Now it is Spring Break and guess what? I AM SICK! So that is depressing. But I was lying in bed thinking about stuff to do and I was just like OMG I should write a new story. SO here is what I have come up with. It is exciting because I have double motivation. 1. I am watching Peter Pan and that is exciting. 2. Mommy is bringing me home ICE CREAM! That makes me excited!
Without any further ado here is my new story! be excited
"Rex, are you excited it is just you and me and the Ghostbusters tonight." I said to Rex, my pet hamster, when I walked in the door from a long day of work.
I'm Stephanie Plum former "bombshell bounty hunter" and now currently working at RangeMan enterprises. I love my new job. For one I haven't blown up a car since I started working here, and I also have a close relationship with my boss, one Ricardo Carlos Manoso. Ranger to most people.
Ranger is a badass bounty hunter, a business man, and a Cuban sex god. He and I have a different kind of Relationship. I have slept with him once a long time ago and it was an experience I shall never forget. Mostly because when I woke up in the morning he sent me back to my ex boyfriend Joe Morelli.
Joe is a vice cop and has been in my life since I was six, when he first started looking up my skirt. He has been my on and off boyfriend for over 4 years now, and we get along pretty well. The only time we fight is when he is telling me to quit my job and get started on the next generation of Morelli's.
Currently Morelli and I are an item. We have been for the past 4 months and it has been pleasant. I can't help but to feel that we are drifting apart.
Right as I was getting ready to order the pizza for Rex and my movie night my phone rings.
"Yo" I'm starting to turn into Ranger. I own mostly black clothes and now I answer the phone yo. Oh boy.
"Cupcake, are you busy?" Joe. He never did know how to call at a decent time. Like the time he called me right as I was about to slap the cuffs on an FTA. That caused me about a mile sprint down the street, and a coat full of rotten eggs.
"Rex and I were just getting ready to watch Ghostbusters. Why?"
"I really need to speak with you." He sounded sort of desperate.
"Okay when and where?" I asked. I was sort of sad that I didn't get to spend quality time with Rex. But he would get over it, if I gave him a grape or two.
"Pino's in a half hour, and thanks Cupcake."
What could possibly be so important that he needed to see me now?
A half an hour later I pulled into Pino's in my new dodge 1500. Joe was already in the restaurant sitting at the table, his dark hair shining in the dark overhead lighting. Joe certainly was fine looking. He lived up to his title "Best ass in Trenton".
I walked up to the table and sat down next to him.
"Hey cupcake how was work?" Joe asked. Making small talk I'm sure.
"Good thanks. Joe what was so important that I had to miss Ghostbusters." I mean it is my favorite movie. I had been looking forward to seeing it all day.
Wait, something was seriously up. Joe didn't get out of his seat to pull the chair out for me, nor did he give me a kiss hello. What is going on here?
"Um Steph, there is something I need to talk to you about."
Oh god, please do not let this be the dreaded question. Please god!
"Steph? Are you listening?"
"Oh right yes." Please please please.
"We have been going out for a long time. We have ahd loads of greaet times. All the late night monopoly games, and dinner at your family's house. It has been great"
Has been? What is he saying? Why is he using the past tense? I don't think he is going to propose to me.
"….but it just seems to me that we are drifting apart. Stephanie I love you more than you will ever know, but you and I just don't seem to fit the husband and wife profile."
He is breaking up with me. This is a formal breakup. We have never done this before. Normally he will say something stupid and I will storm up to his room, pack my laundry baskets and run back to my apartment. Then about a month later he is back in m bed. He has never broken up with me before.
"It isn't like this is goodbye forever. I just think that we should be friends. Like we were a long time ago."
"Joe are you breaking up with me?" Oddly enough I completely understood where he was coming from. I knew deep down in my heart that Joe and I were never going to get married. It would be selfish of me to just keep his as a forever boyfriend.
"Stephanie, I'm sorry, its just that, someday I want kids. I want a family with a wife that stays home and has a warm meal waiting for me when I get home. I have tried to make you into that, but as we both know. That didn't go over to well."
He was right. I want kids someday, but that someday is far off. I don't ever want to be a burg style housewife. And he was right the one time he tried that ended in the biggest fight we have ever had.
There was a long silence, what do I say to him? Thanks Joe for breaking up with me?
"Joe, I love you very much. But I think you are absolutely right. There is no way that I would ever marry you. And It would be completely selfish for me to hog you in your prime. So in a way, what I am trying to say is thank you. I have loved every bit of time that we have had together, and I'm sure we will have more great time, just as friends." I said tears welling in my eyes.
I was going to miss all those late nights and "celebrations" over nothing. I was going to miss Joe in general. He is a great man, kind and loving, just not the right man for me.
"Cupcake, thank you for understanding." He said getting up pulling me into a tight bear hug.
We sat there talking as friends all through our meal. After I had eaten my way through 4 slices of pizza and a cannoli, it was time to leave.
"Ranger is a good man Steph; you should give him a chance." Joe said as I was rising from my seat.
I plopped back down. Ranger has always been a strong dividing factor between Joe and I.
"I would give him a chance Joe, but he doesn't want me." I said tears forming in my eyes again. Good thing I wore waterproof mascara.
"I doubt that is true." He said softly as he scooted his chair closer to mine. "Who wouldn't want to be with you? Your beautiful, funny, smart, and damn lucky."
"You don't want to be with me Joe, neither does Ranger. I spent one night with his a while ago and you know what he did, he said I don't do relationships. He sent me back to you. He doesn't want me Joe." I gush, not realizing what I was saying before it came out.
I could tell he was taking a minute to either process this or cool off.
"You slept with him?" I knew this was going to happen.
"It was a long time ago Joe. We were in an off again stage and I don't know it just happened." I said not daring to look in my face.
"Now I would get really mad here if we were still dating, but seeing as how we are not it is not such a big deal." He said rubbing my back in soft circles.
"Stephanie, you would have to be crazy to think that Ranger doesn't want you. Just the way he looks at you the whole world can tell it. I think all Ranger needs is a push in the right direction. And I think I know exactly how to do it!" Joe said with a smile on his face.
There how do you like it? I don't know. If you hate it please tell me and I will stop writing! But I have a strict 10 reviews rule, so if you want me to continue please review!