Chapter 1

"It's your turn to close up Adam" Eli told his best friend. They had both started working at the Dot on the weekends to earn some extra cash. Eli to spend on his girlfriend Clare for their one and a half year anniversary and Adam to spend on a hot date with his new girlfriend, Angie. They had only been dating for a few months now. Eli was kind of curious on how well his friend had rebounded from his last relationship with Fiona Coyne. She was now a distant memory, but Eli couldn't help but wonder if his friend was really over her.

"Ok I'll close up" Adam responded, not putting up much of a fight like Eli had anticipated.

"What's wrong?" Eli asked, walking over to where his friend was moping the floor to close up for the night.

"Nothing…it's just…Angie is gonna pick me so I really don't mind closing up."

"Ah yes Miss Angie. How are things coming along with you and her?" Eli asked.

He always wondered why his friend started to date the new student on campus. He sensed mostly because she kind of resembled someone they both knew.

"Things are going great. My mom even likes her and you know how hard she can be when it comes to new people."

"Tell me about it" Eli mumbled. "Well I'm off" he added, taking off the apron around his waist and setting it down on the counter.

"Ok. Tell Clare I said hi" Adam told him as he locked the door. The café was already closed for the night, but he still had to put everything back in its place before the morning shift started. He put up the wet floor sign and proceeded to the back to leave all the supplies ready. As he was in the storage room, he felt his phone vibrate. He opened it up to see who was texting him.

Are you almost off? – A. it was his girlfriend, Angie. He smiled and text her back

Almost. You outside? A few minutes later she responded.

Yes. Waiting for my prince charming –A

He looked at the word intently. Prince Charming. No one had called him that close to a year. He shook his head trying to get rid of the thoughts that were surfacing. He closed the storage room and went over to the front. He saw his girlfriends' car parked outside in front of the store. He waved at her as he discarded his apron and hung it up on the coat rack. He locked up the cafe and headed over to the passenger door. He opened and smiled at his light brown haired green eyed girlfriend.

"Hey" he said, leaning over to kiss her cheek. She leaned in closer to accept the kiss. "So how was work?" she asked, pulling away from the curve.

"It was ok. Eli left early to go meet up with Clare." He responded. They sat there in silence for a bit.

"Hey do you think you can stay over at my place tonight?" she responded as the car came to a stop on a red light. He was caught off guard. He really didn't know what to say. He and Angie had only been dating a few months now and she knew about him, but he didn't realize she wanted to go so fast.

"Sure. Let me just text my mom and let her know." he said reaching for his phone. He looked down and saw the last text he had gotten from Angie. Prince Charming. He closed his phone.

"You know what? I rather not risk it. She was mad at me when I left in the afternoon, so I really don't want to send her over the edge."

"I thought your mom liked me?" she responded. Last time she was over at his house, his mom made her feel right at home, not like his last girlfriend, according to his brother.

"Yeah she those, but you know how she is." He replied, looking out the window. "Ok then. I'll just drop you off." She seemed to really want him to stay over, but she also wanted to avoid any bad feelings between her and his mom.

They came to a stop in front of his house. "Ok bye" he said, leaning in for a kiss to her cheek. She turned and kissed his lips with hers. She seemed to be into the kiss, but she felt some hesitation on his side. She broke apart as he gestured his body out of the car.

"Ill call you when I get home." she yelled as he closed the door. He crouched down to the window and waved at her. She drove off.

"Hey mom. I'm home" he said, seeing his mom on the couch.

"Oh. Hey Adam. I didn't expect you home tonight. I thought you were going to stay with Angies'." He knew his mom was ok with him spending the night at Angies' place since he wasn't sleeping with her. "Nah. I decided to come home. Angie had some stuff to do." he lied.

He headed upstairs as he rejected his mothers offer of reheating dinner for him. He locked the door and sat on his rolling chair. He closed his eyes and thought back at what Angie had been implying. He knew she wanted to take their relationship further, but he put up some resistance. He thought back at the last person who he had been with. Her touch. Her smell. The look of her bare body close to his. It had been a year now and he still had not gotten her out of his head. He wanted more than anything to get her image out of his thoughts. He knew unless he did that, he would never truly be happy with his current relationship with Angie.

"Hey bro. open up." Drew said from behind the door. Adam took in a sigh as he got up from the chair and proceeded towards the door. Drew came in and took Adam's seat. Adam sat down at the corner of his bed, wanting to know what his brother wanted.

"What do you want, Drew" he asked

"Oh nothing really. I just wanted to see if you were off tomorrow. Me and Jess wanted to know if you and Angie would want to join us on a double date." Adam looked at his brother with a confuse look. "It wasn't my idea" drew replied "she just wants to get to know you and Angie better, that's all." Adam still could not believe his senior brother was dating a sophomore. Then again, not so long ago, he was a sophomore dating a senior.

"So what do you say?" Drew asked

"Sure why not" Adam responded in a not so caring way.

"What's wrong?" Drew said

"God why does everyone keep saying that. There is nothing wrong." Adam yelled back. Drew got up from his seat and was about to leave the room when he turned back at Adam.

"Well I hope it's nothing. I don't think you would want to mess things up between you and Fiona version 2.0" he said laughing as he closed the door. Adam reached out for his pillow and threw it at the door. Adam had never seen Angie that way. Eli had pointed out to him that there were similarities to them both, not just in appearance, but Angie wasn't Fiona. She sure isn't he thought to himself. He exhaled a deep sigh as he got ready for bed.

End of chapter 1