Money, power, fame; these are the type of things that everyone tends to go
for. With it tends to come the ultimate human flaw of greed the inability
to stop getting what it is that you want. It is the one thing that tends to
bring about the downfall of most. For other's it just keeps them going.
A very beautiful young woman sat in front of a mirror running a brush through her beautiful blonde hair. Her crimson eyes head calmness in them but she was sad for many reasons at that moment. Her life was not what it could truly have been like it was supposed to be when she graduated from school. One thought always went through her mind because of this, revenge. 'He will pay,' she mentally cursed before she heard the phone that was off to the side ring. She grabbed it and put it up to her ear. "Hello?" she asked calmly.
"It is time. You had better be ready," said a voice on the other end that she couldn't help but smile at. Just as it was said though the person on the other end hung the phone up leaving Fiona with the phone up to her ear.
She placed the phone back down she a small smile on her face. She really couldn't help it though. "Don't worry about that. I am fully ready," she said with a grin as she stood up and walked out of the door.
Thomas Shubaltz, he was a widely regarded businessman that was used to getting whatever he wanted. The common spoiled rich person. Money, power, women; these were the things that he went for the most. He almost never took no for an answer. It tended to get him in trouble but he always used his money in order to get him out of it. Right now he sat at a table in a café.
Right next to him was his friend Van Flyheight. He was usually calm and collected but he could get wild if he wanted to. Right now he was just sipping a cup of coffee and reading a newspaper while not even listen as Thomas continued to talk to him. Thomas didn't even seem to notice that so he just remained quiet and zoned out from all the noise around him. There were many times that Thomas threatened him to get with a girl but he wasn't all that interested in what Thomas showed him because he just didn't care. He already had all that he could want, at least for the moment. He had plans for the future but he couldn't do anything about it at that moment.
"Hey! Are you listening to me Van?" yelled Thomas when he noticed his audience or rather lack of audience at that moment. He looked over to see that Van didn't respond or even bother to look over when he talked to him. He was furious but he tried his best to maintain his cool. "Van!" he yelled making Van jump a little before he started to talk again. "Are you even listening?" he yelled.
"Not really?" he said calmly putting down his coffee but not his newspaper, which he couldn't seem to keep his eyes off of. 'Most people don't anyways. Women come to him for his money and all other think he is too loud,' thought Van with a small chuckle that Thomas couldn't hear. He was just joking but he knew that it was true for some.
Thomas was about to reply but the sound of the doors to the café being opened brought his attention elsewhere to see who it was that came in. His eyes remained glued to the beauty that came in but he knew her from elsewhere. She was the one thing that he could never get himself but he knew now was his chance to get what he always wanted. "Fiona!" yelled Thomas waving his arms wildly towards the girl that he hadn't seen since high school.
'Idiot, he is acting like a moron just over one person,' thought Van with a sigh trying to avoid being seen by anyone that was looking at Thomas making a fool out of himself. Sometimes he was embarrassed to be Thomas's friend.
The woman named Fiona turned her head to see who it was that was waving at her and she choked a bit. Not because of Thomas but because of something else that caught her eye. She put herself back together and gave a small wave of her hand. She walked over to him. "Um, hello..." she said.
"Its Thomas, do you remember, from high school?" he asked but he saw her sort of clueless look on her face. "I am the guy you dumped to go out with that loser," he said in a monotonous tone because he didn't like to think about it. He couldn't even remember the name of the person that she dumped him for.
"Oh yes, I remember you. We never went out though," she said with a small laugh making Thomas shrink back out of embarrassment. "It is... nice to see you again," she said in an unsure voice because he could easily creep her out back then.
"Yeah you too," he said with a huge and very goofy smile on his face. "Please, why don't you sit down with me and my friend here? We can talk and catch up on all that has been going on in the past few years," said Thomas moving over to offer her a seat, which she very slowly took. "So what has happened in all of these years? Are you still going out with that loser?" he asked with a grin hoping to hear what he wanted to hear.
"No I am not," she asked with a bit of anger in her voice. "I heard that he got married to some model of some sort. I don't really want to talk about it," she said turning her head away for a little bit.
"So sorry to hear that," said Thomas with fake regret laced into his voice. He was really glad. "That loser never knew what he had in the first place. I could have taken care of you better than he ever could have had. "I have become rich and powerful and I bet he is mooching of that models money," said Thomas as he had both Van and Fiona's attention but there was something about all of this that made him feel uncomfortable. "Oh by the way, I forgot to introduce you to my friend Van. Van this is Fiona, someone I used to know in high school," said Thomas with a smile.
"Nice to meet you," said Van not even looking up from the newspaper that he was reading while only stopping to get a quick drink of his coffee. That was until Thomas tore the newspaper out of his hands. "Hey!" yelled Van
"You can at least be nice and look at her when you say hello. No need to be so rude!" yelled Thomas making Fiona laugh slightly. Thomas could help but smile at the thought that he made her laugh.
Fiona was flattered but she also found it annoying as to how Thomas was doting over her the exact same way he did when they were in high school. She hated it when he continued to do things like that but she never really said anything. "It is really no problem," said Fiona holding her hands up with a slight chuckle.
"Yeah, and it was rude just tear that out of my hands," said Van snatching his paper back so that he could get back to reading the article that he had been so fascinated with for the past few minutes. 'Man, and he tells me not to be rude?' Van asked himself as he started to read the paper again but he did end up looking up every few minutes to see Fiona who was sitting right across from him.
"So how do the two of you know each other?" asked Fiona pointing at both Thomas and Van. She was sometimes a little too curious for her own good always trying to find things out but she didn't really care.
"Van did me a favor a few months ago in exchange for a place to stay for a while. We are good friends though. Isn't that right Van?" asked Thomas only to see Van drinking his coffee again. He fell face first onto the table. 'He's ignoring me again,' thought Thomas with a groan.
"So what is it that you do Van?" she asked and unlike Thomas he turned to face her and opened his mouth and closed it. He did it a few more times before something actually came out of his mouth.
"I work for a small business downtown but it pays decent," said Van ignoring the stares Thomas was giving him about why he answered Fiona but he didn't answer him. Van found it funny as hell. Anyway to annoy Thomas was almost always fun to do.
"Well! I am getting bored here. Fiona, if you would like I can take you back to show you my lovely mansion if you would like," said Thomas holding out his hand was the best smile he could manage on his face. He noticed that she just stared at his hand and his smile dropped. "If you would like you can stay for dinner," he said and he smiled again when she finally stood up but she didn't take his hand. He hated it when she used to do stuff like that whenever he offered it to her. Last time it was because of her boyfriend but she wasn't with him anymore so he wasn't sure why she did it this time.
"Thank you Thomas and I accept your offer," said Fiona as she stood up and slid out of the little booth that they were currently sitting in with Thomas and Van soon following right behind her. She saw the stupid grin on Thomas's face and couldn't help but shiver because it was kind of creepy.
"Good, I will give you the address to my place and then you can just come over anytime later tonight," said Thomas quickly scribbling something onto a piece of paper and then handing it to Fiona before she walked away. "Jealous Flyheight?" asked Thomas casting a sideways glance at Van with a smirk on his face,
"Not really. It is really none of my business what you try to do with your life but it would be wise not to try anything with her or you will more than likely end up being shot down. She isn't like those prostitutes that you use a lot who are just there for your money," said Van before he took walked away leaving Thomas alone.
'Yeah, he's jealous. Trying to use that sort of excuse to get her himself. I won't let that happen,' thought Thomas with a smirk as he started to walk away. He had every intention of being with Fiona in every possible way and no warning from anybody would get him to stop his plans. She was the one he could never have but this time he planned to change all of that.
Although Van hadn't really paid much attention in the café, he knew for a fact that Fiona was a very beautiful woman. Someone that anyone would be very glad to be with but he knew something about her that he didn't really bother to try and tell Thomas about.
Right now he was stuck coming to the dinner with Thomas and Fiona. He would have come anyways but Thomas was making sure that he came. He thought that maybe he would just skip out in order to annoy Thomas but that wouldn't really be all that nice for their guest tonight.
Van heard the front doorbell ring and he knew it was Fiona so he had to go down before Thomas decided to yell at him for being late in coming down. Van was getting annoyed; Thomas was trying way too hard to make the night perfect. Van knew what he had planned and he highly doubted that it would ever happen. Fiona was too sweet and perfect for the many painful flaws that Thomas had in him. There were other things he knew that also enforced his thoughts.
A sudden pounding on his door broke Van from his thoughts but he already knew who it was so he didn't even bother to listen to all the ranting that Thomas was throwing at him. "Yeah, yeah. I'm coming already so just shut up!" yelled Van finding that he already had a headache and the night hadn't even started yet.
"The hurry up damn it!" yelled Thomas before Van could clearly hear the pounding of footsteps as he headed downstairs in order to meet up with Fiona. Thomas had a one track mind when he saw something that he wanted.
"So tell me Thomas. How is it that you became rich ever since we left high school? I am very curious as to how you pull it off," said Fiona as she slowly ate the foot that was placed in front of her.
"I would be delighted to Fiona. I am sure that you remember the beak system that I invented our senior year, the one that made me the valedictorian for our class, the one that your old boyfriend forgot to do and for some reason blamed me. I used that after I left to start a company and since then it has been very successful. You should have just of dumped him and come with me because I could have given you the life that you always wanted," said Thomas not really noticing the silence that had suddenly befallen the room.
At the mention of how Thomas managed to pull all of this off, Fiona's eyes seemed to dim a little in the light that was usually always present in them. She remembered it all too clearly. "Y-yeah, I remember that," said Fiona with a weak smile.
Thomas looked around only to see that Van had disappeared when he had been sitting down only a few seconds before. Thomas was completely baffled because even in all of the silence he hadn't even heard the sound of footsteps or the sound of the chair even being pushed out. It wasn't even all that big of a room although they lived in a mansion.
"If you will excuse me, I need to go use the restroom," said Fiona as she stood up. Thomas gave her some directions and she headed into the direction leaving Thomas all alone in the room.
'How did Van manage to actually get away?' Thomas asked himself as he looked around expecting Van to suddenly appear out of nowhere just like he had disappeared without a trace.
Fiona walked through the halls in the direction that Thomas had directed her through. The lights were very dim in that hall way and it was very quiet. That is how she heard footsteps coming in her direction. She looked forward and out of one of the darker areas, Van stepped forward and towards her but stopped when he noticed her standing there. "Oh, hello," said Fiona with a bright smile.
"Why hello to you to, why aren't you in there talking to Thomas. I am sure that is the thing that he wanted when he decided to invite you over. Not that I really care or anything," said Van with a smirk as he took a few steps forward so that he was standing right in front of Fiona. He was so close that he could smell the lovely scent of the perfume that she was wearing. "That smells nice, it smells like Jasmine. I think you were wearing it earlier today as well," said Van circling around Fiona like a bird to its prey.
"You have a pretty good scent. I am surprised that you even noticed it with how much you had your face in that newspaper earlier today," said Fiona with a laugh as she just watched him circling around her.
"I am perfectly able to be reading and also notice other things that are around me at the same time. Thomas might not be able to do that but I don't share his flaws," said Van stopping to get a good look at Fiona. Yes, she was definitely a beauty in her long flowing red dress. "You look very nice in that dress," he said smiling down at her.
"Thomas told me the exact same thing but it sounds different with it coming out of your mouth," said Fiona with a sort of knowing smile. "Now if you will excuse me I have to go do what I came to do," she said walking by Van with her arm up allowing her hand to brush light past Van's head before she just walked by him.
Van couldn't help but smirk as he watched her leave. She was definitely sexy with her hips swinging from side to side as she walked down the hall. She also had a nice personality and was definitely smart but you don't have to be to get things past Thomas. He knew what Thomas saw in her but he had seen it from the very beginning before Thomas had noticed her.
A very beautiful young woman sat in front of a mirror running a brush through her beautiful blonde hair. Her crimson eyes head calmness in them but she was sad for many reasons at that moment. Her life was not what it could truly have been like it was supposed to be when she graduated from school. One thought always went through her mind because of this, revenge. 'He will pay,' she mentally cursed before she heard the phone that was off to the side ring. She grabbed it and put it up to her ear. "Hello?" she asked calmly.
"It is time. You had better be ready," said a voice on the other end that she couldn't help but smile at. Just as it was said though the person on the other end hung the phone up leaving Fiona with the phone up to her ear.
She placed the phone back down she a small smile on her face. She really couldn't help it though. "Don't worry about that. I am fully ready," she said with a grin as she stood up and walked out of the door.
Thomas Shubaltz, he was a widely regarded businessman that was used to getting whatever he wanted. The common spoiled rich person. Money, power, women; these were the things that he went for the most. He almost never took no for an answer. It tended to get him in trouble but he always used his money in order to get him out of it. Right now he sat at a table in a café.
Right next to him was his friend Van Flyheight. He was usually calm and collected but he could get wild if he wanted to. Right now he was just sipping a cup of coffee and reading a newspaper while not even listen as Thomas continued to talk to him. Thomas didn't even seem to notice that so he just remained quiet and zoned out from all the noise around him. There were many times that Thomas threatened him to get with a girl but he wasn't all that interested in what Thomas showed him because he just didn't care. He already had all that he could want, at least for the moment. He had plans for the future but he couldn't do anything about it at that moment.
"Hey! Are you listening to me Van?" yelled Thomas when he noticed his audience or rather lack of audience at that moment. He looked over to see that Van didn't respond or even bother to look over when he talked to him. He was furious but he tried his best to maintain his cool. "Van!" he yelled making Van jump a little before he started to talk again. "Are you even listening?" he yelled.
"Not really?" he said calmly putting down his coffee but not his newspaper, which he couldn't seem to keep his eyes off of. 'Most people don't anyways. Women come to him for his money and all other think he is too loud,' thought Van with a small chuckle that Thomas couldn't hear. He was just joking but he knew that it was true for some.
Thomas was about to reply but the sound of the doors to the café being opened brought his attention elsewhere to see who it was that came in. His eyes remained glued to the beauty that came in but he knew her from elsewhere. She was the one thing that he could never get himself but he knew now was his chance to get what he always wanted. "Fiona!" yelled Thomas waving his arms wildly towards the girl that he hadn't seen since high school.
'Idiot, he is acting like a moron just over one person,' thought Van with a sigh trying to avoid being seen by anyone that was looking at Thomas making a fool out of himself. Sometimes he was embarrassed to be Thomas's friend.
The woman named Fiona turned her head to see who it was that was waving at her and she choked a bit. Not because of Thomas but because of something else that caught her eye. She put herself back together and gave a small wave of her hand. She walked over to him. "Um, hello..." she said.
"Its Thomas, do you remember, from high school?" he asked but he saw her sort of clueless look on her face. "I am the guy you dumped to go out with that loser," he said in a monotonous tone because he didn't like to think about it. He couldn't even remember the name of the person that she dumped him for.
"Oh yes, I remember you. We never went out though," she said with a small laugh making Thomas shrink back out of embarrassment. "It is... nice to see you again," she said in an unsure voice because he could easily creep her out back then.
"Yeah you too," he said with a huge and very goofy smile on his face. "Please, why don't you sit down with me and my friend here? We can talk and catch up on all that has been going on in the past few years," said Thomas moving over to offer her a seat, which she very slowly took. "So what has happened in all of these years? Are you still going out with that loser?" he asked with a grin hoping to hear what he wanted to hear.
"No I am not," she asked with a bit of anger in her voice. "I heard that he got married to some model of some sort. I don't really want to talk about it," she said turning her head away for a little bit.
"So sorry to hear that," said Thomas with fake regret laced into his voice. He was really glad. "That loser never knew what he had in the first place. I could have taken care of you better than he ever could have had. "I have become rich and powerful and I bet he is mooching of that models money," said Thomas as he had both Van and Fiona's attention but there was something about all of this that made him feel uncomfortable. "Oh by the way, I forgot to introduce you to my friend Van. Van this is Fiona, someone I used to know in high school," said Thomas with a smile.
"Nice to meet you," said Van not even looking up from the newspaper that he was reading while only stopping to get a quick drink of his coffee. That was until Thomas tore the newspaper out of his hands. "Hey!" yelled Van
"You can at least be nice and look at her when you say hello. No need to be so rude!" yelled Thomas making Fiona laugh slightly. Thomas could help but smile at the thought that he made her laugh.
Fiona was flattered but she also found it annoying as to how Thomas was doting over her the exact same way he did when they were in high school. She hated it when he continued to do things like that but she never really said anything. "It is really no problem," said Fiona holding her hands up with a slight chuckle.
"Yeah, and it was rude just tear that out of my hands," said Van snatching his paper back so that he could get back to reading the article that he had been so fascinated with for the past few minutes. 'Man, and he tells me not to be rude?' Van asked himself as he started to read the paper again but he did end up looking up every few minutes to see Fiona who was sitting right across from him.
"So how do the two of you know each other?" asked Fiona pointing at both Thomas and Van. She was sometimes a little too curious for her own good always trying to find things out but she didn't really care.
"Van did me a favor a few months ago in exchange for a place to stay for a while. We are good friends though. Isn't that right Van?" asked Thomas only to see Van drinking his coffee again. He fell face first onto the table. 'He's ignoring me again,' thought Thomas with a groan.
"So what is it that you do Van?" she asked and unlike Thomas he turned to face her and opened his mouth and closed it. He did it a few more times before something actually came out of his mouth.
"I work for a small business downtown but it pays decent," said Van ignoring the stares Thomas was giving him about why he answered Fiona but he didn't answer him. Van found it funny as hell. Anyway to annoy Thomas was almost always fun to do.
"Well! I am getting bored here. Fiona, if you would like I can take you back to show you my lovely mansion if you would like," said Thomas holding out his hand was the best smile he could manage on his face. He noticed that she just stared at his hand and his smile dropped. "If you would like you can stay for dinner," he said and he smiled again when she finally stood up but she didn't take his hand. He hated it when she used to do stuff like that whenever he offered it to her. Last time it was because of her boyfriend but she wasn't with him anymore so he wasn't sure why she did it this time.
"Thank you Thomas and I accept your offer," said Fiona as she stood up and slid out of the little booth that they were currently sitting in with Thomas and Van soon following right behind her. She saw the stupid grin on Thomas's face and couldn't help but shiver because it was kind of creepy.
"Good, I will give you the address to my place and then you can just come over anytime later tonight," said Thomas quickly scribbling something onto a piece of paper and then handing it to Fiona before she walked away. "Jealous Flyheight?" asked Thomas casting a sideways glance at Van with a smirk on his face,
"Not really. It is really none of my business what you try to do with your life but it would be wise not to try anything with her or you will more than likely end up being shot down. She isn't like those prostitutes that you use a lot who are just there for your money," said Van before he took walked away leaving Thomas alone.
'Yeah, he's jealous. Trying to use that sort of excuse to get her himself. I won't let that happen,' thought Thomas with a smirk as he started to walk away. He had every intention of being with Fiona in every possible way and no warning from anybody would get him to stop his plans. She was the one he could never have but this time he planned to change all of that.
Although Van hadn't really paid much attention in the café, he knew for a fact that Fiona was a very beautiful woman. Someone that anyone would be very glad to be with but he knew something about her that he didn't really bother to try and tell Thomas about.
Right now he was stuck coming to the dinner with Thomas and Fiona. He would have come anyways but Thomas was making sure that he came. He thought that maybe he would just skip out in order to annoy Thomas but that wouldn't really be all that nice for their guest tonight.
Van heard the front doorbell ring and he knew it was Fiona so he had to go down before Thomas decided to yell at him for being late in coming down. Van was getting annoyed; Thomas was trying way too hard to make the night perfect. Van knew what he had planned and he highly doubted that it would ever happen. Fiona was too sweet and perfect for the many painful flaws that Thomas had in him. There were other things he knew that also enforced his thoughts.
A sudden pounding on his door broke Van from his thoughts but he already knew who it was so he didn't even bother to listen to all the ranting that Thomas was throwing at him. "Yeah, yeah. I'm coming already so just shut up!" yelled Van finding that he already had a headache and the night hadn't even started yet.
"The hurry up damn it!" yelled Thomas before Van could clearly hear the pounding of footsteps as he headed downstairs in order to meet up with Fiona. Thomas had a one track mind when he saw something that he wanted.
"So tell me Thomas. How is it that you became rich ever since we left high school? I am very curious as to how you pull it off," said Fiona as she slowly ate the foot that was placed in front of her.
"I would be delighted to Fiona. I am sure that you remember the beak system that I invented our senior year, the one that made me the valedictorian for our class, the one that your old boyfriend forgot to do and for some reason blamed me. I used that after I left to start a company and since then it has been very successful. You should have just of dumped him and come with me because I could have given you the life that you always wanted," said Thomas not really noticing the silence that had suddenly befallen the room.
At the mention of how Thomas managed to pull all of this off, Fiona's eyes seemed to dim a little in the light that was usually always present in them. She remembered it all too clearly. "Y-yeah, I remember that," said Fiona with a weak smile.
Thomas looked around only to see that Van had disappeared when he had been sitting down only a few seconds before. Thomas was completely baffled because even in all of the silence he hadn't even heard the sound of footsteps or the sound of the chair even being pushed out. It wasn't even all that big of a room although they lived in a mansion.
"If you will excuse me, I need to go use the restroom," said Fiona as she stood up. Thomas gave her some directions and she headed into the direction leaving Thomas all alone in the room.
'How did Van manage to actually get away?' Thomas asked himself as he looked around expecting Van to suddenly appear out of nowhere just like he had disappeared without a trace.
Fiona walked through the halls in the direction that Thomas had directed her through. The lights were very dim in that hall way and it was very quiet. That is how she heard footsteps coming in her direction. She looked forward and out of one of the darker areas, Van stepped forward and towards her but stopped when he noticed her standing there. "Oh, hello," said Fiona with a bright smile.
"Why hello to you to, why aren't you in there talking to Thomas. I am sure that is the thing that he wanted when he decided to invite you over. Not that I really care or anything," said Van with a smirk as he took a few steps forward so that he was standing right in front of Fiona. He was so close that he could smell the lovely scent of the perfume that she was wearing. "That smells nice, it smells like Jasmine. I think you were wearing it earlier today as well," said Van circling around Fiona like a bird to its prey.
"You have a pretty good scent. I am surprised that you even noticed it with how much you had your face in that newspaper earlier today," said Fiona with a laugh as she just watched him circling around her.
"I am perfectly able to be reading and also notice other things that are around me at the same time. Thomas might not be able to do that but I don't share his flaws," said Van stopping to get a good look at Fiona. Yes, she was definitely a beauty in her long flowing red dress. "You look very nice in that dress," he said smiling down at her.
"Thomas told me the exact same thing but it sounds different with it coming out of your mouth," said Fiona with a sort of knowing smile. "Now if you will excuse me I have to go do what I came to do," she said walking by Van with her arm up allowing her hand to brush light past Van's head before she just walked by him.
Van couldn't help but smirk as he watched her leave. She was definitely sexy with her hips swinging from side to side as she walked down the hall. She also had a nice personality and was definitely smart but you don't have to be to get things past Thomas. He knew what Thomas saw in her but he had seen it from the very beginning before Thomas had noticed her.