Wife of Mafia (English version)

Chapter 18. Beautiful night with Jackson.

"Rosie! Here!" said Jackson and gestured with his hand for me to come closer.

I immediately ran to Jackson. We walked hand in hand into the labyrinth, while looking at the shape of this beautiful maze because along this maze were affixed with dim yellow tumblr lights and made the streets bright.

"This is beautiful, Jackie!" praise me.

"Jackie?" Jackson repeated.

"Yes, why?"

Jackson chuckled. "So Jackie is my nickname from you?" asked Jackson and I nodded happily.

"Sounds familiar, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, you're the first to give me a nickname like that," he said.

I gasped. "So never before?" I asked.

Jackson nodded. "Yeah, they should call me Jack. That's all," he explained quietly.

I punched him in the shoulder, wanting to cheer him up. "That's good then, only I can call you by that name myself, okay!"

Jackson looked at me deeply, looking different from the look he had given me before.

"Jackie?" call me wake him up.

Jackson laughed. "I don't know why when you call me by that name it sounds funny," he said.

I sneered, it's good I gave him a nickname.

"Ah, then I call you Rose," he said suddenly.

I shook my head weakly.

"Only David can call me by that name, Jackie," I said.

And Jackson seemed to be deep in thought. He's cute with that expression, looks like he's thinking about difficult things, even though it's just a nickname.

"What about Rios?" he said.

I looked at him annoyed, can he think of anything else for my name? Rios sounds manly to me who is feminine.

"Are you kidding?!" I'm annoyed.

Jackson chuckled. "Isn't that great? Rios. Ah! I'm really good at making nicknames," he said, proud of himself.

"Whatever, Jackie." In the end, I gave in to him.

"So where's that beautiful place?" I asked and Jackson looked at me with a smile.

He pulled my hand. "Here, we have to get to the middle of this labyrinth first."

I followed it with difficulty because of this long dress of mine. Jackson seemed to notice my predicament, because now suddenly he was carrying me, surprising me.

"Let go, Jackie!" I asked scared.

"So you chose to run in this annoying long dress?" he asked as he looked down at my dress.

I shook my head because it was not comfortable to run.

"Then put your arm around my neck so I can run easily," he said and I complied.

Jackson ran fast even though this place was spinning it made me dizzy. Finally we arrived in the middle of the maze.

"Whoa!" my admiration that I can't contain.

Jackson rocked me. "You sure you don't want to go down, you're so heavy," he sneered at me.

"Good, isn't it?"

I responded by nodding. It's like a garden in the middle of a maze with a small fountain in the middle.

There are also many decorative lights in every corner, even in the middle of the fountain there is a yellow light that makes every splash of water looks like gold.

Jackson led me to a branch with many leaves that had been chiseled into a circle.

"Wait a minute," Jackson said and then he went to the shower, opened a different stone and took something from it.

Jackson took a wooden box from inside the stone holder he had removed, and removed the contents of the box. There was a folded cloth and two medium-sized lollipops. Jackson put the box back into the rock and put it in its original place.

Jackson held out the cloth which turned out to be large and could be used to lie down. Then put the two lollipops in the middle.

After that, Jackson approached me. "You wait there, because the interesting part is coming soon. But you have to close your eyes," he said excitedly.

I just obeyed and waited on the cloth lying down and didn't forget to close my eyes.

There was a crackling sound coming from Jackson's direction, but I couldn't open my eyes so that it would be a surprise even though I wanted to see because I was so curious.

The sound of footsteps approaching and then the cloth moving indicated that someone was next to me. I'm still waiting for Jackson to let me open my eyes.

"You can open your eyes," Jackson whispered giving me goosebumps from his breath.

I slowly opened my eyes and there were lots of fireflies passing by in front of me and some even perched on my nose making Jackson laugh.

"He likes you, Rios," Jackson said making me laugh because he actually called me by that name.

Because I laughed, the firefly flew away from me again and followed with the rest of the colony, circling in front of us.

"This is so beautiful, Jackie! I've never seen a firefly, let alone this many," I explained to him who was greeted with a sweet smile from him.

"Want some candy?" he offered and I took the lollipop from his hand.

"The stars and moon are happy as well tonight, see them light up the sky," said Jackson.

"Yes. By the way, thank you for making my night so wonderful, Jackie."

Jackson smiled, he seemed happy. "You're welcome, Rios, but I also want to thank you for accompanying me tonight," he said.

"Why?" I asked.

Jackson looked straight at the moon. "Because usually I'm the only one out here, when they're all happy with the party," Jackson explained and I understood.

"Why don't you mingle with them?" I asked.

"Because I feel like it's not my world there. They're too loud and I'm in the middle. Sometimes if I try to blend in, I feel hypocritical because my soul rejects them. That's why I end up here every year."

Hearing that, I who was facing the sky now turned my body to look at Jackson who was still looking at the moon.

"Then, if there's another party tomorrow, let's run away and come here. I also feel there is not my world, and you have to promise to take me to this beautiful place again," I told him while waving my pinky finger at him.

Jackson looked at me out of the corner of his eye. Then he turned to face me, held out his little finger and hooked it.

"I promise," he said.

I smile, Jackson is a very kind and warm person. We stared at each other for a long time, until a firefly landed on my lollipop making our gazes fall on the firefly.

"He ate my lollipop!" I said pretending to be annoyed.

Jackson shook his head. "He doesn't eat lollipops, Rios, he's a firefly," said Jackson.

I replied "Then why did he alight here?"

"Because you haven't touched that lollipop at all," Jackson grumbled looking annoyed.

I like seeing it this way. "You being the one to talk to me keeps me from eating my lollipop."

Jackson frowned. "Why am I in the wrong? It's you who responds to my words," he said not wanting to lose.

"Anyway it's your fault, period!" I said teasing him pretending to be annoyed.

"Not!" Jackson answered firmly.

"I don't feel guilty, wle!" he smirked at me.

We laughed too, spending the night having our fun until we forgot something or rather I forgot something because maybe someone at the party was looking for me and getting ready to get angry.