AIRHEAD-BEING ME

CHAPTER 1-LULU LOVIN

We were sitting at a table at Balthazar. It was great having a boyfriend who could afford to pay for the food here. I looked at Christopher as he wiped the dribble of sauce off his face. So very cute and sexy. It was time to reveal the big surprise. Lulu, who I shared my loft with and who also happened to be one of my closest friends, was going to Australia on holidays with her boyfriend/my technical brother but not really my brother. See he was Nikki Howard's brother but then my brain was placed in her head after she was only brain-dead. Her body still functioned but her brain was damaged, or so they told us. Turns out she actually knew a secret that Robert Stark didn't want everyone to know about so he had her killed and her brain disposed. I was the opposite. My body had been crushed but my mind still functioned perfectly. The catch was that Nikki Howard is not only a model but the face of stark. And I, Emerson Watts am actually an A+ type of girl who plays games such as Tombraider. So that wasn't gonna work for me so much except because I was practically dead my parents had made the decision for me and signed a binding contract that I would take Nikki's place. No one except my immediate family would know. I struggled with this new life, trying to gain the attention of my best friend/crush, Christopher told I was dead. In the end he found out and stark was taken down for trying to auction off peoples bodies and in the process removing the brain from the actual body it belonged too. Might I add that my boyfriend was the one who basically saved us and published the story to CNN who in turn broadcasted it to the world and all the evil stark people were sent to jail. But I kept my modelling job because now I was in one of the hottest bodies around plus my boyfriend was the head of IT for stark who is now under new management. My friend (kind of)/ex-boyfriend, Brandon Stark the son of the head of Stark. So anyway, Nikki's brother, or my brother by blood, who I thought of as my brother anyway, Steven was going away with lulu and I would be home alone. As you can imagine, being a top model like myself, or a famous singer plus a billionaire's daughter like lulu ,we generate a lot of income. We ride around in limousines and wear Prada. It's not like we live in a trashy apartment or anything. So I came up with an idea. Christopher could stay with me. In my apartment or perhaps in my room. I'm shivering at the thought. Secretly I wouldn't mind if he stayed in my bed but that's between you, me and the lamp-post over there, okay? I took a deep breath.

Christopher looked up. "Hey you okay?" he asked, his face open and compassionate, his leather jacket resting loose on his shoulders. I nodded.

"I have a suggestion". He raised one single perfect eyebrow. "You know how Lulu and Steven are going away? Well I don't want to be at home all alone all the time so…would you come and stay with me?" I said in one big rush. I gulped in air. He kind of looked embarrassed. "Em…well, uh…huh, you….I-" I cut him off. "So you don't want to stay with me?" I said, my voice quivering. I could fake all this but for Christopher it was all real. I would do anything for him. Anything. He raked a hand through his hair.

"Em, this is totally unfair of you" he said almost angrily. "You know how much I want you but I have to be a gentleman. Why do you do this?" he sighed.

"Please" I asked him. I'm not the grovelling sort but I wanted this bad. Puppy eyes.

"Ah! Em your gonna drive me crazy. Okay I will but-" he hesitated. "Are you sure?"

I beamed at him. "You haven't been t the loft before have you? Last time was the party and you couldn't really see anything anyway" I said blushing. He reddened too. We started to get up but all I was thinking about was how that night he had finally got that I wasn't actually Nikki Howard. I was actually his best friend, Emerson watts. And then we sort of made out in my room. It was just heavy kissing. I'm not a slut. Like the gentleman that he is he paid and then hailed a taxi. Once inside I just stared at him, a smile playing on my lips. He was so handsome it hurt to look at him. But that didn't mean I would stop. We stopped outside the apartment he shared with his dad. my old house where my mum and dad and younger sister, Frida still lived was a level down from his, telling the driver to wait a minute I got up to say goodbye and thanks for the dinner. Christopher looked down at me, blushing. He reached down slowly and caught a tendril of my blonde, perfect hair and smiled slightly. Then he kissed me so softly. We broke apart after a moment, breathless. His faces still only a couple of millimetres away from mine.

I whispered into his ear. "Pack your bags tonight and tell your dad. It'll only be for the last two weeks of school and then a week of holidays that Lulu's gone."

Although this wasn't exactly a sexy, turn-on kind of conversation I still felt completely aware of his presence, our breath coming out in a cool, foggy breath and his gently brushing the side of my face. We stood like that for a moment and I don't know about him but his presence did what caffeine couldn't in the mornings. We broke apart and my skin still tingled from my touch.

"So thanks for dinner Christopher and I'll come over tomorrow to pick you up, okay?" I said smiling. He looked down at me from where he stood. After the kiss we had taken a step back.

"Yeah, okay." Was it just me or did he sound breathless? Just as we both kind of turned away, him to go up the stairs leading to the lobby and me to get back into the cab I did a quick sprint, which is hard in pumps can I just say, to where he was slowly walking, with his back to me. I leaned over one shoulder and whispered "one problem. Lulu won't let you into her room"

Sitting in the cab as it pulled away I wondered if he thought I meant anything seductive because I hadn't meant too. I wasn't brave enough to voice any of my wishes.