My Arranged Marriage to John O'Callaghan

Chapter Ten

John’s POV

John felt fully recovered and refreshed all in 5 days Emily sure did a great job at taking care of him. What confused him was why did she do it? ‘Because I actually care’ He remembered her words did she mean she cared about him or just... John shook his head this is ridiculous he thought. How could she care about him when he treated her badly? He had so many questions but so little answers. John smiled when he remembered her gentle touch and her warm brown eyes; john groaned he will not like her she took care of him because it was her duty as his fiancé right? He couldn’t like her because well... Carrie was still on his mind. John got out of the bed by himself, finally the first time in 5 days. He was only wearing boxers and a plain white V-neck, he opened the bedroom door and walked down the stairs towards the kitchen, he heard laughter.
“So what do you kids want for breakfast, pancakes, muffins...?” John her his mother say,
“COCO PUFFS!” Shane yelled making her laugh,
“Shane can’t you have something less... sugary?” Jenny’s spoke again and john chuckled knowing Shane was going to win this.
“Nope...” Shane said smiling, John leaned on the doorframe, he saw Shane sitting in Emily’s lap while his father and Ross were munching breakfast and drinking coffee.
“It’s just like a chocolate Milkshake” Shane started singing the coco puffs jingle,
“....Only crunchy!” Shane and Emily sang and then laughed; John watched Emily laughing and kissed Shane’s cheek. Observing her he saw that she had dark circles under her eyes probably from lack of sleep because she had been taking care of him, he felt warmth flood his heart and grew defensive. As if she felt his gaze, her brown eyes turned to the doorway and shock sparked in them before a wide smile spread on her face.
“John, I guess you must feel better then!” she beamed and got up from her seat, Shane darted to John and hugged him, John returned the embrace.
“How are you feeling honey?” His mother asked and he grunted,
“Hungry” He replied and both Emily and Jenny smiled widely,
“That means you’re fully recovered that’s great...” Emily said smiling.
“Only because he had such an attentive Fiancée taking care of him” His dad said and a dark blush spread on her cheeks, John felt inexplicably annoyed at her for no reason.
“I would’ve been fine if she was here or not she’s nothing special” John’s voice came out harsh and everyone at the table stopped and looked at him in disbelief, John looked at Emily and he could see he had hurt her, she just shrugged and smiled at everyone hiding her emotions.
“Well everyone I’m sure he’s right but as for me I am tired so I’m just going up and take a nice nap” She replied cheerfully, a little too cheerful, he looked at her but she avoided eye contact and left the kitchen. Everyone looked at him and all of them had anger written on their face, John frowned.
“What?” he asked
“You are a pathetic Idiot!” Ross spat and John was taken aback, his brother hardly ever got angry.
“Do you have any idea how much dedication Emily had to make you better!? She hardly slept and when she heard from mom that you had a show in 3 days she stayed up day and night because she was determined to get you better so you wouldn’t have to cancel and let your fans down!” Ross said harshly and then glared at John,
“You know what maybe you don’t deserve her! Why can’t you see a good thing when it’s in front of you? You rather have trash like that Carrie chick” Ross left and Shane frowned at him, his mother turned her back because she was cooking pancakes and John’s dad shook his head and left. John felt angry beyond belief but he had hurt Emily why can’t he just be nice to her, it wouldn’t have killed him saying thank you.
“Mom...I’m sorry I didn’t mean to be rude” John mumbled at his mother, she turned to him with still slightly ticked off yet kind eyes,
“I’m not the one you should be apologizing to kiddo... why don’t you like her John? She’s a very lovely girl”
“I don’t know mom, what if it’s all an act she’s doing?” John said and couldn’t believe himself,
“John Cornelius O’Callaghan the fifth!” His mother said angrily.
“I better go...” John bolted upstairs and walked into his room, Emily was lying on the bed and John walked to her side.
“Emily wake up” he said gently, she stirred.
“Yes John?” she asked while yawning.
“I....”