of Zach's old bedroom, I close the door behind me and breathe, "Oh shit,"

My breathing is heavy as I sit down on the empty clean bed, "Sugar," I almost jump, startled and Zach walks in before locking the door behind him with a grin, "You idiot!"

He walks closer to me with his sleeves rolled up and I bite my lower lip trying not to let my smile show as he leaned a little to kiss my lips, "Zach," I breath out pushing him a little away but he pushes me back on the bed and gets in between my legs slowly pushing my dress up.

"We should do this once we're back in the hotel," my voice is barely a whisper as he dips his head low before kissing my collar bone. A moan escapes my lips feeling his hard-on on my thigh through his trousers, "Well,"

He starts while kissing the corners of my lips, "We could do that if you manage to stand right in front of me the entire time and cover my visible hard-on that you caused,"

My breath hitches as he kisses me, sliding his tongue right into my mouth and my arms instantly wrap around his, kissing him back, "Fine, let's just get out of here soon then," I squeal as his lips trace down my jaw.

"Okay then sugar, your choice," he says making me sigh before sliding off me and kissing my heat, making me moan but I quickly slap a hand on my mouth, "Zach!"

With a breath-taking boyish grin, he gets off the bed and pulls my dress down before offering me a hand, "I love you," his words make me smile as I get up.

"Love you too but right now, I'm not enjoying this torture the tiniest bit," I tell him before walking away but squealing as he spanks my butt. Oh, this is going to be one hell of a night if we don't get back soon.

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