Chapter Text
"Are you sure this looks good?" i say turning in the mirror. Archer and the shop attendant nod, "You look amazing." I sigh, "You've been saying that to everything I've put on." "Well that's because it's true." I pinch the bridge of my nose, he's no help.
I step off of the platform and head back into the changing area. We've been shopping for the past couple of hours, going to various stores, Archer telling me to get whatever. I agree and get anything that I think looks good.
I step out of the dressing room, back in my normal clothes, clothes that I'm not going to get in one hand. "I'm not getting these." I hand them to the worker, they take them and head to the back of the store.
Archer stands up, "Why aren't you getting them? Do they not meet your standards?'' I shake my head. 'I just don't like them. Besides we've gotten a lot of clothes already" Archer nods, his black hair framing his face perfectly.
We walk side by side, him holding the many bags and boxes of clothes and accessories. "I can hold some of the bags." Archers shakes his head, "My girlfriend isn't going to be carrying her own bags." he says stubbornly.
I laugh, "Okay big guy you can hold the bags. Where are we headed to next?" I've had my fill of shopping, now we're onto the things that Archer deems 'necessary' for us dating to look legitimate.
We head to the Apple store, "We need to get you a new phone, plus an Apple watch, plus some Airpods. You have to have all the latest tech if you want people to believe that we're dating. I sigh, there's no use in trying to argue about this." he says looking down at me.
Appearances matter to him a lot, it makes sense considering who his family is. A female worker walks up to us greeting us, "Mr. Cohen, so glad to see you again." Archer nods, "Hello, we need to buy some things." the worker nods, I can tell by the way she smiles extra hard that she's interested in him.
"Sure just follow me." We followed her to a less crowded part of the store. I notice her swinging her hips while she walks. I look up at Archers, he's looking down at me. He gives me a smile, "You look pretty." I go back to looking forward. Why do I feel blood rushing to my face heating up? I instinctively rub my cheek, wanting to push away the feelings he's causing.
We stop at a counter and the worker turns to Archer, "Is there anything specific that you're looking for?" he nods, placing the bags onto the counter so his hands are free. He pulls out his phone, "I want to buy two purple Iphones, the newest Apple watch, and the newest pair of Airpods." the worker writes all of this down.
"Wow two of everything, is it for your girlfriend?" Archer nods and strokes my hand. "Yes it is.'' I can see this angers her. "I'll be right out with your products." she says before dipping her head and disappearing to the back of the store.
I lean against the counter resting my elbows on it. Staring at my shoes, Archer leans forward, caging me between his strong arms. "So I think it's a good idea for us to have matching phones, and matching apple watches." I nod. "That's a good idea."
He peers down at me, "Something wrong?" I shake my head. The worker comes back with the devices and Archer releases me. We go through the process of turning them on and Archer leaves me and the female worker to pay for them.
"So, how'd you do it?" I fix the strap to my new watch. "Huh?'' I look up at her. Her face has a smile spread across it but it's obvious that it's just a front. "How'd someone like you bag a Cahen?" I shrug my shoulders.
I don't gain anything from entertaining this girl. She looks like she's in her twenties, why is she going after someone who's in highschool? "Aren't you kinda old to be lusting after someone in their teens? Don't want to catch a case now." I say with a bit of bite to the words.
She rolls her eyes but quickly fixes her face once she realizes Archer is headed this way. "Hey Gorgeous." he says, giving me a peck on the cheek. "Is she all set?" the worker nods. He grabs the shopping bags and we head out.
"Anything else we need?'' I think, what do most couples do? They have matching things, which is what we have now. But just having matching phone colors isn't enough. "We should decorate our phone case. and we should post it on our instagrams. You posting me on your story will definitely make it more believable."
He nods, "That sounds like fun, why don't you go get the stuff we need and I'll put the bags in the car.'' I nod and start heading towards Hot Topic before he grabs my arm. I look back at him, "Something wrong?" he embraces me into a hig.
"Just wanted a hug before you go.'' I roll my eyes. "Okay Archer.'' He gives me a smile and we head our separate ways. I head into the store picking up the things we need. Stickers, charms beads, phone cases. I head into line and I'm almost to the front when I realize something. I dont have my wallet, or my phone.
I mentally kick myself, my phone is with Archer and I don't even think I brought my wallet with me. "Sam?'' I hear someone call my name. I turn to the voice and see Noah. I give him a warm smile, "Noah, why are you here?"
He pointed at the wall on graphic tees, "They had new Naruto shirts in stock." I nod, it makes sense. "Why are you here?" "Oh well me and Ar-'' I smack my hand to my mouth. I was really about to tell him that I'm here with Archer?
"I" I say starting to say words but failing to. Noah, looks at me amused. "You're funny Sam." I nod. "Yea, I'm hilarious." He motions me to go checkout, "You can go ahead, I forgot my wallet, I can just get this later." I say about to put the stuff in my hands down and hightail it out of the store.
"I'll just pay for it." he says, pushing me forward. I awkwardly place my stuff on the counter. He happily pays for them, "So Sam what are you doing after this?" Noah asks as we walk out of the store.
"Um well i'm with my friend so." I say trying to come up with something that wasn't a complete lie. I see Archer walking towards us, he must be looking for me. "Um well Noah I'll see you at school." I turn around and speed walk in the opposite direction. Leaving Noah alone and confused.
I stop when I'm a safe distance away from them both, I remembered how Archer reacted when he saw me talking to Noah in the gym. I'd know he'd go ballistic if he saw us walking together. I sit on one of the benches, placing the bag of stuff next to me.
"There you are." Archer says, appearing in front of me. He sits down next to me, taking my hand in his. "Did you find everything you were looking for?'' I nod. He caresses my hand softly. "Then let's go." We stood up and head to the car.
He opens the door for me and I get in. I buckle in and wait for him to start the car. Once we're on the road I speak up, "Can we just head back to your house?" "Hmm?" he makes a sound of puzzledness. "Why? Do you not like seafood?"
"No I just feel like it would be better if we just got pizza or something and spent the rest of the night decorating the phone cases and watching TV." he nods, "If it means spending more time alone with you then I'm all for it."
I roll my eyes and laugh, "Damn and you almost went a full three hours without being an ass. Shall I order the pizza now so we can pick it up?" he nods, "Yea, make sure to order wings." I nod and pull out my phone to order.
We pick up the pizza and head back to his house. He carries in the bags and I bring in the food. Despite his protests of him being able to carry it all. "ARCHER, I swear if you try to take this food from me one more time!" I threatened as he tried unsuccessfully to grab the food from my hands while also holding all the shopping bags.
We head into his room, he lays out all the food and I lay out the supplies to decorate the phone cases. We sit down and start eating, the TV playing background music. "So we're each gonna decorate our own? Or each others?" I shrug.
"Whatever you wanna do?" he puts down his slice of pizza and picks up a blank phone case and charms. "I'll make you one.'' I nod and look back at the tv, I'm sure making a case for him won't be hard.
I finish my food and put on something else to watch, I put on a cartoon and start working on Archer's phone case. I look over at Archer, his back bent over in concentration. His hair falling in front of his face. I reach into the pocket of my backpack and pull out a scrunchie.
I keep one on me in the rare moments I need a hair tie for my 4c hair. I scoot over to him and he hides his work. "No you can't see it till I'm done with it. It's gonna be a surprise." I go behind him, him confused looking back at me. "I told you I'm not showing you until I'm done with it."
"Okay I won't look, now lean your head back." he looks up at me, his usually playful and flirty eyes filled with nothing but pureness. "What-" I place my finger to his lips. "Shush, I need to focus." I take his bangs and pull them back out of his face.
I twist them into the scrunchie and have him look back at me. His cheeks glow bright red, "Thanks." He gives me a smile that makes my insides fill with butterflies.
"It was nothing, your hair falling into your eyes was annoying me.'' I say in a huff going back to my spot on the couch. "Okay, if that's what you say.'' I start sticking things onto the phone case, trying to put things I think Archer would like.
Except for the sound of the TV, and the sounds of the occasional bite of pizza the room was silent. We kept going until around midnight when Archer announced that he was done. He crawls over to me, the phone case hidden behind his back.
"You go first.'' I nod and show him the case I decorated for him. It's a white base phone case covered in different shades of black and brown charms and stickers. To break up the same looking colors I added some iridescent stickers.
I look at him worried, does he like it? I tried to make something that he would like, but I don't know him very well. His eyes light up, "I love it." he leans over and plant a kiss on my check. I feel heat rush to my face, "I was worried you wouldn't like it, but i'm glad you do."
He immediately pops his phone into the case and looks in awe. "I love it so much. Now lemme show you yours." he hands it to me and my jaw drops. It's covered in different pastel colored charms and sparkly stickers. It doesn't match my overall vibe at all and I love it.
"It's so pretty." a smile spreads across my face, it just screams me in a way I can't even describe. "We should take a photo." Archer says while gently pulling the phone case off of his phone. I nod, "How should we take it?"
"Uh, why don't you lean against me. And then we take the photo of us holding each others phone cases.'' I nod that'll work. I sit in between his legs and we snap the pic. He wraps his arms around me and shows me the picture. "Is this good? Or should we take another?"
I shake my head, "That one seems pretty convincing, now tag me in the photo and then post it to your story." he nods and does what I say. "Dang it's so late, we should head to bed." I try to get up but gets pulled back.
Archer rubs his lips against my neck. "Let me hold you a little bit longer.'' I sigh. "Fine." he hums in response, The vibrations sending shivers down my spine and making my stomach do summersaults. He goes back to nestling his head on my shoulder. "You smell nice." he whispers,
I pop my new phone case onto my phone and set a timer. "Thanks, You have five minutes, then I have to go to bed." "Fine," he says begrudgingly. Once the timer goes off he lets me go, I stand up and then help him up. "I'll show you where your room is." I make a face of mock shock, "Wait we're not sharing a bed? I thought for sure the great Archer would want to share a bed with his one and only love."
He turns back to me, his eyes dark, "I do want to share a bed, but you don't. I don't want to force you to do anything you don't want to do." I clap my hands, "Give him a round folks, the man has done the bare minimum." he sighs and grabs my arm.
"Come on, didn't you say you were trying to go to sleep?" He led us out of his room and to the room next door. He opens the dutch doors to a pastel purple room, "I left most of the room blank so that you could pick out something you would like."
I walk over to the bed, on it lay a pair of silk pastel blue pajamas, along with a matching bonnet. I look over to him, him looking anywhere but me. I can see the tips of his ears red. "I did some research and it said that you need to cover your hair when you sleep. It also said that silk was the best option. That's why I had the maids change the sheets out and get you silk pajamas."
"That's just... Wow.'' I'm at a loss for words. "I'm glad you like it." I nod, I walk over to him, he looks at me surprised. "Something wrong?" "Be quiet.'' I get on my tiptoes and lean in, placing my hands on either side of his face. I feel the heat radiating off of his lips.
I lean in closer and place a soft kiss on his lips. Wow, my first kiss. I get back on flat feet and cough awkwardly. "Well um goodnight." My words snap him out of his daze, "Yea goodnight Sam." he gives me a small wave and leaves me.