Replacing CC
Chapter 1
"I thought you said I was a big fat ugly butler?" Niles looked at her questioningly.
"You don't know my type" she said softly raising her hand to his cheek and gently stroked him. Niles held his breath, the time seemed to stand still and then she was gone.
He quickly entered the office to fined Mr. Shefield sitting behind his desk. "I'm taking the rest of the night off. If I'm not back by morning – yey!" Niles said excitedly and ran back out to catch up with CC's temporary replacement. He hadn't been on a date for months and he wasn't going to miss the chance now! He came to the street just in time to see her get into a cab and close the door. He wasn't sure if he was being too presumptuous, but he quickly ran up to the cab and got in as well.
She jumped a little before she realized who it was. But then she relaxed when she saw that it was only the sexy butler. She didn't expect him to follow her but decided to take the chance and ask him out.
"So, you decided to follow me home?" she asked with a haughty air and a cheeky grin on her face.
"If that's all right with you?" he answered nervously. He wasn't at all sure if he was doing the right thing. After all he didn't really know this woman; she could be a quack like Miss Babcock for all he knew. But then he found she was looking at him as if thinking really hard whether she wanted him to join her or not.
"You know what, old man…I'll humour you" she flashed a white smile and he felt himself relaxing while she told the driver to start driving.
Her small apartment was modest yet very classy. Miranda threw her coat onto a chair and turned to Niles.
"Want some wine?" she asked
"Do you by any chance have any brandy?" Niles asked hopefully
"Brandy? What do you take me for? A 60 year old man? Ha!" she turned and strutted to the bar leaving Niles standing alone a little stunned.
"Well Miss Babcock would have had some" he muttered under his breath "she is a 60 year old man" Niles chuckled to himself and went to join Miranda at the bar and she handed him a glass of deep red wine, its aroma slinking up his nostrils causing him to shudder. Miranda led him to the sofa and they sat down. He sipped a bit of the wine then looked up to see that Miranda was gazing at him intently.
"What?" he said, a little taken aback.
She didn't say anything, only took a big swig of her wine and surprized Niles by kissing him square on the mouth. Niles gasped and slowly returned the kiss putting his glass on the coffee table and bringing his arms around Miranda to pull her closer to him.
They were at it for a few minutes when Miranda pulled away.
"Do you want to take this to the bedroom?" she asked huskily. Niles looked at her direction but she could tell his mind was somewhere else.
"Niles?" no response.
"Big fat ugly butler?" she tried. Still no response.
"Hey! Butler Boy!" Niles started and finally looked at her properly.
"What?" he asked in a somewhat confused tone.
"You were daydreaming! I asked if you would like to continue in the bedroom!" Miranda was getting annoyed, one night stand or not, this butler guy was a little disappointing. She got up and went to fill her glass with more wine. Niles sighed and got up to join her.
"I'm so sorry; my mind was some were else"
"I noticed" she snapped.
"Would you mind if we tried again?" Niles looked at her pleadingly. Miranda frowned and gulped down her second glass of wine.
"All right…" she sighed "but only one more chance. If I'm not satisfied then I'll have to ask you to leave"
"Fair enough. Just give me a minute to freshen up and we'll continue right where we left off"
The morning after Niles awoke to his alarm clock in his own bed. He groaned and stretched not wanting to get up. He closed his eyes and nearly fell asleep, when his alarm went off again and he pushed himself to get up. He dragged himself to the bathroom, stripped off his pyjamas and stepped into the shower. The water was hot and he tried to wash off the events of the previous night.
Last night was a complete disaster….no matter how much he tried; he couldn't get Miss Babcock out of his head thus ruining all chances he had with Miranda, Miss Babcock's temporary replacement. Though no one could replace my CC….he mused half grinning to himself.
