"How was your day?" I ask him sweetly as we head in the direction of my apartment. He shrugs as he drives.
"Yeah, it was alright. I will have to do a trip to Australia in the New Year," he explains. My stomach drops a little bit; Australia is really far away, and I already don't like it when he leaves.
"How long for?" I ask.
"A week at least, maybe two. You can come with me if you like," he states as the car goes through the lights. I could barely handle a flight to Paris; how would I handle a flight all the way to Australia?
"Maybe, I'll have to check about school. We go back in the middle of January, and we have our exams around that time," I explain. He presses his lips together in response and nods his head. My schooling always seems to be getting in the way, but that's just how it is.
"I'll say it again, you don't need to finish that degree. I know you don't even really want it," he gives me a smirking smile as he pulls into the parking lot of my building. I roll my eyes with a slight grin.
"Not this again. If I don't have a degree or a good job, it would break my mum's heart. Even if I don't want it, I've got to see it through to the end." I like university. I mean, I hate the classes that I'm taking because it's all just so boring, but I like that I'm doing what will make my mum happy. She was nervous about me moving out here, but she knows that I'm doing something that will give me a stable future. That's all she wants for me. I don't know if meeting Rhodes has changed those thoughts for her; I guess I'll be able to find out at Christmas.
"Something to think about, baby." Rhodes picks up my hand and presses a kiss to the back of it quickly as he shuts off the car. "Let's get you out of this hellhole," he jokes as we climb out of the car. Outside the front entrance, the door to the building has been propped open, and two men are walking down the stairs as we walk up, carrying boxes that contain my personal possessions. A truck came yesterday to get rid of all of the furniture that I wasn't going to bring to Rhodes's and brought it to a women's refuge shelter, which was basically all of my stuff. Rhodes has no use for my £34 microwave.