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Feb 07, 2016 02:07PM
Sloane nodded, understanding where he was coming from. She actually found it kind of sweet that he wanted to do that after his sister. "Well what did you want to be when you grew up? Personally, I wanted be either the president of the world or a unicorn. Whichever came first," she asked him, adding in that bit for no reason. She wasn't sure why she shared that piece of information with him, it just seemed kind of normal to do so.
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Kaiden smiled and thought that that was cute but didn't say it aloud. "When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut and scientist for a little bit but then I realized that I wouldn't like those. I probably would have chosen something to help people either way but it might not have been a bodyguard," he said trying to remember what he had been thinking about when he was young.
Sloane glanced behind her before hopping up on the counter and shimmying back to get more comfortable. "So you wanted to do something to help people but not a bodyguard. That makes sense because I can imagine being a bodyguard kind of sucks. So what are you interested in then?" she asked curiously, tilting her head to the side, her fingers playing with the ends of her hair as she looked at him.
Kaiden nodded and said, "I do like the physical aspect of training to be a bodyguard so I think that I would try to something like that. Maybe a personal trainer?" He shrugged and said, "I guess that helps people." He looked at her and smiled partly. "What about you? What do you want to do after college?" Kaiden asked curiously wanting to know more about her now.
Sloane gently ran her finger over her lips as she thought about his question. "Well if it was up to me, then I think I'd become a social worker and help kids. I'm not particularly fond of helping people but I could help those kids," she answered thoughtfully but shook her head with a soft, hollow laugh. "But it's not up to me. So I'm going to finish my bachelors in business and work with my dad. It was either go into politics or business so I chose the lesser of the two evils. But I like film and television so I'll probably end up working on the station which is pretty cool," she continued, shrugging in acceptance.
Kaiden's eyes dropped to Sloane's lips for a few seconds before he realized what he was doing. He looked back up to her eyes and made sure he kept looking there since he couldn't think about her like that. He frowned hearing that. "I would say that you should tell him that that's not what you want to but I'm guess you already did," Kaiden said with a small smile knowing her personality and persistence. "Hopefully he'll change his mind or you'll grow to like the station more," he said.
Sloane nodded, a small smirk curving one side of her mouth. "Oh I definitely did. There were a few smashed plates at that one too," she replied with a soft laugh. "It's not like it's going to be bad. I'm good at what I do so I'll do a good job and it's not like it's super boring. I totally think I'll be able to weasel my way into casting and auditions for original programming so that's always awesome,"she added, shrugging, managing to find a silver lining. It wasn't that she hated it or anything, it just wasn't her dream. "And you clearly don't know my parents because it's my mother insisting on all of this. She's even trying to marry me off but that's not what gonna happen."
Kaiden nodded. "Then that's good," he said glad that there was some goodness to come out of it. He laughed when she mentioned the plates. "Poor plates, they just can't escape unscathed!" he joked. He couldn't keep his mouth from opening at the thought of that. "Well, that's just ridiculous! No one does that anymore," he said with a shake of his head.
Sloane laughed again when he joked about the plates, shaking her head just slightly as she did. A secretive type of smile spread across her lips at his protest and she shook her head at him. "Oh it happens all the time. The amount of business links that are secured through marriage. The amount of mergers that are confirmed because of marriages. No, arranged marriages are still normal. Increasingly opposed but still a thing. I'm just refusing. I wouldn't force some poor guy to be with me," Sloane corrected him with a casual shrug of her shoulders.
Kaiden sighed and leaned back on his hands on the counter. "Well, yeah they still happen but they shouldn't," he said. He was going to say more but he cut himself off before he could start arguing or rant. He still knew that this happened but he strongly believed that it shouldn't. At least their should be some attention that that is how the businesses are working so people will try to stop it. He smiled a little at that last part and said, "I'm sure it wouldn't be that bad," putting emphasis on 'that'.
Sloane tipped her head to the side as she thought about what he said. She didn't want an arranged marriage but she didn't necessarily disagree with them. They were a good way to form connections and divorce was always there on the table but a lot of couples fell in love along the way. "Maybe. I guess it's all up to the person. If they disagree with it then they can should be able to say no but they may not," she replied after a moment of thinking. Her lips curved into a small smile and she shook her head slightly at him. "Why thank you. I'm glad it wouldn't be all that bad. That increases my confidence a lot," she replied sarcastically.
